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Release Round-Up: Week of March 7

March 7, 2025 By The Second Disc 1 Comment

Neil Young Oceanside Countryside

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of the new titles available today.  As an Amazon affiliate, we earn from qualifying purchases. Yes, Close to the Edge: Super Deluxe Edition (Rhino/Atlantic) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Rhino.com (with signed lithograph) Yes' fifth album, Close to the Edge, returns as a 5CD/LP/Blu-ray set anchored by new surround (Dolby Atmos and 5.1) and stereo remixes by Steven Wilson. This Super Deluxe box follows in the

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Blu-Ray, Blu-Ray Audio, Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Electronic, Pop, Rock Tags: A.J. Croce, Benmont Tench, Eric Burdon, Fernando Perdomo, Jethro Tull, Kraftwerk, Lady Gaga, Neil Young, The Move, Van Halen, War, Yes

Release Round-Up: Week of February 28

February 28, 2025 By The Second Disc Leave a Comment

A Complete Unknown OST CD

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of the new titles available today.  As an Amazon affiliate, we earn from qualifying purchases. Bon Jovi, Slippery When Wet: Deluxe Edition (Mercury/UMe) 2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Picture Disc: Official Store Liquid-Filled LP: Official Store Cassette: Official Store After celebrating their debut album with a deluxe edition last year, Bon Jovi will offer similar treatment to their biggest album:

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Blues, Classic Rock, Classical/Opera, Folk, Jazz, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Bob Dylan, Bon Jovi, Carla Olson, Ella Fitzgerald, Eugene Ormandy, Gene Clark, Godley and Creme, John Lee Hooker, Sex Pistols, Supertramp, The Beckies

Release Round-Up: Week of February 21

February 21, 2025 By The Second Disc Leave a Comment

Nik Kershaw The MCA Years

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of the new titles available today.  As an Amazon affiliate, we earn from qualifying purchases. David Lee Roth, The Warner Recordings 1985-1994 (Warner/Rhino) 5CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 5LP: Rhino.com Diamond Dave's got a whole new shine, thanks to a new box set from Rhino. David Lee Roth's The Warner Recordings 1985-1994 includes the four LPs (and one EP) the iconoclastic singer released outside of

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Classical/Opera, Country, Disco/Dance, Folk, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal Tags: Bill Medley, Carla Olson, David Lee Roth, Dead or Alive, El Coco, Gene Clark, Gloria Hunniford, Melanie, Nik Kershaw, Rufus Wainwright, Souled American

Release Round-Up: Week of February 14

February 14, 2025 By The Second Disc 5 Comments

Melanie Ace o'Diamonds

Happy Valentine's Day! Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of the new titles available today.  As an Amazon affiliate, we earn from qualifying purchases. Melanie, Ace o' Diamonds: The Lost Broadway Musical (Cleopatra) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) In the early 1980s, singer-songwriter Melanie lent her talents to the score of a new musical intended for Broadway.  Ace o' Diamonds, with a book by Ed Kelleher and Seymour Vall, revolved around the

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Folk, Pop, Rock Tags: Melanie, Rick Springfield, Robert Palmer, Sabrina Carpenter

Do the Cocomotion: Cherry Red, Robinsongs Bring El Coco's Disco Floor-Fillers to CD on New Collection

February 13, 2025 By The Second Disc 2 Comments

El Coco Four Albums

C'mon, baby, do the Cocomotion!  On February 21, Cherry Red's Robinsongs label will unveil a new 4-albums-on-2-CD collection from disco outfit El Coco.  The deluxe 2-CD set presents Brazil (1975), Mondo Disco (1975), Let's Get It Together (1976), and Cocomotion (1977) along with three bonus tracks; all albums except Let's Get It Together are making their CD debuts, with Let's Get It Together only briefly available on CD 20 years ago in Japan. El Coco was the brainchild of Laurin Rinder and W.

