Official word has just come out about Real Gone's titles for March and, as usual, the line-up boasts an eclectic group of releases including a number of comprehensive double-CD sets! First up is a compilation featuring liner notes from our very own Joe Marchese. The Definitive Collection from Ann-Margret features 30 of the flame-haired singer/actress's songs from her 1961-1966 tenure on RCA Records and includes standards, pop, soundtrack recordings and collaborations with Al Hirt and Elvis
Thirty Three and 1/3: Complete George Harrison Box Set Arrives In February
On February 25, George Harrison would have turned 74 years old. One day earlier, UMe and the estate of the late Beatle will release his entire solo album catalogue in one new vinyl box set. George Harrison - The Vinyl Collection includes newly-remastered editions of 13 albums, from Wonderwall Music (1968) to the posthumously released Brainwashed (2002). Each album has been remastered at Capitol Studios from the original tapes and pressed onto 180-gram vinyl. The albums are all packaged in
I Figured You Out: Elliott Smith's "Either Or" Reissued
Two decades after its release, and more than 13 years after his tragic passing, the Kill Rock Stars label will reissue Elliott Smith's breakthrough studio album Either/Or. Either/Or found Smith, then just 27 years old, moving away from the spare acoustic folk of his previous, self-titled album from 1995 and toward a fuller band sound. Smith recorded all the instruments on the album, and tracks like "Between the Bars" and "Say Yes" reflect his growth as an artist. These songs also gained
Release Round-Up: Week of January 13
Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up - our first of the New Year! Gerry Rafferty, The Very Best of Gerry Rafferty: United Artistry (Varese Vintage) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Varese Vintage goes right down the line with Gerry Rafferty's greatest hits, including "Stuck in the Middle with You" from Stealers Wheel, and the solo "Baker Street," "Get It Right Next Time," "Right Down the Line" and more! This newly-remastered 16-track compilation has seven U.S. and U.K.
Mandatory Fun: More Details Emerge About "Weird Al" Yankovic's Career-Spanning "Squeeze Box"
Last June, word came out that this year would see the release of a box set containing all of "Weird Al" Yankovic's studio albums. Over six months have gone by with not much more being revealed, but a few more details have just been announced today. The appropriately-titled Squeeze Box: The Complete Works of "Weird Al" Yankovic will be released on November 24. Produced by Legacy Recordings, it will be available via PledgeMusic. CD, vinyl and digital versions will be released. Both physical
It's Too Late To Stop Now: Ted's Year in Review, And A Look Ahead
In the early days of the New Year, we've announced our annual Gold Bonus Disc Awards, and have also shared Mike's selections for the Reissues of the Year! Today, Ted takes a turn with a look at his own, wide-ranging personal music diary, or Best of 2016 - plus a look at what he's most anticipating in the months to come! We hope you'll discover a favorite of your own! You'll find selected links below for further reading. 2016 was a richly diverse year for music. But before taking a look at
13: Expanded Edition
Light in the Attic continues its Lee Hazlewood Archive Series with an expanded edition of Hazlewood's 13. This most unusual album began life as an album by producer-arranger-songwriter Larry Marks, Hazlewood's LHI Records associate. Marks had taken some of Hazlewood's best songs and arranged them with a funky R&B vibe, but the album sat unreleased. Lee recorded his own voice over Larry's, creating the album released as 13. LITA adds four bonus tracks (finally giving the album 13
For The Good Times: Rhino Expands Kris Kristofferson's "Austin Sessions"
Next month, Rhino Records will revisit a latter-day classic from one of the leaders of the "new country" movement, Kris Kristofferson. The 1999 release The Austin Sessions will be reissued on CD, vinyl LP and DD in a newly-remastered edition also featuring two previously unreleased bonus tracks. The Austin Sessions was recorded by the famed singer-songwriter with producer Fred Mollin at Arlyn Studios in 1997 as part of a songwriter-focused series also featuring retrospectives from Jimmy Webb
Wayfaring Strangers: Ladies From The Canyon
Numero Group revisits its acclaimed 2006 compilation on vinyl. This set features 13 folk-rock-flavored tracks "culled from beyond the crop of critic-revisionist darlings Linda Perhacs, Judee Sill, or Vashti Bunyan," drawing instead on "unlikely heroines who sang beneath the infrastructure of the music business."
