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Hear: Steve Miller Band Previously Unreleased Cuts

Steve Miller himself directed the track lists for the various configurations of his latest hits package. There is plenty of previously unreleased material

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Eric Clapton: ‘Maybe the Guitar Is Over’

It’s a shocking statement to see from one of the most renowned and influential guitarists in history but there it is. Is Slowhand right?

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Benmont Tench to Play Solo Shows This Fall

The keyboard player and founding member of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers will be performing songs from his 2014 solo album

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Godley & Creme 5-CD Boxed Set Out in November

The ex-10cc members are the subject of a set that brings together five of their Polydor LPs and a disc of extended mixes and B-sides

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Little Barrie Statement: Steve Howe Son Virgil’s Band

Drummer Virgil Howe’s band was formed in 2000 and had just released an album with a now-eerie title. He passed on the eve of their UK tour

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Listen: Van Morrison’s ‘Roll With the Punches’ LP

His 37th studio album has him covering R&B/blues songs by greats like Bo Diddley and Lightnin’ Hopkins, plus performing new original material

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George Martin Biography (Volume One) Out Now

The first volume of an exhaustive study of the legendary Beatles producer covers his early years through his work on ‘Rubber Soul’ and ‘Revolver’

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Ten Years After 50th Anniversary 10-CD Box Due

A half century after their debut, the British quartet’s core recordings are gathered into one set, with an extra disc of unreleased material

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Grateful Dead Music Coming to Off-Broadway Show

‘Red Roses, Green Gold,’ a musical set in 1920s Maryland, incorporates the music of Jerry Garcia and Robert Hunter, plus other Dead members

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Don Williams, Country Music Star, Dead at 78

The veteran country balladeer whose songs were covered by everyone from Pete Townshend to Johnny Cash died after a short illness

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