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Tom Verlaine’s Brilliant Final Three Records Return to Vinyl and Streaming: Album Reviews
The final three albums from late Television cofounder Tom Verlaine, one of the most influential guitarists of his generation, are finally re-released.
Verlaine released 10 solo albums but largely tailed off after the turn of the century (only half of them are available on streaming services); more often, you’d see him working at the Strand bookstore on Broadway in the East Village, essentially returning to a place where it all began. His three final albums — two instrumentals, 1992’s “Warm and Cool” and “Around,” and the vocal “Songs and Other Things,” both from 2006 — will receive an expanded and very welcome reissue via Real Gone Music, beginning today with the first above, following with the others on July 12 and August 9, respectively — returning (or being released for the first time) to vinyl and streaming services. Verlaine toured fairly regularly over the years, solo and with Television, but these long unavailable albums, originally released on the Rykodisc and Thrill Jockey labels, were basically it for his recording career.
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