There's some very welcome and from my point of view, quite exciting news concerning new releases from the Drive-By Truckers, Blitzen Trapper and Captain Beefheart.
From the Drive-By Truckers website I learn that they have a 35 track live album 'It's Great to be Alive' being released towards the end of October. The deluxe version comes in the form of 5 LP records plus 3 CD's. a 16 page booklet and 4 mini concert posters. The recordings originate from three nights the Truckers performed at the Fillmore in San Francisco last November. The package is also going to be available in a reduced version in different formats. Full details can be obtained from the website using this link.
http://drivebytruckers.shop.musictoday.com/Product.aspx?cp=407_72052&pc=D2CD21
I'm also excited by the news that one of my favourite bands, Blitzen Trapper will release their eighth studio album 'All Across This Land' on 2nd October. Once again more details are on the website.
http://www.blitzentrapper.net/
And finally I learn that the 4th September sees the release of a 3 CD box set from the late, great Captain Beefheart. Titled 'Transmission Impossible' this set features radio transmissions from three separate areas of Beefheart's recording career.
The first disc contains broadcasts from the period 1966 to 1968 including what I believe is the full performance from the Avalon Ballroom in 1966. Previously only four of those cuts had been officially released on the 'Grow Fins' box set.
The second CD features the more commercial material that Beefheart was producing in 1974 and finally the last of the 3 CD's features the band's 1981 performance at Vancouver's Commodore Ballroom.
Forty-eight tracks in all and all for the sum of of £11.99.
Read about it here.
http://www.spincds.com/coming-soon/transmission-impossible-3cd-46153
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