Unissued Jackie DeShannon acoustic demos surface as Girl Of Yesterday

Singer/songwriter Jackie DeShannon's acoustic folk demos collection Girl Of Yesterday is out now via Real Gone Music. Check out a few tracks below. 

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Love Forever, our 2025 set of demos from Grammy-winning singer-songwriter Jackie DeShannon, set collector hearts a-flutter all over the world with its collection of introspective, folk rock-flavored tunes drawn from her unreleased recordings for Metric Music Publishing. Now, we’re one-upping ourselves with Girl of Yesterday-Acoustic Folk Demos, a collection of COMPLETELY UNRELEASED acoustic folk demos from Jackie, taken from the same rich source of material.

Folk music came naturally to Jackie. She got her start singing gospel at home and in church as a child in her native Kentucky, and then singing country songs in her teens on her own weekly radio show. And her first, self-titled album for Liberty in 1963 consisted entirely of folk repertoire. But that album only featured folk songs written by other artists. Girl of Yesterday—Acoustic Folk Demos, on the other hand, presents a dozen tunes, all penned by Jackie for an album distributed by Metric in 1964. Accompanied only by her own accomplished fingerpicked acoustic guitar, DeShannon delivered a stunning set of heart-rendingly sung, haunting music imbued with the doubt, confusion, and excitement of finding adult identity. Although grounded in acoustic folk, it looked forward to both folk-rock and the singer-songwriter era in its lyrical maturity and melodic complexity. Only 500 to 1000 copies were pressed in November 1964, its availability limited to various A&R personnel and other music industry staff who made decisions with recording artists looking for material. With Girl of Yesterday—Acoustic Folk Demos, this remarkable material finally gains the exposure it deserves.

Among the highlights are a couple of songs that were soon covered by famous artists. Certainly the most renowned is “Don’t Doubt Yourself, Babe,” given a Bo Diddley beat by The Byrds (Jackie was a huge Byrds booster and fan) on their Top Ten 1965 debut album Mr. Tambourine Man, though it was titled “It’s Gonna Be All Right” on her far folkier arrangement on the original Metric Music demo LP. And Marianne Faithfull covered the superbly bittersweet “With You in Mind” on her 1967 album Love in a Mist. We also hear the first appearance of “Splendor in the Grass,” later a 1966 DeShannon single given backing by The Byrds. Richie Unterberger’s notes feature candid recollections from Jackie about the motivations behind the songs and the vibrant, mid-‘60s LA scene from which they emerged. Remastered by Mike Milchner at Sonic Vision and featuring photos from Jackie’s private collection, Girl of Yesterday—Acoustic Folk Demos is available in a beige vinyl edition or on compact disc. A missing and utterly charming chapter in both Jackie’s own evolution and the progression of American folk and pop to more sophisticated forms.

You can get a vinyl copy of Jackie DeShannon's Girl Of Yesterday album right here. Check out a few song clips following the track listing below. 

Jackie DeShannon – Girl Of Yesterday

1. Girl of Yesterday

2. What’s It All About

3. New Thoughts

4. To Be Myself

5. It’s Gonna Be All Right

6. With You in Mind

7. Your Heart Is Missing

8. Splendor in the Grass

9. Hand Made Silver Ring

10. You Could Break My Heart

11. Too Far Out

12. Still Around

Vinyl reissue of The Bottle Rockets' Brooklyn Side comes with extra tracks

The 30th anniversary edition of The Bottle Rockets' classic 1994 album The Brooklyn Side boasts six bonus tracks!

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Our landmark 1994 album "The Brooklyn Side" (produced by Eric "Roscoe" Ambel) will be released on vinyl for the very first time for Record Store Day on Saturday, April 20.

Real Gone Music spared no expense to create a beautiful and definitive version of this beloved album. 2-LP Set. All analog pressing! Mastered for vinyl and lacquer cutting from the original tapes by Scott Hull at Masterdisk. Includes an entire side of bonus tracks. Pressed on fire orange coloured vinyl. Limited to 1500 copies worldwide! And a special shout out to Eric Ambel for his much appreciated work on this album and pulling everything together for the reissue. It wouldn't have happened without him.

