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Something To Cling To: Morello Reissues Tammy Wynette Albums from the 1960s and 1980s

March 6, 2017 By Randy Fairman 4 Comments

Tammy Wynette DIVORCE and Stand By Your Man

We're back with another look at a couple of releases from Cherry Red's country-focused Morello Records.  The imprint has been releasing country music reissues for the past several years.  Today, we're looking at two new releases featuring one of the biggest names in country music history: Tammy Wynette. Morello has released several twofers of Wynette previously, and these contain albums spanning nearly two decades. First up is the CD, due on March 24, containing two of Wynette's earliest

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Country Tags: Tammy Wynette

Release Round-Up: Week of March 3

March 3, 2017 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

Ann Margret Definitive Collection

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! Ann-Margret, The Definitive Collection (Real Gone) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Real Gone has a new compilation from the one and only Ann-Margret.  The Definitive Collection 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 Presley!  This title was previously issued as a digital-only entry in

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Country, Jazz, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Ann-Margret, Artful Dodger, Guy Clark, Judy Collins, Livingston Taylor, Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes, The Muffs, The Rascals

New Looks: Real Gone's April Slate Includes B.J. Thomas, David Allan Coe, Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg

February 28, 2017 By Randy Fairman 1 Comment

BJ Thomas New Looks

As the winter season draws to a close, we now look ahead to spring.  Real Gone Music has just announced its titles for the first full month of the season.  Due on April 7, the new slate features country and spoken word projects together with a few limited vinyl repressings. First up is a release featuring notes by our very own Joe Marchese.  The single disc New Looks from an Old Lover - The Complete Columbia Singles from B.J. Thomas gathers up all of the A and B sides the singer recorded for

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Country, Everything Else, Pop, Rock Tags: Allen Ginsberg, B.J. Thomas, David Allan Coe, Jack Kerouac, Steve Allen

Hot Burrito No. 2: Intervention Reissues Flying Burrito Brothers' "Gilded Palace of Sin" On Vinyl and SACD

February 23, 2017 By Joe Marchese 5 Comments

Flying Burrito Brothers Gilded Palace

Intervention Records will soon be giving the deluxe audiophile treatment on both hybrid stereo SACD (playable on all CD players) and 180-gram vinyl LP to a bona fide country-rock classic.  The Flying Burrito Brothers' 1969 A&M Records release The Gilded Palace of Sin remains a landmark album, fusing genres to create something wholly new - "Cosmic American Music," as Gram Parsons memorably named it.  It will arrive on LP in May and later in the year on SACD. Though the group's original

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Categories: News Formats: CD, SACD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Country Tags: Chris Hillman, Gram Parsons, The Flying Burrito Brothers

Release Round-Up: Week of February 17

February 17, 2017 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

The Standells Dirty Water

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! Evanescence, The Ultimate Collection (Concord Bicycle) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) The long-delayed release ofThe Ultimate Collection features, on six vinyl albums, Evanescence's full studio discography on 180-gram vinyl. In addition to Fallen, The Open Door (a double LP) and Evanescence, the box features the first wide release of Origin, a 2000 self-released demo collection; plus Lost Whispers, a rarities disc featuring four

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Country, Rock Tags: Alison Krauss, Evanescence, The Standells

Release Round-Up: Week of February 10

February 10, 2017 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

David Bowie Nassau Coliseum 1976

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! Bon Jovi, The Albums (Island/UMe) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Bon Jovi's The Albums includes all 14 of the group's studio efforts, from 1984's blistering-glam self-titled debut to the just-released This House is Not for Sale, the first album without longtime guitarist Richie Sambora. Eleven of these albums have hit the Billboard Top 10 since 1986's chart-topping breakthrough Slippery When Wet; of those, six of these albums

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Box Sets, CD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Country, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Arthur Lee, Bon Jovi, David Bowie, Golden Earring, Kris Kristofferson, Love

Inspiration

January 24, 2017 By

Clint Walker Inspiration

Real Gone Music dips back to the golden age of television for this reissue.  The western Cheyenne ran from 1955-1963 and starred Clint Walker.   He was also signed to Warner Bros. for a recording contract and, in 1959, released Inspiration, a country-gospel album.  RGM's new edition is expanded by one track and features notes from Todd Everett.

