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Release Round-Up: Week of January 22

January 22, 2021 By The Second Disc Leave a Comment

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Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! The Kinks, Lola Versus Powerman and the Moneygoround, Part One (BMG) 3CD/2 7-inch Box Set (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) 1CD Edition (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) 1LP Edition (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) 2CD Edition (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) The Kinks' 1970 classic Lola Versus Powerman and the Moneygoround, Part One arrives in a variety of formats including bonus material such as

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Blu-Ray, Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, DVD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Soundtracks Tags: Bob Dylan, Brian Eno, Janet Jackson, Nicolas King, Richard Hell, Sam Cooke, The Kinks

Setting Sail to the Island of Souls: Sting's 'The Soul Cages' Receives Digital Expansion

January 16, 2021 By Mike Duquette 7 Comments

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A surprise archival release from Sting dropped this weekend: a digital expanded edition of his third solo album, The Soul Cages, which celebrates its 30th anniversary this month. A deeply-felt song cycle, The Soul Cages found Sting simultaneously looking backward and forward. In the studio, he reunited with producer Hugh Padgham, who'd overseen The Police's Ghost in the Machine and Synchronicity; he also diversified his backing band, picking up session guitarist Dominic Miller - his musical

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Categories: News Formats: Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, Rock Tags: Sting

Love and Only Love: Neil Young Announces Long-Awaited "Way Down in the Rust Bucket" Concert Album and Film

January 15, 2021 By Sam Stone 10 Comments

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Neil Young has been exciting fans lately with his comprehensive journey through the past. Following an extensive box set anthologizing an era and a 50th anniversary edition of a landmark album, he now turns his focus to a beloved Crazy Horse-backed concert from November 1990. On February 26, Young will release the long-awaited archival release, Way Down in the Rust Bucket. It's volume 11.5 in his ongoing Archives Performance series and features Crazy Horse - newly reignited after the release

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, DVD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock Tags: Crazy Horse, Neil Young

By the Forces of Nature: Rhino Celebrates Black History Month With Limited Edition Vinyl and New Digital Releases

January 15, 2021 By Sam Stone 2 Comments

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Black History Month is on the way in February and to celebrate, Rhino will release a number of limited-edition colored vinyl reissues along with a digital initiative to bring legendary recordings to digital service providers for the first time ever.  The Rhino Black initiative begins on February 5, with the vinyl reissue of George Benson's multi-platinum Breezin' (issued on blue and beige vinyl) and a the first-ever vinyl issue of the Donny Hathaway compendium, A Donny Hathaway Collection, which

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Categories: News Formats: Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Funk, Jazz, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rap/Hip-Hop Tags: Adina Howard, Aretha Franklin, Baby Huey, Chaka Khan, Curtis Mayfield, Donny Hathaway, George Benson, Jimmy and Vella, Lil Kim, Nina Simone, Pete Rock and CL Smooth, Ray Charles, Rhasaan Roland Kirk, Sheila E, Tevin Campbell, The Jungle Brothers

Release Round-Up: Week of January 15

January 15, 2021 By The Second Disc 3 Comments

Stevie Nicks 24 Karat Gold Tour

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! Stevie Nicks, The 24-Karat Gold Tour: Live in Concert (BMG) 2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2CD/DVD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Blu-ray: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Stevie Nicks brings her latest live album, recorded in Indianapolis and Pittsburgh in 2017 and featuring classics and rarities alike, to wide release in the United States.  The 2-CD set was previously released as a Target exclusive,

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, DVD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Folk, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: John Fogerty, KT Tunstall, Leslie Odom Jr., Matthew Sweet, Peter Paul and Mary, Pop-O-Pies, Sam Cooke, Stevie Nicks, The Readymades, Wilbert Harrison

Turn Up the Night: Rhino Reissuing First Two Dio-Era Black Sabbath Albums

January 13, 2021 By Joe Marchese 2 Comments

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Ozzy Osbourne was a tough act to follow, but Ronnie James Dio more than filled his shoes when he took over the frontman role in Black Sabbath for the metal pioneers' 1979 album Heaven and Hell.  On March 5, Rhino will salute the Dio era with deluxe 2-CD or 2-LP reissues of both Heaven and Hell and its 1981 follow-up, Mob Rules. When it became clear that Black Sabbath couldn't proceed with its original lead vocalist, Ozzy Osbourne, Ronnie James Dio (Elf, Rainbow) was paged.  Dio was introduced

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Rock Tags: Black Sabbath, Dio, Ronnie James Dio

Shake Your Money Maker: 30th Anniversary Edition

January 12, 2021 By

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1CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 1LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 3CD: Target (U.S.) / Rough Trade (U.K.) 3CD Super Deluxe: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 4LP Super Deluxe: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada For its belated 30th anniversary - it was released in 1990 - The Black Crowes' Shake Your Money Maker will be remastered and reissued on CD and LP in multiple formats, including deluxe and

