$ 12.00 USD
Tracklist
1. Necessary Evil
2. One More Time
3. Gentleman Is A Dope, The
4. Just Give Me A Man
5. Love Is A Dangerous Thing
6. My Foolish Heart
7. Lies Of Handsome Men, The
8. Get Out And Get Under The Moon
9. Out Of This World
10. Hooray For Love
11. I'd Give A Dollar For A Dime
12. Last Train To Mercerville
Laura Ainsworth’s second album “Necessary Evil” was inspired by her love of film noir, from its pulp novel cover to its Raymond Chanderesque liner notes to the songs that touch on the many twisted shades of love. Only at the end do we learn that if you want pure, happy-ever-after romance, it’s best to look for it in the great old songs on the jukebox…
Featuring a powerful 13-piece horn section on the opening and closing tunes and some of the top jazz players in North Texas, New Vintage was nominated for several indie music awards and won the Clousine International Music Magazine Award for Best Jazz Video for the title track, filmed during Laura’s tour of India.
Reviews of Necessary Evil…
"My goodness, it is brilliant.” – Koop Kooper, host, Cocktail Nation (World’s leading radio show/podcast on all things cool and swank)
"Laura Ainsworth has not only met the incredible standard set by her debut recording, but surpassed it with her timeless musical craftsmanship and abundant raw talent." - Eric Harabadian, Jazz Inside magazine
"Laura's singing is in the classic Big Band style of singing that I like and that is missed in today's music.” – Ernie Felice, Capitol Records artist, Grammy Museum honoree and father of jazz accordion
“4-1/2 Stars! Laura Ainsworth is an exceptional singer, full of grace and color in her interpretations… Her ability to express the elements of the most classic jazz is incomparable; she is able to subtly display sensuality, darkness, romanticism, naughtiness, and feeling. Necessary Evil is a smart and brilliant contribution to the world jazz scene; it is a real, passionate and lovely tribute to the composers and singers that some decades ago released these standards; it is a tribute to some key moments in the history of jazz.” – Oscar Montagut, TheWorldMusicReport.com
“…The film noirish cover and tongue-in-cheek notes made me want to pop it right into my CD player... One fine singer who is as at home with the racy ‘Just Give Me a Man’ as with the tender ‘My Foolish Heart’… (She) has made the effort to find some songs that you will not hear on many new releases… The clever closing number by Lee Charles Kelley is comprised almost entirely of Johnny Mercer song titles… This album is musical, fun, and one that I will get back to often.” – Joe Lang, Jersey Jazz
"Laura Ainsworth steps...back into the recording studio with her delightful new CD, the snazzy and jazzy Necessary Evil (Eclectus Records). She can deliver sultry in simple fashion, but the kind that recalls big band clubs in many a black-and-white film airing on TCM. The production value is easy here, but it’s magically transporting to an era far gone. But what matters most here is that Ainsworth sings with heart... She opts for deep cuts like Rodgers and Hammerstein’s ‘The Gentleman is a Dope’ and Johnny Mercer’s ‘Out of This World.’ While not obscure tunes, she doesn’t go for the obvious... For patient listeners, these 12 tracks play like a dream... Charming and genuine. She doesn’t sing like a diva, but like a character living in the middle of the music."- Kevin Thomas, Dallas Voice
“Dallas-based vocalist Laura Ainsworth’s sophomore album pops in a way that makes you realize just how terrific old-school jazz can sound in the right hands. Full of vivid instrumentation crisply recorded — there were goose-bump moments, particularly during ‘One More Time,’ when it seemed like the musicians were performing right in front of me — and Ainsworth’s vivacious vocals, Necessary Evil cries out for dim lighting, last call and a fine cigar.” – Preston Jones, Ft. Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com
"The thing that jumps right out is quality – quality vocals, quality accompaniment and quality songs. This is not another album of cheap run-of-the mill recreations of jazz and big band standards, no sir, this is a rare treat for music lovers everywhere. Laura Ainsworth is an old fashioned singer who actually interprets the music of the songs she performs and this means you get a dozen stellar performances on this album… It is reminiscent of those classic Verve, Capitol or Columbia albums of the 1950’s…you just need to grab a copy and listen." - Richard Irvine, Radio North Angus, Scotland
“As sweet-voiced as a meadowlark crossed with a hummingbird…The kind of gig Mae West would uncork champagne to and then sit back in brocade and rhinestones… Vamps, sorceresses, and cabaret divas are the faeryland denizens she saunters among, unhurriedly, at home with winsome seductresses and a Gatsby or two. At times, one can almost hear Tenessee Williams and Oscar Wilde rubbing elbows in the audience.” – Mark S. Tucker, AcousticMusic.com
“I don't know what's with this whole femme fatale revival thing, but I like the vibe and I like the records when they are done right, like this one is. With a three-octave voice and a pop that played sax with Sinatra, Bennett, Tormé and Fitzgerald, Ainsworth brings a whole lot of other things to the table that make this release stand out at once and pull farther away from the pack with repeated listening… Fun stuff that just screams out for a whiskey neat with a water back.” – MidwestRecord.com