Time and Love: Analog Spark Reissues Two Laura Nyro Classics On Vinyl
Laura Nyro's 1966 debut album on Verve Records proclaimed the young singer-songwriter to be More Than a New Discovery, and the title wasn't mere hyperbole. After all, the album introduced one chart-topper for The 5th Dimension, a Top 5 smash for Blood, Sweat and Tears, and a Top 10 hit for Barbra Streisand among its twelve songs. How to top New Discovery? Nyro's major-label debut at Columbia Records, 1968's Eli and the Thirteenth Confession, did just that, as one of the most strikingly
The Doors: 50th Anniversary Edition
This super deluxe reissue of the 1967 debut from The Doors is similarly formatted to Rhino's 40th anniversary edition of the Ramones' self-titled debut released last year. Across the first two discs, the original stereo and mono mixes will be included (the mono mix is presented here on CD for the first time while the stereo mix makes its first appearance since a new mix was created by engineer Bruce Botnick in 2007). A third disc includes more vintage live recordings, from San Francisco's
Don't You Wonder Sometimes: Bowie's "Sound and Vision" Gets Picture Disc In February
On February 10, Rhino Records and Parlophone will continue the long-running series of David Bowie 7" vinyl picture disc singles with the release of "Sound and Vision" in time for the classic song's 40th anniversary. "Sound and Vision" was released almost forty years ago to the day of this reissue - February 11, 1977 - in the United Kingdom from Bowie's Low, the first album in the artist's storied Berlin Trilogy created in collaboration with co-producer Tony Visconti and Brian Eno, among other
Break On Through: The Doors' Debut Expanded For 50th Anniversary
Rhino Records kicked off a 50th anniversary celebration of American psychedelic masters The Doors with the release of an early live set, London Fog 1966, last month--and today, on what the City of Los Angeles proclaims as "The Day of The Doors," Rhino has announced a new deluxe edition of the band's breakthrough debut studio album, to be released this spring. Released exactly 50 years ago on January 4, 1967, The Doors was the record-buying public's introduction to singer Jim Morrison,
Love You 'Til the Day I Die: Crowded House, 2016's Reissues of the Year
Yesterday, we announced the recipients of the Seventh Annual Gold Bonus Disc Awards! Unsurprisingly, the deluxe reissues from Crowded House were among them! Today, Mike takes an in-depth look at these stellar reissues! Depending on how you look at it, there are anywhere from seven (albums) to 14 (discs) to more than 200 (songs) reasons why Universal Music's Crowded House reissues stand tall in this writer's mind as the best catalog music campaign of 2016. But in the end, all it took was
The Year In Review - The 2016 Gold Bonus Disc Awards, From A to Z
Happy New Year, and welcome to The Second Disc's Seventh Annual Gold Bonus Disc Awards! As with every year's awards, our goals are simple: to recognize as many of the year's most essential reissues and catalogue titles as possible, and to celebrate as many of those labels, producers and artists who make these releases happen in today's unpredictable retail landscape. The labels you'll read about below have, by and large, bucked the trends to prove that there's still a demand for physical
Live at The Paradiso (Soft Purple Vinyl Edition)
Early prog-rock band Soft Machine was formed in 1966 in the U.K. The group opened for Jimi Hendrix on this 1968 North American tour and actually broke up during that time. But they reformed due to contractual obligations to record their second album, Volume 2, released in September 1969. A little earlier than that, in March 1969, they performed at the Paradiso in Amsterdam. That concert has been available before on CD but Real Gone is putting out the first vinyl edition of Live at the
Holiday Gift Guide Review: John Coltrane, "The Atlantic Years in Mono"
John Coltrane's tenure at Atlantic Records was a short one - from January 1959 to May 1961 - yielding just four albums in that period, and then another four through mid-1966. One year later, the saxophone great was gone; in the years since, Atlantic continued to mine his recordings for the label including on two posthumously-issued LPs from 1970 and 1975. Of Trane's original albums for Atlantic, most were first experienced in mono, and it's those releases that form the basis of Rhino's recent
Never Ending Song of Love: Real Gone's February Slate Includes Delaney & Bonnie, Lesley Gore, Duke Ellington, Lynn Anderson, More
