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The Weekend Stream: June 14, 2025

June 14, 2025 By The Second Disc 6 Comments

Stream 2025

Welcome to another edition of The Weekend Stream, The Second Disc's review of notable catalogue titles (and some new ones, too!) making digital debuts. This week we've got it all, from Bakersfield country to Billy Joel on Broadway; actors who sing and singer-songwriters who act in short films; Tony Joe White going disco and Josh Groban's hits going super-size. You'll find something to love - we guarantee it! Wynn Stewart, Songs of Wynn Stewart (Capitol Nashville) (Apple / Amazon) After

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Categories: The Weekend Stream Formats: Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Classical/Opera, Country, Disco/Dance, Everything Else, Jazz, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Billy Joel, Brian Wilson, Chaka Khan, John C. Reilly, Josh Groban, Julian Velard, Kool and the Gang, Lykke Li, Queens of the Stone Age, Suki Waterhouse, The Beach Boys, The dB's, The Jonas Brothers, Tony Joe White, Walter Wanderley, Wynn Stewart

Release Round-Up: Week of June 13

June 13, 2025 By The Second Disc 3 Comments

Version 1.0.0

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of the new titles available today.  As an Amazon affiliate, we earn from qualifying purchases. Grateful Dead, Gratest Hits (Grateful Dead/Rhino) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Rhino assembles a single-CD or single-LP, nine-song Gratest Hits [sic] from Grateful Dead, marking the band's 60th anniversary with the original studio versions of such classics as "Truckin'," "Sugar Magnolia," and "Touch of Grey."  Read

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Blu-Ray Audio, Box Sets, Cassette, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, DVD, Vinyl Genre: Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Alice Ripley, Grateful Dead, Metallica, Neil Sedaka, Neil Young, New Kids on the Block, Oasis, Queen, Tom Kitt, Ultravox, Van Morrison

Next to Normal: Original Broadway Cast Recording [15th Anniversary Edition]

June 10, 2025 By

Next to Normal OBC 15th

Hot on the heels of a successful London revival, the Original Broadway Cast Recording of the 2009 Tony Award-winning musical Next to Normal is revisited for this special 2CD edition which premiered last year on digital services.  Composer Tom Kitt and co-producer Derik Lee have remixed the original album from the multitracks, bringing out new elements in both the orchestration and vocals, and revitalizing it with a newfound energy better reflective of the cathartic experience in the theatre. 

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Formats: CD Genre: Cast Recordings

The Weekend Stream: June 7, 2025

June 7, 2025 By The Second Disc 4 Comments

Stream 2025

Welcome to another edition of The Weekend Stream, The Second Disc's review of notable catalogue titles (and some new ones, too!) making digital debuts. This week brings posthumous recordings by Prince and Donna Summer, a new spin on Star Wars disco, and plenty of cast recordings leading into the Tony Awards this Sunday! And just a quick programming note: our Unplugged series is taking the week off, but will be back with some new and exciting Weekend Stream extra content very soon! Prince,

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Categories: The Weekend Stream Formats: Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Blues, Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Disco/Dance, Electronic, Everything Else, Funk, Jazz, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Albert King, Belinda Carlisle, Bill Evans, Black Eyed Peas, David Foster, Donna Summer, Frances Faye, Merry Clayton, Nicholas Britell, Pretenders, Prince, Rufus Wainwright, Sheridan Smith, The Doors, The Living Strings, The Monkees

Release Round-Up: Week of June 6

June 6, 2025 By The Second Disc 2 Comments

WAR Why Can't We Be Friends

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of the new titles available today.  As an Amazon affiliate, we earn from qualifying purchases. Dusty Springfield, Longing (Real Gone Music) CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Real Gone Music premieres a lost album from Dusty Springfield: 1974's Longing.  Produced by Brooks Arthur, the album features a number of singer-songwriter-oriented compositions including

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Funk, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Alden Shuman, Cynthia Erivo, Dusty Springfield, Eli Paperboy Reed, Joe Henderson, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Megan Hilty, My Chemical Romance, Pulp, Rick James, Seth MacFarlane, Steely Dan, The Doobie Brothers, War, Woody Shaw

