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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.

A Celebration: Jimi Hendrix’s ‘Electric Lady Studios’ Box Set Review

Throughout, the sound quality is excellent, and his guitar work is rarely less than astonishing.

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Joni Mitchell’s Latest ‘Asylum Years’ Box Yields Jazzy 1976-80 Treasures

A lot of spectacular stuff was sitting in the vaults. You’ll find it in ‘Vol. 4’

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A Singles Anthology from Roots Rocker Dave Edmunds: Review

The lion’s share of the roots rocker’s best solo work showed up on Swan Song Records between 1976 and 1981.

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Bob Dylan & the Band’s Mind-Blowing ‘1974 Live’: Review

Many of the numbers have been reimagined to the point where they bear little resemblance to the earlier studio recordings.

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Continental Drifters Celebrated with Anthology, Book & Tribute LP

The group’s sound is difficult to categorize—not surprising given the disparate musical backgrounds of the players who were members at one time or another.

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The Frank Zappa Bestselling LP, ‘Apostrophe (’),’ Resurfaces as a Box Set: Review

The 1974 album offers a complex and challenging sonic brew that incorporates jazz, rock, avant-garde and other influences.

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A Comprehensive Gerry and the Pacemakers Anthology: Review

A comprehensive set collects nearly 100 tracks from the band that shared a manager and producer with the Beatles

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Box Set Collects Early Solo Work by Lindsey Buckingham: Review

After Fleetwood Mac balked at continuing in the direction of ‘Tusk,’ Buckingham decided to go his own way.

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A Live Set from Allman Brothers Co-founder Dickey Betts: Review

The 1988 concert from NYC’s Lone Star Roadhouse features Allman Brothers Band classics and guests such as Rick Derringer, Mick Taylor and Jack Bruce.

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J.D. Souther: ‘You’re Only Lonely’ Joins Reissue Series

Guests on the expanded edition of the 1979 album include three members of the Eagles, Linda Ronstadt, Jackson Browne and others

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