BODEANS “ULTIMATELY FINE” DEBUT

Rhino Presents The Collector’s Edition of Love & Hope & Sex & Dreams that Includes a Remastered Version of the Original on CD Expanded with Unreleased Demos, A DVD Featuring an Unreleased 1985 Concert, Plus The Newly Recorded Track, “Janey”

Available from Rhino March 10

LOS ANGELES – As teens, Kurt Neumann and Sammy Llanas formed the BoDeans in 1983 in Waukesha, Wisconsin. They crafted heartfelt rock that intertwined personal lyrics with seamless harmonies and ringing guitars. The fresh and exciting sound of the band’s 1986 debut earned critical accolades along with a devoted following that voted BoDeans the Best New American Band in the 1987 Rolling Stone readers’ poll.

Rhino presents the Collector’s Edition of the BoDeans first album, which includes a remastered and expanded version of the original Slash/Warner Bros. release on CD and an unreleased 1985 performance filmed in Minneapolis on DVD. COLLECTOR’S EDITION: LOVE & HOPE & SEX & DREAMS will be available March 10 from Rhino Records at all retail outlets, including www.rhino.com, for a suggested list price of $24.98.

The unforgettable opening notes of the BoDeans’ “She’s A Runaway”—the album’s lead track— heralded a singular sound that was true to its own style and the unique sound of the group. Rock journalist Dave Marsh writes in the liner notes: “Such music speaks to those who seek it and waylays those who stumble across it. Whether its audience is measured in millions or thousands, it’s the only kind of rock ‘n’ roll (or most anything else in the cultural arena) that counts.”

Producer T-Bone Burnett, who recently produced the critically acclaimed Alison Krauss and Robert Plant album Raising Sand as well as the O Brother, Where Art Thou? soundtrack released in 2000, recorded the album in Los Angeles, capturing the beauty of Neumann and Llanas’ contrasting voices as they sang a batch of songs sophisticated enough to know when to tell a story or when to just speak to the moment.

The original, 11-song album contains essential tracks such as “Still The Night,” “Angels” and “Fadeaway.” Among the six bonus tracks included on the Collector’s Edition are “Try And Try” (“Fadeaway” b-side) and “Janey,” a song recorded in 2008 available here for the first time. For the set, Rhino also unearths four unreleased demos—including “Amen” and “Small Town Ways”—that Neumann and Llanas recorded in college, where they reportedly enrolled solely to gain access to the school’s four-track recorder.

The DVD captures the BoDeans’ July 15, 1985, performance at the legendary Minneapolis nightclub First Avenue. During the hour-long show, the band played 17 songs, previewing several tracks that would appear on the group’s debut almost a year later, including “She’s A Runaway,” “Rickshaw Riding,” “Misery,” and “The Strangest Kind.” The concert also featured an early-version of “Janey,” a song that Neumann and Llanas recorded recently for the first time especially for this Collector’s Edition.

COLLECTOR’S EDITION: LOVE & HOPE & SEX & DREAMS

CD Track Listing
1. “She’s A Runaway”
2. “Fadeaway”
3. “Still The Night”
4. “Rickshaw Riding”
5. “Angels”
6. “Misery”
7. “The Strangest Kind”
8. “Say You Will”
9. “Ultimately Fine”
10. “That’s All”
11. “Lookin’ For Me Somewhere”
12. “Try And Try”
13. “Sail Away” –Demo *
14. “Amen” – Demo *
15. “Small Town Ways” – Demo *
16. “Janey” –New Recording *
17. “Turn Your Radio On” – Demo *

DVD Track Listing
1. “Small Town Ways”
2. “The Strangest Kind”
3. “Oh Stella”
4. “Don’t You Just Know”
5. “Rickshaw Riding”
6. “Still The Night”
7. “Amen”
8. “Janey”
9. “Be My Girl”
10. “Say You Will”
11. “Heart Of America”
12. “Misery”
13. “Not So Long Ago”
14. “She’s A Runaway”
15. “Try And Try”
16. “Celia”
17. “Home Again”

* Previously unreleased

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BIG STAR SHINES

Rhino Salutes The Revered Group With A Four-Disc Boxed Set That Compiles Key Album Tracks With Unreleased Demos, Alternate Takes And Live Performances

