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Release Round-Up: Week of March 22

March 22, 2019 By Sam Stone Leave a Comment

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up.  Here's what's on the way today, March 22!

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Aretha Franklin, Amazing Grace: The Complete Recordings (Rhino/Atlantic Catalog Group) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada)

Amazing Grace: The Complete Recordings presents Aretha Franklin's iconic concerts at the New Temple Missionary Baptist Church in Los Angeles during January 1972 in full.  Both the Thursday night and Friday night sets are accounted for, spread across four 180-gram LPs.  For more about the Amazing Grace vinyl reissue, check out our post here!

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Aretha Franklin, Songs of Faith: Aretha Gospel (Geffen/UMe) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada)

Songs Of Faith: Aretha Gospel offers nine gospel standards recorded by a 14-year-old Aretha in 1956 at the New Bethel Church in her native Detroit, where her father, the legendary Rev. C.L. Franklin, would give his inimitable sermons. Predating her tenure on Columbia Records by six years and her breakthrough on Atlantic Records by more than a decade, these primitive piano-and-vocal recordings offer a fascinating early listen to one of the most original and captivating voices in recorded history. This vinyl release features new liner notes by David Ritz and a discographical history of these tracks. The uDiscover store will offer an exclusive white vinyl pressing. For more about Songs of Faith: Aretha Gospel, check out our post here!

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John Lennon and Yoko Ono, The Wedding Album (Secretly Canadian/Chimera Music)

CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada
White Vinyl Box Set: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada
CD + LP + T-shirt bundle: Secretly Canadian Online Store
Clear Vinyl Edition: Rough Trade Online Store

Today, just over 50 years after the couple's marriage, John Lennon and Yoko Ono's avant-garde Wedding Album will be re-released.  John and Yoko were married in Gibraltar near Spain and rather than a traditional honeymoon, they embarked on a press tour promoting world peace in what became their famous Bed-In. Wedding Album provides a snapshot of these moments. There's "John & Yoko," a call-and-response duet featuring the newlyweds calling out each other's names; Yoko's "John, John, Let's Hope for Peace"; interview snippets; John's a cappella reading of The Beatles' "Good Night." Altogether, it's a humorous, spontaneous album that celebrates the early days of the pair's union.  On the packaging front, the LP editions of Wedding Album include faithfully recreated memorabilia. The CD, meanwhile, will be presented in a six-panel layout with an extensive booklet.

The Secretly Canadian Online Store is also offering a limited-edition bundle including the CD, LP box set, and t-shirt at a discounted price. Meanwhile, independent retailer Rough Trade has a clear vinyl edition available, limited to just 300 copies.  To learn more about the new reissue of Wedding Album, take a look at our post here!

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Megadeth, Warheads On Foreheads (Capitol/UMe) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada)

Metal titans Megadeth will ring in their 35th anniversary this year, and they're letting fans in on the celebration with a new, 35-song career retrospective called Warheads On Foreheads. This anthology includes tracks from their entire studio career, from their debut, Killing Is My Business...And Business Is Good, to their 2017 Grammy winner, Dystopia. It will be availble in a 3-CD configuration; digital download and streaming; a standard, black vinyl 4-LP version; and a limited-edition 4-LP "metallic silver" color vinyl set that is available only from Megadeth's online store, as are a number of deluxe merchandise bundles. Read more about Warheads On Foreheads in our announcement post here!

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Van Morrison, The Healing Game: Deluxe Edition (Legacy/Exile)

3-CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada
1-LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada

Legacy is revisiting Van Morrison's 1997 return to his R&B roots with The Healing Game: Deluxe Edition in 3-CD and digital formats; these releases will be joined by a single-LP vinyl edition of the original album only. This comprehensive set rounds up all of the associated bonus tracks with the album plus a disc of Sessions and Collaborations (with 15 tracks, 10 of which are previously unreleased), and the first official release of Morrison's 1997 concert at Montreux.  Find out more about the reissue here!

