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Outlaw Man: Cherry Red, Morello Collect Four Albums from Singer-Songwriter David Blue

May 20, 2020 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

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David Blue might be best-known for two things: writing "Outlaw Blues" on Eagles' Desperado album, and being a friend and occasional sidekick of Bob Dylan's. Yet he recorded seven albums (plus a major contribution to an eighth, the 1965 Elektra anthology Singer Songwriter Project) between 1965 and 1976 in addition to making appearances on stage and film before his untimely death in 1982. Cherry Red's Morello imprint has recently celebrated the late folk troubadour with a four-albums-on-two-CDs

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Categories: News, Reviews Formats: CD Genre: Classic Rock, Folk, Pop Tags: Dave Mason, David Blue, Eagles, Graham Nash, Jennifer Warnes

The Dream Belongs to Me: Rare and Unreleased Recordings 1968-1973

May 13, 2020 By

Real Gone has a new double-LP gold vinyl edition of the celebrated Tim Buckley collection The Dream Belongs To Me: Rare and Unreleased Recordings, 1968-1973.  Originally released on CD in 2001, the 14-track set celebrates one of the era's most captivating artists with early versions of fan favorites circa 1968 and demos for 1973's Sefronia.  These stark and stripped-down versions are a fascinating glimpse into the creative process of a unique, singular artist whose work continues to endure. 

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Formats: Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Folk

Release Round-Up: Week of May 8

May 8, 2020 By The Second Disc Leave a Comment

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Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! John Stewart, Old Forgotten Altars: The 1960s Demos (Omnivore) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Omnivore brings together 19 previously unissued demos from late singer-songwriter and onetime Kingston Trio member John Stewart, perhaps best known for penning The Monkees' hit "Daydream Believer."  While that song isn't here in demo form, numerous other bona fide Stewart classics certainly are, including "July, You're a Woman" (also

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Books, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Folk, Jazz, Pop Tags: Ben Sidran, Diane Schuur, John Stewart, Richard Thompson, Steve Forbert, Tommy LiPuma

Song To The Siren: Unreleased Tim Buckley, Reissued Electric Prunes Arriving From Real Gone Music

May 4, 2020 By Sam Stone 5 Comments

On June 12, Real Gone Music will dig into the '60s underground with a pair of exciting vinyl releases. The first is a reissue of The Electric Prunes' Release of an Oath.  By the time the album was released in 1968, the band - known for "I Had Too Much to Dream (Last Night)" - featured none of its original members, yet two key players in the band's success remained: engineer-producer Dave Hassinger and composer-arranger extraordinaire David Axelrod.  It's said that Axelrod's complex

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Categories: News Formats: Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Folk Tags: The Electric Prunes, Tim Buckley

From The Founder: Hello From Inside

April 8, 2020 By Mike Duquette 5 Comments

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It was on my 23rd (or 25th, depending on how you count it) day of lockdown when I once again had to do something we're all sick of doing these last few weeks: go on social media and see another wave of tributes to a favorite artist who's succumbed to the COVID-19 pandemic. This time, it was John Prine, an artist I freely admit is one of my many musical blind spots; but reading the tributes - some from friends, some from great writers, some from both - really underscores the profound

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Categories: Features Genre: Classic Rock, Everything Else, Folk, Pop, R&B/Soul Tags: Adam Schlesinger, Bill Withers, Hal Willner, John Prine, Prince

In Memoriam: John Prine (1946-2020)

April 8, 2020 By Joe Marchese 12 Comments

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Last evening, we learned of the passing of John Prine, 73, from COVID-19 complications. Though initially branded by the press as one of the "new Dylans," it wasn't long before the singer-songwriter transcended that label - and most others. With wit, humor, anger, empathy, and social conscience, the onetime "singing mailman" delivered mordant observations and poignant character studies over a career spanning five decades. Prine burst onto the scene with his 1971 self-titled release on Atlantic

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Categories: News Genre: Country, Folk Tags: John Prine

Release Round-Up: Week of April 3

April 3, 2020 By The Second Disc Leave a Comment

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Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! Andy Williams, Emperor of Easy: Lost Columbia Masters 1962-72 (Real Gone Music) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Real Gone Music has the first-ever collection of never-before-heard music from Andy Williams' Columbia Records years. Emperor of Easy: Lost Columbia Masters 1962-72 boasts 20 selections direct from the Columbia vault encompassing 16 previously unreleased studio outtakes and four rare singles. Every track on Emperor of Easy

