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Release Round-Up: Week of June 14

June 14, 2019 By The Second Disc Leave a Comment

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Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! Johnny Mathis, Killing Me Softly with Her Song/When Will I See You Again (Second Disc Records/Real Gone Music) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Second Disc Records and Real Gone Music continue celebrating Johnny Mathis' discography with two albums on one CD. 1973's Killing Me Softly with Her Song and 1975's When Will I See You Again both spotlight Mathis' silky interpretations of the day's greatest hits. Killing Me Softly with Her

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Blu-Ray, Blu-Ray Audio, Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, DVD, Vinyl Genre: Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Country, Jazz, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Reggae, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: ABBA, Bob Marley, Bruce Springsteen, Carole King, Grateful Dead, Hank Williams, Isaac Hayes, Johnny Mathis, R.E.M., Roger Daltrey, Stan Getz, Tangerine Dream, ZZ Top

Release Round-Up: Week of June 7

June 7, 2019 By The Second Disc Leave a Comment

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Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up - a packed one, for sure! Bob Dylan, The Rolling Thunder Revue: The 1975 Live Recordings (Columbia/Legacy) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Just in advance of the June 12 debut of director Martin Scorsese's documentary Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese, Columbia and Legacy unveil a new 14-CD box set that promises to be the ultimate chronicle of the initial leg of Dylan's legendary Rolling Thunder Revue from

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Blu-Ray, Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, DVD, Vinyl Genre: Blues, Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Classical/Opera, Jazz, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Airto, America, Bob Dylan, Cole Porter, David Yazbek, Eddie Perfect, Elmer Bernstein, Gary Nicholson, Genesis, Grateful Dead, James Taylor, Janet Jackson, Luciano Pavarotti, Miles Davis, Neil Young, Norma Tanega, Peter Frampton, Santana, The Rolling Stones, Tom Jones and Harvey Schmidt

Release Round-Up: Week of May 31

May 31, 2019 By The Second Disc 2 Comments

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Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! Hootie & The Blowfish, Cracked Rear View: 25th Anniversary Deluxe Edition (Atlantic/Rhino) 3-CD/DVD Deluxe: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2-CD Expanded: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 1LP Vinyl: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Hootie and the Blowfish are revisiting their 21x platinum smash Cracked Rear View with a new 3-CD/DVD Deluxe Edition and 2-CD Expanded Edition. The Deluxe Edition includes a new

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Categories: News Formats: Blu-Ray, Blu-Ray Audio, Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, DVD, DVD-Audio, Vinyl Genre: Blues, Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Country, Popular Standards/Vocal, Rock Tags: Atlanta Rhythm Section, Buck Owens, Depeche Mode, Four Tops, Hootie and The Blowfish, King Crimson, Rory Gallagher, Susan Boyle

Lost Broadway: 1961

May 29, 2019 By

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Stage Door Records launches a new series celebrating musicals year-by-year: Lost Broadway.  The first volume focuses on the year 1961, shining a new light on all-but-forgotten or infrequently-revived shows including 13 Daughters, The Conquering Hero, Milk and Honey, Subways Are for Sleeping, Sail Away, Carnival, and more.  The 2-CD, 57-song collection features original cast performances on Disc One from artists such as Barbara Cook, Jerry Orbach, and Elaine Stritch, and a treasure trove of pop

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Formats: CD Genre: Cast Recordings, Popular Standards/Vocal

The Polydor Years

May 29, 2019 By

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The Polydor Years is an 8-CD set that brings together many of ARS' best-loved albums and biggest hits.  Inside you'll find Third Annual Pipe Dream (1974), Dog Days (1975), Red Tape (1976), A Rock and Roll Alternative (1976), Champagne Jam (1978), Underdog (1979), Are You Ready? (1979) and The Boys From Doraville (1980) plus a selection of single versions and edits as bonus tracks.

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Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Classic Rock

Ten

May 27, 2019 By

Susan Boyle Ten

Britain's/America's Got Talent sensation Susan Boyle celebrates 10 years of music with a new collection featuring 17 tracks - 13 favorites (including "I Dreamed a Dream," "Hallelujah," and "Wild Horses") and 4 new songs including the duet "A Million Dreams" with stage star Michael Ball.

