The Sophisticated Audiophile

Under the Great White Northern Lights Boxset – Unboxed!

The Under the Great White Northern Lights Boxset is awesome. It’s certainly not cheap, but like all things White Stripes, you can either get it now while it’s in print, or pay a lot more once it goes out of print.

Here are a few unboxing pictures.

Limited Red 45 - Only in the boxset

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Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings – When I Come Home

If you pre-order the upcoming Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings album “I Learned the Hard Way”, you will receive a 45 of the track “When I Come Home”. It’s a killer cut that is not on the album. Act fast, this will be gone fairly quickly! Click here to pre-order.

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Hank Mobley – No Room For Squares (45rpm)

Analogue Productions 45rpm version of Hank's classic

In my opinion, one of the biggest injustices in jazz music is the lack of recognition Hank Mobley receives. He certainly deserves it. When you think about the tenor sax, you think of names like John Coltrane and Sonny Rollins. Very seldom does the name Hank Mobley get lumped into the pantheon of all time greats. A shame really. Jazz critic, Leonard Feather described Hank as the middleweight champ, insinuating that he could not hang with the likes of John Coltrane and Sonny Rollins who were the heavyweights.

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