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Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers “Mojo”

Sheryl Crow “100 Miles From Memphis”
The title and sound of 100 Miles from Memphis can’t help but recall Dusty in Memphis, Dusty Springfield’s 1969 blue-eyed soul classic, but Sheryl Crow’s 2010 album isn’t quite a strict homage to Dusty. Crow draws from many of the same ‘60s sources as Springfield, but she also dabbles in reggae (thanks to the chunky guitar of Keith Richards on “Eye to Eye”) and digs into the cool, seductive ‘70s groove of Hi, channeling Al Green on a sleek reworking of Terence Trent D’Arby’s “Sign Your Name,” complete with support from Justin Timberlake. Add to this the extended funk coda of “Roses and Moonlight,” the hippie singalong of “Long Road Home” and one of Crow’s signature good-time social-conscious raising anthems in “Say What You Want” and 100 Miles from Memphis boasts a considerably more expansive palette than Dusty in Memphis, yet it’s all bonded by its smooth, soulful groove due in part to the co-production from Doyle Bramhall II and Justin Stanley. This pair gives 100 Miles a sound that’s recognizably Southern yet has a distinctly sunny vibe not too for removed from Crow’s sun-kissed debut Tuesday Night Music Club, of which this shares a similar spirit, if not sensibility. Tuesday Night Music Club is loose and open where this is focused and sustained, maintaining its charming, relaxed groove from beginning to end. There’s an ease to this record that’s not often heard on Sheryl Crow’s albums and its light touch is thoroughly appealing.
-All Music GuideElvis Presley “Elvis On Tour” DVD
15 cities. 15 nights. Catch him if you can! The show is over but the fans cry out for what every Elvis Presley fan wants. More! Then, an announcer speaks the words the packed house doesn’t want to hear: “Elvis has left the building.” But what an incredible show lingers in minds and hearts. Elvis on Tour is the Golden Globe-winning Best Documentary chronicle of Presley’s whirlwind 15-cities/15-nights 1972 tour. They are nights to remember, paced here with more than 25 numbers that embrace the rocker Elvis, the gospel Elvis, the ballad Elvis, even the kung-fu Elvis. In between tour stops come more moments to treasure–montage sequences (supervised by Martin Scorsese) showcasing Presley’s early career and movies. -Amazon.com

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All $4.95  pre-owned CD’s and DVD’s in our budget section have recently been reduced to $3.95! 

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Selling LPs?

Vinyl records make (another) comeback!

Considering selling your LP collection?   Because All That Music & Video is the most important seller and buyer of new and used vinyl records in the region, you will want to bring them to us first!

• As a public service, ATMV is happy to offer sellers free appraisals of their LP collections.   We will grade, sort, and appraise your LP’s as our time permits.
• LPs have recently made another comeback at All That Music & Video and are now more accessible to our customers!   We have allocated more space to offer you thousands of collectible records by many of the most in-demand music artists.
• See our frequently renewed supply of specially priced pre-owned LPs by sorted by Pop-Rock, Various Artists, Jazz, Country, Vocal-Nostalgia and 12” classics.  For many years and because of low demand, LPs were removed from the sales floor due to space limitations. We now invite you to join-in the latest comeback of LPs by selling and buying LPs at ATMV!

In the 1980’s, when CD technology replaced LPs as the primary format for recorded music, it was predicted that vinyl records would quickly become obsolete.   They mostly became obsolete for a time. But before long, LPs made somewhat of a comeback thanks to their use by Club DJS; rock bands that insisted on releasing their music on vinyl as well as CD; young and old collectors of LPs who never really went away; and a few audiophiles that insisted that their favorite music sounded better recorded in analogue on LP than on CD or other digital formats.

There are some things you should know about selling your LPs.  ATMV will give you the best price possible for LPs that have some value.  However, we ask our customers to be realistic about the value of their record collections.  Typically there are more copies of the same records available for sale, and not enough buyers.  The law of “supply and demand” dictates that an overabundant supply and little or no demand, equals little or no value.  Also consider the fact that we are presently warehousing over 20,000 records in storage.   Many of those records are multiples of the same records you may be selling.  We accumulate so many used records that periodically we throw out the duplicate copies and keep only the better ones.  We see perhaps an estimated 500 to 1-thousand records weekly, not all of which are we prepared to purchase.  However, we still seek-out quality-collectible LPs that may turn up, as we offer our library of LP recordings to record-hounds and collectors at fair prices.

As a rule, an average collection of 100 records may contain less than 20% of items that may have any commercial appeal, provided that the general condition of the LP and cover are not seriously diminished.   The rest, while at one-time perhaps bonafide best sellers, are now no longer in demand.   Buyers simply are not seeking these artists or titles.  If they are, they’re purchasing the CD version to replace their original LP.  Generally speaking, with decades of time, more records are worth less – fewer are worth more.

