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Black Rose: Expanded Edition

February 1, 2016 By

JD Souther Black Rose

Following a stint as one-third of the Souther-Furay-Hillman Band, J.D. Souther returned to his solo career with 1976's Black Rose.  Jazz musicians Stanley Clarke and Donald Byrd joined friends Ned Doheny and Glenn Frey, and other guests included Art Garfunkel, David Crosby, Don Henley, Joe Walsh, Linda Ronstadt, Lowell George, Andrew Gold, Jim Keltner, Russ Kunkel, Waddy Wachtel, and Danny "Kootch" Kortchmar.  Black Rose includes Souther's own rendition of "Faithless Love" as well as "Simple

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Formats: CD Genre: Classic Rock

Release Round-Up: Week of January 29

January 29, 2016 By Joe Marchese 2 Comments

Phil Collins Face Value 2015

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up featuring a host of deluxe reissues, box sets, and more! Phil Collins, Face Value: Deluxe Edition (Atlantic/Rhino) CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Phil Collins' 1981 classic featuring "In the Air Tonight" gets expanded to two CDs or DD with the addition of eight live tracks and four demos (plus a new, modern cover photograph echoing the original).  Ten of the twelve bonuses are new

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Disco/Dance, Jazz, Pop, R&B/Soul Tags: Ashford and Simpson, Bill Evans, Cilla Black, Esther Phillips, Harpers Bizarre, Julia Fordham, Lee Hazlewood, Phil Collins, Sister Sledge, The Hollies, The Miamis, The Paris Sisters

Original Album Series: Volume Two

January 26, 2016 By

Hollies Original Album 2

The Hollies' Original Album Series collections continue with this second box containing albums from both the group's Graham Nash and Terry Sylvester eras, spanning 1967-1970: Evolution, Butterfly, Hollies Sing Dylan, Hollies Sing Hollies, and Confessions of the Mind.  The 1999 remasters are apparently those included in the box set.

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Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Classic Rock, Pop

Souvenirs: Esoteric Reissues Two Albums From Welsh Prog Band Eyes of Blue

January 22, 2016 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

Eyes of Blue Crossroads of Time

The Welsh progressive rock band Eyes of Blue had its share of ups and downs - the "ups" certainly including gigs opening for The Spencer Davis Group, The Move, The Moody Blues, The Who, and Led Zeppelin, and the "downs" relating to the promising group's flameout in a short period of time.  Late in 2015, Cherry Red's Esoteric Recordings imprint shone a light on Eyes of Blue with the first authorized CD releases of the band's two Mercury albums, both from 1969: Crossroads of Time and In Fields of

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Classic Rock Tags: Eyes of Blue

Release Round-Up: Week of January 22

January 22, 2016 By Joe Marchese 2 Comments

Chicago II SACD

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! Black Sabbath Deluxe Reissue Series (Warner Bros./Rhino) Black Sabbath: Deluxe Edition - Amazon U.S.: 2CD / 2LP Amazon Canada: 2CD / Amazon U.K.: 2CD Paranoid: Deluxe Edition - Amazon U.S.: 2CD / 2LP Amazon Canada: 2CD / Amazon U.K.: 2CD Master of Reality: Deluxe Edition - Amazon U.S.: 2CD / 2LP Amazon Canada: 2CD / Amazon U.K.: 2CD Past Lives: Amazon U.S.: 2CD / 2LP Amazon Canada: 2CD / Amazon U.K.: 2CD Rhino is reissuing the

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Box Sets, CD, SACD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, Rock Tags: America, Black Sabbath, Carly Simon, Chicago, Loggins and Messina

You're Welcome: Primal Scream's Bobby Gillespie Curates Mix Featuring Beach Boys, Byrds, Dion, More

January 21, 2016 By Joe Marchese 3 Comments

Bobby Gillespie Sunday

Among Ace Records' recent releases is a collection that just might make you scream - make that "Primal Scream" - with elation.  Bobby Gillespie Presents Sunday Morning Comin' Down is a mix CD curated by Primal Scream founder/Jesus and Mary Chain drummer.  The Glasgow-born singer/songwriter/musician has selected 20 of his favorite tracks for Ace, and the result is a set that not only illuminates Gillespie's influences as an artist but stands on its own with thematic and sonic coherence.  In

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Country, Pop, Rock Tags: Dion, John Barry, Kris Kristofferson, The Beach Boys, The Byrds, The Monkees, Various Artists

In Memoriam: Glenn Frey (1948-2016)

January 19, 2016 By Joe Marchese 6 Comments

Glenn Frey 1

Glenn Frey's California may have been something out of a dream, a golden land of peaceful, easy feelings, tequila sunrises, and takin' it to the limit.  As a founding member of Eagles, Frey spread the gospel of fast cars, beautiful women and eternal sunshine around the world, picking up six Grammy Awards and 24 Top 40 singles, solo and with his band, along the way.  With his passing yesterday at age 67, popular music has lost one of its most cherished troubadours. Though born in Michigan,

