No Depression’s Top Twenty Reissues 2006

1 Johnny Cash—Personal File—Columbia/Legacy

2 Willie Nelson—The Complete Atlantic Sessions—Rhino

3 Waylon Jennings—Nashville Rebel—RCA

4 Richard Thompson—RT: The Life and Music of Richard Thompson—Free Reed

5 Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys—Legends of Country Music—Columbia/Legacy

6 Various Artists—What It Is! Funky Soul and Rare Grooves 1967–1977—Rhino

7 James Talley—Got No Bread, No Milk, No Money, But We Sure Got a Lot of Love—Cimarron

8 Johnny Cash—At San Quentin—Columbia/Legacy

9 Gram Parsons—The Complete Reprise Sessions—Rhino

10 Bettye Lavette—Child of the Seventies—Rhino Handmade

11 Various Artists—Rockin’ Bones: 1950s Punk and Rockabilly—Rhino

12 Karen Dalton—In My Own Time—Light In the Attic

13 Tony Joe White—Swamp Music: Complete Monument Recordings—Rhino Handmade

14 Lucinda Williams—Car Wheels on a Gravel Road—Mercury

15 Various Artists—Heartworn Highways—Shout Factory!

16 Michael Viner’s Incredible Bongo Band—Bongo Rock—Mr. Bongo

17 Various Artists—Good God! A Gospel, Funk Hymnal—Numero Group

18 R.E.M.—And I Feel Fine: Best of the IRS Years 1982–1987—IRS

19 Spencer Wiggins—The Goldwax Years—Kent

20 The Byrds—There Is a Season—Columbia/Legacy

Ike Yard-1980–82 Collected (Acute Records)

SELF-PROMOTION. It is pretty good, though.

I am shameless.

Manicured Noise-Northern Stories 1978/1980 (Caroline True Records)

hit or miss but even if just for compiling the 2 singles, a personal fave.

The reissues of ZZ Top’s Fandango and Tres Hombres were both well done.

They re-issued Manicured Noise!! How did I miss that!!

Yeah Dan, the Ike Yard is pretty sweet. Will there ever be a Distractions re-issue?

No Depression repping the Incredible Bongo Band!

top marks for the sound on the Cheap Trick All Shook Up re-release!

i enjoyed the Linda Ronstadt “Capitol Years” repackaging of her first 4 albums with a few extras (one would think that would be total no depression-bait)

“Personal File” not a reish blah blah blah.

I was really hoping the second disc of that Lucinda deluxe-edition was gonna be versions from her rejected earlier version(s?) of the album. Just to imagine her spazzin’.

But I’m sure that, contractually, that couldn’t happen.

ND always counts archival stuff as reissues, blah, thread title, blah...

Um, I was really impressed by the fact that there was a Josef K compilation released in the U.S. (Entomology) and hopefully it’s provided a lot of teenybopper Franz Ferdinand fans a taste of the originators of that kind of sound. This year, though, when the Scars finally release that CD remaster of Author! Author! (sometime this month), I think that will pretty much trump everything else released this year, reissue or not.

Who’s putting out the Scars CD?

Regarding the Distractions...far as I can tell, it’s unlikely their LP or mid-period singles on Island will be reissued, however I’m still looking into seeing if something can’t be done everything else, perhaps for Acute’s forthcoming online only series....

dan selzer: The ex-band members themselves are working on the remaster after finally securing the master tape from EMI’s vaults. Steve McLaughlin, who was the drummer at the time the album was recorded and released and has since won a Grammy for helping engineer a Tom Petty album, has done the remastering and it will soon be available for release on Paul Research’s site. BTW, just so you’ll know, the band themselves now have a Wikipedia article. (Self promotion there? Perhaps.)

cool. Heck, even their Fast single may even be available again soon via another outlet.

“Adult/ery”/“Horrorshow”?? Really?? No freaking way. Tell me more, PLEASE.

I’m just sayin’, maybe. Cross your fingers and all that.

someone’s selling an amazing collection of post-punk/DIY type stuff, including a few Scars records:

http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQfgtpZ1QQfrppZ200QQfsooZ1QQfsopZ3QQsassZBarnbrook777

my faves:

Cravats—Land Of The Giants (although it is flawed by that incomplete-for-no-reason problem).

Arthur Russell—First Thought Best Thought. I just keep listening to the Instrumentals disc over and over.

and yeah, Moondog. The Josef K disc is good also.

STILL—UNABLE—TO STOP—LISTENING TO—TOM MOULTON THING ON SOUL JAZZ

HELP

Xposts: Oh, sorry, Roy. Duh. I got back to Seattle on Saturday night; how much longer do I get to use jetlag as an excuse?

No help available on Tom Moulton, Douglas. Nor on Levan Rhino thing, which made me glad even to hear “Once in a Lifetime” (kinda played out for me) again. Not to mention those three or four real percussion-heavy cuts at the end of Disc One.

