New Release Calendar
September 2010
By Dave White, About.com Guide
Eric Clapton - 'Clapton' CD
Reprise Records
Release date 9/28/10 - Reprise Records
Eric Clapton's first solo album, released in 1970, was titled Eric Clapton. Now, 40 years later, his place in rock history firmly established, his name recognition is such that only his last name serves as the title of his 20th solo release, Clapton. A great believer in collaboration on his albums, Clapton invited his Blind Faith band mate Steve Winwood, frequent Clapton Crossroads Festival participant Sheryl Crow, JJ Cale, Wynton Marsalis, and Allen Toussaint to praticipate in what he describes as "an eclectic collection of songs that weren't really on the map."
Arista Records
Release date 9/21/10 - Arista Records
Another frequent collaborator, Carlos Santana, calls on old (and new) pals from a variety of genres like Joe Cocker, Ray Manzerek, Scott Weiland, Rob Thomas, Chris Cornell, India.Arie and Yo-Yo Ma for Guitar Heaven: The Greatest Guiitar Classics of All Time. Many musical styles are represented with covers of songs like "Smoke on the Water," "While My Guitar Gently Weeps, "Riders on the Storm" and "Bang a Gong".
Read a preview of Guitar Heaven
Robert Plant - 'Band of Joy'
Rounder Records
Release date 9/14/10, Rounder Records
Before there was Led Zeppelin, there was Band of Joy, a Birmingham, England based blues band co-founded by Robert Plant, and featuring among its alumni, Plant's future Zep band mate, John Bonham. In 2010, Band of Joy is back, with an all new lineup that includes Patty Griffin sharing vocals with Plant on songs like Lightnin' Hopkins' "Central Two-O-Nine", "Harms Swift Way" (written by Townes Van Zandt) and the first single from the album, "Angel Dance", written by Louie Perez and David Hidalgo of Los Lobos.
Neil Young - 'Le Noise' CD, Vinyl
Reprise Records
Release date 9/28/10 - Reprise Records
Neil Young apologizes for his "old school" use of the term "album" to describe Le Noise, his 35th solo studio release, which will be available on CD, vinyl, MP3, Blu-ray and as an iPhone/iPad app. Producer Daniel Lanois tells Rolling Stone, "We cut a couple of solo acoustic songs, but the rest is very electric. There's nothing else out there like it."
Phil Collins - 'Going Back' CD
Atlantic Records
Release date 9/28/10 - Atlantic Records
And what is it that Phil Collins is Going Back to with his new album? To Motown, to the soul music roots of his career's work. "'It shouldn't really be a surprise to anyone that I've finally made an album of my favourite Motown songs. These songs ... make up the tapestry, the backdrop, of my teenage years." The album features covers of 18 '60s classics like "Jimmy Mack", "Papa was a Rollin' Stone" and "Uptight (Everything's Alright)".
Doobie Brothers - 'World Gone Crazy' CD, Vinyl, DVD
HOR Records
Release date 9/28/10 - HOR Records
Doobie Brothers have been a rock institution for 40 years, a fact they (and we) are celebrating with the release of their 13th studio album, World Gone Crazy. Two of the band's original members, guitarists/vocalists Tom Johnston and Patrick Simmons are joined by drummer Michael Hossack (who came along in 1971) and guitarist/vocalist John McFee, who joined up in 1979. Producing is Ted Templeman, who produced the band's classic albums through the '70s.
'Bachman & Turner' CD
RBE Music/Fontana
Release date 9/7/10, RBE Music / Fontana
Randy Bachman and Fred Turner shift into overdrive with descriptively named album, Bachman & Turner. The project originally started as a Bachman solo album, but after he invited Turner to provide vocals on one of the songs, Turner sent Bachman some songs he'd been working on, and thus evolved the reunion album and tour from the former BTO band mates.
'Black Country Communion' CD, DVD
J&R Adventures
Release date 9/21/10 - J&R Adventures
The newest classic rock supergroup -- Glenn Hughes (Deep Purple, Black Sabbath); Joe Bonamassa; Jason Bonham (Foreigner, UFO); Derek Sherinian (Dream Theater) -- reinforces the band's name by using it as the title of their debut album, Black Country Communion. Hughes is so pleased with the project, he recently told Espy Rock that he's already working on material for a second album.
Ronnie Wood - 'I Feel Like Playing'
Eagle Records / Fontana
Release date 9/28/10 - Eagle Records / Fontana
Rolling Stones guitarist Ronnie Wood releases his seventh solo album, I Feel Like Playing. Among the guest artists who felt like playing with Wood are ZZ Top's Billy Gibbons, Slash, Pearl Jam's Eddie Vedder, Flea (Red Hot Chili Peppers) and Kris Kristofferson. It has been almost 10 years since Wood's last solo project, Not For Beginners.
Alice Cooper - 'Theatre of Death - Live at Hammersmith 2009' CD, DVD, Blu-ray
Bigger Picture
Release date 9/28/10 - Bigger Picture
The final performance of Alice Cooper's 2009 world tour, at London's Hammersmith Apollo, is captured in this multimedia (CD, DVD, Blu-ray) release. The shock rock never stops, as Coop gets "killed" no fewer than four times during the performance, including encounters with a guillotine.
Grateful Dead - 'The Warner Bros. Studio Albums' vinyl box set
Grateful Dead / WEA
Release date 9/21/10 - Grateful Dead / WEA
Heads up, Deadhead collectors! Five of Grateful Dead's albums for Warner Bros. -- The Grateful Dead (1967), Anthem Of The Sun (1968), Aoxomoxoa (1969), Workingman's Dead (1970), American Beauty (1970) -- have been pressed on 180-gram vinyl from the original masters and packaged in a box set in replicas of their original covers. A book containing new liner notes and previously unpublished photos rounds out the set.
Eagle Records / Fontana
Release date 9/28/10 - Eagle Records / Fontana
Eagle Rock Entertainment's series of Classic Album "making of" documentaries continues with a treatment of two of Rush's classics, 2112 and Moving Pictures. Archival footage, in-studio re-creations and interviews (with band members Geddy Lee, Alex Lifeson and Neil Peart, and producer Terry Brown) are used to tell the stories.
'The 4 Complete Ed Sullivan Shows Starring The Beatles' DVD
Universal Music
Release date 9/7/10, Universal Music
A version of The Beatles' four appearances on The Ed Sullivan Show was released on DVD in 2003. The 2010 version boasts frame-by-frame digital remastering and the addition of nearly 15 minutes of additional footage. As the title suggests, there are four complete shows, not just The Beatles' segments.
'Ghost Blues - The Story of Rory Gallagher & the Beat Club Sessions' DVD / CD
Eagle Rock Entertainment
Release date 9/14/10 - Eagle Rock Entertainment
Beat Club was a German TV series and when Irish hard blues rock guitarist Rory Gallagher made three appearances in the early '70s, he was on a roll as a solo artist after a strong (but short) start with Taste, the band he had formed in the '60s that disbanded shortly after performing at the Isle of Wight festival in 1970. Previously unreleased performances are being released on CD and a two-DVD set.
Snowy White Blues Project - 'In Our Time ... Live' CD
100% Womon
Release date 9/14/10, 100% Womon
Snowy White is well remembered as a member of Thin Lizzy and as a regular in Pink Floyd's tour lineup. The versatile guitarist has also performed with his own bands: Blues Agency, White Flames and, for purposes of a 2009 album (In Our Time of Living), Snowy White Blues Project. In Our Time ... Live was recorded during the tour that followed the album's release.
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