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FEATURED ALBUMS - MARCH 2024

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Limited edition of 750 individually numbered copies on gold coloured 180-gram audiophile vinyl. Arguably the finest Jamaican soul singer of his generation, Ken Boothe burst onto the international stage when his sublime rendering of Bread's melancholic "Everything I Own" toppd the UK charts in the autumn of 1974. Within months of this success, the native-born Kingstonian returned to the national listings with the captivating "Crying Over You", which made number 11 later that year.
Ken Boothe - Everything I Own [Colored Vinyl] (Gol) [Limited Edition] [180 Gram] (Hol)
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30th anniversary edition of 1000 individually numbered copies on blue coloured 180-gram audiophile vinyl. It was produced by none less than Eddie Kramer, who collaborated with artists such as Jimi Hendrix, the Beatles, David Bowie, Led Zeppelin, and the list goes on. Buddy recorded the album together with Stevie Ray Vaughan's Double Trouble members Reese Wynans, Chris Layton, and Tommy Shannon. On the album, Buddy Guy reasserts his bluesness and let's his incomparable guitar loose. The 11-track set features several covers and two originals: "Little Dab-A-Doo" and "Man of Many Words".
Buddy Guy - Slippin In: 30th Anniversary (Blue) [Colored Vinyl] [Limited Edition]
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Limited edition of 2500 individually numbered copies on crystal clear 180-gram audiophile vinyl. Man in Black may be the 38th album by country singer Johnny Cash, but it is definitely one of the most memorable albums in his discography. Man in Black is perhaps one of Cash's most political albums. This message is also reflected in the album's lyrics. The singles "Man in Black" and "Singin' in Viet Nam Talkin' Blues" can be seen as his most important protest songs. Both singles were successful on the Billboard Country charts. All this makes the album a unique milestone in his career and still a must for all Johnny Cash fans.
Johnny Cash - Man In Black [Clear Vinyl] [Limited Edition] [180 Gram] (Hol)
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180 gram audiophile black vinyl. American/Danish glam metal band White Lion released their third studio album Big Game in 1989. The album was recorded while the band were still thriving on the success of it's predecessor Pride. It contains the single "Little Fighter" and a cover version of Golden Earring's "Radar Love" as the second single. Other well-known songs from this album are "Cry for Freedom" and "Goin' Home Tonight". A critical and commercial success, the album went Gold in the US and also charted in Sweden, Norway, Switzerland, Canada and the UK.
White Lion - Big Game (Blk) [180 Gram] (Hol)
$36.99
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When Mick Mars stepped back from touring with Mötley Crüe – the band he co-founded more than 40 years ago – following their massive summer 2022 Stadium Tour, it seemed like the end of an era. Really, it was the beginning of a new one.
 
The legendary guitarist, whose riffs, solos and overall devastatingly heavy sound powered the L.A. icons through four decades of world-conquering, multi-platinum sonic mayhem is, as he demonstrates on his debut solo effort, still a serious force to be reckoned with. Only now, listeners are reckoning with more Mars than ever before. “When it comes to my playing, there’s the Mötley side and the Mars side,” the guitarist says. “Either way, I always have a very clear vision of what I want to do.”
 
On the aptly-titled The Other Side of Mars, fans get that vision in its full, multifarious glory. To be sure, there are plenty of characteristically riff-tastic, tough-as-nails hard-rock anthems (the rampaging “Loyal to the Lie,” the deep-in-the-pocket groove-rocker “Ain’t Going Back,” the hooky and melodic “Right Side of Wrong”) to be heard on the record. But The Other Side of Mars also shows the 71-year-old guitarist heading into new and uncharted territory, tearing through caustic, modern metal (“Broken On the Inside”), conjuring gothic-tinged soundscapes (“Undone”), digging into anguished, slow-burning power balladry (“Killing Breed”) and unspooling bluesy, cinematic instrumental workouts (the album-closing guitar showcase, “L.A. Noir”). The music throughout the 10-track collection, meanwhile, is otherwise studded with slide guitars, violins, violas, keyboards, glitchy freak-outs and all manner of sonic surprises.
 