The Dead Moon 2-CD comp is really fantastic — I’ve never heard of them but for the past two months, it’s my most played album.

John Phillips—John, the Wolf King of LA

Marconi Notaro—No Sub Reino Dos Metazoarios

Jackie DeShannon—Laurel Canyon

Giovani Fusco—Music for Michelangelo Antonioni

N.A.D.M.A.—Paura

v/a—Bulawayo Jazz

Allen Toussaint—Life, Love and Faith

v/a—How Low Can You Go? (granted I’ve only heard disc 1!)

Sandy Bull—Still Valentine’s Day, 1969

Faust V

STILL—UNABLE—TO STOP—LISTENING TO—TOM MOULTON THING ON SOUL JAZZ

I definitely need that. But I’ll play the Walter Gibbons box now to tide me over.

Plus you probably still have one or two records that you haven’t listened to yet from the Tower closeout.

Just a couple.

lest we forget:

John Cale—Paris 1919

Nitzer Ebb—Body Of Work/Body Remixes

Judee Sill—Abracadabra: The Asylum Years

Allen Toussaint—Southern Nights

V/A—Sunday Afternoon at Dingwells

V/A—Northern Soul: The Essential Collection

Michele—Saturn Rings

Saint Etienne—Nice Price

Triffids—Born Sandy Devotional

The House Of Love—Complete John Peel Sessions

East Village—Drop Out 2 CD set

Primitives—Buzz Buzz Buzz

Great thread (and no sweat Rickey; even “archival” is ambiguous for ND: they treated Orphans as a new release, for instance); keep the tips coming. How is the reissue of Paris 1919?

A few more reissues that I really enjoyed from this year:

Various Artists—Hard Workin’ Man: The Jack Nitzsche Story Volume 2—Ace

Big Bill Broonzy – Amsterdam Concerts – Shout Factory!

Millie Jackson – Caught Up—Southbound

Anybody want to take a stab at jazz reissue/archival top 10? Here’s a start:

Charles Mingus at UCLA—Sunnyside

Sonny Stitt—Work Done—Highnote

Donald Byrd—Royal Flush—Blue Note

Dexter Gordon—Gettin Around—Blue Note

Horace Silver Quintet—HoraceScope—Blue Note

Horace Silver Quintet—Silver’s Blues—Epic

And how could we forget:

James Brown - The Federal Years 1955-1960 - Hip-O Select

I love the St Et comp, like finding a box of old family photo’s but everyone’s hair and clothes are slightly different from what you remember.

Big recommendation for the Jake Thackray ‘Jake in a Box’ 4 CD set.

Anyone know if the Steve Reich 5 CD box is worth getting or should I save a bit extra and try to get the 10 CD box which came out a couple of years ago?

It’s an obvious choice, but the 2 disc reissues of the first two Pretenders albums are totally ace.

I’ve been very impressed with Eno/Byrne’s My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts all over again thanks to the reissue.

I hear they reissued Chapterhouse’s “Whirlpool” which is a shame coz I just got it from LaLa. And the Pulp reissues happened this year I think.

Rephlex is reissuing 808 State’s MASSIVELY seminal “Quadrastate” EP and ZTT is reissuing their back catalog. Get psyched, Leo (Leo)!!!!

Anything on Finders Keepers, but especially the amazing Selda and Lubos Fiser’s gorgeous soundtrack to Valerie and Her Week of Wonders.

Not yet mentioned:

Meic Stevens—Rain In The Leaves (Sunbeam)

Anne Briggs—The Complete Topic Recordings (Bo’Weavil)

Heron—Upon Reflection: The Dawn Anthology (Castle)

Emmanuelle Parrenin—Maison Rose (Lion Productions)

Hermine—The World On My Plates (LTM)

Harry Taussig—Fate Is Only Once (Tompkins Square)

Sachiko Kanenobu—Misora (Chapter)

annnnnnnd:

Denim—Back In Denim

Yes indeed.

Count me in for that “fingers crossed” Scars single reissue, please. Throw in some live or session (?) tracks from that time period and wow...now we’re cookin’! I haven’t heard Author! Author! in a long while, but I don’t remember it being nearly as good as previous material.

Yeah, I’m keeping my fingers crossed too. Dan, anytime you’re ready to spill, though hopefully the former band members themselves will make an announcement if/when the time is right so we’ll hear it from the source. And Bimbler, I tell you — first Ultravox, then Japan and now the Scars?? If you like Josef K, Gang Of Four, Spandau Ballet, and Duran Duran as well, I’d be well inclined to offer you a marriage proposal.

Heheh. There definitely seems to be some musical chemistry here. We should definitely keep in touch. I confess I’m not terribly interested in Spandau Ballet or Duran Duran, though, but in the early 80’s Duran were my favourite. How do you feel about New Order? Ah hell, this is the sandbox, gotta keep offa here if I can. Just email me.