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Everything's Beautiful

May 25, 2016 By

Miles Davis Everythings Beautiful

Spearheaded by pianist-producer Robert Glasper, Everything's Beautiful incorporates original recordings by the late Miles Davis into new "collaborative soundscapes" by guest artists including Stevie Wonder, Erykah Badu, Ledisi and John Scofield.  For these genre-bending journeys incorporating jazz, R&B, hip-hop, rap and soul, Davis tracks including "Blue in Green," "In a Silent Way," "The Ghetto Walk" and "Right Off" were sampled, isolating elements from the original multitracks and weaving

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Formats: CD, Digital Download Genre: Jazz

Blonder and Blonder

May 25, 2016 By

The Muffs Blonder

The Muffs' 1995 Blonder and Blonder featured 14 Kim Shattuck-penned originals, including the hit single "Sad Tomorrow."  With Shattuck, Ronnie Barnett and new drummer Roy McDonald comprising the line-up, the Rob Cavallo-produced Blonder became the band's biggest selling album. Omnivore adds seven bonus tracks (2 U.K. B-sides, and 5 previously unissued Shattuck demos) on CD and also presents the original LP on vinyl for the first time in over two decades (first pressing on baby blue vinyl, with

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Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Pop, Rock

Each Road I Take: The Lee Hazlewood and Chet Atkins Sessions 1970

May 25, 2016 By

Eddy Arnold Each Road I Take

Second Disc Records' newest release brings together two seminal, never-before-reissued albums by Eddy Arnold on one CD, both from 1970. Love and Guitars captured Arnold in a raw, acoustic setting with many of Nashville's greatest pickers including producer Chet Atkins, Jerry Reed, Harold Bradley and Ray Edenton.  Its follow-up, Standing Alone, moved the singer to Hollywood where he worked with producer/creative maverick Lee Hazlewood and the famed Wrecking Crew on a series of contemporary

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Formats: CD Genre: Country

BREAKING! Eddy Arnold's "Each Road I Take: The Lee Hazlewood and Chet Atkins Sessions 1970" Coming From Second Disc Records and Real Gone Music!

May 25, 2016 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Eddy Arnold Each Road I Take

Richard Edward Arnold - better known as Eddy Arnold - proved throughout an eight-decade career that he could sing anything.  The countrypolitan crooner scored 147 U.S. chart hits between 1945 and 2008, sold over 85 million records, and earned inductions into the Country Music Hall of Fame and The Grand Ole Opry.  Yet, in 1970, the superstar known as "The Tennessee Plowboy" found himself at a crossroads.  That year, he released two remarkable albums ending one chapter in his career and beginning

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Country Tags: Chet Atkins, Eddy Arnold, Lee Hazlewood

BBR Is On "Fire" with Expanded Reissue of "Pointer Sisters' Greatest Hits"

May 25, 2016 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Pointer Sisters Greatest Hits

One of the ten songs on The Pointer Sisters' Greatest Hits is "The Love Too Good to Last," one of four songs reprised from the trio's 1982 album Special Things.  Happily, however, Ruth, June and Anita Pointer's special things certainly have lasted.  Big Break Records has in recent years reissued the group's complete Planet Records/RCA discography from 1978's Energy through their label swansong, 1988's Serious Slammin', in remastered and expanded editions.  Now, BBR is culminating its reissue

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Pop, R&B/Soul Tags: The Pointer Sisters

Blitzkrieg Bop! Ramones' Debut Expanded for 40th Anniversary

May 24, 2016 By Mike Duquette 4 Comments

It was unlike anything audiences had heard or seen: four leather jacket-clad, shaggy-haired ne'er do wells from Forest Hills, Queens, offering loud bursts of sneering rock and roll as grimy as the streets they stumbled across. Almost no one knew it then, but this was a musical movement, as potent as Elvis Presley's first swivel or the first haze over Woodstock. Four decades later, Rhino Records celebrates the incredible legacy of the self-titled debut album by the Ramones with a 3CD/1LP box

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Vinyl Genre: Rock Tags: Ramones

Let's Do It Again: Ace Collects Funk Brother Jack Ashford's "Just Productions"