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Categories: News Genre: Classic Rock Tags: Eagles, Glenn Frey

Review: JD Souther, "John David Souther (Expanded Edition)"

January 18, 2016 By Joe Marchese 3 Comments

John David Souther

In 2007, a new song from the Eagles blazed onto the radio airwaves, climbing to a Top 10 AC/Top 25 Country berth on the Billboard charts.  But the infectious, breezy "How Long," with its classic Eagles sound, wasn't new at all.  The song was written by JD Souther and included on his 1972 Asylum Records debut John David Souther.  When the Eagles included it on Long Road Out of Eden, the band's first studio album since 1979, it rekindled the creative relationship with Souther, an "honorary Eagle"

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Categories: Reviews Formats: CD Genre: Classic Rock, Pop Tags: JD Souther

Hey, Mr. Tambourine Man: Bob Dylan's "Bootleg - Live 1964" Coming In Surround Sound

January 18, 2016 By Joe Marchese 6 Comments

Dylan Live 1964 Bootleg SACD

The sixth volume of Bob Dylan's Bootleg Series is coming to 5.0 multichannel hybrid SACD from Audio Fidelity in March.  Live 1964: Concert at Philharmonic Hall was mixed into surround sound years ago by Sony, but the mix has sat on the shelf until now.  It will arrive March 18 as newly remastered by Steve Hoffman (with a remastered stereo layer playable on all CD players). First released in 2004, Bootleg Series Vol. 6 premiered Dylan's Halloween night concert from 1964 at New York's

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Categories: News Formats: SACD Genre: Classic Rock, Folk Tags: Bob Dylan, Joan Baez

Ooh Baby: Real Gone's March Slate Includes Unreleased Herbie Mann Together with Dave Mason and Mickey Gilley Anthologies Plus Limited Vinyl Reissues

January 15, 2016 By Randy Fairman 1 Comment

Dave Mason The Columbia Years

Yesterday we brought you the news of the upcoming Second Disc Records title to be released in conjunction with Real Gone Music: Bobby Darin's Another Song on My Mind: The Motown Years anthology.  Now we've got the rest of Real Gone's March slate to tell you about and it's as excitingly eclectic as ever! Kicking things off is a CD that should be of great interest to jazz enthusiasts.  Herbie Mann is considered one of the greatest jazz flautists ever and was an early proponent of world music. 

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Country, Jazz, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Bobby Darin, Dave Mason, Herbie Mann, Margaret Whiting, Mickey Gilley, The Lords of the New Church, The O'Jays, Whitney Houston

Release Round-Up: Week of January 15

January 15, 2016 By Joe Marchese 2 Comments

Alan Price Savaloy Dip

Welcome to our weekly Release Round-Up! Alan Price, Savaloy Dip (Omnivore Recordings) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Alan Price's 1974 Warner Bros. album Savaloy Dip came and went in the blink of an eye (on a recalled eight-track!) before disappearing for what might have been forever...but Omnivore Recordings has come to the rescue with the first-ever reissue of this 11-song lost record from the Animals founder/keyboardist! Wes Montgomery, One Night in Indy

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: CD Genre: Classic Rock, Jazz, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal Tags: Alan Price, Dorothy Loudon, Wes Montgomery

Sittin' In (SACD)

January 14, 2016 By

Loggins and Messina Sittin In SACD

Audio Fidelity presents Loggins and Messina's 1971 Sittin' In (featuring "House at Pooh Corner" and "Danny's Song") on a hybrid stereo SACD. The standard CD layer is playable on all CD players.

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Hearts (Quadraphonic)

January 14, 2016 By

America Hearts Quad

Audio Fidelity brings the original 4.0 quadraphonic mix of America's 1974 Hearts (featuring "Daisy Jane" and "Sister Golden Hair") to hybrid SACD for the first time.  The 2.0 stereo layer is playable on all CD players.

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Formats: SACD Genre: Classic Rock, Pop

Past Lives

January 7, 2016 By

Black Sabbath Past Lives

Rhino reissues Black Sabbath's 2002 live compilation Past Lives, with performances from 1970-1975 on two CDs or LPs.

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Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock

Master of Reality: Deluxe Edition

January 7, 2016 By

Black Sabbath Master of Reality

The 1971 Master of Reality goes deluxe in a 2-CD or 2-LP edition uniting the 2012 remaster of the original album with the bonus disc first included on a 2009 U.K.-only reissue.

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Paranoid: Deluxe Edition

January 7, 2016 By

Black Sabbath Paranoid

Paranoid (1970) arrives as a 2CD or 2LP set featuring the original album as remastered by Rhino in 2012 plus a bonus disc of rare material previously available only on a 2009 U.K. release.

