Real Gone is in a country mood this February, with the majority of their slate devoted to the country and western genre. But that is not all you will find on the label's mix of CDs and vinyl for the month. Kicking things off is collection drawn from Barbara Mandrell's tenure at Columbia Records: This Time I Almost Made It - The Lost Columbia Masters. This CD features liner notes by our very own Joe Marchese based on a fresh interview with Mandrell, and is centered around Mandrell's final
Release Round-Up: Week of December 4
Well, this is it - the final big release week of the year! While next week will see releases slow to a trickle, this week is packed with exciting box sets and much more! Bruce Springsteen, The Ties That Bind: The River Collection (Columbia) 4-CD/3-DVD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon Canada 4-CD/2-BD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon Canada This 4-CD/3-DVD or 4-CD/2-BD set celebrating The Boss' seminal album The River features a treasure trove of previously unreleased material across its 53 audio tracks
Release Round-Up: Week of November 13
It may be Friday the 13th, but today's choice releases are hardly scary, with box sets, archival releases, new music from veteran artists, and much, much more! Aretha Franklin, The Atlantic Albums Collection (Atlantic/Rhino) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.) This 19-CD box set brings together 16 of the Queen of Soul's Atlantic albums as previously released on CD including the deluxe 2-CD Live at Fillmore East, the 2-CD Rare & Unreleased Recordings From The Golden Reign Of The Queen Of
WE HAVE OUR WINNERS! CHARLIE RICH "25 ALL-TIME GREATEST HITS" GIVEAWAY!
CONGRATULATIONS! The following 15 entrants have won a copy of Varese Vintage's brand-new Charlie Rich anthology, 25 All-Time Greatest Hits, on CD! If you entered our contest via Facebook and your name is on the list below, please drop us a line at theseconddisc-at-gmail-dot-com or a Private Message on Facebook with your name and mailing address! If you entered via email, you don't have to do anything - your CD will be in the mail soon! Watch this space soon for more exciting
Release Round-Up: Week of November 6
This week's Release Round-Up brings the year's most eagerly-anticipated box set, a stunning new collection from the Fab Four, a Christmas feast including two titles from Second Disc Records, and more! Bob Dylan, The Bootleg Series: Volume 12 - The Cutting Edge (Columbia/Legacy) The Best of the Cutting Edge 2-CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. The Best of the Cutting Edge 3-LP Vinyl: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. The Cutting Edge 6-CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. The Cutting Edge: Collector's
Second Disc Records' Christmas Slate Arrives TOMORROW with Lynn Anderson and Jim Nabors!
Though Santa Claus hasn't yet officially kicked off the Christmas season in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, many signs of the season are already here! Mr. Claus is holding court at the mall, radio stations have started their holiday playlists, and Christmas trees are for sale with 49 days left until the big day. We're certainly ready for Christmas here at Second Disc HQ, as this Friday, we're celebrating the first-ever holiday releases on our Second Disc Records label! We're proud to join
Love's Got A Hold On Him: "The Alan Jackson Story" Box Set Arrives From Legacy
In 1989, Alan Jackson became the first artist signed to the fledgling Arista Nashville label. By the time of his departure from its roster in 2010, Jackson had recorded sixteen albums and accumulated such honors as a Grammy Award, two American Music Awards, fifteen trophies from the Country Music Association, and fourteen recognitions from the Academy of Country Music. Known for blending traditional honky-tonk songwriting with contemporary country production, the superstar is marking his 25
Buck Owens, Bobby Rush Highlight Omnivore's November Slate
Releases from two legends of country and blues highlight Omnivore Recordings' November slate. On November 13, the label will drop the second 2-CD retrospective dedicated to the music of Bakersfield's favorite son Buck Owens, while two weeks later on the 27th, it will unveil a 4-CD box set spotlighting the singular career of Bobby Rush. Buck 'Em! Volume 2: The Music of Buck Owens (1967-1975) picks up where the first volume of the series, issued in 2013, left off. Its 50 tracks trace the many
Did You Happen To See: Varese Collects Charlie Rich's "25 Greatest Hits" - AND YOU CAN WIN!