$ 12.00 USD
Tracklist
1. That's How I Got My Start
2. I'll Take Romance
3. Where Did The Magic Go?
4. An Occasional Man
5. Wasting My Love On You
6. Nevertheless
7. A Little Jive Is Good For You
8. The Man I Love Is Gone
9. All About You
10. Nothing Can Replace A Man
11. It's A Nuisance Having You Around
12. Long Ago and Far Away and You Stepped Out of a Dream
13. I Once Knew a Fella
Laura Ainsworth’s third album, New Vintage, scored five nominations and an unprecedented triple win of the 2018 Artists Music Guild Heritage Awards, for Album, Video (“That How I Got My Start”) and Female Vocalist of the Year, and a 2019 AMG Best Video award for “Where Did the Magic Go?” It was also honored with three Global Music Awards, the Clousine International Music Magazine Award for best jazz album and five Josie Music Awards nominations. It earned Laura profiles in Downbeat, Cadence, Jazz Japan and other top music publications. She was also featured and interviewed on many lounge/jazz radio shows and podcasts, such as Lounging With Lombardi,” “Everything Old Is New Again” and “Cocktail Nation.” She also became the first contemporary artist ever featured on the “Buddies Lounge” podcast.
Reviews of New Vintage…
“Beautiful voice, expressive and sensitive, accompanied by a group with serious professionalism…An excellent album!” - Serge Warin, Radio Grand Brive, Objat, France
“Laura Ainsworth is breathing new life into the previously staid ‘jazz standards’ album format…As excellent as Laura's first two albums have been, New Vintage looks to be Laura's breakthrough. With New Vintage, Laura creates a rich, intoxicating atmosphere that transports the mind to another place and time. Laura swings and seduces her way into the heart like only the original jazz singers could previously do. ‘They don't make 'em like they used to’ no longer applies, as Laura has rediscovered a large portion of the formula, and uses it liberally on the New Vintage album. Thank you, Laura, for making the Great American Songbook exciting and fun again!” - David Gasten, Producer, This is Vintage Now compilation series
“She has a voice and style that don't belong to this century, let alone this decade. Laura is reaching back in time, and some of the songs contained on this album haven't been recorded for more than fifty years. This is music from the '40s and '50s, with even new songs chosen deliberately that sit within that style. She can gently sway in the bossa nova beat of ‘An Occasional Man’ or slow it right down and be the sultry smooth singer reminiscent of the likes of Julie London. Laura's father was Billy Ainsworth, who played sax in big bands, and the early exposure to soft and classic jazz has obviously had a major impact. Close your eyes, and drift into a different world.” – Kev Rowland, Gonzo Weekly
“Ainsworth’s father played with Sam Butera, so this retro revival thing is in her blood legit and sometimes it just doesn’t pay to fight what you are. With another lounge revival swinging our way, she’s right at the forefront of the revival, unearthing worthy songs that haven’t been recorded in the last 50 years, which culls her from the rest of the diva pack that think it all begins and ends with Cole Porter. Loesser, Mercer, let’s bring them all back…
Streaming like a comet out of Texas, this gal is all gal and proud of it to the tips of her opera length gloves. A must for jazzbo vocal fans.” - Chris Spector, MidwestRecord.com
This is an album that is fun from start to finish, sung with just the right approach by Ainsworth, with support by a hip band led by pianist and arranger Brian Piper. It is a smile-inducing winner!” - Joe Lang, Jersey Jazz
“Laura Ainsworth’s Third Album Sparkles Like Champagne…
