Everything Else / Reggae

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Airto, Alanis Morissette, Bobbie Gentry, Burt Bacharach, Cat Stevens, Daniel Tashian, Errol Dunkley, Irma Thomas, James Booker, Jon Anderson, Little Steven, Man, Paul McCartney, Pete Rodriguez, Soul Asylum, The Zombies

Release Round-Up: Week of July 24

July 24, 2020 by The Second Disc | 2 Comments

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up! Little Steven and The Disciples of Soul, Men Without Women [CD/DVD] (Wicked Cool/UMe) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Little Steven Van Zandt’s 1982 debut with The Disciples of Soul, Men Without Women, remains a high watermark in the Jersey shore bar band sound with its fusion of classic rock and soul sounds. Van Zandt was joined by members of The E Street Band, The Asbury Jukes, and The Miami Horns as well as pals like The Rascals’ Dino Danelli and Felix Cavaliere, and Gary U.S. Bonds. This CD…

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CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl

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Classic Rock, Disco/Dance, Jazz, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Reggae, Rock, Soundtracks

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ABBA, Andrew Gold, Bill Kirchen, Bob Marley, Bob Marley and the Wailers, Diana Ross, Doris Day, Little Steven, Nick Kamen, The Turtles, Vince Guaraldi

Darling Ooh!

July 23, 2020 by Joe Marchese

Errol Dunkley was already a reggae star by the time this debut album was released in 1972. With producer Sylvia Pottenger at the helm, Dunkley served up 12 cuts that are pure roots reggae. Originally released as Presenting Errol Dunkley on the Gay Feet label, the album was repressed later on Trojan’s Attack imprint as Darling Ooh! with an expanded track list and distinctive artwork. To make things more confusing for collectors, the album was also reissued by Trojan in 1979 with the shorter track listing and the Attack art. For this new reissue,…

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Legend: The Best of Bob Marley and The Wailers [Picture Disc]

July 7, 2020 by Joe Marchese

The classic 1984 compilation from Bob Marley and The Wailers returns to picture disc vinyl, with a previously unseen photo on the flipside.

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Lively Up Yourself: Bob Marley Estate Continues 75th Birthday Celebrations, Including Partnership With One Tree Planted Initiative

July 7, 2020 by Sam Stone | 2 Comments

In many ways, 2020 has come to be about doing our part to build a better world. No doubt, music can be a catalyst for causes and when the proper partnerships are forged, can bring about measurable change. UMe and the Bob Marley Estate are doing their part and are inviting fans to join in as they partner with the One Tree Planted program. How it works: fans can connect their Spotify account to the Stream For Trees portal and for every Bob Marley song streamed, a tree will be planted to…

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Dancing Again: What To Expect for Record Store Day’s RSD Drops Day 1, August 29

July 6, 2020 by Sam Stone | 2 Comments

As the COVID 19 outbreak continues to impact our lives, it’s heartening to know that some things are returning to some semblance of “normal,” or as close as we can get to it during this unpredictable impasse. As we previously reported, Record Store Day has been split into three standalone “RSD Drop” days, occurring on August 29, September 26, and October 24. That’s not the only thing changing this time around. It’s been reported by Georgia-based shop Comeback Vinyl that the organization is open to “the possibility of selling the releases online…

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Box Sets, CD, Vinyl

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Classic Rock, Country, Folk, Funk, Jazz, Pop, R&B/Soul, Reggae, Rock

Juntos: Real Gone Preps Reissues of Airto’s Sophomore Album and Errol Dunkley’s Roots Reggae Classic “Darling Ooh!”

June 22, 2020 by Sam Stone | No Comments

July 31 is sure to be a crate-digger’s delight as Real Gone Music is set to release color vinyl reissues of two jazz and reggae classics: Airto’s Seeds on the Ground: The Natural Sounds of Airto and Errol Dunkley’s roots classic Darling Ooh! Seeds on the Ground was percussion master Airto’s second album and his final release on Buddah. Following sessions with the likes of Miles Davis, Paul Desmond, Wayne Shorter, and Astrud Gilberto, Airto began a solo career that often found him collaborating with vocalist Flora Purim. Here, Airto, Purim, bassist Ron…

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Jazz, Reggae

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Airto, Errol Dunkley, Gordon Anderson

Chase Down That Crown: A Special Bandcamp Friday Shopping List

June 19, 2020 by Mike Duquette | No Comments

Bandcamp Friday is fast becoming as exciting a time as any other music street date. On March 20, as the COVID-19 pandemic was putting the world on pause, the indie music service waived their revenue share on all music and merch sold, allowing indie artists and labels a chance for some steadier income as concert tours began to halt. The event was a resounding success, and has been repeated on the first Fridays of May and June, with another to follow on July 3. This Friday, June 19, in recognizance of Juneteenth…

