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Three Great New Records...and Waters Can Still ...
Roger Waters – Us + Them Us + Them documents Roger Waters’ recently released concert film of the same name; it offers highlights from the 2017 – 2018 Us + Them tour. There was a...
Three Winners, and an Interestingly Odd Remake ...
John Coltrane – Giant Steps (60th Anniversary Super Deluxe Edition – 2020 Remaster) Giant Steps was recorded in May of 1959, right on the heels of Coltrane’s exit from Miles Davis’ first great...
Finally, A Stones Reissue Done Right, and Three...
The Rolling Stones – Goats Head Soup 2020 Deluxe Edition Late 1972 found the Stones in a period of serious transition; after the monstrous success of Exile on Main Street, they were ready...
An Undiscovered Guitar God, a Remake, a Reissue...
Walter Trout – Ordinary Madness Walter Trout is a blues survivor, and will turn seventy next March. He started playing in the late sixties, and spent the next two-and-a-half decades on the...
Three Outstanding New Releases…and a Couple of ...
Jaga Jazzist – Pyramid Pyramid is the seventh studio album and first new release by the Norwegian eight-piece jazz-fusion group Jaga Jazzist in almost five years. It’s the long-awaited follow-up to 2015’s Starfire, and finds...
Two Classics Remastered, and Two Up-and-Coming ...
AC/DC – Back in Black (24/96 Edition) Early 1979, AC/DC was in the studio working on their sixth studio album Highway to Hell with legendary producer Eddie Kramer, who had been assigned to them...
Four Solid Hits!
Sophia Portanet – Freier Geist Sofia Portanet is of Spanish and German descent, but she grew up in Paris, and she sings with perfect ease in both French and German. Although, the...
Three Great Records and a "Good" One
Norah Jones – Pick Me Up Off the Floor Norah Jones surprised a lot of people when she first burst onto the scene in 2002, sweeping most of the Grammy awards with...
The Rolling Stones in High(ish) Resolution
I’m focusing on several “high resolution” releases by the Rolling Stones from different periods of the band that have just been made available for streaming playback on Qobuz and Tidal....
Two New Releases, and Three Catalog Titles Reis...
Rush – Permanent Waves – Fortieth Anniversary Edition Permanent Waves was something of a departure for Canadian power trio Rush; it was their first record since the addition of drummer and primary lyricist...
A Quartet of Outstanding New Releases
I’ve been away for a few issues; and besides, there haven’t been an exceptional number of interesting new releases coming out during the pandemic — not too many artists in...
Three Clear Winners
Roger Eno/Brian Eno – Mixing Colours Everyone knows Brian Eno; who could have missed the stylish glam he brought to the early work of Roxy Music? And his string of ambient albums...
Crate Digging, Part 1
Generally this particular time of year, there’s typically not a whole lot going on in terms of notable new releases in the music world. So this issue, I’m focusing on...
Some Winners, and a Complete Snooze
Miles Davis Quintet – The Legendary Prestige Quintet Sessions Miles Davis had been laboring for a number of years in the early fifties, hamstrung under an exclusive contract to Prestige Records. Who...
Re-Examining Pink Floyd in the Post-Roger Water...
This issue, I’m focusing on a single release, Pink Floyd’s The Later Years, which is a sprawling 18-disc box set that covers the band in the years following the departure of...
Looking to the Future, Revisiting the Past
With this issue we celebrate Copper Magazine’s 100th issue, which is quite a milestone of success for any publication. Here’s to the magazine’s continued prosperity in the future, under the guidance of...
Three Solid Hits!
David Bowie – Space Oddity (Tony Visconti 2019 Remix) David Bowie’s Space Oddity has something of an oddity of a history; Bowie’s first album, David Bowie, was on the Deram label, but didn’t make much of a...
Three Winners, A Loser - And One That Might Hav...
The Replacements – Dead Man’s Pop 1989 found the Replacements either on the verge of a major commercial breakthrough or possible self implosion. Their new album Don’t Tell a Soul had just been released,...
Three Hits and a Big Miss!
The Stooges – The Stooges (50th Anniversary Deluxe Edition) When the Stooges burst onto the scene in 1969, they had a much-deserved reputation as an incendiary live act. Along with Ron Asheton’s...
Three Wins and a Loss
The Beatles – Abbey Road – Anniversary Edition When the Beatles Sgt. Pepper 50th Anniversary remix/remaster came out in 2017, I have to admit….I was, at the least, skeptical. Should we be messing with...
Four Hits, One Miss
Iggy Pop – Free I have a fairly esteemed level of admiration for Iggy Pop; his work with the Stooges helped make him a punk icon. And working with Bowie over the...
Two Out of Three Ain’t Bad
I’ve just started working with an independent jazz distributor from NYC, Jim Eigo with Jazz Promo Services. I’m highlighting several of his recent and upcoming releases in this issue; there are...
Batting .800
Rodney Crowell – Texas I grew up in the red clay hills of rural North Georgia; country music is in my blood, even though it probably represents a fraction of a percentage...
Papa’s Got a Real Mixed Bag
Rickie Lee Jones – Kicks I have loved Rickie Lee Jones from day one; though the truth be known, early on probably more for the fact that she was the hot blond...
Five New Releases, No Losers
Tom Gibbs' record reviews to Copper. Tom has reviewed records for years, but may be better known to most readers for his gear reviews. We're happy to have him stick...