Available From Rhino September 15

LOS ANGELES – Big Star inspired a fevered allegiance among fans of power pop, giving rise to a cult of believers who spent decades spreading the gospel. Their enthusiasm turned this obscure Memphis pop band–one that got little airplay, sold few records, and only played a handful of times– into a remarkable rock and roll resurrection story. Big Star’s trek from obscure Memphis band to standard bearers for an entire genre of music has never been fully mapped–until now. Rhino presents the definitive look at the definitive power-pop band with a four-disc boxed set divided between key cuts from Big Star’s three studio albums and unreleased music. KEEP AN EYE ON THE SKY will be available September 15 from Rhino Records at all retail outlets, including www.rhino.com, for a suggested list price of $69.98 (physical), it will also be available as a digital release the same day. A Deluxe Edition release of Chris Bell’s solo album I Am The Cosmos is due September 14 from Rhino Handmade. A free stream of the unreleased song "Lovely Day" is available now at www.rhino.com/bigstar.

KEEP AN EYE ON THE SKY spans 1968 to 1975 and shows the progression of Big Star through selections from such studio precursors as Rock City and Icewater; music from Big Star’s acclaimed recordings (#1 Record, Radio City, and Third/Sister Lovers); and relevant solo work by group principals Alex Chilton and Chris Bell, who formed Big Star in 1971 with bassist Andy Hummel and drummer Jody Stephens. The collection also uncovers a trove of unreleased demos, unused mixes, alternate versions of songs, and a 1973 concert recorded in Memphis.

In these 98 tracks you can hear what turned artists as diverse as Cheap Trick, R.E.M., and The Replacements into Big Star fans. Spotlighting the band’s roots, the boxed set opens with several songs recorded before Big Star formed, including “Try Again,” one of the first songs Bell and Chilton wrote together. Those early cuts are followed by Big Star’s 1972 debut #1 Record, reimagined here using a mix of album tracks and unreleased alternate mixes of favorites like “Thirteen,” “When My Baby’s Beside Me,” and more. Among the disc’s rarities are “Gone With The Light” (issued as a flexi-disc single by a Big Star fanzine), the demo for “I Got Kinda Lost,” and an unreleased acoustic demo of Chilton singing Loudon Wainwright’s “Motel Blues.”

Ardent Records, the band’s label, experienced problems with distribution that hindered any chances at success for #1 Record. Its failure was a major blow to Bell, who quit the band to go solo. In 1974, the Alex Chilton-led Big Star regrouped and released Radio City, an album more attuned to the band’s live energy that featured the power-pop confections “September Gurls” and “Back Of A Car.” The second disc of KEEP AN EYE ON THE SKY opens with a trio of unreleased demos: “There Was A Light,” “Life Is White,” and “What’s Going Ahn.” The original song sequence for Radio City follows, combining album versions with unreleased alternate mixes (“Mod Lang” and “Back Of A Car.”) The disc features unissued versions of “She A Mover” and “O My Soul,” several unreleased demos for Big Star’s third album, plus Bell’s acclaimed 1978 single “I Am The Cosmos” and its B-side “You And Your Sister.” Sadly, Bell died in a car accident a few months after the single’s release.

When Big Star reconvened in 1975 to record Third/Sister Lovers, only Chilton and Stephens remained (Hummel left shortly before Radio City’s release). Famed Memphis maverick Jim Dickinson was enlisted to supervise the recording, which languished on the shelf for years before its release in 1978. Despite its bleak timbre, wild dynamics, and fragility, the music possesses a startling grace. KEEP AN EYE ON THE SKY’s third disc opens with seven demos (most previously unreleased) for songs that appear on Third/Sister Lovers, including “Jesus Christ,” “Manana,” and “Holocaust.” Among the album’s 19 songs collected here is “For You,” “Kizza Me,” and “Kanga Roo.” Also featured is “Lovely Day,” an early, unreleased version of “Stroke It Noel” with different lyrics; Chilton vamping with photographer Bill Eggleston at the piano for Nat King Cole’s “Nature Boy”; and a raucous cover of The Kinks’ “Till The End Of The Day.”

The collection’s final disc contains unreleased highlights from three sets Big Star performed at Lafayette’s Music Room in Memphis in January 1973. It is the best live recording ever of the band. The show captures Chilton, Hummel, and Stephens playing many of the songs on #1 Record, which had just recently been released. The set list includes a retooled version of “ST 100/6” lengthened by both guitar and drum solos (with a middle eight heisted from the Rock City song “The Preacher.”) Also in the repertoire are “There Was A Light” and “I Got Kinda Lost.” In addition, the concert includes fully formed versions of several songs recorded later for Radio City: “Back Of A Car,” “Way Out West,” “O My Soul,” and a particularly rocking “She’s A Mover.” Those originals are mixed with a selection of covers: Todd Rundgren’s “Slut,” T. Rex’s “Baby Strange,” The Kinks’ “Come On Now,” and The Flying Burrito Brothers’ “Hot Burrito #2.”