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Funk, Jazz, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rap/Hip-Hop, Reggae, Rock

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Andre Cymone, Anthony Braxton, Blood Orange, Neneh Cherry, Prince, Sly & Robbie

Holiday Gift Guide Reviews: A Spotlight on Cherry Red’s Eclectic Offerings

November 25, 2019 by Sam Stone | 1 Comment

The holidays are almost upon us, and The Second Disc will soon be launching our annual Holiday Gift Guide! As part of the festivities, we will also be offering long-form reviews over the next month about certain titles deserving of an extra spotlight. Today, Sam’s taking a look at a handful of recent releases from Cherry Red! Few labels can claim as diverse a roster as the Cherry Red group. Between their wealth of sub-divisions, there’s bound to be something special in store for everyone. As the temperatures drop and the holidays…

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Holiday Gift Guide

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Classic Rock, Everything Else, Reggae, Soundtracks

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Count Albert, Count Lasher, Delia Derbyshire, Edgard Varese, George Martin, Joe Meek, John Cage, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Soft Machine, The Residents, Tommy McCook

Nothing Sweeter: Rocksteady Royalty Alton Ellis’ “Greatest Hits” Gets Expanded Reissue from Cherry Red

November 21, 2019 by Sam Stone | 1 Comment

Cherry Red Records’ Doctor Bird imprint is committed to uncovering and reappraising the early years of reggae, ska, Calypso, rocksteady, and mento music, and few figures are as instrumental in the development of those genres as Alton Ellis. Starting with his first recordings in 1960, the gifted songwriter, singer, and performer quickly garnered a reputation as one of Jamaica’s greatest musical exports. Moving on from the American R&B style that inflected his earliest recordings, Ellis signed on to the Treasure Isle label, run by producer Duke Reid. Through his work on Treasure…

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Release Round-Up: Week of November 15

November 15, 2019 by Sam Stone | No Comments

Welcome to another installment of Release Round-Up! Here’s what’s on the way this week. David Bowie, Conversation Piece [Various Formats] (Parlophone/Rhino) Conversation Piece box set: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Space Oddity 2019 Mix CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Space Oddity 2019 Mix LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada “Space Oddity” 360 Reality Audio single: Amazon HD / TIDAL / Deezer Links TBD The 5-CD box Conversation Piece traces David Bowie’s development as a songwriter and performer throughout 1968-1969 with home demos, BBC sessions, and studio recordings with his friend and collaborator John “Hutch” Hutchinson and the mime group Feathers. The box also…

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Classic Rock, Reggae, Rock

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Culture, David Bowie, Ethiopian, Junior Byles, Justin Hinds, Michael Nesmith, Red Rhodes, Ron Wood, Sting, The Band, The Clash, The Gladiators

Look Around: Real Gone Announces Limited Vinyl Reissues Featuring Rain Parade and The Vulcans

September 9, 2019 by Randy Fairman | No Comments

Real Gone Music has recently announced two new vinyl reissues coming out this Friday, September 13. One is from the Paisley Underground genre and the other is an experimental effort combining reggae and electronic music. First up, is Rain Parade’s Emergency Third Rail Power Trip. The band was part of the Paisley Underground movement in 1980s California which combined psychedelia with vocal harmonies, owing a debt to artists like The Byrds and Love from the 1960s. The Bangles are the best-known group to be a part of this genre. Rain Parade was…

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Release Round-Up: Week of June 14

June 14, 2019 by The Second Disc | No Comments

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up! Johnny Mathis, Killing Me Softly with Her Song/When Will I See You Again (Second Disc Records/Real Gone Music) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Second Disc Records and Real Gone Music continue celebrating Johnny Mathis’ discography with two albums on one CD. 1973’s Killing Me Softly with Her Song and 1975’s When Will I See You Again both spotlight Mathis’ silky interpretations of the day’s greatest hits. Killing Me Softly with Her Song was Johnny’s final full-length album collaboration with songwriter-producer Jerry Fuller and…

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Blu-Ray, Blu-Ray Audio, Box Sets, CD, DVD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl

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Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Country, Jazz, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Reggae, Rock, Soundtracks

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ABBA, Bob Marley, Bruce Springsteen, Carole King, Grateful Dead, Hank Williams, Isaac Hayes, Johnny Mathis, R.E.M., Roger Daltrey, Stan Getz, Tangerine Dream, ZZ Top

