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Release Round-Up: Week of January 19

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Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up!

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Fleetwood Mac, Fleetwood Mac [Various Formats] (Reprise/Rhino)

CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada
2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada
3CD/DVD/LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada

The 1975 debut album by the Fleetwood Mac line-up of Lindsey Buckingham, Stevie Nicks, Christine McVie, John McVie, and Mick Fleetwood arrives in a variety of deluxe formats, including a 3CD/DVD/LP box with the remastered album on CD and vinyl, bonus singles, previously unreleased studio outtakes and a live concert recording, and a DVD with high-resolution stereo and surround mixes.

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Todd Rundgren, Something/Anything and A Wizard, A True Star Hybrid Stereo SACDs (Analog Spark)

Something/Anything: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada
A Wizard, A True Star: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada

Analog Spark has added luster to singer/songwriter/sonic auteur Todd Rundgren’s third and fourth classic studio albums with these new hybrid stereo SACD editions (playable on all CD players).  Both titles are packaged in mini-LP replica jackets with gatefolds.  These two albums – each radical in its own way – have never sounded better.

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Various Artists, Something Got a Hold on Me: The Ru-Jac Records Story, Volume One – 1963-1964 (Omnivore) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada)

Omnivore begins its four-volume series exploring the vaults of R&B indie Ru-Jac Records with this volume comprising 28 rare tracks (10 unreleased) from the period of 1963-1964.  Artists include Winfield Parker, Jeanne Dee, Little Sonny Daye, The Fruitland Harmonizers, The Jolly Jax, and more.

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Various Artists, Get Right: The Ru-Jac Records Story, Volume Two – 1964-1966 (Omnivore) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada)

Omnivore continues its four-volume trawl through the archives of R&B indie Ru-Jac Records with this disc featuring 22 rare and soulful tracks (7 previously unreleased) from artists like Arthur Conley, Brenda Jones, Harold Holt, and Winfield Parker!  Get the track listings to both volumes right here!

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Ten Years After, 1967-1974 (Chrysalis) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada)

The U.K. arm of Chrysalis rounds up the British blues-rock outfit Ten Years After’s studio output from 1967-1974 on this newly remastered 10-CD box set.

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The Hell Yeah Babies, All The Things That You Believe (Ribeye Guy Music) (iTunes / Amazon)

Longtime friends of The Second Disc, this indie New York rock quartet has released their first full-length album today – maybe a future Second Disc Records reissue! A must-hear if you like Cheap Trick or Sweet.

Joe Marchese

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, Second Disc Records, in conjunction with Real Gone Music, has released newly-curated collections produced by Joe from iconic artists such as Johnny Mathis, Bobby Darin, Laura Nyro, Melissa Manchester, Chet Atkins, and many others. He has contributed liner notes to reissues from a diverse array of artists, among them Nat "King" Cole, Paul Williams, Lesley Gore, Dusty Springfield, B.J. Thomas, The 5th Dimension, Burt Bacharach, The Mamas and the Papas, Carpenters, Perry Como, Rod McKuen, Doris Day, Jackie DeShannon, and Andy Williams, and has compiled releases for talents including Robert Goulet and Keith Allison of Paul Revere and the Raiders. 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.

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Comments

  1. How many times will they reissue Rumours? I have two already (the last one from 2013!) Not biting on this. How about give us something we actually WANT, like a proper Buckingham Nicks release? Good grief.

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    • It’s actually the self-titled album and aside from the single disc reissue from over a decade ago, it’s the first big deluxe reissue for this album, which I love.

      The Fleetwood Mac reissue campaign has been fantastic.

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      • My bad. But actually they did a one cd deluxe with five bonus tracks on this one too in 2004 so I’m good with that.

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  2. Bare Trees really needs to come out. & hopefully poor Danny Kirwan gets a piece of that pie. He is genius & this album deserves so much more & would b favorably heard by Buckingham Nicks fans. BTW Bare trees is a great FM album from ‘72 I believe. Anyone else for it?

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  3. Does anyone know the approximate packaging dimensions of the Ten Years After box set? Is it CD-sized (5″) or vinyl-sized (12″).

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  4. I’m hoping for some of Lindsey Buckingham’s early solo albums get a nice remastering soon. Law and Order would be nice. Rhino just did some of Stevie’s early solo discs recently.

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  5. There is a label in Korea that reissued Buckingham Nicks on CD in Mini LP packaging with bonus tracks. It is now out of print. I have been wondering if it was authorized. I was fortunate enough to get one. The sound is great and it was only 16.99 USD!

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    • Alas, that release is far from authorized, but hopefully one day Lindsey and Stevie will allow it to (legally) see the light of day again!

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      • That is what I suspected. Interesting that the BN Mini LP CD is back in stock on that website. I was sure that Lindsey had put the kibosh on it.

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