Encore Records

Status Quo

Live At the BBC

UK release.

Extremely limited eight disc (seven CDs + NTSC/Region 0 DVD) that features all existing BBC sessions by the rockers spread over seven discs plus a bonus DVD.

The unique relationship between Status Quo and the BBC is celebrated on Status Quo Live At The BBC.

Status Quo’s unbelievable career has largely been built upon their unassailable reputation as one of the world’s greatest live acts which underlies this collection.

This release is collated from all of the BBC owned Quo recordings that still exist in the archive and charts the inexorable rise of the band.

Eric Clapton

Crossroads Guitar Festival 2010

Over the summer, Eric Clapton gathered a veritable Who’s Who of the world’s most talented guitar players at the third Crossroads Guitar Festival, an 11-hour celebration of the six-string that attracted a sold-out crowd of more than 27,000 music fans to Chicago’s Toyota Park.

This release includes more than four hours of music, interviews, and behind-the-scenes footage from this star-studded concert, including performances by Clapton, ZZ Top, Steve Winwood, Jeff Beck, Vince Gill, Buddy Guy, John Mayer, Derek Trucks, B.B. King, and Bill Murray, who served as the concert’s master of ceremonies.

Jethro Tull

Stand Up (40th Anniversary Remaster)

Digitally remastered and expanded deluxe three disc (two CDs + DVD-Audio) edition of the British band’s 1969 sophomore album.

Includes 11 bonus tracks on Disc One plus a bonus CD containing a 1970 live show from Carnegie Hall.

The DVD-Audio disc contains a mix of the same Carnegie Hall show in 5.1 surround sound plus an interview with Ian Anderson.

Jon Spencer Blues Explosion

Orange

Remastered and expanded including the previously European-only Experimental Remixes EP as a bonus disc in a deluxe package with stellar notes, discographical details, and photos.

Orange include seven bonus cuts featuring alternate and studio outtakes as well as rare radio performances. The latter disc’s ten tracks have been augmented by four rarities including the infamous “Attack-Detroit.

Mel Brown

Love Lost & Found

The final album from the late blues guitar legend and W.C. Handy Award winner Mel Brown.

Features previously unreleased tracks of Mel at his very best with his close friend the Chicago harp legend Snooky Pryor, fellow Mississippi mojo master Sam Myers (Anson Funderburgh & The Rockets), Miss Angel and his protege emerging guitar star Enrico Crivellaro.

Also includes unreleased vintage tracks from his Bluesway/Impulse era heyday in the early 1970’s with additional guitar solos recorded by Mel in 2009.

The haunting and achingly beautiful original instrumental title track Love, Lost and Found on which Mel played guitar, piano and B-3 organ may be the pinnacle of his incredible career.

Hill Country Revue

Zebra Ranch

HILL COUNTRY REVUE is the modern Southern Rock / Blues band for the new generation.

Formed by Cody Dickinson from The North Mississippi Allstars in 2008, it features Chris Chew, Kirk Smithhart, Ed “Hot” Cleveland and Dixie Dan Coburn.

Eric Clapton

Clapton

Fist new solo album from Eric in Five years. 

Co-produced by long-time collaborator Doyle Bramhall II, Clapton features an all star cast of musical collaborations started with the legendary JJ Cale, drummer Jim Keltner, bassist Willie Weeks, and keyboardist Walt Richmond-and the sessions later added guests including Steve Winwood, Wynton Marsalis, Sheryl Crow, Allen Toussaint, and Derek Trucks.

Clapton created a collection that touches on everything from century-old traditional brass bands to little-known Country Blues to brand-new originals.

The result is both relaxed and revelatory, and unlike anything the guitarist has done in his legendary career.

Kenny Wayne Shepherd

Live! In Chicago

Brand new live album from the American Blues guitarist. Four Grammy nominations, two Billboard Music Awards and millions of albums later, life came full circle when Shepherd and his band assembled several generations worth of Blues legends at the House Of Blues in Chicago, captured for posterity on this live album.

Johnny Winter

Live Through The 80’s

This DVD contains an incredible collection of official archival footage from the ‘80s including performances from MTV Rock Influences ‘84 “Guitar Greats”, Massey Hall (Toronto ‘83), Roskilde DRTV (Roskilde, Denmark ‘84), New Hampshire (‘84), Sonet Studio (Bromma, Sweden ‘87), Piazza Duomo (Pistoia, Italy ‘88), and more. Intermixed with the live content is interview footage from various locations.

This program is the definitive document of Johnny’s career in the ‘80s.

Various

Blues Piano-Rama

Four of the Funkiest Piano Professors ever, Kenny “Blues Boss” Wayne, Julian Fauth, Curley Bridges and Bobby Dean Blackburn celebrate the Art of Blues Piano together.