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Blu-Ray Audio, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Folk, Jazz, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Andy Williams, Joni Mitchell, Marvin Gaye, Nina Simone, Robbie Basho, Stephen Schwartz, Steve Goodman, The Alan Parsons Project, The Monkees, Tom Jones and Harvey Schmidt

Review: Joni Mitchell's "Shine" Arrives on Vinyl

March 31, 2020 By Sam Stone 1 Comment

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This Friday, Craft Recordings will release the vinyl debut of Joni Mitchell's most recent studio album, Shine.  With excellent music that carries even more weight in 2020, RTI-pressed 180-gram vinyl, and beautiful packaging, this LP is one for Joni's many fans to treasure. Mitchell's artistry proved prescient on Shine, originally released in 2007 on the Hear Music label.  Thematically, Shine is not far removed from Dog Eat Dog, her searing critique of Reagan-era policies and corporate greed. 

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Categories: News Formats: Vinyl Genre: Everything Else, Folk, Pop Tags: James Taylor, Joni Mitchell

Live '69

March 30, 2020 By

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Omnivore Recordings unearths a never-before-heard live recording from late troubadour Steve Goodman.  Recorded at the University of Illinois, Live '69 finds the solo Goodman reinterpreting disparate songs by The Beatles, Jefferson Airplane, Bob Dylan, Merle Haggard, Willie Dixon, and others - and making them all his own in the process.

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Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Folk

Old Forgotten Altars: The 1960s Demos

March 29, 2020 By

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Omnivore brings together 19 previously unissued demos from late singer-songwriter and onetime Kingston Trio member John Stewart, perhaps best known for penning The Monkees' hit "Daydream Believer."  While that song isn't here in demo form, numerous other bona fide Stewart classics certainly are, including "July, You're a Woman" (also recorded by performers as diverse as Eddy Arnold and Pat Boone) and other classics from Stewart's landmark California Bloodlines album.

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Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Folk, Pop

Release Round-Up: Week of March 20

March 20, 2020 By The Second Disc Leave a Comment

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Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! Def Leppard, The Early Years 1979-1981 (Bludgeon Riffola) Box Set (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) On Through the Night: CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada High N' Dry: CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Def Leppard revisits their first years with a new box set covering the group's first three years

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, DVD, Vinyl Genre: Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Disco/Dance, Folk, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Carla Olson, David Bowie, David Clayton-Thomas, Def Leppard, Dolly Parton, Game Theory, Gordon Lightfoot, Morrissey, Renaissance, The Village People

Message to Love: Universal Prepares a Wealth of Rarities for RSD 2020

March 10, 2020 By Sam Stone 6 Comments

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Here at Second Disc HQ, we've been thrilled by the news of amazing releases coming from all the labels this Record Store Day 2020, and UMe's slate of 20+ titles is no exception.  With a new definitive vinyl edition of Paul McCartney's debut, a tenth-anniversary celebration of Ellie Goulding's Lights, a Cat Stevens rarity making its vinyl debut, an expanded Elton John, a reissue of an impossible-to-find CTI Jazz album, and many more, fans will want to line up bright and early to secure their

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Categories: News Formats: Vinyl Genre: Blues, Classic Rock, Country, Disco/Dance, Everything Else, Folk, Jazz, Pop, Rock Tags: Bob Marley, Brian Eno, Cat Stevens, Charlie Parker, Cyndi Lauper, Def Leppard, Ellie Goulding, Elton John, Frank Zappa, George Benson, Hervie Hancock, J.J. Johnson, Jimi Hendrix, John Lennon, Johnny Cash, Joni Mitchell, Paul McCartney, Record Store Day, Refused, Robyn, Ron Carter, Roxy Music, The Band, The Black Crowes, U2, Van Morrison

Songs of the Great Mystery: The Lost Vanguard Sessions

March 4, 2020 By

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CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2-LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Real Gone Music has a new collection of rarities from late acoustic guitarist Robbie Basho.  At Vanguard Records, Basho released two well-regarded LPs in 1972 and 1974 - but those albums weren't all he left behind for the label.  Songs of the Great Mystery has some tracks Basho would subsequently rework for other labels: 1978's Visions of the Country featured "A Day in the Life of Lemuria"