The lavish packaging for KEEP AN EYE ON THE SKY includes extensive liner notes, rare and never-before-seen photos, and insightful essays about the cult of Big Star and the band’s history. In the notes, Stephens reflects on the band’s belated triumph. “Sure, it would’ve been nice to have been huge at the time. But, here we are, 30 years later, and Big Star is still playing, our music is turning up in movie soundtracks, and young people are still excited to discover the records. I mean, if that isn’t success, I don’t know what is.” On July 1, 2009 Big Star will perform at the Serpentine Sessions in London’s Hyde Park.

KEEP AN EYE ON THE SKY
Track List

Disc 1
1. “Psychedelic Stuff” – Original Mix – Chris Bell*
2. “All I See Is You” – Icewater
3. “Every Day As We Grow Closer” (Original Mix) – Alex Chilton
4. “Try Again” (Early Version) – Rock City
5. “Feel”
6. “The Ballad Of El Goodo”
7. “In The Street” – Alternate Mix*
8. “Thirteen” – Alternate Mix*
9. “Don’t Lie To Me”
10. “The India Song” – Alternate Mix*
11. “When My Baby’s Beside Me” – Alternate Mix*
12. “My Life Is Right” – Alternate Mix*
13. “Give Me Another Chance” – Alternate Mix*
14. “Try Again”
15. “Gone With The Light” *
16. “Watch The Sunrise” – Single Version
17. “ST 100/6” – Alternate Mix*
18. “The Preacher” – (Excerpt) - Rock City*
19. “In The Street” – Alternative Single Mix*
20. “Feel” – Alternate Mix*
21. “The Ballad Of El Goodo” – Alternate Lyrics*
22. “The India Song” – Alternate Version*
23. “Country Mourn”
24. “I Got Kinda Lost” – Demo
25. “Back Of A Car” – Demo
26. “Motel Blues” – Demo*

Disc 2
1. “There Was A Light” – Demo*
2. “Life Is White” - Demo*
3. “What’s Going Ahn” – Demo*
4. “O My Soul”
5. “Life Is White”
6. “Way Out West”
7. “What’s Going Ahn”
8. “You Get What You Deserve”
9. “Mod Lang” – Alternate Mix*
10. “Back Of A Car” – Alternate Mix*
11. “Daisy Glaze”
12. “She’s A Mover”
13. “September Gurls”
14. “Morpha Too” – Alternate Mix*
15. “I’m In Love With A Girl”
16. “O My Soul” – Alternate Version*
17. “She’s A Mover” – Alternate Version
18. “Daisy Glaze” – Rehearsal Version*
19. “I Am The Cosmos” – Chris Bell
20. “You And Your Sister” – Chris Bell
21. “Blue Moon” – Demo*
22. “Femme Fatale” – Demo*
23. “Thank You Friends” – Demo*
24. “Nightime” – Demo*
25. “Take Care” – Demo*
26. “You Get What You Deserve” – Demo*

Disc 3
1. “Lovely Day” (aka Stroke It Noel) – Demo
2. “Downs” – Demo
3. “Jesus Christ” – Demo*
4. “Holocaust” – Demo*
5. “Big Black Car” – Alternate Demo*
6. “Manana”*
7. “Jesus Christ”
8. “Femme Fatale”
9. “O, Dana”
10. “Kizza Me”
11. “You Can’t Have Me”
12. “Nightime”
13. “Dream Lover”
14. “Big Black Car”
15. “Blue Moon”
16. “Holocaust”
17. “Stroke It Noel”
18. “For You”
19. “Downs”
20. “Whole Lotta Shakin’Goin’ On””
21. “Kanga Roo”
22. “Thank You Friends”
23. “Take Care”
24. “Lovely Day”*
25. “Till The End Of The Day” –Alternate Mix*
26. “Nature Boy” – Alternate Mix*

