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Rhino's Record Store Day Slate Features John Prine, Steely Dan, Joni Mitchell, CSNY, Donny Hathaway, Lou Reed, More

April 7, 2021 By The Second Disc 6 Comments

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At 1:00 pm EST/10:00 am PST today, the list of Record Store Day's annual offerings was made public.  As was the case in 2020, this year's RSD festivities will take place over more than one day.  The two RSD Drops are scheduled for Saturday, June 12, and Saturday, July 17.  We'll be sharing periodic announcements of various labels' releases, including this look at Rhino's whopping array of over 30 titles from heavy hitters including Black Sabbath, Donny Hathaway, Grateful Dead, Joni Mitchell,

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Everything Else, Folk, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rap/Hip-Hop, Rock Tags: Aretha Franklin, Black Sabbath, Candi Staton, Crosby Stills Nash and Young, Donny Hathaway, Dr. John, Grateful Dead, Hawkwind, John Prine, Joni Mitchell, Me'Shell Ndege'Oecello, Ramones, Record Store Day, Steely Dan, The Cure, The Doors, The Replacements, The Sisters of Mercy, Tom Petty, War

Now More Than Ever: "Chicago at Carnegie Hall" Gets Super-Sized for Its 50th

April 7, 2021 By Joe Marchese 25 Comments

Chicago at Carnegie Hall

Robert Lamm, Peter Cetera, Terry Kath, James Pankow, Lee Loughnane, Walt Parazaider, and Danny Seraphine took the world by storm with 1969's Chicago Transit Authority.  The double album inaugurated a string of twelve successive platinum or multi-platinum LPs for the group over the next decade.  The largest of them all was 1971's Chicago at Carnegie Hall, colloquially referred to as Chicago IV.  Over a whopping eight sides of vinyl, the 4-LP box set presented highlights from the band's six-night,

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Classic Rock, Jazz, Pop Tags: Chicago

Over, Under, Sideways, Down: The Yardbirds' "Roger the Engineer" Goes Super Deluxe from Demon

April 6, 2021 By Joe Marchese 10 Comments

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Last Record Store Day Black Friday, Demon Music Group reissued The Yardbirds' Roger the Engineer as a 2-LP Expanded Edition.  Now, the 1966 rock classic is getting even more expanded - this time, as a 2-LP/3-CD/1-7" single deluxe box set.  Utilizing the original master tapes, the box (announced this morning) features new remastering by Phil Kinrade at Alchemy Mastering at AIR, overseen by original album producer Paul Samwell-Smith. Despite leaving behind a strong legacy of classic songs, The

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock Tags: The Yardbirds

Release Round-Up: Week of April 2

April 2, 2021 By The Second Disc Leave a Comment

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Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! Allen Ginsberg, At Reed College: The First Recorded Reading of Howl and Other Poems (Omnivore) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) The first public reading of Allen Ginsberg's "Howl" took place at San Francisco's Six Gallery in October 1955, but that performance wasn't recorded.  It was long believed that the first recorded reading was in March 1956 in Berkeley, California, but that turned out not to be the case.  On February 13 and 14,

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Country, Everything Else, Jazz, Poetry, Pop, Rock Tags: Allen Ginsberg, Eagles, Gene Russell, Johnny Cash, Jon Klages, Steve Gadd, The Beat Farmers

Hands Across The Water: Paul and Linda McCartney's "RAM" Gets Half-Speed Remaster Treatment in May

March 31, 2021 By Sam Stone 5 Comments

Paul McCartney Ram Half Speed

Paul McCartney had always been one for a homespun album, whether it be his 1970 debut McCartney, Chaos and Creation in the Backyard from 2005, or McCartney III, which he recorded in lockdown (or rockdown, as he called it). Last year, McCartney was the first of his albums to receive a half-speed remaster at Abbey Road, which was pressed up for Record Store Day. The Paul McCartney Half-Speed Remaster series continues with the indie favorite RAM, due May 14 to commemorate its 50th

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Categories: News Formats: Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock Tags: Linda McCartney, Paul McCartney

Steve Miller Band Live! Breaking Ground: August 3, 1977

March 30, 2021 By

Steve Miller Band Live Breaking Ground

CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Steve Miller Band Live! Breaking Ground: August 3, 1977, a previously unreleased seventeen-song set, arrives on CD, double vinyl, and digital formats.  The accompanying video of the full performance will stream on Amazon Prime Video's The Coda Collection, a channel dedicated to music documentaries and concert films.  The show was recorded at Landover, Maryland's Capital Centre (built in 1973,

