Today, the
Suiting the Sound: The Rodeo Tailors Who Made Country Stars Shine Brighter and
Dylan, Cash and the Nashville Cats: A New Music City. These multimedia exhibits are the first designed exclusively for the museum’s website.
“As a national history museum and global cultural institution, we are charged to consistently expand access to the museum’s collection and the interpretive work of our curators and historians, while advancing the documentation and preservation of American musical history,” said museum CEO Kyle Young. “These online exhibitions, made possible by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, enabled the museum to create this novel exhibit platform. With it, we are not only able to reshare the story of the artists and musicians who helped to broaden Nashville’s reputation as a true Music City, but also to tell a new story, that of the clothiers who created unmistakable designs that are now synonymous with country music.”
ALSO: Reissues (CDs / Vinyl)
Johnny Mathis “The Heart of a Woman / When Will I See You Again / I Only Have Eyes For You / Mathis Is …” (1974-77 albums on two CDs; remastered, with bonus tracks)
The Damned “Punk Oddities & Rare Tracks 1977-1982” (12-song collection)
Allen Ginsberg “Allen Ginsberg At Reed College: The First Recorded Reading of Howl & Other Poems”
Various artists “The Best of Bond … James Bond” (2CD reissue with Paul McCartney, Tina Turner, Duran Duran and others)
The Searchers “A & B Sides 1963-1967” (32 remastered tracks on one CD)
Mindi Abair “The Best of Mindi Abair” (19-song compilation; new single: “April”)
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Dusty Springfield’s soul credentials were firmly established when, in April 1965, she co-devised and presented a special edition of the TV pop show Ready Steady Go! dedicated to the thrilling music coming out of Detroit. Subtitled The Sounds Of Motown, it gave key UK exposure to the likes of The Supremes, Temptations, Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye and Smokey Robinson. The visitors’ British cheerleader also got to be a Vandella for the night, joining Martha Reeves and mates for lively renditions of Wishin’ And Hopin’ and Can’t Hear You No More. Yet Springfield’s own recorded output of the time remained rooted in more traditional pop melodrama. Occasional torch-like testifying numbers such as I Just Don’t Know What To Do With Myself hinted at something deeper or richer, but for the most part she plied her trade via orchestra-heavy bombast (All I See Is You, I Close My Eyes And Count To Ten, and her sole chart-topper You Don�
Dan Auerbach’s Easy Eye Sound label on May 7.
The songs were worked up by Auerbach from a batch of vocal/guitar demos passed to him by
Tony Joe White’s son and manager,
Jody White. The album also features
Bobby Wood on keyboards,
Marcus King on guitar and
Stuart Duncan on fiddle.
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“For one reason or another, my Dad would never just want to go into a studio and write with somebody, or go work with somebody,” says
Jody White. “He liked to do it at his place, and his way, and it turned out how it turned out, you know what I mean? So, this album really all worked out perfectly. He was making these tracks for Dan all along, but we just didn’t know it.”