Small Faces - The Decca Years ft. B-sides, outtakes, sessions, interviews and hits

SMALL FACES 1965 - 1967 THE DECCA YEARS 9TH OCTOBER 2015

5-CD COLLECTION FT. B-SIDES, RARITIES & OUTTAKES

In celebration of the 50th anniversary of their debut release comes this stunning 5-CD boxed set which brings together, for the first time, everything that the Small Faces recorded for Decca during their 18-month record deal with the label, along with the last remaining recording sessions that the group made for the BBC during the same period. For this project, hitherto ‘lost’ tapes have been unearthed from the Decca archives and BBC material, long thought lost and not heard since first broadcast, have been found. This includes a great Steve Marriott interview with Brian Matthew, which has not been officially heard in the UK since it was made by the BBC Transcription Services for transmission overseas. In total, 5 BBC interviews with Steve Marriott are featured. All of the audio, including the rarities and alternative versions, has been carefully remastered from original analogue sources under the close supervision of Small Faces’ last remaining member Kenney Jones. Housed in a rigid, deluxe, lift-off lid box set, the 5CDs come complete with a 72-page booklet, which includes interesting and insightful liner notes by respected music journalist and Small Faces aficionado, Mark Paytress. The notes track the group’s eventful and prolific 18-month tenure with their charismatic manager, renowned music impresario Don Arden, and Decca Records and their subsequent split from both to join Andrew Loog Oldham and Immediate Records. All is amply illustrated by fascinating press cuttings and photographs from the time. Small Faces were the quintessential 1960s mod band. Fronted by the charismatic Steve Marriott, perhaps Britain’s most soulful white vocalist ever, the band dominated the second half of the 1960s. Marriott, together with bassist Ronnie Lane, Drummer Kenney Jones and Hammond-player, Ian McLagan (who replaced original keyboard player Jimmy Winston early on) created an impressive body of work, evolving from high octane mod-soul and beat-pop in the earlier days into a more sophisticated blend of rock and psychedelia. Their influence casts a wide net, with their legacy still heard in more recent times from such artists as Paul Weller, Blur, Oasis, Ocean Colour Scene and countless others. The music, which included many memorable chart hits (What’Cha Gonna Do About It, Sha La La La Lee, All Or Nothing plus many more) continues to resonate and appeal to a whole new generation of music-lovers. CD 1 GREATEST HITS: Worldwide singles As, Bs & EPs 1. What'Cha Gonna Do About It 2. What's A Matter Baby 3. I've Got Mine 4. It's Too Late 5. Sha La La La Lee 6. Grow Your Own 7. Hey Girl 8. Almost Grown 9. All Or Nothing 10. Understanding 11. My Mind's Eye 12. I Can't Dance With You 13. I Can't Make It 14. Just Passing 15. Patterns 16. E Too D 17. Don't Stop What You're Doing 18. Come On Children 19. Shake 20. One Night Stand 21. You Need Loving CD 2 SMALL FACES Original UK LP Decca LK 4790 Released 6 May 1966 UK chart position: no.3 1. Shake 2. Come On Children 3. You Better Believe It 4. It's Too Late 5. One Night Stand 6. What'Cha Gonna Do About It 7. Sorry She's Mine 8. Own Up Time 9. You Need Loving 10. Don't Stop What You're Doing 11. E Too D 12. Sha La La La Lee CD 3 FROM THE BEGINNING Original UK LP Decca LK 4879 Released 2 June 1967 UK chart position: no.17 1. Runaway 2. My Mind's Eye 3. Yesterday, Today And Tomorrow 4. That Man 5. My Way Of Giving 6. Hey Girl 7. (Tell Me) Have You Ever Seen Me 8. Take This Hurt Off Me 9. All Or Nothing 10. Baby Don't You Do It 11. Plum Nellie 12. Sha La La La Lee 13. You've Really Got A Hold On Me 14. What'Cha Gonna Do About It CD 4 RARITIES & OUTTAKES 1. Come On Children (alternate version) 2. Shake (alternate version) 3. You Better Believe It (alternate version) 4. Own Up Time (alternate version) 5. E Too D (alternate version) 6. Don't Stop What You're Doing (alternate version) 7. What's A Matter Baby (alternate mix) 8. What'Cha Gonna Do About It (alternate version) 9. Sha La La La Lee (stereo version) 10. Runaway (alternate mix) (stereo) 11. That Man (alternate mix) 12. Yesterday, Today And Tomorrow (alternate mix) 13. Picanniny (backing track) 14. Hey Girl (alternate version) 15. Take This Hurt Off Me (different version) 16. Baby Don't You Do It (different version) 17. My Mind’s Eye (early version) (mono) 18. Talk To You (take 5 backing track) 19. All Our Yesterdays (take 7 backing track) 20. (Tell Me) Have You Ever Seen Me (alternate take 2) 21. Show Me The Way (take 3 backing track) 22. I Can't Make It (take 11 backing track) 23. Things Are Going To Get Better (take 14 session version) CD 5 BBC SESSIONS BBC Studios - Saturday Club - 23-Aug-65 1. Interview with Steve Marriott 2. What’cha Gonna Do About It (BBC Session version) 3. Jump Back (BBC Session version) 4. Baby Don’t You Do It (BBC Session version) BBC Studios - Joe Loss Pop Show - 14-Jan-66 5. Sha La La La Lee (BBC Session version) 6. What’cha Gonna Do About It (BBC Session version) 7. Comin' Home Baby (BBC Session version) 8. You Need Loving (BBC Session version) 9. Steve Marriot Pop Profile Interview BBC Studios - Saturday Club - 14-Mar-66 10. Shake (BBC Session version 11. Interview with Steve Marriott 12. Sha La La La Lee (BBC Session version) 13. You Need Loving (BBC Session version) BBC Studios - Saturday Club - 3-May-66 14. Interview with Steve Marriott 15. Hey Girl (BBC Session version) 16. E to D (BBC Session version) 17. One Night Stand (BBC Session version) BBC Studios - Saturday Club 3-Aug-66 18. You’d Better Believe It (BBC Session version) 19. Understanding (BBC Session version) 20. Interview with Steve Marriott 21. All Or Nothing (BBC Session version) Buy the collection HERE

