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Release Round-Up: Week of August 19

August 19, 2016 By Joe Marchese 10 Comments

Turtles Album Collection

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! The Turtles, The Complete Original Album Collection (Manifesto/FloEdCo) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) The definitive Turtles box set is here!  The Complete Original Albums Collection presents all six albums released by The Turtles between 1965 and 1970, expanded with rare bonus material. Each of the group's first three albums -- It Ain't Me Babe, You Baby and Happy Together -- is presented in its original mono and stereo mixes,

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Vinyl Genre: Blues, Classic Rock, Country, Folk, Pop, Rock Tags: Chad and Jeremy, Dolly Parton, Josh White, The Heaters, The Scientists, The Spencer Davis Group, The Turtles

Rounder Records Continues 45th Anniversary Celebration with Classic Bluegrass Reissues

August 12, 2016 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

Mark OConnor Markology

Rounder Records, one of the preeminent labels in the realm of roots music and Americana, is currently celebrating its 45th anniversary.  As part of its ongoing digital catalogue initiative, the label has reissued a number of vintage bluegrass albums on digital service providers this month.  Artists include Mark O'Connor, The Rice Brothers, Kenny Baker, Stuart Duncan, Tony Trischka, Hazel Dickens, and The Wayfaring Strangers! Without any further ado, you can check out Rounder's August digital

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Categories: News Formats: Digital Download Genre: Country, Everything Else, Folk Tags: Hazel Dickens, Rob Ickes, Stuart Duncan, Tony Trischka

The Complete Trio Collection

August 9, 2016 By

Complete Trio

This 3-CD release brings together newly remastered versions of both exquisite original albums by the Trio of Dolly Parton, Emmylou Harris and Linda Ronstadt (from 1987 and 1999) plus a disc of 20 rare and previously unreleased recordings.  On the same date, Rhino will also issue the single "highlights" CD My Dear Companion: Selections from The Trio Collection as well as Farther Along, a 2-LP vinyl presentation of all the bonus material from the complete edition.  In addition, Trio II will be

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Formats: CD, Digital Download, Vinyl Genre: Country, Folk, Pop

Release Round-Up: Week of August 5

August 5, 2016 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Wilson Pickett Complete Atlantic Singles Volume One

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! Wilson Pickett, Land of 1000 Dances: The Complete Atlantic Singles Vol. 1 (Real Gone) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Real Gone Music has the first release in a three-volume collection chronicling Wilson Pickett's tenure at Atlantic Records.  The Wicked Pickett released a total of 66 single sides at the label and The Complete Atlantic Singles Vol. 1 collects the first 22 of these in their original mono single mixes.  You'll find some

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: CD Genre: Classic Rock, Country, Folk, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul Tags: Black Sabbath, Diamond Rio, Dusty Springfield, Elvis Presley, Emerson Lake and Palmer, Fanny, Mitch Miller, The B-52's, The New Christy Minstrels, Wilson Pickett

Above and Beyond: Varese Brings Papa John Phillips, Wynn Stewart to Vinyl

July 27, 2016 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

John Phillips John the Wolfking of LA

For his first solo album - and lone solo LP released during his lifetime - John Phillips was careful not to repeat himself.  With The Mamas and the Papas in the rearview mirror at that moment in time, Papa John reinvented himself as John, The Wolfking of L.A. and surrounded himself with the day's top musicians to craft a beguiling, mellow portrait of Los Angeles circa 1970.  Varese Vintage expanded this one-of-a-kind record on CD in 2006, and has recently issued it on a new 180-gram vinyl

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Categories: News, Reviews Formats: Vinyl Genre: Country, Pop Tags: John Phillips, The Mamas and The Papas, Wynn Stewart

They Say It's Wonderful: Real Gone September Slate Includes Robert Goulet, Porter Wagoner and The Meters

July 19, 2016 By Randy Fairman 3 Comments

Robert Goulet Definitive

Even though summer has just begun, Real Gone Music is already looking toward the end of the season with its September releases.  As per the label's norm, the artists represented span a wide range of styles and genres. We've already told you about the Second Disc Records/Real Gone release of The Isley Brothers' lost Groove With You...Live! album.  Joe has also written the liner notes for another of Real Gone's September offerings:  Robert Goulet's 2-CD The Definitive Collection.  Joe put

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Country, Funk, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Angel Witch, Dionne Warwick, Porter Wagoner, Robert Goulet, The Isley Brothers, The Meters, X-Ray Spex

