Ronnie Milsap returns with his 30th studio album. A Better Word for Love has been co-produced by Rob Galbraith and features new recordings as well as a 1993 performance of Cindy Richardson and Carol Chase's "Civil War." Among its nine new tracks is the premiere recording of the last song Carl Perkins ever wrote, "Big Bertha." For the ode to a famous golf driver, Milsap has been joined by Vince Gill. The late Jim Weatherly is represented with two tracks he'd co-written ("Too Bad for My Own
The Weekend Stream: April 10, 2021
While The Second Disc prides itself on connecting people to reissues and box sets they can keep on their shelves, it's no secret that listening audiences are also digital - catalogue music lovers, too - and our passion is connecting people to music from the past that they might adore. So we're introducing a new Saturday feature: The Weekend Stream, which focuses on hidden gems that recently made it to digital channels that might make your playlists a little brighter! Marilyn Maye, Girl Singer
Release Round-Up: Week of April 9
Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! Fleetwood Mac, Live: Super Deluxe Edition (Warner/Rhino) (Rhino.com / Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Rhino reissues Fleetwood Mac's 1980 Live - the first live album from the line-up of Lindsey Buckingham, Stevie Nicks, Christine McVie, John McVie, and Mick Fleetwood - as a deluxe 3CD/2LP/7″ box set. The two CDs and two LPs will both have the remastered original double album. The third CD will offer 14 previously unreleased
Head Over Heels: UMe Debuts Vintage Tears for Fears Live Set for RSD Drops 2021
Among Universal Music Group's RSD Drop offerings for Record Store Day's two-pronged 2021 celebration include a previously unreleased live double album from Tears for Fears. Live At Massey Hall captures the British rockers supporting sophomore album Songs from the Big Chair as it starts to take off worldwide. When the group started a four-date stand at the Toronto theatre at the end of May 1985, "Everybody Wants to Rule the World" was on its way to topping the U.S. charts. ("Shout" would
Roger the Engineer [Box Set]
Last Record Store Day Black Friday, Demon Music Group reissued The Yardbirds' Roger the Engineer as a 2-LP Expanded Edition. Now, the 1966 rock classic is getting even more expanded - this time, as a 2-LP/3-CD/1-7″ single deluxe box set. Utilizing the original master tapes, the box (announced this morning) features new remastering by Phil Kinrade at Alchemy Mastering at AIR, overseen by original album producer Paul Samwell-Smith. It contains the original mono and stereo mixes on CD and LP
Chicago at Carnegie Hall: Complete
For the first time, Rhino brings together all eight of Chicago's concerts between April 5-10, 1971 at New York's Carnegie Hall in one deluxe, 16-CD box set. The original 4-LP box Chicago at Carnegie Hall was a commercial smash, reaching No. 3 on the Billboard 200. This set features every note played by the band as newly restored by the band's Lee Loughnane and engineer Tim Jessup. The box takes the form of a white folio embossed with Chicago's famous logo. In addition to the 16 CDs, it also
The Reprise Albums (1968-1971)
Joni Mitchell's first four albums, all recorded for the Reprise label, are collected in a new box set. The Reprise Albums (1968-1971) is the first albums collection to be released under the Joni Mitchell Archives umbrella; it will be followed later this year by Archives Vol. 2 featuring previously unreleased material from this era. In the meantime, this set features Bernie Grundman's new remasters of Song To A Seagull (featuring the essential tracks "Cactus Tree" and
Same Page, Different Book: New Prince Album, 'Welcome 2 America,' Coming This Summer
After turning Sign O' the Times into one of 2020's best box sets, the Prince Estate will move forward in time with an unreleased album from 2010 due this summer. Welcome 2 America was completed in the wake of Prince's 20Ten (issued free with the purchase of different newspapers and magazines in Europe) but, like so many of The Artist's projects, put aside. The Minneapolis icon intended it as "a statement record...document[ing] Prince's concerns, hopes, and visions for a shifting society,
A Case of You: Joni Mitchell's First Four Albums Remastered, "The Reprise Albums (1968-1971)" Due June 25