Charles Allan Rich - better known as Charlie Rich - came to country stardom late. Though he scored his first hit single in 1960, the favorite son of Colt, Arkansas had trouble following it up with any consistency. But once the big hits started coming in 1972 with a pair of Kenny O'Dell songs - "I Take It On Home" and "Behind Closed Doors" - Rich established himself as one of C&W's most versatile and beloved entertainers. Varese Vintage has recently celebrated the legacy of Rich (1932-1995)
All Aboard! Ace Collects "London American Label: 1966" and "25 Train Tracks"
Ace is saying "All Aboard!" with a pair of recent releases spotlighting the label's pursuit of the diverse sounds of music. The London American Label Year by Year: 1966 continues Ace's long-running survey of the American sides issued on London Records in the U.K. between the 1950s and the 1970s while All Aboard! 25 Train Tracks Calling at All Musical Stations spotlights (you guessed it!) "train songs." The eleventh volume of Ace's The London American Label series is here, with 28 selections
You've Got the Touch: Legacy's 2015 Black Friday RSD Slate includes Presley, Cash, Hendrix, Isley Brothers and "Transformers" Soundtrack
Announcements about this year's Black Friday Record Store Day event have been trickling out. A couple of days ago we brought you news of Omnivore's titles and before that, of Real Gone's Dictators release! Now we can tell you about Legacy's slate for the day after Thanksgiving. The titles run the gamut in size from 7" singles to 12" 2-LP sets, and also range in genre from rock to country to hip-hop. Several soundtracks are being released including a single from the 1960s Batman TV show,
Release Round-Up: Week of October 23
Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! Elvis Costello, Unfaithful Music & Soundtrack Album (UMe) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.) Elvis Costello has compiled a 2-CD companion release to his recently-released, utterly engrossing memoir Unfaithful Music & Disappearing Ink. Featuring songs that "offer the deepest emotional connection to the themes and stories in his book," Unfaithful Music & Soundtrack Album non-chronologically spans the onetime Angry Young Man and latter-day
Release Round-Up: Week of October 16
Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! The dB's and Friends, Christmas Time Again! (Omnivore) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.) Omnivore revisits and revises the classic alt-rock Christmas compilation. Producer Chris Stamey has added new performances by Yo La Tengo & Jeff Tweedy, Marshall Crenshaw, Robyn Hitchcock, and Big Star's Third (featuring Mike Mills of R.E.M. taking lead vocals on Big Star's "Jesus Christ") to selected tracks from past editions of the album for a total of 22
Hear The Bang: Lost Country-Rock Classic By Late Singer-Songwriter Denny Lile Is Rediscovered
Singer-songwriter Denny Lile was only 21 years old when a newspaper headline proclaimed "Maybe THIS time it's Denny Lile's turn," but he was already a veteran of the music business and its vagaries. A couple of singles came and went with his band Elysian Field on Imperial Records; the same fate befell Soul, Inc. and its handful of singles on the Laurie label. At the time of that headline, Lile was striking out with his own group Otis for the single release of "Hear the Bang." A self-titled
Man, We Had a Party: Ace Collects Sequel Songs On "Second Helpings"
Numerous collections have compiled famous "answer songs." Ace Records' 2007 anthology The Answer to Everything had many of the best, like Jody Miller's "Queen of the House," Esther Phillips' "When a Woman Loves a Man" and Marilyn Michaels' "Tell Tommy I Miss Him." Early in the summer, Ace took a look not at answer songs, per se, but at sequel songs, on the compilation of Second Helpings: Sequels to the Songs That Left 'Em Hungry for More! The 24 tracks on this collection all hail from the
Review: Tennessee Ernie Ford, "Portrait of an American Singer"
With three stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, a Presidential Medal of Freedom, and inductions into the Country Music and Gospel Music Halls of Fame to his name, there were few heights that Ernest Jennings Ford - a.k.a. Tennessee Ernie Ford - didn't scale. A mainstay of radio and television, Ford's decades-long association with Capitol Records yielded a rich catalogue filled with country, proto rock-and-roll boogie-woogie, western swing, pop and folk ballads, gospel, novelty records, blues and
Release Round-Up: Week of September 25
Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up - maybe the biggest and most diverse yet of 2015! David Bowie, Five Years (Parlophone) 12 CD Box Set: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. 13 LP Box Set: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. New remasters of David Bowie (a.k.a. Space Oddity), The Man Who Sold the World, Hunky Dory and Pin Ups are collected in a new box set along with existing versions of Ziggy Stardust (in both the original and 2003 mixes), Aladdin Sane, Live Santa Monica '72, the Ziggy Stardust