Record value in part can be correlated to stamp & coin collecting standards.  That is, the better the condition the better odds the item will have any value.  But just because the LP is in good condition, doesn’t necessarily mean it has any value or collectability.  Quite the contrary, if the LP was never or rarely played, it was probably of little interest to its original owner, so would anybody be interested in it now?  If your LP’s were played and enjoyed frequently, chances are the album has suffered from moderate to serious groove wear.  Not to mention broken seams, tattered covers, writing-on the record cover or vinyl, scratches, scuffs, etc.  On the other hand, if the LP is a historic critically acclaimed item, and has been meticulously cared for with minimal play, then there is a chance it could be worth something.  That is, of course, if it is not a common recording.  See the list below to see examples of recordings that are of little or no value and examples of collectible artists and recordings that may hold some value, pending condition.

Hope you’ve gotten a better understanding of our appraisal process.  Don’t be disappointed with our bid.  Be realistic. We’ve spent the last 30 years learning what’s-in and what’s not, and use that knowledge to buy and sell fairly and strategically.

We recommend that you keep any records that have emotional or sentimental value, because generally speaking, 80% of the LP’s in any collection are common and have little or no value. For those, we may only pay-out pennies, nickels, and dimes at best.  The other 20% may have a value of 25 cents to $1.00 dollar or more.  True collectibles may command $5 to $25 dollars at the wholesale level. Good Luck!

LP Demand – “Studs & Duds”

“Studs” (Sought-After Artists on LP)

The artists below are only a sampling of many LP’s that are in demand.

Generally speaking, any Rock ‘n Roll, Psycaldelic, Punk, R&B, or Chicano Rock LP from the (50’s-80’s) era, are high in-demand.  The edgier, more obscure, or rarer – the better.

• Animals
• Beatles (original Vee-Jay & Apple)
• Beatles solo albums by Lennon, McCartney, Harrison, or Starr
• Berry, Chuck (early Chess)
• Bowie, David (early)
• Brown, James (early king and Federal)
• Clark Dave Five
• Cooke, Sam (early Keen and RCA)
• Creedence Clearwater Revival
• Crystals, The (on Phillies)
• Domino, Fats (early Imperial)
• Doors & Jim Morrison
• Dylan, Bob (early Columbia)
• Gaye Marvin (early Tamla)
• Hendrix, Jimi
• Jives
• Led Zeppelin
• Little Joe and the Latinaries
• Malo
• Pickett, Wilson
• Pink Floyd
• Presley, Elvis (early RCA)
• Price Lloyd (early ABC Paramount)
• Rolling Stones (early London)
• Ronettes, The (on Phillies)
• Sunny and the Sunglows (Sun liners) on Sunglow or Teardrop
• Turner, Joe (early Atlantic)
• Wells, Mary
• Zappa Frank (early Verve)

“Duds” (Least Sought-After Artists on LP)

The artists below are only a sampling of many LP’s that are not in demand. Often many of these types of records are routinely abandoned or donated. We cannot pay cash on many of the artists on this list.

Generally speaking, any Classical, string, house orchestra, instrumental, or no-name budget LPs from the 60s-70s also fall into this category.

• Alpert, Herb or Tijuana Brass
• Ames, Nancy
• Campbell Glen
• Conniff, Ray
• Crosby, Bill
• Denver, John
• Diamond, Neil
• Enoch Light
• Faith, Percy
• Ferrante and Teicher
• Four Freshmen
• Grateful Dead
• Hall and Oates
• Hirt, Al
• Joel, Billy
• John, Elton (on MCA)
• Kaempfert, Bert
• Kingston Trio
• Lettermen
• Living Strings
• Guy Lombardo
• Longines Symphony
• Mancini, Henry
• Manilow, Barry
• Mantovani
• Martin, Dean
• Miller, Mitch
• Moody Blues
• Newton-John, Olivia
• Readers-Digest recordings
• Rogers, Kenny
• Simon, Carly
• Streisand, Barbra
• Warwick, Dionne
• Welk, Lawrence
• Williams, Roger
• Wilson, Nancy

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Oldies Event
w/ Raw Deal, Asi Band, The Nights Owls, Little Mike & The Blue Kings
Sunday August 29th, 2010
@ Club 101 (1148 Airway)
$16 (singles) $26 (Couples)

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Marina & The Diamonds “The Family Jewels”

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Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers-”Mojo”
It was once said that “the longer you live, the better you get.” In recording Mojo, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers took to the studio in a way they hadn’t done before (at least to such an extent); not only did the group go into recording the album with an entirely blank canvas—the decision was made to go into Mojo without any demos in hand—but much of the album was essentially recorded live: no headphones, each member facing each other while they played out their ideas. Speaking to Greg Kot of the Chicago Tribune, Petty shed some light on the process, “This is a record we couldn’t have made in the ’70s and ’80s because we weren’t really good enough as musicians.” He continued, “We’re using our age as a plus in this sense, in that we’ve become better musicians.” It would seem that Petty would agree with the statement of aging gracefully, if only in terms of he and his band’s musical evolution. And if Mojo is the evidence that we have to either confirm or deny whether Petty and the Heartbreakers have gotten better or worse with age, it would seem wholeheartedly irrational to argue the latter.

