Encore Records

Johnny Winter

Bootleg Series Volume 6

Like the previous entries in the series, ‘Live Bootleg Series, Volume 6’ includes rare musical moments from across Winter’s 40-year-plus career, including covers of some of the guitarist’s favorite artists and songs.

Included are Ray Charles’ “Blackjack,” Freddie King’s “Sen-Sa-Shun,” and an amazing fifteen-minute extended jam on B.B. King’s “It’s My Own Fault.”

The album also includes live versions of a couple of Winter originals - “White Line Blues,” which features some smokin’ slide-guitar, and “Johnny Guitar.”

Madness

One Step Beyond

Digitally remastered and expanded deluxe two CD edition of the 1979 debut album from the British Pop/Ska band containing the original album plus four enhanced videos on Disc One plus a 16 rare non-album tracks and Peel sessions on Disc Two.

Various

Out Come the Freaks - An Island Post Punk Anthology

2009 three CD compilation, released to coincide with Island Records 50th Anniversary.

Out Come The Freaks is a box set of Pre-Punk, Post-Punk, New Wave, No Wave, Junk-Funk and leftfield jottings from the margins of Island Records 1972-2008.

Each of the discs in this set are themed as follows:
Disc One - From Art Rock to Post Punk including Roxy Music, Eno, Sparks, John Cale, B-52s and Ultravox.
Disc Two - Post Modern Pop including Buggles, Grace Jones, Kid Creole, Alan Vega, Propaganda and U2.
Disc Three - Beats and Beyond including Steinski, ACT, Pulp, Bomb The Bass, The Orb, Tricky and Portishead

46 tracks

Various

Treat Me Like Dirt

This is an uncensored oral history of the 1977 toronto punk explosion as told by the bands who were there…

Treat Me Like Dirt is the first book to document the histories of the Diodes, Viletones, and Teenage Head, along with other bands (B-Girls, Curse, Demics, Dishes, Forgotten Rebels, Johnny & The G-Rays, The Mods, The Poles, Simply Saucer, The Ugly, etc) and fans that brought the original punk scene to life in Toronto and beyond (Hamilton and London).

It is the ONLY book on the 1977 Toronto punk scene; an indispensable reference work. There is a wealth of previously unpublished photographs including The Dead Boys, The Ramones, The Nerves in addition to The Viletones, Poles, Diodes, Dishes, Teenage Head, etc. Previously unpublished photography by Ross Taylor, Gail Bryck, Steve Burman, Ralph Alfonso, Edie Steiner, Don Pyle and others.

The book offers an extensive history of: The Diodes, Teenage Head, Forgotten Rebels, The Viletones, and also Simply Saucer in addition to B-Girls (Bomp Records), The Ugly, The Curse, the clubs, the drug use, murder, sex and all the adjacent highlights. It is an oral history told by the bands themselves (in the style of Please Kill Me). Includes one of the last interviews with the late Frankie Venom (singer, Teenage Head).

Bill Fay

Still Some Light

Singer/songwriter Bill Fay released two brilliant but poor-selling albums between 1967 and 1971 before disappearing from the public eye.

He spent much of the following decade writing, rehearsing, and occasionally performing—all with no contract or record company support.

In recent years, reissues of his now-sought-after original albums along with a pair of releases containing previously unreleased material have renewed interest in the English artist.

Coptic Cat is pleased to announce the release of Fay’s long-awaited next collection of old and new music.

Still Some Light consists of 43 songs on two CD with a total playing time of over two hours. It comes in a full-color six-panel digipak with a 24-page booklet of extensive notes, archival photos, and handwritten lyrics to all the tracks.
The cover was painted by the musician’s brother John Fay.

The first CD, titled Piano, Guitar, Bass & Drums, consists of studio recordings, sourced from archival tapes, with Ray Russell on guitar, Alan Rushton on drums and Daryl Runswick on bass. The 1970 tracks are prior to the recording of the Time of the Last Persecution album and contain alternative versions of songs on that album, two tracks from Fay’s self-titled debut album, and previously unreleased songs. The 1971 material is also previously unreleased.

The second CD, Still Some Light, is a home-recorded studio album from 2009.

Rosanne Cash

The List

When Rosanne was 18, Johnny Cash gave her a list of 100 essential country songs in an effort to expand her knowledge of country music.

On the album, Rosanne re-interprets 12 of the songs from the list through her own perspective on country music, her father, and her life in New York instead of Nashville.
It also includes guest performances by Bruce Springsteen, Elvis Costello, Jeff Tweedy and Rufus Wainwright.

The album contains country songs made famous by Jimmie Rodgers, The Carter Family, Don Gibson, Ray Price, Lefty Frizzell, Patsy Cline, and other country stars, as well the traditional folk song ‘Motherless Children’ and 1960’s folk numbers by Bob Dylan and Peter, Paul, and Mary.

No Man

Mixtaped

The first ever DVD release from No-Man.

Comprising the band’s sell-out performance at London’s Bush Hall in 2008, a career-spanning documentary, and numerous extras.

The Scorpions

Amazonia

In August 2007, Germany’s most successful music export worldwide, SCORPIONS, ventured deep into the Brazilian jungle for a sold-out show in front of 40,000 enthusiastic fans the band played a concert in Manaus, the metropolis on the Amazon river. A cooperation with Greenpeace was already existent at this point and when the band returned to South America the next year, they happily intensified it.

The SCORPIONS have now commited themselves to protecting this unique ecosystem. The rock icons’ DVD “Amazonia - Live In The Jungle” not only includes the complete show played in Recife on September 7, 2008 and a “Special Feature – supported by Greenpeace” consisting of five live videos from their legendary concert in Manaus in 2007, but also a Greenpeace documentation of the SCORPIONS’ legendary flight across the amazon rainforest. Royalties of DVDs sold in Brazil and Mexico predominately go to Greenpeace Brazil’s projects to protect the ancient forest.

The Zombies

Odessey and Oracle (Revisited): The 40th Anniversary Concert

Four of the original band hit the road playing two sets of music, with set two being the classic ‘Odessey and Oracle’ album.

A Well played and well recorded performance that earned them rave reviews !

Vampire Weekend

Contra

The new album, available in a limited 2 cd version or on LP with download coupon.