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Release Round-Up: Week of July 19

July 19, 2019 By The Second Disc Leave a Comment

James Taylor The Warner Bros. Albums

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! James Taylor, The Warner Bros. Albums 1970-1976 (Warner/Rhino) CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada  Rhino has a newly remastered box, supervised by Peter Asher, of James Taylor's six studio albums for the label including Sweet Baby James (1970), Mud Slide Slim and the Blue Horizon (1971), One Man Dog (1972), Walking Man (1974), Gorilla (1975); and In the Pocket (1976).  Available on CD,

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Disco/Dance, Folk, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Grover Washington Jr., James Taylor, Judy Collins, Lesley Duncan, Live, Mike Love, Mike McCartney, Shalamar, Steve Goodman

Tell All the People: Rhino Expands The Doors' "The Soft Parade" For 50th Anniversary Box Set

July 18, 2019 By Joe Marchese 11 Comments

The Doors The Soft Parade 50th

Rhino is continuing its ongoing series celebrating the music of The Doors with a new 50th anniversary edition of the band's fourth studio album, The Soft Parade.  Originally released 50 years ago today on July 18, 1969, The Soft Parade introduced the hit "Touch Me" and became Morrison, Manzarek, Krieger, and Densmore's fourth consecutive Top Ten album.  The Soft Parade was further distinguished by the presence of orchestral arrangements for the first time on a Doors record.   On October 18,

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock Tags: The Doors

Get Your Hands On It: La-La-Land Celebrates 500th Release with "Planet of the Apes" Box Set

July 17, 2019 By Randy Fairman 2 Comments

Planet of the Apes Box

La-La Land Records has just announced its landmark 500th film score project.  In association with 20th Century Fox, Fox Music and Varèse Sarabande, the label is releasing at the end of this month a 5-CD box set of the scores to the original five Planet of the Apes films featuring music by Jerry Goldsmith, Leonard Rosenman, and Tom Scott. Planet of the Apes first hit cinemas in February 1968, based upon a book by French author Pierre Boulle.  Directed by Franklin J. Schaffner, the movie

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Soundtracks Tags: Jerry Goldsmith, Leonard Rosenman, Tom Scott

Straight, No Chaser: Omnivore Collects Art Pepper's Complete Artists House Sessions on New Box

July 17, 2019 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Art Pepper Promise Kept

Omnivore Recordings is continuing its association with the late saxophone great Art Pepper with a new box set.  On September 13, the label will issue Promise Kept: The Complete Artists House Recordings on 5 CDs and digital platforms, collecting all four of Pepper's albums for John Snyder's Artists House label with bonus material. Producer Snyder had long wished to record Pepper, and to that end, booked him into a week at the Village Vanguard in New York.  But the sax man was under contract to

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Jazz Tags: Art Pepper

Been Way Too Long: Soundgarden's "Live From the Artists Den" Album and Movie Arriving

July 17, 2019 By Sam Stone Leave a Comment

Soundgarden ArtistsDen CD

Soundgarden, the estate of Chris Cornell, and UMe have announced a new partnership with the acclaimed TV program Artists Den which will bring the band's 2013 appearance on the show to the homes of fans everywhere on July 26. On February 17, 2013, Soundgarden wrapped up their King Animal winter tour with a show at L.A.'s Wiltern Theatre. Over the course of nearly two and a half hours, the band performed 29 songs: their biggest hits, new material, and many songs never performed before, all in

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Categories: News Formats: Blu-Ray, Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Rock Tags: Soundgarden

Seeds and Stems: Cherry Red Collects Rarities from Iain Matthews on "Orphans and Outcasts"

July 15, 2019 By Joe Marchese 2 Comments

Iain Matthews Orphans and Outcasts

Few artists of the rock generation can boast as diverse a C.V. as Iain (sometimes Ian) Matthews.  The Fairport Convention founder went on to front Matthews' Southern Comfort and Plainsong as well as record under his own name in the pop, folk, country, and rock idioms, often blending those styles together.  In his first decade alone, Matthews recorded for the Deram, Polydor, Island, Uni, Vertigo, Elektra, and CBS/Columbia labels - and at virtually every label, material was left behind.  Between

