your face is “Black Queen.” As a casual CSNY fan, I had not heard this one before, with it’s Cream-like beat and scorching guitar and heart-pounding drums. A serious rocker, fel- low babies. Whether they were playing elec- tric or acoustic, the super-group that was Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young always delivered the goods with unequalled harmonies and tight musicianship. This document is nothing less than a time capsule from 1974, including a bonus DVD of the band and a very nice (and huge) liner notes/photo book. Good
stuff...The current Holy Grail for Dylan fans is the elaborate box set The Basement Tapes Complete: The Bootleg Series Vol. 11. Six discs, 136 tracks, everything Bob Dylan laid down on magnetic tape with The Band dur- ing the now historic 1967 recording sessions. Everything is here, from raw rehearsals, trial runs and fin- ished record- ings. The quality depends on the source material for each song. Some of the tapes were in
worse shape than others. We are lucky indeed that some of the tracks have survived at all. Recorded in the basement of The Band’s
house “Big Pink” while Dylan was healing from injuries sustained in a motorcycle acci- dent, he joined Robbie Robertson, Rick Danko, Richard Manuel, Garth Hudson and Levon Helm to record reel upon reel of music, everything from traditional tunes to off-the- cuff jams to brand newly penned Dylan songs that would become classics, songs like “I Shall Be Released,” and “You Ain’t Goin’ Nowhere.” The Basement Tapes may well have been the first ever bootleg recordings, as some of the recordings leaked into the public. For many
years, they were only available as bootlegs, then in 1975 Columbia released the album The Basement Tapes featuring 16 of the tracks. Many of the tracks were bootlegged in various collections, but this is the first time that every salvageable track has been assem- bled into one amazing set with the most beau- tiful packaging of any boxed set I’ve seen recently. Garth Hudson worked with Cana- dian music archivist Jan Haust to restore the deteriorating tapes to the best possible sound. Never before heard tracks like “Johny Todd” are so good they would have been hits back in the day. The songs are presented chronologi- cally, so the first part of the collection sounds a bit unsure, but that feeling fades fast as the artists begin to work like a well oiled ma- chine. Also included is a hard-bound 120 page
book filled to the edges with photos, liner notes and memorabilia. Sit back and relax. It’s going to be six and a half hours of time- less music....Pink Floyd is back. Well, as back as they can possibly be, with The End- less River. David Gilmour and Nick Mason began with some unreleased keyboard per- formances by Richard Wright (who died in 2008) from the 1993 Divi- sion Bell sessions. They then built upon this founda- tion to create a se- ries of new songs, adding in a few brand new recordings to create The Endless River, a Pink Floyd record for the 21st cen- tury. The Endless River includes all of the musical elements you would expect from Floyd: haunting keyboards, jazz-tinged drums, ethereal vocals, and the unmistakable lead guitar of Gilmour. A pure joy for Floyd fans world
wide...Stevie Nicks has always had the ability to write great songs, and on
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