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Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Popular Standards/Vocal

Release Round-Up: Week of May 24

May 24, 2019 By The Second Disc 7 Comments

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Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! America, Classic Album Collection: The Capitol Years (Capitol/Caroline) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) All six of America's Capitol albums are collected in one newly remastered box set.  Classic Album Collection: The Capitol Years presents newly remastered versions of 1979's Silent Letter, 1980's Alibi, 1982's View from the Ground, 1983's Your Move, 1984's Perspective, and 1985's In Concert in one deluxe, affordable package complete

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Gospel, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: America, Elton John, Jr. Walker and the All-Stars, Kiki Dee, Lee Moses, Mavis Staples, Morrissey, Phil Seymour, Richard Rodgers, Stephen Sondheim, Steve Miller Band, Sting, The Trotter Trio, Todd Rundgren, Toto

The Warner Bros. Albums 1970-1976

May 21, 2019 By

James Taylor The Warner Bros. Albums

Rhino has a newly remastered box, supervised by Peter Asher, of James Taylor's six studio albums for the label including: Sweet Baby James (1970) Mud Slide Slim and the Blue Horizon (1971) One Man Dog (1972) Walking Man (1974) Gorilla (1975); and In the Pocket (1976). Available on CD, 180-gram LP, or digital.

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Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop

Heaven and Earth

May 20, 2019 By

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Heaven and Earth (24-disc box) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) The ReconstruKction of Light (40th Anniversary Series) (CD/DVD-A) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) King Crimson, The Power To Believe (40th Anniversary Series) (CD/DVD-A) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) King Crimson has a truly staggering box set assembled: 24 discs - 18 CDs, 4 Blu-rays, and 2 DVD-As - celebrating the band's work during the period of December 1997 to August 2008.  Too much

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Formats: Blu-Ray, Box Sets, CD, DVD-Audio Genre: Classic Rock, Rock

Release Round-Up: Week of May 17

May 17, 2019 By Sam Stone 2 Comments

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Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! Here's what's in stores today! Paul McCartney, Egypt Station: Explorer's Edition (MPL/Capitol) 2-CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 3-LP black vinyl: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 3-LP color vinyl: MusicVaultz / JPC.de Paul McCartney's Egypt Station: Explorer's Edition features the same audio content as the Traveller's Edition box set minus the swag (postcards, baggage tickets, luggage tags, lithographs, cards, a map,

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Disco/Dance, Folk, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: A Certain Ratio, Cher, David Bowie, Dionne Warwick, Elton John, Jimmy Webb, King Crimson, Manfred Mann, Nick Lowe, Paul McCartney, Richard Wright, Rodney Franklin, Ronnie Lane, The Seekers, Zee

Get On The Good Foot [2-LP]

May 12, 2019 By

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A new double-disc vinyl edition of James Brown's 1972 effort Get On the Good Foot is due from Republic/UMe on June 21.  It was his second album that year and peaked at #8 on the Billboard R&B Albums charts.  The title track, meanwhile, hit #1 on the Billboard R&B Singles Chart.  The J.B.s., Brown's newest backing group, was on-hand with stellar grooves, including appearances on "I've Got a Bag of My Own," re-recordings of "Ain't It a Groove," and "Cold Sweat," and more.  Republic/UMe's

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Formats: Vinyl Genre: Disco/Dance, Funk, R&B/Soul

Release Round-Up: Week of May 10

May 10, 2019 By The Second Disc Leave a Comment

Cilla Black Cilla and In My Life

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! Cilla Black, Cilla/In My Life (SFE/Cherry Red) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Cherry Red's Strike Force Entertainment imprint has two more reissues in the ongoing series of definitively remastered and expanded Cilla Black albums. First up is the late vocalist's debut album Cilla (1965) with In My Life (1974), the latter of which is making its premiere on CD in full.  This 2-CD set adds 26 bonus tracks, three of which are new to

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Blues, Jazz, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Allen Toussaint, Bonnie Raitt, Cher, Cilla Black, David Newman, Howard Jones, Professor Longhair, Rare Earth, The Neville Brothers, Thomas Newman

The Legacy [1961-2017]

May 3, 2019 By

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Capitol and UMe are revisiting Glen Campbell's 2003 career-spanning 4-CD box set with a new edition in digipak packaging that drops the fourth live disc and replaces it with a survey of the artist's work from 2004-2017.  The set boasts 78 tracks total from the country-pop legend.

