CD World's plethora of new releases

There is a plethora of new releases this week and they're all over the map, but in a good way. Here's a tasty sampling from the fine folks at CD World.

John Mayer 'Continuum'
John Mayer's third studio album follows the multi-platinum 'Room for Squares' (2001) and 'Heavier Things' (2003), and marks his first turn as producer. It is his most soulful, cohesive collection yet and he says it's no accident that this project is where all of his efforts, his potential, and his disparate influences fully come together. *CD World Pick!!

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Peter Frampton 'Fingerprints'
"This is the album I've been waiting my entire life to make, I've never done a complete collection of instrumentals" says Peter Frampton of his remarkable new CD, Fingerprints. It's an impressive 14-tune collection of guitar mastery that crosses several musical borders, from funked up R&B to razor-edged rockers to rootsy blues to country-flamed beauties to jazzy Django swing to reflective impressionism. Fingerprints features Frampton having exhilarating musical conversations with a who's who of the pop world, including Rolling Stones Charlie Watts and Bill Wyman, Pearl Jams' Mike McCready and Matt Cameron, original Shadows Hank Marvin and Brian Bennett, Allman Brothers/Govt Mule slide slinger Warren Haynes, Nashville pedal steel virtuoso Paul Franklin and gypsy guitar maestro John Jorgenson. *CybersPick!!

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Robert Cray 'Live From Across The Pond'
Robert Cray's first live record in his 30-year career! Five-time Grammy winner and 12-time Grammy nominee Robert Cray and his fellow journeymen, touring over six months of every year, continue to provide audiences the world over with the kind of authentic, real music that keeps the band on top of its game. For the first time ever, Robert Cray's live performance is felt on CD. Performing on stages with such legendary artists as The Rolling Stones, Muddy Waters, Bob Dylan and Chuck Berry and having his songs recorded by the likes of Eric Clapton, B.B. King, Albert King and Tony Bennett has helped make Robert Cray a mainstay in popular music.


Bob Seger 'Face The Promise'
Bob Seger is one of the defining voices of American music. Classic, urgent, honest, and timeless, Seger has sold nearly fifty million albums in his career and earned eleven platinum and seven multi-platinum awards. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2004. 'Against the Wind' won a Grammy for Best Rock Performance by a Group or Duo in 1980. Now, Capitol Records releases Bob Seger's first studio album in eleven years, Face The Promise. The album's first single is 'Wait For Me'. The new album also features the tracks 'Real Mean Bottle' with Kid Rock and 'The Answer's In The Question' with Patty Loveless.



Dr. John 'Definitive Pop'
Dr. John, a.k.a Mac Rebenack a.k.a. 'The Night Tripper' is the ultimate ambassador of the celebrated New Orleans sound. A brilliant boogie-woogie pianist with an expressive growl who throws rock, blues, R&B, and Mardi Gras bon temps into one immensely satisfying sonic gumbo. This 2-CD overview presents 30 classic tracks from the late 60s to the early 90s, including 'Iko Iko,' 'Such A Night,' 'Gris-Gris Gumbo Ya Ya,' the Top 10 pop hit 'Right Place Wrong Time,' and the Grammy® winning 'Makin Whoopee!'.

Barenaked Ladies 'Barenaked Ladies Are Me'
Barenaked Ladies - the little indie band that could - have returned to self-rule with their own label, Desperation Records, and their most cohesive album since the quadruple-platinum Stunt. Barenaked Ladies Are Me still exudes the bands sense of fun while musically and lyrically demonstrating a maturity youd expect from guys who have played together forever. With one of rocks most devoted fanbases, Barenaked Ladies goes D.I.Y. with Barenaked Ladies Are Me. *CD World Pick!!

Between The Covers 'Between The Covers'
An all-star lineup including Eric Clapton, Madonna, Alicia Keys, Sheryl Crow, Lenny Kravitz, Mick Jagger and David Bowie, The Dixie Chicks, Sarah McLachlan and more are set to slip Between The Covers for this benefit album. Proceeds from the album, a compilation of covers of some of the greatest songs of this generation, will go to benefit the T.J. Martell Foundation, which supports cancer, leukemia, and AIDS research.

Black Keys 'Magic Potion'
Magic Potion, the Black Keys' fourth album, is a spectacularly stripped-down set of sneakily melodic blues-besotted rock concocted in the Akron, Ohio basement studio of drummer Patrick Carney. Guitarist-singer Dan Auedback is possessed of a compelling, hurt-beyond-his-years voice and an approach to lead guitar that is both wildly expressive and utterly succinct. The self-taught Carney, who anchors these tracks, may force writers to return "heavy" to the rock-critic lexicon as a seriously praiseworthy term. The Black Keys maintain a punk terseness to their adamantly do-it-yourself sound; they're as single-minded in their idiosyncratic evocation of the electric Mississippi blues as artists like the late Junior Kimbrough and R. L. Burnside as the Ramones were about early sixties rock and roll. *CD World Pick!!