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New Order, Temptation (Rhino) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada)

Celebrate New Order's debut album, Movement, with the newly remastered, heavyweight vinyl reissue of their 12″ single featuring the full-length versions of "Temptation" and "Hurt."  To learn more about the Temptation single and other singles in the series, check out our piece here!

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Whitesnake, Slide It In: 35th Anniversary Edition [2-LP] (Rhino) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada)

Whitesnake's 1984 album Slide It In celebrates its 35th anniversary this year. The album was the last to feature Jon Lord on keyboards and boasted such hits as "Slow an' Easy" and "Love Ain't No Stranger," both of which cracked the Top 40 on the Billboard charts. On March 22, the album will be celebrated with a new 2-LP collection that features the 2019 remasters of the original U.S. and U.K. mixes.  You can read more about the Slide It In reissue campaign here!

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Kate Bush, The Other Sides (Rhino) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada)

Previously available in the third volume of Kate Bush Remasters box sets (see our review arriving later today!), The Other Sides is now available as a stand-alone 4-CD set that features B-sides, covers, 12" single remixes, soundtrack material, an unreleased demo and other rare tracks.

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Bill Evans, At The Montreux Jazz Festival (Analogue Productions) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada)

Originally released fifty years ago, Bill Evans' At the Montreux Jazz Festival won the Grammy for Best Jazz Instrumental album for its thrilling music, which includes Eddie Gomez on bass and Jack DeJohnette on drums, accompanying the piano virtuoso Evans.  For this new reissue, Analogue Productions has enlisted Bernie Grundman, who mastered the title from the original analog tapes and pressed onto 200-gram vinyl at Quality Record Pressings.  It promises to be a superb addition to your record library.

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Bernard Herrmann, Vertigo (OST) (Varese Sarabande) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada)

Bernard Herrmann was undoubtably one of the greatest of the film composers, contributing iconic scores for Citizen Kane, Psycho, and Taxi Driver, among others.  His score for Hitchcock's Vertigo remains one of his most enduring pieces.  To recognize the film's 60th anniversary, Varese Sarabande has reissued the soundtrack, remastered from the original analog tapes and pressed onto 180-gram vinyl at RTI and housed in a tip-on sleeve printed at Stoughton.

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Motley Crue, The Dirt: Soundtrack (Motley Records) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada)

The Dirt is a new Netflix bio-pic that explores "the unbelievable story of the world's most notorious band, Motley Crue."  To accompany the film, Motley Records will release its soundtrack on CD on March 22.  In addition to 17 of their hits, the album will also include three new tracks:  "Ride with the Devil," "Crash and Burn," and a cover of Madonna's "Like a Virgin."

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Robin Trower, Coming Closer To the Day (Provogue)

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

Guitar legend Robin Trower returns with a new, twelve-song collection entitled Coming Closer To the Day.  Both the CD and LP configurations will be available today.

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Randy Bachman, Bachman (FilmRise) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada)

Arriving on March 26 is the new documentary, Bachman.  The film tells the story of Guess Who/Bachman-Turner Overdrive member Randy Bachman, with the help of Neil Young, Alex Lifeson, Buffy Sainte-Marie, and Fred Turner.  It will be released on DVD through FilmRise.

Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, DVD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Everything Else, Gospel, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Aretha Franklin, Bernard Herrmann, Bill Evans, John Lennon, Kate Bush, Megadeth, Motley Crue, New Order, Randy Bachman, Robin Trower, Van Morrison, Whitesnake, Yoko Ono

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Sam Stone has been obsessed with catalog music ever since his folks gave him a Contours best-of collection for his fourth birthday. He quickly began to learn all he could about rock and roll history and beyond, a passion that continues to this day. Sam followed his love for music to the classroom, earning a B.A. from Towson University in Electronic Media and Film, concentrating on radio and audio production, as well as an M.A. in Audio Arts from Syracuse University. He has put his knowledge and skills to work at prominent reissue labels and is excited to bring his perspectives on catalog music to a broader audience. When he’s not writing for The Second Disc, Sam can be found researching about music, talking about Joni Mitchell’s career, and adding another box set to his Amazon wish list.

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