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Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Country, Pop

Release Round-Up: Week of May 3

May 3, 2019 By The Second Disc Leave a Comment

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Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! Pete Seeger, The Smithsonian Folkways Collection (Smithsonian Folkways) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Smithsonian Folkways' newly curated collection celebrates the late troubadour with 137 tracks over 6 CDs - classic songs, collaborations, and live recordings including 20 previously unreleased tracks, all of which were remastered by Pete Reiniger.  From his first recording sessions with Folkways founder Moses Asch through his '90s

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Tags: Alan Parsons, Jim Peterik, Joe Iconis, Johnny Shines, Lamb of God, Pete Seeger, Simon Bonney

Western Stars

April 29, 2019 By

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CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2-LP black vinyl: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2-LP color vinyl: Bruce Springsteen Online Shop Music and merchandise bundles: Bruce Springsteen Online Shop Bruce Springsteen returns with a new solo album. Western Stars marks his first studio work since High Hopes in 2014 and is described by the artist as featuring "character driven songs and sweeping, cinematic orchestral arrangement[s]."  Western Stars  is partly inspired by

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

Tuscaloosa

April 29, 2019 By

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CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada CD + litho: Neil Young Online Store 2-LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2-LP + litho: Neil Young Online Store A companion to the much-maligned (by Neil) Time Fades Away live album, Tuscaloosa captures Neil Young and Stray Gators - who had backed him up on the smash hit Harvest - live in concert on February 5, 1973. Recorded in the era between Harvest and Tonight's The Night, Young and the Gators launched new versions of

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

The Mercury Demos

April 25, 2019 By

David Bowie The Mercury Demos

Following the recent Spying Through A Keyhole and Clareville Grove Demos, David Bowie's The Mercury Demos presents ten early, one-take recordings from the future superstar, recorded on a Revox reel-to-reel tape machine in Bowie's flat in spring 1969, with accompaniment from his friend and collaborator John "Hutch" Hutchinson on guitar and vocals.  Songs include "Space Oddity," "Janine," "Conversation Piece," and a cover of Lesley Duncan's "Love Song."  It's housed in a replica of the original

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Formats: Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop

Motown: The Complete No. 1s

April 21, 2019 By

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For its 60th anniversary year, Universal Music Enterprises has begun reminding fans that "Motown Did It First"; now, the label that launched The Sound Of Young America is revisiting a box set that was released in celebration of its 50th anniversary a decade ago.  Motown: The Complete No. 1s featured more than 200 international chart-toppers, plus a handful of bonus masters that went to No. 1 through cover versions or samples. And the packaging was a delight: the discs were housed in five

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

She's Back

April 16, 2019 By

Dionne Shes Back

Dionne Warwick's newest, R&B-themed album features production by her son Damon Elliott and duets with Kenny Lattimore ("What Color Is Love"), Musiq Soulchild ("Am I Dreaming") and Bone, Thugs & Harmony's Krayzie Bone ("Deja Vu").  She's Back is available as a 2-CD set with the second disc reprising Warwick's 1998 album of re-recorded hits, Dionne Sings Dionne.

