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In the Key of Joy

January 14, 2020 By

Sergio Mendes In the Key of Joy Deluxe

2CD (Album and Bonus Soundtrack): Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 1LP (Album Only): Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Sergio Mendes returns with a new studio album.  On In the Key of Joy, the Brazilian music legend welcomes such guests as Common, Joe Pizzulo, Sheléa Frazier , Hermeto Pascoal, and Gracinha Leporace (Sergio's wife and longtime musical partner).   The 2-CD Deluxe Edition adds a bonus disc of 16 Mendes classics as the soundtrack to an upcoming documentary about

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Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Everything Else, Pop

Ordinary Man

January 14, 2020 By

Ozzy Osbourne Ordinary Man

The Prince of Darkness returns with a new studio album.  The title ballad features guest Elton John (who sings and plays piano) while other guests include Slash, Post Malone, and Tom Morello.  Ozzy's band includes Duff McKagan, Chad Smith, and producer Andrew Watt.  Available on CD, LP, and digital platforms.

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Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Rock

Trouble No More: 50th Anniversary Collection

January 14, 2020 By

Allman Brothers Trouble No More Cover

5CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 10LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada UMe is marking The Allman Brothers Band's 50th anniversary with a new 5-CD or 10-LP box set boasting 61 newly remastered tracks including classics, rarities, and seven previously unreleased tracks.  Trouble No More is bookended with the band's never-before-heard 1969 demo of that song, and their final performance of it at their last show in October 2014.  The box includes an 88-page booklet with

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

Just Peachy: New Box Set Celebrates 50 Years of The Allman Brothers Band

January 14, 2020 By Joe Marchese 3 Comments

Allman Brothers Trouble No More Cover

The November 1969 arrival of the self-titled The Allman Brothers Band heralded the arrival of a group which would change the face of music. Duane Allman, Gregg Allman, Dickey Betts, Berry Oakley, Jai Johanny Johanson (a.k.a. Jaimoe), and Butch Trucks fused rock, blues, and country with jazz-inspired improvisation to become one of the most beloved bands of all time. On February 28, UMe and Mercury Records will celebrate 50 years of The Allman Brothers Band with a remarkable, career-spanning box

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Blues, Classic Rock, Country, Rock

RPM Records Wraps Up Almost 30 Year Run; Label's Final Release Due in May

January 14, 2020 By Joe Marchese 20 Comments

RPM Records

For nearly three decades, the RPM Records arm of Cherry Red Records has exemplified the finest in archival reissues. Here at The Second Disc, we've covered dozens of RPM's often ambitious titles over the last ten years - most of which shed light on artists and albums that would likely otherwise have languished in the vaults. RPM's releases gave equal consideration to all artists, whether the famous (Gene Pitney, Chad and Jeremy, The Spencer Davis Group), the soon-to-be- famous (the pre-ABBA Hep

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock

Thank You For The Music: On 10 Years of The Second Disc

January 10, 2020 By Mike Duquette 30 Comments

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Ten years ago, I was writing my first post for The Second Disc, a website about music reissues I thought was a pretty bright idea. A lot has changed since then. The first posts were written in the bedroom of a suburban New Jersey home - the house I grew up in and moved back into after post-college economic downturn made it the best possible choice to live. This post was written in an apartment in Queens that I share with a lovely fiancée who is very cool about the amount of box sets

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Categories: Features Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Classic Rock, Everything Else, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks

Release Round-Up: Week of January 10

January 10, 2020 By The Second Disc 2 Comments

Laura Nyro More Than a New Discovery

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! Laura Nyro, More Than a New Discovery [Limited Violet Vinyl Mono Edition] (Second Disc Records/Real Gone Music) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Today's the day!  We're so proud to reissue, for the first time ever on vinyl (and in homage to the artist's favorite color), Laura Nyro's 1967 debut More Than a New Discovery in a violet vinyl limited edition of 1,250 copies.  This edition features the original, long out-of-print (and

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Country, Pop, R&B/Soul Tags: Ben E. King, Gilbert O'Sullivan, Glen Campbell, Laura Nyro, Mister Rogers, The Drifters

The Importance of Your Love: Vince Hill Reflects on His "Legacy" with 1965-1974 Anthology

