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 BUCK 65
20 Odd Years
buck65.com
Dist: Warner Music Canada
 20 Odd Years is named in honour of Buck 65's 20 years in the music industry.The album was preceded by a series of four EPs, released digitally and on 7" vinyl: 20 Odd Years Vol. 1: Avant (released June 2010), 20 Odd Years Vol. 2: Distance (July 2010), 20 Odd Years Vol. 3: Albuquerque (August 2010), and 20 Odd Years Vol. 4: Cenotaph (September 2010). The album comprises mostly of songs from the EPs (including a cover of Leonard Cohen's "Who By Fire"), but also includes two new songs.
 ROD STEWART
The Best Of… The Great American Songbook
www.rodstewart.com
Dist: Sony Music Canada
On the heels of a Grammy nomination for Fly Me To The Moon… The Best Of…The Great American Songbook presents the highlights from five albums, recorded across eight years, which have become nothing less than a musical and cultural phenomenon. In addition, this new “Songbook” collection features one, newly recorded, never-before-released track “You’ll Never Know,” produced by one of Rod’s longtime collaborators Richard Perry, along with brand new mixes of “Someone To Watch Over Me” and “Bye Bye Blackbird.”
 DAVID LOWERY
The Palace Guards
davidlowerymusic.com
Dist: Universal Music Canada
David Lowery, co-founder, frontman and guitarist of country psychedelic rockers Cracker and Camper Van Beethoven presents The Palace Guards, his witty, lyrically clever and incisive, musically eclectic (and, in some ways, 27 years in the making!) solo debut on 429 Records. A self-professed studio cat who says it’s a “happy accident” that he ever became a lead singer of a rock band, Lowery concocts a diverse array of recorded at his Sound of Music Studios in Richmond, Virginia. A batch of incredible songs that didn’t quite fit the vibe of Cracker or Camper Van Beethoven, Lowery was actually working on the compositions for The Palace Guards quietly behind the scenes while working on Cracker’s last two records.
 BOBBY LONG
A Winter Tale
www.musicbobbylong.com
Dist: Fontana North
British singer-songwriter-guitarist Bobby Long has signed a recording agreement with New York-based independent label ATO Records. Long’s debut is set for release on February 1, 2011. The album, entitled A WINTER TALE, is a collection of 11 original songs from a repertoire deeply rooted in American folk, blues and country music. The recording is produced by Liam Watson, Grammy® winner for his engineering work on Elephant by The White Stripes, at his analog Toe Rag Studios in London.
The selection of songs on A WINTER TALE poignantly touch on a variety of themes, some of them dark, sung with Long’s deep signature rasp. His distinct finger-picking style on guitar is also prominently in evidence while he is backed by an eclectic complement of studio musicians on standup bass, pedal-steel guitar, vibraphones, drums, piano and keyboards.
 THE JANEDEAR GIRLS
The JaneDear Girls
www.thejanedeargirls.com
Dist: Warner Music Canada
The JaneDear Girls debut smash-Top 20 hit single, “Wildflower,” is the perfect introduction to the duo’s high energy, soaring harmonies and world-class instrumental skills. The girls play a total of eight instruments (Accordion, Acoustic guitar, Bass, Electric guitar, Fiddle, Gango, Harp and Mandolin) and, between the two of them, penned every song on their self-titled debut album, which boasts a fully loaded 11-track ensemble of pure Country rock. The up-tempo sing along song “Shotgun Girl” revels in the girls’ love for riding shotgun in a Country boy’s truck.
 THE MUSIC
Singles & EP’s: 2001-2005
www.themusic.co.uk
Dist: EMI Music Canada
This 2CD release brings together The Music’s Hut/Virgin Recordings, singles and EP’s and their respective B-sides for the first time. Their first Hut release was the acclaimed EP ‘You Might as Well Try To Fuck Me’. This was followed in 2002 by ‘The People EP’ – the first song to be taken from their eponymously-titled debut album, which was released later in the same year, reaching number 4 on the Album Chart. Following the album’s release, the band’s first single was re-issued, reaching no.14. Two more singles – Getaway and The Truth is No Words – followed, reaching no.26 and 18 respectively. The band’s second album, Welcome To The North, which was released through Virgin Records, spawned the singles ‘Freedom Fighters’ and ‘Breakin’.
 RED
Until We Have Faces
redmusiconline.com
Dist: Sony Music Canada
The two time GRAMMY-nominated hard rock outfit RED packs a potent sonic punch on its third project, Until We Have Faces, a record that leaps out of the speakers with a ferocity and complexity reflecting the band’s growth and intensity. Paired again with award-winning producer Rob Graves, Until We Have Faces features RED in its most musically intense place to date – “a combination of our first two records, but on steroids,” Michael Barnes notes – daring both RED and its fans to catapult into new rock territories.
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