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Disco/Dance, R&B/Soul Tags: El Coco

Rhino Readies Nearly 50 Titles for Record Store Day Including Titles from Fleetwood Mac, The Doors, Joni Mitchell, More

February 10, 2025 By The Second Disc Leave a Comment

Rhino RSD 25

As usual, Rhino is leading the Record Store Day pack with a whopping slate of almost 50 titles scheduled to arrive in independent shops everywhere on Saturday, April 12.  The label has brought out many of its heaviest hitters, including Fleetwood Mac, David Bowie, Black Sabbath, The Doors, Joni Mitchell, and Jethro Tull, among others.  Head over to RecordStoreDay.com for the complete list of participating stores, and below you'll find details for all of Rhino's releases!  We've linked to the

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Jazz, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: a-ha, Air, Belly, Black Sabbath, Blur, Bobby Charles, Count Basie, David Bowie, Fleetwood Mac, Giorgio Moroder, Gloria Jones, Grateful Dead, Ice-T, James Blunt, Jet, Jethro Tull, John Williams, Joni Mitchell, Mel Brooks, Morphine, Peter Tosh, Ramones, Record Store Day, Ry Cooder, Starship, Stone Temple Pilots, The B-52's, The Cure, The Doors, The Jayhawks, The Replacements, The Veronicas, Todd Rundgren, War, Warren Zevon, Yes

Release Round-Up: Week of February 7

February 7, 2025 By The Second Disc 1 Comment

Version 1.0.0

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of the new titles available today!  As an Amazon affiliate, we earn for qualifying purchases. WAR, Live in Japan 1974 (Rhino/Avenue) 2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada​ Rhino's ongoing refresh of the WAR catalogue continues with its first release of 2025: a set of previously unheard live material from the band's tour of Japan, more than half a century ago and

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: CCM, Classic Rock, Folk, Funk, Pop, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Amy Grant, Don Julian, Harold Wheeler, Melanie, R.E.M., The Donnas, Various Artists, War, Wilco, Wildside

Craft Recordings Unveils RSD Slate with Vince Guaraldi, Celia Cruz, Thelonious Monk, Collective Soul, More

February 6, 2025 By The Second Disc 3 Comments

record store day logo

Mark your calendars for Saturday, April 12 - that's the date this year for Record Store Day, the date upon which fans, collectors, and everyone in between flocks to local independent record stores and hopefully gives those brick-and-mortar stores a leg up for the year!  The full list has been posted, and here at TSD, we'll start today by spotlighting various releases from some of our favorite labels!  Craft Recordings is among those labels, and they've just announced a batch encompassing jazz,

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Categories: News Formats: Vinyl Genre: Jazz, Latin, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: A Day to Remember, Carla Thomas, Celia Cruz, Collective Soul, Gerry Mulligan, Record Store Day, Thelonious Monk, Vince Guaraldi, Willie Colon

Release Round-Up: Week of January 31

January 31, 2025 By The Second Disc 5 Comments

Dwight Twilley Scuba Divers

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of the new titles available today.  As an Amazon affiliate, we earn from qualifying purchases. Dwight Twilley, Scuba Divers: Blueprint Edition (Iconoclassic) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) The road to Dwight Twilley's second album, 1982's Scuba Divers, was a long one.  Now, Iconoclassic Records is expanding that 10-track album with a whopping 15 bonus tracks (11 of which are previously unreleased) chronicling

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Categories: News Genre: Classic Rock, Folk, Jazz, Pop, Rock Tags: Dwight Twilley, Loudon Wainwright III, Rumer, Steely Dan, The Beat, The English Beat

Out of This World: Verve Record Club Promises Heavyweight Vinyl Pressings and Rarities

January 30, 2025 By The Second Disc 7 Comments

Verve Record Club

Verve Label Group is getting into the subscription vinyl game with the recently-announced Verve Record Club. The new monthly venture will offer fans new vinyl pressings of classic albums from the Verve, Impulse!, Mercury, CTI, Decca and MGM label catalogues, promising titles by John Coltrane, Nina Simone, Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald, Bill Evans, Billie Holiday, Ahmad Jamal and Sarah Vaughan, to name a few. The new pressings will all be remastered from the original analog tapes by Ryan K.

