JONI MITCHELL ARCHIVES SERIES CONTINUES

WITH REMASTERS OF HER FIRST FOUR ALBUMS

IN CELEBRATION OF BLUE’S 50TH ANNIVERSARY

 

The Reprise Albums (1968-1971) Debuts Newly Remastered Versions Of

Song To A Seagull, Clouds, Ladies Of The Canyon, And Blue

 

4-CD, 4-LP, And Digital Versions Available July 2 From Rhino

Following The 50th Anniversary Of Blue On June 22

 

Newly Remastered Version Of “A Case Of You” Available Today Digitally

 

LISTEN NOW

 

The First Ever Line Of Official Joni Michell Merch Is Available Today Exclusively At JoniMitchell.com Including Apparel And Home Goods

 

LOS ANGELES – On June 22, 1971, Joni Mitchell released Blue, concluding her prolific four album run for Reprise Records with an album considered by many to be one of the greatest of all time. Its stirring, confessional songs have been celebrated by music lovers and critics alike for decades while inspiring a wide variety of artists as diverse as Prince and Taylor Swift. Even today, its stature as a masterpiece continues to grow. Just last year, the album was named #3 on Rolling Stone’s list of the “500 Greatest Albums of All Time.”

 

To celebrate the album’s 50th anniversary, Rhino is releasing THE REPRISE ALBUMS (1968-1971), the next installment of the Joni Mitchell Archives series, featuring newly remastered versions of Blue (1971) and the three albums that came before it: Song To A Seagull (1968), Clouds (1969), and Ladies Of The Canyon (1970). In the case of Song To A Seagull, the original mix has been recently updated by Mitchell and mixer Matt Lee. “The original mix was atrocious,” says Mitchell. “It sounded like it was recorded under a jello bowl, so I fixed it!”

 

The cover art for THE REPRISE ALBUMS (1968-1971) features a previously unseen self-portrait Mitchell sketched during the time period. The collection also includes an essay by Grammy® winning singer-songwriter Brandi Carlisle, another artist who’s been influenced greatly by Mitchell. She writes: “In my opinion Blue is the greatest album ever made. Blue didn’t make me a better songwriter. Blue made me a better woman… No matter what we are dealing with in these times we can rejoice and know that of all the ages we could have lived through, we lived in the time of Joni Mitchell.”

 

Fans that pre-order the CD or LP version of THE REPRISE ALBUMS (1968-1971) from JoniMitchell.com will also receive an exclusive limited edition 7” x 7” print of the self-portrait featured on the cover art. The first ever line of official Joni Mitchell merch has also launched today, exclusively at the official website, including apparel and home goods.

 

THE REPRISE ALBUMS (1968-1971) will be available on July 2 in 4-CD ($49.98) and 4-LP 180-gram vinyl ($109.98, Limited Edition Of 10,000) versions, as well as digitally. The newly remastered version of “A Case Of You” from Blue is available today on all digital download and streaming services.

 

THE REPRISE ALBUMS (1968-1971) brings together the albums that helped establish Mitchell as one of the most-talented songwriters of her generation. It includes essential tracks like “River,” “Chelsea Morning,” “Both Sides, Now,” “Big Yellow Taxi,” “Woodstock,” and “The Circle Game.” Clouds, her second album, was certified gold and won the 1969 Grammy® (her first of nine) for Best Folk Performance. Ladies Of The Canyon and Blue were both certified platinum, while the latter was inducted into the Grammy® Hall of Fame in 1999.

 

THE REPRISE ALBUMS (1968-1971) will be followed later this year by JONI MITCHELL ARCHIVES VOL. 2, the second installment in the extensive archival series that began last year. Each one promises a deep dive into unreleased studio and live recordings from different eras of Mitchell’s storied career. VOL. 2 will focus on the timeframe when she recorded the albums included in THE REPRISE ALBUMS (1968-1971). Mitchell continues to be intimately involved in producing these collections, lending her vision and personal touch to every element of the projects. Future releases in the archive series will arrive in a similar manner, with a boxed set focused on studio albums from a specific era, followed by an official “Archives” release looking at unreleased audio from the same period.

