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Legacy Recordings To Drop Live Performances From Janis Joplin, Elvis Presley & More For Record Store Day

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Upcoming Legacy Recordings titles for Record Store Day 2019 also include Sly & The Family Stone, Bob Dylan, Pink Floyd, Prince, and Dennis Wilson
Philip Merrill
GRAMMYs
Mar 1, 2019 - 1:07 pm

Janis Joplin and Sly & The Family Stone's Woodstock performances and Elvis Presley, Live At The International Hotel, Las Vegas, NV August 23, 1969 are just a few of the unique and collectible titles coming from Legacy Recordings in time for Record Store Day 2019 on April 13. The cultural riches offered on RSD tempt vinyl listeners steadily, and these provide a good example.

Other delectable collectibles include Bob Dylan Blood On The Tracks – Original New York Test Pressing, a reproduction of the influential original which has been bootlegged but never before released. The Prince cassette The VERSACE Experience: PRELUDE 2 GOLD is an RSD-exclusive reproduction of the rare originals, which Prince distributed as gifts during 1995 Paris Fashion Week. 

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From @pinkfloyd to @prnlegacy, #Woodstock to @carnegiehall, there’s something for everyone in our nine new releases for @RecordStoreDay, this April 13! Which ones will you get? #RSD19 https://t.co/8bm15BqbVl pic.twitter.com/cwNIkjJhw2

— Legacy Recordings (@SonyLegacyRecs) March 1, 2019

Pink Floyd's second album, A Saucerful Of Secrets, has been remastered from the 1968 original's mono mix and is released as an RSD limited edition with a reproduction of the album's original sleeve. The Dennis Wilson 7" single of "Holy Man" has the original by Dennis Wilson of the Beach Boys on one side and a revitalization on the other by Foo Fighters' Taylor Hawkins with Queen's Brian May and Roger Taylor.

Legacy Recordings' website has additional details. Their RSD 2019 announcement is rounded out by a Jeff Buckley retrospective on his album Grace and by Billy Joel's Live At Carnegie Hall 1977.

Pearl Jam Named Record Store Day 2019 Ambassadors

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New Woodstock 50th Anniversary Box Set Offers A Complete Listen To The Summer '69 Fest

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The limited-edition set will allow music fans to listen to the powerful live performances from Santana, Jimi Hendrix, Sly Stone, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Janis Joplin, the Grateful Dead and every other artist who played Woodstock '69
Ana Monroy Yglesias
GRAMMYs
May 8, 2019 - 6:01 pm

An official 50th Woodstock anniversary concert may or may still not be in the works, but one thing's for sure: a lot of music fans really want to celebrate the Summer of '69 on its 50th birthday.

Now, with an expansive special-edition box set titled Woodstock 50 — Back to the Garden — The Definitive 50th Anniversary Archive, listeners can hear full performances from the original Woodstock concert.

Spanning 38 CDs, the limited-edition (of 1,969 copies, of course) set, which will be released on Aug. 2 via Rhino, will include 432 songs, 267 of which are previously unreleased, from the three-day event. It will be the most comprehensive look at Woodstock '69, i.e., the first time every artist, including greats Santana, Jimi Hendrix, Sly Stone, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Janis Joplin and the Grateful Dead, are included on record.

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As reported by Rolling Stone, the tracks are ordered chronologically based on the actual lineup order and sets performed during that mystical weekend of Aug. 15–17, 1969, with each artist's set on one disc.

The collection came together from the work of Los Angeles producer and archivist Andy Zax and co-producer Steve Woolard, who had the herculean task of making a pile of 8-track tapes from 1969 see the light of day in the digital age of music. Zax was originally sent to take a look at the tapes back in 2005, and realized there was a massive musical treasure that needed to be unearthed. He didn't have the resources to do a fully comprehensive release with the 2009 40th anniversary Woodstock set he also worked on, so the new set will finally give (almost) all of the tracks the light of day.

"The Woodstock tapes give us a singular opportunity for a kind of sonic time travel, and my intention is to transport people back to 1969. There aren't many other concerts you could make this argument about," Zax said to Rolling Stone. "From the moment I saw those tapes, I was like, 'Oh my God, there's so much more than I'd ever thought. It was clear to me that no one was exploring this stuff and dealing with it in totality. Here was this vast trove of material not treated correctly."

The three tracks that didn't make the cut include two songs from Hendrix's set, per the request of his estate, for "aesthetic reasons." The only other missing song is from Sha Na Na.

The first 37 CDs take you through each act's show, and the 38th "bonus" CD features audio extras, like attendee anecdotes recorded during the fest. 

The non-musical audio moments, also featuring off-kilter announcements, are hidden gems of the archival work themselves. Zak speaks to the 38th disc, which includes "this one guy moaning about what a disappointing experience [Woodstock] was and that it was a sell-out. It's a great slice of real people in the moment reacting to it, which pleases me immensely."