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Categories: News Formats: Vinyl Genre: Jazz Tags: Bill Evans, Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, John Coltrane, Louis Armstrong, Nina Simone, Stan Getz

Release Round-Up: Week of January 24

January 24, 2025 By The Second Disc Leave a Comment

A Complete Unknown OST

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of the new titles available today!  As an Amazon affiliate, we earn from qualifying purchases. Badfinger, Head First: 50th Anniversary Edition (Y&T) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Head First, originally intended to be Badfinger's eighth album and third for Warner Bros. Records, was recorded in 1974 but shelved until 2000.  That release presented a rough mix by Apple Studios engineer Phil McDonald; now, 25

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Folk, Pop, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Badfinger, Bob Dylan, Dan Fogelberg, Eric Clapton, Jeannie Piersol, Tim Weisberg, Van Morrison

The Weekend Stream: January 18, 2025

January 18, 2025 By The Second Disc 1 Comment

Stream 2025

Welcome to The Weekend Stream, The Second Disc's review of notable catalogue titles (and some new ones, too!) making digital debuts!   This week, we're heavy on the classic rock plus a vintage soundtrack, a dash of modern classical, and more!  Fleetwood Mac, Live from the Record Plant (December 15, 1974) (Rhino) (iTunes / Amazon) Coinciding with its standalone vinyl debut as part of Rhino's Start Your Ear Off Right, this vintage pre-Buckingham/Nicks Fleetwood Mac concert hit digital

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Categories: News Formats: Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Classic Rock, Classical/Opera, Jazz, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Barbara Mason, Fleetwood Mac, INXS, Monk Higgins, Neil Young, Phil Collins, Rufus Wainwright, The Doors

Release Round-Up: Week of January 17

January 17, 2025 By The Second Disc 1 Comment

Be My Valentine, Charlie Brown

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of the new titles available today!  As an Amazon affiliate, we earn from qualifying purchases. Vince Guaraldi, Be My Valentine, Charlie Brown: Original Soundtrack Recording (Lee Mendelson Productions) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) The Lee Mendelson family continues its series of debut releases from the Peanuts animation library with this premiere audio release of the score for 1975's Be My Valentine, Charlie

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Disco/Dance, Jazz, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Soundtracks Tags: Ari Axelrod, Gracie Abrams, Various Artists, Vince Guaraldi

Release Round-Up: Week of January 10

January 10, 2025 By The Second Disc 2 Comments

Ringo Starr Look Up

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of the new titles in stores today.  As an Amazon affiliate, we earn from qualifying purchases. Rosanne Cash, The Essential Rosanne Cash (Rumble Strip) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) After a website-exclusive release, The Essential Rosanne Cash hits retail today.  This newly-curated set brings together 40 of Cash's most treasured recordings - half from her tenure on Columbia Records and the other from mostly

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Country, Pop, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Auli'i Cravalho, Joan Armatrading, Little Richard, Ringo Starr, Rosanne Cash, T Bone Burnett

Rhino's 2025 Start Your Ear Off Right Campaign Features Fleetwood Mac, Ramones, Rush, More

January 6, 2025 By The Second Disc 6 Comments

Rhino Start Your Ear 2025

We've already filled you in on details of Rhino's upcoming live release from WAR, but that's not all coming from the label.  Rhino's annual Start Your Ear Off Right vinyl campaign has already commenced at independent retailers and select Barnes and Noble locations.  This year's slate encompasses releases from Dream Theater, Ramones, Fleetwood Mac, ZZ Top, Grateful Dead, Rush, and others. Below, you'll find the complete list of SYEOR titles due this month, including those which arrived last

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Categories: News Formats: Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Funk, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Allen Toussaint, Dream Theater, Eddie Hazel, Fleetwood Mac, Grateful Dead, Lindsey Buckingham, Ramones, Rush, The Cult, The English Beat, Yes, ZZ Top

Release Round-Up: Week of December 13

December 13, 2024 By The Second Disc Leave a Comment

Never Too Much Greatest Hits

It's Friday the 13th, but it just might be your lucky day for reissues!  Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of the titles available today.  As an Amazon affiliate, we earn from qualifying purchases. Luther Vandross, Never Too Much: Greatest Hits (Epic/Legacy) 2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada In conjunction with a new documentary film, Legacy Recordings issues a new double-disc anthology of the

