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Release Round-Up: Week of March 9

March 9, 2018 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up!

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Jimi Hendrix, Both Sides of the Sky (Legacy/Experience Hendrix)

CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada
LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada

The latest collection of posthumously-released material from Jimi Hendrix arrives in CD, vinyl, and digital formats, featuring 13 songs recorded between January 1968 and February 1970 - ten of which are previously unreleased, including performances with Stephen Stills of Joni Mitchell's "Woodstock" and the original song "$20 Fine."

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Eva Cassidy, Songbird 20 (Blix Street) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada)

The late Eva Cassidy's 1998 posthumous collection Songbird has been remastered and expanded for its 20th anniversary with four acoustic bonus versions of "Songbird," "Wade in the Water," "People Get Ready," and "Autumn Leaves."

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Marillion, Brave: Deluxe Edition (Parlophone/Rhino, 2018)

4CD/1Blu-Ray: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada
5LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada

Following the release of last year's remixed expansion of Misplaced Childhood, neo-prog rockers Marillion are jumping ahead to one of their top albums of the 1990s to reissue: 1994's Brave, their seventh album. A 4CD/1Blu-ray expanded box set of the album arrives today from Parlophone/Rhino including Steven Wilson's remixes in both 5.1 surround and stereo!  The 5-LP version will feature Wilson's remix of the original album and the live material on vinyl.Read more here!

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Uncle Walt's Band, Anthology: Those Boys From Carolina, They Sure Enough Could Sing... (Omnivore) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada)

Omnivore delivers the first-ever anthology dedicated to Uncle Walt's Band, a rootsy South Carolina collective that gained fame on the Texas music scene in the 1970s and early 1980s.

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Tania Chen with Thurston Moore, David Toop, and John Leidecker, John Cage: Electronic Music for Piano (Omnivore) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada)

Omnivore revisits the music of the late experimental composer John Cage with this newly-recorded performance of a little-known 1964 Cage composition in which he instructed the performer playing it to select parts of his Music for Piano 4-84 and use electronic equipment; the rest was left up to the performer - in this case, Tania Chen and a group of Cage devotees including Thurston Moore.

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Leonard Bernstein, Complete Recordings on Deutsche Grammophon & Decca (Deutsche Grammophon) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada)

Another massive box collecting the Leonard Bernstein oeuvre arrives today, this one a limited, numbered set with 121 CDs, 36 DVDs, and a Blu-ray Audio disc collecting the maestro's early recordings for Decca and late-period work at DG.

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David Byrne, American Utopia (Nonesuch) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada)

The adventurous artist and Talking Heads founder returns with his first solo album in 14 years, featuring a number of songs co-written by his frequent collaborator Brian Eno.  Available on CD, digital, and vinyl.

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Various Artists, Memphis Rent Party (Fat Possum) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada)

Fat Possum has a companion album (available on digital platforms and vinyl) to author Robert Gordon's new book exploring the blues, rock, and soul of music capital Memphis.  The album includes previously unheard recordings by Jerry Lee Lewis, Alex Chilton, and more!

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Justin Hinds, Know Jah Better / Travel with Love (Omnivore)

Know Jah Better: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada
Travel with Love: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada

Omnivore continues its series from the Nighthawk Recordings catalogue with two more deluxe reissues including an expanded reissue of Justin Hinds and the Dominoes' 1984 ska/rocksteady classic Travel with Love!

Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Classical/Opera, Folk, Pop, Rock Tags: David Byrne, Eva Cassidy, Jimi Hendrix, John Cage, Justin Hinds, Leonard Bernstein, Marillion, Tania Chen, Uncle Walt's Band

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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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