Rolling Reissues 2025

Here we go again...

As some know and most surely don't, I've been working to get the catalog of legendary UK avant-garde label Leo Records up on Bandcamp, and Bandcamp Daily just published a really nice piece about the label, including quotes from me and founder Leo Feigin, and capsule reviews of several of the amazing records Leo's put out over the decades.

3lps on 2cds by The Blues Magoos by BGO.
Psychedelic Lollipop, Electric Comic Book and Basic.
Should be a good set.
If it ever appears. Should have been out in November. Amazon keep pushing expected release date back, which is the main place I've looked for date. Don't think anybody has had a physical copy yet.
It does appear prominently in a BGO full page ad in Record Collector this month which hopefully does mean something.
But if it is actually going to appear it should be good.

Have hoped for something like this, was surprised it hadn't already existed

Julee Cruise: FALL_FLOAT_LOVE (Works 1989-1993), 2CD Gatefold Digisleeve
JULEE CRUISE
Cherry Red
CAT No
QCD2BRED921
18th April 2025

• 2CD SET COMPILING THE FIRST PHASE OF THE UNIQUE AND ENIGMATIC CHANTEUSE’s RECORDING CAREER.

• FEATURING SONGS BY DAVID LYNCH AND ANGELO BADALAMENTI.

• INCLUDES ‘FALLING’ (AS FEATURED ON TWIN PEAKS) ALONGSIDE SINGLES, REMIXES AND JULEE’S TWO ALBUMS, RELEASED IN 1989 AND 1993.

• COMPLETE WITH SLEEVENOTE ESSAY BY FRANK DESERTO.

DISC ONE

Floating Into The Night +

1 Floating

2 Falling

3 I Remember

4 Rockin' Back Inside My Heart

5 Mysteries Of Love

6 Into The Night

7 I Float Alone

8 The Nightingale

9 The Swan

10 The World Spins

Bonus Tracks

11 Falling (Demo)

12 Rockin' Back Inside My Heart (A Cappella)

13 Rockin' Back Inside My Heart (Tibetan 12" Mix)

14 Rockin' Back Inside My Heart (Tibetan Dub)

15 Rockin' Back Inside My Heart (Bonus Beats)

16 Rockin' Back Inside My Heart (Tibetan Single Mix)

DISC TWO

The Voice Of Love +

1 This Is Our Night

2 The Space For Love

3 Movin' In On You

4 Friends For Life

5 Up In Flames

6 Kool Kat Walk

7 Until The End Of The World

8 She Would Die For Love

9 In My Other World

10 Questions In A World Of Blue

11 The Voice Of Love

Bonus Tracks

12 Summer Kisses, Winter Tears

13 Falling (Edit)

14 Rockin' Back Inside My Heart (Edit)

Lunchbox announces reissue of its 'lost album' from 2002, Evolver - out April 18 on Slumberland

FFO: Elephant 6 (specifically Olivia Tremor Control, Beulah, The Minders)

STREAM: "Evolver" -
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From Real Gone Music:

When Grammy-winning artist Petula Clark met poet-songwriter-singer Rod McKuen in France during the 1960s, they became fast friends. Petula, of course, was one of the biggest music stars in the world and in the midst of a long string of hits in both English and French. For his part, McKuen was a huge fan of Petula, naming her his favorite female vocalist. Inspired by Petula’s recorded versions of his dramatic environmental anthem "The Wind of Change" and the tender ballad "I Think of You," McKuen resolved to put together an entire album of his compositions for Petula just like he had done with Frank Sinatra on The Chairman’s 1969 release A Man Alone. The project was announced, but it took a few decades to come to fruition; finally, Petula and Rod were able to synchronize their schedules in 2005. Multiple sessions at Hollywood's Private Island Trax studio and an overdub session in Geneva would yield 20 favorites from the McKuen songbook, passionately and poignantly sung by England's most successful female singer of the 20th century. A limited-edition, 14-track CD available from Rod's website and Petula's fan club quickly sold out, and now Solitude & Sunshine - The Songs of Rod McKuen is coming to retail for the first time in a newly expanded edition including 6 bonus tracks, 5 unreleased! The CD includes extensive liner notes written by both Rod and Petula along with rare photos. A special treat for fans of either artist!