When Dallas lounge singer Laura Ainsworth releases an album…you have to sit at home imagining the tinkling of ice cubes in a highball (or, just as legitimately, make a cocktail yourself and create your own ambiance)…Her voice, a satiny ribbon that seems to flow as an uninterrupted river of downbeats, is rich and distinctive, but it’s her sense of humor that catches you note after note…One savvy decision is the selection of a fairly obscure set of standards to tackle here (of the 13 tracks, only three — the lead-off ‘That’s How I Got My Start’ by Frank Loesser, ‘Where Did The Magic Go?’ and a Kern/Gershwin mashup of ‘Long Ago and Far Away” — will be widely familiar). The great advantage of that, of course, is that every song can still surprise you — the lyrics, the licks, the sentiments. New Vintage is an album of reinvention, both feet planted in the present, but forever looking back.” - Arnold Wayne Jones, Dallas Voice
$ 29.98 USD
Tracklist
Disc: 1
1. Love for Sale
2. An Occasional Man
3. Necessary Evil
4. Just Give Me a Man
5. Hooray for Love
6. That's How I Got My Start
7. Out of This World
8. That's the Kind of Guy I Dream Of
9. Wasting My Love on You
10. Skylark
Laura Ainsworth achieved a lifelong dream by finally appearing on the medium of her idols with Top Shelf, a 180-gram, virgin vinyl best-of LP, pressed by Hand Drawn Pressing. MP3 download card is included.
Remastered for vinyl by renowned engineer Kent Stump of Crystal Clear Sound in Dallas, Top Shelf features 10 of Laura’s personal favorites from her first three albums, showcasing a variety of styles.
Tracks include her smoky, after-midnight take on Cole Porter’s “Love For Sale”…the sexy island fantasy of “An Occasional Man,” complete with surf sounds and tropical bird calls…the big band blast of “Necessary Evil”…her exotic, world jazz reimagining of “Out of This World”…the sensuous noir feel of the long-forgotten early Frank Loesser gem, “That’s How I Got My Start”…and five more outstanding cuts from her critically-acclaimed catalog, all in the rich, warm tones of high-quality audiophile vinyl.
$ 7.50 USD $ 15.00 USD
Album Tracks:
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Newly remastered featuring re-imagined artwork by Vaughan Oliver
$ 15.00 USD
Newly remastered featuring re-imagined artwork by Vaughan Oliver
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We call this project “20/20” to celebrate our 20 years together as a band. 10 songs were voted on by our fans using the original recordings, and 10 songs were selected, reworked, and re-recorded by the 7 members in the band now. In total, these are 20 songs that define who we’ve been and who we’ve become over 2 decades! It’s been quite a journey... so just enjoy the ride!
$ 15.00 USD
Track listing:
1.The Gereg (4:54)
2.Wolf Totem (5:38)
3.The Great Chinggis Khaan (4:32)
4.The Legend of Mother Swan (5:25)
5.Shoog Shoog (4:01)
6.The Same (5:27)
7.Yuve Yuve Yu (4:42)
8.Shireg Shireg (5:47)
9.Song of Women (7:16)
10.Wolf Totem (feat. Jacoby Shaddix of Papa Roach) (5:17)
11.Yuve Yuve Yu (feat. From Ashes To New) (4:13)
12.Song of Women (feat. Lzzy Hale of Halestorm) (5:49)
13.Shireg Shireg (acoustic) (5:47)
14.Yuve Yuve Yu (acoustic) (4:43)
15.Shoog Shoog (acoustic) (3:51)
$ 10.00 USD
$ 15.00 USD
New album on CD released August 7th, 2020.
In his sophomore album, Public Life, Joshua Lee Turner weighs his life as a touring musician against a newfound appreciation for time spent at home. Turner embraces imperfection and limitation, choosing to record the album almost entirely to 4-track cassette and producing, mixing, and filming it in his apartment. With stripped-down arrangements, intimate lyrics, and virtuosic guitar playing, Public Life blends 1970s sounds with 2020 contemplations of home, friendship, work, and social media.
Track List
1. Introduction
2. Nebraska Dreams
3. Like Lightning
4. Belle
5. 319
6. Public Life
7. Smoky Sunrise
8. Nostalgia / So Far So Long
9. Denouement
10. At Home
$ 12.00 USD
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Track listing:
$ 15.00 USD
Cory Marks - Who I Am CD (PRESALE 08/07/2020)
$ 15.00 USD
New studio album, This Is What I Live For, from Blue October. The new album includes the Top 20 single "Oh My My" plus other quick fan favorites like Moving On and Fight For Love which features Justin's daughter, Blue.
