The Kinks | The Essential Kinks & Muswell Hillbillies (Legacy Edition) – CD Review
Now that Legacy Recordings has retained licensing rights to the Kinks catalog in the States for recordings made for RCA Records and Arista from 1971 to 1985, they have...
Elvis Presley | Elvis Is Back! (Legacy Edition) – CD Review
Following his two-year stint in the U.S. Army, Elvis Presley released two seminal albums in 1960 and 1961: Elvis Is Back! and Something For Everybody. Fifty years later, the...
Little Richard | Here’s Little Richard (Deluxe Edition) – CD Review
At 85, Richard Penniman aka Little Richard is one of the last founding fathers of rock and roll still alive. While rumors abound that Little Richard is too old...
Emerson, Lake & Palmer | 2016 Reissues – CD Review
Fans of Emerson, Lake & Palmer are all too familiar with how the band’s catalog has been passed around like a jug of wine at a Roman bacchanal. Ever...
Van Morrison | The Healing Game (Deluxe Edition) – CD Review
Van Morrison’s The Healing Game, originally released in 1997 album, has been reissued as a three-disc set. This Deluxe Edition features the original album, plus extra tracks, sessions, collaborations,...
Leonard Cohen | Reissues – CD Review
The "grocer of despair" Leonard Cohen has interjected himself into my life so many times I don't know where to begin. So, on the occasion of Columbia/Legacy's reissuing of...
Pink Floyd | The Wall (Experience & Immersion Editions) – CD Review
The Experience and Immersion editions of Pink Floyd's The Wall are, supposedly, the last bricks to fill in the Why Pink Floyd? reissue campaign. Following expanded versions of The...
Journey | Columbia Reissues (1981 – 1996)
Long-term relationships are about as rare as encountering a unicorn, glimpsing the Loch Ness Monster, or discovering socks that mysteriously vanish in the dryer. Yet Journey has been able...
Lou Reed | Coney Island Baby – CD Review
I was five when Lou Reed’s Coney Island Baby was released in 1976, so needless to say, I wasn’t familiar with the album when it came out. In fact,...
Emerson, Lake & Palmer | Trilogy (Deluxe Edition) – CD Review
Trilogy, the appropriately titled third studio album from Emerson, Lake & Palmer, was released in 1972 and welcomed with open arms. Tarkus, its predecessor, was conceptually brilliant, but Trilogy...
