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Forever on My Mind

March 8, 2022 By

Son House Forever on My Mind

The Father of the Delta Blues (1902-1988) is back on this new release from Easy Eye Sound which premieres eight tracks from manager Dick Waterman's personal archive of quarter-inch tapes recorded by House in the 1960s as the bluesman was rediscovered by a new generation of fans on the folk circuit. Forever On My Mind represents the earliest full-length House solo performance recorded after his rediscovery, at an appearance on November 23, 1964 at Wabash College, a small men's school in

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Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Blues

Vinyl Me, Please Releases Lavish "Story of Philadelphia International Records" Anthology

March 7, 2022 By Joe Marchese 10 Comments

VMP Philadelphia Intl Anthology

The legacy of Philadelphia International Records is as mighty as the famous three men most associated with the label: co-founders and songwriter-producers Kenneth Gamble and Leon Huff and songwriter-producer-conductor-arranger Thom Bell.  The three men didn't do it alone, though; the PIR story involves the dozens of talented artists, musicians, songwriters, producers, and arrangers who passed through the doors of engineer Joe Tarsia's Sigma Sound Studios on North 12th Street in Philadelphia,

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Categories: Reviews Formats: Box Sets, Vinyl Genre: R&B/Soul Tags: Billy Paul, Dexter Wansel, Gamble and Huff, Harold Melvin and The Blue Notes, Leon Huff, Lou Rawls, MFSB, The O'Jays, The Three Degrees, Thom Bell

The Weekend Stream: March 5, 2022

March 5, 2022 By The Second Disc Leave a Comment

Stream

Welcome to The Weekend Stream, a relaxing weekly review of notable digital-only catalogue titles. There may be no CD or vinyl, but there's plenty of great new/old music to discover! This week's got some choice soundtracks plus rock, hip-hop, country, and classic vocalists. Depeche Mode, Construction Time Again | The 12" Singles (Warner/Rhino) (iTunes / Amazon) Rhino continues its series of 12" single releases from the Depeche Mode catalogue.  This offering gathers up the extended mixes

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Categories: The Weekend Stream Formats: Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Classic Rock, Country, Popular Standards/Vocal, Rap/Hip-Hop, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Akon, David Crosby, Depeche Mode, Hoyt Axton, James Horner, John Williams, Johnny Rodriguez, The Mills Brothers

Godfather's Roots: Stro Elliot Remixes James Brown Classics for 'Black & Loud'

March 4, 2022 By The Second Disc 1 Comment

James Brown Black and Loud

A recent release from Urban Legends and UMe has paired the late Godfather of Soul, James Brown, with producer and multi-instrumentalist Stro Elliot of The Roots.  Black and Loud: James Brown Reimagined by Stro Elliot, featuring ten new remixes of Brown's funk classics, is available now on digital platforms as well as standard black vinyl and online-exclusive clear vinyl. For Elliot, this release represents the culmination of years of admiration for Brown's storied catalogue. "The 'Godfather

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Categories: News Formats: Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Disco/Dance, R&B/Soul Tags: James Brown, The Roots

Release Round-Up: Week of March 4

March 4, 2022 By The Second Disc Leave a Comment

Mary Wilson The Motown Anthology

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of the titles arriving in stores today! Mary Wilson, The Motown Anthology (Motown/UMe) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) The Motown Anthology is the ultimate retrospective of Mary Wilson, multi-hyphenate talent: singer, activist, author, fashion icon, actress, mother, grandmother, friend, trailblazer, legend, Supreme.  This first-ever comprehensive overview of Wilson's Motown discography presents 38 songs,

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Country, Jazz, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Dolly Parton, John McLaughlin, Kim Fowley, Marianne Faithfull, Mary Wilson, Pink Floyd, The Supremes, The Troggs

The Admiralty Lights: Complete Studio, Live, and Rare 1964-2009

March 3, 2022 By

Al Stewart The Admiralty Lights Cover

Al Stewart's The Admiralty Lights: Complete Studio, Live, and Rare 1964-2009 spans five decades of the artist behind "Year of the Cat," "Time Passages," "Midnight Rocks," "Bedsitter Images," and "Nostradamus" via his complete released live and studio recordings and over 300 previously unreleased bonus tracks. The set, limited to 2,000 copies (with the assurance that it will not be subsequently reissued), includes the following treasure trove of Stewart's works: 21 CDs of studio albums