Immediate download of the album is included with purchase.
Track Listing:
I Laugh At Myself
The Way I Used To Love You
Love Stupid (feat. Karen Hover)
This Is What I Live For (feat. Steve Schiltz)
Fight For Love (feat. Blue Reed)
Oh My My
Moving On (So Long)
I Will Follow You
Completely
Stay With Me
The Weatherman
Who Do You Run From
Only Lost Is Found
$ 20.00 USD
My Bubba - Big Bad Good Signed CD
$ 7.99 USD
Magnolia Boulevard’s debut EP ‘New Illusion’, produced by Paul Reed Smith.
TRACKLIST
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Escape The Fate - Chemical Warfare CD
$ 5.00 USD $ 15.00 USD
The fourth album by Nashville-based Sunshine Pop band.
This twelve-song-set is the band’s boldest work to date, breaking sonic barriers while maintaining lush melodies and artistic influences.
Key tracks include: “Ruby,” “Look To The Horizon,” “One Drop Of Rain,” “Somewhere Else”
Three previous albums: “Freedom Wind” (2008), “Grand Hotel” (2012), and “Together” (2016)Early critical acclaim led to placements in film, television, and advertising, as well as favorable press in both print and online.
Musically adjacent to successful pop artists from the 1960s, 70s like The Beach Boys, Turtles, Association, Grass Roots...
The brainchild of Charleston, SC native Jason Brewer, the only constant “member” of The Explorers Club over the band’s lifespan Brewer re-unites with Freedom Wind and Grand Hotel producer, Matt Goldman (Copeland, Underoath, Smalltown Poets, etc)
New contributors to this incarnation of The Explorers Club include Shane Tutmarc (Dolour, Sean Nelson) and Austin, TX-based songwriter, Will Courtney. A songwriting partnership with Emeen Zarookian, Mike Williamson, and vocal contributions from former Explorers Club member Wally Reddington return Brewer, Tutmarc, and Goldman recorded most of the album in Nashville, at Columbia’s legendary Studio A. Additional work was done at Gem City Studios on the Tennessee/Kentucky border.
Tracks:
1.Ruby
2.One Drop Of Rain
3.Love So Fine
4.Mystery
5.Don’t Cry
6.It’s Me
7.Dawn
8.Dream World
9.Say You Will
10.Somewhere Else
11.Dreamin’
12.Look To The Horizon
$ 5.00 USD $ 15.00 USD
Exquisite set of cover songs by Nashville-based Sunshine Pop band, “The Explorers Club”.
Ten-song-set is chock full of hits, misses, and other delights from the 1960s.
The album features guest vocals by former Barenaked Ladies frontman Steven Page, and Drive-By Truckers member, Jay Gonzalez.
Three previous albums: “Freedom Wind” (2008), “Grand Hotel” (2012) and “Together” (2016), and of course their “self-titled” album (2020) which is being released around the same time as “To Sing And Be Born Again”
The brainchild of Charleston, SC native Jason Brewer, the only constant “member” of The Explorers Club over the band’s lifespan
Brewer re-unites with Freedom Wind and Grand Hotel producer, Matt Goldman (Copeland, Underoath, Smalltown Poets, etc)
New contributors to this set include Shane Tutmarc (Dolour, Sean Nelson,) Page and Gonzalez, as well as vocals from former Explorers Club member Wally Reddington and past contributor Brian Langan, Brewer, Tutmarc, and Goldman recorded most of the album in Nashville, at Columbia’s legendary Studio A. Additional work was done at Gem City Studios on the Tennessee/Kentucky border.
Songs include huge pop hits originally recorded by The Turtles (“She’d Rather Be With Me,”) Manfred Mann, (the Bob Dylan penned “Mighty Quinn,” Tommy Boyce and Bobby Hart (“I Wonder What She’s Doing Tonight”) Herb Alpert (“This Guy’s In Love With You”) and Paul Revere and the Raiders (“Kicks.)
Rarities and lesser-known songs from Three Dog Night’s Danny Hutton, New England-based Orpheus, The Zombies, The Lovin’ Spoonful, and The Walker Brothers round out the set.
