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07.12.12 Music Week 41


INCOMING REISSUES / CATALOGUE ALBUMS


JUDY COLLINS • Send In The Clowns - The Collection (Rhino 8122797277)


From a classical background, Collins first became known as a folk singer but


her eclectic and esoteric recordings go far beyond that. Side-stepping the obvious Amazing Grace, this new 20-song compilation, which draws heavily on her 1970s repertoire, does include her two other bona fide hits - Stephen Sondheim’s Send In The Clowns and Joni Mitchell’s Both Sides Now, which even Mitchell believes to be the definitive version. Collins also turns in an exquisite version of Leaonard Cohen’s Famous Blue Raincoat, and brings Gordon Lightfoot’s Early Morning Rain to life. Lennon/McCartney, Pete Seeger and Collins herself also provide key tracks but perhaps the most moving and unexpected is her version of Liverpool Lullaby, Stan


Kelly’s mesmerising Merseyside lament, which is best-known in a version by Cilla Black. Collins makes no compromises with Liverpool dialect, singing of a”mucky kid, dirty as a dustbin lid’, who will ‘gerra belt from your dad’. Boozers, buggers and Littlewoods are negotiated with ease, though Knotty Ash is accidentally recast as Notting Ash.


VARIOUS • 70s –The Collection / 80s / 90s / R&B / Classic Rock/ Soul (Rhino 5310547125 / 5310547135 / 5310547145 / 5310547155 / 5310547165 / 5310547175)


The first in a new series of compilations from Rhino, each of the above are 60-


track, triple CD sets, packaged in cardboard triptychs and priced at around £5. At this price point, it’s primarily material owned or administered by Warner, so if you come to this expecting Motown or EMI artists to put in an appearance,


forget it. Oddly enough, this – and the fact that only a couple of albums have more than one track per artist– means that some less overused tracks put in an appearance, including LeBlanc & Carr’s Falling (70s), The Grateful Dead’s Touch Of Grey (80s) and Tevin Campbell’s I’m Ready (R&B). Fewer than 20 tracks are duplicated across the titles, and the versions used seem to be correct - apart from Christopher Cross ‘s Ride Like The Wind, which, on the 80s album, is a tacky, danced-up version of the song which probably originates from a later remix.


VARIOUS •1961 British Hit Parade: Britain’s Greatest Hits Volume 10 - The B Sides Part 1: January-April / Part 2: April- September / Part 3 September- December (Acrobat ACQCD 7040, 7041, 7042)


Acrobat has released exhaustive


anthologised sets featuring the hits of every year from the singles chart’s inception in 1952 to 1961 but puts a novel and brilliant twist on the concept here with each and every B-side of the hits of 1961, divided into three four-CD sets sequenced in chronological order - something that can only be done because the recordings have fallen out of copyright. Providing a fascinating alternative view of the year in music, it also includes a fair few duds but, bearing in mind that B-sides were there only to fill the space on the other side of the hits, overall the songs are of a remarkably high standard. Part 1 of this set, for example, houses Brenda Lee’s terrific Rock-A-Bye Baby Blues (B-side of Let’s Jump The Broomstick), Nat King Cole’s classy The Very Thought Of You and The Shirelles’ Boys. Many tracks here are making their CD debuts, and each is fully annotated in the 32-page booklets which accompany each release. 1962 follows in January.


TIR NA NOG • A Tear And A Smile / Strong In The Sun / Tír na nÓg (Eclectic ECLEC 2350, ECLEC2351, ECLEC 2357)


Named after the mythical world from Irish legend, the duo of the same name was


a progressive folk act based in Dublin. They cut a trio of critically acclaimed but commercially unsuccessful albums for Chrysalis between 1971 and 1973, which re- emerge newly remastered and expanded by Esoteric, with new liner notes and restored artwork. Generally occupying the middle ground between folk and progressive rock, with an Irish twist, Tír na nÓg were nevertheless not quite commercial enough to stay the course – though, ironically, their last album Strong In The Sun is more cohesive and mainstream, with a tight production from Procol Harum’s Matthew Fisher, and some perfectly honed atmospheric gems.


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