The Weekend Stream: May 31, 2025

May 31, 2025 By The Second Disc 6 Comments

Stream 2025

Welcome to another edition of The Weekend Stream, The Second Disc's review of notable catalogue titles (and some new ones, too!) making digital debuts. We've got solo appearances aplenty: Bono, Al Jardine, Grace Potter, John Fogerty, and more new/old music - plus a new subscription service from Crowded House, a Barry Manilow music video, and a tribute to one of the undisputed guitar gods of his generation. Bono, Stories of Surrender EP (Island/Interscope/UMe) (Apple / Amazon) In 2023,

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Categories: The Weekend Stream Formats: Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Country, Disco/Dance, Folk, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: "Weird Al" Yankovic, Air Supply, Al Jardine, Barry Manilow, Bonnie Tyler, Bono, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Crowded House, Edgar Winter, Grace Potter, Hank Williams Jr, Jane Child, John Fogerty, Johnny Winter, Mariah Carey, Neil Finn, Nick Mason, Pavement, Pink Floyd, Rick Derringer, Shep Pettibone, Solange, Steely Dan, Teddy Riley, The Beach Boys, U2, UFO, Willie Nile

Release Round-Up: Week of May 30

May 30, 2025 By The Second Disc 1 Comment

Grateful Dead The Music Never Stopped

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of the new titles available today.  As an Amazon affiliate, we earn from qualifying purchases. Grateful Dead, The Music Never Stopped (Rhino) 3CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 6LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada This live 3CD or 6LP compendium (also available digitally) from Grateful Dead to commemorate the band's 60th anniversary includes 27 tracks representing every one of the venues in the

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Country, Folk, Jazz, Latin, Pop, Rock Tags: Bruce Springsteen, Bryan Ferry, Gloria Estefan, Grateful Dead, Hue Park, Melanie, Rain Parade, Sufjan Stevens, They Might Be Giants, Vince Guaraldi, Will Aronson

The Weekend Stream: May 17, 2025

May 17, 2025 By The Second Disc 4 Comments

Stream 2025

Welcome to another edition of The Weekend Stream, The Second Disc's review of notable catalogue titles (and some new ones, too!) making digital debuts. A positively packed volume offers legends of pop, rock and country revisiting and interpreting some classic tracks; catalogue favorites from Britney to Sheena and Connie to Katrina; intriguing film scores and show tunes; and remembrances of a few legends we lost this week. Steve Perry & Willie Nelson, "Faithfully" (Dark Horse) (Apple /

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Categories: The Weekend Stream Formats: Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Blues, Cast Recordings, CCM, Classic Rock, Country, Disco/Dance, Latin, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: "Weird Al" Yankovic, Ali Stroker, Barbra Streisand, Boyz II Men, Britney Spears, Charles Strouse, Connie Francis, Disneyland, Fleetwood Mac, Foreigner, Jim Caruso, John Murphy, John Williams, Journey, Katrina and The Waves, Levon Helm, Paul McCartney, Rachel Potter, Sheena Easton, Steve Perry, The Doobie Brothers, The Hooters, The Jonas Brothers, The Spinners, Willie Nelson

Hey There: Stage Door Expands John Raitt's "Songs of the Open Road"

May 14, 2025 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

John Raitt Songs of the Open Road

Back in May 2020, in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, Stage Door Records brought some much-needed sunshine with an Original Album Series volume for Broadway baritone John Raitt (1917-2005).  The 2CD volume collected Raitt's four LPs originally released between 1955 and 1960 on the Capitol and Warner Bros. labels; now, Stage Door has turned the clock back to 1947 for a first-time-on-CD expanded edition of his 1947 Decca EP Songs of the Open Road. Born in Santa Ana, California, Raitt

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Cast Recordings, Popular Standards/Vocal Tags: John Raitt

The Weekend Stream: May 3, 2025

May 3, 2025 By The Second Disc Leave a Comment

Stream 2025

Welcome to another edition of The Weekend Stream, The Second Disc's review of notable catalogue titles (and some new ones, too!) making digital debuts. We've got a real party mix for you this week: alt-rock, soft rock, classic rock (in Spanish!), post-hardcore, funk, Barbra Streisand -  you name it, we're spinning it! R.E.M., Radio Free Europe 2025 EP (Craft) (Apple / Amazon / Bandcamp) The legendary Athens, Georgia rockers have a special, timely treat for fans this weekend. With the

