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Solo Albums 1974-1992

December 18, 2020 By

Graham Bonnet Solo Albums Box

Cherry Red's HNE imprint has been steadily remastering and restoring the catalogue of Graham Bonnet (Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow, Alcatrazz, The Michael Schenker Group).  This new 5-CD box set collects the singer's first four solo albums, the "lost" 1974 set intended to be his debut but ultimately unheard until 2016, and the rarities collection Reel to Real.  While all of this material save the Here Comes the Night album has been previously reissued by HNE, this collection does those versions

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Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, Rock

New Morning: Bob Dylan 1970 Copyright Extension Release To Get Wider Release, 3CD Set Due in February

December 18, 2020 By Sam Stone 4 Comments

BobDylan 1970Collection

In a move that will no doubt excite Bob Dylan aficionados everywhere, on February 26, Legacy Recordings will release Bob Dylan: 1970 in a new, more widely available limited edition set with revised artwork and fresh liner notes by Michael Simmons.  The collection includes all the songs from this year's quietly announced copyright extension release. It's an interesting move on the part of Legacy and Dylan's team.  Fans of the artist have come to expect micro-batches of 50 year old recordings

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Classic Rock, Country, Folk Tags: Bob Dylan, George Harrison

Release Round-Up: Week of December 18

December 18, 2020 By The Second Disc Leave a Comment

Tom Jones Complete Decca Studio Albums Cover

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! Tom Jones, The Complete Decca Studio Albums Collection (Decca/UMC) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Link TBD) This long-awaited box from Sir Tom Jones - counting 17 discs, including 15 studio albums and two CDs of non-LP single and EP sides - boasts over 200 tracks and 10+ hours of music from Jones' classic Decca period of 1965-1975.  It includes hits such as "What's New Pussycat?," "It's Not Unusual," "Help Yourself," "Green, Green

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Holiday, Jazz, Pop, Rock Tags: Billy Stritch, Jim Caruso, Klea Blackhurst, Lynn Ahrens, Paul McCartney, Stephen Flaherty, Taylor Swift, The Kinks, Tom Jones

Greenfields: The Gibb Brothers' Songbook Vol. 1

December 17, 2020 By

Barry Gibb Greenfields

Barry Gibb has teamed with an illustrious array of Nashville artists to celebrate the Bee Gees' songbook.  Vol. 1, Greenfields, was recorded in Nashville with producer Dave Cobb and features such artist-song pairings as Keith Urban on "I've Gotta Get a Message to You," Dolly Parton on "Words," Brandi Carlile on "Run to Me," Allison Krauss on "Too Much Heaven," Sheryl Crow on "How Can You Mend a Broken Heart," and Olivia Newton-John on "Rest Your Love on Me."  Other performers include Little Big

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

Holiday Gift Guide Spotlight: Cherry Red Box Set Bonanza - Graham Bonnet's "Solo Albums 1974-1992"

December 17, 2020 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Graham Bonnet Solo Albums Box

Perhaps no label this holiday season has offered such a bonanza of box sets as Cherry Red.  Yesterday, we looked at Evelyn "Champagne" King's The RCA Albums 1977-1985.  Today, we're turning the spotlight onto Graham Bonnet's Solo Albums 1974-1982! Cherry Red's Hear No Evil (HNE) imprint has long been a home for archival releases from singer Graham Bonnet of Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow, Alcatrazz, and The Michael Schenker Group.  Now, HNE has brought together Bonnet's first four solo albums,

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Categories: News, Reviews Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, Rock Tags: Graham Bonnet, Holiday Gift Guide

The RCA Albums 1977-1985

December 16, 2020 By

Evelyn Champagne King The RCA Albums

SoulMusic and Cherry Red collect Evelyn "Champagne" King's eight RCA albums plus 14 bonus tracks in one new box set remastered by Nick Robbins.  A 40-page booklet with an essay by Charles Waring is also included.