Omnivore’s Record Store Day Lineup Features Woody Guthrie, Lone Justice, and More

March 5, 2019 by Joe Marchese | 1 Comment

And the hits just keep on comin’! Record Store Day is almost upon us – Saturday, April 13 – and Omnivore Recordings isn’t going to miss out on all the fun. The label has just announced a quartet of titles set to reach your local independent record store. The label’s four new vinyl titles include I Don’t Like the Way This World’s A-Treatin’ Me, a four-song tribute to Woody Guthrie featuring a rare Guthrie demo plus Jeff Tweedy, Ryan Harvey with Ani DiFranco and Tom Morello, and U.S. Elevator; Lone Justice’s previously…

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Culture, Dennis Quaid and the Sharks, Jeff Tweedy, Lone Justice, Record Store Day, Woody Guthrie

One Love to Give: Cherry Red, Doctor Bird Expand Phyllis Dillon’s Pop-Rocksteady Classic

August 24, 2018 by Randy Fairman | No Comments

Cherry Red’s Doctor Bird imprint is shining the spotlight on arguably the most significant female artist of the rocksteady genre, Phyllis Dillon. Her story is a special one; she only released one full album during her recording career, but that album – 1972’s One Life to Live – laid the groundwork for the reputation which she enjoyed until her untimely death in 2004. Doctor Bird’s reissue, due on September 7, expands the original 12-song album to 28 tracks, making for a deep retrospective of her works for Duke Reid’s renowned Treasure Isle Records. …

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Release Round-Up: Week of August 24

August 24, 2018 by Joe Marchese | No Comments

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up! Linda Clifford, If My Friends Could See Me Now / Let Me Be Your Woman / Here’s My Love / I’m Yours (Blixa Sounds) If My Friends Could See Me Now: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Let Me Be Your Woman: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Here’s My Love: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada I’m Yours: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Blixa Sounds reissues four albums (three new to CD) from seventies soul/disco songstress Linda…

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Cast Recordings, Classical/Opera, Disco/Dance, R&B/Soul, Reggae

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Bob Marley, Donna Summer, Gilbert O'Sullivan, Leonard Bernstein, Linda Clifford

Release Round-Up: Week of August 17

August 17, 2018 by The Second Disc | 2 Comments

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up! Neil Diamond, Hot August Night III (Capitol) 2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2CD/DVD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2CD/BD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Neil Diamond’s August 2012 concerts at Los Angeles’ Greek Theater marking the 40th anniversary of the original Hot August Night are captured on this new live release which also follows 1987’s Hot August Night II and 2009’s Hot August Night/NYC (with honorable mention to 1977’s Love at the Greek). Expect all of Diamond’s greatest…

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Classic Rock, Classical/Opera, Country, Folk, Pop, R&B/Soul, Reggae, Rock, Soundtracks

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Buck Owens, Donovan, Henry Mancini, Lee "Scratch" Perry, Leonard Bernstein, Neil Diamond, Prince

Release Round-Up: Week of August 10

August 10, 2018 by Joe Marchese | No Comments

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up! Elvis Presley, Where No One Stands Alone (RCA/Legacy) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) RCA presents 14 of The King’s seminal gospel and spiritually-themed recordings, all remixed with new orchestrations and new supporting vocals from artists who knew and worked with Elvis including Darlene Love, Cissy Houston, and Lisa Marie Presley plus members of The Stamps Quartet and The Imperials. Includes new versions of “Stand by Me,” “You’ll Never Walk Alone,” “Amazing Grace,” “How Great Thou Art,” and “Crying in the Chapel.” Available on…

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Classic Rock, Gospel, Pop, R&B/Soul, Reggae, Rock

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Bird Streets, Carla Olson, Elvis Presley, Gene Clark, Little Steven, The Allman Brothers Band, The Zombies, Various Artists

United We Stand: Cherry Red Reissues Reggae-Pop Classics from Bob Andy and Marcia Griffiths

July 3, 2018 by Joe Marchese | No Comments

Bob and Marcia Young Gifted and Pied Piper

Nestled in the Motown discography between Diana Ross’ “Ain’t No Mountain High Enough” and The Four Tops’ “Still Water” singles in 1970 was a curiosity: the major label debut of the popular Jamaican singing duo Bob and Marcia, a.k.a. Keith Anderson and Marcia Griffiths. While the 45 with “Young, Gifted and Black” b/w “Peace of Mind” didn’t dent the charts in the U.S., the A-side had made it all the way to No. 5 on the U.K. National Charts. Now, Cherry Red’s Doctor Bird imprint has paired the duo’s first two Trojan…