Tracks:
1.I Wonder What She’s Doing Tonite
2.She’d Rather Be With Me
3.Roses And Rainbows
4.Kicks
5.The Mighty Quinn(QuinnTheEskimo)
6.Maybe After He’s Gone
7.Can’t Find The Time
8.Didn’t Want To Have To Do it
9.This Guy’s In Love With You
10.The Sun Ain’t Gonna Shine Anymore
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The Explorers Club hopes for its sophomore album, Grand Hotel, are pretty ambitious to undertake, if it weren't for the fact that the South Carolina sextet had already gone a long way toward accomplishing it on their debut album Freedom Wind…"quite remarkable" (USA Today). Grand Hotel puts the band with producer/mixing engineer Mark Linett, known work on the re-issues of the Beach Boys' Smile and Pet Sounds. The songs, recall the likes Herb Alpert jamming with psychedelic bands…the music of a James Bond flick…Roy Orbison, Neil Diamond records… the most upbeat 4 Seasons or Grass Roots hits.
Tracks:
1.Acapulco(Sunrise)
2.Run Run Run
3.Anticipatin’
4.Bluebird
5.Grand Hotel
6.Go For You
7.Any Little Way
8.It’s No Use
9.Sweet Delights
10.I’ve Been Waiting
11.It’s You
12.Acapulco(Sunset)1
3.Summer Days,Summer Nights
14.Weight Of The World
15.Open The Door
$ 5.00 USD $ 15.00 USD
The Explorers Club mark their return with 'Together', the quintet's third album of harmony-laden sounds. Hot off the heels of 'Freedom Wind', their first release which showcased their Beach Boys influences, and the triumphant follow-up 'Grand Hotel', an exploration of Classic soft pop ideals, 'Together' is sure to be the soundtrack for Summer 2016. Jason Brewer, founder, and visionary of the band has patterned the album in the mold of post-Pet Sounds Beach Boys classics such as 'Friends', 'Sunflower', and 'Love You', while adding his own unique touches and flourishes of inspiration with his band mates. Listeners can expect exquisite harmonies, tight musicianship, flowing melodies, and gorgeous vocals. Standout tracks include the modern sunshine doo-wop of 'California's Calling Ya', the bouncy pop of 'Once In A While', and the contemplative 'Quietly'. 'Together' is a must for fans of well-crafted pop music.
Tracks:
1.Together
2.California's Callin'Ya
3.Once In A While
4.Be Around
5.Gold Winds
6.Perfect Day
7.Quietly
8.My Friend
9.No Strings Attached
10.Don't Waste Her Time
11.Before I'm Gone
$ 25.00 USD
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As you may or may not know, philanthropy has been a big part of my life for a long time. I've found that artists like myself are uniquely positioned to raise awareness and make a difference in our own communities and beyond. As such, about a year ago, I decided to make philanthropy a more permanent part of my life by establishing the SOS Foundation. The goal here is to use music, both recorded and live, to raise money for causes I'm passionate about. With the help of some amazing people, I'm happy to announce the upcoming release of the first SOS Foundation record. This is a follow up of a record we put out years ago called SOS:Save Our Soul, which was a covers record. This new record will be similar except that we dug a little deeper into history and pulled together a fantastic playlist of cover songs ranging from Wilson Pickett, Solomon Burke, Aretha Franklin and many more. Most importantly, 50% of all profits will go to our charitable partner, City Of Refuge. City Of Refuge is an Atlanta, GA based organization that does some of the most comprehensive work, dealing with homelessness and poverty, in the country! My first encounter with COR was 2 years ago when I performed for one of their fundraisers in Atlanta. I was able to meet with the folks that work there and the folks that are served by the work that COR does. I was so impressed with what I saw that day that I began to research more about the group and, needless to say, became convinced that I wanted to get involved in any way I could. Through vocational training, youth education, and lifetime job placement assistance, COR is more successful at getting people permanently out of poverty than any other program I've ever seen. You can see for yourself the amazing work they're doing at City of Refuge .
