Solomon Burke has a new album out this week - Make Due With What You've Got - which should rate a listen. Don Was produced it, and it includes new songs by Dr John and Van Morrison. After the outstanding 2002 Don't Give Up On Me album, this sounds quite promising.
Even more exciting, if you're into celebrityness rather than actual music: Jennifer Lopez has a new album out, Rebirth. Doubtless she will leave her husband for Brad Pitt, check into rehab, or make a porno video with Madonna - resulting in multiplatinum sales. Just cut to the chase and buy the damned album now.
Elvis Costello fans can now have the privilege of buying last year's album of the year The Delivery Man all over again in the deluxe edition with a couple of new outtakes and a video for "Bedlam."
Here's the complete list of this week's major new releases, courtesy AMG:
Altan Local Ground Narada
Contemporary Celtic, Irish Folk
Black 47 Elvis Murphy's Green Suede Shoes Gadfly
Bar Band, Celtic Rock, Adult Alternative Pop/Rock, Rock & Roll
Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers Like Someone in Love [RVG Edition Blue Note
Hard Bop
Ian Bostridge Schubert: Die schone Mullerin EMI Classics
Romantic Vocal Music
Bunky Born to Be a Motorcycle Asthmatic Kitty
Indie Pop
Solomon Burke Make Do With What You Got Sony
Soul, Southern Soul, Deep Soul, Country-Soul
Elvis Costello The Delivery Man [Deluxe Edition] Lost Highway
Adult Alternative Pop/Rock, Singer/Songwriter
Cradle of Filth Nymphetamine [2 Disc Special Edition] Roadrunner
Goth Metal, Heavy Metal, Death Metal/Black Metal, Symphonic Black Metal
Kathleen Edwards Back to Me Zoe
Singer/Songwriter, Alternative Country-Rock
El Pus Hoodlum Rock, Vol. 1 Virgin
Rap-Metal, Alternative Rap, Alternative Metal
Roky Erickson I Have Always Been Here Before: The Roky Erickson Anthology Shout Factory
Garage Rock, Psychedelic, Rock & Roll, Proto-Punk, Roots Rock
Grant Green Feelin' the Spirit [RVG Edition] Blue Note
Hard Bop, Soul-Jazz
Half-Handed Cloud Thy Is a Word & Feet Need Lamps Asthmatic Kitty
Indie Pop, Experimental Rock, Lo-Fi
Article comments
1 - JR
You missed a few Blue Note reissues:
Sonny Clark Dial S For Sonny
Herbie Hancock Speak Like a Child
Horace Silver Horace Silver & The Jazz Messengers
That Horace Silver is one of the better examples of fifties hard bop/soul jazz.
2 - Eric Berlin
I used to see Black 47 in New York all the time. Great fun, great live performers.
If only someone could get a hold of the new album to review...