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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.

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The Doors and Bob Seger Attract Bluegrass Covers: Review

Believe it or not, these renditions of rock classics also sound as if they could have been written for a bluegrass band.

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John Lennon’s ‘Mind Games’ Under a Microscope: Box Set Review

Lennon called the album “an interim record between being a manic political lunatic to back to being a musician again.”

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‘Songwriter’ Features Previously Unheard Johnny Cash Originals: Review

John Carter Cash discovered recordings of 11 self-penned numbers that his dad had made in 1993 but never released

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An Exhaustive Rascals Box Set: Review

It’s Wonderful: The Complete Atlantic Studio Recordings makes room for stereo and mono versions of the first four LPs plus single edits, alternate takes and foreign-language versions.

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Nektar ‘Recycled’ Gets Recycled—And Expanded: Review

If you’re a fan of prog-rock outfits such as Genesis, ELP and Renaissance, you just might love this album.

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A Joe Meek Anthology Unearths Some Gems: Review

You’ll have to dig through a bit of fool’s gold to find it, but if you’re a fan of Meek’s work and the so-called girl-group era, you will encounter some gems.

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Frank Zappa & the Mothers Live at the Whisky 1968: Review

By the time of this concert, the band had established themselves as a one-of-a-kind underground rock outfit.

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Grateful Dead ‘From the Mars Hotel’ Expanded Edition: Review

The underrated original album, which is replete with Garcia’s elegant guitar work and the band’s fine vocal harmonies, belongs in any fan’s collection.