[macfan 57]

Originally Posted by BklynBlue

The entire Blue Horizon catalog, from Fleetwood Mac and Chicken Shack to Duster Bennett and Top Topham and the sessions done with American bluesmen such as Champion Jack Dupree and Bukka White, in addition to the original 3 CD "Blue Horizon Story" box set, and the long promised follow up to that, were supposed to start coming out last year.
Sony Music Corporation controls all the rights and it is not Mike Vernon who is holding up release. The material has been remastered and there promises to be a lot of previously unissued material on each.
I have seen artwork for the Duster Bennett "Complete Blue Horizon Sessions" (a double CD) and also for the Champion Jack Dupree set (again, two CDs) and the word was that they were to be issued this past April. Obviously that never came to pass.
It seems as if Sony keeps holding off on releasing this material until they feel they have sufficient demand to justify the pressing and shipping of the discs.
A few of those LPs were released on disc, such as the Christine Perfect and the Chicken Shack material. The session Green, McVie and Fleetwood did with Eddie Boyd "7936 South Rhodes Avenue" was released on the "Beat Goes On" label, but it would be nice to have the single "The Big Boat" and "Sent For You Yesterday" included on the same disc.
Ironically, those two tracks were once part of "Pious Bird of Good Omen" but were deleted when the disc was remastered for the box set!
"Hip-O" a subsidiary of the Universal Group has been selling (at outrageous prices) special editions of material from the Chess catalog, available on line only - the "Rhino Handmade" would be another example - and if Sony does not believe there is enough demand to warrant traditional release, we may one day see this material become available with type of limited distribution.
Of course, that allows them to set the price and hold to it, but at least it would be available

Thanks for the update. I thought Mike Vernon was the problem. Even if it's for an outrageous price, I would still want the Christine Perfect & Chicken Shack material just for the previously unreleased tracks.