 

THE REPRISE ALBUMS (1968-1971)

Track Listing

 

Song To A Seagull (1968) – New Mix (Produced By Joni Mitchell, Mixed By Matt Lee)

I Came to the City

1.    “I Had A King”

2.    “Michael From Mountains”

3.    “Night In The City”

4.    “Marcie”

5.    “Nathan La Franeer”

Out of the City and Down the Seaside

6.    “Sisotowbell Lane”

7.    “The Dawntreader”

8.    “The Pirate Of Penance”

9.    “Song To A Seagull”

10. “Cactus Tree”

 

Clouds (1969)

1.    “Tin Angel”

2.    “Chelsea Morning”

3.    “I Don’t Know Where I Stand”

4.    “That Song About The Midway”

5.    “Roses Blue”

6.    “The Gallery”

7.    “I Think I Understand”

8.    “Songs To Aging Children Come”

9.    “The Fiddle And The Drum”

10. “Both Sides, Now”

 

Ladies Of The Canyon (1970)

1.    “Morning Morgantown”

2.    “For Free”

3.    “Conversation”

4.    “Ladies Of The Canyon”

5.    “Willy”

6.    “The Arrangement”

7.    “Rainy Night House”

8.    “The Priest”

9.    “Blue Boy”

10. “Big Yellow Taxi”

11. “Woodstock”

12. “The Circle Game”

 

Blue (1971)

1.    “All I Want”

2.    “My Old Man”

3.    “Little Green”

4.    “Carey”

5.    “Blue”

6.    “California”

7.    “This Flight Tonight”

8.    “River”

9.    “A Case Of You”

10. “The Last Time I Saw Richard”

 

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CHICAGO AT CARNEGIE HALL COMPLETE

 

Chicago Revisits Its Best-Selling Live Album With A 16-CD Deluxe Set That Features All Eight Shows From Its Historic 1971 Carnegie Hall Concert Series, Plus Replicas Of Three Posters Included In The Original, Excerpts From The Concert Program And More

 

Pre-Order Starts Today Exclusively On Rhino.com For Delivery On September 10

 

LOS ANGELES – Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees Chicago became the first non-classical group to perform six nights in a row at Carnegie Hall 50 years ago. Between April 5 and 10, 1971, the band played eight shows at the celebrated venue (including two matinees) and recorded every one of them. In October of that year, performance highlights were featured on the band’s first-ever live album, Chicago at Carnegie Hall. That quadruple-LP reached #3 on the Billboard 200, was certified platinum, and is still the band’s best-selling live album.

 

To honor the 50th anniversary of Chicago’s historic concerts, the band will release all eight Carnegie Hall shows in their entirety for the first time in a new 16-CD deluxe boxed set. CHICAGO AT CARNEGIE HALL COMPLETE will be available on July 16 for $179.98 exclusively through www.rhino.com and is available for pre-order now.

 

Chicago founding member and trumpeter Lee Loughnane and engineer Tim Jessup spent nearly a year meticulously going through more than 40 concert tapes at Loughnane’s new studio in Arizona to remaster each concert. Their hard work paid off with eight fantastic-sounding shows.

 

CHICAGO AT CARNEGIE HALL COMPLETE is presented in a white folio that’s embossed with the group’s trademark logo. The set beautifully commemorates the event through memorabilia that includes replicas of the three posters that accompanied the original vinyl release and images of the original concert program, tickets, and other memorabilia from the historic run. The collection also comes with a 28-page booklet illustrated with photos from the concerts, plus new liner notes with contributions by Loughnane; archivist Jeff Magid, writer/producer David Wild and comedy icon/Chicago fanatic Jimmy Pardo.

 

When Chicago arrived in New York City in April 1971 to play eight shows at Carnegie Hall, the band was at the peak of its early experimental period and riding high on the success of the group’s third consecutive platinum album, Chicago III. For these historic shows, the band played a cross-section of hits from their first three studio albums, including “Beginnings,” “Questions 67 and 68,” “Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is?” and “25 or 6 to 4.” The set also includes the previously unheard first songs from the first show, “Someday (August 29, 1968).”