The Definitive Hits Collection

July 9, 2016 By

Diamond Rio Definitive Hits

Diamond Rio's The Definitive Hits Collection rounds up 40 tracks from the country group's Arista Nashville tenure.  One of the few bands to come out of performing out of an amusement park, they made their debut as The Grizzly River Boys (and later the Tennessee River Boys) at Opryland in Nashville in 1982.  They stopped performing at the park in 1985 and began to record demos and perform in hopes of landing a record deal.  It would take until 1990 when they signed with the newly-created Arista

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Formats: CD Genre: Country

Try A Little Tenderness: Morello Reissues Four From Marty Robbins

July 7, 2016 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Marty Robbins Today and Dont Let Me Touch You

Morello Records, an imprint of Cherry Red Group, is back with its fifth and sixth two-fers drawn from the considerable catalogue of the late country superstar Marty Robbins.  Today/Don't Let Me Touch You brings together two Columbia LPs from 1971 and 1977, respectively, while All Around Cowboy/Everything I've Always Wanted has Robbins' 1979 and 1981 albums. Singer-songwriter Marty Robbins spent most of his career, spanning roughly thirty years and over 50 studio albums, at Columbia, departing

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Country Tags: Marty Robbins

Town + Country

July 4, 2016 By

The Rave Ups Town and Country

Omnivore offers a 30th anniversary expanded edition of The Rave-Ups' Town + Country.  The band may be best known for its appearance in the film Pretty in Pink, but this reissue proves there's plenty more to the group.  The reissue of this lost Americana classic produced by Stephen Barncard (Grateful Dead's American Beauty) features the original 10 songs, plus 11 previously unissued bonus tracks--including live radio performances recorded for Deirdre O'Donoghue's KCRW-FM program Snap and material

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Formats: CD, Digital Download Genre: Country, Pop, Rock

Cash, Robbins, Jones, Arnold Feature On Ace's "More Country Hits"

July 1, 2016 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

More Country Hits

Ace Records has recently continued its Golden Age of American Popular Music Series with another volume dedicated to the sounds of country-and-western.  More Country Hits follows The Country Hits, released in 2008, and like that volume, presents a collection of country classics that crossed over to the pop side on the Billboard Hot 100.  Many familiar names from the first collection show up here, too, including Johnny Horton, Johnny Cash, Faron Young, Ray Price, George Jones, Skeeter Davis, Marty

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Categories: News, Reviews Formats: CD Genre: Country, Pop Tags: Carl Perkins, Eddy Arnold, George Jones, Jerry Lee Lewis, Jimmy Dean, Johnny Cash, Marty Robbins, Various Artists

Release Round-Up: Week of July 1

July 1, 2016 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Delfonics 40 Classic Soul Sides

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up!  We've got the latest release from Second Disc Records and Real Gone Music as well as plenty more that we know you won't want to miss! Eddy Arnold, Each Road I Take: The Lee Hazlewood and Chet Atkins Sessions 1970 (Second Disc Records/Real Gone Music) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Our newest release brings together two seminal, never-before-reissued albums by Eddy Arnold on one CD, both from 1970. Love and Guitars captured Arnold

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: CD, Digital Download, Vinyl Genre: Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Country, Folk, Funk, Pop, R&B/Soul, Soundtracks Tags: Betty Davis, Brook Benton, Burt Bacharach, Chet Atkins, Davy Jones, Eddy Arnold, Eric Clapton, Harry Nilsson, Kate and Anna McGarrigle, Lee Hazlewood, Micky Dolenz, Miles Davis, Quincy Jones, Sea Level, Survivor, The Delfonics

These (Cowboy) Boots Are Made For Walkin'! Eddy Arnold, Lee Hazlewood, Chet Atkins Sessions OUT TOMORROW!

June 30, 2016 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Eddy Arnold Each Road I Take

Richard Edward Arnold - better known as Eddy Arnold - proved throughout an eight-decade career that he could sing anything.  The countrypolitan crooner scored 147 U.S. chart hits between 1945 and 2008, sold over 85 million records, and earned inductions into the Country Music Hall of Fame and The Grand Ole Opry.  Yet, in 1970, the superstar known as "The Tennessee Plowboy" found himself at a crossroads.  That year, he released two remarkable albums ending one chapter in his career and beginning

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Country, Pop Tags: Chet Atkins, Eddy Arnold, Lee Hazlewood

