ATO continues its Jerry Garcia live series with this 2-CD installment from September 16, 1989 at Illinois' Poplar Creek Music Theatre. For the final night of their longest tour, the band was joined by Clarence Clemons who sat in on sax. Tracks include "I Shall Be Released," "Someday Baby," "Let's Spend the Night Together," "Tangled Up in Blue," "Knockin' on Heaven's Door," and "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down."
The Spirit Of Radio: Rush's 'Permanent Waves' To Be Expanded On CD, Vinyl
The January 1980 release of Rush's Permanent Waves marked a breakthrough for the band. The album became Rush's most successful to that point, reaching the top five of the album charts in the U.S., U.K., and Canada. It also represented a shift towards more compact, radio-friendly songs while still honoring the group's progressive roots. On May 29, Mercury/Anthem/UMe will reissue Permanent Waves in a variety of formats including 2-CD and 3-LP sets, and a 2-CD/3-LP Super Deluxe Edition. Geddy
Rock 'Til You Drop: Three Deluxe Reissues In Stores Now From Status Quo
British rockers Status Quo recently celebrated a trio of their '80s and '90s works. UMC has reissued Perfect Remedy (1989), Rock 'Til You Drop (1991), and Thirsty Work (1994) in deluxe expanded editions. Each features a selection of B-sides, alternate versions, single edits, hard-to-find rarities, and newly unearthed live material. The 3-CD Perfect Remedy boasts the premiere of 16 tracks recorded at The N.E.C. Arena, Birmingham in December 1989. The 3-CD edition of Rock 'Til You Drop marks
Real Gone Announces Spacehog, Gene Russell, Black Sabbath Tribute, and More for RSD 2020
The ever-eclectic label Real Gone Music has announced their lineup for Record Store Day and whether you like '90s glam, Australian alt-rock, jazz-funk, or a nod to metal pioneers, there's something for everyone arriving to your local record store on Saturday, April 18! We've got more details from the label below! Gene Russell, New Direction (Limited to 1,500 copies worldwide) 'The first album released from the most sought-after label, bar none, among jazz collectors! Black
Can't Stop The Music: Edsel Preps Village People Box Set
Put on your costumes and get ready to dance: Edsel's releasing a CD box set of all the albums from disco hitmakers Village People. True to its name, The Album Collection 1977-1985 includes the complete discography from the infamous sextet, issued primarily on the Casablanca and later RCA Victor labels. A total of nine albums are featured, including the double-disc Live and Sleazy. All discs are packaged in miniature replicas of their original album sleeves; both Live and Sleazy and 1980's
Thunder Sun: Lost Tapes From Fingerstyle Guitarist Robbie Basho Collected by Real Gone Music
A lost session from a revered acoustic guitarist, Robbie Basho, is set to arrive April 3 from Real Gone Music. Songs of the Great Mystery: The Lost Vanguard Sessions adds a new chapter to the man's work that's sure to stun fans and new initiates, too. On the Mount Rushmore of innovative acoustic guitar players, you'd likely find John Fahey, Leo Kottke, Michael Hedges...and one Robbie Basho. Though he never rose to the same prominence as Kottke or Fahey (who signed Basho to the Takoma
A New Sound: El Collects the Far-Out Music That Inspired Sixties Rock
For years, the El imprint of Cherry Red has been collecting all the strangest and most fascinating avant-garde classical pieces, electronic experiments, and oddball rarities for a fervent group of admirers. Though their releases can be a little esoteric, El's collections have always been able to welcome in new listeners. And now, they offer what might be the essential introduction to twentieth-century avant-garde and classical (at least for listeners tuned to popular music). It's called I'd
Dionne Warwick's "Déjà Vu: The Arista Recordings" Box Out Today from Cherry Red, SoulMusic
UPDATED 2/28: Earlier this week, the popular competition show The Masked Singer unmasked The Mouse. But to anyone who's ever listened to a radio over the past 50-plus years, there was no need for a reveal. It was obvious that, underneath the giant mouse head, was the voice of only one person: the inimitable Dionne Warwick. Over 40 years ago, Warwick left Warner Bros. Records and signed to Clive Davis' Arista label to begin a new chapter in her remarkable career. Today, Cherry Red's SoulMusic
Lost in The Future: The Stooges' "Fun House" Receives 50th Anniversary, 15-LP Reissue
In 1999, Rhino Handmade released The Complete Fun House Sessions, a 7-CD box set that included almost every take from The Stooges' sophomore effort, Fun House. Now, the label will celebrate the 50th anniversary of Fun House with a luxurious vinyl box set, due July 17. Fun House - 50th Anniversary Deluxe Edition includes a newly remastered 2-LP, 45rpm presentation of the landmark album alongside the vinyl debut of the Complete Fun House Sessions. Available exclusively through Rhino.com, the
