What new releases are you looking forward to?

Well, if today's Graun is to be believed, I'm really looking forward to the Jack White & Neil Young covers album (link here)...

The prospective tracklist allegedly features music such as Bob Dylan's Blowin' In The Wind, Tim Hardin's Reason To Believe, Phil Ochs' Changes, Gordon Lightfoot's Early Morning Rain and Ivory Joe Hunter's Since I Met You Baby. It's also likely to incorporate a version of Needle Of Death, by the late Bert Jansch

Cloud to Ground, the debut album by Minibus Pimps.

This is John Paul Jones' latest effort - a collaboration between him and Norweigian ambient musician Helge Sten.

Due out in March.

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My copy of the remastered album on red vinyl arrived today.  Sadly, it's another terrible remastering job by, according to the liner notes, someone named Tom Overby.  You have to wonder if he even bothered to listen to an original copy of this great album before he ruined it.  Flat as a fart.

 How disappointing! 

Drive By Truckers- English Oceans.

Miles Davis

Sonar - Static Motion (on Cuneiform)

those interested should first check their awesome debut "A Flaw of Nature" on the Ronin Rhythm label.

Angel in WAV 24/192.

Chag - 

Aan is a fearless experimental pop band from Portland. They are poised for a big 2014, on the heels of a 2013 that saw them garnering praise from publications like Stereogum, Noisey, IFC and Impose and touring almost constantly with the likes of The Smashing Pumpkins and Built to Spill. Partly because of this relentless schedule, their debut LP, Amor Ad Nauseum, has been almost 3 years in the making. But they've been years well-spent - each of these 9 songs wears an elegant, seemingly effortless patina that is only ever the result of the tireless perfection of craft. Meanwhile, the non-stop touring has honed their already energetic live show into an explosive frenzy, making them one of the must-see acts in the Pacific Northwest. They'll keep up the pace on the road this year; look for them. Also available on vinyl.

Zappa's Roxy by Proxy is now apparently shipping 14/2/14 (Roxy & Elsewhere but more of it) CD/Download only I think.

Caravan have a new studio CD/LP coming soon too, pre-orders are shipping 17/2, it's called Paradise Filter. Very sad that their excellent drummer Richard Coughlan passed away in December,  not sure if he played on the new one, he had been ill for a while.

Deluxe edition 2cd + 1 DVD

CD 1 is the normal album and 

I have had a copy of the outtakes for years and they are well worth releasing unless of course they play around with them too much.

Due out on the 24th March.

Disc One:
1.Funeral For A Friend / Love Lies Bleeding
2.Candle In The Wind
3.Bennie And The Jets
4.Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
5.This Song Has No Title
6.Grey Seal
7.Jamaica Jerk Off
8.I’ve Seen that Movie Too
9.Sweet Painted Lady
10.The Ballad Of Danny Bailey (1909-34)
11.Dirty Little Girl
12.All the Girls Love Alice
13.Your Sister Can’t Twist (But She Can Rock’n’Roll)
14.Saturday Night’s Alright For Fighting
15.Roy Rogers
16.Social Disease
17.Harmony

Disc Two:
1.Candle In The Wind – Ed Sheeran (3:22)
2.Bennie and the Jets – Miguel (5:10)
3.Goodbye Yellow Brick Road – Hunter Hayes (3:15)
4.Grey Seal – The Band Perry (3:48)
5.Sweet Painted Lady – John Grant (3:58)
6.All The Girls Love Alice – Emili Sande (3:40)
7.Your Sister Can’t Twist (But She Can Rock And Roll) – Imelda May (2:51)
8.Saturday Night’s Alright For Fighting – Fall Out Boy (3:42)
9.Harmony – Zac Brown Band (2:55)
10.Grey Seal (piano demo) – Elton John (3:20)
11.Grey Seal (1970 Original) – Elton John (3:37)
12.Jack Rabbit – Elton John (1:51)
13.Whenever You’re Ready (We’ll Go Steady) – Elton John (2:52)
14.Screw You (Young Man Blues) – Elton John (4:43)
15.Candle In The Wind (Acoustic) – Elton John (3:52)
16.Step Into Christmas – Elton John (4:10)
17.Ho Ho Ho (Who’d Be A Turkey At Christmas?) (4:04)
18.Philadelphia Freedom – Elton John (5:21)
19.Pinball Wizard – Elton John (5:15)

