Broadway musical JERSEY BOYS brings to the stage the story of 1960s singing sensations Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons, recounting their rise from working-class kids to pop-music superstars. The soundtrack, naturally, is filled with Four Seasons hits, including timeless ...

Holiday Sing-Along with Mitch Miller, his second Christmas/holiday record, is as enjoyable as Christmas Sing-Along with Mitch, thanks to his commercial production and appealing song selection. There are no surprises here -- Miller's records are all essentially the same; the ...

Also includes material from Mark Knopfler's side project, The Notting Hillbillies. Additional personnel includes: Sting, Jeff Porcaro, Joop de Korte. All tracks have been digitally mastered using HDCD technology. Exactly ten years after Dire Straits' first compilation, Money for Nothing, appeared in the ...

While the two-disc 35 BIGGEST HITS is far from the first Toby Keith hits collection, it's easily his most comprehensive to date, including the biggest songs from every stage of the country superstar's first 15 years. It moves from early ...

Recording information: LOUD Recording. Photographers: Joe Giron; Christina SanMiguel. Personnel: Aaron Lewis (acoustic guitar); Biff Watson (acoustic guitar); Brent Mason (electric guitar); Scotty Saunders, Paul Franklin (steel guitar); Ben Kitterman (dobro); Tony Harrell (piano, Hammond b-3 organ); Eddie Bayers (drums). Audio Mixer: Rich ...

He's been in the business for over 40 years, but Rod Stewart has never recorded a holiday album until Merry Christmas, Baby, his 2012 seasonal celebration that also doubles as his debut for Verve. Given that Stewart has spent the ...

Track Listing: Fourteen Carat Mind; Paper Rosie; Nothing Sure Looked Good On You; You're Out Doing; Bedroom Ballad; Farewell Party; Got No Reason Now For Going Home; One Sided Conversation; Carmen; Speak Softly; Don't Waste It On The Blues; Love ...

The first solo outing from singer/guitarist/actor/White Stripes/Raconteurs mastermind Jack White was recorded at his Third Man Studio in Nashville, Tennessee. The bluesy, typically idiosyncratic Blunderbuss, named for a muzzle-loading firearm that was a precursor of the shotgun, will hit the ...

This CD commemorates Willie Nelson's 70th Birthday (April 30, 2003). The catalog of Willie Nelson is so vast and rich that assembling an "essential" collection of only one or two discs seems nearly impossible. RCA's single-disc 1995 attempt was admirable and ...

Functioning as something of a replacement for the 2001 collection Their Greatest Hits: The Record, The Ultimate Bee Gees covers much of the same ground as that double-disc set, albeit in not quite so linear a fashion. The Record marched ...

Audio Mixer: Enda Walsh. Liner Note Authors: Gavin Martin; Alan Light; Solly Lipsitz. Born to Sing: No Plan B marks Van Morrison's 35th album and his return to Blue Note Records. Morrison released What's Wrong with This Picture? for Blue Note back ...

The Zac Brown Band's third major-label studio album, Uncaged, is the first with new member percussionist Daniel de los Reyes, and features guest spots from Amos Lee and Trombone Shorty, as well as songs co-written with Jason Mraz and fellow ...

Train's sixth studio album was produced by Butch Walker and the Norwegian songwriting and production duo Espionage, who were responsible for the band's award-winning 2010 hit "Hey Soul Sister." Preceded by the first single, "Drive By," California 37 hits the ...

For only the second time in her career, jazz pianist and vocalist Diana Krall deviates from her tried, true m.o. of covering easily identifiable jazz standards. On Glad Rag Doll she teams with producer T-Bone Burnett and his stable of ...

On Dreams, Brian Culbertson attempts to dig further into the vein he opened on 2010's XII, where he seamlessly married adult-oriented R&B to contemporary jazz. In fact, Dreams feels like a bookend of sorts. He employs an alternating cast of ...

A surprise best-seller when it was first released, this mostly improvised pairing of singer/keyboardist/producer Al Kooper with two major guitar heroes of the day sounds fascinating all these years later precisely because of the distance of time--nobody makes records like ...

This compilation is just what it says: number one hits on the American charts from the 1960s. It has a leg up on some similar anthologies, though, by virtue of its sheer quantity: 26 songs spanning the entire decade, which ...

Recording information: Brighter Shade Studio, Atlanta, GA; Compass Point Studios, Nassau, Bahamas; The Sound Station Nashville, TN; Wedgewood Sound. Photographer: C. Taylor Crothers. Personnel: Brent Mason (electric guitar); Greenwood Hart (accordion, keyboards); Gary Prim (keyboards); Marcus Petruska (drums, background vocals). Audio Mixer: John ...

Initial pressings of THE JOURNEY included a bonus CD featuring 12" remixes. As one of the few performers from the disco era to have a career beyond one-hit wonder status, Donna Summer has continued forward on her creative path well into ...

Director: Charlie Robins. Photographers: Stephanie Methven; Josh Burton; Bao Nguyen; Rune Hellestad. Arranger: Chris Elliott. Personnel: Adele (vocals, guitar); Matt Allchin, Ben Thomas , Michael Tighe, Ben Thomas (guitar); Neil Cowley (piano, Hammond b-3 organ, Wurlitzer organ); Jason Silver (keyboards); Sam Koppelman (glockenspiel); ...

Following in the footsteps of Il Divo and the Three Tenors, Il Volo offers soaring opera pop on the group's self-titled debut. Unlike those acts, however, the three members of Il Volo were in their teens when they recorded these ...

The Black Keys' seventh studio album finds the duo teaming up again with Danger Mouse. Viral promos for El Camino include a video of a random man dancing badly and lip-syncing "Lonely Boy," and a used-car commercial satire starring Mr. ...

Audio Mixer: Eric Corne. Recording information: Entourage Studios, North Hollywood, CA (10/2011). Photographer: Austin Hargrave.

Tempest, Bob Dylan's 35th album, continues to employ blues, country, folk, and ragged rockabilly to carry his songs. Unlike many of his recent recordings, however, he's largely left 1930s and early-'40s pop out of the mix here. Themes on Tempest ...

Kenny Chesney insists the title song for Welcome to the Fishbowl, his 13th studio album, isn't specifically about his own celebrity, but even at that, he's handled that part of his job with grace and good humor. Fishbowl shows a ...