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Classic Rock, Folk, Pop, Rock Tags: Iain Matthews, Matthews Southern Comfort, Plainsong, Richard Thompson

Release Round-Up: Week of July 12

July 12, 2019 By The Second Disc 2 Comments

America 50th Anniversary Collection

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! America, 50th Anniversary: The Collection (Warner/Rhino) 50th Anniversary: The Collection (3-CD) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) 50th Anniversary: The Collection [2-LP] (Barnes & Noble Exclusive) 50th Anniversary: Golden Hits (Single CD) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Almost fifty years ago in London, Gerry Beckley, Dewey Bunnell, and the late Dan Peek first joined their voices together in song - beginning a

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Blu-Ray, Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, DVD, SACD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Folk, Jazz, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, Soundtracks Tags: America, Bobby Darin, Bread, Foreigner, Little Steven, Paul McCartney

A Good Beginning: Sigur Ros Revisits "Agaetis byrjun" With Deluxe Reissue

July 10, 2019 By Sam Stone Leave a Comment

SigurRos AGoodBeginning

Twenty years ago, Icelandic electronic act Sigur Rós released Ágætis Byrjun (meaning "A Good Beginning").  And so it proved to be, as critics everywhere praised the album.  One of the songs, "Svefn-g-englar," made it onto the Vanilla Sky soundtrack in 2001, and Q Magazine even went as far as to deem it "the last great album of the 20th century." On July 5, the band revisited the album with an expanded, 4-CD deluxe edition that brings together a remastered version of the album, demos, newly

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Everything Else, Rock Tags: Sigur Ros

The Elektra Albums Volume One (1961-1968)

July 10, 2019 By

Judy Collins Elektra Albums

Edsel celebrates the remarkable career of Judy Collins with The Elektra Albums Volume One (1961-1968), collecting the eight albums she recorded in the 1960s for Holzman's label.  The first volume of this series includes the albums which made Collins a voice of a generation and on which she established herself as not only an eloquent voice of traditional folk but a champion of such songwriters as Leonard Cohen, Joni Mitchell, and Randy Newman: A Maid of Constant Sorrow (1961) Golden

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Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Folk, Pop

Agaetis Byrjun: A Good Beginning (20th Anniversary Edition) [Various Formats]

July 8, 2019 By

SigurRos AGoodBeginning

4-CD:  Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2-LP:  Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Exclusive 7-LP Twenty years ago, Icelandic band Sigur Ros released Ágætis Byrjun (meaning "A Good Beginning").  And so it proved to be, as critics everywhere praised the album.  Q Magazine even went as far as to deem it "the last great album of the 20th century."  Now, the band revisits the album with a deluxe edition that brings together a remastered version of the album, demos, newly unearthed

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Formats: Box Sets, CD, Vinyl Genre: Rock

Release Round-Up: Week of July 5

July 5, 2019 By The Second Disc 2 Comments

JacksonBrowne RunningOnEmptyRemaster pl

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! Jackson Browne, Running on Empty [Remaster] (Asylum/Rhino) CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Jackson Browne's legendary, seven-times-platinum 1977 album - featuring such classics as "Running On Empty" and "The Load-Out / Stay" - returns to CD, vinyl, and digital formats from Asylum/Rhino, featuring a fresh remaster by Gavin Lurssen of Lurssen Mastering on CD/digital.  The vinyl

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Comedy, Pop, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Ernie Kovacs, Everything But the Girl, Jackson Browne, Sigur Ros, Valerie Carter

Review: Various Artists, "Motown: The Complete No. 1s"

July 3, 2019 By Joe Marchese 6 Comments

product shot Motown The Complete No 1s

Smokey Robinson's mama famously told the young singer-songwriter that he'd better shop around, but happily, those looking for the definitive chronicle of Smokey and Diana and Mary and Flo and Martha and Marvin and Stevie and co. need shop around no more.  To mark the label's 60th anniversary, Motown: The Complete No. 1s is back in print in a slightly-expanded edition, and this 11-CD box set is, simply, one-stop shopping.  Impressively housed within a sturdy replica of 2648 West Grand Boulevard

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Categories: Reviews Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Pop, R&B/Soul Tags: Diana Ross, Four Tops, Martha and the Vandellas, Marvin Gaye, Michael Jackson, Smokey Robinson, Stevie Wonder, The Jackson 5, The Supremes, The Temptations, Various Artists

