Two new albums jump out of the list this week demanding special attention from all cool people. First, Loretta Lynn has a new album produced in collaboration with Jack White. Early word on this has been positive.
Also, the Diana Krall album merits attention. I've never really paid much attention to the work of the new Mrs. Elvis, but The Girl in the Other Room has the distinction of all the songs being co-written by Elvis. A whole new album of Elvis compositions definitely rates a listen. Amazon buyers agree: This is currently the #1 selling CD at Amazon.com.
The Black Sabbath box is about $90 for nine discs. Suicide would certainly start to sound like a viable solution by about the middle of disc 3.
This weeks' major new album releases, from All Music Guide:
Loretta Lynn Van Lear Rose Interscope
Styles: Alternative Country, Americana, Traditional Country, Progressive Country
Rockpile Seconds of Pleasure [Expanded] Columbia/Legacy
Styles: New Wave, Pop/Rock, Pub Rock, Rock & Roll
Diana Krall The Girl in the Other Room Verve
D12 D12 World Shady/Interscope
Styles: Hardcore Rap
John Abercrombie Quartet Class Trip ECM
Styles: Modern Creative, Structured Improvisation
Aron Quartett Schoenberg: String Quartets Preiser
Styles: Modern Chamber Music
Pete Belasco Deeper Compendia
Styles: Contemporary Jazz, Contemporary R&B
Black Sabbath Black Box: The Complete Original Black Sabbath 1970-1978 Rhino
Styles: Heavy Metal, British Metal, Album Rock
Glenn Branca Lesson No. 1 [Bonus Tracks] Acute
Styles: Instrumental Rock, Experimental, No Wave, Experimental Rock
Mary Chapin Carpenter Between Here and Gone Columbia
Styles: Contemporary Country, Singer/Songwriter, Folk-Rock, Country-Folk
Andrew Carwood Orlando Lassus: Quam Pulchera Es; Veni in Hortum Meum Gaudeamus
Styles: Renaissance Choral Music
Clifton Chenier Clifton Sings the Blues Arhoolie
Styles: Texas Blues, Zydeco
Marilyn Crispell Trio Storyteller ECM
Styles: Modern Creative, Avant-Garde Jazz, Free Jazz
DePaul Wind Ensemble Forget-Me-Nots Albany
Styles: Modern Chamber Music
Dave Edmunds From Small Things: The Best of Dave Edmunds Columbia/Legacy
Styles: Rock & Roll, New Wave, Pub Rock, Roots Rock
Tinsley Ellis Hard Way Telarc
Styles: Modern Electric Blues, Blues-Rock
Bela Fleck/Edgar Meyer Music for Two Sony
Styles: New Acoustic, Chamber Jazz, Progressive Bluegrass, Contemporary Jazz
Jolie Holland Escondida Anti
Styles: Alternative Country, Contemporary Singer/Songwriter, Country-Folk, Contemporary Folk, Folk-Jazz, Songster, Folk-Blues, Minstrel
Jersey Generation Genocide Universal
Styles: Ska-Punk, Punk Revival
Gary Karr Super Double-Bass: The Artistry of Gary Karr Lim
Styles: Romantic Chamber Music
Steve Kuhn String Ensemble Promises Kept ECM
Styles: Modern Creative
Joey McIntyre 8:09 Artemis
Styles: Pop/Rock, Adult Contemporary, Adult Alternative Pop/Rock, Singer/Songwriter
Lee Michaels Hello: The Very Best of Lee Michaels Sony
Styles: Pop/Rock, Blue-Eyed Soul, AM Pop, Hard Rock, Psychedelic
The One AM Radio A Name Writ in Water Level-Plane
Styles: Indie Electronic, Indie Pop, Lo-Fi
Original Soundtrack Porky's Revenge! [Expanded] Columbia/Legacy/
Sony Music Soundtrax
Styles: Pub Rock, New Wave, Rock & Roll
Sam Phillips A Boot and a Shoe Nonesuch
Styles: Singer/Songwriter, Adult Alternative Pop/Rock, Pop/Rock
John Pizzarelli Bossa Nova Telarc
Styles: Brazilian Jazz, Latin Jazz
Gary Puckett/Union Gap Young Girl: The Best of Gary Puckett & the Union Gap Sony
Styles: Pop, Pop/Rock, Sunshine Pop
Linda Ronstadt Mi Jardin Azul: Las Canciones Favoritas Elektra/Rhino
Styles: Mexican Folk, Mariachi, Latin Pop, Nueva Cancion, Ranchera, Latin Folk
Diana Ross/The Supremes/The Temptations Joined Together: The
Complete Studio Duets Motown
Styles: Motown, Soul, Pop-Soul, Uptown Soul
Sam the Sham & The Pharaohs Wooly Bully/Little Red Riding Hood Collectables
Styles: Frat Rock, Garage Rock, Rock & Roll
Janis Siegel Sketches of Broadway Telarc
Styles: Vocal Pop, Show Tunes, Cabaret, Musical Theater
Vassily Sinaisky Film Music of Dmitri Shostakovich, Vol. 2 Chandos
Styles: Film Music
Patti Smith Trampin' Columbia
Styles: Rock & Roll, Album Rock
Otis Taylor Double V Telarc
Styles: Contemporary Blues, Modern Acoustic Blues
Various Artists American Idol Season 3: Greatest Soul Classics RCA
Styles: Teen Pop, Urban, Soul, Pop/Rock, Adult Contemporary
Various Artists Garage Beat '66! Volume I: Like What, Me Worry?!? Sundazed
Styles: Garage Rock
Various Artists Garage Beat '66! Volume II: Chicks Are For Kids Sundazed
Styles: Garage Rock
Various Artists Garage Beat '66! Volume III: Feeling Zero Sundazed
Styles: Garage Rock
Various Artists Spin the Bottle: An All-Star Tribute to Kiss Koch
Styles: Heavy Metal, Guitar Virtuoso, Pop-Metal, Hard Rock
Various Artists Sunnyside Cafe Series: Pop a Paris - Rock n' Roll and Mini Skirts, Compilation 1 Sunnyside
Styles: French Pop
Dale Watson Dreamland Koch
Styles: Neo-Traditionalist Country, Americana, Honky Tonk
Mary Lou Williams Mary Lou Williams Presents Black Christ of the Andes Smithsonian Folkways
Styles: Stride, Swing, Bop, Third Stream
Article comments
1 - Craig Lyndall
very small week in the underground:
evergrey-inner circle 4/27
morgion-cloaked by ages 4/27
nekromantix-dead girls don't cry 4/27
suffocation-souls to deny 4/27
2 - Eric Olsen
Craig, if you want, feel free to do a separate post on this each week.
3 - ClubhouseCancer
Al:
No, it's just another Krall record, I'm afraid. But instead of boring us with her under-considered versions of Porter and Gershwin, we get five or six Krall/Costello tunes plus covers of tunes by Tom Waits, Joni Mitchell, and someone else, plus "Almost Blue."
My advice is to continue paying little attention to Mrs. Costello, whose pallid pleasantness always evokes yawns here. Or maybe it's just subtle, and I'VE NEVER BEEN GOOD AT SUBTLE!!!
Their song "Narrow Daylight" has some good lines, however.
4 - Shark
Krall needs to go the Britney route: more boobs, less music.
5 - ClubhouseCancer
She doesn't have far to go. The cover packaging of "The Look of Love" looks like a Victoria's Secret catalogue. And not in the Bob Dylan way, either.