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Richard Gehr | March 21, 2007

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  • Amazon.com takes advantage of other retailers' woes by enhancing its classical music offerings with a Classical Blowout store. In a move reminiscent of the Nonesuch label's classical bargains of the 1960s, Amazon is reducing the prices on more than 2,000 classical albums to as low as five dollars.

  • Alison Krauss is touring with bluegrass guitarist Tony Rice in April and May, and then with her own Union Station band in June and July.

  • The Traveling Wilburys' (Bob Dylan, George Harrison, Tom Petty, Jeff Lynne, and Roy Orbison) two mysteriously out-of-print releases, Volume 1 and Volume 3, will be reissued on by Rhino on June 12 in a single package including a 24-minute documentary.

  • Wynton Marsalis, Cesaria Evora, Wayne Shorter, Manu Chao, Keith Jarrett, Seu Jorge, Roy Haynes, Derek Trucks, Mark Murphy, Billy Cobham, Dave Holland, The Spaghetti Western Orchestra, and Tortoise 28th edition of the Festival International de Jazz de MontrĂ©al, June 28 to July 8.

  • Usually raucous and electric Southern rollers Drive-By Truckers will play a kinder, gentler, and more acoustic version of themselves during a shortish spring tour.

  • Former Grateful Dead keyboardist Bruce Hornsby is developing a Broadway musical with an unfortunate tentative title.

  • Country singer Brad Paisley's Bonfires & Amplifiers Tour rolls on through the end of the year.

  • R&B singer Luther "If Loving You Is Wrong (I Don't Want to Be Right)" Ingram dead at 69. He performs it here.

  • Julie Taymor, director of the Broadway version of Disney's The Lion King, is experiencing creative conflicts over her forthcoming film Across the Universe, described by The New York Times as a "$45-million psychedelic love story set to the music of the Beatles."

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