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Categories: The Weekend Stream Formats: Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Country, Electronic, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Barbra Streisand, Christopher Cross, Foreigner, Fugazi, Hozier, Joe Jackson, Los Straitjackets, Marvin Gaye, Nick Lowe, R.E.M., Tammi Terrell, The S.O.S. Band

Release Round-Up: Week of May 2

May 2, 2025 By The Second Disc 2 Comments

Pink Floyd Pompeii

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of the new titles available today!  As an Amazon affiliate, we earn from qualifying purchases. Pink Floyd, At Pompeii (Pink Floyd/Legacy) 2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada DVD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Blu-ray: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada More than half a century after its release, Pink Floyd's arresting 1972 concert film -

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Blu-Ray, Blu-Ray Audio, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, DVD, Vinyl Genre: Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, Rock Tags: Cat Stevens, Gentle Giant, Josh Groban, Mary Rodgers, Pink Floyd, Sutton Foster, Todd Rundgren, Wilco

The Weekend Stream: April 25, 2025

April 26, 2025 By The Second Disc 2 Comments

Stream 2025

Welcome to another edition of The Weekend Stream, The Second Disc's review of notable catalogue titles (and some new ones, too!) making digital debuts. Strap in for a killer line-up of titles this week: two more Record Store Day debuts, an incredible posthumous collaboration between two '80s icons, the return of one of glam's most beloved bands, new music by some of our favorite pop girls, a hotly anticipated new take on a Broadway favorite, exciting moments in gospel/soul, an exciting new song

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Categories: The Weekend Stream Formats: Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Cast Recordings, CCM, Classic Rock, Disco/Dance, Electronic, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Aimee Mann, Air, Alice Cooper, Arthur Laurents, Bill Champlin, Bob Bailey, Bryan Adams, Foreigner, Gary Clark, HAIM, Hole, Jule Styne, Lena Hall, Lorde, Pet Shop Boys, Queen, Radiohead, Stephen Sondheim, The Cars, Thompson Twins, Tina Turner

The Spirit of Man: Madfish Preps Box Set Edition of Jeff Wayne's 'War of the Worlds' Concept Album

April 17, 2025 By Mike Duquette 12 Comments

Jeff Wayne War of the Worlds box

When H.G. Wells published The War of the Worlds as a serialized collection of stories in 1897 and a full novel a year later, he may not have known the groundbreaking work he was unleashing on the world. A sci-fi story that dared to look at the dark side of theoretical human-alien contact, War of the Worlds was a fantastical-yet-grounded story that imagined visitors from the planet Mars as anything but friendly. The book became fertile ground for adaptations, from Orson Welles' dramatic 1938

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Categories: News Formats: Blu-Ray, Box Sets, CD, Vinyl Genre: Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Everything Else, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: David Essex, Gary Barlow, Jeff Wayne, Jerry Wayne, Justin Hayward, Liam Neeson, Marti Pellow, Phil Lynott

The Weekend Stream: April 12, 2025

April 12, 2025 By The Second Disc Leave a Comment

Stream 2025

Welcome to another edition of The Weekend Stream, The Second Disc's review of notable catalogue titles (and some new ones, too!) making digital debuts. By now, you might have hit your participating local shop for Record Store Day - and happily, we're kicking off this Saturday's column to share material from five exclusive vinyl titles that are getting a second life in the streaming and download world too. It's a great way to check out some titles if you missed them, or weren't sure if you wanted

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Categories: The Weekend Stream Formats: Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Cast Recordings, CCM, Classic Rock, Country, Electronic, Jazz, Pop, Rock Tags: Astrud Gilberto, Billie Holiday, Carmen McRae, CHVRCHES, Clarence White, Dinah Washington, Dizzy Gillespie, Ella Fitzgerald, Jeff Bridges, John Cafferty and The Beaver Brown Band, Jule Styne, Marlena Shaw, Nina Simone, Reba Rambo, Roger McGuinn, Roy Ayers, Sarah Vaughan, Shane MacGowan, Sinead O'Connor, Stephen Sondheim, T Bone Burnett, The Byrds, The Everly Brothers, Thompson Twins

The Weekend Stream: April 5, 2025

April 5, 2025 By Mike Duquette 16 Comments

Stream 2025

Welcome to another edition of The Weekend Stream, The Second Disc's review of notable catalogue titles (and some new ones, too!) making digital debuts. A quiet, mostly contemplative week means a small batch of understated titles and a big public ask for clarity from one of our missing comrades in catalogue... Dan Fogelberg, Souvenirs (50th Anniversary Edition) (Epic/Legacy) (Apple / Amazon) The late, great Fogelberg's double-platinum sophomore album, produced by Joe Walsh (a year