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Holiday, Pop, R&B/Soul Tags: Anais Mitchell, David Grisman, Foghat, Jason Robert Brown, Jefferson Starship, Jerry Garcia, Luther Vandross, Stephen Sondheim, The Doobie Brothers, The J. Geils Band, Wham!, Yachtley Crew

Whistlin' Tunes That You Know: Rhino Launches 'Reserves' Audiophile Series with Allen Toussaint and Eddie Hazel

December 11, 2024 By The Second Disc 7 Comments

Rhino Reserves

Rhino has announced the launch of new audiophile vinyl series: Rhino Reserves. The series kicks off on January 31, 2025 as part of the label's annual Start Your Ear Off Right campaign available exclusively through Rhino.com and select retail outlets (typically independent record stores and Barnes & Noble locations) with Allen Toussaint's Southern Nights and Eddie Hazel's Game, Dames, and Guitar Thangs. Going forward, each Rhino Reserves title will be pressed locally by the California-based

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Categories: News Formats: Vinyl Genre: Funk, R&B/Soul Tags: Allen Toussaint, Eddie Hazel

Release Round-Up: Week of December 6

December 6, 2024 By The Second Disc 2 Comments

Laura Nyro Hear My Song

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of the new titles out today.  As an Amazon affiliate, we earn from qualifying purchases. Laura Nyro, Hear My Song: The Collection 1966-1995 (Madfish) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Madfish) Over three years after the release of its 8LP vinyl box set American Dreamer 1967-1978, the Madfish label is returning to the discography of late singer-songwriter Laura Nyro for the 19CD box set Hear My Song: The

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Folk, Holiday, Jazz, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Al Jarreau, Bill Evans, Bing Crosby, Christopher Cross, Flamin' Groovies, Henry Mancini, Jesse Malin, Laura Nyro, Lucinda Williams, Melanie, Nancy Wilson, Roxette, The Blasters, The Rolling Stones

THE SECOND DISC'S 2024 HOLIDAY GIFT GUIDE IS HERE!

December 2, 2024 By The Second Disc Leave a Comment

George Harrison Living in the Material World 50th SDE Cover

Well, today is Cyber Monday, which means one thing at Second Disc HQ: it's time to launch our annual Holiday Gift Guide, featuring (more than) a few of our favorite things for the music enthusiast in your life.  Sure, we might not have included raindrops on roses or whiskers on kittens, but we've filled the guide with over 50 essential selections: sprawling box sets and deluxe vinyl editions, as well as noteworthy releases on CD from favorite artists that just might make great stocking stuffers.

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Categories: Holiday Gift Guide Formats: Box Sets, CD, Vinyl Genre: Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Classical/Opera, Comedy, Country, Disco/Dance, Folk, Funk, Holiday, Jazz, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rock

The Second Disc's Guide to Record Store Day Black Friday 2024

November 29, 2024 By The Second Disc 2 Comments

RecordStoreDayBlackFriday RSDBF logo

From all of us here at Second Disc HQ to all of you, we hope you've enjoyed a wonderful Thanksgiving in the company of beloved family and friends. (And with plenty of delicious food, too!)  Now, Record Store Day's annual Black Friday event is upon us, so we're spotlighting a dozen of the most eagerly anticipated releases arriving to your local independent brick-and-mortar record shop! Here are our personal picks for RSD BF must-haves; visit Record Store Day's official website for a list of

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Categories: News Formats: Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Comedy, Funk, Holiday, Jazz, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Billie Eilish, Carl Stalling, Christopher Cross, Curtis Mayfield, Herbie Hancock, Isaac Hayes, Jack Urbont, Jesse Ed Davis, Leon Russell, Olivia Rodrigo, Phil Collins, Record Store Day, Steve Martin, Utopia, War, Whitney Houston

Release Round-Up: Week of November 29

November 29, 2024 By The Second Disc 2 Comments

Eric Clapton Crossroads 2023

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up!  While most labels are concentrating today on Record Store Day's Black Friday releases, we've chosen to spotlight a few non-RSD titles out today, as well.  As an Amazon affiliate, we earn from qualifying purchases. Tommy Steele, On Air (Stage Door Pop) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Stage Door Records' Pop imprint celebrates The Happiest Millionaire and Half a Sixpence star Tommy Steele with On Air, a collection of 31 tracks culled