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

Remixes

March 3, 2022 By

Kraftwerk Remixes

2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 3LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Kraftwerk's Remixes features 19 tracks remixed by the band as well as François Kevorkian, William Orbit, Étienne de Crécy, Orbital, Underground Resistance, DJ Rolando, and Hot Chip. These remixes were originally released on various 12" singles, CD singles, and digital releases over the past twenty years.  The album additionally showcases Kraftwerk's latest Kling Klang Studio creations: "Non Stop"

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Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Electronic, Everything Else, Rock

Eruption: Mobile Fidelity Reissues First Six Van Halen Albums on Hybrid SACD, One-Step Vinyl

March 3, 2022 By The Second Disc 7 Comments

Van Halen MOFI SACD

Might as well jump: Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab has announced that Van Halen's first six multi-platinum albums originally released on the Warner Bros. label will be coming to hybrid stereo SACD (playable on all CD players) as well as to audiophile-standard UltraDisc One-Step 180-gram, 45 RPM vinyl.  The band's incendiary debut Van Halen (1978) is due for release in the fourth quarter of 2022, with Van Halen II (1979), Women and Children First (1980), Fair Warning (1981), Diver Down (1982), and

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Categories: News Formats: CD, SACD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Rock Tags: Van Halen

Robotronik: Kraftwerk Collect Remixes for New CD, Vinyl Set

March 2, 2022 By The Second Disc Leave a Comment

Kraftwerk Remixes

Over a career spanning 50 years, Kraftwerk have influenced artists from David Bowie to Depeche Mode.  The pioneers of electronic music and Rock and Roll Hall of Famers have long been at the vanguard of innovation in music, and continue to perform and tour today.  Hip-hop/electro progenitors Afrika Bambaataa and The Soul Sonic Force incorporated the German band's music into their 1982 hit "Planet Rock," beginning a long relationship between Kraftwerk and club/DJ culture.  Late in 2020, Kraftwerk

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Electronic, Everything Else, Rock Tags: Kraftwerk

Road Trips Vol. 1 No. 4: From Egypt with Love

March 1, 2022 By

Grateful Dead Road Trips From Egypt with Love

A little over a month after playing a concert on the desert grounds surrounding the Great Pyramids of Giza in Egypt, the Grateful Dead returned home to San Francisco for a five-show stint at Winterland.  The band brought along a slide show of their Egyptian stand and introduced the audience to the masterful oud player Hamza El-Din who accompanied them on his composition "Ollin Arageed" which segued into "Deal."  This volume of Road Trips, making its general retail debut from Real Gone Music,

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Formats: CD Genre: Classic Rock

My Heart

March 1, 2022 By

Doris Day My Heart Vinyl

Real Gone Music brings the final studio album of Doris Day's lifetime, My Heart, to vinyl for the first time.  My Heart was perhaps the most unexpected hit record of the year, hitting the charts in the U.S. and making it all the way to No. 9 on the U.K. Albums Chart.  My Heart was dedicated to the memory of Day's son, producer-singer-songwriter Terry Melcher (who predeceased his mother when he passed away in 2014 at the age of 62).  "These songs all mean so much to me...They bring back happy

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Formats: Vinyl Genre: Popular Standards/Vocal

Early Day: Rare Songs from the Radio 1939-1950

March 1, 2022 By

Doris Day Early Day Rare Songs from the Radio

Real Gone Music celebrates the Doris Day centennial with Early Day: Rare Songs from the Radio 1939-1950, collecting on CD two dozen painstakingly-restored rarities from the first decade of Doris Day's extraordinary career.  The collection opens with a moving 1944 rendition of her first signature song, "Sentimental Journey," with The Les Brown Orchestra before journeying back to 1939 and two songs with Barney Rapp's big band performed by 17-year-old Doris on their very first nationwide

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Formats: CD Genre: Popular Standards/Vocal

My Chains Are Gone

March 1, 2022 By

Reba McEntire My Chains Are Gone

Reba McEntire returns with a 12-track collection subtitled Hymns and Gospel Favorites.  My Chains Are Gone blends songs from Reba's 2017 Grammy-winning album Sing It Now: Songs of Faith & Hope with four brand-new selections including "The Lord's Prayer" and "Because He Lives." The CD also includes an acoustic version of "Back to God" (featuring Lauren Daigle) premiering on a physical format.  Available on CD and digitally.