We Dig Anita and Ahmad! Cherry Red's él Label Collects Kerr and Jamal

June 22, 2016 By Joe Marchese 2 Comments

Anita Kerr We Dig Anita

Cherry Red's él imprint has previously celebrated the legendary career of Anita Kerr with various album reissues, and now the label is putting the spotlight on her prolific work in the studio supporting a host of music's most famous artists.  We Dig Anita: The Oohs and Aahs of the Nashville Sound brings together 33 tracks from this multi-talented pioneer of the lush country-pop Nashville Sound - an accomplished singer, musician, arranger, producer and composer.  All of the tracks on We Dig

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Country, Jazz, Pop Tags: Ahmad Jamal, Anita Kerr

In The Midnight Hour: Real Gone August Slate Includes Wilson Pickett, The B-52's, Dusty Springfield, Diamond Rio, More

June 17, 2016 By Randy Fairman 2 Comments

Wilson Pickett Complete Atlantic Singles Volume One

With summer nearly upon us, we're all beginning to make plans for the next few months.  Real Gone is doing the same, having just revealed what its releases are going to be for middle of summer in August! The first item on the list is the first of an eventual three-volume collection chronicling Wilson Pickett's tenure at Atlantic Records.  Pickett released a total of 66 single sides at the label and The Complete Atlantic Singles Vol. 1 collects the first 22 of these.  When Pickett moved to

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Country, Folk, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul Tags: Cat Mother and the All-Night Newsboys, Diamond Rio, Dusty Springfield, Fanny, Marty Robbins, Mitch Miller, The B-52's, The New Christy Minstrels, Wilson Pickett

A Matter Of Time: Glen Campbell's Atlantic Years Anthologized By Varese

June 15, 2016 By Joe Marchese 3 Comments

Glen Campbell For the Good Times

Following the release of 1981's It's the World Gone Crazy, Glen Campbell left Capitol Records, his home of two decades, and moved over to Atlantic Records' new country division, Atlantic America.  The superstar artist remained at Atlantic through 1986, releasing three mainstream country LPs while simultaneously recording contemporary Christian material at Word.  Varese Vintage has recently released the first anthology of this oft-overlooked period in Campbell's career.  For the Good Times

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Country, Pop Tags: Glen Campbell

WE HAVE OUR WINNERS: LINDA RONSTADT'S "SILK PURSE" GIVEAWAY!

June 10, 2016 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Linda Ronstadt Silk Purse

Congratulations!!  The following 30 entrants have won a copy of Varese Vintage's brand-new edition of Linda Ronstadt's Silk Purse 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 giveaways! Our winners

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Categories: Giveaways! Formats: CD Genre: Country, Pop Tags: Linda Ronstadt

Release Round-Up: Week of June 10

June 10, 2016 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Pet Sounds 50

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up, with some of the most high-profile releases yet for 2016! The Beach Boys, Pet Sounds 50 (Various Editions) (Capitol/UMe) 4-CD/1-BD Deluxe Edition: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2-CD Deluxe Edition (CD 1 + highlights from 4-CD set): Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Mono 180-Gram Vinyl Edition: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Stereo 180-Gram Vinyl Edition: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada The Beach

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Blu-Ray Audio, Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Country, Jazz, Pop, R&B/Soul Tags: Allen Toussaint, Charlie Faye and the Fayettes, Gilbert O'Sullivan, Glen Campbell, Jerry Lee Lewis, John Coltrane, Kris Kristofferson, Mitch Ryder and The Detroit Wheels, Paul McCartney, Phil Collins, The Beach Boys, Van Morrison

Rockin' My Life Away

June 6, 2016 By

Jerry Lee Lewis Rockin My Life Away

With this new compilation, Varese Vintage looks back to Jerry Lee Lewis' brief tenure at Elektra Records at the dawn of the 1980s.  With productions by Bones Howe (The 5th Dimension, Tom Waits) and songs by Bob Dylan, Roger Miller and Johnny Cash, Rockin' My Life Away captures The Killer melding country, rock-and-roll and popular standards in his inimitable fashion.

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For The Good Times

June 6, 2016 By

Glen Campbell For the Good Times

Varese Vintage anthologizes a lesser-known period of Glen Campbell's career: his early 1980s recordings for Warner Bros. and Atlantic America.  For the Good Times features sixteen cuts including a pair of songs by Jimmy Webb ("Do What You Gotta Do," "I Was Too Busy Loving You") and two previously unreleased tracks: Kris Kristofferson's title track and Dave Loggins' "Please Come to Boston."