“There’s a lot of ideas that I have that, I don't want to call them ‘left,’ but they are, you know what I mean?” Mars says. Regarding those stylistic turns, he continues, “My feeling has always been, I might gain some fans, I might lose some fans. But what they’re hearing, it’s all me.”
 
The guitarist enlisted a crack team of musicians to help him along the way. A key contributor to the project was Winger and former Alice Cooper keyboardist (and, like Mars, Nashville resident) Paul Taylor, who, in addition to performing on the record and assisting Mars in co-writing many of the tracks, introduced the guitarist to powerhouse vocalist Jacob Bunton. “Jacob came into the studio and it was like, bam!” Mars recalls. “And I just said, ‘Yeah, he’s the guy.’ And most of his vocals were one take.” The supporting band was rounded out by Korn drummer Ray Luzier, as well as two additional in-demand Nashville musicians: bassist Chris Collier and singer Brion Gamboa, who contributed lead vocals to two songs, “Undone” and “Killing Breed,” both of which, Mars says, “required a little bit more of an angsty, desperation kind of thing. And Brion really came to the table with that.”
 
But while Mars surrounded himself with a new cast of players for the sessions, there was one figure who represented a significant link to his storied past: Michael Wagener. The much-lauded German producer and engineer worked behind the boards on Mötley Crüe’s 1981 debut, Too Fast For Love, and his relationship with Mars stretches even further back. “I had known him for a long time, and I actually brought him to Mötley,” Mars says. Working with Wagener this time, the guitarist continues, “he had such an understanding of where I wanted to go with the material. And he never said ‘Hey, do this,’ or tried to change my mind or anything like that. He was just really adamant about recording what I wanted to record, and making sure we recorded it right.”
 
The result is a record unlike anything Mars has offered up in his more than 40-year career. Take the piano-and-strings track “Memories,” which, Mars recalls, he began writing “back when I was still touring with Mötley. I gave it to Paul Taylor, and I had him transpose all my parts to keyboard. And then I said, ‘That’s it.’ I didn’t want any drums, I didn’t want any over-the-top, here-comes-the-sun-over-the-mountains in the chorus kind of crap. I wanted to keep it simple, and focus on the melody.”
Or “L.A. Noir,” which, Mars says, was inspired by “old ‘30s and ‘40s B-movies about sleuth detectives, flatfoots, private eyes, that kind of stuff. I came up with the main lick maybe 30 years ago, and never really had a chance to do anything with it until now. I love that big-band sound and era, so we tried to capture that, but with a real sleazy, noir-ish vibe.”
 
As for the album’s leadoff track and first single, “Loyal to the Lie”? Well, that one was easy. “I wanted to do something that was just big and mean,” Mars says with a laugh.
 
But no matter what direction he’s going in on The Other Side of Mars, what ties it all together is “that people are going to hear my tone – my sound,” Mars says. “I am what I am. Nobody else can do it. And like everyone, I’ve got a limited number of years. So I'm gonna do all I can to do a lot of stuff.” To that end, he says that even as he unleashes The Other Side of Mars on the world, he’s already working on a follow-up. And while he remains a member of Mötley Crüe (“when they need me, I’m here,” he says), Mars is no longer spending his days and nights in arenas and stadiums throughout the world. Which means, he says, he has more time to pursue his own musical muse.
 
“I'm trying to keep growing,” Mars says. “Because if you stop learning new things, if you stop playing new things, if you close your mind, you’re done. You have to keep moving and creating. Next!”

Mick Mars - The Other Side of Mars [LP]
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Recorded at Blackbird Studio in Nashville, this sophomore LP from The Raconteurs was surprise released in March 2008 to widespread acclaim. The album would go on to win the 2009 Grammy award for Best Engineered album, non-classical and continues to be considered a high-point example of modern day rock and roll.