Live 1969

July 2, 2019 By

ElvisPresley Live1969 pl

RCA and Legacy celebrate Elvis Presley's triumphant return to live performing at Las Vegas' International Hotel with a new 11-CD box set.  All of The King's exhilarating performances from August 21 to August 26, 1969 will be presented on Legacy's new box . Some of the concerts have been previously issued in the last decade on various BMG and Follow That Dream collections and box sets (not to mention the August 23rd dinner show, which saw a limited Record Store Day vinyl issue). But Live

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Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Pop

The Swan Song Years: 1974-1982

July 2, 2019 By

Bad Company Swan Song Years

The Swan Song Years 1974-1982, a 6-CD box set, brings together the six albums recorded by the first lineup of Bad Company, all of which were originally issued on Led Zeppelin's Swan Song label: Bad Company (1974) (2015 remaster) Straight Shooter (1975) (2015 remaster) Run with the Pack (1976) (2017 remaster) Burnin' Sky (1977 (2017 remaster) Desolation Angels (1979) (2019 remaster); and Rough Diamonds (1982) (2019 remaster). All albums are in their original sequences only,

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Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Classic Rock

Feel Like Makin' Love: Rhino Collects Bad Company Albums, Including Two New Remasters, On "The Swan Song Years"

July 2, 2019 By The Second Disc 6 Comments

Bad Company Swan Song Years

With the imprimatur of Led Zeppelin, Bad Company was poised for success - a promise which the band fulfilled, yielding five U.S. top 20 albums and six top 20 singles.  Rhino has recently celebrated the legacy of the supergroup formed by vocalist Paul Rodgers and drummer Simon Kirke of Free, guitarist Mick Ralphs of Mott the Hoople, and bassist Boz Burrell of King Crimson with a number of expanded reissues.  Now, the label is taking a different approach with a simple packaging of the band's core

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So Many Roads: Cherry Red, Esoteric Collect Climax Blues Band's Early Albums on New Box Set

July 1, 2019 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

Climax Blues Band The Albums

The Climax Chicago Blues Band didn't begin life in America's Windy City, but rather in Stafford, England.  Colin Cooper, Peter Haycock, Arthur Wood, Derek Holt, Richard Jones, and George Newsome bonded over their love of Chicago-style blues, and in 1969, the group released its first album on the Parlophone label.  The self-titled LP featured classic blues from Sonny Boy Williamson, Big Bill Broonzy, and Big Joe Turner but also made room for Lee Hazlewood country-folk (The Shacklefords' "A

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Blues, Classic Rock Tags: Climax Blues Band

Release Round-Up: Week of June 28

June 28, 2019 By The Second Disc 5 Comments

Woodstock 50 10CD

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! Various Artists, Motown: The Complete No. 1s (Motown/UMe) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) For its 60th anniversary year, UMe has begun reminding fans that "Motown Did It First"; now, Motown is revisiting an essential box set that was originally released in celebration of its 50th anniversary a decade ago.  Motown: The Complete No. 1s features more than 200 international chart-toppers, plus a handful of bonus masters that went to No.

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Blu-Ray, Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, DVD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Jazz, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Bay City Rollers, Chris Stamey, Dave Grusin, David Bowie, Iggy Pop, Jakob Dylan, Kylie Minogue, Miles Davis, The B-52's, The Doobie Brothers

Tiger Man: Elvis Presley Rarities Abound on 11-CD "Live 1969" Box Set and "American Sound 1969" Studio Collection

June 27, 2019 By Sam Stone 16 Comments

ElvisPresley Live1969 pl

Legacy Recordings is celebrating Elvis Presley's 1969 run at The International Hotel in Las Vegas with a box set fit for a king. Live 1969 is an 11-CD set due out on August 9 that boasts newly mixed and mastered versions of the King of Rock and Roll's legendary return to the stage. Following his 1968 comeback on NBC, Presley had a hankering to perform live again. As he remembered, "I missed the closeness of a live audience. So just as soon as I got out of the movie contracts, I started to do

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock Tags: Elvis Presley

Wilde Thing: Marty Wilde's Career Celebrated on Hits and Rarities Anthology "A Lifetime in Music"

