Following a well-received Go-Go's reunion in 1990, Belinda Carlisle returned to the studio to record her fourth studio album, Live Your Life Be Free. Likely the jaunt with her old bandmates inspired her, as the 1991 LP returned the singer to the sixties-inspired, girl-group milieu. Although Live Your Life failed to chart in the U.S., it hit the top ten in the U.K. and yielded four charting singles including the brisk and lusty "Do You Feel Like I Feel" which remains Carlisle's final U.S. hit
Holiday Gift Guide Review: The Doors, "L.A. Woman: 50th Anniversary Edition"
"Well, I've been down so goddamn long that it looks like up to me..." Jim Morrison knew of what he spoke. When The Doors entered Sunset Sound in November 1970 to record what would become their sixth studio album, L.A. Woman, the quartet was ready for a reboot. In September, Morrison had been convicted on profanity and indecent exposure charges related to a March 1969 concert in Miami. With an appeal in place, he was free on bail. But some radio stations had banned The Doors, and even concert
In Remembrance: Love Songs and Lost Treasures
Real Gone Music remembers the late, great B.J. Thomas with this new collection of rare and previously unreleased material drawn from both Thomas' personal archives and the vaults of Reprise and Warner Bros. Records. In Remembrance: Love Songs and Lost Treasures features 18 tracks, 13 of which are making their debut here, including all five songs which B.J. recorded for the 2008 independent film Jake's Corner, and tracks cut with producers Steve Dorff, Jim Ed Norman, and Stewart Harris. B.J.'s
Turn Around: The Complete Recordings 1964-1970
Cherry Red's Now Sounds label is back with its most impressive release yet: a stunning 8-CD box set from San Francisco's Beau Brummels. With both hit singles ("Laugh, Laugh," "Just a Little") and albums that have stood the test of time (Bradley's Barn, Triangle), the Brummels' 1960s discography stands as a miniature history of American pop music. Sal Valentino and Ron Elliott (together with, at various points, Ron Meagher, John Petersen, Declan Mulligan, and John Irving, plus a host of
The Spirit of the Season: Deluxe Edition
The a cappella group fusing traditional choral, gospel, pop, Broadway, and vintage barbershop quartet styles into a fresh, original sound is celebrating the most wonderful time of the year with a new deluxe edition of 2016's The Spirit of the Season. The joyful yuletide album features clever and intricate arrangements of Christmas classics both spiritual ("O Holy Night," "Mary Did You Know," "Go Tell It on the Mountain") and secular (an Andy Williams medley, another of childhood favorites such
Holiday Gift Guide Review: Elvis Presley, "Back in Nashville"
When Elvis Presley entered RCA's famed Nashville Studio B in June 1970, expectations were high. His last major recording sessions - not counting those for the Universal film Change of Habit - had taken place at Memphis' American Sound Studio with producer Chips Moman, resulting in the acclaimed From Elvis in Memphis LP. Could he follow up that career triumph? Many would argue that he did. Rather than strictly repeat the formula, he and producer Felton Jarvis crafted the concept album Elvis
The Jimmie Vaughan Story
5CD/1LP/1-7" single Deluxe Box Set: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 5CD Box Set: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada The Last Music Company has served up the ultimate tribute to blues-rock hero Jimmie Vaughan with this impressive new box set celebrating his 70th birthday. The Jimmie Vaughan Story has 5 CDs and over six hours of music chronicling his career up to the present day plus a 12-inch LP of Jimmie's 2001 album Do You Get the Blues? plus a stunning 240-page book, a 45
Holiday Gift Guide Review: Jimmie Vaughan, "The Jimmie Vaughan Story"
Blues guitarist par excellence Jimmie Vaughan turned 70 earlier this year, and The Last Music Company wasn't about to let the milestone go unnoticed. The label has released the appropriately-titled box set The Jimmie Vaughan Story, boasting 5 CDs and over six hours of music chronicling Vaughan's career up to the present day. The collection is available in two formats: a large-scale box which adds a 12-inch LP of Jimmie's 2001 album Do You Get the Blues?, two 45 RPM vinyl singles, a catalogue