I Say a Prayer With Every Heartbeat: Vinyl Me, Please Expands Whitney Houston's Debut for 35th Anniversary
Thirty-five years ago today -- on Valentine's Day, 1985 -- Whitney Houston's self-titled debut was released. With three consecutive No. 1 singles, "You Give Good Love," "How Will I Know" and "Greatest Love Of All," the album was a smash hit that introduced listeners to one of the most talented vocalists of all time. Now, to celebrate that anniversary, Vinyl Me, Please will partner with Legacy Recordings to press a special 2LP, peaches-and-cream-colored 180-gram vinyl pressing. The first disc
OUT TODAY! Johnny Mathis' Brazil-Themed "The Island" Arrives From Second Disc Records, Real Gone Music
Johnny Mathis has recorded many romantic albums over the past seven decades, but none quite like The Island. Recorded in 1989 but unreleased for decades, The Island transported listeners to Brazil, with all of its mystique and magic. Today - appropriately enough, on Valentine's Day - this lost classic arrives in its first-ever release on standalone CD from Second Disc Records and Real Gone Music. Renowned producer Sergio Mendes of Brasil '66 fame and arranger-guitarist Dori Caymmi joined
The Music Never Stops: Grateful Dead Live Rarities Abound on "June 1976" Box
Rhino has teamed up with the Grateful Dead online shop, Dead.net, to offer another box set that promises to be an illuminating and exciting look into another chapter of their live career. June 1976 is a 15-CD box set documenting 5 complete live shows from that month. The limited edition collection will be pressed up in 12,000 numbered copies, due out March 20. After two years away from the stage, Grateful Dead returned to touring. Mickey Hart was back, the pricey and cumbersome Wall of
Live at the Roundhouse [Various Formats]
2-CD/DVD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Blu-ray: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2-LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Celebrating the music of early Pink Floyd, Nick Mason's Saucerful of Secrets: Live at The Roundhouse arrives on Blu-ray, DVD, and a 2CD/DVD bundle. The band features Mason, Gary Kemp, Guy Pratt, Lee Harris, and Dom Beken expertly recreating the psychedelic sounds on which the Floyd made its name. Legacy Recordings has confirmed that the
Let There Be More Light: Nick Mason's Saucerful of Secrets Celebrate Early Pink Floyd With "Live at The Roundhouse"
In 2018, Pink Floyd's ever-dependable drummer, Nick Mason - the only member to appear on every Pink Floyd album - launched a world tour with the Saucerful of Secrets band in celebration of Pink Floyd's early years. In a move that stunned the super-fans, he focused on pre-Dark Side of the Moon material, including obscurities like "Point Me at the Sky," "Lucifer Sam," "Let There Be More Light," and many more. Now, fans who weren't able to catch the first legs of the tour can enjoy the show from
Affirmative Yes: Real Gone Announces Vinyl Reissues of The Bonniwell Music Machine, The Donnas, and Little Beaver
Real Gone Music is at it again with a slate of overlooked classics due for reissue on vinyl this February and March. First up, there's The Donnas' Gold Medal, a power-pop favorite from 2004 that features the radio hit "Fall Behind Me." The Butch Walker-produced album marked a new direction for the band as they embraced a '70s-inspired psychedelic sound evoked visually by the very groovy artwork. Due on February 28, Real Gone's black-and-gold splatter vinyl edition will reproduce all the
Music From and Inspired by "Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool," a Film by Stanley Nelson
The soundtrack to the acclaimed 2019 documentary (making its television debut February 25 on American Masters) blends classic Miles Davis recordings from all eras with soundbites from the film. Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool is the rare release to span his multiple label affiliations. In addition to culling tracks from his famed Columbia repertoire including Milestones, Kind of Blue, Someday My Prince Will Come, Sketches of Spain, and Bitches Brew, the soundtrack features such landmark cuts as
All the Hits [Various Formats]
U.K. CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada U.K. 2-LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada U.S. CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada U.S. 2-LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Dave Clark is revisiting his band's 2008 compilation The Hits under the revised title of All the Hits in a new edition on BMG. Featuring classics like "Because," "Glad All Over," "Catch Us If You Can," "Do You Love Me," and "Bits and Pieces," the set is a fine overview of the DC5's
