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Friday New Releases – November 3, 2023

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Welcome to November and another week of Friday New Releases. As has been the case for weeks now, we have around 70 new releases for you this week. There are some killer ones coming this week, so strut your stuff over to the record store and pick something up. I want to here The Struts new one as well as Dirty Honey as they don’t disappoint. There is a new Jimmy Buffett which was planned before his death so they aren’t capitalizing on that fact. He was an icon for sure. This week there is some Jason Aldean for you country folds and Bad Wolves for you rockers out there. I am sure there is something for everyone. Let me know what you want to hear this week or what we may have missed. Thanks so mcuh for stopping by and I hope you all have a great weekend.

  • The Struts – Pretty Vicious – (Big Machine Label Group)
  • Dirty Honey – Can’t Find the Brakes – (Dirt Records)
  • Jimmy Buffett – Equal Strain On All Parts – (MailBoat Records / Sun Label Group)
  • Van Morrison – Accentuate the Positive – (Exile Productions)
  • Johnny Marr – Spirit Power: The Best of Jonny Marr – (New Voodoo Ltd / BMG Rights Mgmt)
  • Jason Aldean – Highway Desperado – (Macon Music / This is Hit / Broken Bow Records)
  • Toby Keith – 100% Songwriter – (Universal Music)
  • Cody Johnson – Leather- (CoJo Music / Warner Music)
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The Monkees Tour Book – 1967 U.S. & British Tour

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Over the years of my crate digging, I suddenly started finding Concert Tour Books and thought, why not collect those as well. I have found numerous Kiss, Def Leppard, Bon Jovi and others and on one of my more recent digging adventures I found one from The Monkees. It was for their 1967 U.S. Tour and is the oldest Tour Program I have in the collection. As I am a Monkees’ Fan, I figured it needed a good home. It is in fair condition, but someone did feel the need to write on it and name each member on several pages, but that is part of its charm…at least that is what I keep telling myself. Luckily, it was cheap. Still glad to have it.

The Tour Program is for the band’s 1967 US & British Tour which kicked off on June 9, 1967 at the Hollywood Bowl and then saw the band head to England for 5 shows and the back to the states to finish off the Summer with numerous dates across the country. It was the height of Monkeemania which saw them hit 28 cities and a fun, cool fact is the Jimi Hendrix Experience opened for them on a handful of their American tour dates. And Lulu opened for them in England.

The shows would last about 65 minutes or so and the average setlist looked like below…

Last Train to Clarksville
You Just May Be the One
The Girl I Knew Somewhere
I Wanna Be Free
Sunny Girlfriend
Your Auntie Grizelda
Forget That Girl
Sweet Young Thing
Mary, Mary
Cripple Creek  (Peter solo)
You Can’t Judge a Book By the Cover  (Mike solo)
Gonna Build a Mountain  (Davy solo)
I Got a Woman  (Micky solo)
I’m a Believer
Randy Scouse Git
(I’m Not Your) Steppin’ Stone

Oh, man I would’ve loved to have seen them play back in those days…there was a problem as I wasn’t even born yet at the time of these shows. I was still about 18 months out from being born. So, the main reason we are here is to look at the tour book so let us get to that.

After opening the cover, you will see an ad on one side and the band on the other…there is no denying what year this was with those outfits.

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The Monkees – ’50: Classic Album Collection’ – Box Set Review

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The first album I ever bought was off a TV commercial way back in the 70’s. We were watching the TBS channel, but for us it was a local channel as we were from Atlanta. This was before it became a cable channel. TBS was showing re-runs of the TV show The Monkees. I saw that commercial and begged my mom to buy that album as I really, really wanted it. Well, being the fantastic mom she was, she picked up the phone, made a call and the next thing you know I had a copy of that album. It was The Monkees Greatest Hits and I still have that record today (see below).

Fast forward about 46 years later and I’m still a Monkees fan. But I didn’t have any of their other albums in my collection. I was on Amazon and I saw this box set called 50: Classic Album Collection by The Monkees. It had their first 9 albums included as well as a bonus disc of other tracks. I asked Santa for it and guess what was under the tree.

The Box Set came out in 2016 and is celebrating the band’s 50th Anniversary as they started in 1966. It was released on April 16, 2016 and was a Record Store Day special. I missed this because my first Record Store Day wasn’t until 2017 because if I was back in to collecting in 2016, I would’ve bought this then with no questions asked as it was limited to only 3,000 copies. Now, when I asked for this for Christmas, I actually assumed the box set was only the black vinyl, but when I opened it up and pulled out the debut album, it was a colored vinyl, in fact, they all were a different color. Man, what a surprise it was. There was nothing on the label to tell you if you got the standard black or the color…I got lucky I guess.

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Friday New Releases – March 18, 2022

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Happy Friday! Thank goodness the weekend is upon us. And thank goodness we have a ton of releases again this week. I have some I might check out, but nothing I am running out and buying right away…it is stream first, maybe purchase later this week for me. I am sure you will be able to find something to listen to this week even if it is a stream first, but later proposition for you as well. Thanks for stopping by and I hope you all have a wonderful weekend!!

  • 81PDHnsMcYL._AC_UY436_FMwebp_QL65_  Ronnie Atkins – Make it Count – (Frontiers Records)
  • 911SiwLHHDL._AC_UY436_FMwebp_QL65_  Charli XCX – Crash – (Asylum Records / Warner Music)
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Friday New Releases – May 21, 2021

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Happy Friday everyone! We have another great list of new album releases for you. The floodgates are open and albums are coming hot and heavy each week and this week there should be something for you. I have a few I want to hear, but aren’t going crazy to hear them. I have marked those in Blue as usual. What albums do you want to hear this week. Also, let me know what my list does not include because I am just one man and can’t find everything coming out. Thanks so much for stopping by this week and I hope you all have a wonderful weekend!

  • 71IkSyGDGhL._SS500_  Olivia Rodrigo – Sour – (Geffen Records): This is not one I want to hear which is why it isn’t in Blue. However, this is one my kids are going nuts over. With the smash hit “Drivers License” this young lady is blowing up the radio. I am sure I will hear this one, but it will be under duress.
  • A1CZEo7ECuS._SX522_  P!nk – All I Know So Far (Live) – (RCA): P!nk has a live album and that is cool. She’s a major talent and I have to say I enjoy her pop sensibilities. Fun and lots of attitude. Since we still aren’t going to shows, this is the next best thing. The song below is the one studio track from the album.
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