GB Music is proud to announce the release of three new
Elliott Murphy titles:

• The most recent studio album, simply titled "Elliott Murphy".
• A brand new full band live album recorded in New York last December titled "Just A Story From New York".
• A remastered reissue of the rare and out of print "Apres le Deluge".
• All three cds are in digipacks.

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From The Philadelphia Inquirer
Scott Kempner Tenement Angels (GB Music ***1/2)

This album sank pretty quickly when originally released in 1992, one of many disappointments in the tough-luck career of Scott Kempner. Now, hallelujah, it's back and remastered, and sounding better than ever.

Tenement Angels was Kempner's first solo record after the demise of the Del-Lords, the underappreciated rock quartet he led through the '80s (after being a charter member of another ahead-of-its-time group, proto-punks the Dictators). This time he was fronting bar-band extraordinaire the Skeletons, the perfect vehicle for his tuneful rock with its traces of everything from country to Memphis soul to '60s pop.

To borrow liberally from what we wrote in '92: As with the Del-Lords, several of Kempner's songs were inspired by his just-getting-by life in his native New York. One, the standout ballad "Lonesome Train," shares its title with the old rockabilly tune, but the train in question here is a subway car, which the singer rides to the now-devastated Bronx of his youth. The ruins he sees mirror his own sense of loss over the end of a romance.

The album is not always so somber. With numbers such as "You Move Me" and "I Wanna Be Yours," much of it glories in the simple pleasures of muscular rhythms, catchy choruses, and vibrant harmonies.

Amid flashes of get-tough New York pragmatism, Kempner still comes through as an unrepentant rock-and-roll romantic, and Tenement Angels bristles with the fervor of one who truly believes in the liberating power of the music. Don't miss it this time. - Nick Cristiano

GB Music is proud to announce the release of Scott Kempner's Tenement Angels on CD & LP.

Scott is a co-founder of two of the most legendary bands to emerge from New York City, The Dictators and The Del-Lords. The Vinyl is limited to 500 copies and each album comes with a free digital download and a hand signed poster. The CD & Vinyl are available on amazon.com, cdbaby.com and in fine music stores everywhere.