As Christmas approaches and 2016 winds down, we start looking ahead to 2017 and what will be released. We've already told you about the Second Disc Records/Real Gone Music reissue of Thom Bell's all-star soundtrack to The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh due in February, and now we're here to tell you about the rest of Real Gone's killer lineup for that month. First up are two titles with liner notes by our very own Joe Marchese. In 2015, Real Gone reissued Lesley's Gore's Someplace Else Now
Archive Collection: Flowers in the Dirt
DELUXE EDITION (3CD/1DVD) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada TBD) SPECIAL EDITION (2CD) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada TBD) VINYL (2LP) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada TBD) Paul McCartney reassesses his 1989 album Flowers in the Dirt in a variety of formats. All boast a remastered version of the original 13-track album (including the CD and cassette bonus track "Où est le Soleil?") as the centerpiece, while the 3-CD/1-DVD Deluxe Edition Box Set and 2-CD
Cooking with Gas: Sub Pop Reissues Tad Discography
If you're looking for some reissues for the hardcore Seattle fan in your life, Sub Pop Records has recently released the early discography of the group Tad. Named for singer/guitarist Tad Doyle, Tad were one of Sub Pop's first artists, and while their music sounded less punk and more metal (think Alice in Chains without quite as many hooks), they were a crucial force for the label. They opened for Nirvana on a European tour, and shared many of their studio collaborators (Jack Endino produced
Holiday Gift Guide Review: "This Is Big Audio Dynamite" From Intervention Records
In 1982, The Clash has the biggest success of their career with the album Combat Rock featuring the songs "Rock The Casbah" and "Should I Stay or Should I Go." Of course, that's when things began to go wrong. It's one of the oldest story in rock: a band whose members are split in two directions between being "safe" and "commercial" or being "artistic" and "daring." The two sides of that argument for The Clash were being represented in the early 1980s by Joe Strummer and Mick Jones. Strummer
Release Round-Up: Week of December 16
Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! The Kinks, The Mono Collection (Sanctuary/BMG) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) The Kinks' The Mono Collection brings together eight of the band's classic albums in their original U.K. Pye Records mono editions on ten LPs, all pressed on 180-gram vinyl. The set includes 1967's Live at Kelvin Hall and 1970's original 2-LP collection The Kinks (otherwise known as The Black Album. A hardcover 48-page book including never-before-seen
Paul McCartney Sets Archive Release of "Flowers in the Dirt" For March, Includes Elvis Costello Demos
Last August, Paul McCartney announced his return to The Beatles' longtime home of Capitol Records, bringing all of his solo works beginning with 1970's McCartney into the fold of the Universal Music Group-owned label. Today, the long-awaited multi-format Archive Collection release of 1989's Flowers in the Dirt has been announced for March 24, 2017 via MPL/Capitol/UMe. Highlighted by four collaborations with Declan MacManus, a.k.a. Elvis Costello, Flowers in the Dirt featured productions by
Holiday Gift Guide Review: A Vinyl Christmas From Presley, Cash and More
As the vinyl revolution continues, it's no surprise that numerous classic Christmas albums have been reissued in the format, while newer holiday recordings have gotten the 33-1/3 treatment as well. Legacy Recordings, rather than continuing its Classic Christmas Album series in CD form this year, has brought a number of titles to vinyl including new collections from Elvis Presley and Johnny Cash, and a Classic Christmas volume dedicated to the big band sound. Of course, Elvis Presley has been
New Vinyl Box Celebrates Rihanna's Work (Work, Work, Work, Work)
Fans of Barbadian R&B/pop hitmaker Rihanna have a sumptuous vinyl box set to look forward to, featuring all eight of her wildly successful studio albums in one package. Released December 16, The Studio Album Vinyl Box will include all of Robyn Rihanna Fenty's studio efforts, from her dancefloor-filling debut Music of the Sun (2005) to this year's ambitious Anti. Those first seven have each gone platinum, while all have reached Billboard's Top 10 (Unapologetic (2012) and Anti topped the
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