Sing Along With the Mummy: Real Gone's Halloween Line-Up Includes Rare 1959 Album From McFadden and McKuen with Second Disc Records, Rare Soundtracks

By The Second Disc | October 3, 2024 | 2 Comments

Real Gone's Halloween line-up began last month and now that October has rolled around, the label is continuing the party with more reissues to play on October 31 filled with material from the 1950s to the 1980s.  All of these titles hit store shelves, tomorrow, October 5. First up is a Real Gone/Second Disc Records […]

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Back to 'Back to Bedlam': James Blunt Expands Brilliant Debut

By Mike Duquette | October 3, 2024 | 0 Comments

Two decades ago, an earnest British singer-songwriter with a distinctive, keening voice had a hit that would, for better or worse, define the arc of his career as a musician. This month, James Blunt is gamely revisiting his debut album, Back to Bedlam, with a new deluxe edition and an outlandish promise of what he'll do if […]

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Quadio Spotlight: Bette Midler, "The Divine Miss M" and Bread, "Baby I'm a Want-You"

By Joe Marchese | October 2, 2024 | 0 Comments

Way back in Ye Olden Days of 2011, The Second Disc advocated for the release of the original quadraphonic mix of Bette Midler's 1973 debut, The Divine Miss M.  Well, lo these many years later, Rhino has granted our wish, and it's been released on Blu-ray as part of the label's still-growing Quadio series of […]

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Can't Wait Till Tomorrow: Cherry Red Expands Sheena Easton's 'Do You'

By Joe Marchese | October 1, 2024 | 1 Comment

With 1984's A Private Heaven, Sheena Easton successfully followed in the footsteps of Olivia Newton-John in shedding her "girl next door" persona - so much so that future U.S. Second Lady Tipper Gore's Parents Music Resource Center "honored" Sheena's Prince-penned "Sugar Walls" with a slot on its "Filthy Fifteen" list.  No wonder Gore and co. […]

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In Memoriam: Kris Kristofferson (1936-2024)

By Joe Marchese | September 30, 2024 | 9 Comments

On a Sunday mornin' sidewalk/I'm wishin', Lord, that I was stoned/'Cause there's somethin' in a Sunday/That makes a body feel alone... With songs such as "Sunday Mornin' Comin' Down," Kris Kristofferson expanded the vernacular of country music, bringing realism, gritty authenticity, and a literate sensibility - he was an Oxford-schooled Rhodes Scholar -  to a […]

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