The Bottle Rockets - The Brooklyn Side 2LP

Welfare Music/ Gravity Fails/ I’ll Be Comin’ Around/ Radar Gun/ Sunday Sports/ Pot Of Gold/ 1000 Dollar Car/ Idiot’s Revenge/ Young Lovers In Town/ Take Me To The Bank/ What More Can I Do?/ Stuck In A Rut/ I Wanna Come Home/ Queen Of The World/ Truck Driving Man (Album Outtake)/ Get Down River (Thirsty Ears Radio Performance)/ This Is What It Sounds Like When You’re Listening To Lindsey Buckingham/ Building Chryslers (Album Demo)/ Smokin' 100's Alone (Album Demo) / Indianapolis (Bonus Track)

Robbie Basho's lost Vanguard recordings issued on vinyl

Real Gone Music has released Robbie Basho's Songs of the Great Mystery as a 2LP set on clear vinyl limited to 1000 copies.

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Robbie Basho was one of the big three American acoustic guitar innovators, John Fahey and Leo Kottke being the other two. Basho was the least commercially successful of the three, but his influence and reputation has steadily grown since his untimely death in 1986 at the age of 45. And with good reason; for Basho's deeply spiritual approach, intellectual rigor, and formal explorations (among his goals was the creation of a raga system for American music), present a deeply compelling, multi-faceted artist. Basho was actually a college friend of John Fahey, and his early recordings (like Kottke's) were for Fahey's Takoma label. Following Fahey 's move to Vanguard, Basho followed suit, and released Voice of the Eagle and Zarthus for the label in 1972 and 1974, respectively (his most commercially successful records were made for the Windham Hill label later in the decade).

Flash forward to 2009: Vanguard contacted guitarist (and long-time Basho champion) Glenn Jones with the intriguing news that an unreleased Robbie Basho album session had recently been found, on a tape that, alas, lacked any real documentation. It was only 12 years later, when Jones, in the process of researching the liner notes for this release, discovered the truth: that not just the mysterious tape but both Voice of the Eagle and Zarthus were the result of one marathon session in 1971 or 1972 recorded in New York City by Vanguard staff engineer Jeffrey Zaraya.

Songs of the Great Mystery: The Lost Vanguard Sessions, then, takes its place as the third of the triumvirate of albums Basho recorded for the label, and it is their equal in every way, exploring, in particular, some of the same Native American themes found on Voice of the Eagle. Some of the tunes showed up on later albums in much different forms; 1978's Visions of the Country featured 'A Day in the Life of Lemuria' (re-titled 'Leaf in the Wind') and 'Night Way,' and 'Laughing Thunder, Crawling Thunder' went through various permutations before appearing on 1981's Rainbow Thunder as 'Crashing Thunder.' But for Basho fans, the originals will probably steal the show, particularly 'Song of the Great Mystery,' which, unlike some of the songs here that showcase Basho's singing and piano-playing, brings to the fore his amazing six-string guitar technique and touch.

Vanguard briefly put these sessions up digitally when they were located, but Real Gone Music's release represents the first time they have come out in any physical form (and the alternate take of 'A Day in the Life of Lemuria,' also discovered by Jones, has never been heard anywhere). Featuring track-by-track annotation, rare photos (including Basho's own handwritten notes found in the tape box), and remastering by Mike Milchner of SonicVision, Songs of the Great Mystery: The Lost Vanguard Sessions is a timely release heralding the release of a new documentary and an upcoming Basho box set. Available on CD or on a double-LP set pressed in clear vinyl limited to 1000 copies at Gotta Groove Records and housed inside a gatefold jacket. You can get a copy directly from Real Gone Music right here. Listen to "Laughing Thunder, Crawling Thunder" and "A Day in the Life of Lemuria" followed by the track listing below.





Robbie Basho – Songs of the Great Mystery: The Lost Vanguard Sessions

SIDE ONE
1. A Day in the Life of Lemuria
2. Night Way
3. The Butterfly of Wonder

SIDE TWO
1. Laughing Thunder, Crawling Thunder
2. Thunder Sun

SIDE THREE
1. Kateri Tekakwitha
2. Thunder Love

SIDE FOUR
1. Song of the Great Mystery
2. Death Song
3. A Day in the Life of Lemuria (Alternate Take)