Track Listing:
Cry To Me - Solomon Burke
Do Right Woman-Aretha Franklin
Baby Workout - Jackie Wilson
Twistin’ The Night Away - Sam Cooke
These Arms Of Mine (Feat. Huey Lewis) - Otis Redding
What Becomes Of The Broken Hearted - Jimmy Ruffin
I Was Made To Love Her - Stevie Wonder
In The Midnight Hour (Feat. J.J. Grey) - Wilson Pickett
Hold On, I'm Comin’ - Sam & Dave
It's Your Thing - Isley Brothers
Fool For Your Love - Original
Cry to Me (acoustic feat. Ted Broussard) - Solomon Burke
Sunday Kind of Love - Etta James
Every Tear - David Egan
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Vertical Horizon - Go digital download available as a zipped .wav and mp3 file, standard CD, or CD signed by Matt.
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u are seen. u are heard. u are love/d.
to celebrate the grammy nomination for my album to feel love/d, i’m releasing a limited merch capsule. when i made the album i asked myself “what do i want? to feel. to feel love & to feel loved.” i feel love/d and i want you to know that u are love/d.
$ 14.99 USD
Jewel case CD celebrating 10 years with Better Noise Music.
Purchase includes immediate digital download of one track + full album on release day.
Greatest Hits Vol.2- The Better Noise Years features 21 tracks and comprises 12 of the top 10 hits from 2010-2019. The Album consists of various songs from the five albums that were created with Better Noise Music including: Time for Annihilation..On The Record & On The Road, The Connection, F.E.A.R, Crooked Teeth, and finally Who Do You Trust? It features the smash song “Help” from their 2017 release and has been certified Gold by the RIAA, selling over 500,000 copies in the United States Alone.
The CD features seven songs that are either remixed, acoustic and one that has a feature. Celebrate Papa Roach’s success!
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Aubrey Logan - Blue Christmas Signed CD
$ 5.99 USD $ 11.99 USD
Xperience - Regal Blue '84 CD
$ 12.00 USD
Fire From the Gods - American Sun CD
$ 5.00 USD $ 15.00 USD
Available for the first time, Jason Brewer has reached back into the archives on the latest release simply called ‘Rarities Volume 1’ which is a collection of long lost singles and various outtakes originally recorded between 2011-2013 during the sessions for the band's second album, ‘Grand Hotel’. The album boasts a set of superb cover versions of 60’s classics, such as ‘Hitchin’ A Ride’, ‘Stormy’ and ‘Walk On By’ as well as the original Orchestral Version of ‘Don’t Waste Her Time’. A different version of this song is on the ‘Together’ album.
These long-awaited sessions have been meticulously remastered, remixed and sequenced together into a satisfying and cohesive album produced by Jason Brewer with brilliant engineer Matt Goldman and the legendary Mitch Easter (REM).
TRACKLISTING:
1. Hitchin’ A Ride 2. Anticipatin’ (under construction mix) 3. Run Run Run (under construction mix) 4. Stormy 5. Sweet Delights (under construction mix) 6. It’s No Use (under construction mix) 7. Walk On By 8. Weight Of The World (under construction mix) 9. Summer Days, Summer Nights (under construction mix) 10. No Good To Cry 11. Don’t Waste Her Time (orchestral version)
$ 15.00 USD
Aubrey Logan - Blue Christmas CD
$ 30.00 USD
Aubrey Logan - Signed Standard CD
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Released March 26th, 2021.
Alone Together is a unique project that presented itself in many shapes and forms. When the pandemic started and all my touring was postponed indefinitely, I knew I needed to continue creating music for my own well-being. That’s when I started doing my virtual shows from my home studio on StageIt. A few shows in I started inviting special guests to perform with me, but as technology wasn’t allowing for ‘live’ duets we did it literally ‘alone together’ from separate locations as a pre-record. The most exhilarating part was that my fellow artists that I invited all said yes immediately – and the same goes for the selections I made for this album.
When it came time to stream the duets, technical challenges made it impossible to do them live. So for each duet, me and each artist created a pre-recorded video, doing one take from top to bottom. He mixed the music and then sent it all to a video editor to synch it up – and the result is pure sonic and split screen visual magic.
What ended up happening was incredible. We put together performances that were so real, heartfelt and authentic that it became apparent we were creating something special. We captured a spirit and vibe beyond anything I could have imagined. It’s not about being perfect but all about the heart and soul. It’s exciting to now share that magic with you on Alone Together.