Joey Flip and Aurora - Release - New Release Review

I just received the newest release, Release, from Joey Flip and Aurora and it's different. Opening with Not For Me, an easy jazz track, Aurora sings lively over Flip's guitar with bass, drum and piano accompaniment. Switching to a more blues rock tempo, on I Can Tell, Flip takes the lead on vocal and also brings his guitar to the forefront. Aurora joins on vocal, deep into the track and Flip throws down some more aggressive riffs. On Latin infused, Esta Noche, Aurora and Flip really seem to hit on all cylinders with some of the best vocals on the track as well as some cool Spanish guitar work. Slow blues track, Mess Around, is up next and Flip gives his fretboard a hard workout complimented by Aurora on vocals and keys. Quiet ballad, This Little Thing, has a nice melody and a radio format making it the most practical radio play track for the release. Rain, an experimental instrumental track with a bluesy base is my favorite on the release with a solid foundation of bass and drums and Flip creating a bit of a soundscape with his guitar. Very interesting. Blues track, 6 Feet Underground, feels a lot like an early Dylan track with basic drum and key backing Flip on guitar and vocal. Don't Come Around has a really stripped city feel but with an almost spiritual vocal backing. Flip pushes the envelope for me and that's good. Haunting. Whipping Post really captures the feel of some early blues men with ragged vocals, resonator slide guitar and rudimentary percussion. 4th Street Alley has conventional blues/rock construction and Flip sings, plays acoustic rhythm and solos on electric. Basic drum rhythm and bass work give the track more texture leading up to some synthesized vocals and a wide open James Gurley like solo for a hot conclusion.

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Willis Earl Beal announces new album | XL Records / Tender Loving Empire