In 2006 Tom Petty released his third solo album, and first in over a decade, Highway Companion. That same year a number of other veteran acts (Young, Springsteen, the Who, Frampton, John, Meat Loaf, etc.) joined Petty in releasing new material, though the majority of the releases proved the initial quote to have plenty of exceptions. It’s fitting that those aforementioned words were muttered by Bob Dylan as he also released an album in 2006 (Modern Times); one that serves up even more evidence supporting the quote. While Highway Companion was expectedly strong, the album eventually claimed spots on a myriad of year end lists, it doesn’t resonate in the same way as Mojo; which might, once again, relate to Bob Dylan. Further along in his interview with Kot, Petty revealed the prime influence on Mojo, “For the last 10, 11 years, I’ve been immersed in blues. That’s what I listen to all the time and we got caught up in that vibe on this record.” It might be a bit of a stretch, but Dylan’s last two albums (or at least the last two albums that weren’t nut-bar crazy) also cracked at the seams with the blues. Putting the similarities to Dylan and the focus on the blues aside for a moment however, the album actually does have its fair share of tracks that sound like the Heartbreakers of old; even if Mojo‘s opening song is titled “Jefferson Jericho Blues.”

Tom Petty & The Heartbreaker’s new album “Mojo” is available at All That Music & Video
for only $16.99!

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Here’s a new artist that I recently came across that I felt would be worth sharing.

About Tinashe, in his own words.

I was originally shipped over from Zimbabwe so I could eventually grow to become a doctor/lawyer and wire money back home via Western Union, that didn’t go so well… I blame/thank MJ.

I smiled & nodded to avoid bullying over my African accent at school until the Eastenders elocution lessons started to pay off… I can now slip in between both rather seamlessly… I grew up in Hackney. I will always be a Hackney boy but I’m enjoying being in a state of flux. Life is bigger than London.

I’m currently more in love with my guitar than I have ever been. I make guitar music. I am not ashamed to say l love pop music. That’s what its all about for me. Good music fuelled by the world around me.

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BOBBY FULLER – EL PASO ROCK VOL. 3 (Early Recordings)
The long awaited third volume of Texas-era recordings from Bobby Fuller & the Fanatics, including a mess of sensational unissued live recordings and rarities!

I Fought The Law / You Made Me Cry / Nervous Breakdown / Wolfman / Jenny Lee (Do The Jerk With Me) / Nancy Jean / Summertime Blues / Somethin’ Else / Thunder / A New Shade Of Blue / New Orleans/Little Bitty Pretty One / Only For You / Wine Wine WIne / You Kiss Me / Skag / Let Her Dance / Saturday Night / She’s My Girl / Pretty Girls Everywhere / Faraway / Pamela / The Fanatic / Do You Wanna Dance / Nervous Breakdown / Nancy Jean / California Sun

Now available at All That Music & Video!

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Los Angeles—Anticipation is high for the early 2010 release of “Keep On Movin’,” the much-whispered about debut CD from Tommy Mora.  While Tommy has earned his stripes as a respected guitarist and band leader, studio engineer to the stars, and musical director for Grammy presentations, this CD bristles with the rock, blues and funk that have become Tommy Mora’s trademark.

Whether urging the listener to “Live It Up” by following your dreams with a solid bed of guitar that recalls when we weren’t afraid to rock, or reflecting on his Southwestern heritage for letting us know he is “On His Way” in a power rock rumba that is part flamenco, part Norteño, but still truly rock and roll.  While the sound is fresh and contemporary, it harkens to the roots where rock and roll came from.  After all, “Old school is the ONLY school, you either went to school or you didn’t.” Tommy has the distinction of not only being an “A” student, but a fully-tenured professor.

“Going Down To The Border” gives a nod to the Chicano funk rock that was born in the ‘70’s brought to the mainstream by Carlos Santana, which has always been a staple of Tommy’s repertoire, fused with Hendrix/Zeppelin.  “Tell Me” shows the influence of another seminal Texan, Freddy Fender.  The CD title track “Keep On Movin” is a tribute to his Mother who recently passed away and underscores the message of moving on even with the loss of a very special loved one. Thus, is the title of the CD.

From beginning to end, all 13 tracks from “Keep On Movin” rock and groove and bump-she-bumps in the manner that only a true veteran of both the English and Spanish rock scenes could conceive and deliver After all, Mr. Mora has served as recording engineer for cliental ranging from Prince, to Jennifer Lopez, to Al Green, while acting as musical director for Alejandro Fernandez at the Latin Grammys.

Long regarded as one of the best live acts in the spread between Los Angeles and El Paso, the legion of Tommy Mora fans soon will have what they have been asking for—the CD that captures this incredible musician’s live energy, Chicano soul, and catchy songs. In his debut CD, Tommy again and again proves the era of the guitar hero has not died, but just been re-defined.   Are you ready for “Keep On Movin” from RMC Records?  It will remind you of what rock was meant to be.

Associated Content recently published an article on their website about
El Paso music legend, Bobby Fuller.

Click HERE for the article.

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