1. Bakerstreet feat. Javier Colon
Track originally Produced by Keith Olsen
Produced by Michael Lington
Mixed by Michael Lington and Ray Bardani.
Mastered by Steve Hall
Art Direction by Paul Grosso
Musicians on Album:
Barry Eastmond, Ray Parker Jr, Paul Jackson Jr, Teddy Campbell, Nathan East, Freddie Washington, Tim Pierce, Randy Waldman, Dean Parks, Brian Bromberg, Vinnie Colaiuta, Luis Conte, Brian Culbertson, Oscar Seaton, Smitty Smith, Lenny Castro, Greg Karukas, Land Richard, Jeff Koz, Phillip Ingram, Shedrick Mitchell, Alex Al, Jairus Mozee, Tim Carmon, Omari Williams, Bill Reichenbach, Dan Higgins, Gary Grant, Dave Guy, Neal Sugerman, Cochemea Gastelum, Ricky Peterson
$ 5.00 USD $ 15.00 USD
"I stubbornly refused to pan anything on Unnecessary Evil... or The Blinding White Of Nothing At All. Pulled a power move and demanded mono! But Mike Purcell wanted to hear a stereo version of UE and now you can too, only from Goldstar Recordings!!!"
Tracklisting:
1. Any Way But Down
2. No Power
3. XLII
4. Stay Down
5. Just For A Moment
6. Unnecessary Evil
7. Artificial Air
8. The End Of The Day
9. Squared Up
10. Look Away
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LANGAN, FROST & WANE is the collaboration of three songwriters, writing in the folk tradition and drawing candidly from the folk revival of the mid-twentieth century.
It began as a vessel for Brian Langan (Langan) and RJ Gilligan (Frost) to explore a territory they otherwise had no outlet for in their music. While Langan's past work with The Swims and Needlepoints was geared more towards well-crafted pop and boogie, Frost's output from Meddlesome Bells and Dark Web was heavier, more riffs - more punk.
It was in Langan, Frost, & Wane that they found a common ground.
As work on the album began, themes emerged.
What is it that allows a song to be playful, yet somber? How can the music tell a story on its own, apart from words? It was the same territory that the wild raucous flutes found on early Incredible String Band occupied, or better still, the second half of Donovan's A Gift From A Flower To A Garden.
They set about to capture it.
Frost ran a small studio and field recording label in Philadelphia, Bells Records, allowing the duo to dive into different tracking arrangements and experimentations, building out each song organically over a period of time. After wrapping up a season of sessions, Frost suggested Nam Wayne (Wane) to Langan as a possible third collaborator. Wane and Frost had been trading folk songs for some time and it became clear he was on a similar quest. After an evening of impromptu song writing among the three it was settled, and the project solidified.
The group is driven by Langan and Frost's finger-plucked melodies on guitar, complimented with found sound, instrumentation of the Middle and Far East, India, the Mediterranean, and Appalachia.
It is the belief of these songwriters that they succeeded in what they set out to do. This body of work is the culmination of those long hours spent searching for what is not lost, but perhaps sometimes forgotten
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Steve Gadd - At Blue Note Tokyo CD
Regular or autographed versions available.
$ 5.00 USD $ 15.00 USD
Brent’s pop melodies summon the restrained beauty of his native Midwest. A fixture in Kansas City music, Windler’s pacific harmonies and intricate vocal and instrumental structures capture the polite malaise of Americana as it is lived everyday in mid-sized cities of the heartland. For more than a decade, Windler has explored this terrain that has grown into a more expansive identity that perfectly captures both the sticky sameness of a Midwestern evening, and Windler’s own embrace of a sound that is uniquely his own.
Brent’s first solo album “New Morning Howl” is an old friend joining you cross-country. As Windler narrates the tender sameness of the landscape, his arrangements and harmonies reveal hidden depths, casting the familiar in a sound that is lush, layered, and new.
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$ 20.00 USD
More stock currently in production and expected to ship at the end of May, 2021.
$ 10.00 USD
The official hard copy of The Band Is Gonna Make It EP
Tracklisting:
wOw!
The Thrill
Cute
Simplicity
Adriana
Wake Up
$ 15.00 USD
Receive an immediate download of the track "Vacation" ft. Train when you pre-order.