January 9, 2020 By Joe Marchese 2 Comments

Vince Hill Legacy

One of our favorite releases of 2017 was Cherry Red/Strike Force Entertainment's two-fer of Edelweiss (1967) and Look Around (1971) from the big-voiced British pop crooner. While the set didn't inaugurate the hoped-for series of reissues on CD (to date, at least), Hill followed it up with Legacy: My Hits and Rarities (1965-1974). We've caught up with this CD which is available exclusively through the singer's webstore. It's both a fine introduction to Hill's oeuvre and a welcome reminder of why

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Categories: News, Reviews Formats: CD Genre: Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal Tags: Vince Hill

Let Us Cling Together: Queen Tap Japanese Fans For New Greatest Hits Collection

January 8, 2020 By The Second Disc 1 Comment

Queen image

Imagine narrowing down your favorite band to just one song. We couldn't do it! But some very fastidious Japanese fans of Queen did - and their choices are forming a new compilation due this month. For Greatest Hits In Japan, Queen and Universal Music opened a vote in the country where just one track from the iconic British rock group could be selected for a compilation timed to the upcoming Japanese tour by Queen + Adam Lambert. Nearly 20,000 votes were collated, and the top 12 tracks made

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Categories: News Formats: CD, DVD Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, Rock Tags: Brian May, Freddie Mercury, Queen

Face To Face: David Bowie Rarities Arriving on "Is It Any Wonder," Parlophone Announces "ChangesNowBowie" RSD 2020 Release

January 8, 2020 By Sam Stone Leave a Comment

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On January 8 -- what would have been David Bowie's 73rd birthday -- Parlophone announced the latest releases in their ongoing series celebrating the rare and unreleased performances from the vault, and fans who appreciate a dramatic unfolding are in for a treat. David Bowie Is It Any Wonder? is the title of the six-track EP of rare and previously unreleased material that will be rolled out track-by-track over the next six weeks. The first selection on the EP is an intimate 1996 recording of

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Rock Tags: Brian Eno, David Bowie

Review: Michael Nesmith with Red Rhodes, "Cosmic Partners: The McCabe's Tapes"

January 8, 2020 By Joe Marchese 4 Comments

Michael Nesmith Cosmic Partners CD

Since 1958, McCabe's Guitar Shop has been a premier destination on Pico Boulevard in Santa Monica, California. Eleven years after its founding, McCabe's began hosting concerts in a tradition that continues to this very day. Over the years, numerous notables have recorded albums at the small venue (capacity of around 150) including Mike Bloomfield, Townes Van Zandt, Maria Muldaur, and Tom Paxton. Now, thanks to 7a Records, that roster has a stellar new addition. Late in 2019, the label

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Country, Pop Tags: Michael Nesmith, Red Rhodes

Pictures from Life's Other Side - The Man and His Music in Rare Photos and Recordings

January 7, 2020 By

Hank Williams Pictures from Lifes Other Side

BMG salutes late singer-songwriter-legend Hank Williams with the release of Pictures from Life's Other Side - The Man and His Music in Rare Photos and Recordings. This lavish 6-CD collection presents all 144 tracks recorded by Williams for his 1951 radio show sponsored by Mother's Best Flour Company. The Mother's Best radio shows have been chronicled on various sets in the past, most notably in comprehensive form by Time-Life on the 16-disc box set The Complete Mother's Best Recordings...Plus!

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Formats: Box Sets, CD, Vinyl Genre: Country

In Times Like These: Esoteric Reissues, Expands Strawbs, Roy Wood, Alan Price Albums

January 7, 2020 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

Roy Wood Mustard

Esoteric Recordings is rightly known for its deluxe editions and box sets, but the Cherry Red imprint delivers the same high level of quality with its more modest releases. Today, we're looking at the single-disc expanded editions of a trio of diverse rock classics released in late 2019. Strawbs' ninth album, Deep Cuts, isn't an album of rarities as the title might indicate. Instead, the 1976 album is, as lead vocalist David Cousins describes in the liner notes, "the best-sounding album

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Classic Rock, Pop Tags: Alan Price, Roy Wood, Strawbs

The Complete Keen Years (1957-1960)