The Raconteurs - Consolers Of The Lonely [2LP]
$39.98
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For more than 30 years, singer-songwriter and guitar hero Mary Timony has cut a distinctive path through the world of independent music, most recently as vocalist and guitarist of acclaimed garage-pop power trio Ex Hex but also as a member of seminal post-punk band Autoclave, celebrated leader of the deeply influential Helium, multifaceted solo artist, and a co-founder of supergroup Wild Flag. Described by Sleater-Kinney's Carrie Brownstein as "Mary Shelley with a guitar" and dubbed "a trailblazer and an innovator" by Lindsey Jordan a.k.a. Snail Mail, Timony has distinguished herself as one of her generation's most influential guitarists and songwriters. The mystical, acoustic-driven Untame the Tiger emerged after the dissolution of a long-term relationship and was bookended by the deaths of Mary Timony's father and mother. The album was recorded during a two-year period during which she was the primary caregiver for her ailing parents.
Mary Timony - Untame The Tiger [Indie Exclusive] [Colored Vinyl] [Limited Edition] (Pnk) [Indie Exclusive]
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Limited Edition 180 Gram White Vinyl. TV on the Radio's story is one of synchronicity, of serendipity, of epiphany. TVOTR began with Tunde Adebimpe (vocals) and David Sitek (multi-instrumentalist and production kingpin) being roommates, drinking way too much coffee, making art: comics, movies, paintings. They started trading tapes of each other's four track recordings and thought it'd be fun to try to make "a real record" out of all that stuff. The band's third studio album released in 2008, Dear Science, opened with vintage TVOTR, but the nostalgia does not last. With Dear Science, the band continue to push the limit with sonic experiments that fill out the rest of the album. Best New Music... 9. 2 - Pitchfork. Com, 2008. (Dear Science) boldly took guitars where no album had gone before. And it did so with more creativity, daring and flair than any record since Radiohead's OK Computer. - The Guardian
TV On The Radio - Dear Science - White [Colored Vinyl] [180 Gram] (Wht)
$28.98
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Double 180gm colored vinyl LP pressing housed in gatefold jacket. Round Room was recorded at The Barn in Vermont by Bryce Goggin during four days over two weekends in October 2002. The songs were written mainly by Trey Anastasio and Tom Marshall, with the title track and "Mock Song" by Mike Gordon. The Round Room sessions were initially intended as rehearsals for the band's upcoming end-of-hiatus new year's eve show at Madison Square Garden, giving the recording a loose, live feel with several extended tracks like "Pebbles And Marbles", "Seven Below", "Walls Of The Cave", and "Waves". The album was originally mastered by Fred Kevorkian and released by Elektra December 10, 2002. Chris Bellman at Bernie Grundman mastering cut the lacquers for the 2024 vinyl.
Phish - Round Room [Colored Vinyl] (Gate) [180 Gram]
$49.98
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Omega Sessions is a 5-song EP recorded by Bad Brains in 1980 and released in 1997. The tracks were recorded and mixed at the original Omega Recording Studios in Rockville, Maryland. The EP contains early versions of songs that eventually appeared on later releases, including a reading of "I Against I." Side B of the LP features a custom etching.
Bad Brains - Omega Sessions
$20.98
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This Is The Sea is the third album by The Waterboys. Released in September 1985 and includes the classic single, The Whole of The Moon, along with other tracks, Don't Bang The Drum, The Pan Within and Old England. Considered by critics to be the finest album of their early rock-orientated sound, described as "epic" and "a defining moment" in the bands ongoing career.This new clear vinyl edition is a companion piece to the (also) forthcoming 6CD Deluxe box set '1985', the making of the This Is The Sea album. The format is 12" 3mm spine sleeve with silver OBI, printed insert and on 180gm clear vinyl
The Waterboys - This Is The Sea - Clear [Clear Vinyl] [Limited Edition]
$32.98
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Life's Not Out To Get You is Neck Deep's second full length album. Featuring everyone's favorite tracks "December","Can't Kick Up the Roots",& "Gold Steps".Neck Deep's new self titled album comes out January 19, 2024. Vinyl color: Blood Red
Neck Deep - Life's Not Out To Get You - Blood Red [Colored Vinyl] (Red)
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GRAMMY- NOMINATED R&RHOF INDUCTEE AND GUITAR LEGEND ACE FREHLEY ANNOUNCES THE RELEASE OF HIS NEW STUDIO ALBUM, 10, 000 VOLTS, DUE OUT ON FEBRUARY 23, 2024. PRODUCED BY ACE AND STEVE BROWN (TRIXTER), THE 11-TRACK 10, 000 VOLTS SEES ACE PERFORM ELECTRIFYING, HARD-HITTING, RIFF-HEAVY ROCK'N' ROLL. Rock 'n' roll and heavy metal simply wouldn't sound, look, or feel the same without Ace Frehley. Among hundreds of accolades, The Rock and Roll Hall of Famer inducted him in 2014 as a co-founder and the original lead guitarist of Kiss. Guitar World named him in the Top 15 of it's "100 Greatest Heavy Metal Guitarists of All Time" and plugged the lead from "Shock Me" on the "50 Greatest Guitar Solos of All Time