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Categories: The Weekend Stream Formats: Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Electronic, Folk, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, Rock Tags: Dan Fogelberg, Frank Wildhorn, Jim Caruso, Neil Diamond, Paul Simon

The Weekend Stream: March 29, 2025

March 29, 2025 By The Second Disc 5 Comments

Stream 2025

Welcome to another edition of The Weekend Stream, The Second Disc's review of notable catalogue titles (and some new ones, too!) making digital debuts. Classic Motown in concert, long-lost favorites from a country icon, a live country take on a Fab Four favorite, Gary Numan's mid-'80s works, new music from Bachman-Turner Overdrive and a documentary on a late, great Australian musician...there really is a lot of ground to cover, and that's not even all of it! Marvin Gaye, Marvin Gaye Live!

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Categories: The Weekend Stream Formats: Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Country, Everything Else, Folk, Latin, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Ariana Grande, Bachman-Turner Overdrive, Ben Platt, Brenda Lee, Christine McVie, Crowded House, Emmylou Harris, Fleetwood Mac, Gary Numan, Jack White, Jamey Johnson, Jeremy Jordan, John McVie, Jonathan Groff, Kenny Rogers, Lindsey Buckingham, Marianne Faithfull, Marvin Gaye, Mick Fleetwood, Neil Young, Niall Horan, Paul Hester, Randy Bachman, Ringo Starr, Rodney Crowell, Sarah Jarosz, Sheryl Crow, Split Enz, Steve Martin, Stevie Nicks, The Beatles, The First Edition

Cuts The Deepest: Edsel Celebrates P.P. Arnold on "Soul Survivor" Box Set

March 24, 2025 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

PP Arnold Soul Survivor

One of P.P. Arnold's early sides for Immediate Records was titled "Am I Still Dreaming?"  The song, which the artist born Patricia Ann Cole in Los Angeles wrote at the encouragement of none other than Mick Jagger, is one of the 57 songs on 3 CDs assembled by Edsel Records on the dream of a box set appropriately entitled Soul Survivor: A Life in Song.  The collection, compiled by the singer and Michael Mulligan, traces the onetime Ikette's career from her signing to Andrew Loog Oldham's label

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Categories: News, Reviews Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Blues, Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Andrew Lloyd Webber, Andy Gibb, Barry Gibb, Eric Clapton, Ocean Colour Scene, P.P. Arnold, Paul Weller, Rod Stewart, Roger Waters, Steve Howe

The Weekend Stream: March 15, 2025

March 15, 2025 By Mike Duquette 2 Comments

Stream 2025

Welcome to another edition of The Weekend Stream, The Second Disc's review of notable catalogue titles (and some new ones, too!) making digital debuts. We've got some early classics in Atmos from England's not-so-newest hitmakers, a soundtrack to a classic Tom Petty streaming feature, and new tracks from some of our favorite women in pop and rock! The Rolling Stones, The Rolling Stones EP / The Rolling Stones (U.K.) / England's Newest Hit Makers / Five by Five EP / 12 X 5 / The Rolling Stones

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Categories: The Weekend Stream Formats: Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Country, Pop, Rock Tags: Chappell Roan, HAIM, The Doobie Brothers, The Rolling Stones, Tom Petty, Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers

The Weekend Stream: March 1, 2025

March 1, 2025 By Mike Duquette 2 Comments

Stream 2025

Welcome to another edition of The Weekend Stream, The Second Disc's review of notable catalogue titles (and some new ones, too!) making digital debuts. This week brings new music from Billy Idol and The Chills, cast albums aplenty and some soulful tributes to artists we lost this week. Billy Idol, "Still Dancing" (Dark Horse) (iTunes / Amazon) The recent Rock & Roll Hall of Fame nominee is going on tour this year with Joan Jett & The Blackhearts, and will release Dream Into It,

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Categories: The Weekend Stream Formats: Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Billy Idol, Chris Jasper, Harold Rome, Jerry Butler, Jesse and Joy, The Chills, The Impressions, The Isley Brothers