January 6, 2020 By

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ABKCO's release of The Complete Keen Years (1957-1960) kicks off a year-long celebration of Sam Cooke, who would have turned 90 years old on January 22, 2021.  This 5-CD box showcases Cooke's early work as a pop craftsman at the end of the 1950s.  Cooke recorded three albums for Keen: a self-titled debut (also known as Songs By Sam Cooke), Encore, and Tribute To The Lady ("the lady" in this case being Billie Holiday, who died the same year). Those LPs were mostly built around standards from The

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Formats: Box Sets, CD, Vinyl Genre: Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul

He Sends Us: Sam Cooke's Keen Years Collected In New Box

January 6, 2020 By The Second Disc 14 Comments

Sam Cooke Keen

Sam Cooke would have turned 90 on January 22, 2021, but that's not stopping the party from starting a little early! This month, The King of Soul will be celebrated with a new box set featuring five of his albums for the Keen label. The Complete Keen Years (1957-1960) showcases Cooke's early work as a pop craftsman at the end of the 1950s. At the beginning of the decade, Cooke was a teenage sensation as a member of gospel group The Soul Stirrers. But his interest in R&B and pop could not

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Vinyl Genre: Pop, R&B/Soul Tags: Sam Cooke

Year-End Review: Bob Dylan, "The Rolling Thunder Revue: The 1975 Live Recordings"

January 6, 2020 By Sam Stone 2 Comments

Bob Dylan Rolling Thunder Revue Cover

As we continue to look back on the year that was, it's hard to disagree that Bob Dylan was 2019's king of the reissue. Since releasing More Blood, More Tracks in time for the holidays in 2018, Legacy Recordings and the Dylan team approved MoFi's deluxe audiophile version of Blood on the Tracks; celebrated the first leg of the famed Rolling Thunder Revue with a new film, CD box set, and LP reissue; delivered a new Bootleg Series installment focusing on his time in Nashville in the late '60s; and

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Categories: Reviews Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Classic Rock Tags: Bob Dylan, Eric Andersen, Joan Baez, Joni Mitchell, Robbie Robertson, Roger McGuinn

The Year in Review: The 2019 Gold Bonus Disc Awards, From A to Z

January 3, 2020 By The Second Disc 4 Comments

gold cd

Happy 2020 and welcome to The Second Disc's 10th Annual Gold Bonus Disc Awards! It's time once again to recognize this year's cream of the crop - those exemplary reissues and box sets big and small that proved to be truly outstanding products for music lovers worldwide.  There was no shortage of great reissue titles in 2019; in fact, by our count, we covered over 700 releases in all!  And after much deliberation, we're excited to unveil our favorites.  This isn't your run-of-the-mill Top 10,

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Categories: News, Reviews Formats: Blu-Ray, Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, DVD, Vinyl Genre: Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Country, Folk, Jazz, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Gold Bonus Disc Awards

Back to Earth [Various Formats]

December 23, 2019 By

CatStevens BackToEarth box 2

5-CD/2-LP/Blu-ray: Amazon U.S. link not yet live / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada LP black vinyl: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada LP color vinyl: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Cat Stevens is revisiting his 1978 album Back to Earth in a mammoth 5-CD/2-LP/1-BD box set as well as standard CD and vinyl editions of just the remastered original album. The super deluxe set pairs the new remaster with a disc of live tracks from

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Formats: Blu-Ray, Box Sets, CD, Vinyl Genre: Pop

Déjà Vu: The Arista Recordings (1979-1994)

December 23, 2019 By

Dionne Warwick Deja Vu

Encompassing a whopping 159 tracks including 29 bonuses, the 12-CD box set Déjà Vu: The Arista Recordings (1979-1994) features all twelve of Dionne Warwick's classic Arista Records albums from the Barry Manilow-produced Dionne (1979) through the tropically-flavored Aquarela Do Brasil (1994), all newly remastered by Nick Robbins.  This period saw Warwick team with producers including Barry Gibb, Luther Vandross, Steve Buckingham, Jay Graydon, Kashif, and Smokey Robinson, and also reunite with

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Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Pop, R&B/Soul

The Island

December 23, 2019 By

Johnny Mathis Island

The 1989 "lost" album by Johnny Mathis is lost no more! Renowned producer Sergio Mendes of Brasil '66 fame and arranger-guitarist Dori Caymmi joined Mathis on The Island to subtly modernize the classic sounds of bossa nova and samba. He delivered some of his most sensual vocals ever for ten smoldering songs by Caymmi, Mendes, Ivan Lins, Brenda Russell, Alan and Marilyn Bergman, and others. Featuring a small rhythm section including talents like Robbie Buchanan, Paulinho da Costa, and Toto's Jeff

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Formats: CD Genre: Pop, R&B/Soul

Holiday Gift Guide Reviews: A Rhino Round-Up with Bad Company, Rush, Van Halen, Hootie, STP and The Notorious B.I.G.

