Release Round-Up: Week of February 3

February 3, 2015 By Joe Marchese — No Comments

Tony Joe White: The Complete Warner Bros. Recordings (2-CD Set) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.) / George Jones & Tammy Wynette: Songs of Inspiration (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.) / Bobby Lance: First Peace/Rollin’ Man (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. ) / Jerry Williams: Gone (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.) / Various Artists: Apollo Saturday Night/Saturday Night at the Uptown (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.) / John Hall: Power (Expanded Edition) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.) / Ray Kennedy: Ray Kennedy (Expanded Edition) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.) / Grateful Dead: Dick’s Picks Vol. 12—Providence Civic Center 6/26/74 & Boston Garden 6/28/74 (3-CD Set) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.)

Real Gone Music kicks off February with a packed slate of vintage R&B, country, pop and rock. You can read the full details on all of the above titles right here!

Bob Dylan, Shadows in the Night (Columbia) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.)

Dylan’s thirty-sixth studio album finds the troubadour turning back the clock for a set of ten American standards written between 1923 and 1963 by such composers and lyricists as Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II, Irving Berlin, Cy Coleman, and Jimmy McHugh. Watch for Joe’s review later today! Available on CD, LP/CD combo and DD!

Diana Krall, Wallflower (Verve) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.)

For her latest LP, jazz pianist and chanteuse Diana Krall reinterprets selections from the modern pop songbook by Elton John (“Sorry Seems to Be the Hardest Word”), Eagles (“I Can’t Tell You Why,” “Desperado”), 10cc (“I’m Not in Love”), Leon Russell (“Superstar”), Gilbert O’Sullivan (“Alone Again (Naturally),” a duet with Michael Buble), Randy Newman (“Feels Like Home,” a duet with Bryan Adams) and more. David Foster produces. Amazon U.S. has an exclusive deluxe edition with four bonus tracks – outtakes “In My Life” and “Yeh Yeh” (with Georgie Fame) and two live recordings. This edition is available from all retailers in the United Kingdom.

Categories:

Release Round-Up

Formats:

CD, Digital Download, Vinyl

Genres:

Classic Rock, Country, Jazz, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul

Tags:

Bob Dylan, Diana Krall, George Jones, Grateful Dead, Tammy Wynette, Tony Joe White

Joe Marchese

JOE MARCHESE (Editor) joined The Second Disc shortly after its launch in early 2010, and has since penned daily news and reviews about classic music of all genres. In 2015, Joe formed the Second Disc Records label. Celebrating the great songwriters, producers and artists who created the sound of American popular song and beyond, Second Disc Records, in conjunction with labels including Real Gone Music and Cherry Red Records, has released newly-curated collections produced and annotated by Joe from iconic artists such as Dionne Warwick, Diana Ross and The Supremes, Smokey Robinson and The Miracles, The Spinners, Johnny Mathis, Bobby Darin, Meat Loaf, Laura Nyro, Melissa Manchester, Liza Minnelli, Darlene Love, Al Stewart, Michael Nesmith, and many others.

Joe has written liner notes, produced, or contributed to over 200 reissues from a diverse array of artists, among them America, JD Souther, Nat "King" Cole, Paul Williams, Lesley Gore, Dusty Springfield, BJ Thomas, The 5th Dimension, Burt Bacharach, The Mamas and the Papas, Carpenters, Perry Como, Rod McKuen, Doris Day, Jackie DeShannon, Petula Clark, Robert Goulet, and Andy Williams.

Over the past two decades, Joe has also worked in a variety of capacities on and off Broadway as well as at some of the premier theatres in the U.S., including Lincoln Center Theater, George Street Playhouse, Paper Mill Playhouse, Long Wharf Theatre, and the York Theatre Company. He has felt privileged to work on productions alongside artists such as the late Jack Klugman, Eli Wallach, Arthur Laurents, Betty Comden and Adolph Green. In 2009, Joe began contributing theatre and music reviews to the print publication The Sondheim Review, and in 2012, he joined the staff of The Digital Bits as a regular contributor writing about film and television on DVD and Blu-ray.

Joe currently resides in the suburbs of New York City.