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

Hard to Handle: Black Crowes Revisit Debut for 30th Anniversary

January 11, 2021 By The Second Disc 5 Comments

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Before the COVID-19 pandemic spread across the globe, one of the weirder music stories of 2020 was the reappearance of brothers Chris and Rich Robinson, reviving The Black Crowes with a new touring line-up (after dissolving in 2002, 2011 and 2015) and touring their breakthrough debut Shake Your Money Maker in full. On February 26, that album will get the deluxe treatment. For its belated 30th anniversary - it was released in 1990 - Shake Your Money Maker will be remastered and reissued on

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Rock Tags: The Black Crowes

Release Round-Up: Week of January 8

January 8, 2021 By The Second Disc Leave a Comment

Blue Oyster Cult Live Pasadena

Welcome to our first Release Round-Up of 2021! Blue Oyster Cult, Live '83 (Real Gone Music) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Live '83 presents a treasured Blue Oyster Cult concert from Perkins Palace in Pasadena on CD for the first time ever following the gatefold, 2-LP edition on blue with black swirl vinyl for Record Store Day Black Friday 2020. Originally recorded for radio broadcast, tapes of this show have circulated among fans for decades and have become a go-to for

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Country, Jazz, Pop, Rock Tags: Barry Gibb, Bee Gees, Cleveland Eaton, Grateful Dead, Ian Hunter, Mott the Hoople

John Williams in Vienna: Live Edition

January 6, 2021 By

John Williams Live in Vienna Deluxe

Released just this past August and noted as 2020's best-selling classical album, John Williams in Vienna presented the five-time Oscar winner leading the Weiner Philharmoniker and violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter - the soloist on 2018's Across the Stars collaboration album - from the stage of The Musikverein in Austria, considered one of the world's finest-sounding stages.  Williams ably led the ensemble through a stirring set of thematic favorites (JAWS, Star Wars, Raiders of the Lost Ark, E.T. The

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Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Classical/Opera, Soundtracks

Nice to Be Around: John Williams' 'Live in Vienna' to Get Expanded CD Release

January 6, 2021 By The Second Disc Leave a Comment

John Williams Live in Vienna Deluxe

As legendary film composer John Williams heads toward his 89th birthday in 2021, Deutsche Grammophon is giving fans a present in the form of a new expanded edition of his latest concert release, just three days before his big day. Released just this past August and noted as 2020's best-selling classical album, John Williams in Vienna presented the five-time Oscar winner leading the Weiner Philharmoniker and violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter - the soloist on 2018's Across the Stars collaboration

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Still Woman Enough

January 5, 2021 By

Still Woman Enough

CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Loretta Lynn is back with her 60th overall studio album on which she celebrates the legacy of women in country music, including her own.  Four beloved female performers make guest appearances: Reba McEntire and Carrie Underwood join in on a rendition of the title track (the title of Lynn's 2002 memoir) while Margo Price and Tanya Tucker contribute vocals to new versions of her hits "One's on the Way"

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

Back to 'Plan B': Two Huey Lewis and The News Albums Back in Print in February

January 5, 2021 By The Second Disc 7 Comments

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If you miss the sound of Huey Lewis and The News - and who doesn't, really? - the band will reissue on CD their last two albums before last year's Weather. 2001's Plan B and 2010's Soulsville were, before Weather, the entirety of the band's 21st century studio output after a blockbuster run through most of the '80s and a measure of success in the early '90s. Plan B marked the group's first album of original studio material in a decade - their last full album, 1994's Four Chords and Seven

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One's on the Way: New Loretta Lynn Album Due in March

January 5, 2021 By The Second Disc Leave a Comment

Still Woman Enough

Loretta Lynn's fourth album for Legacy Recordings will be available this spring, it was announced yesterday. Still Woman Enough, available March 19, is the country icon's fourth batch of songs recorded with producers Patsy Lynn Russell (her daughter) and John Carter Cash (Johnny Cash and June Carter's son) at the legendary Cash Cabin studio in Hendersonville, Tennessee. It's also her 60th album overall - an incredible body of work altogether. Thematically, this record focuses primarily

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Country Tags: Carrie Underwood, Loretta Lynn, Reba McEntire, Tanya Tucker

The Year In Review: The 2020 Gold Bonus Disc Awards, From A to Z

January 4, 2021 By The Second Disc 10 Comments

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Happy 2021 and welcome to The Second Disc's 11th Annual Gold Bonus Disc Awards! The past year has presented any number of unprecedented challenges.  But music has filled a more important role than ever, providing solace, comfort, and escape in a time unlike any other.  With that spirit in mind, The Second Disc once again wishes to recognize 2020's cream of the catalogue music crop - those exemplary reissues and box sets big and small that proved to be truly outstanding for music lovers

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

Start Walkin': 1965-1976

December 28, 2020 By

Nancy Sinatra Start Walkin

CD: Light in the Attic / Nancy's Bootique / Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Vinyl: Light in the Attic / Nancy's Bootique / Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Light in the Attic launches a Nancy Sinatra archival series with Start Walkin' 1965-1976. This 23-track collection chronicles the decade following the December 1965 release of the Hazlewood-penned-and-produced, Billy Strange-arranged "These Boots Are Made for Walkin'," the anthemic song that topped the charts in eight

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A Fascination with Heights: Independent Project Records Relaunches with Expanded, Remastered Reissues