Disc 4 – Live at Lafayette's Music Room, Memphis, TN
1. “When My Baby’s Beside Me”*
2. “My Life Is Right”*
3. “She’s A Mover”*
4. “Way Out West”*
5. “The Ballad Of El Goodo”*
6. “In The Street”*
7. “Back Of A Car”*
8. “Thirteen”*
9. “The India Song”*
10. “Try Again”*
11. “Watch The Sunrise”*
12. “Don’t Lie To Me”*
13. “Hot Burrito #2”*
14. “I Got Kinda Lost”*
15. “Baby Strange”*
16. “Slut”*
17. “There Was A Light”*
18. “ST 100/6”*
19. “Come On Now”*
20. “O My Soul”*

*Previously unreleased

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BAD COMPANY MAKES DIGITAL DEBUT

The Band’s First Six Studio Albums, Plus Hits Collection 10 From 6,
Available Digitally for the First Time

Surviving Members of Original Lineup Launch 10-Date U.S. Tour on June 17

Available Exclusively on iTunes on June 16,
All Other DSPs on June 30

LOS ANGELES — The surviving members of the original Bad Company lineup — singer Paul Rodgers, guitarist Mick Ralphs, and drummer Simon Kirke — will reunite this summer for a 10-date U.S. tour that begins June 17 in Hollywood, FL at Hard Rock Live. A day before the tour kicks off, Rhino will celebrate the band’s return with the digital debut of Bad Company’s six Swan Song albums, and its multiplatinum hits collection 10 From 6.

On June 16, Rhino will digitally release Straight Shooter, Run With The Pack, Burnin’ Sky, Desolation Angels, Rough Diamonds, and 10 From 6 exclusively on iTunes for $9.99 each, with the band’s eponymous debut available for $7.99. The albums will be released to all other digital service providers two weeks later on June 30.

Bad Company’s multiplatinum hits such as “Can’t Get Enough,” “Feel Like Makin’ Love,” “Shooting Star,” “Movin’ On,” “Ready For Love,” and “Rock & Roll Fantasy” propelled them to the forefront of the ’70s arena rock movement. To coincide with the new tour and digital catalog releases, mastertones, ringback tones and sms tones for all six of the aforementioned tracks are available now for the first time from all mobile carriers.

The original quartet – bassist Boz Burrell died in 2006 — debuted in 1974 as the first band signed to Led Zeppelin’s Swan Song label. Their first album topped the charts and was certified platinum five times thanks to the hits “Movin’ On,” “Can't Get Enough,” “Bad Company,” and “Ready For Love” The band returned the following year with Straight Shooter, a triple-platinum album that peaked at #3 and featured the hits “Feel Like Makin’ Love” and “Good Lovin’ Gone Bad.”

Bad Company notched its third consecutive platinum album in 1976 with Run With The Pack, a Top 5 album that featured the hits “Simple Man” and “Young Blood.” The group hit #3 on the charts in 1977 with its follow-up, Burnin’ Sky. The band returned two years later with the double platinum Desolation Angels and in 1982 with its final Swan Song release, Rough Diamonds. In 1985, Bad Company released its double-platinum hits collection 10 From 6, the title a sly reference to the collection’s 10 songs from six albums. The band will release a new live DVD featuring the original lineup, Hard Rock Live, later this year.

Bad Company Tour Dates

June 17 Hollywood, FL Hard Rock Live
June 19 Atlanta, GA Chastain Park Amphitheatre
June 20 Charlotte, NC Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre
June 23 Raleigh, NC Music Pavilion at Walnut Creek
June 24 Virginia Beach, VA Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre
June 27 Bethel, NY Bethel Woods Center for the Arts
June 28 Wantagh, NY Nikon at Jones Beach Theatre
July 1 Clarkston, MI DTE Energy Music Theatre
July 2 Canandaigua, NY CMAC
July 4 Atlantic City, NJ Resorts Atlantic City

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ERASURE TAKES POP! TO ANOTHER LEVEL

Rhino Presents Career-Spanning Boxed Set (3CD/DVD) Featuring Newly Remastered Versions of All The Band’s Singles on Two Discs, a CD of Vintage Live Performances,
And a DVD of Rare Live BBC Performances

Available From Rhino April 7

LOS ANGELES – Erasure’s world-conquering anthems of love, lust and longing have made it one of the most beloved and enduring success stories in modern British pop music history. After more than two decades, Andy Bell and Vince Clarke (founding member of Depeche Mode and Yaz) have sold more than 15 million albums around the globe, proving themselves masters of every kind of song from disco symphonies to unplugged ballads.