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Formats: CD Genre: Country

YOUR CHANCE TO WIN! Varese Reissues Linda Ronstadt's "Silk Purse"

June 2, 2016 By Joe Marchese 4 Comments

RonstadtSilkPurse LP5 1

Linda Ronstadt may have gotten down and dirty in the pigpen for the cover of her sophomore solo album, but the alluring music within the record's grooves was indeed far closer to the Silk Purse of its title than to a sow's ear.  The 1970 Nashville-recorded LP, recently reissued on CD by Varese Vintage on the heels of its 2015 Black Friday Record Store Day vinyl release, fused Ronstadt's West Coast sensibilities with an authentic country-and-western vibe.  It's as potent a blend now as it was

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Categories: Giveaways!, News Formats: CD Genre: Country, Pop Tags: Linda Ronstadt

Laura Nyro, David Bromberg, Ann Wilson Headline Rounder's June Reissue Campaign

June 1, 2016 By Joe Marchese 8 Comments

Laura Nyro Looms Desire

The venerable Rounder Records label, currently enjoying its 45th anniversary, has long been a leading light in the realm of roots music and Americana.  But those terms need not be applied solely to one type of music.  This month, as part of its ongoing digital catalogue initiative, Rounder is reissuing a number of titles blurring the genre lines of roots-rock and Americana.  Some of the familiar names represented in this go-round include Ann Wilson of Heart, Laura Nyro, David

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Categories: News Formats: Digital Download Genre: Country, Folk, Pop, Rock Tags: Ann Wilson, David Bromberg, Laura Nyro, Martha Wainwright, NRBQ, Tiny TIm

La-La Means I Love You: The Delfonics, Survivor, Brook Benton and Sea Level Join Eddy Arnold On Real Gone's July Slate

May 26, 2016 By Randy Fairman 3 Comments

Delfonics 40 Classic Soul Sides

Yesterday we told you about Second Disc Records' and Real Gone Music's July 1 release of Eddy Arnold's Chet Atkins and Lee Hazlewood albums from 1970 and now we've got the news of the rest of Real Gone's line-up for right before Independence Day. First up is a compilation featuring notes by our very own Joe Marchese:  40 Classic Soul Sides from The Delfonics.  When Stan Watson introduced a group (including brothers William and Wilbert Hart and Randy Cain) he was managing to a young Thom Bell

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Country, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Brook Benton, Clint Eastwood, Eddy Arnold, Grateful Dead, Patty Duke, Question Mark and the Mysterians, Sea Level, Survivor, The Delfonics, The Electric Prunes, The Tubes, Thom Bell

Each Road I Take: The Lee Hazlewood and Chet Atkins Sessions 1970

May 25, 2016 By

Eddy Arnold Each Road I Take

Second Disc Records' newest release brings together two seminal, never-before-reissued albums by Eddy Arnold on one CD, both from 1970. Love and Guitars captured Arnold in a raw, acoustic setting with many of Nashville's greatest pickers including producer Chet Atkins, Jerry Reed, Harold Bradley and Ray Edenton.  Its follow-up, Standing Alone, moved the singer to Hollywood where he worked with producer/creative maverick Lee Hazlewood and the famed Wrecking Crew on a series of contemporary

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Formats: CD Genre: Country

BREAKING! Eddy Arnold's "Each Road I Take: The Lee Hazlewood and Chet Atkins Sessions 1970" Coming From Second Disc Records and Real Gone Music!

May 25, 2016 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Eddy Arnold Each Road I Take

Richard Edward Arnold - better known as Eddy Arnold - proved throughout an eight-decade career that he could sing anything.  The countrypolitan crooner scored 147 U.S. chart hits between 1945 and 2008, sold over 85 million records, and earned inductions into the Country Music Hall of Fame and The Grand Ole Opry.  Yet, in 1970, the superstar known as "The Tennessee Plowboy" found himself at a crossroads.  That year, he released two remarkable albums ending one chapter in his career and beginning

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Country Tags: Chet Atkins, Eddy Arnold, Lee Hazlewood

If You Remember Me: Varese Reissues Dave Grusin, Willie Nelson on "The Champ" and "Electric Horseman"

May 20, 2016 By Joe Marchese 2 Comments

The Electric Horseman OST

On Friday, May 20, Varese Vintage has two rare soundtracks arriving in stores from composer and jazz great Dave Grusin: the CD premiere of his score to The Champ (with a pivotal song contribution from Marvin Hamlisch and Carole Bayer Sager) and the return to CD of The Electric Horseman, featuring score by Grusin and songs from the one and only Willie Nelson. 1979's The Champ marked the American film debut of Italian director Franco Zeffirelli.  A remake of the 1931 film of the same name, it

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Country, Soundtracks Tags: Dave Grusin, Marvin Hamlisch, Willie Nelson

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