Jesse Ed Davis CD Packshot

We at Real Gone Music have something in common with some of the most famous artists in rock and roll: Jesse Ed Davis is one of our favorite sidemen. Indeed, the Native American guitarist was the “go-to” guy for a remarkable group of musicians including Conway Twitty, Taj Mahal, Leon Russell, and, perhaps most famously, George Harrison during the Concert for Bangla Desh. All this activity caught the eye of ATCO Records, who released his debut LP Jesse Davis in 1971 featuring Leon Russell, Eric Clapton, Gram Parsons, Merry Clayton, Ben Sidran, John Simon (producer of The Band), Alan White (of Yes), and many others including Delaney Bramlett behind the mixing desk. A year later, Atco released Ululu containing some of the same all-stars, plus Duck Dunn, Jim Keltner, and Dr. John – and a version of George Harrison’s “Sue Me, Sue You Blues” before even George recorded it. Of late, there’s been something of a Jesse Ed Davis revival; he was a major figure in the documentary Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked the World, and 2024 saw the release of a full-fledged biography, Washita Love Child: The Life and Times of Jesse Ed Davis, by Dr. Douglas Miller. Now, we at Real Gone Music are thrilled to announce the release of Tomorrow May Not Be Your Day: The Unissued Atco Recordings 1970-1971, a CD consisting of, as the title says, recordings taken from Jesse’s sessions for his two Atco solo records that were unreleased until this collection. Along the way you’ll find completely unreleased songs (“Slinky Jam”), unexpected covers of “Ain’t No Beatle,” “Kansas City,” and “Tracks of My Tears,” unissued instrumentals (including a version of Dylan’s “Love Minus Zero/No Limit”), and no less than four alternate versions of Jesse’s masterpiece, “Washita Love Child.” Remastered from the original multitracks by Mike Milchner at Sonic Vision, and featuring notes by Dr. Miller festooned by photos contributed by Jesse’s son William “Billy” Noriega, Tomorrow May Not Be Your Day: The Unissued Atco Recordings 1970-1971 represents a major, major archival find from one of rock’s most intriguing characters.

Many more great new releases to come this month…watch your inbox!

Real Gone Gordon and Gabby

More my kinda from Real Gone (this is Black Vinyl Variant, gen. available and maybe cheaper than ltd.eds.)

07/11/2025 STREET DATE.

ou’ve heard Bernard “Pretty” Purdie drum on more albums than you can count. Besides releasing some 30 albums as a bandleader, and acting as Aretha Franklin’s musical director, Purdie played on records by Miles Davis, Herbie Mann, King Curtis, Tom Rush, Albert Ayler, James Brown, Wilson Pickett, Roberta Flack, Cat Stevens, Todd Rundgren, Steely Dan, Al Green…and that’s just scratching the surface! He also invented “The Purdie Shuffle,” tapping triplets against a half-time backbeat, among other rhythmic innovations. This rare record from 1972 is only the third he recorded as a leader, and, no surprise, he is surrounded by a stellar cast of musicians including guitarist Cornell Dupree, bassist Chuck Rainey, keyboardist Harold Wheeler, trumpeter Snooky Young, and reedman Seldon Powell. Needless to say, it’s a funky, eclectic affair, with plenty of great breakbeats, highlighted by the proto-rap tune “Artificialness” featuring Gil Scott-Heron! Comes in the original gatefold jacket art, too. Crate diggers gonna dig this one!

Side One
1. Stand by Me
2. Modern Jive
3. Spanish Harlem
4. Artificialness

5. Never Can Say Goodbye

Side Two
1. Whatcha See Is Whatcha Get

2. It’s Too Late
3. Funky Mozart
4. You’ve Got a Friend

oops,sorry!

Pretty Purdie and The Playboys Stand by Me (Whatcha See Is Whatcha Get) Vinyl
$ 23.99
Color
Black

Yet more from Real Gone:

Jackie DeShannon Love Forever--Demo Recordings 1966-1968 CD
$ 14.99

**Autographs ARE SOLD OUT**

Grammy-winning singer-songwriter Jackie DeShannon got her start singing gospel at home and in church as a child in her native Kentucky, and then singing country songs in her teens on her own weekly radio show, followed by rockabilly in the late 1950s. But her career really started in full swing after she moved to Los Angeles in the early 1960s and signed to Liberty Records and its song publishing arm, Metric Music, where she would write on her own as well as in collaboration with Sharon Sheely, Randy Newman, Jack Nitzsche, and Jimmy Page. Her recordings during this time initially emphasized rhythm-and-blues material and then embraced the folk era blending with west coast country rock and the Southern California sound.