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Black Sabbath: Deluxe Edition

January 7, 2016 By

Black Sabbath DE

Black Sabbath (1970) arrives in a new Deluxe Edition on CD or LP as remastered by Rhino in 2012, alongside a bonus disc of rare material previously only released in the U.K.-exclusive deluxe set issued by Sanctuary Records in 2009. (The track list for the band's self-titled debut has been rearranged to reflect the original U.S. pressing on Warner Bros., swapping out "Evil Woman (Don't Play Your Games with Me)" for its original non-LP B-side, "Wicked World"; "Evil Woman" thus features on the

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Rhino Charges Into January with New Colored Vinyl Titles, CD Box Sets

January 7, 2016 By Mike Duquette 1 Comment

Monkees Cereal Box Singles

Rhino Records has quite the cure for the usual January doldrums that hit the release calendar, announcing more than a dozen new and reissued titles available exclusively through participating physical stores. The "Start Your Ear Off Right" initiative, featuring titles available January 19, encompass some of the best-known names in Rhino's back catalogue, including The Grateful Dead, The Monkees, Devo, The Cars and The Replacements. From colored vinyl variants to CD box sets, there's virtually

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Bad Company, Devo, Grateful Dead, The Cars, The Monkees, The Replacements, The Velvet Underground

The Year In Review, Part 2 - More Of The Best Of 2015

January 5, 2016 By Ted Frank 6 Comments

Ork Records

The Second Disc is continuing its celebration of 2015's finest with today's column by Ted Frank!  Stop, do not pass GO and do not collect 200 dollars if you haven't already read our Sixth Annual Gold Bonus Disc Awards summation of the year's greatest releases. Here, Ted presents his very own, alternative year in review with titles new and old! I make records ... I really don't want to be about singles or anything. -Adele, The Tonight Show In recent years, the download/stream-heavy music

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Vinyl Genre: Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Everything Else, Folk, Jazz, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks

WE HAVE OUR WINNERS: SECOND DISCMAS PRIZE PACKS!

January 1, 2016 By Joe Marchese 7 Comments

Second Disc Christmas

CONGRATULATIONS! The following entrants have been randomly selected to win one of our Second Discmas surprise CD grab bags!  If you see your name on the list below, sit back and relax - your prize pack will shortly be on the way to the address you provided!  Please let us know when your package arrives - and ENJOY! We were completely overwhelmed by the amount of responses to Second Discmas 2015.  Thanks to all of you who entered - and to all of you reading this - for making The Second Disc

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Categories: Giveaways! Formats: CD Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, R&B/Soul

The Year in Review - The 2015 Gold Bonus Disc Awards, From A to Z

January 1, 2016 By Joe Marchese 3 Comments

Happy New Year, and welcome to The Second Disc's Sixth 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 an increasingly-challenging 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

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Vinyl Genre: Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Country, Disco/Dance, Jazz, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Gold Bonus Disc Awards

Vehicle (Expanded Slipcase Edition)

December 29, 2015 By

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Real Gone reissues its own Expanded Edition of The Ides of March's classic debut Warner Bros. LP in a new, slipcased (and lower-priced) edition.

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Doug Sahm and Band (Gold Vinyl Edition)

December 29, 2015 By

Doug Sahm and Band

Doug Sahm was of course a part of the Sir Douglas Quintet in the 1960s and Jerry Wexler brought him to Atlantic in 1973.  Sahm's first album there, Doug Sahm and Band, was a star-studded affair featuring guests like Dr. John, David Bromberg, Flaco Jimenez and, most notably, Bob Dylan.   This new gold vinyl edition of Sahm's only charting album is limited to ,000 copies.

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Dick's Picks Vol. 2: Columbus, OH - 10/31/71

December 29, 2015 By

DIcks Picks 2

The only single-disc release in Grateful Dead's Dick's Picks series is reissued by Real Gone.  This crackling concert features a transcendent "Dark Star" as well as a spirited "Sugar Magnolia," a rare, early-'70s performance of "St. Stephen" (the final live version until 1976) and a great "Not Fade Away"/"Goin' Down the Road Feeling Bad" closer to round out the 59-minute program.

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John David Souther (Expanded Edition)

December 29, 2015 By

John David Souther

J.D. Souther's eponymous 1971 album was co-produced by Souther and Fred Catero, and arrived on the Asylum label.  It introduced "How Long," revived by Eagles on 2007's Long Road Out of Eden.  Souther was joined by an all-star cast including Glenn Frey, Ned Doheny and John Barbata for the album which will be expanded by Omnivore with seven previously unissued bonus tracks including demos of "How Long" and "Run Like a Thief," covered by Bonnie Raitt.

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