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Best Classic Bands offers smart, informed and unbiased assessments of the latest rock album releases and reissues to offer readers guidance on what sounds they might enjoy.
New Warren Zevon Album Features His Final Gig: Review
The 2003 Edmonton show, which proved to be his last, is featured on a 2025 well-recorded release.
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An Expanded Edition of the Beatles’ ‘Anthology Collection’: Review
If you’re a fan (and who isn’t?) and don’t already own the first three compendiums, the new set should prove irresistible.
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Before There Was Crowded House, There Was Split Enz: Box Set Review
A new 5-CD boxed set sorts out some of the New Zealand band’s earliest material.
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An Anthology Collects Instrumental Hits of 1957-62: Review
The 3-CD set delivers “just about all” the ones that made the Top 10 in the U.S. pop and R&B charts and the U.K. chart during rock ’n’ roll’s early years.
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An Anthology Features Singer/Songwriter Bobby Charles: Review
The album’s guest list includes Neil Young, Willie Nelson, Fats Domino and Maria Muldaur.
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The Jimi Hendrix Experience’s ‘Bold as Love’ Expands on a Classic: Review
He could make a guitar talk, sing, dance or fly off into outer space, and he demonstrated all that in 1967.
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Jonathan Richman, Charmingly Quirky and Reflective on ‘Only Frozen Sky Anyway’: Review
On many of his albums, Richman has projected a sense of childlike innocence. On portions of this CD, however, he eschews that side of his personality.
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Willie Nelson’s ‘Workin’ Man: Willie Sings Merle’: Review
The program features 11 numbers written (or in two cases, co-written) by Haggard, and embraces some of his best-known songs.
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‘Dylan’s Circle’ Album Collects Seminal Folk, Rock & Blues: Review
‘Jac Holzman Presents Dylan’s Circle’ features folk, rock and blues performances by Bob Dylan and those he influenced.
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Bruce Springsteen’s Expanded ‘Nebraska ’82’: Review
His new performance of the material is stunning, with the septuagenarian singer seeming just as immersed in his material as he was when he composed it more than 40 years ago.
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