May 23, 2016 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Jack Ashford Just Productions

Jack Ashford's story is about how a Philadelphia jazz man ended up in Detroit, playing on hundreds of the greatest R&B recordings ever made.  The percussionist's unforgettable work with Motown's Funk Brothers has been oft-chronicled, but on a recent compilation, Ace Records' Kent imprint has turned its attention to Ashford's producing and songwriting work away from Hitsville, USA between the years of 1968 and 1977.  Just Productions features 24 sizzling slices of ultra-rare Detroit soul

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: R&B/Soul Tags: Jack Ashford, Various Artists

If You Remember Me: Varese Reissues Dave Grusin, Willie Nelson on "The Champ" and "Electric Horseman"

May 20, 2016 By Joe Marchese 2 Comments

The Electric Horseman OST

On Friday, May 20, Varese Vintage has two rare soundtracks arriving in stores from composer and jazz great Dave Grusin: the CD premiere of his score to The Champ (with a pivotal song contribution from Marvin Hamlisch and Carole Bayer Sager) and the return to CD of The Electric Horseman, featuring score by Grusin and songs from the one and only Willie Nelson. 1979's The Champ marked the American film debut of Italian director Franco Zeffirelli.  A remake of the 1931 film of the same name, it

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Country, Soundtracks Tags: Dave Grusin, Marvin Hamlisch, Willie Nelson

Release Round-Up: Week of May 20

May 20, 2016 By Joe Marchese 2 Comments

ChangesOneBowie

Welcome to this week's packed Release Round-Up! David Bowie, ChangesOneBowie (Parlophone/Rhino) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) ChangesOneBowie returns from Parlophone in a 40th anniversary edition available on vinyl, CD and digital formats.  Originally issued on RCA in May 20, 1976, ChangesOneBowie was the first key compilation album from superstar David Bowie.  Collecting songs dating back to 1969, the 11-track album introduced the single "John, I'm Only Dancing" on LP

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, SACD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Country, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Adam & The Ants, Allen Ginsberg, Bob Dylan, Dave Grusin, David Bowie, Eric Clapton, Linda Ronstadt, Marvin Hamlisch, Mudcrutch, The Highwaymen, Willie Nelson

This is My Happy Hour: Perth Punks The Scientists Anthologized in New Numero Box

May 19, 2016 By Mike Duquette 3 Comments

The Scientists A Place Called Bad

Punk rock's coming up from down under on the newest box set from The Numero Group, dedicated to Australian punk pioneers The Scientists. Born in Perth in 1978, The Scientists, fronted by teen singer/guitarist Kim Salmon, were Australia's answer to The Stooges or The Velvet Underground, offering snotty rebellion and jagged, melodic riffs in their music. Moving from Oz to England, the group found several of their releases on Au Go Go Records, including the EP This Heart Doesn't Run on Blood,

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Vinyl Genre: Rock Tags: The Scientists

Fill Your Heart: Now Sounds Collects Tiny Tim's "Complete Singles (1966-1970)"

May 19, 2016 By Joe Marchese 3 Comments

Tiny Tim The Complete Singles Collection

Now Sounds clearly can't resist another tip-toe thru the tulips.  Following the 2013 reissue of Tiny Tim's debut God Bless Tiny Tim (1968) as an expanded mono edition, the Cherry Red imprint has recently returned to the catalogue of the late "Human Canary" for his Complete Singles Collection (1965-1970).  Twenty years after Tiny Tim's passing at the age of 64, his music remains equally beguiling and bewildering.  These tracks, culled from his recordings at Blue Cat, Reprise and Scepter, find

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Categories: News, Reviews Formats: CD Genre: Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal Tags: Tiny TIm

Walk On The Wild Side: Lou Reed's "RCA and Arista Album Collection" Arrives in October

May 18, 2016 By Joe Marchese 15 Comments

lou reed rock animal3

Lou Reed's last project is finally seeing release this fall...and it may well be the last word on a major chunk of the late, influential singer-songwriter's career.  Rolling Stone reports that The RCA and Arista Album Collection is due on October 7 from Legacy Recordings.  This set spans sixteen albums and seventeen compact discs encompassing Reed's solo output from 1972-1986 - including such key LPs as the David Bowie-produced Transformer, Berlin and the controversial Metal Machine