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Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: R&B/Soul

The Complete Atlantic Singles 1969-1971

December 16, 2020 By

Dusty Springfield Complete Atlantic Singles

1CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada The Complete Atlantic Singles 1968-1971, first issued on CD and then as a Record Store Day vinyl exclusive in 2021, now gets a wide vinyl release.  The collection brings together Dusty Springfield's 24 U.S. single sides released during her tenure at Atlantic on one deluxe 2-LP gatefold set.  These tracks have been remastered from the original mono tapes by Mike Milchner at Sonic Vision, and all but

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Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Pop, R&B/Soul

Holiday Gift Guide Spotlight: Cherry Red Box Set Bonanza - Evelyn "Champagne" King, "The RCA Albums 1977-1985"

December 16, 2020 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Evelyn Champagne King The RCA Albums

Perhaps no label this holiday season has offered such a bonanza of box sets as Cherry Red.  Today we kick off a three-part feature on five of these sets (any of which just might make the perfect stocking stuffer!) with a Holiday Gift Guide spotlight on Evelyn "Champagne" King's The RCA Albums 1977-1985. Bronx-born, Philadelphia-raised vocalist Evelyn "Champagne" King came from a showbiz family including her uncle Avon Long - perhaps best known as Sportin' Life in multiple productions of Porgy

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Categories: News, Reviews Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Disco/Dance, R&B/Soul Tags: Evelyn "Champagne" King, Holiday Gift Guide

In Memoriam: Charley Pride (1934-2020)

December 12, 2020 By Joe Marchese 5 Comments

Charley Pride publicity

Before Darius Rucker or Lil Nas X, there was Charley Pride.  The fourth of eleven children born to sharecroppers in Sledge, Mississippi didn't just break the race barrier in country music; he positively shattered it.  Pride wasn't the first African-American performer in the genre - DeFord Bailey's success in country and blues dated back to the 1920s - but he earned the same level of stardom accorded his white contemporaries such as Willie Nelson or Glen Campbell.  With Pride's death today of

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Categories: News Genre: Country Tags: Charley Pride

Release Round-Up: Week of December 11

December 11, 2020 By The Second Disc Leave a Comment

neil after the gold rush

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! Neil Young, After the Gold Rush: 50th Anniversary Edition (Reprise) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) The 50th Anniversary Edition of Neil Young's classic album features new art based on Gary Burden's original album cover design.  The CD is out today while the vinyl edition will be released in March, 2021 and presented in a box set with the LP and a bonus 7″ single in a newly designed picture sleeve.  This set includes two different

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, SACD, Vinyl Genre: Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Country, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Alan Jay Lerner, David Heneker, Deftones, Firefall, Frank Sinatra, Jim Croce, John Barry, Kool and the Gang, Maury Yeston, Merle Haggard, Neil Young, Roxette, Willie Nelson

Classic Bad Brains Albums to Get Definitive Reissues in 2021

December 8, 2020 By The Second Disc 1 Comment

Bad Brains

Legendary punk band Bad Brains will embark on a special "re-everything" of their seminal catalogue, having formed a new label to be distributed by Org Music. Founded in Washington, D.C. in 1977, the band initially known as Mind Power transitioned from jazz fusion to a fast-paced, rhythmic form of rock (known today as hardcore) along with elements of reggae and funk. Vocalist Paul "H.R." Hudson, his brother Earl on drums, guitarist Gary "Dr. Know" Miller and bassist Daryl Jenifer comprised the

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Categories: News Formats: Cassette, CD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Everything Else, Funk, Reggae, Rock Tags: Bad Brains

Not Far Down to Paradise: Christopher Cross Collects "The Complete Works" on 13-CD/1-LP Box Set

December 7, 2020 By Joe Marchese 20 Comments

Christopher Cross The Complete Works

Forty years ago, Christopher Cross set sail on a musical journey that has continued unabated to the present day.  His self-titled debut was released in the waning days of December 1979, spinning off three smash hit singles in 1980 ("Ride Like the Wind," the Pop No. 1 "Sailing," and AC chart-topper "Never Be the Same") and netting a whopping five Grammy Awards.  Cross became the first artist in the awards' history to pick up Record, Album, and Song of the Year along with Best New Artist.  While

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Vinyl Genre: Pop Tags: Christopher Cross

Holiday Gift Guide Review: The Free Design, "Butterflies Are Free: The Original Recordings 1967-72"

December 3, 2020 By Joe Marchese 9 Comments

The Free Design Butterflies Are Free

"Sorry - only one group like this to a generation," renowned engineer-producer Phil Ramone wrote on the back cover of The Free Design's 1968 sophomore album You Could Be Born Again.  After over 50 years, The Free Design are still a singular group, difficult to pigeonhole.  Their gentle, even childlike style has frequently landed them in the sunshine pop genre, but that match was never quite right: not only were they from New York, but their sound lacked the brightness and even brashness that