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Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Country, Gospel

UPDATE - Glory of Love: Cherry Pop's Expansive Peter Cetera Box Arrives

March 1, 2022 By Joe Marchese 4 Comments

Peter Cetera Love Glory Honor and Heart

UPDATED 3/1/22: As one of the seven members of Chicago as featured on their 1969 debut album Chicago Transit Authority, bassist-singer Peter Cetera's soaring tenor became an integral component of the band's sound on such hits as "25 or 6 to 4," "Feelin' Stronger Every Day," "Just You 'n' Me," and "(I've Been) Searching So Long."  When his own composition "If You Leave Me Now" became Chicago's first-ever No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 - not to mention in international territories such as Canada,

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Categories: News, Reviews Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Pop, Rock Tags: Amy Grant, David Foster, Peter Cetera

The Weekend Stream: February 26, 2022

February 26, 2022 By The Second Disc 2 Comments

Stream

Welcome to The Weekend Stream, a relaxing weekly review of notable digital-only catalogue titles. There may be no CD or vinyl, but there's plenty of great new/old music to discover! This week's got plenty of remixes, from New Wave to soul - plus some novelty hip-hop that'll offer a much-needed laugh or two. Depeche Mode, A Broken Frame | The 12" Singles (Warner/Rhino) (iTunes / Amazon) Last week, Rhino made the 12" singles set devoted to Depeche Mode's debut digitally available, and

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Categories: Features, The Weekend Stream Formats: Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Classic Rock, Country, Disco/Dance, Electronic, Everything Else, Folk, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rap/Hip-Hop, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Buddy Holly, Burt Bacharach, Depeche Mode, Ed Ames, Eric Burdon, Hoyt Axton, Jodeci, Joni James, L.A. Guns, Madonna, Mint Condition, Ronnie Spector, The Ronettes, War

The Trogg Tapes

February 25, 2022 By

The Troggs The Trogg Tapes

CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 1976's The Trogg Tapes showed that the band behind "Wild Thing," "With a Girl Like You," and "Love Is All Around" still had some steam left in them.  The album features melodic originals like "Supergirl" and "Down South to Georgia" alongside covers of Rufus Thomas' "Walkin' the Dog" and Brendon Dunning's "Rock 'N' Roll Lady." A vinyl release of The Trogg Tapes will arrive from Liberation Hall later this year.  Also available in digital formats.

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Formats: CD Genre: Classic Rock

In Deutschland

February 25, 2022 By

Kim Fowley In Deutschland

CD: Bandcamp / Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Los Angeles scenester Kim Fowley's raucous, irreverent live album In Deutschland was recorded on October 26, 1992, with Fowley accompanied by Flamin' Groovies singer-guitarist Chris Wilson. The show didn't exactly go as planned; the band hadn't been properly rehearsed, and mid-show, the concert organizer asked the audience if they wanted it to continue. Their response was a rather convincing "No!" but Fowley and his band played on.

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

Years of the Cat: Madfish Collects Complete Al Stewart on Massive 50-CD Box Set

February 25, 2022 By The Second Disc 8 Comments

Al Stewart The Admiralty Lights Cover

2022 just might turn out to be the Year of the Cat if Madfish Music has anything to do with it.  On June 3, the U.K. label will release a massive, 50-CD box set anthologizing the career of celebrated singer-songwriter Al Stewart.  The Admiralty Lights: Complete Studio, Live, and Rare 1964-2009 spans five decades of the artist behind "Year of the Cat," "Time Passages," "Midnight Rocks," "Bedsitter Images," and "Nostradamus" via his complete released live and studio recordings and over 300

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Classic Rock, Folk, Pop, Rock Tags: Al Stewart, Alan Parsons, Richard Thompson

Release Round-Up: Week of February 25

February 25, 2022 By The Second Disc 3 Comments

The Left Banke Strangers on a Train

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of the week's best new titles! The Left Banke, Strangers on a Train (Omnivore) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Omnivore brings The Left Banke's 1978 reunion album - featuring Steve Martin Caro, Tom Finn, and George Cameron - to CD for the first time, and adds a previously unreleased 2001 session from Michael Brown, Caro, and Finn.  Scott Schinder provides the liner notes, and Michael Graves has remastered the