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Formats: CD Genre: Country, Gospel

It's Too Late To Stop Now: Ted's Year in Review, And A Look Ahead

January 11, 2017 By Ted Frank 5 Comments

Van Morrison Its Too Late to Stop Now Volumes II

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

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

For The Good Times: Rhino Expands Kris Kristofferson's "Austin Sessions"

January 10, 2017 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

Kris Kristofferson 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

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Vinyl Genre: Country Tags: Allison Krauss, Jackson Browne, Kris Kristofferson, Marc Cohn, Mark Knopfler, Steve Earle, Vince Gill

Johnny Cash, Eddy Arnold, Glen Campbell Featured On "Chartbusters USA: Special Country Edition"

January 9, 2017 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Chartbusters USA Country

The latest entry in Ace Records' long-running Chartbusters USA series arrived late in 2016.  The Special Country Edition turned its spotlight on Hot 100 hits which had crossed over from the Billboard Country chart.  The 24 tracks on Chartbusters USA: Special Country Edition are all from the period of 1963-1969, needless to say a time of seismic change in pop music, and many come from the greatest names in any genre of music. The set, appropriately enough, opens with George Jones' 1964

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Country, Pop Tags: Eddy Arnold, Glen Campbell, Johnny Cash, Marty Robbins, Porter Wagoner, Various Artists

Morello Country Round-Up Part 1: Marty Robbins, Dottie West, George Jones and Tammy Wynette

December 22, 2016 By Randy Fairman Leave a Comment

Dottie West Here Comes My Baby and Sings

Cherry Red's imprint Morello has been releasing twofers from some of country's biggest artists for several years now.  They've had a lot of great recent releases in 2016 and we'd thought we'd highlight some of them for you.  All of the following twofers feature eight-page color booklets with two pages of liner notes and reproductions of sleeve notes and/or back covers.  They each have notes written by journalist Tony Byworth with the exception of Dottie West CD.  All of the reissues are produced

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Country Tags: Dottie West, George Jones, Marty Robbins, Tammy Wynette

The Best of the Dualtone Years

December 21, 2016 By

Guy Clark Best of the Dualtone Years

Late singer-songwriter Guy Clark (1941-2016) is celebrated on this new 2-CD anthology.  The Best of the Dualtone Years chronicles the progressive country hero's 2006-2013 period at the Dualtone label during which time he recorded four well-received albums including the Grammy-winning My Favorite Picture of You.  This release premieres three previously unreleased demos, and features new liner notes by Holly Gleason.

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Formats: CD, Digital Download Genre: Country, Folk

Never Ending Song of Love: Real Gone's February Slate Includes Delaney & Bonnie, Lesley Gore, Duke Ellington, Lynn Anderson, More

December 20, 2016 By Randy Fairman 5 Comments

Lesley Gore Love Me By Name

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

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Country, Folk, Jazz, Pop, R&B/Soul, Soundtracks Tags: Delaney and Bonnie, Duke Ellingfton, Jim Kweskin, Larry Coryell, Lesley Gore, Lynn Anderson, Soft Machine, Thom Bell

The Definitive Collection

December 15, 2016 By

Lynn Anderson The Definitive Collection

Real Gone has collected 40 tracks - including 38 chart hits - from the late country superstar Lynn Anderson on the 2-CD The Definitive Collection (previously issued online as a volume of The Essential series).  Remastered by Vic Anesini at Battery Studios and annotated by TSD's own Joe Marchese, this set draws from Lynn's Chart and Columbia sides, including "Ride, Ride, Ride,"  "You're My Man," "How Can I Unlove You," "What a Man, My Man Is," "Keep Me in Mind," "Mother, May I" (a duet with her

