Reissue Week...again!
The Pineapple Thief - 10 Stories Down
Gather 'round as we watch the record industry slide into oblivion. Yet another week where not a single new Cd attracts my interest. Sure,there were a couple of pretty good albums. The new Jimmy Vaughan is alright,for someone with such an awful tone.(I know,I know he's supposed to get a pass,right?) Chuck Loeb takes a break from producing audio wallpaper for dentist offices and puts out a genuine "real" jazz album,but that just shows he should know better. So,enough with the snarky dismissals of guitarists who play better than I do,on to the good stuff. Luckily for the record industry,there's always plenty of wonderful music to reissue,allowing it to wheeze on for awhile yet. Here are the great guitar Cd's being reissued this week:
Gabor Szabo - The Sorcerer / More Sorcery
Budapest born jazz guitarist Szabo,is perhaps most famous in the U.S. for composing "Gypsy Queen",a hit for Santana. Both recorded in 1967 for the Impulse label,these albums find him up to his usual trick of mixing in a fair amount of his native Hungarian melodies with jazz covers of pop/rock songs of the day. An underrated guitarist with a unique tone and his own style. Jazz lovers,this is part of a current twofer reissue campaign of a whole bunch of Impulse stuff,including Sonny Rollins,Alice Coltrane,McCoy Tyner,Pharoh Sanders,Curtis Fuller,Milt Jackson,Albert Ayler,Elvin Jones,Art Blakey,Archie Shepp and Ahmad Jamal.
O.Z. - Fire In The Brain
Awesome 1983 heavy metal. Think of it as NWOBHM that,instead of coming from Britain,is actually from Finland. NWOFHM anyone? Wonderful stuff.
Deep Purple - Shades of Deep Purple
Deep Purple - Book of Taliesyn
Deep Purple - Deep Purple
The Rod Evans era Purple discography has been in a bit of a shambles lately,so these reissues are welcome,if a bit overdue. Loads of great Ritchie Blackmore moments in the early years.
T-Bone Walker - The Essential T-Bone Walker Collection
In my experience,it's not to often a collection called "The Essential..." is actually essential. This two disc set lives up in every way. Every fan of rock jazz and blues guitar should have this material in their collection.
The Pineapple Thief - 10 Stories Down
Dumb name,great band. It's a cliche to compare them to the same two bands everyone else does but they really do make modern progressive rock in a Porcupine Tree meets Radiohead style. With their early out of print albums going for $100 and up,they've started a reissue campaign. 2006's "Little Man" already came out earlier this year and hopefully,more will follow.
Muddy Waters - Muddy,Brass and the Blues / Can't get no Grindin'
Like many of the Chess Muddy Waters reissues,this combines two different eras onto one Cd. Fine with me,because I like it all.
Robin Trower - Live!
One of the best in '70's power trio rock. With "Bridge of Sighs" a hit and the followup "For Earth Below" nearly it's equal,Trower is at his peak here.
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