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The Lyle Mays Estate is elated to announce the release of a thirteen-minute “mini symphony” entitled Eberhard—a composition completed by Mays in 2009 for the Zeltsman Marimba Festival, and recorded in the months before his passing on February 10, 2020, with a slate of notable names in jazz including Bill Frisell, Alex Acuña, and Bob Sheppard.
Due out on August 27, 2021, Eberhard is a long-form, multi-section work that is Lyle’s self-professed dedication to the great German bass player Eberhard Weber, a composer whose influence loomed large on Mays and his long-time collaborator Pat Metheny in the forming of the 11-time Grammy-Award winning Pat Metheny Group during the mid 70’s and throughout their careers. According to Steve Rodby (bass player of the Pat Metheny Group and Lyle’s best friend) who did double duty on this recording as co-associate producer and acoustic bassist, “…though he called it his ‘humble tribute’ to Eberhard, it is still 100 percent Lyle in every way.”
A steady, lilting marimba (Wade Culbreath) ostinato offers an ample bed for Eberhard’s ethereal opening piano melody, performed, of course, by Mays. Lyle’s unmistakeable orchestrational style is immediately on display as various shakers, rainsticks, and atmospheric synthesizer pads quietly make their way into the texture, rising and falling organically as an electric bass theme (played by longtime James Taylor cohort, Jimmy Johnson) emerges. Wordless vocals, a hallmark of the music of the Pat Metheny Group, supplied here by jazz singers Aubrey Johnson (Lyle’s niece and co-executive producer), Rosana Eckert, and Gary Eckert, are introduced—first as accompaniment to the bass melody and later as melodic “instruments.”
Vocal features give way to Bob Sheppard’s woodwind section, which gives way to cello section underscores (led by principal Timothy Loo), and soon the whole ensemble, including star drummer/percussionists Jimmy Branly and Alex Acuña, Steve Rodby (acoustic bass), Mitchel Forman (Hammond B3 Organ/Wurlitzer piano), and Bill Frisell (guitar) have made appearances. All sixteen instrumentalists/vocalists rarely play at the same time, instead playfully weaving in and out for various features (notably by Mays, Jimmy Johnson, Aubrey Johnson, and Culbreath) and accompanying textures. In a piece already abundant with aural decadence, Bob Sheppard’s extended tenor saxophone solo, which brings Eberhard to its climax, is perhaps the most thrilling. The piece ends as it began, with a sparse recapitulation of the introduction, rewarding the listener with the feeling of having experienced an incredible musical odyssey.
In typical Lyle fashion, this music reflects and honors his far-reaching influences, most obviously the bass playing and compositional style of Eberhard Weber (with whom Lyle recorded on two occasions), but continuing on through Philip Glass’ minimalism, Indonesian Gamelan ensemble, Brazilian music (notably the percussive and speech-like vocal techniques of Lyle’s friend and collaborator Naná Vasconcelos), to the blues, and to classical forms and structures. As in all of his compositions, Mays’ propensity for exploiting compositional material (or, its “DNA”) to the fullest extent is ever constant throughout Eberhard. Like a scientist, he would take a simple melodic, harmonic, rhythmic, or other kind of idea and experiment with it until he had discovered all of the different forms it could take—melody, counterline, background pad, bassline, rhythmic motif, and more—often using the same ideas in a wide variety of ways. Eberhard is utterly intentional, containing layer upon layer of depth, complexity, love, and care for the listener to discover.
While technically a posthumous release, Mays was engaged in the making of Eberhard from beginning to end—serving as composer, arranger, performer (piano, keyboards, and synthesizers), producer, and executive producer, and was actively involved in all of the recording and mixing sessions, which took place in Los Angeles during the latter half of 2019.
Fans will know that Lyle had been on hiatus from his enormously successful touring and recording career with the Pat Metheny Group and as a solo artist (Eberhard will be his seventh release as a leader) since 2011, choosing instead to pursue his myriad non-musical passions. Then, “Lyle’s health took a bad turn in 2019, and at about the same time, he decided to try to get Eberhard recorded.The relationship between those two events is complex. What’s clear is that he would continue writing and extending this music, as was always his process: to try to find every bit of what the material suggested, every note and harmony, and sound it evoked for him. He added parts, expanded orchestration, imagining it all on an even grander scale,” Steve Rodby explains. “The result is this recording, and what he was able to hear in his final days. This wasn’t meant to be Lyle’s last piece of music, and if he had lived longer, he had plans for more.”
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