December 24, 2020 By The Second Disc Leave a Comment

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Independent Project Records, formed in 1980, helped launch the careers of bands such as Camper Van Beethoven and Savage Republic.  Now, founder Bruce Licher of Savage Republic and partner Jeffrey Clark are relaunching IPR with a new campaign featuring remastered and expanded editions of the label's back catalogue titles plus previously unreleased recordings from a variety of underground musicians. The IPR relaunch kicks into high gear in early 2021 with reissues from Half String (1996's A

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Rock Tags: Half String, Red Temple Spirits, Scenic, Shiva Burlesque

Holiday Gift Guide Stax Spotlight: The Staple Singers' "Come Go with Me" and "The Gospel Truth: Complete Singles Collection"

December 23, 2020 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Staple Singers Come Go with Me

UPDATED DECEMBER 2020: Earlier this year, Craft Recordings released The Staple Singers' Come Go with Me: The Stax Collection in vinyl and digital editions. The set compiled all of the famed gospel group's 1968-1974 albums for the Stax label plus a volume of rarities, non-LP single sides, and live recordings. Now, that box has come to CD as beautifully remastered from the original analog tapes by Jeff Powell at Take Out Vinyl. Come Go with Me: The Stax Collection features the following

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Categories: Reviews Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Gospel, R&B/Soul Tags: Holiday Gift Guide, Jimmy Jones, Joshie Jo Armstead, Louise McCord, The Rance Allen Group, The Staple Singers

Songs of Freedom: The Island Years

December 22, 2020 By

Songs of Freedom

3CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 6LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 6LP Color: Artist Store / uDiscover Music Store A new edition of the 1992 Bob Marley box set Songs of Freedom will be released on CD and vinyl. While that original collection spanned Marley's entire recording career, including a decade's worth of pre-Island material, this set eschews those licensed tracks; Songs of Freedom: The Island Years drops from four CDs to three, but offers a similar

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Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Reggae

1970

December 22, 2020 By

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In recent years, Bob Dylan's annual copyright-extension collections have become highly sought-after collectors' items and fodder for bootleggers everywhere.  Happily, Legacy Recordings has opted to give a wide release to Dylan's 1970 set, largely drawn from the Self Portrait sessions and featuring his loose jams with George Harrison.  This 3-CD set features 74 previously unreleased tracks on 3 CDs.

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Stage Fright: 50th Anniversary Edition [Various Formats]

December 22, 2020 By

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2CD/1BD/1LP/1-7″ single: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2CD (CD 1 & 2 of box set): Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Links TBD 1LP (Remixed Album Only): Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada The Band slightly belatedly revisits 1970's Stage Fright for its 50th anniversary in a variety of editions anchored by Bob Clearmountain's stereo and surround remixes of the original album, now resequenced by Robbie Robertson: A multi-format Super Deluxe

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

The White EP [Expanded Edition]

December 22, 2020 By

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Liberation Hall and 415 Records have an expanded edition of San Francisco band Pop-o-Pies' 1981 release The White EP, adding seven tracks to the original six.  This release from the band featuring Joe Callahan and a rotating cast of musicians makes its debut on CD.  Also available digitally.

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San Francisco: More Alive Than Not

December 22, 2020 By

The Readymades Mostly Live

This new release from Liberation Hall and 415 Records has the best of Jonathan Postal's influential West Coast new wave/punk group The Readymades.  It expands on the 2009 vinyl issue with three additional tracks for a total of 17 songs.  Available on CD and digital platforms.

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Holiday Gift Guide Review: Tears for Fears, 'The Seeds of Love: Deluxe Edition'

December 22, 2020 By The Second Disc 4 Comments

TFF Seeds of Love Deluxe

Think back to your days listening to pop music in the '80s - say, for the sake of argument, 1985. Thriller's wrapped up its run of seven hit singles. Bruce Springsteen's Born in the U.S.A. is in the middle of its own seven-hit stretch. Purple Rain made Prince a juggernaut - and Tears for Fears, the British duo behind the moody, electronic The Hurting (1983) have broken into the mainstream with the progressive psych-pop of 1985's Songs from the Big Chair, including back-to-back chart-toppers

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Categories: Reviews Formats: Blu-Ray Audio, Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Pop, Rock Tags: Holiday Gift Guide, Tears for Fears

Release Round-Up: Week of December 18

December 18, 2020 By The Second Disc Leave a Comment

Tom Jones Complete Decca Studio Albums Cover

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! Tom Jones, The Complete Decca Studio Albums Collection (Decca/UMC) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Link TBD) This long-awaited box from Sir Tom Jones - counting 17 discs, including 15 studio albums and two CDs of non-LP single and EP sides - boasts over 200 tracks and 10+ hours of music from Jones' classic Decca period of 1965-1975.  It includes hits such as "What's New Pussycat?," "It's Not Unusual," "Help Yourself," "Green, Green

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Holiday, Jazz, Pop, Rock Tags: Billy Stritch, Jim Caruso, Klea Blackhurst, Lynn Ahrens, Paul McCartney, Stephen Flaherty, Taylor Swift, The Kinks, Tom Jones

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