Concord Releases Details on Stax 50 Set
Stax 50: A 50th Anniversary Celebration will hit the stores on March 13th via the new Stax imprint on the Concord label.
The set will be in a hardcover box with the famous Stax snapping fingers on the cover. Inside are two-CDs with extensive liner notes. The track lineup:
Carla Thomas – Gee Whiz (Look at His Eyes)- Mar-Keys – Last Night
- William Bell – You Don't Miss Your Water
- Booker T. & the MGs – Green Onions
- Rufus Thomas – Walking the Dog
- Otis Redding – I've Been Loving You Too Long (To Stop Now)
- Astors – Candy
- Otis Redding – Respect
- Sam & Dave – You Don't Know Like I Know
- Mad Lads – I Want Someone
- Sam & Dave – Hold On I'm Comin’
- Carla Thomas – Let Me Be Good To You
- Mable John – Your Good Thing (Is About To End)
- Eddie Floyd – Knock on Wood
- Carla Thomas – B-A-B-Y
- Otis & Carla – Tramp
- Bar-Keys – Soul Finger
- Albert King – Born Under a Bad Sign
- Sam & Dave – Soul Man
- Otis Redding – (Sittin' on) The Dock of the Bay
- Ollie & the Nightingales – I Got a Sure Thing
- Booker T. & the MGs – Soul Limbo
- Eddie Floyd – I've Never Found a Girl (To Love Me Like You Do)
- Linda Lyndell – What a Man
- William Bell & Judy Clay – Private Number
- Johnnie Taylor – Who's Making Love
- William Bell – I Forgot To Be Your Lover
- Carla Thomas – I Like What You're Doing (To Me)
- Booker T. & the MGs – Time Is Tight
- Emotions – So I Can Love You
- Isaac Hayes – Walk on By
- Rufus Thomas – Do the Funky Chicken
- Johnnie Taylor – Jody's Got Your Girl and Gone
- Jean Knight – Mr. Big Stuff
- Isaac Hayes – Never Can Say Goodbye
- Dramatics – Whatcha See Is Whatcha Get
- Staple Singers – Respect Yourself
- Isaac Hayes – Theme From Shaft
- Bar-Kays – Son of Shaft
- Little Milton – That's What Love Will Make You Do
- Frederick Knight – I've Been Lonely for So Long
- Soul Children – Hearsay
- Dramatics – In the Rain
- Staple Singers – I’ll Take You There
- Mel & Tim – Starting All Over Again
- Temprees – Dedicated to the One I Love
- Staple Singers – If You’re Ready (Come Go With Me)
- Johnnie Taylor – Cheaper To Keep Her
- Soul Children – I'll Be the Other Woman
- Shirley Brown – Woman to Woman
Apple Inc. vs. Apple Corp. The latest rumor has Apple announcing the acquisition of the digital rights to the Beatles catalog with an ad during the Super Bowl (oops, I don't think I'm supposed to say SUPER BOWL unless I pay the rights for the name so just pretend I said "ad during the Big Game").
Celine Dion will be ending her run at Caesars Palace next February and there is already talk that Bette Midler and/or Cher will be taking over the room. Dion is already sharing the theater with Elton John who is signed on through 2008.
Stevie Nicks has announced a couple of dates in what will hopefully be a longer tour for 2007. Right now, the only confirmed dates are:- 2/4 - Super Bowl Pre-Game Show
- 2/6 - Hard Rock Cafe - Hollywood, FL
- 2/9 - Ford Amphitheatre - Tampa, FL
- 3/20, 21, 23 & 24 - Caesars Palace - Las Vegas, NV
Texas is the new battleground in the effort to ban impostor groups from performing. Ex-Supreme Mary Wilson spoke to Texas lawmakers on Tuesday urging them to move forward with the Music Truth in Advertising legislation. Wilson said, "I'm 62 and some of those artists are at least 70 and 80 years old and they're very fast passing away. The unfortunate part about this is that their names, their group was so famous still they're passing away without their legacies belonging to them."
Of course, after last night's inauguration celebration for Governor Rick Perry, a lot of legislators may not care to discuss music in any form. The final performer of the night, Ted Nugent, came on stage in a cutoff T-Shirt carrying the Confederate flag and used machine guns as props. He also made offensive comments about non-English speaking immigrants. Many in the black-tie crowd were none-too-pleased.
Two-months after her death, a memorial service is being planned for R&B great Ruth Brown. The service will be at Abbysinian Baptist Church in New York on January 22nd and will include Little Jimmy Scott, Chuck Jackson and Mabel John.
A massive 656-page biography of Clash guitarist Joe Strummer will hit the shelves this May. Redemption Song: The Ballad of Joe Strummer is written by Chris Salewicz who was instrumental in covering the Clash and the English punk movement and was also good friends with Strummer. Strummer died in 2002 at the age of 50.
More from the rumor mill. Actress Kirsten Dunst has told a New Zealand website that she is in talks to work again with director Michel Gondry to play a "well-known singer." It is known that Gondry is interested in making a biopic on Blondie, so could Dunst be tapped to play Debbie Harry?
Producer Colin Thurston, who was responsible for Duran Duran's first two albums (Duran Duran & Rio) has passed away. Thurston was also an engineer and worked on David Bowie's Heroes, Iggy Pop's Lust for Life and the Human League's first two LPs, among many others.
Who knew? Doug Morris is CEO of Universal Music Group and one of the most powerful people in the music business. He was principal in getting Yahoo! to pay royalties for playing Universal artist videos and is now going after YouTube and MySpace, but in his younger days, he was a songwriter. Morris composed Are You a Boy or Are You a Girl (recorded by the Dogs and the Bourbons), Stop, Look, Listen (Chifons) and, his biggest hit Sweet Talkin' Guy (also the Chifons).
Notable Links:
Lou Christie from the Reading Eagle.
Robyn Hitchcock at JamBase.
David Bromberg from the Chicago Tribune's MetroMix.
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