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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.
Dion Sings ‘Blues with Friends’: Review
Dion has periodically dipped into a blues bag. On his new set he teams up with Paul Simon, Bruce Springsteen, Van Morrison & more for a full album of blues.
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Gordon Lightfoot Goes ‘Solo’ on 1st New Studio Set Since ’04: Review
The new release, the legendary Canadian singer-songwriter’s first since 2004, occasionally sounds like a collection of demos.
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Dylan in Nashville: ‘Travelin Thru’ Box Set Reviewed
Most amazing of all is Dylan’s voice, now a silky baritone. “When I stopped smoking,” he said, “my voice changed…I couldn’t believe it myself.”
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Ramones’ ‘It’s Alive’ Deluxe Reviewed: Back to Basics
Nobody took rock back to basics more than the Ramones, whose concise, beat-driven tunes hit you over the head with elemental bursts of sound.
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Grateful Dead’s ‘Aoxomoxoa’ @50: Review
Like its predecessors, the 1969 psychedelic classic didn’t sell all that well—it took nearly two decades to go gold—but it has aged nicely.
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Glen Campbell ‘The Legacy’ Box Set Review
He scored no fewer than 20 pop hits in a 10-year period that began in 1967, and, in 1969, he actually outsold the Beatles.
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Van Morrison ‘The Healing Game’ Deluxe: Review
This deluxe edition of ‘The Healing Game’ may lead fans to re-examine what Morrison was up to in the late ’90s. They’re bound to like what they hear.
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Rolling Stones’ ‘Beggars Banquet’ Reissue: Review
The album saw them moving back to basics for an album that relied largely on acoustic blues. There’s not a rotten apple in the bunch.
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Jimi Hendrix ‘Electric Ladyland’ 50th Deluxe: Review
Half a century after its arrival, the last album Hendrix released before his death is the subject of a fittingly major anniversary limited edition.
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The Ramones’ ‘Road to Ruin’ Deluxe Edition: Review
Today, all four of the group’s original members are dead but the music lives on, and it’s a good deal better than many listeners realized in 1978.
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