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Formats: CD Genre: Country

Holiday Gift Guide Review: A Vinyl Christmas From Presley, Cash and More

December 13, 2016 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Elvis Merry Christmas Baby

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

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Categories: Holiday Gift Guide, Reviews Formats: Vinyl Genre: Country, Holiday, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal Tags: Benny Goodman, Elvis Presley, Glenn Miller, Johnny Cash, Sammy Kaye, Various Artists

Release Round-Up: Week of December 9

December 9, 2016 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

The Doors London Fog 1966

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! Randy Newman, The Randy Newman Songbook (Nonesuch) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) The Randy Newman Songbook box set marks the first-ever combined release of all three of the legendary songwriter's piano-and-voice Songbook albums (including the new Vol. 3) recorded in 2003 and 2010 with producers Mitchell Froom and Lenny Waronker.  All songs have been resequenced as one cohesive, thematically-linked listening experience spread over 4

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, SACD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Country, Holiday, Jazz, Pop, Rock Tags: Buck Owens, Evanescence, Kylie Minogue, Laura Nyro, Meat Loaf, Neil Young, Paul Desmond, Randy Newman, Social Distortion, The Cretones, The Doors

Acting Naturally: Omnivore Collects Buck Owens' Capitol Singles, Anthologizes Don Rich

December 8, 2016 By Joe Marchese 2 Comments

Buck Owens Complete Capitol Singles

Buck Owens changed the face of country music, and all he had to do was "Act Naturally."  With his back-to-basics, honky-tonk approach, Alvis Edgar Owens defined the Bakersfield Sound, an antidote to the slick, guitar-and-choir-laden style coming out of Nashville in the 1960s.  Omnivore Recordings, the label home of a number of stellar Owens-related projects, is about to issue a definitive 2-CD collection from his prime era - The Complete Capitol Singles 1957-1966 - as well as a compilation

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Categories: News, Reviews Formats: CD Genre: Country Tags: Buck Owens, Don Rich

Release Round-Up: Week of November 18

November 18, 2016 By Joe Marchese 2 Comments

Beatles Eight Days a Week BD

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up - the last of the major release weeks for 2016! The Beatles, Eight Days a Week (DVD or BD) (Apple/Capitol) 2-Disc Blu-ray: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2-Disc DVD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Standard Edition Blu-ray: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Standard Edition DVD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Ron Howard's acclaimed 2016 documentary chronicling Beatlemania, Eight Days a Week, hits DVD

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Blu-Ray, Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, DVD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Country, Folk, Holiday, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Donna Summer, Gene Autry, Jethro Tull, R.E.M., Roy Acuff, Soundgarden, The Beatles, The Who, Tim Buckley, Tori Amos

The Complete Foundational Recordings 1936-1951

November 16, 2016 By

Roy Acuff The King of Country Music

Bear Family celebrates the early days of Roy Acuff on this new 9-CD/1-DVD box set collecting the pioneering country artist's complete recordings for Vocalion, Arc and Columbia between 1936 and 1951.  The LP-sized set includes a 184-page hardcover book with a total playing time of nearly 11 hours over 228 tracks.  The DVD features a 1940 film of the Grand Ole Opry.

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Formats: Box Sets, CD, DVD Genre: Country

Release Round-Up: Week of November 11

November 11, 2016 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

David Bowie Legacy

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up!  It's another big week for box sets from classic rock's heaviest hitters, and much, much more... Bob Dylan, The 1966 Live Recordings (Columbia/Legacy)  (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) 36 discs of music from Bob Dylan's 1966 world tour - every recording of the tour known to exist - are brought together on this monumental new collection.  Read our full review here! Bob Dylan, The Real Royal Albert Hall

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Blu-Ray, Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, DVD, Vinyl Genre: Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Country, Pop, Rock Tags: Black Sabbath, Bob Dylan, David Bowie, Garth Brooks, John Lennon, NRBQ, Pink Floyd, Robbie Robertson, Sting, The Band, Yoko Ono

