FULL STREAM AHEAD - ANALOG MAN

Rolling Stone.com is now streaming Joe Walsh's Analog Man - at least the 10 main tracks.  The deluxe edition hit stores in one week...

A NEW 180g RECORD

More ELO vinyl appears to be on the way.  Amazon UK now listing A New World Record for July 2 from Music On Vinyl.

JOEWALSH.COM

Hey guys, check out Joe Walsh's now greatly enhanced website...

ANALOG MAN PROMOS

With a few weeks left to go before Analog Man's official release, a number of advance promo CDs are making their way out including...

A 5 track sampler disc featuring:

Analog Man

Wrecking Ball

Lucky That Way

Funk 50

India

A one-track promo for Analog Man:

And a number of full 10 track Advance CDs are making the rounds.  Joe gave a few away on TV a few days ago. 

The real thing comes to vinyl next week - and then June 6 for the CD/DVD in the USA, UK on June 11.

FROM DAVID WILD...

We'll let the image do the talking...

ANALOG MAN - DELUXE EDITION

Here, again from an eBay listing, is what appears to be the track list for the Analog Man - Deluxe Edition.

1 Analog Man - 4:02
2 Wrecking Ball - 3:45
3 Lucky That Way - 4:14
4 Spanish Dancer - 3:49
5 Band Played On - 4:03
6 Family - 4:21
7 One Day At a Time - 3:18
8 Hi-Roller Baby - 3:18
9 Funk 50 - 1:57
10 India - 3:44
11 Fishbone [*] -
12 But I Try [*] -

- Disc 2 -
1 Analog Man [Live] [Live] -
2 Lucky That Way [Live] [Live] -
3 Wrecking Ball [Live] [Live] -
4 Interview & Track By Track -

ESSENTIAL ELO - VERSION 2.1

While on my search for the new George Harrison deluxe box for Living In The Material World (a search that is still on-going by the way), I noticed this: a new set of 'The Essential Electric Light Orchestra' CDs have made their way to the shelves in the USA, now with back inlay and disc artwork more uniform to the rest of the Essential a series in the USA.  Too bad they didn't fix the huge flaw in opening track, too.

ANALOG MAN - LIVE

Joe Walsh's Analog Man live at the Troubadour - and featuring Jeff Lynne on guitar - is now streaming...

NOW ON ITUNES....

Analog Man is now available as a single on iTunes...

JOE WALSH - FOR THE RECORD

A video preview of Analog Man is now up.  Some footage of the private Troubadour show is included.

ANALOG MAN

An eBay listing is the first sign of what could be the track list for Joe Walsh's Analog Man.  The 10 tracks (unofficially) are:

Analog Man

Wrecking Ball

Lucky That Way

Spanish Dancer

Band Played On

Family

One Day At A Time

Hi-Roller Baby

Funk 50

India

What's not clear just yet is whether Jeff Lynne co-produced the whole disc or just produced half of it.  Stay tuned...

NOW STREAMING: ANALOG MAN

Classic Rock Magazine, Rolling Stone, as well as Joe Walsh's websites are now streaming the title track to the album, Analog Man.

ANALOG MAN - JUNE 5... or SOONER?

Joe Walsh's website is confirming it, Walsh's new album Analog Man (co-produced by Jeff Lynne) is coming June 5.    Musictap is now reporting that the vinyl version of the album will precede the CD release and is planned for May 22 on Fantasy Records.

'AS-YET-UNTITLED'... ctd

It appears Analog Man, the forthcoming album from Joe Walsh will, at the very least, come in a CD/DVD deluxe edition.

ELO 40th ANNIVERSARY

High marks for the 40th Anniversary edition of 'Electric Light Orchestra'...

Back when the BBC aired The Record Producers with Roy Wood in 2009, I hoped for a DVD like this.  Hearing 10538 Overture broken down into its individual parts was pretty excellent to hear as a fan.  Now, given this 40th Anniversary edition of 'ELO' along with the 2001 First Light Series and 2004's The Early Years, this album is about as deconstructed and comprehensive as any ELO LP will probably ever get.

Although there is no new unreleased session material, the DVD alone makes this set pretty satisfying. - Neatly packaged and nicely presented.  It's a new twist on an old standby - and that's one way (I believe) to keep fans on board and interested.

KINDA OT, FOR NOW: EARLY TAKES

In addition to the BluRay and DVD (USA) release of George Harrison - Living In The Material World documentary, Direct Current is now listing something from George Harrison entitled Early Takes Volume 1 also on the release schedule for May 1, same day as the BluRay and DVD release in America.

One can only guess this CD is the bonus CD that came with the Living In The Material World deluxe edition in the UK.  Time will tell.

We are intrigued at the title, though.  Depending on your interpretation of Volume 1, we are guessing (and frankly, hoping) there's at least one other volume in the cards.

A deluxe edition of Living In The Material World also appears to be forthcoming....

(Hat tip: JJR)

By the way, if you have an iPad and don't have the George Harrison Guitar Collection app, get it.  It's amazing.  The app links you to samples of his current digital catalog with one exception:  Just For Today.  It's the short background vocal clip used on his web site a few years ago.

LIVING IN THE MATERIAL WORLD ctd....

MusicTap also now reporting that the George Harrison documentary Living In The Material World from director Martin Scorsese will finally come to BluRay and DVD in America May 1 on Hip-O/Universal, more than 6 months following the DVD/BluRay release in the UK.  If I live to be 100, I'll never understand why they did it this way, but there you have it.

'AS-YET-UNTITLED'...

Musictap is reporting that an 'as-yet-untitled' album from Joe Walsh is on the schedule for June 5 on Fantasy Records.

Direct Current also lists the release for June 5 - and says it's Analog Man.

ELO-40 PROMOs

It appears the advance promos for the 40th Anniversary edition of 'Electric Light Orchestra' have been unleashed.  UK release day for the real thing comes 12 March 2012 on CD/DVD and vinyl.

Meanwhile, Spin CDs is saying the album has been remastered again...

ELO’s eponymous debut album has been painstakingly remastered for its 40th Anniversary and expanded with over two hours of bonus material. Now spanning a CD/DVD double, the album includes the original Quad mix in DTS 96kHz/24 bit 4.1 surround sound, the original stereo master in high-resolution 96kHz/24 bit PCM, the original ‘10538 Overture’ promo film and extensive liner notes charting the history of the release.

If there's a substantial improvement over the 2001 edition, I will be surprised... unless they are just referring to the DVD...

COMING SOON: A TRIBUTE TO McCARTNEY

The Hollywood Reporter is reporting that a Paul McCartney tribute disc is now in the works, and that Jeff Lynne is contributing to it.  No timeline for a release yet, but the project may also include a video featuring 'sessions-in-progress' with some of the participants which include Billy Joel, Brian Wilson, B.B. King and The Cure...

It sounds like we're a ways out from this one, but stay tuned nonetheless...