Encore Records

Soft Machine

Land of Cockayne

Digitally remastered edition of this 1981 release, the final album from the British Prog/Art Rock band.

By the time the album was recorded, the band was comprised of keyboard player and saxophonist Karl Jenkins and drummer John Marshall.

The duo were joined by musicians such as Jack Bruce, the returning Allan Holdsworth, Dick Morrissey and Ray Warleigh to produce a different, but polished album.

John Mellencamp

No Better Than This

No Better Than This is an album of all new original songs that was recorded at a variety of historically significant locations around the south.

The album was produced by T-Bone Burnett who earlier collaborated with Mellencamp on the much-lauded Life Death Love and Freedom.

No Better Than This was recorded over the course of a few break days afforded Mellencamp when he was on tour of minor league ball parks last year, sharing the bill with Bob Dylan and Willie Nelson.

The album was recorded on vintage equipment - a 55 year old Ampex tape recorder with just one microphone - in Savannah at the First African Baptist Church, in Memphis at Sun Studios and in San Antonio in room 411 of the Gunter Hotel.

Mellencamp wrote the 13 songs included on the album during a 13 day span last spring.

Ray Lamontagne

God Willin’ & the Creek Don’t Rise

Entirely self produced (for the first time) the album was recorded in two weeks at LaMontagne’s home in the woods of western Massachusetts.

The newly restored historic home served as a homemade recording studio for Ray and his fellow musicians.

With Ray’s vocals at the forefront of the songs and a loose, almost live sounding recording, the album stands as a testament to a band at the height of their powers. The newly coined ‘Pariah Dogs’, consists of Jay Bellarose (drums), Jennifer Condos (bass), Patrick Warren (keyboard), Eric Heywood (guitar) and Greg Leisz (pedal steel guitar).

Iron Maiden

The Final Frontier

30 years on from their eponymous debut album in April 1980, The Final Frontier is Maiden’s 15th studio album and is plainly one of the strongest and most wildly inventive things they have ever produced;
a 76-minute tour-de-force of soaring melodies, thunderous heaviness and astonishing compositional bravery it looks certain to be regarded as a new landmark in the band’s career.

The Vinyl is a 2 LP pic-disc !

Slowdive

Souvlaki / Pygmalion / Just For a Day

Remastered and expanded 2 cd editions of these classic albums !

JJ Grey & Mofro

Orange Blossoms / Country Ghetto / Blackwater / Lochloosa

We have all four of Mofro’s cds in stock now !!

Nazareth

Fool Circle & Malice In Wonderland

Remastered and expanded versions of these 2 classic Nazareth albums.

Many bonus tracks on each !

Various

Chocolate Soup For Diabetics Vol. 1-5

Finally gathered in one place, here are all five volumes of this groundbreaking series of British psych and freakbeat compilations, in a numbered, limited edition.

Boasting no fewer than 82 classic tracks, the set spans established classics by Tintern Abbey, Apple, The Tickle, The Smoke, Fleur De Lys and others, and gems by lesser-known artists such as Boo & The Boo-Boos, The Perishers, Graded Grains, The Australian Playboys, and many more.

Also included is a lavish full-color booklet, offering discographies and histories of every act, as well as many rare photographs.

Stevie Ray Vaughan

Couldn’t Stand the Weather

This 2 cd edition contains 16 previously unreleased tracks, studio outtakes and the live recording of Vaughan & Double Trouble’s 1984 performance at the Spectrum in Montreal.

A 24 colour page booklet completes the package with liner notes by Guitar World Associate Editor (and Stevie Ray Vaughan authority) Andy Aledort as well as commentary by Double Trouble band mates Chris Layton and Tommy Shannon.

The Budos Band

III

Having scalded listeners’ ears with sonic lava on Budos I and stung them with venomous frequencies on Budos II, The Budos Band delivers on their promise to spread the epidemic of “Budos Fever” far and wide with the release of The Budos Band III.

The cobra is poised to strike if anyone dares challenge The Budos on their quest.

And, if there was ever any question whether the brotherhood of The Budos is instrumental Afro-Soul royalty, the Chateau de Budos that graces the back cover of The Budos Band III assures all that the group is strong - unstoppable even - and will use all of nature’s power to ascend to their rightful throne.