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Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock

Let My Spirit Carry Me: Steve Miller Band Is "Breaking Ground" On Previously Unreleased 1977 Concert Release

March 29, 2021 By Joe Marchese 10 Comments

Steve Miller Band Live Breaking Ground

Following the 2019 box set Welcome to the Vault, Steve Miller has dipped into his archives once again for a new release.  On Friday, May 14, Sailor/Capitol/UMe will release Steve Miller Band Live! Breaking Ground: August 3, 1977, a seventeen-song set, on CD, double vinyl, and digital formats.  The accompanying video of the full performance will stream on Amazon Prime Video's The Coda Collection, a channel dedicated to music documentaries and concert films. Breaking Ground chronicles The Steve

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock Tags: Steve Miller Band

Flight of the Moorglade: Cherry Red, Esoteric Reissue Jon Anderson's "Olias of Sunhillow"

March 26, 2021 By Joe Marchese 9 Comments

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Jon Anderson's 1976 solo debut Olias of Sunhillow was a lockdown album decades before those were in vogue.  Recorded in his home's garage with Anderson on every instrument, the singer-songwriter recalled three months of 10-hour days to bring the ambitious sci-fi/fantasy concept album to life.  While its success was modest - it peaked at No. 47 in the U.S. and a stronger No. 8 at home in the U.K. - Olias musically anticipated Anderson's collaborations with Vangelis and is today fondly looked upon

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Categories: News, Reviews Formats: CD, DVD Genre: Classic Rock Tags: Jon Anderson, Yes

Release Round-Up: Week of March 26

March 26, 2021 By The Second Disc 2 Comments

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Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! Neil Young, Young Shakespeare (Reprise) [Various Formats] CD/DVD/LP box: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Greedy Hand CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Greedy Hand LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Greedy Hand DVD: Greedy Hand Digital: Neil Young Archives (Streaming) / XStream (Digital Download) / Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. Young Shakespeare documents the earliest known filmed live concert footage of

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, DVD, Vinyl Genre: Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: 3 Doors Down, Badfinger, Chuck Berry, Elvis Costello, Gerry Beckley, Harpers Bizarre, Joe Strummer, Joey Molland, Jon Anderson, Lynn Ahrens, Neil Young, Rodgers and Hammerstein, Stephen Flaherty, The Jacksons

Everybody's Talkin': Crimson Releases "Gold" Collections from Nilsson, Kris Kristofferson, Jim Reeves, Glenn Miller, Joe Brown

March 25, 2021 By Joe Marchese 6 Comments

Nilsson Gold

Crimson Productions' series of budget-priced Gold compilations has continued with a number of new titles spotlighting artists from the pop-rock, country, and big band genres.  Today, we'll take a look at five of those recent releases. Nilsson: Gold features 45 tracks from singer-songwriter Harry Nilsson's RCA recordings.  As Nilsson's oeuvre has been comprehensively addressed in the past - most notably on the 2013 box set The RCA Albums Collection - there's not much that's new here.  Arranged

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Classic Rock, Country, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal Tags: Glenn Miller, Harry Nilsson, Jim Reeves, Joe Brown, Kris Kristofferson

The Millennium Concert

March 24, 2021 By

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Eagles' The Millennium Concert was recorded on December 31, 1999 at LA's Staples Center.  Long available as part of the Selected Works 1972-1999 CD box set and most recently featured on the career-spanning Legacy box set, it now makes its debut on standalone LP (though still in its abbreviated, 12-song sequence), pressed on 180-gram vinyl and complete with a deluxe gatefold package.

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Formats: Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop

Eagles Live

March 24, 2021 By

Eagles Live

1980's Eagles Live remains a beloved document of two of the band's tours, recorded in California in 1976 and 1980.  The 7x Platinum-certified collection featured then-recent tracks "Heartache Tonight" and "The Long Run," an Eagles rendition of Joe Walsh's "Life's Been Good," and a stunning cover of Steve Young's "Seven Bridges Road."  The double-album now returns to stores on 180-gram vinyl with the most recent remastering and a full-sized poster.