Woodstock: Sunday, August 17, 1969
First released by Real Gone Music on "new dawn" blue vinyl, this new re-press of Jefferson Airplane's Woodstock set will be pressed on a "vibrating" violet color variant. As one of the first acts to sign on for the festival, Jefferson Airplane embraced the spirit of the event from the start, but the band's Saturday night closing set was delayed to Sunday morning due to the rain that seemingly would never retreat. The Airplane was up all night waiting for the OK to go onstage - which didn't
Just Peachy: New Box Set Celebrates 50 Years of The Allman Brothers Band
The November 1969 arrival of the self-titled The Allman Brothers Band heralded the arrival of a group which would change the face of music. Duane Allman, Gregg Allman, Dickey Betts, Berry Oakley, Jai Johanny Johanson (a.k.a. Jaimoe), and Butch Trucks fused rock, blues, and country with jazz-inspired improvisation to become one of the most beloved bands of all time. On February 28, UMe and Mercury Records will celebrate 50 years of The Allman Brothers Band with a remarkable, career-spanning box
Back to Kornfield Kounty: Craft Recordings Celebrates Roy Clark, Buck Owens, Susan Raye on New LPs
Yee Haw! Or more accurately, that should be Hee Haw! This Friday, January 17, Craft Recordings will release a trio of releases from three country greats associated with the long-running television show. The compilations Roy Clark's Greatest Hits, The Very Best of Buck Owens & Susan Raye, and Susan Raye's solo 16 Greatest Hits were originally released on CD by Varese Sarabande and are now making their vinyl debuts. A rural answer to Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In, Hee Haw premiered in 1969
Thank You For The Music: On 10 Years of The Second Disc
Ten years ago, I was writing my first post for The Second Disc, a website about music reissues I thought was a pretty bright idea. A lot has changed since then. The first posts were written in the bedroom of a suburban New Jersey home - the house I grew up in and moved back into after post-college economic downturn made it the best possible choice to live. This post was written in an apartment in Queens that I share with a lovely fiancée who is very cool about the amount of box sets
Let Us Cling Together: Queen Tap Japanese Fans For New Greatest Hits Collection
Imagine narrowing down your favorite band to just one song. We couldn't do it! But some very fastidious Japanese fans of Queen did - and their choices are forming a new compilation due this month. For Greatest Hits In Japan, Queen and Universal Music opened a vote in the country where just one track from the iconic British rock group could be selected for a compilation timed to the upcoming Japanese tour by Queen + Adam Lambert. Nearly 20,000 votes were collated, and the top 12 tracks made
Pictures from Life's Other Side - The Man and His Music in Rare Photos and Recordings
BMG salutes late singer-songwriter-legend Hank Williams with the release of Pictures from Life's Other Side - The Man and His Music in Rare Photos and Recordings. This lavish 6-CD collection presents all 144 tracks recorded by Williams for his 1951 radio show sponsored by Mother's Best Flour Company. The Mother's Best radio shows have been chronicled on various sets in the past, most notably in comprehensive form by Time-Life on the 16-disc box set The Complete Mother's Best Recordings...Plus!
He Sends Us: Sam Cooke's Keen Years Collected In New Box
Sam Cooke would have turned 90 on January 22, 2021, but that's not stopping the party from starting a little early! This month, The King of Soul will be celebrated with a new box set featuring five of his albums for the Keen label. The Complete Keen Years (1957-1960) showcases Cooke's early work as a pop craftsman at the end of the 1950s. At the beginning of the decade, Cooke was a teenage sensation as a member of gospel group The Soul Stirrers. But his interest in R&B and pop could not
It's Just a Matter of Time [Purple Vinyl Edition]
Texas soul man Bobby Patterson is well-known for his productions on Chuck Jackson, Fontella Bass, and Little Johnny Taylor. Stepping in the spotlight on his own, Patterson released It's Just A Matter of Time on the Paula label in 1972, featuring 12 exemplars of soul in all its flavors. For its first LP reissue in decades, Real Gone has pressed the album on purple vinyl, housed in a replica of the original album art (complete with lyric insert). The new edition is limited to just 700 copies.
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