Ropin' the Wind: Garth Brooks to Release Target-Exclusive Box

November 7, 2016 By Mike Duquette 14 Comments

Garth Brooks Ultimate Collection and Christmas

Country superstar Garth Brooks is getting into the box set game once more with a 10-disc set exclusively hitting shelves at Target later this month. The Ultimate Collection is a 121-track set that collects Brooks' past and present works across more than 25 years of recording and touring. Seven themed discs feature a plethora of hits, fan favorites and covers (including the unreleased Randy Travis cover "1982"); two live discs feature five unreleased cuts including duets with wife Trisha

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Country Tags: Garth Brooks, Trisha Yearwood

Release Round-Up: Week of November 4

November 4, 2016 By Joe Marchese 2 Comments

Stevie Nicks Bella Donna

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up, featuring a host of holiday offerings (including three new titles from Second Disc Records and Real Gone Music!) and much, much more! Jack Jones, The Jack Jones Christmas Album (Second Disc Records/Real Gone Music) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Second Disc Records and Real Gone Music proudly bring Jack Jones' 1964 Kapp Records classic to CD for the very first time!  The Jack Jones Christmas Album features lush renditions of "White

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, DVD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Country, Gospel, Holiday, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Bing Crosby, Eddy Arnold, Frank Zappa, Jack Jones, Mantovani, Margaret Whiting, Mitch Miller and the Gang, Mother Love Bone, Queen, Ray Conniff, Sammy Kaye, Stevie Nicks, The Blind Boys of Alabama, The Living Strings, The Norman Luboff Choir, The Robert Shaw Chorale, The Ventures

Do You Hear What I Hear? Jack Jones, Eddy Arnold, Mitch Miller Coming TOMORROW From Second Disc Records!

November 3, 2016 By Joe Marchese 4 Comments

RGM 0531 Eddy Arnold Christmas Cover

With Halloween now in the rearview window, decorations springing up everywhere and yuletide tunes on the radio, it's beginning to look a lot like Christmas everywhere you go.  Here at Second Disc HQ, we're no exception.  Tomorrow, November 4, we're thrilled to spread some holiday cheer with three Second Disc Records releases as part of Real Gone Music's amazing 10-strong (yes, 10 titles!) Christmas line-up!  All three titles feature new-to-CD tracks, copious liner notes, original album and label

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Country, Holiday, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal Tags: Eddy Arnold, Jack Jones, Mitch Miller and the Gang

Accentuate The Positive: Capitol Records Turns 75, Plans New Vinyl Reissues

November 2, 2016 By Joe Marchese 7 Comments

Capitol 75

Capitol Records, the venerable label founded by Johnny Mercer with B.G. DeSylva and Glenn Wallichs and now a unit of Universal Music Group, turns 75 next year.  In celebration of this landmark anniversary, the label has announced three new initiatives. The first of these endeavors is The Capitol Records 75th Anniversary Collection, a series of 75 vinyl reissues from various genres curated by "noted music journalists, authors and other renowned creative figures."  The Beatles are represented

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Categories: News Formats: Vinyl Genre: Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Country, Jazz, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rap/Hip-Hop, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Bobby Darin, Bonnie Raitt, Dean Martin, Frank Sinatra, Johnny Mercer, The Band, The Beach Boys, The Beatles

A Melody Ranch Christmas

October 30, 2016 By

Gene Autry A Melody Ranch Christmas

This new release, culled from Gene Autry's personal archive of radio show transcription lacquers, includes classic and rare Christmas songs performed live on the singing cowboy's popular Melody Ranch radio show between 1942 and 1955.  Performers include not just Gene, but also The Cass County Boys, The Pinafores, The Gene Autry Blue Jeans, Rosemary Clooney, and Carl Cotner's Orchestra.  This CD, sequenced in the style of a vintage radio broadcast, also includes Pat Buttram's comedy routines, and

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Formats: CD Genre: Country, Holiday

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