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Formats: Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop

Long Road Out of Eden

March 24, 2021 By

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Long Road Out of Eden marked the Eagles' return to the studio by way of a double-CD set that was originally released as a Wal-Mart exclusive.  It explicitly recaptured the band's original sound with a cover of band pal J.D. Souther's "How Long" which the Eagles had sung in concert but never on record.  Don Henley and Glenn Frey rekindled their songwriting partnership, and the album contained songs from Joe Walsh, Timothy B. Schmit, sideman Steuart Smith, and another longtime friend, Jack

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Formats: Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop

Live at Knebworth '76

March 24, 2021 By

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CD/Blu-ray: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada CD/DVD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2-LP/DVD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Live At Knebworth '76 presents Lynyrd Skynyrd's landmark performance at the 1976 festival, fully restored for the first time, in CD/Blu-ray, CD/DVD, and 2LP/DVD configurations.  The concert film and album document Skynyrd's classic lineup as they rose to international prominence.  Singer Ronnie Van Zant and the "three guitar army" of

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Formats: Blu-Ray, CD, DVD Genre: Classic Rock

Yesterday's Tomorrow: Celebrating the Winston-Salem Sound

March 24, 2021 By

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Omnivore's release of Yesterday's Tomorrow: Celebrating the Winston-Salem Sound preserves a concert held on May 12, 2018 at that city's Ramkat club.  On that evening, original members of Winston-Salem bands including Arrogance, Little Diesel, Sacred Irony, and Rittenhouse Square -including such familiar names as Mitch Easter (Let's Active), Peter Holsapple, Will Rigby, and Chris Stamey (the dB's); singers Don Dixon, Dale Smith, Lynn Blakey, and Bob Northcott; and many others -- got together to

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Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, Rock

Grateful Dead (Skull and Roses): 50th Anniversary Edition

March 24, 2021 By

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2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2LP Black Vinyl: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Dead.net (B&W Vinyl) Rhino continues its series of 50th anniversary reissues for Grateful Dead with the band's 1971 self-titled live album with the famous "Skull and Roses" cover.  The centerpiece of the reissue is more than hour of previously unreleased music from another famed SF venue, Bill Graham's Fillmore West, recorded on July 2, 1971 during the Dead's final show at the

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Down the Road: Grateful Dead's 'Skull & Roses' Album Expanded with Unreleased Show

March 24, 2021 By Joe Marchese 6 Comments

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Grateful Dead's 50th anniversary series keeps on truckin' with the June 18 reissue of the band's 1971 eponymous live album also known as their "Skull and Roses" album after the cover artwork by Alton Kelley and Stanley Mouse.  While the Dead was still a young band at that point, Grateful Dead was their second double-LP live album following 1969's Live/Dead.  It also was one of their most successful LPs, peaking at No. 25 on the Billboard Top LPs chart and earning their first Gold sales

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Rock Tags: Grateful Dead

Short Takes: Triumph Prepares New Box Set as RSD Ambassadors; Omnivore Celebrates "Yesterday's Tomorrow;" and Evie Sands Releases New LP

March 22, 2021 By Joe Marchese 3 Comments

Yesterdays Tomorrow

Canadian hard rock heroes Triumph have been selected as the Canadian Ambassadors for Record Store Day 2021 - and the band isn't showing up empty-handed!  As previously reported, RSD will be held in two "Drops" this year due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.  The first of those drops is June 12, with the second to follow on July 17.  On June 12, Triumph - Rik Emmett (guitars/vocals), Mike Levine (bass, keyboards) and Gil Moore (drums, vocals) - will release a 40th Anniversary vinyl box set of

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, Rock Tags: Chris Stamey, Evie Sands, Mitch Easter, Peter Holsapple, Record Store Day, Triumph

The Weekend Stream: March 20, 2021

March 20, 2021 By The Second Disc Leave a Comment

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While The Second Disc prides itself on connecting people to reissues and box sets they can keep on their shelves, it's no secret that listening audiences are also digital - catalogue music lovers, too - and our passion is connecting people to music from the past that they might adore. So we're introducing a new Saturday feature: The Weekend Stream, which focuses on hidden gems that recently made it to digital channels that might make your playlists a little brighter! Duran

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Categories: Features, The Weekend Stream Formats: Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Classic Rock, Disco/Dance, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Duran Duran, Gamble and Huff, Madonna, The Who