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Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Folk

Thunder Sun: Lost Tapes From Fingerstyle Guitarist Robbie Basho Collected by Real Gone Music

March 3, 2020 By Sam Stone Leave a Comment

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A lost session from a revered acoustic guitarist, Robbie Basho, is set to arrive April 3 from Real Gone Music.  Songs of the Great Mystery: The Lost Vanguard Sessions adds a new chapter to the man's work that's sure to stun fans and new initiates, too. On the Mount Rushmore of innovative acoustic guitar players, you'd likely find John Fahey, Leo Kottke, Michael Hedges...and one Robbie Basho.  Though he never rose to the same prominence as Kottke or Fahey (who signed Basho to the Takoma

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Folk Tags: Robbie Basho

A New Sound: El Collects the Far-Out Music That Inspired Sixties Rock

March 2, 2020 By Sam Stone Leave a Comment

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For years, the El imprint of Cherry Red has been collecting all the strangest and most fascinating avant-garde classical pieces, electronic experiments, and oddball rarities for a fervent group of admirers.  Though their releases can be a little esoteric, El's collections have always been able to welcome in new listeners.  And now, they offer what might be the essential introduction to twentieth-century avant-garde and classical (at least for listeners tuned to popular music).  It's called I'd

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Classical/Opera, Everything Else, Folk, Jazz Tags: Bernard Herrmann, Bill Evans, Charlie Parker, Davy Graham, John Cage, John Coltrane, Ravi Shankar, Sun Ra, Thelonious Monk, Yusef Lateef

Release Round-Up: Week of February 28

February 28, 2020 By The Second Disc Leave a Comment

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Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! The Allman Brothers Band, Trouble No More: 50th Anniversary Collection (Mercury/UMe) 5CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 10LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada UMe is marking The Allman Brothers Band's 50th anniversary with a new 5-CD or 10-LP box set boasting 61 newly remastered tracks including classics, rarities, and seven previously unreleased tracks.  Trouble No More is bookended with the band's never-before-heard

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Classical/Opera, Folk, Jazz, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Bruce Springsteen, Charles Strouse, Charlie Parker, Dionne Warwick, Dom Flemons, Don Flemons, Eileen Farrell, Harry Chapin, Horace Tapscott, James Taylor, Sergio Mendes, The Allman Brothers Band

Hard Luck Stories: Richard and Linda Thompson Albums Get Vinyl Reissue

February 19, 2020 By Sam Stone 1 Comment

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Guitarist, songwriter, and singer Richard Thompson and his then-wife, the rich-toned singer Linda Thompson, released an incredible trio of albums for Island Records in the '70s:  I Want To See the Bright Lights Tonight (1974), Hokey Pokey, and Pour Down Like Silver (both 1975).  On March 27, these three much-loved folk-rock records will arrive on vinyl once more, this time on new 180-gram pressings. For those who have heard these albums before, they need no introduction.  If somehow

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Shine [Remastered Vinyl]

February 8, 2020 By

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Joni Mitchell's final album to date, the 2007 Hear Music release Shine, makes its long-overdue vinyl debut from Craft Recordings in a deluxe pressing newly mastered by Bob Ludwig from the original hi-res sources and pressed onto 180-gram black vinyl at RTI.  The heavyweight disc will be housed in a gatefold sleeve.

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Formats: Vinyl Genre: Folk, Pop, Rock

All of the Nights We'd Harmonize 'Til Dawn: Legacy Releases Live EP from Simon and Garfunkel

January 24, 2020 By Joe Marchese 2 Comments

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On November 28, 1969, The New York Times headline trumpeted "Simon and Garfunkel Perform to Full House at Carnegie Hall." Paul Simon described the concert as a "true test of faith" as The Rolling Stones were playing downtown at Madison Square Garden, but the duo's faithful certainly rewarded them (and were rewarded themselves) as both the November 27 concert and the second date that evening of November 28 were sold out. Despite dealing with the tensions that would drive them apart (and would

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Categories: News Formats: Digital Streaming Genre: Classic Rock, Folk, Pop, Rock Tags: Art Garfunkel, Paul Simon, Simon and Garfunkel

