Release Round-Up: Week of April 14

April 14, 2017 By Joe Marchese — No Comments

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up!

Michael Nesmith, Infinite Tuesday: Autobiographical Riffs – The Music (Rhino) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada)

Rhino Records offers a 14-track companion CD to Michael Nesmith’s memoir Infinite Tuesday – An Autobiographical Riff (due on April 18). This collection has tracks from Nesmith solo as well as The Monkees and The First National Band, charting his singular and often-trailblazing work over the decades. Read more here! The book is available next Tuesday, April 18, at Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada, and a special limited vinyl edition of the companion is available via Nesmith’s VideoRanch.

Billy Porter, The Soul of Richard Rodgers (Masterworks Broadway) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada)

The Tony Award-winning Kinky Boots star brings a modern-day soul and hip-hop spin to the classic melodies of Richard Rodgers, and he’s joined by Deborah Cox, Ledisi, India.Arie, Pentatonix, Todrick Hall, and fellow Tony winners Cynthia Erivo, Patina Miller, and Hamilton‘s Leslie Odom Jr. and Renee Elise Goldsberry!

John Mayer, The Search for Everything (Columbia) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada)

Singer-songwriter-guitarist John Mayer collects tracks from two digital EPs and adds another handful of songs to create his seventh full-length studio album.

That’s it for this week, folks! Next week picks up with a more packed slate of releases!

Categories:

Release Round-Up

Formats:

CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming

Genres:

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

Tags:

Billy Porter, John Mayer, Michael Nesmith, Richard Rodgers, The Monkees

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.