As a staff member of Metric Music, Jackie created a countless number of demo recordings. Although some of these have appeared on unofficial/bootleg CDs over the years and a few were sprinkled in her with her Liberty/Imperial releases, there has never been a complete authorized commercial issue of DeShannon demos until now.

Covering the years 1966-68, LOVE FOREVER offers over 16 demo selections by Jackie which reflect the decade's shift to a more introspective songwriting approach. Although Jackie enjoyed major hit singles such as "What the World Needs Now Is Love" and her evergreen anthem "Put a Little Love in Your Heart," her craftsmanship as a tunesmith took a more personal tack here. And with recollections by Lady Love herself incorporated into Richie Unterberger’s liner notes as well as photographs from her private collection, LOVE FOREVER paints a picture of a timeless artist evolving with the times, on her way to new creative territory in the 1970s with career crowning compositions and recordings at Capitol, Atlantic, Columbia, and Amherst Records. And best of all, 10 of the 16 tracks have never appeared ANYWHERE previous to the release of this collection, so most of the tunes and tracks on LOVE FOREVER will be new even to DeShannon devotees!

Track Listing
1. Where the Roses Go
2. Nicole
3. Children & Flowers
4. Only You Can Free My Mind
5. The Greener Side
6. More Than I Am
7. Effervescent Blue
8. Love Forever Stay
9. A Lot of Lovin’
10. Rose Colored Glasses
11. Girl in Love
12. Distraction
13. More Time in the Day

14. No, My Love
15. There Comes a Time

16. It Shines on You Too

Much more from xpost Purdy as leader, also co-leader---had no idear
wiki:

Soul Drums (Columbia, 1967)
Purdie Good! (Prestige, 1971) [note: reissued as Legends of Acid Jazz: Bernard Purdie in 1996]
Stand by Me (Whatcha See Is Whatcha Get) (Mega Records [in the 'Flying Dutchman Series'], 1972) with the Playboys
Soul Is... Pretty Purdie (Flying Dutchman, 1972; reissued on BGP/Ace in 2014)
Shaft (Prestige, 1973) recorded 1971 [note: reissued as Legends of Acid Jazz: Bernard Purdie in 1996]
Lialeh (Original Movie Soundtrack) (Bryan, 1974)
Delights of the Garden (Celluloid, 1975) with the Last Poets
Purdie as a Picture (Kilmarnock, 1993) with Galt MacDermot's New Pulse Jazz Band
Bernard Purdie's Jazz Groove Sessions in Tokyo (Lexington/West 47th, 1993)
Coolin' 'N Groovin' (A Night At 'On-Air') (Lexington/West 47th, 1993)
After Hours with the 3B's (3B's Music, 1993)
Soothin' 'N Groovin' With the 3B's (3B's Music, 1994) with Houston Person
The Hudson River Rats (3B's Music, 1995)
Fatback! The Jazz Funk Masters Featuring Bernard Purdie (Seven Seas, 1995)
Kick 'N Jazz (Drum Beat Blocks, 1996)
Soul to Jazz I (Act, 1996) with the WDR Big Band
Soul to Jazz II (Act, 1997) with the WDR Big Band
In the Pocket (P-Vine, 1997)
Get It While You Can (3B's Music, 1999) with the Hudson River Rats
The Masters of Groove Meet Dr. No (Jazzateria, 2001) with Reuben Wilson, Grant Green Jr., Tarus Mateen
King of the Beat (3B's Music, 2001)
Purdie Good Cookin' (3B's Music, 2003) with Purdie's Powerhouse
The Godfathers of Groove (18th & Vine, 2007) with Reuben Wilson, Grant Green Jr., Jerry Jemmott [note: originally released as The Masters of Groove]
The Godfathers of Groove 3 (18th & Vine, 2009) with Reuben Wilson, Grant Green Jr., Bill Easley
Jersey Blue (Running Rogue, 2009) with Gene McCormick, Jack Hoban
Selling It Like It Is (Cadence Jazz, 2009 [rel. 2013]) with David Haney
Cool Down (Sugar Road, 2018)