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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.
Eric Clapton’s ‘24 Nights’ Dramatically Expanded Edition: Review
While attention focuses almost exclusively on his guitar work, this set offers plenty of reminders of what a fine vocalist Clapton can be.
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‘Let’s Stomp!,’ A Merseybeat Anthology: Review
The Beatles weren’t the only group working in Liverpool in the early ’60s, and some of the other bands were pretty great too!
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Lucinda Williams’ Effusive ‘Stories from a Rock n Roll Heart’: Review
The singer-songwriter’s primary lyrical focus, on this album marking her 70th birthday, is how much music means to her.
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Grateful Dead’s ‘Here Comes Sunshine 1973’ Delivers Classic Concerts: Review
If you love the band and can spare the bucks, you really ought to experience the music from all five of these 1973 shows.
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West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band Box Set Review: ‘Experimental’ Was the Key Word
The collection provides a comprehensive look at an idiosyncratic band that endured its share of stumbles but was occasionally first-rate.
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The Four Seasons: A Massive Box Set Collects All of the Seminal Frankie Valli-Led Group’s LPs & More
With more than 800 tracks, plus lavishly illustrated and annotated books, this humongous set is not for casual fans of the Jersey Boys.
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Expanded Reissues of Little Feat’s ‘Sailin’ Shoes’ and ‘Dixie Chicken’: Review
Amazingly, neither of these now-beloved albums made the charts when released. Now, both are available with a slew of bonus tracks.
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‘Rough and Rowdy Ways’ LP Delivered Classic Dylan
It seemed reasonable to suspect that we’d seen the last of his greatest albums. Well, here was a superb collection to prove you wrong
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Lindsey Buckingham Christine McVie Album: Mac-To-The-Basics
What you’ve got here is Mac-to-the basics. It’s at once familiar and sparkly-new. You’re going to want to come back to it often, for a long time.
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Bob Dylan’s Sensational ‘Shadow Kingdom’: Review
If you’re a fan, don’t think twice about checking out this new collection—this performance is not just all right, it’s fantastic.
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