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Classic Rock, Rock Tags: Lou Reed

Feel That You're Feelin': Robinsongs Reissues Two Live Albums From Frankie Beverly's Maze

May 18, 2016 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

Maze Live Two Fer

Cherry Red's Robinsongs imprint is continuing its series dedicated to the quiet-storm sound of Maze Featuring Frankie Beverly with a two-fer containing both 1981's Live in New Orleans and 1986's Live in Los Angeles. Maze began its life as Raw Soul, but a felicitous association with Marvin Gaye led to a change of name for the smooth-soul band to Maze as well as to a deal with Capitol Records.  (As Raw Soul, the band's only previous major label releases were on the RCA-affiliated Gregar label

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: R&B/Soul Tags: Maze

Circus Of Voices: JAY Records Remasters "Charlotte Sweet," Premieres "Tales of Tinseltown"

May 17, 2016 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Charlotte Sweet

Charlotte Sweet is one of that increasingly rare breed: an original musical.  And this "madcap musical," as it was billed, sure is original.  Lyricist/librettist Michael Colby and composer Gerald Jay Markoe delivered the unexpected with their delightfully unusual show which premiered at New York's intimate Westside Arts Theatre on August 12, 1982 and ran for over 100 performances.  JAY Records has recently brought the complete Original Cast Recording to 2 CDs for the first time; a previous CD

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Categories: News, Reviews Formats: CD Genre: Cast Recordings Tags: Gerald Jay Markoe, Michael Colby, Paul Katz

WE HAVE OUR WINNERS: DORIS DAY'S "THE LOVE ALBUM" GIVEAWAY!

May 17, 2016 By Joe Marchese 3 Comments

Doris Day The Love Album

CONGRATULATIONS! The following 10 entrants have won a copy of Varese Vintage's brand-new edition of Doris Day's The Love Album on CD!  If you entered our contest via Facebook and your name is on the list below, please drop us a line at theseconddisc-at-gmail-dot-com or a Private Message on Facebook with your name and mailing address!  If you entered via email, you don't have to do anything - your CD will be in the mail soon! Watch this space soon for more exciting giveaways! Our winners

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Categories: Giveaways! Formats: CD Genre: Popular Standards/Vocal Tags: Doris Day

Night Games: Graham Bonnet's "Line-Up" Is Expanded By Cherry Red's HNE Label

May 17, 2016 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Graham Bonnet Line Up

Graham Bonnet rose to prominence filling the large shoes of Ronnie James Dio when he replaced Dio in Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow.  Bonnet only recorded one album with Rainbow, but with two U.K. Top 10 singles and a Top 10 placement on the LP chart too, Down to Earth was an unqualified success.  Following his time with Blackmore's band, Bonnet resumed his solo career with 1981's Line-Up.  Cherry Red's hard rock-oriented Hear No Evil label has recently reissued Line-Up with four bonus tracks as

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Rock Tags: Graham Bonnet

The Very Best of The Highwaymen

May 16, 2016 By

Highwaymen Very Best

Legacy brings together 16 classic tracks from the collective of Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson, Kris Kristofferson and Waylon Jennings - a.k.a. The Highwaymen - including the Jimmy Webb composition that gave the group its name. Four previously unreleased tracks make their debut - a rendition of Bob Dylan's "One Too Many Mornings" as well as live versions of "City of New Orleans," "Big River," and "The King is Gone (So Are You)."  Mickey Raphael, Don Was and Chips Moman have produced these

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Formats: CD Genre: Country

Live: American Outlaws

May 16, 2016 By

Highwaymen Live

Joining Legacy's release this week of The Very Best of The Highwaymen is this new 3-CD/1-DVD box.  Live: American Outlaws features three discs of never-before-heard concert performances from Messrs. Cash, Nelson, Kristofferson and Jennings including a complete performance from Nassau Coliseum in 1990 and selections from Farm Aid 1992 and 1993.  (A studio outtake version "One Too Many Mornings" is included here as a bonus track; it's also on the Very Best compilation.)  The DVD has the Nassau

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Formats: CD, Digital Download Genre: Country

