CDs

Rip It Up, Issue 171, 1 October 1991, Page 31

CDs

Atlantic have released their 3-CD Ray Charles boxed set The Birth of Soul with 53 tracks of his R&B recordings such as 'I Got A Woman' and 'Whal'd Say'. Expect a King Crimson 4-CD box set of remastered studio material and a • disc of live recordings between 1 969 and j 1984. - The Beatles label Apple will release several CDs via Capitol / EMI of other artists on the Apple label. Scheduled are Billy Preston That's the Way God Planned It. Mary Hopkins Postcard, Badfinger Magic Christian Music, Jackie Lomax Is This What You Want and James Taylor James Taylor. Columbia will release a 2-CD set The Ballad Mott, a Mott the Hoople retrospective. Columbia USA have withdrawn the now collective recent reissue of Sly & the Family Stone's 1 973 Fresh as it accidentally contained different versions • or mixes of every track on the album. MCA have reissued Howlin' Wolf The Chess Box, a 71 track 3-CD package

focusing largely on his pre-1967 recordings. There are unreleased ' acoustic versions of classics and stereo versions in the set. \ Warners will release a 4-CD Jimi Hendrix live box set called Stages. It will feature an entire concert from each of the years from 1967 to 1970,' highlighting the evolution of his guitar performance. Virgin will reissue classic R&B performances from the Modern label. First up are Johnny Guitar Watson 3 Hours Past Midnight and Etta James R&B Dynamite. MCA are releasing a 3-CD Lynyrd Skynyrd box set, The Collection. The 47 song set features 1 5 rarities including a early version of‘Free Bird', demos and an acoufic version of 'All I Can Do Is Write About If'. * { Warners ore issuing a 4-CD Crosby Stills & Nash boxed set — 78 tracks from CSN, CSN&Y, Manassas and Crosby, Nash and Stills individually. There ore 27 previously unreleased demos, alternate, mixes, unreleased compositions etc plus a 34 page book. Polygram have reissued on mid-price CD Dusty Springfield The Ultimate Collection, Bunny Wailer Protest and Parliament Live: P-Funk Earth Tour.