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September 25, 2007
New Album Releases, 9-25-2007: Joni Mitchell, Foo Fighters, Steve Earle, Brian Setzer, Herbie Hancock, Miles Davis Hey, hey kiddies, but there sure are a lot of big name new album releases this week. The big one is Shine, which is the first new Joni Mitchell album in nine years. It is also her first album on the Starbucks Hear Music label. Reckon what's she got to say for the last decade of her life? Reckon what kind of song might she have written about the "Night of the Iguana"? The album ends with a song called "If," based on the Rudyard Kipling poem.
I note that the album is the current #4 seller at Amazon, which seems pretty good for someone not typically thought of as a big commercial powerhouse. Plus, consider how many of these bad boys she must be hawking at Starbucks.
Also on the Joni Mitchell front, River: The Joni Letters come from Herbie Hancock, who gets help on these Joni Mitchell covers from among others Norah Jones and Miss Joni herself. I would be particularly interested to hear what he's done with "The Jungle Line," long my Joni fave rave.
Steve Earle has left us red state yokels behind to move to New York city. This is just about right for him; Earle would be a perfect addition to your radical chic cocktail party. Washington Square Serenade constitutes his NYC coming out, with New York lyrical themes and such. Also, it was produced by Dust Brother John King, so you should be expecting somewhat fancier and more electronic sounds than previous.
Last thing before he retired from the studio for six years, in 1975 Miles Davis put out the album Down on the Corner. This album was fairly heavily edited, produced and electronically manipulated. The original organic recordings from those sessions are the backbone of the six CD set The Complete On the Corner Sessions. That makes this the eighth and final comprehensive Columbia records box set of Davis studio work for them from the 1950s to 1970s.
Here's the complete list of this week's major new album releases, courtesy AMG:
Devendra Banhart Smokey Rolls Down Thunder Canyon XL Lo-Fi, Alternative Folk, Acid Folk
Miles Davis The Complete On the Corner Sessions Sony Legacy Jazz-Rock, Fusion, Jazz-Funk, Free Funk, Funk
Bettye LaVette The Scene of the Crime Anti Northern Soul, Soul
Los Angeles Guitar Quartet Brazil [Hybrid SACD] Telarc Modern and Contemporary Music for Guitar Quartet
Magik Markers Boss Ecstatic Peace Experimental Rock, Noise-Rock
matt pond PA Last Light Altitude Chamber Pop, Indie Pop, Indie Rock
Nellie McKay Obligatory Villagers Hungry Mouse Alternative Singer/Songwriter, Adult Alternative Pop/Rock, Contemporary Singer/Songwriter, Cabaret, Alternative Pop/Rock
Ministry Last Sucker [Bonus Tracks] Afm Industrial, Industrial Metal, Alternative Metal
Mum Go Go Smear the Poison Ivy FTC Indie Electronic, IDM, Electronica
Meshell Ndegeocello The World Has Made Me the Man of My Dreams Emarcy/UMGD Post-Bop, Psychedelic Pop, Contemporary R&B, Neo-Psychedelia, Urban, Funk, Soul, Fusion, Downtempo
New York Polyphony I Sing the Birth Avie Music for Vocal Ensemble
Office A Night at the Ritz New Line Indie Rock, Pop Underground, Adult Alternative Pop/Rock
Martin Rost Organ Landscape: Estonia MDG Estonian Music for Organ
William Stromberg House of Frankenstein [Complete 1944 Score] Naxos Film Music
Original Soundtrack The Darjeeling Limited ABKCO Indian Folk, Film Music, Soundtracks, Indian Art Film Music, Pop/Rock, Folk-Rock, British Invasion