Silk Purse

May 16, 2016 By

Linda Ronstadt Silk Purse

Linda Ronstadt's second solo album returns to CD from Varese Vintage. Ronstadt teamed with producer Elliot Mazer (recommended by Janis Joplin) to craft a record with a much more country sound than her previous efforts.  While overshadowed by her later hugely successful recordings, Silk Purse remains a top-notch collection filled with great vocal performances by Ronstadt including a sublime take on Goffin and King's "Will You Love Me Tomorrow?" is sublime as is the LP's breakthrough single,

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All-Time Greatest Hits

May 16, 2016 By

Mitch Ryder All Time Greatest Hits

Varese Vintage has 16 prime cuts of Motor City-style blue-eyed soul via Mitch Ryder and The Detroit Wheels! This collection (remastered by Steve Massie) features the original mono single versions of "Devil with a Blue Dress On/Good Golly Miss Molly," "Sock it to Me, Baby" and "(You've Got) Personality/Chantilly Lace" plus other hits like "Jenny Take a Ride" and "Little Latin Lupe Lu."  In addition, you'll find three Mitch Ryder solo songs - and every track was produced, arranged and conducted by

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Formats: CD Genre: Classic Rock, Pop

A Hard Act To Follow: Raven Collects George Jones' Epic Years

May 16, 2016 By Joe Marchese 2 Comments

George Jones Tour De Force

George Jones (1931-2013) joined Epic Records in 1972, announcing his artistic rebirth with a self-titled album also sometimes known as We Can Make It after the top 10 hit song.  Make it he did, as Jones stayed with Epic and producer Billy Sherrill for nearly 20 years.  Raven Records has recently collected five of The Possum's prime Epic endeavors on one 2-CD set as The Tour de Force 1972-1980. This new collection features the following complete albums: A Picture of Me (Without You)

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Country Tags: George Jones

Edsel's In a Bobby Darin Bag With "Shadow" and "Broadway" Reissues

May 16, 2016 By Joe Marchese 14 Comments

Bobby Darin Broadway Bag

We're proud to have kicked off the Bobby Darin 80th birthday celebration earlier this month with Second Disc Records/Real Gone Music's release of Another Song on My Mind: The Motown Years.  The Bobby festivities will continue next month from Edsel Records with the re-reissue of a pair of currently out-of-print titles previously released as a two-fer.  The Demon Music Group imprint has new standalone editions of Darin's 1966 albums The Shadow of Your Smile and In a Broadway Bag arriving on June

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Popular Standards/Vocal Tags: Bobby Darin

Got a Mind to Give Up Living - Live 1966

May 13, 2016 By

Paul Butterfield Got a Mind to Give Up Living

Real Gone Music releases, for the first time in legitimate fashion, a legendary bootleg that captures The Paul Butterfield Blues Band live at Boston's Unicorn Coffee House 50 years ago in May 1966, two months before the release of the group's landmark East-West.  Chris Morris' new liner notes feature fresh quotes from Elvin Bishop and Mark Naftalin, rare pictures and memorabilia, and editorial input from Mike Bloomfield aficionado and co-producer Toby Byron.  Mike Milchner has remastered the

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Formats: CD Genre: Blues, Classic Rock

The Columbia and Arista Years: The Definitive Collection

May 13, 2016 By

Air Supply Columbia and Arista Years

This 30-track compilation from Air Supply brings together all of the Australian group's hits, including songs like "All Out of Love" and "Making Love Out of Nothing At All," which made them such a huge success in the early to mid-1980s.

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Formats: CD Genre: Pop

Natural Love: The Scotti Brothers Recordings

May 13, 2016 By

Petula Clark Natural Love

In the early years of the 1980s, Petula Clark was signed to the Scotti Brothers label in the U.S. and starring in a revival of The Sound of Music in the West End.  During this busy period, she released several singles for Scotti but an album never materialized...until now.Natural Love - The Scotti Brothers Recordings collects all of these tracks (plus Pet's rare Epic U.K. single with "Edelweiss" and "Darkness") in one place so this era of Clark's music may be better appreciated.  Our own Joe

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Formats: CD Genre: Pop

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