Rhino shows ‘a little respect’ to the group with a four-disc boxed set (3CD/DVD) that includes all of the band’s singles (remastered in 2009) on two discs, a career-spanning collection of live performances on a third CD and a DVD of the group’s best BBC appearances. TOTAL POP! – DELUXE BOX will be available April 7 from Rhino Records at all retail outlets, including www.rhino.com, for a suggested list price of $54.98.

On the same day, April 7, Rhino will also release Pop! Remixed as a digital only release for $9.99. Pop! Remixed features remixes from Vince Clarke, Mark Picchiotti, Manhattan Clique, Komputer, Sweden’s Sound Factory and a mix of “Drama!” by Andy Bell and JC.

The first disc contains a newly remastered version of Pop! – The First 20 Hits, Erasure’s 1992 singles compilation and the group’s fourth consecutive #1 album in the U.K. Arranged chronologically, the disc encompasses all of the group’s singles, from its 1986 debut Wonderland to the 1992 EP, Abba-esque. Among the many highlights are Top 20 U.S. hits “Chains Of Love” and “A Little Respect;” the #1 Dance smash “Victim Of Love;” fan favorites “Oh L’Amour” and “Chorus,” plus a remix of the band’s first single, “Who Needs Love (Like That).”

The second disc picks up where the first left off, offering 19 singles released from 1994 to 2007, the year of the band’s most recent studio album, Light At The End Of The World. It opens with the Top 20 U.S. hit “Always,” closing with Jeremy Wheatley’s new mix of the song, made especially for this collection. The disc features such standouts as “In My Arms,” “Breathe” and a stellar cover of Peter Gabriel’s “Solsbury Hill,” from 2003’s Other People’s Songs.

For the collection’s final CD, the band assembles 15 stunning and rare live performances recorded between 1987 and 2007, including three performances from 1992’s Phantasmagorical Tour (“Voulez-Vous,” “Am I Right?” and “Heart Of Stone”), “Breathe” from 2006’s Acoustic Tour and “Oh L’Amour” from 2007’s World Tour.

The DVD contains BBC appearances recorded between 1986 and 2005, including performances from Top Of The Pops, Daytime Live and The Tom O’Connor Roadshow. It begins with Erasure’s 1986 Top Of The Pops debut “Sometimes,” followed by “Ship Of Fools” on Wogan and a six-song performance from 2003’s Top of the Pops 2 Special that features a cover of “You’ve Lost That Loving Feeling.”

TOTAL POP! – THE FIRST 40 HITS
Track Listing

Disc 1 (CD)
1. “Who Needs Love (Like That)”
2. “Heavenly Action”
3. “Oh L’Amour”
4. “Sometimes”
5. “It Doesn't Have To Be”
6. “Victim Of Love”
7. “The Circus”
8. “Ship Of Fools”
9. “Chains Of Love”
10. “A Little Respect”
11. “Stop!”
12. “Drama!”
13. “You Surround Me”
14. “Blue Savannah”
15. “Star”
16. “Chorus”
17. “Love To Hate You”
18. “Am I Right?”
19. “Breath Of Life”
20. “Take A Chance On Me”
21. “Who Needs Love (Like That)” – Hamburg Mix

Disc 2 (CD)
1. “Always”
2. “Run To The Sun”
3. “I Love Saturday”
4. “Stay With Me”
5. “Fingers & Thumbs (Cold Summer’s Day)”
6. “Rock Me Gently”
7. “In My Arms”
8. “Don’t Say Your Love Is Killing Me”
9. “Rain” – Al Stone Mix
10. “Freedom”
11. “Moon & The Sky” – JC’s Heaven Scent Radio Re-Work
12. “Solsbury Hill”
13. “Make Me Smile (Come Up And See Me)”
14. “Breathe”
15. “Don’t Say You Love Me”
16. “Here I Go Impossible Again”
17. “I Could Fall In Love With You”
18. “Sunday Girl”
19. “Storm In A Teacup”
20. “Always” – 2009 Mix