Ace Frehley - 10,000 Volts [Red LP]
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GRAMMY- NOMINATED R&RHOF INDUCTEE AND GUITAR LEGEND ACE FREHLEY ANNOUNCES THE RELEASE OF HIS NEW STUDIO ALBUM, 10, 000 VOLTS, DUE OUT ON FEBRUARY 23, 2024. PRODUCED BY ACE AND STEVE BROWN (TRIXTER), THE 11-TRACK 10, 000 VOLTS SEES ACE PERFORM ELECTRIFYING, HARD-HITTING, RIFF-HEAVY ROCK'N' ROLL. Rock 'n' roll and heavy metal simply wouldn't sound, look, or feel the same without Ace Frehley. Among hundreds of accolades, The Rock and Roll Hall of Famer inducted him in 2014 as a co-founder and the original lead guitarist of Kiss. Guitar World named him in the Top 15 of it's "100 Greatest Heavy Metal Guitarists of All Time" and plugged the lead from "Shock Me" on the "50 Greatest Guitar Solos of All Time."
Ace Frehley - 10,000 Volts [Indie Exclusive Limited Edition LP]
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Acoustic Sounds and Contemporary Records present this new reissue of Art Pepper’s 1960 album “Smack Up”. Recorded by legendary engineer Roy DuNann the album also features Jack Sheldon (trumpet), Pete Jolly (piano), Jimmy Bond (bass), and Frank Butler (drums). This new edition is pressed on 180-gram vinyl pressed at QRP with (AAA) lacquers cut from the original tapes by Bernie Grundman and is presented in a tip-on jacket.
Art Pepper Quintet - Smack Up: Contemporary Records Acoustic Sounds Series [LP]
$29.98
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Sun Ra's Arkestra was at it's most radical during this period, alternating simple chants with very outside playing and dense ensembles. Although no precise date is given, these five cuts are thought to have been documented circa 1967-1968 by Sun Ra (piano) and his Arkestra in New York City, where the band was in residence at the time. First released for Record Store Day 2014, the title is now available on gold vinyl, pressed at Pallas Group in Germany.
Sun Ra - Outer Spaceways Incorporated - Gold [Colored Vinyl] (Gol)
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Stan Getz and Bill Evans are about as close as musicians can get in terms of artistry, musical philosophy and technique. These sessions, recorded in 1963 with drummer Elvin Jones and bassists Ron Carter (Side A) and Richard Davis (Side B), perfectly blend their strong individual styles and collaborative sensibilities, with both artists at the peak of their creative powers. Verve Acoustic Sounds Series features transfers from analog tapes and remastered on 180g vinyl in deluxe gatefold packaging.
Stan Getz  & Evans,Bill - Previously Unreleased Recordings (Verve Acoustic)
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Limited edition of 2500 individually numbered copies on crystal clear 180-gram audiophile vinyl. Miles Davis is regarded to be one of the most influential and acclaimed figures in the history of jazz and 20th-century music. At the request of Columbia Records executive George Avakian, he formed his first regular quintet in 1955. After all members of the first quintet left Davis a few years later, he hired the core of the second quintet in 1963 and the final member in late 1964. The second quintet would record and play together until the end of the 60s.
Miles Davis - Sorcerer [Clear Vinyl] [Limited Edition] [180 Gram] (Hol)
$37.99
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The respected Japanese jazz drummer Akira Ishikawa was not messing around when he recorded the 'Uganda (Dawn of Rock)' album with his band the Count Buffaloes. For this offering, originally released in 1972 on Toshiba Records, Akira Ishikawa takes us on a deep tripped-out journey. 'Uganda (Dawn of Rock)' is a fusion of progressive and psych rock with African percussion workouts, dergy-wah wah blues-funk, and jazzy sensibilities; with different genres morphing and uniting as they progress.A long way from his funk and afrobeat album 'Back To Rhythm', re-issued on Mr Bongo in 2019, this record has a darker, deeper, abstract and experimental stoned tone with the listener being pulled into it's vortex for the ride. This record doesn't pull any punches.For this album, Akira is joined by Hideaki Chihara on bass, guitarist Kimio Mizutani, sounding at times like an early 70s Peter Green, percussionist Larry Sunaga and composer Takeru Muraoka.The album has become highly sought-after amongst psych, prog and acid rock collectors and due to the rare nature of original copies they come at a hefty price tag.We are delighted to present an officially licensed re-issue of this underground Japanese rock rarity.
Akira Ishikawa  / Count Buffaloes - Uganda (Dawn Of Rock)
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Legendary drummer Simon Phillips returns with Protocol V, once again reimagining his adventurous jazz/fusion outfit. Instrumentation is expanded to a quintet format, including saxophone, launching the group into sonic territory familiar to fans of Chick Corea's Elektric Band in the late 1980s. Strands of DNA from other iconic artists like John McLaughlin, Tony Williams, Allan Holdsworth and Jan Hammer are woven throughout. Simon's impressive compositional skills are also on display, culminating in an 11-minute mini-suite called "The Long Road Home." Now available as a beautiful double gatefold LP set, remastered especially for 180 gram vinyl. Protocol V is a must for Simon's devotees worldwide!