 

The performances showcase memorable contributions from every band member, including Terry Kath’s stellar guitar work, heartfelt vocals by Kath, Robert Lamm, and Peter Cetera, the vibrant horn work by Loughnane, James Pankow, and Walt Parazaider, as well as the jazz-influenced drumming of Danny Seraphine.

 

Chicago, known as the “rock band with horns,” is one of the longest-running and best-selling groups of all time. It’s the first American band to ever chart albums in Billboard’s Pop Top 40 in six consecutive decades, the highest charting American band in Billboard’s Hot 100 All-Time Top Artists, and the #4 band on Billboard’s All-Time Top Bands and Duos list. The group’s extensive accomplishments include: two Grammy Awards® and a Lifetime Achievement Award from The Recording Academy, multiple American Music Awards, 11 Number One singles, five consecutive Number One albums, and record sales in excess of 100,000,000, with 47 albums earning gold and platinum certification. Chicago was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2016, and Chicago’s first album, Chicago Transit Authority, was inducted into the GRAMMY® Hall Of Fame in 2014. In 2017, the Songwriters Hall of Fame inducted songwriters Robert Lamm (“25 or 6 to 4”, “Saturday In The Park”) and James Pankow (“Feelin' Stronger Every Day," "Make Me Smile"). 

 

CHICAGO AT CARNEGIE HALL COMPLETE

First Show: April 5, 1971

 

First Set

Scott Muni Intro

1.    "Someday (August 29, 1968)"

2.    "Loneliness Is Just A Word"

3.    "South California Purples"

4.    "Beginnings"

5.    "Lowdown"

6.    "Mother"

7.    "Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is?" (Free Form Intro)

8.    "Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is?"

9.    "Ballet For A Girl In Buchannon"

10. "Make Me Smile"

11. "So Much To Say, So Much To Give"

12. "Anxiety’s Moment”

13. “West Virginia Fantasies”

14. “Colour My World”

15. “To Be Free”

16. “Now More Than Ever”

 

Second Set

1.    “It Better End Soon”

          I.    “1st Movement”

        II.    “2nd Movement”

      III.    “3rd Movement”

      IV.    “4th Movement”

        V.    “5th Movement”

2.    “Fancy Colours”

3.    “In The Country”

4.    “Where Do We Go From Here”

5.    “A Song For Richard And His Friends”

6.    “Sing A Mean Tune Kid”

7.    “Travel Suite 1: Flight 602”

8.    “Travel Suite 2: Motorboat To Mars”

9.    “Travel Suite 3: Free”

10. “25 or 6 to 4”

 

 

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RHINO TO ROLL OUT EXCLUSIVE RELEASES FOR RSD DROPS 2021

31 Limited Edition Releases Available At Participating Independent Record Stores On June 12 And July 17

LOS ANGELES – Due to the continuing global pandemic, this year’s RSD DROPS will now be available exclusively at select independent music retailers on two Saturday drop dates: June 12 and July 17. Rhino’s collection features limited-edition releases from music’s most celebrated artists. Some highlights include releases from Joni Mitchell, Me’Shell NdegéOcello’s first-ever Record Store Day release, picture discs from Black Sabbath and The Cure, specially numbered vinyl copies from The Doors, along with vinyl sets from The Notorious B.I.G. and Steely Dan.



Full details Rhino titles assigned to each drop is now available below. For a list of participating stores, please visit www.recordstoreday.com.

 

Available on Saturday, June 12:                                                         

Air – People in the City – 12-inch picture disc
Limited edition of 7,000 copies, $21.98

Black Sabbath – Heaven & Hell – 1-LP picture disc
Limited edition of 5,000 copies, $24.98

Black Sabbath – Mob Rules – 1-LP picture disc
Limited edition of 5,000, $24.98

Donny Hathaway - Donny Hathaway Live – 1-LP – 180-gram black vinyl
Limited edition of 8,500 copies, $24.98

Grateful Dead – Olympia Theatre, Paris, France 5/3/72 – 6-LP 180-gram vinyl with 12th-side etching
Limited edition of 10,000 copies, $129.98

Joni Mitchell – Joni Mitchell Archives, Vol. 1 (1963-1967): Highlights – 1-LP 180-gram black vinyl
Limited edition of 15,000 copies, $24.98