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Blu-Ray, Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, DVD, Vinyl Genre: Blues, Classic Rock, Country, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Dorsey Burnette, Eric Clapton, Heather Nova, Leo Sayer, Mercury Rev, Sparks, Taylor Swift, Todd Rundgren, Tommy Steele, War

Mellow as a Shower on a Summer's Day: SoulMusic Celebrates Nancy Wilson on "You're as Right as Rain: The Capitol Albums 1970-1980"

November 26, 2024 By The Second Disc 12 Comments

Nancy Wilson SoulMusic

For over 20 years, Nancy Wilson was a mainstay of the Capitol Records label.  Deftly blending jazz, pop, soul, and rhythm and blues, the late chanteuse's distinctive tone anchored collaborations with the illustrious likes of Billy May, George Shearing, Cannonball Adderley, Kenneth Gamble and Leon Huff, Thom Bell, Eugene McDaniels, and numerous others.  A sprawling new box set from Cherry Red's SoulMusic Records in association with The Second Disc brings her second decade with Capitol into sharp

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Jazz, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul Tags: Nancy Wilson

Release Round-Up: Week of November 22

November 22, 2024 By The Second Disc 8 Comments

Beatles 1964 US Albums in Mono box

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of the new titles in stores today including a Christmas classic from Second Disc Records/Real Gone Music and a whole bunch of massive box sets!  As an Amazon affiliate, we earn from qualifying purchases. Mormon Tabernacle Choir, Sings Christmas Carols (Expanded Edition) (Second Disc/Real Gone)  (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Real Gone Music) Over the past decade, we here at TSD have happily partnered with Real

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Blu-Ray, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, DVD, Vinyl Genre: Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Country, Disco/Dance, Electronic, Everything Else, Gospel, Holiday, Jazz, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Andrew Lloyd Webber, Ariana Grande, Bon Jovi, Chicago, Cynthia Erivo, Don Henley, Jeff Goldblum, Joe Henderson, Judas Priest, McCoy Tyner, Miles Davis, Motley Crue, New Order, Nicole Scherzinger, Olivia Newton-John, Simple Minds, Stephen Schwartz, The Beatles, The Mormon Tabernacle Choir, Thompson Twins, U2

Release Round-Up: Week of November 15

November 15, 2024 By The Second Disc 8 Comments

George Harrison Living in the Material World 50th SDE Cover

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of the new titles available today...and, with the holidays approaching, it just might be the biggest release week of the year!  As an Amazon affiliate, we earn from qualifying purchases. George Harrison, Living in the Material World: 50th Anniversary (Dark Horse) 2CD/2LP/1BD/1-7": Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Blu-Ray, Blu-Ray Audio, Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Blues, Classic Rock, Comedy, Country, Disco/Dance, Folk, Holiday, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Burton Cummings, Dolly Parton, Donna Summer, Dwight Twilley, Elvis Costello, George Harrison, George Jones, Jimmy Reed, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Max Werner, Mickey Thomas, Misery Signals, Prince, Ray Charles, Ringo Starr, Robbie Robertson, Robert Gordon, Steve Martin, T Bone Burnett, The Tragically Hip, The Unfolding, Tina Turner

I Just Found Out: Robert Gordon's Expanded, Remastered "Rock Billy Boogie" Arrives on Friday from 7a Records

November 13, 2024 By The Second Disc 3 Comments

Robert Gordon Rock Billy Boogie

This Friday, 7a Records celebrates a late, great rockabilly revivalist with the expanded reissue of Rock Billy Boogie from Robert Gordon on both 180-gram vinyl and CD.  The 1979 album, featuring the lead guitar of Chris Spedding, marked Gordon's major label breakthrough and remains perhaps his finest (half) hour on record. Far more so than many of the so-called "new Elvises" that cropped up, the Maryland native captured the young Presley's rebel spirit and joyful swagger.  He had musically

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Rock Tags: Chris Spedding, Link Wray, Robert Gordon

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