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Categories: News, Reviews Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Pop Tags: The Free Design

Butterflies Are Free: The Original Recordings 1967-72

December 2, 2020 By

The Free Design Butterflies Are Free

Cherry Red's El label takes a deep dive into the psychedelic world of The Free Design, sort of an underground Spanky and Our Gang - or sunshine pop, New York City-style.  (Most of their material was recorded with Phil Ramone at his A&R Studios.)  This 4-CD slipcased box features seven complete albums and bonus mono mixes and rarities.  The group's rich harmony versions of such songs as "The 59th Street Bridge Song," "Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head," "Happy Together," "California

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Rollins in Holland: The 1967 Studio and Live Recordings

December 2, 2020 By

Sonny Rollins Rollins in Holland

Rollins in Holland marks Resonance Records' first archival project from living legend Sonny Rollins.  The 2-CD set includes three previously unreleased sets with Ruud Jacobs on bass and Han Bennink on drums featuring "On Green Dolphin Street," "They Can't Take That Away from Me," "Love Walked In," and more.  The extensive booklet contains interviews with Rollins and Bennink, a tribute to Jacobs, and more.

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Formats: CD Genre: Jazz

12 x 7: The Singles Collection

December 2, 2020 By

Amy Winehouse 12 x 7

12 x 7: The Singles Collection celebrates the late Amy Winehouse with all of her A- and B-sides, including the Ivor Novello Award winners "Stronger Than Me," "Rehab," and "Love Is a Losing Game," on 12 slabs of vinyl.  Its twelve singles - totaling 23 sides (as Disc 12, "I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus," doesn't have a B-side) - encompass both Winehouse's jazz-tinged/retro R&B originals as well as her interpretations of such classic songs as Carole King and Gerry Goffin's "Will You Still

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Formats: Box Sets, Vinyl Genre: Pop, R&B/Soul

The First Generation 1965-1974

November 24, 2020 By

JohnMayall FirstGeneration 1965 1974 pl min

Snapper Music celebrates blues great John Mayall with an expansive new box set.   The First Generation 1965-1974, a 35-CD collection boasts newly remastered editions of 24 albums - many supplemented with bonus tracks - plus a trio of CD singles and plenty of unreleased material.  Among that rare audio are 7 concert recordings recorded in Europe from 1967 to 1970 making their CD debut, as well as 28 unreleased tracks from the BBC archives.  The box set will also include a hardbound book with rare

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Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Blues, Classic Rock

Archives, Volume 2: 1973-1976

November 24, 2020 By

NeilYoung NeilYoungArchivesVol2 RETAILEDITION pl

Neil Young's second Archives box set arrives in a wide commercial release, dropping the oversized packaging and expansive book in favor of a slimmer package.  The 10-CD box is sequenced chronologically to spotlight the astonishingly prolific period lovingly referred to as the Ditch Years. The box contains 131 tracks from Neil's personal archive. Of those, 12 songs have never been released by Neil in any form before, a further 49 songs are presented in previously unheard versions. And though

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Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Classic Rock

Celebration: The Complete Roulette Recordings 1966-1973

November 24, 2020 By

Tommy James and The Shondells Celebration

Cherry Red's Grapefruit imprint brings together Tommy James and The Shondells' 1966-1973 recordings for Roulette Records (including James' solo Roulette LPs) on this 6-CD box set. The set features liner notes by Bob Fisher and mastering by Simon Murphy.

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Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Classic Rock, Pop

'60s ROCK, POP AND SOUL: New Treasury Collection DVD Set Offers Over 100 Favorites

November 23, 2020 By Joe Marchese 9 Comments

60sHitsLive CD v4

Earlier this year, The Second Disc shared news of Rock, Pop and Doo Wop, a 7-DVD collection from Treasury Collection and executive producer-director TJ Lubinsky.  Now, with the holidays upon us, a new set featuring dozens of classic hit-makers has just been released: '60s Rock, Pop and Soul. This 4-DVD package has been culled from two decades of Lubinsky's historic television concerts, with 130 hit songs from a "Who's Who" of legendary performers including Frankie Valli ("Can't Take My Eyes