Lupe Fiasco – Lupe Fiasco’s Food & Liquor Series – 4-LP color vinyl set
Limited edition of 7,000 numbered copies, $69.98

Me’Shell NdegéOcello - Peace Beyond Passion – 2-LP 140-gram blue vinyl
Limited edition of 5,000 copies, $34.98

Steely Dan – Two Against Nature – 2-LP – 180-gram black vinyl
Limited edition, $34.98

Steely Dan – Everything Must Go – 1-LP – 180-gram black vinyl
Limited edition, $21.98

The Cure – Faith – 1-LP - picture disc
Limited edition, $39.98

The Doors – Morrison Hotel Sessions – 2-LP – 180-gram black vinyl
Limited edition of 16,000 numbered copies, $34.98

The Flamin’ Groovies – Bucket of Brains – 10-inch black vinyl
Limited edition of 6,500 copies, $17.98

The Notorious B.I.G. - Biggie Duets: The Final Chapter – 2-LP color vinyl + 7-inch
Limited edition of 10,000 copies, $44.98

The Replacements – The Pleasure’s All Yours: Pleased to Meet Me Outtakes & Alternates – 1-LP black vinyl, Limited edition of 10,000 copies, $21.98

Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - Angel Dream (Songs and Music From The Motion Picture She’s The One) - Cobalt blue vinyl
Limited edition of 25,000 copies, $24.98

Various Artists - Psyché France Vol.7 – 12-inch black vinyl
Limited edition of 4,000 copies, $21.98

Available on Saturday, July 17:

Aretha Franklin – Oh Me Oh My: Aretha Live In Philly, 1972 – 2-LP on orange and yellow vinyl
Limited edition of 10,000 copies, $31.98

Candi Staton – Trouble, Heartaches And Sadness (The Lost Fame Sessions Masters) – 1-LP black vinyl, Limited edition of 6,500 copies, $21.98

Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young – Déjà vu Alternates – 1-LP 180-gram black vinyl
Limited edition of 20,000 copies, $24.98

Dire Straits – Encores – 12-inch EP, pink with lithograph
Limited edition of 5,000 copies, $19.98

DR. JOHN, THE NIGHT TRIPPER – The Sun, Moon, &Herbs Deluxe 50th Anniversary Edition – 3-LP black vinyl, Limited edition of 6,500 copies, $49.98

FEAR – The Record – 1-LP 140-gram clear and white mixed vinyl + 7” single
Limited edition of 5,000 copies, $29.98

Hawkwind – Greasy Truckers Party – 2-LP black vinyl
Limited edition of 8,500 copies, $31.98

John Prine – Live At The Other End, December 1975 – 4-LP 180-gram black vinyl
Limited edition of 12,000 copies, $74.98

John Prine – Live At The Other End, December 1975 – 2-CD set
Limited edition of 6,000 copies $24.98

Lou Reed – Set the Twilight Reeling – 2-LP with etching side 4
Limited edition of 9,000 copies, $34.98

Ramones – triple J Live at the Wireless Capitol Theatre, Sydney, Australia, July 8, 1980 – 1-LP 180-gram black vinyl, Limited edition of 13,000 copies, $21.98

Sisters of Mercy – BBC Sessions – 1-LP “smoky” vinyl
Limited edition of 10,000 copies, $21.98

The Cure – Wild Mood Swings – 2-LP picture disc
Limited edition, $24.98

War – The Vinyl: 1971-1975 – 5-LP color vinyl boxed set
Limited edition of 5,000 copies, $109.98

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GRATEFUL DEAD (SKULL & ROSES)

GETS EXPANDED FOR 50TH ANNIVERSARY

 

Two-CD Set Available June 25 Features A Newly Remastered Version Of The 1971 Live Album Expanded With More Than An Hour Of Unreleased Music

 

A Remastered Version Of The Original Double-LP Will Be Available The Same Day On Black Vinyl With A Limited Edition, Black & White Propeller Vinyl

Available Exclusively At Dead.net

 

Previously Unreleased Live Version Of “The Other One”

Available Today On All Streaming Services

 

LISTEN NOW

 

LOS ANGELES – Grateful Dead earned the band’s first-ever gold record in 1971 with its self-titled live album. Known to many fans as “Skull & Roses” (a reference to the cover art by Alton Kelley and Stanley Mouse) the original double-LP included songs recorded in March and April 1971 in New York and, the band’s hometown, San Francisco. Grateful Dead celebrates its 50th anniversary this year with a newly remastered and expanded version of the original.