UPDATE - Back To This Heavenly Bliss: Joni Mitchell's "Shine" Arriving on Vinyl from Craft Recordings

January 21, 2020 By Sam Stone 2 Comments

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Ever since the so-called "vinyl renaissance" began at the turn of the last decade, Joni Mitchell fans the world over have wondered whether her catalogue would be given the deluxe LP treatment. Sure, there was the 8-LP compilation Love Has Many Faces in 2018, and the trusty titles like Blue, Court and Spark, and Hejira have been pressed to wax in editions that rival the originals, but the same can't be said for her some of her later-career output. Heck, even For the Roses - the 1972 transitional

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Categories: News Formats: Vinyl Genre: Everything Else, Folk, Pop, Rock Tags: Joni Mitchell

Joni 75: A Birthday Celebration

January 17, 2020 By

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Following the limited Record Store Day release of the 2-LP set for Record Store Day Black Friday, a standard edition of Joni 75: A Birthday Celebration is set for wide release on January 24  From Decca:  "On Joni's 75th birthday last November, a star-studded roster of musicians gathered together to pay tribute to the legendary singer-songwriter. The evening was recorded and is now being released on vinyl. It features performances by Brandi Carlile, Glen Hansard, Emmylou Harris, Norah Jones,

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Formats: Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Everything Else, Folk, Pop, Soundtracks

You Oughta Hear The Song: Morello Reissues Classics from Tammy Wynette, Steve Goodman

January 17, 2020 By Joe Marchese 5 Comments

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Today, we're spotlighting two new releases from Cherry Red's Morello Records imprint. Tammy Wynette's One of a Kind/Womanhood/Just Tammy set of three albums on two CDs marks Morello's ninth visit to Wynette's extensive discography. This trio comprises her final three solo albums of the 1970s for the Epic Records label, all of which are making their CD debuts. All three LPs were produced by her longtime collaborator Billy Sherrill at CBS' Nashville studios and charted on the Billboard Country

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Country, Folk Tags: Steve Goodman, Tammy Wynette

Come On Up: Bruce Springsteen Announces LP Reissues of Five '90s and '00s Titles

January 13, 2020 By Sam Stone 2 Comments

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Bruce Springsteen and Legacy Recordings have announced a new batch of vinyl reissues, this time stretching into the '00s, a decade that saw him release live material with a newly reunited E Street Band (Live in New York City, 2001), onstage forays into the folk songbook (Live in Dublin, 2007), a stark solo acoustic venture (Devils & Dust, 2005), and the critically acclaimed return of The E Street Band in the studio (The Rising, 2002).  All these albums and the 1999 rarities compilation 18

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Categories: News Formats: Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Folk Tags: Bruce Springsteen

The Year in Review: The 2019 Gold Bonus Disc Awards, From A to Z

January 3, 2020 By The Second Disc 4 Comments

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Happy 2020 and welcome to The Second Disc's 10th Annual Gold Bonus Disc Awards! It's time once again to recognize this year's cream of the crop - those exemplary reissues and box sets big and small that proved to be truly outstanding products for music lovers worldwide.  There was no shortage of great reissue titles in 2019; in fact, by our count, we covered over 700 releases in all!  And after much deliberation, we're excited to unveil our favorites.  This isn't your run-of-the-mill Top 10,

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Categories: News, Reviews Formats: Blu-Ray, Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, DVD, Vinyl Genre: Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Country, Folk, Jazz, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Gold Bonus Disc Awards

Holiday Gift Guide Reviews: Cherry Red's Esoteric and Grapefruit Imprints Offer Diverse Box Sets

December 19, 2019 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

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Cherry Red's ongoing series of small clamshell box sets filled with big content make for the perfect stocking stuffer! Here's a look at three more titles you might have missed... Climax Blues Band's The Albums 1973-1976 is the second such box set released this year by Cherry Red's Esoteric Recordings imprint, following The Albums 1969-1972. This 4-CD set contains the following albums, culminating in the biggest commercial triumph for the band that began its life as The Climax Chicago Blues

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Categories: Holiday Gift Guide, News, Reviews Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Classic Rock, Country, Folk, Pop Tags: Bridget St. John, Climax Blues Band, Faces, Iain Matthews, Procol Harum, Rod Stewart, The Hollies, The Marmalade, The Tremeloes, Various Artists

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