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Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Pop, R&B/Soul

Hallelujah: The Songs of Leonard Cohen

April 9, 2019 By

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"I've never gotten over the pleasure of someone covering one of my songs," Leonard Cohen once said. "I don't have a sense of proprietorship, which probably stems from coming up as a folksinger where it was understood that songs develop a patina through interpretation. I feel that's the mark of excellence." Ace Records has just released a new collection of excellent Leonard Cohen covers with Hallelujah: The Songs of Leonard Cohen. It's the latest volume in the label's Songwriter series, and it

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Formats: CD Genre: Classic Rock, Folk, Jazz, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul

The Rocket Years [5-CD]

April 1, 2019 By

Kiki Dee The Rocket Years

The Edsel label has long championed Kiki Dee's work on various reissues; now, they're bringing all of her Rocket Records repertoire together on one new, book-style box set. The 5-CD The Rocket Years includes all five of her Rocket LPs plus ten bonus tracks, including the CD premiere outside of Australia of the rare B-side "Snow Queen" penned by Kiki with Elton John, Bernie Taupin, Davey Johnstone, and David Nutter. Available on March 29 in the U.K. and April 5 in North America. Exclusive

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Formats: CD Genre: Pop

Songs [12-CD]

April 1, 2019 By

Michael Nesmith Songs

Since 1968, Michael Nesmith has released 16 solo albums in between stints as a Monkee. Now, 12 of those recordings, every album from 1970-1994 including the compilation The Newer Stuff have been collected in the Songs box set from Edsel. The 12-CD set brings together Nesmith's complete RCA and Pacific Arts output for the very first time. Get all the details on this monumental Mike Nesmith celebration here! Available today in the U.K. and next Friday in North America.

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Formats: CD Genre: Classic Rock, Pop

Release Round-Up: Week of March 29

March 29, 2019 By Sam Stone 1 Comment

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Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up. Here's what's due for March 29! John Coltrane, Coltrane '58: The Prestige Recordings [5 CD] (Craft Recordings) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) The year 1958 was a breakout one for saxophone legend John Coltrane. It marked the year when Coltrane--already well-established as a talented sideman--began to make a name for himself as a solo musician and developed his signature "sheets of sound" style while exploring many other routes.  To

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, DVD, Vinyl Genre: Blues, Classic Rock, Country, Disco/Dance, Folk, Funk, Jazz, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Ben Folds, Brandi Carlile, Chaka Khan, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Diana Krall, Donna Summer, Emmylou Harris, Frank Zappa, Glen Hansard, Graham Nash, James Taylor, John Coltrane, Joni Mitchell, Keith Richards, Kiki Dee, KISS, Kris Kristofferson, Los Lobos, Marvin Gaye, Michael Nesmith, Norah Jones, Rufus Wainwright, Seal, Simple Minds, Stevie Nicks, The Searchers, Tina Turner

Release Round-Up: Week of March 22

March 22, 2019 By Sam Stone Leave a Comment

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Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up.  Here's what's on the way today, March 22! Aretha Franklin, Amazing Grace: The Complete Recordings (Rhino/Atlantic Catalog Group) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Amazing Grace: The Complete Recordings presents Aretha Franklin's iconic concerts at the New Temple Missionary Baptist Church in Los Angeles during January 1972 in full.  Both the Thursday night and Friday night sets are accounted for, spread across four 180-gram LPs.  For

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, DVD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Everything Else, Gospel, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Aretha Franklin, Bernard Herrmann, Bill Evans, John Lennon, Kate Bush, Megadeth, Motley Crue, New Order, Randy Bachman, Robin Trower, Van Morrison, Whitesnake, Yoko Ono

Release Round-Up: Week of March 15

March 15, 2019 By The Second Disc 2 Comments

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Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! Nat King Cole, Ultimate Nat King Cole (Capitol/UMe) CD:  Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada To celebrate Nat King Cole's centennial and his legacy of enduring music, Capitol/UMe has partnered with the Nat King Cole Estate for a number of exciting projects.  Among them are two new collections that showcase Cole's remarkable talents -- both available today  Ultimate Nat King Cole arrives on CD and digital, with a 2-LP configuration to

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Blu-Ray, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, DVD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Funk, Jazz, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, Rock Tags: Cassandra Wilson, Foreigner, James Brown, Jerry Garcia Band, Nat King Cole, New Order, Sam Rivers

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