 

GRATEFUL DEAD (SKULL & ROSES): EXPANDED EDITION will be available as a two-CD set on June 25 for $24.98. It includes the album’s original’s 11 tracks, which have been remastered from the stereo analog master tapes by Grammy® Award winning engineer David Glasser using Plangent Process Speed Correction. The set also includes a bonus disc with 10 previously unreleased live tracks that were recorded on July 2, 1971 at the Fillmore West, which was the band’s final performance at the historic San Francisco venue. The music will also be available in both standard and high-resolution 192/24 audio at digital download and streaming services.

 

GRATEFUL DEAD (SKULL & ROSES) will also be released on June 25 as a double-LP set ($44.98) that features the newly remastered version of the original album pressed on 180-gram black vinyl. In addition, Dead.net will offer an exclusive version pressed on 180-gram, black and white propeller vinyl ($44.98) that is limited to 5,000 copies.

 

A previously unreleased performance of “The Other One” from the July 2, 1971 Fillmore West show is available today on streaming services.

“For the Grateful Dead's second live album, released two years after its predecessor Live/Dead, the band delivered an equally magnificent, but entirely different, Grateful Dead sound. Whereas Live/Dead was a perfect sonic encapsulation of the band at the peak of their Primal Dead era, Skull & Roses captures the quintessential quintet, the original five piece band, playing some of their hardest hitting rock 'n' roll (‘Johnny B. Goode,’ ‘Not Fade Away’), showing off their authentic Bakersfield bona fides (‘Me & My Uncle,’ ‘Mama Tried,’ ‘Me & Bobby McGee’), and some originals that would be important parts of the Dead's live repertoire for the next 24 years (‘Bertha,’ ‘Playing In The Band,’ ‘Wharf Rat’),” says David Lemieux, Grateful Dead archivist, legacy manager, and the set’s producer. “Of course, the Dead were never defined by one specific ‘sound’ and amongst the aforementioned genres and styles the band brought to this album, they also delved deeply into their psychedelic, primal playbook with an entire side dedicated to their 1968 masterpiece ‘The Other One.’ This is one of the most deeply rich and satisfying tracks preserved on an official Grateful Dead album, up there with Live/Dead's ‘Dark Star’ and Europe '72's ‘Morning Dew.’ Skull & Roses sounds as fresh today as the first time I heard it in 1985, and as fresh as it was upon its spectacularly well-received release in 1971.” 

 

After releasing the back-to-back classics Workingman’s Dead and American Beauty in 1970, the Dead were riding a hot streak when the group decided to hit the road in February 1971 to record its first live album since 1969’s Live/Dead. For the shows, Jerry Garcia, Bob Weir, Ron “Pigpen” McKernan, Phil Lesh and Bill Kreutzmann were armed with a batch of new songs, including “Bertha,” “Playing In The Band,” and “Wharf Rat,” which would all appear on Grateful Dead (Skull & Roses). The original also mixed in classic covers (“Not Fade Away” and “Mama Tried”), a traditional (“Goin’ Down The Road Feeling Bad”), and an entire LP side dedicated to the epic jam vehicle, “The Other One.”

 

GRATEFUL DEAD (SKULL & ROSES): EXPANDED EDITION builds on the original with more than an hour of previously unreleased live recordings taken from the July 2, 1971 performance at the Fillmore West in San Francisco. Standouts from new additions include a 17-minute version of “Good Lovin’” that captures Pigpen fully in control of the packed Fillmore West audience; and the aching beauty of the band’s version of Merle Haggard’s “Sing Me Back Home.” “The Other One” makes another appearance on the bonus disc. Recorded a few months after the one on the original album, this version is every bit its equal.