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Release Round-Up: Week of April 20

April 20, 2018 by The Second Disc | No Comments

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up! The Who, Live at the Fillmore East 1968 (UMe) 2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 3LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada The Who’s April 6, 1968 concert from New York’s Fillmore East gets its first-ever official release just in time for its 50th anniversary. For the occasion, it’s been restored and fully remixed from the original four-track tapes by longtime Who engineer Bob Pridden, who was responsible for the mix heard that night in the Fillmore East. The 2-CD iteration of…

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Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Disco/Dance, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Reggae, Rock, Soundtracks

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Barry White, Cheech and Chong, Donna Summer, Gladiators, Neil Young, Pat Suzuki, Pete Townshend, Shaggy, Sting, The Feelies, The Flaming Lips, The Who, Todd Rundgren, Utopia, Yung Wu

Scientist and Jammy Strike Back! [Lightsaber Vinyl]

March 12, 2018 by Joe Marchese

The 1982 sci-fi-themed dub album from Scientist and Jammy, originally released on Trojan Records, returns to vinyl from Real Gone in a yellow-green “lightsaber vinyl” pressing limited to 700 units! Tracks include “Storming the Death Star,” “The Death of Mr. Spock,” “Flash Gordon Meets Luke Skywalker,” and “The Son of Darth Vader.”

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Release Round-Up: Week of March 2

March 2, 2018 by The Second Disc | 1 Comment

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up, featuring three new titles from Second Disc Records and Real Gone Music, and much, much more! Johnny Mathis, Raindrops Keep Fallin’ on My Head: Expanded Edition (Second Disc/Real Gone) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Johnny Mathis’ 1970 album – featuring the songs of Bacharach and David, Paul Simon, Jimmy Webb, George Harrison and others – gets its first-ever expanded CD reissue from Second Disc Records and Real Gone Music. And that’s not all. We’ve added four bonus non-LP singles from Johnny’s return to…

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Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Classical/Opera, Country, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Reggae, Rock, Soundtracks

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Axe, Bert Kaempfert, Burt Bacharach, Charles Wright, Debbie Reynolds, Jackie DeShannon, Jethro Tull, Johnny Mathis, Ken Boothe, Pet Shop Boys, Phyllis Dillon, The King's Singers, The Oak Ridge Boys, The Sherman Brothers

In The Garden In the Moonlight: Real Gone’s Limited Edition Vinyl Slate in April Includes Tiny Tim, Girlschool, Jack Kerouac and Scientist & Jammy

February 27, 2018 by Randy Fairman | No Comments

We recently told you about Real Gone’s line-up of limited edition vinyl soundtracks due in April and now we’ve got word of four more limited vinyl titles. All of these are due to be released on April 6. First up is the 1982 dub album Scientist and Jammy Strike Back!. Scientist (Hopeton Overton Brown) and Prince Jammy (Lloyd James) were both proteges of King Tubby (Osbourne Ruddock), a sound engineer who was a pioneer in dub and remixing in Jamaica in the 1960s and 1970s. Both Scientist and Prince Jammy worked under…

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Girlschool, Jack Kerouac, Scientist and Prince Jammy, Tiny TIm

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Everything Else, Pop, Reggae, Rock

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Welcome Each New Day: Real Gone Goes Rocksteady with Limited Vinyl Editions from Ken Boothe and Phyllis Dillon In March

January 29, 2018 by Randy Fairman | No Comments

We’ve already told you about most of Real Gone’s March slate of titles, including Johnny Mathis and Oak Ridge Boys titles from our Second Disc Records imprint. Now, word has come out about the final two items on Real Gone’s March 2 list: a pair of vinyl reissues in the rocksteady style. Rocksteady is a genre created in Jamaica that rose out of ska and served as a precursor to reggae in the mid to late 1960s. It is characterized by offbeat rhythms with a particular drumming style and slower tempos than…

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Release Round-Up: Week of December 15

December 15, 2017 by Joe Marchese | 2 Comments

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up! The Beatles, The Christmas Records (Capitol/Apple/UMe) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Happy Christmas, Beatle people! The Christmas Records, a seven-disc vinyl box set from the Fab Four, features colored 45 RPM recreations of the Beatles’ original Christmas fan club flexi-discs (all single-sided except for the last two in 1968 and 1969). The original sleeve artwork has been recreated for each title, and an enclosed 16-page booklet offers recording notes plus reproductions of the newsletters sent with each disc! The Beatles, Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts…

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