David Gilmour's first and second solo albums are now digitally remastered...
The self-titled 'David Gilmour' originally released in 1978, features musical assistance from Steve Rance, Willie Wilson, Rick Wills, Mick Weaver and others. Nine tracks including 'There's No Way Out Of Here', 'Cry From The Street', 'I Can't Breathe Anymore' and more.

'About Face' Gilmour's second solo album was originally released in 1984, and features musical assistance from Jeff Porcoro, Pino Palladino, Anne Dudley, Steve Winwood, Ray Cooper, Roy Harper, Luis Jardim and Michael Kamen. Ten tracks including the hit single 'Blue Light' plus 'Love On The Air' and 'All Lovers Are Deranged', both co-written by The Who's Pete Townshend.

Los Lobos 'Town & The City'
The 13-track set - fittingly, the disc is the 13th studio album of Los Lobos 30-year-plus career - was recorded over the last several months, with the band doing its own production work. Tchad Blake, who's worked with the group for many of its past albums, handled mixing duties. The album partially reflects the East Los Angeles roots-rockers' experience as de facto immigrants in their own country, as well as unease with the current political situation in the land. The band is currently on an open-ended touring schedule, which is typical of their roadwork.

R.E.M. 'Best: IRS Years 82-87'
Disc 1 is a 21-track single-disc collection of hits and band favorites including 'Radio Free Europe' (R.E.M.s debut single), 'The One I Love' and 'It's The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)'. Disc 2 contains 21 tracks of rarities from the I.R.S. and R.E.M. vaults. Includes alternate takes, previously unreleased mixes, live recordings of familiar R.E.M. classics, an acoustic performance from the 1987 documentary film "Athens, GA - Inside Out," among them 10 never before released tracks. Each of R.E.M.'s four original members has selected a personal favorite for the rarities disc. The package includes descriptive track-by-track annotations in the band members own words plus newly-penned liner notes by rock scribe Anthony DeCurtis.

Randy Rogers Band 'Just A Matter Of Time'
Randy Rogers Band is blazing their own trail of success in Texas with their radio hits, spreading popularity, and engaging live performances. Their highly anticipated new album Just A Matter Of Time was produced with famed singer-songwriter-musician Radney Foster and features 12 new songs. Randy Rogers Band formed while Randy was at Southwest Texas State University in San Marcos, where Randy was pursuing a degree in public relations. It was there that he met and ultimately banded with the RRB counterparts and their varying personal music tastes. Guitarist Geoffrey Hill grew up influenced by rock while bassist Jon Richardson digested the outlaw sounds of Waylon and Willie. Fiddle player Brady Black came from the bluegrass lineage, and drummer Les Lawless has been influenced by the rhythms of country, rock and bluegrass.

Jihad Jerry & The Evildoers 'Mine Is Not A Holy War'
Devo co-founder, Gerald V. Casale, returns as Jihad Jerry, a conceptual character pointing out the absurdities of our world through the majesty of song. With him are the Evildoers (featuring Devo members Bob Mothersbaugh and Josh Freese). Together, they've cooked up their very own brand of politically-fueled rock and roll that lives somewhere between Devo, The B-52s, and Michael Moore.

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The Police 'Everyone Stares'
Everyone Stares is a first-person account from Stewart Copeland of The Polices ascent from obscurity to worldwide fame. Produced, directed, written & edited by Copeland from over 50 hours of Super 8 movies he shot during the acclaimed trios heyday. The film offers an insiders perspective on touring, his band members and the adoring fans. Shown in the 2006 Sundance Film Festival, the movie was sold out for every viewing, received critical acclaim and will now be featured on Showtime® in August & September. Copeland scores this remarkable film using seven previously unreleased derangements of classic Police studio & live tracks, along with many original studio & live tracks. Narrated personally by Stewart, this DVD also includes over 20 minutes of bonus footage not seen in previous versions of the film and a bonus commentary by Andy Summers and Stewart Copeland.

R.E.M. 'Best: IRS Years 82-87'
18 tracks including 'Radio Free Europe', 'Talk About The Passion', 'Radio Free Europe (Live, The Tube)', 'Talk About The Passion (Live, The Tube)', 'So. Central Rain (I'm Sorry)', 'Pretty Persuasion (Live, The Old Grey Whistle Test)', 'The One I Love', 'It's The End of the World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)'. 'Finest Worksong' and more. Extras include an acoustic performances from 'The Cutting Edge', session outtakes, interview snippets, 'Pageantry' excerpts and the like.

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