 

GRATEFUL DEAD (SKULL & ROSES): EXPANDED EDITION

CD Track Listing

 

Disc One: Original Album Remastered

1.    “Bertha”

2.    “Mama Tried”

3.    “Big Railroad Blues”

4.    “Playing In The Band”

5.    “The Other One”

6.    “Me & My Uncle”

7.    “Big Boss Man”

8.    “Me & Bobby McGee”

9.    “Johnny B. Goode”

10. “Wharf Rat”

11. “Not Fade Away/Goin’ Down The Road Feeling Bad”

 

Disc Two: Fillmore West, San Francisco, CA (7/2/71)

1.    “Good Lovin’” *

2.    “Sing Me Back Home” *

3.    “Mama Tried” *

4.    “Cryptical Envelopment”> *

5.    Drums> *

6.    “The Other One” *

7.    “Big Boss Man” *

8.    “Not Fade Away”> *

9.    “Goin’ Down The Road Feeling Bad” *

10. “Not Fade Away” *

 

* previously unreleased

 

LP Track Listing

 

Side One

1.    “Bertha”

2.    “Mama Tried”

3.    “Big Railroad Blues”

4.    “Playing In The Band”

 

Side Two

1.    “The Other One”

 

Side Three

1.    “Me & My Uncle”

2.    “Big Boss Man”

3.    “Me & Bobby McGee”

4.    “Johnny B. Goode”

 

Side Four

1.    “Wharf Rat”

2.    “Not Fade Away/Goin’ Down The Road Feeling Bad”

 

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DAVID BOWIE THE KIT KAT KLUB (LIVE NEW YORK 99) 

TO BE RELEASED ON CD AND 2-LP APRIL 2 

SIXTH & FINAL RELEASE IN BRILLIANT LIVE ADVENTURES SERIES

OF SINGLE PRESSING LIVE ALBUMS FROM THE 1990s  

LIMITED EDITION BOXES TO HOUSE COMPLETE SETS AVAILABLE EXCLUSIVELY VIA THE DAVID BOWIE OFFICIAL STORE & RHINO.COM

 

Parlophone Records is proud to announce THE KIT KAT KLUB (LIVE NEW YORK 99), the sixth and final installment of David Bowie’s Brillant Live Adventures, a series of 1990s era Bowie live albums released as limited one run only vinyl and CD pressings. The albums and limited edition boxes to house the full vinyl or CD collections will be available only via the David Bowie official store and Rhino.com.

 

Out April 2 on CD and double vinyl, THE KIT KAT KLUB (LIVE NEW YORK 99) is a 12-track live album, recorded on November 19, 1999 in front of an invite-only audience of fans and contest winners. 

 

The show was recorded and filmed for webcast the following month via Liveonline.net. The audio from the show was previously available exclusively as a very rare 12-track promotional CD.  

 

The photos used on the inner gatefold of the CD and LP are by Alison Hale a fan who travelled the world to see multiple Bowie shows before she sadly passed away in 2012. 

 

THE KIT KAT KLUB (LIVE NEW YORK 99) was recorded live at the Kit Kat Klub, November 19, 1999, produced by David Bowie, mixed by Mark Plati, and features Bowie backed by Page Hamilton - guitar, Gail Ann Dorsey - bass, vocals, Plati – guitar, Sterling Campbell – drums, Mike Garson – piano, keyboards, synthesisers and Emm Gryner and Holly Palmer –backing vocals. 

 

DAVID BOWIE THE KIT KAT KLUB (LIVE NEW YORK 99)  

TRACKLISTING 

 

CD 

“Life On Mars?” 

“Thursday's Child” 

“Something In The Air” 

“China Girl” 

“Can't Help Thinking About Me” 

“Always Crashing In The Same Car” 

“Survive” 

“Stay” 

“Seven” 

“Changes” 

“The Pretty Things Are Going To Hell” 

“I’m Afraid Of Americans” 

 

LP 

Side 1 

“Life On Mars?” 

“Thursday's Child” 

“Something In The Air” 

 

Side 2 

“China Girl” 

“Can't Help Thinking About Me” 

“Always Crashing In The Same Car” 

 

Side 3 

“Survive” 

“Stay” 

“Seven” 

 

Side 4 

“Changes” 

“The Pretty Things Are Going To Hell” 

“I’m Afraid Of Americans” 

 

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