Legacy Podcasts

The series concludes with the story of “Army,” featuring its live performance from a 2008 one-off Ben Folds Five reunion show recorded for Myspace.  Remember Myspace?

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In stores now from Legacy Recordings – Ben Folds: The Best Imitation of Myself – 3CD career spanning compilation includes hits, live tracks and rarities from his years with Ben Folds Five and as a solo artist. Also includes three brand new Ben Folds Five songs recorded earlier this year – “House,” “Tell Me What I Did” and “Stumblin Home Winter Blues.” More details are also online at benfolds.com.

“From Above” is one of Ben’s collaborations with the author Nick Hornby for their 2010 release, Lonely Avenue.

Ben Folds - Best Imitation of Myself - Part 9 [ 1:38 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

In stores now from Legacy Recordings – Ben Folds: The Best Imitation of Myself – 3CD career spanning compilation includes hits, live tracks and rarities from his years with Ben Folds Five and as a solo artist. Also includes three brand new Ben Folds Five songs recorded earlier this year – “House,” “Tell Me What I Did” and “Stumblin Home Winter Blues.” More details are also online at benfolds.com.

“There’s Always Someone Cooler Than You” is one of those sort-of rarities that is actually quite well known.  Instead of any official studio album, it came from  Sunny 16, a 2003 digital EP that was popular enough to hit #1 on the itunes sales chart.

Ben Folds - Best Imitation of Myself - Part 8 [ 1:51 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

In stores now from Legacy Recordings – Ben Folds: The Best Imitation of Myself – 3CD career spanning compilation includes hits, live tracks and rarities from his years with Ben Folds Five and as a solo artist. Also includes three brand new Ben Folds Five songs recorded earlier this year – “House,” “Tell Me What I Did” and “Stumblin Home Winter Blues.” More details are also online at benfolds.com.

“Rocking the Suburbs” as Ben’s thesis on how much of pop culture comes from the burbs, not the cities.

Ben Folds - Best Imitation of Myself - Part 7 [ 1:48 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

In stores now from Legacy Recordings – Ben Folds: The Best Imitation of Myself – 3CD career spanning compilation includes hits, live tracks and rarities from his years with Ben Folds Five and as a solo artist. Also includes three brand new Ben Folds Five songs recorded earlier this year – “House,” “Tell Me What I Did” and “Stumblin Home Winter Blues.” More details are also online at benfolds.com.

The interesting tale of “Landed” – the smash hit that never was and the big-budget Paul Buckmaster string arrangement.

Ben Folds - Best Imitation of Myself - Part 6 [ 1:49 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

In stores now from Legacy Recordings – Ben Folds: The Best Imitation of Myself – 3CD career spanning compilation includes hits, live tracks and rarities from his years with Ben Folds Five and as a solo artist. Also includes three brand new Ben Folds Five songs recorded earlier this year – “House,” “Tell Me What I Did” and “Stumblin Home Winter Blues.” More details are also online at benfolds.com.

The awesomeness of “Underground,” the breakthrough track from Ben Folds Five’s self-titled debut.

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In stores now from Legacy Recordings – Ben Folds: The Best Imitation of Myself – 3CD career spanning compilation includes hits, live tracks and rarities from his years with Ben Folds Five and as a solo artist. Also includes three brand new Ben Folds Five songs recorded earlier this year – “House,” “Tell Me What I Did” and “Stumblin Home Winter Blues.” More details are also online at benfolds.com.

Legacy Podcasts celebrates Wynton Marsalis’ 50th birthday by launching the “Swinging into the 21st” series – looking back on the variety of themes present in the series of 10 albums he recorded for Columbia and Sony Classical 1999-2000.

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In stores now from Legacy Recordings – Swinging into the 21st – Saluting Wynton’s 50th birthday by looking back on his groundbreaking 1999 series of 10 albums, available now from the Wynton at 50 store in a variety of unique, collectible configurations – including the “Taste of New Orleans” bundle pictured below.

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In stores now from Legacy Recordings – Paul Simon – Songwriter – 2CD compilation of 32 great moments from his solo career. Includes all his solo hits, some deep album cuts and one brand new track, “The Sound of Silence” recorded live at New York City’s Webster Hall in June 2011.  This podcast series also includes music from Paul Simon’s most recent album, So Beautiful or So What, in stores now from Hear Music/Concord.

Legacy Podcasts celebrates Wynton Marsalis’ 50th birthday by launching the “Swinging into the 21st” series – looking back on the variety of themes present in the series of 10 albums he recorded for Columbia and Sony Classical 1999-2000.

Wynton Marsalis - Swinging into the 21st - Part 3 [ 7:51 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

In stores now from Legacy Recordings – Swinging into the 21st – Saluting Wynton’s 50th birthday by looking back on his groundbreaking 1999 series of 10 albums, available now from the Wynton at 50 store in a variety of unique, collectible configurations – including the “Taste of New Orleans” bundle pictured below.

The “Young Man with the Big Beat” series concludes with more classic songs rare Elvis interview clips about his own feelings about all the positive and negative reactions to his earliest live performances.

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In stores now from Legacy Recordings – The Elvis Presley: Legacy Edition features his landmark RCA debut album plus more masters from those 1956 sessions on 2 discs.   The Young Man with the Big Beat 5-CD box set adds three more discs of previously unreleased outtakes, live tracks and interviews in a deluxe package with expanded liner notes and collectibles as pictured below. More details at elvisthemusic.com.