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December 7, 2019 Music Reviews

Holiday Gift Guide: The Year’s Best Music Box Sets

An expanded edition of The Beatles’ ‘Abbey Road’ and an anthology of influential country music are among my eight picks for outstanding box sets released in 2019.

September 4, 2019 Music Reviews

Music Review: ‘Elvis Live 1969’ Documents Presley’s Comeback, plus ‘Revisiting the Johnson City Sessions’

Elvis Presley had a lot to prove in 1969. A box set documents this key career juncture. Plus, a look at influential early country recordings.

November 8, 2017 Music Reviews

Music Reviews: ‘At the Louisiana Hayride Tonight’ Celebrates an Important Chapter in American Music, plus Johnny Nicholas and Jim Byrnes

The influential and star-making Louisiana Hayride is the focus of a massive new 20-CD box. Plus, CDs from Johnny Nicholas and Jim Byrnes

May 17, 1980 Music Reviews

Music Review: ‘Our Memories of Elvis, Volume 2’

Milking its limited supply of unreleased Elvis Presley tunes for all they’re worth and then some, RCA apparently plans to

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May 10, 1980 Book Reviews

Book Review: Diego Cortez’s ‘Private Elvis’ Offers Revealing Presley Photos

Though the text in Diego Cortez’s Private Elvis is rather choppy and mediocre, the predominant rare photos accomplish the author’s

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January 18, 1978 Book Reviews

Book Review: ‘My Life with Elvis,’ by Presley’s Secretary

My Life with Elvis, which promises “the fond memories of a fan who became Elvis’s private secretary,” has all the

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Now available: A paperback North American edition of Dylan on Dylan, Japanese editions of Lennon on Lennon and Dylan on Dylan, a Spanish edition of Leonard Cohen on Leonard Cohen, and an Italian edition of Dylan on Dylan.

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  • Music Reviews: Rolling Stones’ ‘Licked Live in NYC,’ plus ‘Americana Railroad,’ Beach Boys’ ‘Sounds of Summer,’ ‘United Dreadlocks,’ and Paul Winter’s ‘Concert in the Barn’
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