Simon Phillips - Protocol V (Gate) [180 Gram]
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This 1960 album's inventive Richard Weiss arrangements combine with Carter's uniquely masterful - and modern - vocals for fresh takes on standards. Highlights include a lively run through "What A Little Moonlight Can Do", inspired scatting on "On The Alamo" and a beautifully tender take on "There's No You". The Verve By Request Series features 180-gram vinyl, pressed at Third Man in Detroit.
Betty Carter - Modern Sound Of Betty Carter (Verve By Request)
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The live recordings included here are among the very best from Billie Holiday's final years. Part of the motivation behind the 1956 Carnegie Hall concert was to promote Billie's autobiography, Lady Sings the Blues.
Billie Holiday - Essential Billie Holiday Carnegie Hall Concert
$23.99
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Originally released in 1963, “Caravan” was Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers' first album for Riverside Records. Featured in addition to Blakey are Freddie Hubbard (trumpet), Curtis Fuller (trombone), Wayne Shorter (sax), Cedar Walton (piano) and Reggie Workman (bass). This new edition is released as part of the Original Jazz Classics Series and is pressed on 180-gram vinyl at RTI with all-analog mastering from the original tapes by Kevin Gray at Cohearent Audio and presented in a Tip-On Jacket.
Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers - Caravan [Original Jazz Classics Series LP]
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Limited edition of 1000 individually numbered copies on purple coloured 180-gram audiophile vinyl. Live In Tokyo is the first live album by jazz fusion pioneers Weather Report, which was recorded and released in 1972. The recordings took place on January 13 at Shibuya Philharmonic Hall in Tokyo, Japan. It was one of five sold-out shows that they played in Japan during that month. All the music is encapsulated in five lengthy "medleys" of WR's repertoire, three of which contain elongated versions of themes from the group's eponymously titled debut album from 1971.
Weather Report - Live In Tokyo [Colored Vinyl] (Gate) [Limited Edition] [180 Gram] (Purp)
$54.99
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LA-based composer/arranger E. Lundquist (aka Eric Borders) returns with 'Art Between Minds'. Having cut his teeth in the LA hip-hop and beats scene and explored realms of cosmic-funk under previous monikers, E. Lundquist's music displays a rich tapestry of influences including the cinematic & experimental jazz-infused library music that influenced his previous LP 'Multiple Images'. Now he is back with another ample helping of his hallucinogenic sonics, utilizing a bevy of vintage gear to replicate that warm glow of '70s jazz-funk. While E. Lundquist's artistry will eventually take him to new plateaus of sound, where he is right now is undoubtedly a high watermark in his career. He has become a torchbearer for jazz-funk in a new jazz revolution, updating the sub-genre with his delicate balance of digital and analog elements that will easily appeal to fans of Kamaal Williams, Surprise Chef, BADBADNOTGOOD, Khurangbin, Robohands and similar.
E. Lundquist - Art Between Minds [Indie Exclusive] [Colored Vinyl] (Wht) [Indie Exclusive]
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Dave Brubeck himself received the most acclaim for his work as a composer; his best-known tunes include "The Duke," "In Your Own Sweet Way," and "Blue Rondo a la Turk." The quartet achieved their greatest commercial success in 1960 with the Desmond composition "Take Five," a widely acknowledged jazz classic and the best-selling jazz single of all time. This 2LP is an overview of the best tracks of Dave Brubeck playing together with Paul Desmond, Norman Bates, Joe Morello, Gene Wright a.o. This is a limited colored Solid Turquiose Edition.
Dave Brubeck - Best Of - Ltd 180gm Turquoise Vinyl [Colored Vinyl] [Limited Edition]
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Jacob Collier - "Djesse Vol. 4" / Crafted in the famed studio beside his London bedroom, as well as various corners of the globe, Djesse has explored Jacob Collier's wildest dreams, and Vol. 4 brings the series to a most dramatic and thrilling conclusion. While his music is proudly unclassifiable, Collier enters a distinct sonic universe with each volume, which he likens to the different phases of a day. With Vol. 4, the saga ends at the incandescent light of dawn, alchemising a full spectrum of emotion into a massive, joyous moment of awakening and human potential. Indie Exclusive Orange Color in Color 2 LP. Orange 2 LP]
Jacob Collier - Djesse Vol. 4 [Indie Exclusive Limited Edition Orange 2LP]
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Wynonna

