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För att fira 50-årsjubileumet sedan Simon & Garfunkel skivdebuterade släpps denna box innehållande alla 11 album som släppts på Columbia Records. Boxen innehåller 12 CD i vinyl replicas samt en fin 48-sidig bok. Albumen som ingår är: Wednesday Morning, 3.A.M., Sounds Of<br/>Silence, Parsley, Sage, Rosemary & Thyme, The Graduate (soundtrack), Bookends, Bridge Over Trouble Water, Simon and Garfunkel's Greatest Hits, The Concert in Central Park, Old Friends Live On Stage, Live From New York City 1967, Live 1969.

Remastered 1973 David Bowie Mix and Remastered 1997 Iggy Pop Mix + 16-page full colour booklet.

"Ruins" är First Aid Kits fjärde studioalbum och det andra via Sony Music/Columbia Records. Plattan är producerad av Tucker Martine (My Morning Jacket, Laura Veirs), och inspelat i Portland, Oregon där duon samarbetade med och Wilco's Glenn Kotche, och Midlake's McKenzie Smith samt gästades av REM's Peter Buck. <br/><br/>Ruins är uppföljaren till albumet Stay Gold, som släpptes 2014 och som med besked satte First Aid Kit på den musikaliska världskartan. På Internationella kvinnodagen den 8 mars kom singeln "You Are The Problem Here." som är ett rasande ställningstagande mot våldtäktskulturen och där en del av intäkterna går direkt till Women for Women International.

Disc One of Travelin' Thru, 1967 - 1969: The Bootleg Series Vol. 15 finds Dylan in Columbia's Studio A in Nashville recording alternate versions of compositions written for John Wesley Harding (October 17 and November 6, 1967) and Nashville Skyline (February 13-14, 1969) while introducing a new song "Western Road" (a Nashville Skyline outtake). <br/><br/>Discs Two and Three of Travelin' Thru are centered around Dylan's collaborations with American music icon Johnny Cash including the much sought-after Columbia Studio A sessions and on-stage performances at the Ryman Auditorium (May 1, 1969) for the recording of the premiere episode of The Johnny Cash Show (originally broadcast on ABC-TV on June 7, 1969).<br/><br/>Disc Three closes with tracks recorded on May 17, 1970 with Grammy Award-winning bluegrass banjo legend Earl Scruggs for the PBS television special, "Earl Scruggs: His Family and Friends" (originally aired January 1971).<br/><br/>1967 saw a profound and surprising transformation in Bob Dylan's musical evolution. With contemporary pop culture becoming increasingly baroque, surreal and psychedelic in the wake of Dylan's 1965-66 cutting edge trilogy, Bringing It All Back Home/Highway 61 Revisited/Blonde On Blonde, the artist withdrew from public view following a motorcycle accident in July 1966. He'd recorded Blonde On Blonde with a full-band in Nashville in February 1966 but, when it came time to record its follow-up in the fall of 1967, he opted for a simple trio--Dylan (guitar, vocals, harmonica), Charlie McCoy (bass) and Kenneth Buttrey (drums)--to create a sublime minimal sound. <br/><br/>In his liner notes for Travelin' Thru, Colin Escott writes, "Talking to journalist Matt Damsker about the sound of John Wesley Harding, Dylan said, 'I didn't know how to record the way other people were recording, and I didn't want to... I just didn't think all that production was necessary.' He also went for lyrical economy. 'What I'm trying to do now is not use too many words,' he said. 'There's no line you can stick your finger through. There's no blank filler.'"<br/><br/>Dylan returned to Columbia Studio A in February 1969 to work on Nashville Skyline. <br/>"Bob asked me to be a guest on the album," Johnny Cash said later, "and I went to the studio and they just turned on the recorder for about two hours." Columbia Studio A hosted two Dylan-Cash sessions: February 17 and 18, 1969 with a band that included rock 'n' roll pioneer Carl Perkins playing guitar on six tracks (including his own composition, "Matchbox"). One of the more intriguing sonic discoveries on Travelin' Thru is "Don't Think Twice, It's Alright/Understand Your Man," as two singular singer/songwriters pay mutual compositional and vocal tribute to each other.<br/><br/>The full-day Dylan-Cash duet session included the first known version of "Wanted Man" and the only version of the song ever sung by Dylan. The following week, Cash made it the opening song at his San Quentin concert. The session provides insight into the shared sensibilities of Dylan and Cash through a variety of covers including two Jimmie Rodgers medleys.<br/><br/>When The Johnny Cash Show was scheduled to debut in June 1969, the host offered Bob Dylan a guest slot on the first show. In the days before and after The Johnny Cash Show taping, Dylan was working on the album that emerged more than a year later as Self Portrait. For the May 3 Self Portrait session, guitarist Fred Carter was brought in to augment Dylan's usual Nashville band. The "Folsom Prison Blues" and "Ring of Fire" recorded that day are available for the first time on Travelin' Thru.<br/><br/>Although only one duet with Johnny Cash ("Girl from the North Country") appears on Dylan's original Nashville Skyline album, Cash penned the album's Grammy Award-winning liner notes. A month after Nashville Skyline was released, Dylan made his first live TV appearance in five years on The Johnny Cash Show; that performance is also included here.

180 gram vinyl.

Hendrix Jimi: Jimi Hendrix Experience 1966-70 [4 CD]

150 gram vinyl.<br/><br/>Bruce Springsteens första nya studioalbum på fem år tar hans musik till en ny plats och hämtar inspiration från södra Kaliforniens popskivor från det sena 60-talet och tidiga 70-talet. <br/>Albumet spelades till större del in i Springsteens hemmastudio i New Jersey, med ytterligare inspelning i Kalifornien och New York. Detta är Springsteens 19:e studioalbum. <br/><br/>"This record is a return to my solo recordings featuring character driven songs and sweeping, cinematic orchestral arrangements," säger Springsteen. "It's a jewel box of a record."<br/><br/>De 13 låtarna på "Western Stars" omfattar ett brett spektrum av amerikanska teman - motorvägar och ökenområden, isolering och samhälle samt beständigheten av hem och hopp.<br/><br/>Ron Aniello har producerat albumet tillsammans med Springsteen och han spelar även bas, keyboard och andra instrument. Även Patti Scialfa medverkar på albumet och bidrar med röstarrangemang på fyra stycken spår. De musikaliska arrangemangen inkluderar strängar, blåsinstrument och bidrag från över 20 andra musiker, låtskrivaren och kompositören Jon Brion, samt gästspel från David Sancious, Charlie Giordano och Soozie Tyrell. Albumet har mixats av den flerfaldigt Grammy-belönade Tom Elmhirst.