Disc 3: BBC Elton John Hammersmith Odeon 22nd December 1973
1.Funeral For A Friend
2.Love Lies Bleeding
3.Candle In The Wind
4.Hercules
5.Rocket Man
6.Bennie And The Jets
7.Daniel
8.This Song Has No Title
9.Honky Cat

Disc 4: BBC Elton John Hammersmith Odeon 22nd December 1973
1.Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
2.The Ballad Of Danny Bailey
3.Elderberry Wine
4.Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer
5.I've Seen That Movie Too
6.All The Girls Love Alice
7.Crocodile Rock
8.Your Song
9.Saturday Night's Alright For Fighting

DVD Disc 5:
◾Bryan Forbes’ 1973 film Elton John and Bernie Taupin Say Goodbye To Norma Jean and Other Things (45 minutes)

Also a Blu-Ray 

Allman Brothers Fillmore East box set. Bill Levinson posted a copy of the At FE cover on FB and was asked if he was working on a FE box and he went sssh.

Gerry Rafferty tracks he was working on just before he died possibly due out in the summer and also possibly may include outtakes.

A treasure trove of tapes stashed away by Thin Lizzy frontman Phil Lynott will be released as a boxed set later this year.

Twenty six years after the Dublin rocker's death at the age of 36, more of his lost music will be heard by the public for the first time in June.

Shortly before he passed away in 1986, Mr Lynott gave 150 tapes to a third party for safekeeping. The cache of up to 700 songs has finally been released to record company Universal Music.

"This is an absolutely stunning find," Steve Hammonds, project manager behind the new Thin Lizzy box set, told the Irish Independent. 

"In every group there's a member who lovingly collects their recordings and in Thin Lizzy that was Phil Lynott, because Lizzy was his baby and his band."

It will be the second boxed set in recent times to feature archive work by the band, following last year's 'Live At The BBC' release.

But the newly unearthed recordings stretch from Thin Lizzy's years with Decca Records, beginning in 1971, to their 'Renegade' album in 1981. 

"There are out-takes, unheard versions of Thin Lizzy hits and, most exciting of all, material which was recorded but never released at the time," said Mr Hammonds.

"Phil Lynott was such a prolific songwriter. He recorded 12 Thin Lizzy albums, two solo albums, along with his Grand Slam post-Lizzy project, and now we find he had even more songs in his drawer." 

However, Thin Lizzy members Scott Gorham and Brian Downey will have the "final say" over which songs are released. 

"The members of Thin Lizzy are fully involved with this project. We have been sending them tapes of what we've found and respecting their wishes as regards the material being issued and the art work," added Mr Hammonds.

Label bosses have declined to give more details on why the material is only surfacing now, 30 years after Thin Lizzy split. 

"Phil Lynott passed the material on to a third party for safekeeping. They held on to it for decades because they were waiting for the right people to come along.

"They really didn't trust anyone enough to release it properly. The catalyst was a boxed set of Thin Lizzy BBC sessions we issued earlier this year, which made them believe we were the right people. No money has changed hands, this person is a Thin Lizzy fan." 

Meanwhile, RTE will mark the anniversary of Mr Lynott's death on January 4 with a new documentary 'The Philip Lynott Archive' to be broadcast tonight and which will feature the first screening of a fully restored version of the 1982 'Old Town' video. 

And the annual 'Vibe for Philo' gig in Mr Lynott's memory takes place at Dublin's Button Factory on Wednesday.

Due out at the end of March and will include an unreleased album called The Sicilian Defence

Blu Ray

Dylan Bootleg Series Vol 11 rumoured to be from the New York sessions for BOTT.