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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 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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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.
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