Last year Joni Mitchell and Rhino stunned fans with the announcement of the Joni Mitchell Archives, an ongoing series of releases that look back at the career of the multifaceted songwriter, singer, producer, and visual artist. (Check out our interview with series co-producer, Patrick Milligan, here!) Today, Joni Mitchell and Rhino announced the next volume in the series: The Reprise Albums (1968-1971), to be released June 25, just fifty years and three days after she released Blue on June
And The Clock Goes Round: Unreleased 1968 Elton John Album to Debut on Record Store Day
Amongst all of the many Record Store Day announcements, one of the most exciting has to be Island/Mercury's announcement of an unreleased Elton John album finally seeing the light of day: 1968's Regimental Sgt. Zippo, due on the June 12, 2021 RSD Drop. One of the best box sets of last year was Elton John's Jewel Box. Among its 8 CDs were three discs of rarities spanning 1965-1971. Perhaps the most intriguing tracks included were those intended for an unreleased album entitled Regimental
Rhino's Record Store Day Slate Features John Prine, Steely Dan, Joni Mitchell, CSNY, Donny Hathaway, Lou Reed, More
At 1:00 pm EST/10:00 am PST today, the list of Record Store Day's annual offerings was made public. As was the case in 2020, this year's RSD festivities will take place over more than one day. The two RSD Drops are scheduled for Saturday, June 12, and Saturday, July 17. We'll be sharing periodic announcements of various labels' releases, including this look at Rhino's whopping array of over 30 titles from heavy hitters including Black Sabbath, Donny Hathaway, Grateful Dead, Joni Mitchell,
Craft Recordings Announces Record Store Day Slate Including The Zombies, Jonathan Richman, John Martyn, More
At 1:00 pm EST/10:00 am PST today, the list of Record Store Day's annual offerings was made public. As was the case in 2020, this year's RSD festivities will take place over more than one day. The two RSD Drops are scheduled for Saturday, June 12, and Saturday, July 17. We'll be sharing periodic announcements of various labels' releases, beginning with this look at Craft Recordings' line-up. For the full list of all participating RSD retailers, visit RecordStoreDay.com. Craft Recordings
Now More Than Ever: "Chicago at Carnegie Hall" Gets Super-Sized for Its 50th
Robert Lamm, Peter Cetera, Terry Kath, James Pankow, Lee Loughnane, Walt Parazaider, and Danny Seraphine took the world by storm with 1969's Chicago Transit Authority. The double album inaugurated a string of twelve successive platinum or multi-platinum LPs for the group over the next decade. The largest of them all was 1971's Chicago at Carnegie Hall, colloquially referred to as Chicago IV. Over a whopping eight sides of vinyl, the 4-LP box set presented highlights from the band's six-night,
Over, Under, Sideways, Down: The Yardbirds' "Roger the Engineer" Goes Super Deluxe from Demon
Last Record Store Day Black Friday, Demon Music Group reissued The Yardbirds' Roger the Engineer as a 2-LP Expanded Edition. Now, the 1966 rock classic is getting even more expanded - this time, as a 2-LP/3-CD/1-7" single deluxe box set. Utilizing the original master tapes, the box (announced this morning) features new remastering by Phil Kinrade at Alchemy Mastering at AIR, overseen by original album producer Paul Samwell-Smith. Despite leaving behind a strong legacy of classic songs, The
The Columbia Legacy
Sony Classical revisits Eugene Ormandy and The Philadelphia Orchestra's early Columbia recordings with a massive 120-disc box set, The Columbia Legacy. This will be the second-largest box in Sony Classical history after the complete Arthur Rubinstein set of 142 CDs released in 2011. The Columbia Legacy is dedicated to Ormandy's mono recordings made for Columbia through 1957; his subsequent stereo albums beginning in 1958 number over 200. While Columbia parent Sony has released various boxes
The Original Philadelphia Sound: Sony Classical Collects 120 Discs of Eugene Ormandy's "Columbia Legacy"
Eugene Ormandy's 44-year tenure as music director of the world-renowned Philadelphia Orchestra remains the single longest affiliation between conductor and orchestra. Though Ormandy passed away in 1985 at 85 years of age, the enormous body of work he left behind continues to resonate. Though he also recorded for RCA Victor, EMI, Telarc, and Delos, his most long-lasting label association was with Columbia Records. Between 1944 and 1968, Ormandy surveyed a broad swath of the classical
The Weekend Stream: April 3, 2021
