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New Doug MacLeod and Kansas City Symphony CDs On Sale
Announcing Two New RR Releases On Sale Through March 25th! Use our special discount code: NEW-RR and receive a 10% discount on one or both of these two new RR titles Enter the discount code when ordering There’s A Time New Midwest Record Review “All these years and all his collected praises later, he makes a new record, recorded live in the studio at Skywalker Studios and he still has the same cover pic smirk…
Doug MacLeod There’s A Time on Amazon Hot New Blues Release List
Doug MacLeod’s “There’s A Time” is already a Top-20 “Hot New Blues Release” on Amazon.com! Click the image below to see the full list and to pre-order There’s A Time from Amazon: Pre-order from Reference Recordings today!
Firebrand Magazine with an Early Review for Doug MacLeod’s There’s A Time
Firebrand Magazine has an early rave for Doug MacLeod’s new Reference Recordings release There’s A Time: “This is the blues in its most basic form, laid bare, and not updated, or dragged into this century by any means…I found myself being transported away on some invisible blue mist, to places I’d not visited before too often…this album is a showcase for just how beautiful a well played acoustic guitar can sound…you can’t say you’re a…
Doug MacLeod St. Elmo’s Room and Pool on RR Radio
Take a listen to Doug MacLeod’s full track “St. Elmo’s Room and Pool” on RR Radio: ‘Prof.’ Keith Johnson’s first blues recording! 13 new MacLeod originals highlight this richly detailed recording, done at Skywalker Sound in Marin County, CA. by our Grammy® winning engineer. Pre-Order Today!
Doug MacLeod Sampler on RR-Radio
A taste of what to expect from Doug MacLeod’s new Reference Recordings release There’s A Time: ‘Prof.’ Keith Johnson’s first blues recording! 13 new MacLeod originals highlight this richly detailed recording, done at Skywalker Sound in Marin County, CA. by our Grammy® winning engineer. Pre-Order Today!
Delibes Sylvia/Coppelia gets a rave from Home Theater HiFi
Our San Francisco Ballet Orchestra recording of Delibes: Sylvia and Coppélia gets listed as a Secrets of Home Theater and High Fidelity “Spring 2013 Secrets CD.” Here’s the posted review from Jason Victor Serinus (originally posted on San Francisco Classical Voice): “There are at least three compelling reasons to buy this recording. The music, suites drawn from Léo Delibes’ complete scores for the ballets Sylvia (first produced at Théâtre de l’Opéra, Paris, in 1876) and…
Classical CD Choice With Two Reviews of new Kansas City Symphony Elgar/Vaughan Williams Recording
Barry Forshaw and Graham Williams of the UK’s Classical CD Choice both have rave reviews of our latest Kansas City Symphony Elgar/Vaughan Williams recording: “History might be said to repeat itself in these utterly splendid American performances of Elgar and Vaughan Williams, with Michael Stern adopting an utterly persuasive approach to this music, stressing (if anything) its internationalism. What makes the disc particularly cherishable is the typically luxurious 24-bit sound quality afforded by Prof Johnson,…
Some Brazilian Soul this Valentine’s Day
Put some “Brasileiro Soul” into your Valentine’s Day celebrations this year: Watch on YouTube Available in HDCD Format AND HRx! Order RR-124 Securely from ReferenceRecordings.comOrder HR-124 Securely from ReferenceRecordings.com
Doug MacLeod – All I Have Is My Blues
In honor of Doug MacLeod’s new recording being available for pre-order, here’s a recent video of Doug performing “All I Have Is My Blues” live on WYCE’s “Songs from the Second Floor”: Watch on YouTube ‘Prof.’ Keith Johnson’s first blues recording! 13 new MacLeod originals highlight this richly detailed recording, done at Skywalker Sound in Marin County, CA. by our Grammy® winning engineer. Pre-Order Today!
Doug MacLeod There’s A Time Available for Pre-Order
‘Prof.’ Keith Johnson’s first blues recording! 13 new MacLeod originals highlight this richly detailed recording, done at Skywalker Sound in Marin County, CA. by our Grammy® winning engineer. Also featuring Doug’s longtime bassist Denny Croy and Jimi Bott, one of the most recorded, awarded and respected blues drummers in the world. Doug says: “Making this album was different than any other one I’ve done in the past,” recalls MacLeod about the sessions. “They put Jimi,…
Keith Johnson talks High Resolution
From Keith’s talks at the Rocky Mountain Audio Festival: Click to watch on YouTube
ClassicsToday Highly Recommends New Kansas City Symphony Recording
ClassicsToday rates our latest Kansas City Symphony Elgar/Vaughan Williams recording a 9/10 for Artistic Quality and a 10/10 for Sound Quality, while highly recommending the recording even if you have multiple recordings of the repertoire: “Michael Stern and his Kansas City Symphony take to the music as if to the manner born. The Wasps, here given as the complete suite and not just the overture, is delightful. “The finale is extremely impressive, aided by state-of-the-art…
One month left to vote for Doug MacLeod
Time is running out to register with The Blues Foundation and vote for Doug MacLeod to win the Acoustic Artist of the Year award! The Blues Foundation has nominated Doug MacLeod for the 2013 Acoustic Artist of the Year Blues Award. Voting is open until March 1, 2013. Doug MacLeod will be releasing his next recording, There’s A Time, on Reference Recordings in March 2013, and he isn’t the only artist on the coming CD…
Traveling Sonata artists perform Ourkouzounov Sonatine
Take a look at a new video from Traveling Sonata artists Viviana Guzman and Jérémy Jouve performing the Mouvement Bulgare movement (track 11) from Ourkouzonov’s Sonatine hommage à Theodosii Spassov: Watch on YouTube Order RR-128 “Traveling Sonata” Securely from ReferenceRecordings.com!
Las Vegas Review Journal Features Doug MacLeod
The Las Vegas Review-Journal has a fantastic and lengthy new feature on Reference Recordings artist Doug MacLeod: “Doug MacLeod picked up a bass guitar as a teenager because girls liked it. When that attention faded, he took to the microphone. Girls liked that even more. Now that he thinks about it, much of his musical career comes back to the same source. “It’s all about the girls,” says the blues singer… “A lot of people…