Disc 3 (CD) Live 1987-2007
1. “Spiralling” – The Circus Tour 1987
2. “The Hardest Part” – The Innocents Tour 1988
3. “Drama!” – The Wild! Tour 1989
4. “Knocking On Your Door” – The Wild! Tour 1989
5. “Push Me Shove Me” –The Wild! Tour 1990
6. “Voulez Vous” – The Phantasmagorical Entertainment 1992
7. “Am I Right?” – The Phantasmagorical Entertainment 1992
8. “Heart Of Stone” – The Phantasmagorical Entertainment 1992
9. “Who Needs Love (Like That)” – The Tiny Tour 1996
10. “Rain” – Cowboy Tour 1997
11. “Everybody's Got To Learn Sometime” – Sanctuary The EIS Christmas Concert 2002
12. “Piano Song” – The Other Tour 2003
13. “Hideaway” – The Erasure Show 2005
14. “Breathe” (Acoustic) – The Acoustic Tour 2006
15. “Oh L’Amour” – Light At The End Of The World Tour 2007

Disc Four (DVD) ERASURE AT THE BBC 1986-2005
1. “Sometimes” – Top Of The Pops
2. “It Doesn’t Have To Be” – The Tom O’Connor Roadshow
3. “Victim Of Love” – Daytime Live
4. “The Circus” – Daytime Live
5. “Ship Of Fools” – Wogan
6. “Chains Of Love” – Top Of The Pops
7. “A Little Respect” – Going Live!
8. “Stop!” – Top Of The Pops
9. “Chorus” – Wogan
10. “Love To Hate You” – Top Of The Pops
11. “Am I Right?” – Top Of The Pops
12. “Breath Of Life” – Top Of The Pops
13. “Who Needs Love (Like That)” – Top Of The Pops
14. “Always” – Top Of The Pops
15. “Run To The Sun” – Top Of The Pops
16. “I Love Saturday” – Smash Hits Poll Winner’s Party
17. “Stay With Me” – Pebble Mill
18. “Fingers & Thumbs (Cold Summer’s Day)” – Pebble Mill
19. “Don’t Say Your Love Is Killing Me” – Top Of The Pops
20. “Solsbury Hill” – Top Of The Pops
21. “Breathe” – Top Of The Pops
22. “Top Of The Pops 2 Special”
23. “Sometimes” – Tom O’Connor Roadshow
24. “How Many Times?” – The Late Show
25. “Miracle” – Later with Jools Holland
26. “Because You’re So Sweet” – Later With Jools Holland
27. “Oh L’Amour” – (2003) Promotional Video

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AL JARREAU - THE VERY BEST OF: AN EXCELLENT ADVENTURE

Rhino Hits The High Notes of the Seven-Time Grammy® Winner’s Career
With A 16-Song Collection That Features The Beloved Singer’s Greatest Hits
Along With A Brand New Song

Available from Rhino September 29

LOS ANGELES – Considered by many to be the greatest living jazz singer, Al Jarreau is an artist of stunning range. He’s spent decades bending genres with his lithe voice, earning him the rare distinction of being the only artist to have won Grammy Awards in three different categories: pop, jazz and R&B. Rhino honors the superlative vocalist’s musical achievements with a collection that spans his entire career. AL JARREAU – THE VERY BEST OF: AN EXCELLENT ADVENTURE will be available September 29 from all retail outlets, including www.rhino.com, for a suggested list price of $18.98 (physical) and $11.99 (digital).

The 16-song compilation bridges the past and the present, bringing together Jarreau’s greatest recordings with his latest, “Excellent Adventure,” recorded especially for this release. The track was produced by Richard Nichols and The Randy Watson Experience (Grammy-winning songwriter James Poyser, and The Roots drummer Ahmir “?uestlove” Thompson) who have produced songs for Erykah Badu, Al Green and The Roots.

The collection surveys Jarreau’s life in music, spotlighting such notable songs as “We Got By,” the title track from his 1975 major-label debut; “Take Five” from Look To The Rainbow, the breakout album that earned him the 1977 Grammy for Best Jazz Vocal; “(Round, Round, Round) Blues Rondo A La Turk,” the 1981 Grammy winner for Jazz Vocal Performance Male; and the title track from Breakin’ Away, the 1981 Grammy winner for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance. All told, Jarreau has earned seven Grammy awards, with wins in four decades and continues to tour extensively in the US and all over the world.

Among the smash albums represented on AL JARREAU – THE VERY BEST OF: AN EXCELLENT ADVENTURE are 1976’s Glow (“Rainbow In Your Eyes”), 1980’s This Time (“Spain,” “Never Givin’ Up”), 1981’s Breakin’ Away (“Roof Garden,” “We’re In This Love Together”), 1983’s Jarreau (“Boogie Down,” “Mornin’”), 1984’s High Crime (“After All”), 1988’s Heart’s Horizon (“So Good”), 2000’s Tomorrow Today (“Just To Be Loved”), and 2004’s Accentuate The Positive (“Cold Duck”). Also featured is “Moonlighting,” the theme song from the hit television show starring Cybill Shepherd and Bruce Willis.