While The Second Disc prides itself on connecting people to reissues and box sets they can keep on their shelves, it's no secret that listening audiences are also digital - catalogue music lovers, too - and our passion is connecting people to music from the past that they might adore. So we're introducing a new Saturday feature: The Weekend Stream, which focuses on hidden gems that recently made it to digital channels that might make your playlists a little brighter! Train, Drops of Jupiter
Pretend to Be Nice: Adam Schlesinger Tribute Album Gets 3LP Release from Vinyl Me, Please
Fans all over the world were pained when Adam Schlesinger died a year and a day ago - one of pop music's first major casualties of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Dozens of musicians turned that pain into celebration over the summer with Saving for a Custom Van, a lengthy tribute album from Father/Daughter Records and Wax Nine that raised money for MusiCares' ongoing COVID relief efforts. Now vinyl lovers can add the set to their collection, thanks to a 3LP release coming from Vinyl Me,
Release Round-Up: Week of April 2
Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! Allen Ginsberg, At Reed College: The First Recorded Reading of Howl and Other Poems (Omnivore) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) The first public reading of Allen Ginsberg's "Howl" took place at San Francisco's Six Gallery in October 1955, but that performance wasn't recorded. It was long believed that the first recorded reading was in March 1956 in Berkeley, California, but that turned out not to be the case. On February 13 and 14,
Better Days Ahead: Solo Takes on Pat Metheny
Guitarist John Pizzarelli was hit hard by COVID-19; he lost both of his parents - father and legendary guitarist Bucky and beloved mother Ruth - to the virus within one week of each other. As he worked through the immense grief, he turned to his guitar and to the music of another virtuoso on the instrument, Pat Metheny. Better Days Ahead is Pizzarelli's first album of solo guitar music and features his interpretations of songs from The Pat Metheny Group's 1978 debut all the way up through
Hands Across The Water: Paul and Linda McCartney's "RAM" Gets Half-Speed Remaster Treatment in May
Paul McCartney had always been one for a homespun album, whether it be his 1970 debut McCartney, Chaos and Creation in the Backyard from 2005, or McCartney III, which he recorded in lockdown (or rockdown, as he called it). Last year, McCartney was the first of his albums to receive a half-speed remaster at Abbey Road, which was pressed up for Record Store Day. The Paul McCartney Half-Speed Remaster series continues with the indie favorite RAM, due May 14 to commemorate its 50th
Pendulum Force: Cherry Red Reissues, Expands Shadows Drummer Brian Bennett's Space Disco "Voyage"
Brian Bennett began drumming for The Shadows in 1961, and save for a handful of periods, he's been with the band ever since. Yet his work with the band only encompasses one aspect of his career. A composer, producer, and pianist as well as a drummer, Bennett has maintained a solo career since 1967 as well as prolifically creating library music (one-size-fits-all music not written for a specific project but intended for use on television and film). One of his albums, Counterpoint in Rhythm,
New Direction
Real Gone brings Gene Russell's New Direction to wide-release LP and CD after previously issuing it for Record Store Day last year. The first release on Black Jazz Records, the album found the pianist and label founder supported by bassist Henry Franklin and drummer Steve Clover in a piano trio setting melding jazz and soul.
Mame: London Studio Cast Recording
Stage Door Records brings the 1969 London Studio Cast Recording of Mame, starring Beryl Reid and Joan Turner and produced by Norman Newell at Abbey Road, to CD for the very first time in a remastered and expanded edition that adds two bonus single sides performed by Turner. One of the few English-language recordings of Mame, it features all of Jerry Herman's main numbers for the show including "It's Today," "We Need a Little Christmas," "Bosom Buddies," and "If He Walked Into My Life" with
Review: Neil Young, "Young Shakespeare"
When Neil Young announced the release of Young Shakespeare as Disc 3.5 of the Neil Young Archives Performance Series, many wondered, "Why another solo acoustic show?" Since the archival series began in 2006, Young has released six solo acoustic concert albums, three of which chronicled performances from 1970-1971; Young Shakespeare was recorded in that time frame, on January 22, 1971, at Stratford, Connecticut's Shakespeare Theatre. While the venue sadly burned to the ground in January 2019,
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