Release Round-Up: Week of March 19

March 19, 2021 By The Second Disc 1 Comment

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Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! Neil Young, After the Gold Rush: 50th Anniversary [Vinyl + 7" Box] (Reprise) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) This 50th Anniversary remastered edition of Neil Young's classic album was released on CD in December; now the vinyl version arrives.  The set includes two different recordings of the outtake "Wonderin'" on the bonus 45.  The A-side was recorded in March 1970 in Topanga (previously heard on Archives Vol. 1) while the B-side is

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Box Sets, Cassette, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Country, Gospel, Jazz, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Chris Cornell, Green Day, Harpers Bizarre, Harry Connick Jr., Hello, Jack Cassidy, John Raitt, Keith Jarrett, Loretta Lynn, Neil Young, Paul Stanley, Ringo Starr, Stephane Grappelli, Steve Earle, Sting, The Black Crowes

Something in the Air: "David Bowie at The Kit Kat Klub" Closes Out "Brilliant Live Adventures" Series TOMORROW!

March 18, 2021 By Joe Marchese 8 Comments

David Bowie at the Kit Kat Klub

Willkommen, bienvenue, welcome... Tomorrow (Friday, March 19), pre-orders will begin for the final installment of David Bowie's Brilliant Live Adventures series of concert releases on both CD and 2LP vinyl. David Bowie at The Kit Kat Klub (Live New York 99) captures his invitation-only performance at the intimate New York venue on November 19, 1999.  The gig was recorded and filmed for the Liveonline.net website and later issued as a promotional CD; this release marks its commercial debut and

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Rock Tags: David Bowie

Déjà Vu: Deluxe Edition

March 18, 2021 By

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4CD/1LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 5LP: CSNY50.com / Rhino.com Rhino revisits Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young's landmark 1970 release as a deluxe 4CD/1LP set featuring a remastered version of the original album plus 28 previously unreleased demos, outtakes, and alternate takes.  It's all topped off with an essay from Cameron Crowe.  In addition to the 4CD/1LP set, the box will be released in super-deluxe 5LP format exclusively from the new CSNY50.com and Rhino.com. 

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In The Long Run: Eagles Announce Vinyl Reissues of "Live," "Long Road Out of Eden," and "Millennium Concert"

March 18, 2021 By Sam Stone 7 Comments

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Few captured the spirit of the '70s like California's own Eagles, whose multiplatinum double-album live document Eagles Live joins the 2007 two-disc comeback album Long Road Out of Eden and the hard-to-find release The Millennium Concert in a batch of new, 180-gram vinyl reissues due April 2. 1980's Eagles Live remains a beloved document of two of the band's tours, recorded in California in 1976 and 1980.  The 7x Platinum-certified collection featured then-recent tracks "Heartache Tonight"

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Categories: News Formats: Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock Tags: Eagles

Back to the Garden: Rhino Expands Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young's "Déjà Vu" In New Box Set

March 17, 2021 By Joe Marchese 29 Comments

CSNY Deja Vu

Crosby, Stills, and Nash's eponymous debut was one of the most auspicious and omnipresent records of 1969, a remarkable and harmony-rich affair featuring such era-defining material as "Suite: Judy Blue Eyes," "Marrakesh Express," "Guinnevere," "Wooden Ships," "Long Time Gone," and "Helplessly Hoping."  CSN blended folk, country, jazz, rock, and a dash of pop into an often-imitated but never-duplicated sound.  In the U.S. alone, the album reached No. 6 on the Billboard Top LPs chart and the top

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Classic Rock Tags: Crosby Stills Nash and Young, David Crosby, Graham Nash, Joni Mitchell, Neil Young, Stephen Stills

Short Takes: "Fawlty Towers" Comes to Vinyl with Cleese Autograph; Judas Priest Plans Massive Box Set for Summer

March 16, 2021 By Joe Marchese 4 Comments

Fawlty Towers for the Record

Although only 12 episodes were made between 1975 and 1979, Fawlty Towers remains one of television's most beloved comedies.  As recently as 2019, it was named the greatest ever British sitcom by Radio Times, and its magic has never been successfully duplicated.  Three American remakes - starring Harvey Korman and Betty White (the pilot-only Chateau Snavely, 1978), Bea Arthur (Amanda's, 1983), and John Larroquette and JoBeth Williams (Payne, 1999) - all failed to recapture the spirit of the

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Comedy, Soundtracks Tags: Fawlty Towers, Glenn Tipton, John Cleese, Judas Priest

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