Release Round-Up: Week of February 14

February 14, 2025 By The Second Disc 5 Comments

Melanie Ace o'Diamonds

Happy Valentine's Day! Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of the new titles available today.  As an Amazon affiliate, we earn from qualifying purchases. Melanie, Ace o' Diamonds: The Lost Broadway Musical (Cleopatra) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) In the early 1980s, singer-songwriter Melanie lent her talents to the score of a new musical intended for Broadway.  Ace o' Diamonds, with a book by Ed Kelleher and Seymour Vall, revolved around the

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Folk, Pop, Rock Tags: Melanie, Rick Springfield, Robert Palmer, Sabrina Carpenter

Release Yourself from Misery: Pete Townshend Collects Solo Albums (But No Bonus Tracks) for New Box

February 7, 2025 By Mike Duquette 9 Comments

Pete Townshend Studio Albums box

A prequel of sorts to UMC's box set of Pete Townshend live recordings is coming this spring: a simple collection of eight of his studio works. The Studio Albums brings together new CD pressings of Who Came First (1972), the Ronnie Lane collaboration Rough Mix (1977), Empty Glass (1980), All the Best Cowboys Have Chinese Eyes (1982), White City (A Novel) (1985), Iron Man (1989) and versions of Pyschoderelict (1993) with and without dialogue. While a 2006 reissue campaign from Hip-O Records

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Rock Tags: John Lee Hooker, Nina Simone, Pete Townshend, Ronnie Lane, The Who

The Weekend Stream: February 1, 2025

February 1, 2025 By Mike Duquette 3 Comments

Stream 2025

Welcome to another edition of The Weekend Stream, The Second Disc's review of notable catalogue titles (and some new ones, too!) making digital debuts! A new charity cover from Def Leppard, reissues of classic albums by Simple Minds and Sheena Easton, and a mess of vintage jazz is on the menu today - plus a heads-up for a forthcoming way to help the ongoing California wildfire relief effort. Def Leppard, Stand by Me (Bludgeon Riffola/Mercury/UMe) (iTunes / Amazon) While also a single

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Categories: The Weekend Stream Formats: Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Blues, Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Country, Jazz, Pop, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Benny Goodman, Def Leppard, Duke Ellington, Glenn Miller, Sammy Kaye, Sheena Easton, Simple Minds, Tommy Dorsey

Release Round-Up: Week of January 24

January 24, 2025 By The Second Disc Leave a Comment

A Complete Unknown OST

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of the new titles available today!  As an Amazon affiliate, we earn from qualifying purchases. Badfinger, Head First: 50th Anniversary Edition (Y&T) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Head First, originally intended to be Badfinger's eighth album and third for Warner Bros. Records, was recorded in 1974 but shelved until 2000.  That release presented a rough mix by Apple Studios engineer Phil McDonald; now, 25

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Folk, Pop, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Badfinger, Bob Dylan, Dan Fogelberg, Eric Clapton, Jeannie Piersol, Tim Weisberg, Van Morrison

The Village (Snap To It): JAY Records, Cherry Red Celebrate "Folk City" with New Concept Album

January 16, 2025 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Folk City OCR

The name of Gerdes Folk City has long been synonymous with the halcyon era of the Greenwich Village music scene.  Bob Dylan made his New York debut on its tiny stage and later debuted "Blowin' in the Wind" there.  Peter, Paul, and Mary played their first official gig together at Gerdes.  Simon and Garfunkel, Joan Baez, Judy Collins, and Doc Watson were the among the dozens of major artists who made Gerdes a home in the club's early days.  Its later years saw a wide variety of artists including

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Cast Recordings Tags: Pat DiNizio, Robbie Woliver, Ronnie D'Addario, Tracy Nelson

Release Round-Up: Week of December 13

December 13, 2024 By The Second Disc Leave a Comment

Never Too Much Greatest Hits

It's Friday the 13th, but it just might be your lucky day for reissues!  Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of the titles available today.  As an Amazon affiliate, we earn from qualifying purchases. Luther Vandross, Never Too Much: Greatest Hits (Epic/Legacy) 2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada In conjunction with a new documentary film, Legacy Recordings issues a new double-disc anthology of the

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Holiday, Pop, R&B/Soul Tags: Anais Mitchell, David Grisman, Foghat, Jason Robert Brown, Jefferson Starship, Jerry Garcia, Luther Vandross, Stephen Sondheim, The Doobie Brothers, The J. Geils Band, Wham!, Yachtley Crew

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