Summer of Soul (...or When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised): Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 1LP: Target.com Legacy Recordings delivers a soundtrack to Questlove's acclaimed 2021 documentary Summer of Soul, chronicling the 1969 Harlem Cultural Festival. Live recordings are featured from headliners including The 5th Dimension, Nina Simone, David Ruffin, Sly & The Family Stone, Gladys Knight & The Pips, B.B. King, The Chambers Brothers, and more. Available now on CD and digital,
Holiday Gift Guide Review: Joni Mitchell, "Joni Mitchell Archives Vol. 2: The Reprise Years (1968-1971)"
Last evening in Washington, DC, Joni Mitchell joined the 44th class of Kennedy Center Honorees alongside Bette Midler, Berry Gordy, Lorne Michaels, and Justino Diaz. The singer-songwriter who has blurred the lines of folk, pop, rock, and jazz was celebrated by friends and admirers including Brandi Carlile, Herbie Hancock, Ellie Goulding, Norah Jones, Brittany Howard, Dan Levy, and Cameron Crowe. President Joe Biden, also in attendance, had earlier summed up the thoughts of many when he
The Complete Philips Recordings
Decca will celebrate John Williams' 90th by turning the clock back to 1980 when the famed composer-conductor took the baton from the legendary Arthur Fiedler to lead The Boston Pops Orchestra into a new era. John Williams and The Boston Pops: The Complete Philips Recordings boasts 21 CDs and 22 albums originally released on Philips between 1980 and 1990, at which point the Pops switched affiliations to Sony Classical. (The Sony Classical era was addressed in 2018 on the John Williams:
Greatest Hits 2.0
2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Greatest Hits 2.0, out today in 2CD and 2LP formats, brings together 24 tracks on CD and 20 tracks on vinyl from the group which fused funk, jazz, blues, soul, and Latin sounds into a propulsive whole. The slightly expanded CD version spans the period 1970-1994 including two tracks (the U.S. No. 3 hit "Spill the Wine" and a cover of "Tobacco Road") from the original group, Eric Burdon and WAR, and
Life's Work: A Retrospective
Craft Recordings salutes the remarkable legacy of Americana titan Arthel Lane "Doc" Watson (1923-2012) with Life's Work: A Retrospective. The anthology features 101 key tracks from the guitarist's discography including collaborations with Flatt and Scruggs, Chet Atkins, Ricky Skaggs, Alison Krauss, Bill Monroe, The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, and Watson's son Merle. The 4-CD set (also available digitally) features an 88-page book with new liner notes by author and compilation co-producer Ted Olson
The Rare Reprise Singles
Omnivore collects two dozen non-LP sides from Trini Lopez, Texas singer-songwriter of Mexican descent, on a new CD collection, The Rare Reprise Singles. The set includes the studio version of his rousing take on the Bernstein/Sondheim West Side Story classic "America" (stylized by the artist as "A-Mer-I-Ca"), a Bob Gaudio-helmed single of Randy Newman's wry "Love Story," both sides of a Christmas 45 ("El Niño Del Tambor (The Little Drummer Boy)" b/w "Noche de Paz (Silent Night)"/"Let There Be
Holiday Gift Guide Review: Billy Joel, "The Vinyl Collection, Vol. 1"
By his own account, Billy Joel stumbled into the singing part of the singer-songwriter equation. He explained of his 1971 debut Cold Spring Harbor, "I wrote this album not as a singer-songwriter, but as a songwriter. I was thinking of other people doing the material on this album. But the advice I got from people in the music business was, 'Well, if you want people to hear your songs, make an album. And then you go out on the road and you do shows and you promote your album. I thought,
Some Lovers: World Premiere Recording
Burt Bacharach and Steven Sater's intimate 2011 musical has finally received its first-ever recording - and what a recording it is, featuring Jennifer Holliday, Kristin Chenoweth, Jonathan Groff, Lea Michele, Ramin Karimloo, Auli'i Cravalho, and a cast of stage and screen stars. The spellbinding score, orchestrated by the composer's Promises, Promises collaborator Jonathan Tunick, is quintessential Bacharach: classic yet contemporary, it's filled with romance, beauty, and emotion. "This
THE SECOND DISC'S 2021 HOLIDAY GIFT GUIDE IS HERE!
