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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.
Chrissie Hynde Covers Dylan on ‘Standing in the Doorway’: Review
It appears we must make room at the top of the Dylan interpreters heap for the Pretenders’ frontwoman, whose covers are sublime.
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Bob Dylan’s ‘Springtime in New York’ Mines His 1980-1985 Archives
It’s amazing to think that these are virtually all recordings Dylan discarded, given that many of them outshine everything in lots of artists’ catalogs.
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‘The Jimmie Vaughan Story’ Reviewed: A Big Box of Blues
The 5-CD box features music spanning five decades, including collaborations with Eric Clapton, Billy Gibbons and, of course, brother Stevie Ray Vaughan
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Bob Dylan Goes to Broadway in ‘Girl From the North Country’: Review
The cast album delivers a thoroughly magical hour of music, one that will leave you in awe of the performers and the show’s creators.
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Ellen Foley Returns with ‘Fighting Words’: Review
On her fifth solo album, the singer proves that she can still come out fighting, at least when her material is up to the task.
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Beach Boys’ ‘Feel Flows’ Box Set: Review
The box proves that the band’s genius didn’t end in the mid-’60s. All six members of the group contributed fine material during this unheralded period.
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George Harrison’s ‘All Things Must Pass Uber Deluxe’ Box Set: Review
The new edition, which adds nearly 50 previously unreleased tracks, offers numerous reminders that the album deserves its sterling reputation.
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The Rolling Stones’ ‘Live on Copacabana Beach’: Review
The Stones are in fine form at the Brazilian show as they tackle classic material, none of which should need any introduction to anyone.
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Laura Nyro ‘Live in Japan’: Previously Unreleased Concert Set Reviewed
The set embraces some of Nyro’s best-known compositions, including “Wedding Bell Blues,” “And When I Die” and “Save the Country,” plus terrific covers.
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Crowded House Returns With ‘Dreamers Are Waiting’: Review
With several personnel changes, they sound somewhat different, but the album recalls Neil Finn’s lush, richly textured, understated solo work.
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