June 27, 2019 By Joe Marchese 4 Comments

Marty Wilde A Lifetime in Music

Marty Wilde, MBE can legitimately be described as a musical legend.  One of the first musicians to bring rock-and-roll to the U.K., his career has spanned over 60 years.  Cherry Red's RPM imprint has recently celebrated Wilde's legacy with a package that brings together his earliest hits and numerous rarities.  A Lifetime in Music: 1957-2019 - Hits, Highlights, and Rarities collects 132 tracks on 4 CDs including 24 previously unreleased cuts. Wilde, born in Blackheath, South London, was

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Review: Glen Campbell, "The Legacy [1961-2017]"

June 26, 2019 By Joe Marchese 5 Comments

Glen Campbell The Legacy Cover

Glen Campbell's career-spanning box set is modestly titled The Legacy, fitting for the unlikely superstar from Delight, Arkansas.  While The Legend might have been equally appropriate, Campbell's legacy is, truly, unlike any other.  Throughout an extraordinary seven-decade career encompassing 21 Top 40 Pop hits, 27 Top 10 Country singles, six Top 20 Pop albums, and nine No. 1 Country albums in the United States alone, the artist regularly transcended genre with his honeyed vocals and virtuosic

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Categories: Reviews Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Country, Pop Tags: Glen Campbell, Jimmy Webb

Woodstock 50: Back to the Garden [Various Formats]

June 26, 2019 By

Woodstock 50 10CD

On August 2, Rhino releases the ultimate Woodstock experience: a massive, 38-CD, 432-song (267 previously unreleased!) box set featuring nearly every note performed at the Festival (only the Jimi Hendrix estate would not give permission for his entire performance).  But if that's too much Woodstock for your tastes, Rhino has also come through, as 10CD, 5LP, and 3CD highlights versions will also be released on June 28.  Woodstock - Back to the Garden - 50th Anniversary Experience features 162

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Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock

Hot 'Lanta: Unreleased Allman Brothers Concerts Collected on "Fillmore West '71"

June 25, 2019 By Sam Stone 9 Comments

AllmanBrothers FillmoreWest71

Few bands shaped the sound of what came to be known as southern rock quite like The Allman Brothers Band.  As part of the celebrations surrounding their 50th anniversary, Allman Brothers Recording Company and The Orchard have announced a new four-CD collection of unreleased live material called Fillmore West '71, due for release on September 6. Recorded just two months before their legendary New York City live album At Fillmore East, the Fillmore West '71 set collects all the recordings from

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The Singles Collection

June 19, 2019 By

Bay City Rollers The Singles Collection

Cherry Red's 7a imprint has rounded up all 47 of The Bay City Rollers' single sides on the Bell, Arista, and Epic labels released between 1971 and 1981 on a 3-CD clamshell box set.  Includes "Saturday Night," "Bye Bye Baby," "Give a Little Love," and all of the group's international smashes.  The set has been remastered by James Bragg and includes a 28-page booklet with single-by-single annotation.

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The Man Who: 20th Anniversary Edition [Various Formats]

June 19, 2019 By

Travis The Man Who

2CD/2LP Box: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 1LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Scottish rock band Travis' sophomore album, 1999's The Man Who, gets a 20th anniversary deluxe edition from Craft Recordings.  Produced by Nigel Godrich, it spent eleven weeks atop the U.K. Albums Chart, and has sold over 3.5 million copies worldwide.  The box set features the expanded original album and bonus tracks (including B-sides and live

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It's Life's Illusions I Recall: Edsel Collects Judy Collins' 1960s Albums on New Box Set

June 19, 2019 By Joe Marchese 17 Comments

Judy Collins Elektra Albums

With a crystalline voice and a songbook encompassing the best of folk, pop, Broadway, and beyond, Judy Collins remains an American treasure.  The Seattle native first made a splash on the Colorado folk scene; soon, she was gaining notoriety in Connecticut and then in the fertile Greenwich Village stomping grounds of New York City.  It was in New York that the luminous Collins - a classical piano prodigy, talented guitarist, gifted adapter and later, songwriter, and a singer with a three-octave

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Folk, Pop Tags: Judy Collins

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