Wynonna

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Limited colored vinyl LP pressing. Wynonna is the debut solo studio album by Wynonna Judd, originally released in 1992. Before the release of Wynonna, she recorded alongside her mother, Naomi, as The Judds, a duo which charted more than 20 country singles in the 1980s and early 1990s until hepatitis forced Naomi to retire.
Wynonna - Wynonna
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Limited colored vinyl LP pressing. Tell Me Why is the second solo studio album by Wynonna Judd, originally released in 1993. Features the hit singles "Only Love", "Is It Over Yet", "Rock Bottom", "Girls with Guitars", and the title track, all top ten hits on the Billboard country music charts.
Wynonna - Tell Me Why
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The Vault: Old Friends 4 Sale is a collection of previously unreleased songs from Prince’s legendary vault that was released by Warner Bros. Records in 1999, shortly before the release of his studio album Rave Un2 the Joy Fantastic with the brief liner note: "The enclosed material was written during the period beginning 1/23/1985 and ending 6/18/1994 and was originally intended 4 private use only."

Prince - The Vault - Old Friends 4 Sale [LP]
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Dume is a 16-song album (2 LPs) by Neil Young with Crazy Horse from 1975, recorded during the Zuma recording sessions. It includes tracks and outtakes from Zuma. This album is included as CD #8 CD in Neil Young’s Archives Volume II. This is the debut release on vinyl.
Neil Young with Crazy Horse - Dume [2LP]
$34.98

        
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