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LATEST RELEASE IN BEAR FAMILY’S ‘THE DRUGSTORES ROCKIN’’ CD‐SERIES
1‐CD (Digipak) with 36‐page booklet, 36 tracks, total playing time approx. 79 min.

Capitol Records was in the enviable position of having two challengers to Elvis’ regal status in 1957: Gene Vincent, who may have appeared just a little too threatening for full‐on mainstream embrace …

ORIGINATOR OF THE FAMOUS EARLY ‘60S HAMBURG SOUND AND TEACHER OF THE BEATLES
1‐CD with 36 page booklet, 29 tracks. Total playing time approx. 78 min. Tony Sheridan was second only to Bill Haley in catalysing the German Rock & Roll scene. Sheridan was a prime force during the legendary Star …

LEGENDARY COUNTRY SINGER’S COMPLETE SECULAR RECORDINGS INCL. 14 PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED MASTERS
2‐CD (Digisleeve, 6‐plated), 52‐page booklet, 67 tracks. Total playing time approx. 155 min.Bill Carter was born in 1929 in Eagleton, Arkansas, moved with his family to Oklahoma in 1937 and six years later to Indio, California. His family encouraged the teenager’s interest …

Deep in the Berkshire suburbia lives a man named Mordecai Smyth. He was the first artist to sign to the independent record label Mega Dodo back in 2011. That year saw the release of the pop-psych album, “Sticky Tape and Rust” and the single, “Georgina Jones”. In 2017, Mordecai released a more progressive …

Boney And The Shakers stand for female‐fronted acoustic Rockabilly combined with classic Rock’n’Roll, Country and Folk, delivered in an exciting and uniquely cool way! The acoustic‐trio evolved around the unmistakable and powerful voice of incredible frontwoman and stand up drummer Boney Shaker. She unbelievably never sang in a band before …

3rd CD album from this busy UK band. Both previous CDs have done well. They’ve also previously released a vinyl 7” EP and a vinyl 10” on Western Star.

1. Betty & The Page Boys
2. Stand In Line
3. Doomtown Mannequin
4. Ghost Of Love
5. Barberella
6. My Perfection
7. I Can’t Stand Being Alone
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Short, sweet and exactly as they used to make ’em, ‘Hits To Spare’ does exactly what it says on the cover. A collection of simple, uplifting pop songs with a positive message is exactly what Glaswegian multi-instrumentalist Joe Kane, working as The Poppermost, accomplishes on this FAB debut record. The Poppermost exist to …

Four complete albums originally released between 2010 and 2014 by Boston singersongwriter Andy Pratt of “Avenging Annie” fame – one of the most ambitious singles of the 1970s – the decade that introduced the world to Pratt’s gloriously ambitious brand of sweet pop music. By 1976, he had Rolling Stone magazine boldly claim …

Storming from the streets of Los Angeles, Vis Vires is a new Street Rocknroll/OI! band featuring members of The Templars, Hardknocks & Bovver Wonderland. They already have one album and a few EPs under their belt and UK label Mob Clash, teaming up with Portuguese label Back to Front corelease …

Bube Dame König, recent winner of the German Folk Music Award, explore the fantastic dream worlds of folklore, this time travelling by water. “Von der Quelle bis zur See” (From source to sea), the trio’s fourth album, brings together thirteen lovingly arranged and lavishly produced songs – including surprising versions of almost …

As the first artist signed to Boardwalk Records owned by Neil Bogart, with Bob Gaudio (Four Seasons) producing, he recorded “I Want You, I Need You,” which peaked at No. 37 on the Billboard Hot 100 in November 1981 and reached the No. 8 on Billboard Adult Contemporary Chart. “I Want You, …

Five years after the release of her last album “Painted Fire”, the “Faroese folk fairy” Guðrið Hansdóttir returns with her new longplayer “Gult Myrkur” (Yellow Darkness). Emotional and very personal: Guðrið, who has been going her own way as a musician for more than 20 years, convinces here again with her warm, …

A powerfully expressive voice, deep-rooted kantele and invenve percussion: fleet-fingered virtuoso and one-woman band Maija Kauhanen specialises in Finnish kantele. Weaving together polyrhythms and organic beats, she creates unique soundscapes and compelling grooves.

One of the most internaonally successful folk musicians from Finland, Maija Kauhanen, releases her second solo album Menneet (The Past). On …

Unusual new sounds from the Republic of Altai! New Asia, the ensemble around singer and instrumentalist Dobrynya Satin, comes from southwestern Siberia. The region borders Kazakhstan, China and Mongolia. A land of ice-cold rivers, snow-covered peaks and barren steppes, as New Asia describe their homeland. The music of the region is characterised …

“Basma”, the second album by the Serbian folk collective Vartra, deliberately looks far back into the past: the band draws inspiration from ancient South Slavic healing rituals and invokes folk traditions from Bosnia-Herzegovina and Serbia. The lyrics are based on traditional customs from these regions and place a special emphasis on incantations …