In addition to the CD collection, the deluxe edition of the new set also includes a DVD of the director's cut of the 1970 Woodstock film, the 2009 "Woodstock" book by Michael Lang and various replicas of Woodstock '69 paraphilia, like a copy of the original program book. This deluxe set, housed in a plywood box designed by GRAMMY-winning graphic designer Masaki Koikethe, costs $800 and is the only option with the full audio.

Rhino also offers more economic 10-CD, 3-CD or 5-LP vinyl sets; all four options are available for pre-order now.

Pieces Of Woodstock's Original Wooden Stage Are Now Collectibles

Wanda Jackson

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Rockabilly's Wanda Jackson Retires From Performing At 81

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The pioneer celebrated the unexpected step back from her tour schedule as "the beginning of a new chapter"
Philip Merrill
GRAMMYs
Mar 27, 2019 - 4:30 pm

Wanda Jackson shared "her retirement from performing" over social media on March 26. "This retirement is solely based on health and safety," her message read. "It has been a wild ride. Thank you all for all the years of continued fandom and support. This is not the end, just the beginning of a new chapter."

Born in 1937, by the time she graduated high school in Oklahoma City, Jackson had hosted a local radio show for years. Her stylistic range included pop, country and rockabilly and her friend and rock-mentor Elvis Presley encouraged her to follow his lead. Her outfits also helped establish a frillier side of country fashion. Jackson's eponymous 1958 debut album included her full range, but her cover in 1970 of Presley's "Let's Have A Party" set the direction of the public performances she continued until her retirement message, more than 60 years later.

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A rare vintage shot of the #wandawoman from 1956. Post your favorite #vintage #wandajackson photo to be featured as a #fanfavorite pic.twitter.com/BO9Og4BNbf

— Wanda Jackson (@wandajofficial) February 13, 2019

Wanda Jackson's 2011 album The Party Ain't Over was produced by Jack White, which followed the more stripped-down sound of her 2012 follow-up Unfinished Business. While her public appearances as a performer have come to an end, it is reasonable to believe this is an artist with more unfinished business ahead.

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Motorhead's 1979 Singles "Bomber" And "Overkill" Rev Up For Record Store Day

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The collectible singles show the band on its ascent to top hard rock status
Philip Merrill
GRAMMYs
Mar 1, 2019 - 3:41 pm

Looking back 40 years at 1979, Motörhead's singles "Bomber" and "Overkill," as well as the albums named after them, helped to establish the band's hard rock greatness. For Record Store Day 2019, coming on April 13, the GRAMMY-winning rock group has announced it is issuing them both on 7" double picture-disc vinyl.

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— Official Motörhead (@myMotorhead) February 28, 2019

The original "Overkill" edit has been remastered and will be released digitally for the first time by BMG on March 8. Learn more at the band's website.

Motörhead has been nominated four times in the Best Metal Performance category and won for "Whiplash" at the 47th GRAMMY Awards.

After Lemmy Kilmister's death in 2015, a tribute performance at the 59th GRAMMY Awards featured  Alice Cooper, Johnny Depp and Aerosmith's Joe Perry.

Motörhead Guitarist "Fast" Eddie Clarke Dies

David Gilmour

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David Gilmour Guitar Collection Heads To Auction In June

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Gilmour looks to the future as he parts with more than 120 guitars, to be auctioned by Christie's to benefit charity
Philip Merrill
GRAMMYs
Jan 29, 2019 - 5:01 pm

Auction house Christie's has announced The David Gilmour Guitar Collection will go under the hammer to benefit charity on June 20 in New York. Pre-auction displays of the more than 120 guitars will begin with the full collection at Christie's King Street in London March 27–31, followed by highlights shown in Los Angeles May 7–11 and finally the New York sale preview on June 14–19. 

David Gilmour's haunting guitar explorations with Pink Floyd can obscure his solo accomplishments, musically, as a producer and as a philanthropist. While influential releases piled up on Gilmour's discography, his collection of guitars also grew and grew. While it might seem drastic to leave himself a smaller collection of 20 guitars, Gilmour vows he's moving ahead with new music, so this is no liquidation sale.

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Over 120 #guitars from @_DavidGilmour’s personal collection come to auction – including the 'Black Strat' that played on @pinkfloyd's ‘The Dark Side of the Moon’: https://t.co/bR0JrLSp9C. #GilmourGuitars pic.twitter.com/YIo5rLwe3E

— Christie's (@ChristiesInc) January 29, 2019

"These guitars have been very good to me," Gilmour told Rolling Stone. "I just think it's time that they went off and served someone else. I have had my time with them. And of course the money that they will raise will do an enormous amount of good in the world, and that is my intention."

While all the instruments in the Christie's auction catalog have their own unique history, what's grabbing the most attention is the 1969 Fender Black Strat used by Gilmour on most of Pink Floyd's iconic studio recordings. "The notes for the beginning of 'Shine On You Crazy Diamond' fell out of it one day," said Gilmour. "It's on so much stuff, but Fender have made replica ones that they sell, and I have two or three of those that are absolutely perfect. One of those might be my future guitar of choice."

Green Day To Auction Instruments And Gear On Reverb

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