December 23, 2019 By The Second Disc 2 Comments

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Many of this year's finest box sets came courtesy of the Rhino label.  Here, Joe and Randy take a look at a few more of our favorites!  First up are Randy's three picks... First up is Rhino's 25th anniversary 3-CD/1-LP Super Deluxe Edition of Stone Temple Pilots' Purple. Initially hitting shelves on June 7, 1994, the band's sophomore album would debut atop the Billboard 200 and stay there for three weeks, eventually becoming the group's second best-selling album after their debut effort,

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Categories: Holiday Gift Guide, News, Reviews Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, DVD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, Rap/Hip-Hop, Rock Tags: Bad Company, Hootie and The Blowfish, Rush, Stone Temple Pilots, The Notorious B.I.G., Van Halen

Who's In Love Here: Second Disc, Real Gone Release Johnny Mathis' Lost Album "The Island" in February

December 23, 2019 By The Second Disc 6 Comments

Johnny Mathis Island

Johnny Mathis has recorded many romantic albums over the past seven decades, but none quite like The Island. Recorded in 1989 but unreleased for decades, The Island transported listeners to Brazil, with all of its mystique and magic.  On February 7, this lost classic arrives in a new deluxe edition - its first-ever release on standalone CD - from Second Disc Records and Real Gone Music. Renowned producer Sergio Mendes of Brasil '66 fame and arranger-guitarist Dori Caymmi joined Mathis to

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal Tags: Dionne Warwick, Johnny Mathis, Sergio Mendes

Holiday Gift Guide Review: Nat King Cole, "Hittin' the Ramp: The Early Years (1936-1943)"

December 20, 2019 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Nat King Cole Hittin the Ramp

The first voice you hear on Resonance Records' exhilarating new box set Nat King Cole - Hittin' the Ramp: The Early Years (1936-1943) isn't that of the famous artist. Rather, it's his older brother and bassist Eddie Cole warbling teenaged Nat's sprightly composition "Honey Hush." Nat, of course, is the one tickling the ivories with confidence, grace, and an already sure sense of swing. Although he hadn't yet formed his famous trio (and the lineup here credited as "Eddie Cole's Solid Swingers" is

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Categories: Holiday Gift Guide, Reviews Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Jazz, Popular Standards/Vocal Tags: Nat King Cole

Release Round-Up: Weeks of December 20 and 27, and January 3

December 20, 2019 By The Second Disc 8 Comments

Hot Rats Sessions

Welcome to our final Release Round-Up of 2019!  This edition covers today's releases as well as those of the next two weeks, the quietest time of the year for new releases.  The weekly Release Round-Up will be back on January 10.  In the meantime, Happy Holidays to all! Frank Zappa, The Hot Rats Sessions (Zappa/UMe) 6CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada This 6-CD box set explores Frank Zappa's 1969 primarily instrumental solo

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Classical/Opera, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Andrew Lloyd Webber, Arthur Schwartz, Cleo Laine, Deep Purple, Diana Ross and The Supremes, Four Tops, Frank Zappa, Franz Reizenstein, Jerry Garcia, John Williams, Merl Saunders, Sandy Wilson, Smokey Robinson and the Miracles, The Marvelettes, The Temptations

Holiday Gift Guide Review: Mariah Carey, "Merry Christmas: Deluxe Anniversary Edition"

December 19, 2019 By Randy Fairman 1 Comment

Mariah Carey Merry Christmas Deluxe

Sitting atop the Billboard Hot 100 this week is a song which took a quarter-century to reach that peak: Mariah Carey's "All I Want For Christmas Is You." The song achieved a couple of milestones with that ranking: it now holds the record for the longest time between a song's debut and its reaching the top of the charts, and it's the first Christmas song to reach the peak in 60 years since The Chipmunks did it in 1959. Before this new milestone for Carey's tune, the song and the album of its

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Categories: Holiday Gift Guide, Reviews Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Holiday, Pop Tags: Mariah Carey

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