Cyber Monday is upon us once again, which means one thing at Second Disc HQ: it's time to launch our annual Holiday Gift Guide, featuring 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 more than 50 essential selections: box sets (such as the Fab set to your right!) as well as archival releases and even new CDs from favorite artists that just might make great stocking
It's a Good, Good Feeling: The Latin Soul of Fania Records
This 4-CD/1-7" single collection spans the period of 1965-1975 and the groundbreaking Latin soul of such artists as Ray Barretto, Joe Bataan, Larry Harlow. Bobby Valentin, and Willie Colon. The box set contains 89 single sides on four CDs housed in a 60-page hardcover book with liner notes by compilation co-producer Dean Rudland and numerous photos. Also available as a 2-LP highlights edition.
A Love Supreme: Live in Seattle
A newly-excavated live performance of Coltrane's masterpiece comes to CD, LP, and digital download/streaming today. Though the audio is not studio quality, the quality of the performance (featuring Pharoah Sanders in his first official gig with Coltrane) is expectedly transcendent.
Time Passages [Various Formats]
2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 3CD/DVD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 1978's Time Passages concluded British singer-songwriter Al Stewart's trilogy of albums with producer-engineer Alan Parsons which began with 1975's Modern Times and continued with the following year's Year of the Cat. During this purple patch, Stewart earned his first hit singles in the United States, transitioning from folk troubadour at home to bona fide pop star abroad. And while Year of
A Sentimental Christmas with Nat "King" Cole and Friends: Cole Classics Reimagined
CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Red Vinyl LP: Walmart.com Although he's one of the voices most closely associated with Christmas, Nat "King" Cole only recorded one full-length Christmas LP in his lifetime. Now, Capitol Records and UMe are out to change that with a "new" yuletide album from the legendary vocalist who died in 1965 at just 45 years of age. A Sentimental Christmas with Nat "King" Cole and Friends: Cole Classics
Christmas: Deluxe 10th Anniversary Edition
Michael Bublé's 2011's Christmas, his fifth album for Reprise, has become his most successful LP to date, with over 4 million copies sold in the U.S. and 12 million worldwide. It's also had four billion streams (calculated as equivalent to 60 million albums). Warner Records and Reprise will celebrate 10 years of Christmas with a limited Super Deluxe box set. The box contains: The original album on CD and exclusive green vinyl; DVD: The Making of Christmas, a previously released
Cahoots: 50th Anniversary Edition
2CD/LP/BD/7-inch single: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2CD (Contents of CDs 1 & @ below): Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 1LP (2021 Mix of Original Album): Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada The Band and Capitol/UMe are in Cahoots for a deluxe 50th anniversary reissue of the group's fourth studio album. The remixed and remastered Cahoots arrives in various formats including a Super Deluxe 2CD/BD/LP/7-inch vinyl box set, 2CD, 180-gram half-speed-mastered
The Motown Anthology
The Motown Anthology is the ultimate retrospective of Mary Wilson, multi-hyphenate talent: singer, activist, author, fashion icon, actress, mother, grandmother, friend, trailblazer, legend, Supreme. This first-ever comprehensive overview of Wilson's Motown discography presents 38 songs, including a whopping 33 tracks only available physically on this collection including stunning new mixes of Supremes favorites, four Supremes outtakes produced by Deke Richards, the complete 1979 Mary Wilson
Joni Mitchell Archives Vol. 2: The Reprise Years (1968-1971)
5CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 10LP: JoniMitchell.com Store Joni Mitchell Archives Vol. 2 follows the format of last year's acclaimed first volume. (See TSD's interview with Archives co-producer Patrick Milligan here.) Over 5 CDs or 10 LPs and nearly six hours of previously unreleased studio, live, and home recordings, it chronologically traces Mitchell's musical journey in the period that yielded her first four albums: Song to a Seagull (1968), Clouds (1969), Ladies of the
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