Tender Words: The Anita Kerr Singers, The Mike Sammes Singers Collected On él Label
A pair of recent releases from Cherry Red's él imprint shines a well-deserved spotlight on two famed groups of background vocalists, one from each side of the Atlantic: The Anita Kerr Singers and The Mike Sammes Singers. As a major pioneer of The Nashville Sound alongside producer-guitarist Chet Atkins, Anita Kerr led her distinctive choir on records by Patsy Cline, Jim Reeves, Brenda Lee, Eddy Arnold, Willie Nelson and Floyd Cramer. The Kerr Singers' distinctive harmonies were also heard
Sing Him Back Home: Porter Wagoner Classics Enter The Digital Domain
With his unmistakable blonde pompadour and flashy Nudie suits, Porter Wagoner (1927-2007) cut one of the most distinctive figures in country music. The three-time Grammy-winning Missouri-born singer known as "Mr. Grand Ole Opry" charted over 80 records in his lengthy career, but his solo releases have often been overlooked due to his prosperous association with the young Dolly Parton. Legacy Recordings has taken one step to rectify that with the first-time digital release of six albums
It's Beginning to Look Like Christmas: Real Gone Unwraps Seven Christmas Titles in November From Johnny Mathis, Glen Campbell and More
Real Gone Music's October slate kicked off the label's yearly celebration of the music of Christmas including classic albums by George Melachrino, The Soulful Strings and The Three Suns - and that continues into November when the label releases a whopping seven titles for the holiday season! We've already told you this morning about our two Second Disc Records releases: Jim Nabors - The Complete Columbia Christmas Recordings and an expanded edition of Lynn Anderson's The Christmas Album.
Second Disc Records Makes Spirits Bright This November With Jim Nabors and Lynn Anderson
Autumn is just days away, but here at The Second Disc, our thoughts have already turned to winter - and more specifically, to the music of the holiday season! We're thrilled to announce the first-ever Christmas titles to be released on our own Second Disc Records label - and we promise that they'll get you in the spirit of the season! On November 6, as part of Real Gone Music's mega-Christmas slate (more news on that VERY soon!), we'll be releasing Jim Nabors' Complete Columbia Christmas
Release Round-Up: Week of August 28
Welcome to New Release Friday and this week's Release Round-Up! Faces, You Can Make Me Dance, Sing or Anything (1970-1975) (Rhino) CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. Vinyl: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. This long-awaited 5-CD box set includes Faces' First Step (1970), Long Player (1971), A Nod Is as Good as a Wink...to a Blind Horse (1971), and Ooh La La (1973), and adds never-before-released bonus tracks to each album. The set is topped off with a bonus disc containing non-LP selections.
Lotta Love: Varese Collects "The Very Best of Nicolette Larson" - AND YOU CAN WIN!
Today, Varese Vintage releases Lotta Love: The Very Best of Nicolette Larson, celebrating the life and career of the silken-voiced pop singer who died at the tragically young age of 45 in 1997. This 16-track anthology, culled from her years with Warner Bros. Records and featuring duets with Emmylou Harris, Steve Goodman and Michael McDonald, is a welcome reminder of Larson's versatile gifts in the genres of pop, country and folk - and we would like to give you a chance to WIN ONE OF TEN COPIES
Sixteen Tons, What Do You Get?: Bear Family Releases Tennessee Ernie Ford 5-CD Box Set
For years, Germany's venerable Bear Family label has been curating large box sets focusing on country, pop and early rock-n-roll. These vast collections offer up a complete look at an artist's recordings during a specific period. The label is continuing in this tradition by compiling a box set to coincide with the 60th anniversary of this artist's biggest hit. On September 25, 2015, Tennessee Ernie Ford: Portrait of An American Singer (1949-1960) will be released in the U.S., marking the six
Release Round-Up: Week of July 10
Welcome to today's Release Round-Up for the first international Friday release date! Like you, we're still adjusting to the switch from Monday in the U.K./Tuesday in the U.S. to a worldwide Friday date. Please sound off in the comments below on whether you would like to see us run this longtime feature each Friday, or earlier in the week (so that you may plan ahead for Release Day)! The Hollies, Changin' Times: The Complete Hollies, January '69 - March '73 (Parlophone) (Amazon U.S. /
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