Willis Earl Beal announces new album, Noctunes, shares "Flying So Low" Album due Aug. 28 via Tender Loving Empire STREAM: "Flying So Low"  SoundCloud / Pitchfork  Willis Earl Beal was born on the South Side of Chicago. He would never consider it home. An odd kid, he spent a lot of his youth talking with his grandmother, who would entertain his endless questions about the universe and encourage his love of drawing. He developed an obsession with Batman that would last well into his teenage years, when he enlisted in the U.S. Army as a form of vigilante training. Willis Earl Beal died on an army base in Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri. After a rocky TK weeks of boot camp plagued with physical and mental abuse, health complications (which would later require surgery and the removal of large portions of his intestine) forced his discharge. He moved back home. "When that all broke down," Beal says. "I lost a piece of myself." Willis Earl Beal was born in Albuquerque, New Mexico. After a stint of homelessness there, he worked odd jobs and rented a studio apartment. Though he'd never learned to play any instruments, he began to record raw, lo-fi albums with hand-drawn covers that he'd leave at coffee shops around town alongside flyers seeking a girlfriend with his phone number written on them. Those artifacts would eventually find their way to the cover of Found magazine, then to Jamie-James Medina at XL Recordings. Beal signed with XL's Hot Charity imprint in 2012. Willis Earl Beal died in New York City. Despite the release of two critically well-received albums on XL-Acousmatic Sorcery, a collection of his early home recordings, and a fully orchestrated studio album he recorded in Amsterdam called Nobody Knows-he was a mess. "I'd drink myself into stupors," he says. "I'd walk around in the daytime, crying, then I'd go downtown. The police would bring me home in the morning." Willis Earl Beal was born on a lake twenty miles outside Olympia, Washington. After ending his contract with XL, Beal went to live in the woods, and began an artistic transformation entirely of his own design, from rough-edged outsider-art provocateur to the kind of mysterious crooner one might expect to haunt the outskirts of Twin Peaks. "People had all these ideas about what I was supposed to be," he says. "I had only ever wanted to make lullabies." Beal's development played out over two self-released EPs and a full-length album, and then Beal built the patient, ambient-leaning Noctunes. The album's twelve songs are moving and meditative, thoroughly soaked with mournful synth strings and simple lyricism that Beal says is intentionally minimalistic. "I wanted to create this persona that could say everything perfectly with very little," Beal says. "The record, to me, is a perfect record. I listen to that thing a lot, and it helps me." Willis Earl Beal has yet to be born. Critics and publicists defined him before he'd had a chance to define himself. Their expectations were inextricably linked with race and gender, two concepts Beal thoroughly rejects. Now, two extremely productive years removed from the spotlight, Beal doesn't feel pressure to define himself against anything. His new music is shockingly original, utterly confident, and as ephemeral as Beal himself. He levitates above definition, concerned only with self-discovery and truth-seeking. "I know it sounds falsely altruistic," he says. "But I think a simple voice like mine can serve as an example of some kind of freedom." (Photo by Rodrigo Melgarejo)

Noctunes  (Tender Loving Empire) Street Date: Aug. 28, 2015  Pre-order it here Tracklist: 1. Under You 2. Flying So Low 3. Like a Box 4. Lust 5. No Solution 6. Stay 7. Say The Words 8. Love Is All Around 9. Able To Wait 10. Survive 11. Start Over 12. 12 Midnight

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Lynyrd Skynyrd re-issue 6 albums on 180g vinyl / promo CDs and hi-def audio available

With signature tunes like Sweet Home Alabama and Freebird, endless jams on stage, defiant Southern image and rock ‘n’ roll swagger, Lynyrd Skynyrd is best known for popularizing the southern hard-rock genre during the 1970s. At the peak of their success however, three members including Ronnie Van Zant, the founding member, lead vocalist and main songwriter, died in an airplane crash in 1977, putting an abrupt end to the band's most popular incarnation.

Now available on 180 gram heavyweight audiophile vinyl are all of Lynyrd Skynyrd’s live and studio albums released between 1973 and 1977, with exact reproductions of original artwork, including (Pronounced 'Lĕh-'nérd 'Skin-'nérd), Second Helping, Nuthin' Fancy, Gimme Back My Bullets, One More From The Road, Street Survivors.

Upfront of the vinyl reissues comes Southern Surroundings in High Definition Audio, featuring eleven classic songs including the ten-minute extended version of Free Bird plus Sweet Home Alabama live from The Fox Theatre in 1976.

Tracklists:

(Pronounced 'Lĕh-'nérd 'Skin-'nérd)

Side one

I Ain't the One
Tuesday's Gone
Gimme Three Steps
Simple Man

Side two

Things Goin' On
Mississippi Kid
Poison Whiskey
Free Bird

Second Helping
Side one

Sweet Home Alabama
I Need You
Don't Ask Me No Questions
Workin' for MCA

Side two

The Ballad of Curtis Loew
Swamp Music
The Needle and the Spoon
Call Me the Breeze

Nuthin' Fancy 

Side one

Saturday Night Special
Cheatin' Woman
Railroad Song
I'm a Country Boy

Side two

On the Hunt
Am I Losin'
Made in the Shade
Whiskey Rock-A-Roller

Gimme Back My Bullets

Side one

Gimme Back My Bullets
Every Mother's Son
Trust
I Got the Same Old Blues

Side two

Double Trouble
Roll Gypsy Roll
Searching
Cry for the Bad Man
All I Can Do Is Write About It

One More From The Road

Side one

Workin' For MCA
I Ain't The One
Searching
Tuesday's Gone

Side two

Saturday Night Special
Travellin' Man
Whiskey Rock-A-Roller
Sweet Home Alabama

Side three

Gimme Three Steps
Call Me The Breeze
T For Texas

Side four

The Needle And The Spoon
Crossroads
Free Bird

Street Survivors

Side one

What's Your Name
That Smell
One More Time
I Know a Little

Side two

You Got That Right
I Never Dreamed
Honky Tonk Night Time Man
Ain't No Good Life