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Folk, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, Rock Tags: Judy Collins, Sheena Easton, Shiva Burlesque, Spencer Day, Tears for Fears, The Left Banke, The Ophelias

Isn't It Romantic? Stage Door Collects Rarities from Broadway and West End Star Sally Ann Howes

February 24, 2022 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

Sally Ann Howes Another Time Another Place

Over the course of an extraordinary seven-decade career, Sally Ann Howes exemplified entertainment royalty.  Born in London into a showbiz family, she starred on stage, screen, and television, sang in front of three U.S. Presidents, originated roles on Broadway and in the West End, appeared on the cover of Life, and earned a Tony Award nomination.  Now, just months after her passing on December 19, 2021 at the age of 91, Stage Door Records is celebrating the legacy of this Truly Scrumptious

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Cast Recordings, Popular Standards/Vocal Tags: Sally Ann Howes

A Beautiful Time

February 24, 2022 By

Willie Nelson A Beautiful Time

Prolific legend Willie Nelson is back with his newest studio album - and 17th for Legacy Recordings - with A Beautiful Time.  Arriving on Willie's 89th birthday, it features new compositions from Willie and longtime collaborator Buddy Cannon as well as Willie-fied covers of The Beatles' "With a Little Help from My Friends" and Leonard Cohen's "Tower of Song."  Cannon has produced with musicians including Jim "Moose" Brown (B-3 organ, Wurlitzer), Fred Elringham (drums), Barry Bales (upright

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

Sheena Easton's "A Private Heaven" Struts in Cherry Pop's New Expanded Edition

February 23, 2022 By Joe Marchese 6 Comments

Sheena Easton Private Heaven Deluxe

Cherry Red's Cherry Pop arm began a new association with Sheena Easton with the 2021 release of The Definitive Singles 1980-1987.  The 3-CD, 51-song collection brought together the Scottish singer's A-sides including both 7- and 12-inch singles during that period.  This Friday, February 25, the label (once again in tandem with the owner of Easton's EMI discography, RT Industries) will release another generous set: a 2-CD expanded edition of Easton's fifth studio album, 1984's A Private Heaven. 

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Pop Tags: Prince, Sheena Easton

Live Long and Prosper: La-La Land Revisits "Star Trek: The Motion Picture" In New Director's Cut Edition

February 22, 2022 By Joe Marchese 2 Comments

Star Trek The Motion Picture 2022

Later this year, the Paramount+ streaming service will premiere a new 4K Director's Edition of 1979's Star Trek: The Motion Picture.  The first big-screen voyage of the Starship Enterprise, director Robert Wise's film was first recut as a Director's Edition for the 2001 DVD, but the new version promises to be an upgrade in every way as it utilizes the HDR process for improved color and image.  With the film itself getting such a makeover, it's only appropriate that the soundtrack is, too. 

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Soundtracks Tags: Jerry Goldsmith

Run Rose Run

February 22, 2022 By

Dolly Parton Run Rose Run

Dolly Parton's latest album, Run Rose Run, shares its title with the novel she has just co-authored with James Patterson.  The 12 songs on the album were inspired by the book and feature guests Rhonda Vincent, Joe Nichols, The Isaacs, and Dailey and Vincent.  Available on CD, LP, and digital/streaming.​

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

Prince, Miles Davis, Patti Smith, Lou Reed, Mariah Carey, More Featured on Legacy's Record Store Day Slate

February 22, 2022 By The Second Disc 10 Comments

Lou Reed Im So Free

Legacy Recordings has announced its release slate for Record Store Day 2022, with titles both coming for the primary RSD event on Saturday, April 23 and the additional RSD Drop scheduled for Saturday, June 18.    Legacy's lineup draws on an array of heavy hitters, some of whom have featured in previous RSD releases, including Miles Davis, Lou Reed, Prince, Santana, Mariah Carey, Pearl Jam, Joan Jett and the Blackhearts, Patti Smith, and more. Below, you'll find Legacy's full list of releases,

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Categories: News Formats: Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Jazz, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rap/Hip-Hop, Rock Tags: Alice in Chains, Cypress Hill, Future, Joan Jett and The Blackhearts, Lou Reed, Mariah Carey, Miles Davis, Patti Smith, Pearl Jam, Prince, Record Store Day, Santana, Sara Bareilles

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