AL JARREAU – THE VERY BEST OF: AN EXCELLENT ADVENTURE
Track Listing

1. “After All”
2. “Moonlighting” (Theme)
3. “Never Givin’ Up”
4. “Roof Garden”
5. “Spain (I Can Recall)”
6. “Take Five” – Edit
7. “We’re In This Love Together”
8. “Rainbow In Your Eyes”
9. “Just To Be Loved”
10. “Cold Duck”
11. “We Got By”
12. “Boogie Down”
13. “(Round, Round, Round) Blue Rondo A La Turk”
14. “Mornin’”
15. “So Good”
16. “Excellent Adventure” (New Recording)

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THE STOOGES CONQUER THE HALL OF FAME

Rhino Handmade Honors the Group’s 2010 Induction With Collector’s Edition Of
The Stooges Debut Featuring Previously Unissued Studio Track “Asthma Attack”
On CD and 7" Single

Pre-Order Next Week At Rhino.com, Ships In Late April

LOS ANGELES – The Stooges—Iggy Pop, Ron and Scott Asheton, and Dave Alexander—may have sounded like they were from the Stone Age, but the Ann Arbor quartet predicted the future of rock ’n’ roll more than 40 years ago with the untamable sonic assault of its self-titled 1969 debut on Elektra Records. Soon after the band’s March 15 induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Rhino Handmade will celebrate the visionary group’s historic feedback-laden clarion call with a Collector’s Edition of that debut.

Scheduled to ship in late April, THE STOOGES will be available for pre-order next week exclusively at www.rhino.com for a suggested list price of $49.98. The 26-track collection will be issued in a 7" x 7" hardbound booklet that contains two CDs along with a 7" single that features the previously unreleased track “Asthma Attack.” A staple of the group’s early live shows, this is the first time a studio version of the song has been released.

The Collector’s Edition’s first disc combines the original album’s eight songs with producer John Cale’s original mixes, including unreleased versions of “We Will Fall” and “Ann.” Also featured is the mono single version of “I Wanna Be Your Dog,” a song Rolling Stone named #438 on its list of “500 Greatest Songs Of All Time”—right behind Elvis’ “Love Me Tender.”

The second disc opens with “Asthma Attack,” a breathless spectacle of a song written when The Stooges’ 20-minute live sets were dominated by arty experiments in feedback and improvisation. The remainder of the disc presents an alternate version of the original album with alternate takes of every song, including full versions of “No Fun” and “Ann,” plus unreleased versions of “We Will Fall,” “Real Cool Time,” and the album closer, “Little Doll.”

Despite lackluster commercial and critical response at the time of its release, THE STOOGES has withstood the test of time. “The Stooges’ influence is legion—to name all of the bands, singers, and would-be rock stars who drank from the well could fill 1,000 phone books,” writes author Mike Edison in the collection’s liner notes. “There is not a hard or heavy band anywhere on the planet that’s not in earnest awe of The Stooges.”

THE STOOGES – COLLECTOR’S EDITION
Track Listing

Disc 1
1. “1969”
2. “I Wanna Be Your Dog”
3. “We Will Fall”
4. “No Fun”
5. “Real Cool Time”
6. “Ann”
7. “Not Right”
8. “Little Doll”
9. “I Wanna Be Your Dog” – Mono Single Version
10. “1969” – Original John Cale Mix
11. “Not Right” – Original John Cale Mix
12. “We Will Fall” – Original John Cale Mix*
13. “No Fun” – Original John Cale Mix
14. “Real Cool Time” – Original John Cale Mix
15. “Ann” – Original John Cale Mix*
16. “Little Doll” – Original John Cale Mix
17. “I Wanna Be Your Dog” – Original John Cale Mix

Disc 2
1. “Asthma Attack”*
2. “1969” – Alternate Vocal
3. “I Wanna Be Your Dog” – Alternate Vocal
4. “We Will Fall”*
5. “No Fun” – Full Version
6. “Real Cool Time” – Takes 1 & 2*
7. “Ann” – Full Version
8. “Not Right” – Alternate Vocal
9. “Little Doll” – Takes 1-5*

*Previously unreleased

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