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, DVD Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, R&B/Soul Tags: Aretha Franklin, B.J. Thomas, Ben E. King, Davy Jones, Four Tops, Frankie Valli, Glen Campbell, Jackie DeShannon, Jefferson Starship, Judy Collins, Lulu, Petula Clark, Ron Dante, The 5th Dimension, The Association, The Isley Brothers, The Zombies, Tommy James and The Shondells, Various Artists

UPDATE: General Retail Edition, Repressed Deluxe Edition of "Neil Young Archives, Volume 2: 1972-1976" Confirmed for March 5

November 13, 2020 By Sam Stone 9 Comments

NeilYoung NeilYoungArchivesVol2 RETAILEDITION pl

UPDATE 11/12/2020: It's been a long time since Neil Young released his last Archives box set. In the intervening 11 years since Neil released Archives, Volume 1: 1963-1972, fans have endlessly speculated what might be on Volume 2 - or if it might happen at all. As our readers probably know by now, Neil Young Archives, Volume 2: 1972-1976 is a go, with a limited-edition box set arriving next Friday, November 20. A digital edition will also be available on Neil Young Archives and all major digital

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Classic Rock, Rock Tags: Crazy Horse, Joni Mitchell, Neil Young

Release Round-Up: Week of November 13

November 13, 2020 By The Second Disc Leave a Comment

EltonJohn JewelBox pl

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! Elton John, Jewel Box (EMI/UMe) 8CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Deep Cuts 4LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Rarities & B-Sides 3LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada And This Is Me... 2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Elton John is reaching deep into the vault with Jewel Box, a new, super-sized collection of rare and unreleased material.  The British pop legend's deep dive into his

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Country, Gospel, Holiday, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: AC/DC, Bing Crosby, Buck Owens, Debbie Reynolds, Doris Day, Elton John, George Benson, Joel Grey, Johnny Cash, Joshie Jo Armstead, Judy Garland, Keith Richards, Ogden Nash, Petula Clark, Stephen Sondheim, Tammy Grimes, The Cranberries, The Rance Allen Group, The Staple Singers, Vera Lynn, Vernon Duke

Picture On The Wall: John Mayall's Early Years Collected on 35-CD Box Set, "The First Generation: 1965-1974"

November 11, 2020 By Sam Stone 5 Comments

JohnMayall FirstGeneration 1965 1974 pl min

In the pantheon of British blues music, few have had as much influence as John Mayall.  As the leader of The Bluesbreakers in the '60s and '70s (and through to today), he's sought out and nurtured talented musicians who'd go on to become as legendary as Mayall himself.  Indeed, the roster of future legends that passed through the ranks of John Mayall's Bluesbreakers is immense.  John McVie, Eric Clapton, Peter Green, Paul Butterfield, Aynsley Dunbar, Mick Taylor, Keef Hartley, and Jack Bruce all

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Blues, Classic Rock Tags: Aynsley Dunbar, Eric Clapton, Jack Bruce, John Mayall, John McVie, Keef Hartley, Mick Taylor, Paul Butterfield, Peter Green

Film Music 1976-2020

November 9, 2020 By

BrianEno FilmMusic 1976 2020 pl

CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2-LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada This first-ever compilation of Eno's film and television soundtrack work, Film Music 1976-2020 brings together highlights from five decades of music, including songs from Dune, Heat, and Married to the Mob, and seven tracks previously unreleased in an audio-only format. Digital configurations will be released on November 13, 2020 while CD and 2-LP editions are set to arrive on January 22, 2021.

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Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Rock, Soundtracks

Design As Reduction: Brian Eno's Soundtrack Work Anthologized On "Film Music 1976-2020"

November 9, 2020 By Sam Stone 1 Comment

BrianEno FilmMusic 1976 2020 pl

Brian Eno and UMe have recently announced the release of Film Music 1976-2020 . This first-ever compilation of Eno's film and television soundtrack work brings together highlights from five decades of music, including seven tracks previously unreleased in an audio-only format . Digital configurations will be released on November 13 while CD and 2-LP editions are set to arrive on January 22, 2021. Multi-instrumentalist and composer Eno has long been associated with film music, starting in 1970

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Electronic, Soundtracks Tags: Brian Eno, Daniel Lanois, Roger Eno, U2

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