Michigan-born, Texas-raised John David Souther was one of the first artists signed to David Geffen and Elliot Roberts' groundbreaking Asylum label in 1971. His two albums for Asylum, John David Souther (1972) and Black Rose (1976), established the singer-songwriter's distinctive voice on such now-classic songs as "Faithless Love," "How Long," and "Simple Man, Simple Dream." In 1979, Souther moved over to the Columbia label where he scored a chart-topping hit with the title track of You're Only
Saw Your Name in the Paper: Morello Reissues Loudon Wainwright III's Atlantic Albums
Upon the release of his 1970 self-titled debut for Atlantic Records, Loudon Wainwright III was hailed as a "new Dylan." The comparison wasn't completely off-the-mark, given the artist's incisive, alternately wrenching and wry songwriting; and pinched, somewhat nasal voice as he accompanied himself on acoustic guitar. But the lyrical content of Wainwright's songs was far-removed from The Bard of Hibbing's. Having been born to an affluent family (his father wrote the column "The View from Here"
Endless, Nameless: Nirvana's 'Nevermind' Goes Deluxe (Again) with Bonus Live Concerts
Exactly thirty years ago tomorrow, September 24, 1991, Nirvana's Nevermind hit store shelves. To celebrate this new anniversary, Geffen/UMe has announced new reissues of the album in a variety of formats including two editions of a super deluxe box set: an 8-LP version with a bonus 7-inch single, and a 5-CD version with a Blu-ray. All editions and formats are due out on November 12. It is the rare album that can be said to have changed the landscape of popular music, but that is no
Music Is Love: Rhino Expands David Crosby's Solo Debut "If I Could Only Remember My Name"
The phenomenal success of Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young's 1971 LP Déjà Vu came at a time when all four members of the supergroup were brimming with musical creativity. In the wake of its release, each released a solo album that's since attained classic status. In February 1971 came David Crosby's solo debut, If I Could Only Remember My Name. Crosby's dreamy, impressionistic, darkly beautiful, and decidedly unconventional masterwork is now receiving a deluxe edition from Rhino due on October
Happiness Is: Craft Readies Baseball-Themed Reissue of "A Boy Named Charlie Brown" and RSD Tie-In Single
The 1964 Fantasy Records release of The Vince Guaraldi Trio's A Boy Named Charlie Brown has been regularly reissued around the world in what seems like every format imaginable: LP, CD, SACD, cassette, FLAC, and so on. The latest iteration of this classic album for kids of all ages hits stores July 16 from Craft Recordings, followed by a Record Store Day tie-in single the following day for RSD's second Drop. This version, unlike the 50th anniversary reissue which restored the original 1964
His Name Is: Eminem's Breakthrough 'Slim Shady LP' Gets Expansion For 20th Anniversary (UPDATED 11/27)
UPDATE (11/27/2019): Months after this digital release, UMe will release the expanded The Slim Shady LP as a 2CD or 3LP set on December 13! Links are below. ORIGINAL POST (3/29/2019): In his two-decade career, Marshall Bruce Mathers II, better known as Eminem, stunned audiences and critics alike with vivid and sometimes disturbing imagery, rapid-fire delivery, and lyrics that were as witty as they were personal; as tongue-in-cheek as they were acerbic. This year marks 20 years since Eminem
Guilty Was His Name: Alejandro Escovedo's "With These Hands" Gets Run Out Groove Reissue
The fans have spoken! Alejandro Escovedo's With These Hands has been selected as the next Run Out Groove limited edition vinyl pressing. Originally released in 1996, With These Hands was Escovedo's debut on the Rykodisc label. The Mexican-American rocker hailed from one of music's most famous families, counting Pete and Coke Escovedo as his brothers, and Pete's daughter Sheila E. as his niece. His brother Mario fronted the band The Dragons, and brother Javier was a member of The Zeros.
Review: Norma Tanega, "Walkin' My Cat Named Dog" [Green Vinyl Reissue]
Our friends at Real Gone Music have long been combing the vaults of the major labels in search of overlooked classic albums that deserve another moment in the spotlight. The Second Disc was able to take a listen to one of the label's newly reissued limited-edition titles - Norma Tanega's Walkin' My Cat Named Dog - which returns to vinyl in a special bright-green color variant. Tanega's folky '60s pop has found new life on TV shows and compilations, but her debut has never been reissued on
The Name's Barry...John Barry: Composer's Early Sides Collected On New 3-CD Box Set
Throughout a long, celebrated career, the late John Barry scored roughly 100 films (including eleven James Bond movies), picked up five Academy Awards, penned classic television themes, and wrote five musicals. But before all of those mighty accomplishments, the Yorkshire native formed his own band, The John Barry Seven. While leading the septet, he was hired by EMI as an orchestral arranger - which in turn, led to his first film assignments. The early days of Barry's career have been
You Know His Name: Chris Cornell's Legacy Celebrated In New Box Set
Last year, the world lost one of the greatest voices and songwriters of modern times -- Chris Cornell. From his work in Soundgarden, Temple of the Dog, Audioslave, and his solo career, Chris's music defined a generation of rock music. Tomorrow, November 16, UMe will release a new collection that celebrates his legacy of song. Entitled Chris Cornell, the set comes in a variety of configurations: 1-CD distillation, 2-LP, 4-CD, and super deluxe 4-CD/1-DVD/7-LP. There will also be digital versions
Good Grief! Varese Premieres "A Boy Named Charlie Brown" On CD
When Charles Schulz, director-producer Lee Mendelson and co-producer Bill Melendez announced they were bringing Charlie Brown, Snoopy, and the Peanuts gang to the big screen for the very first time, anticipation was naturally high. A Boy Named Charlie Brown was well-received upon its December 1969 theatrical debut, going on to do good business and receiving credit for breaking the Disney monopoly on feature-length animation. Today, it's still remembered as the best of the four Peanuts animated
Ava Cherry Takes A Ride On A "Streetcar Named Desire"
“Black people don’t do new wave. She’s supposed to be doing soul,” Ava Cherry recollected of radio’s reaction to her 1982 Capitol Records single “Love to Be Touched.” Yet not only did Cherry – the former model, stalwart background vocalist and onetime muse to David Bowie - do new wave, but she did it with fervor and flair. With production from Bob Esty (Donna Summer’s “Last Dance,” Barbra Streisand’s “The Main Event”), Cherry’s sophomore solo album Streetcar Named Desire, produced by Bob
Say Their Name: "Love Songs" Arrives from Destiny's Child, Includes New Song
The upbeat dance-pop/R&B of Destiny’s Child successfully updated the girl group sound for the late 1990s and early 2000s, and launched the careers of Kelly Rowland, Michelle Williams and Beyoncé Knowles. In late 2012, Legacy Recordings marked the fifteenth anniversary of the group’s No. 1 debut single with the release of Playlist: The Very Best of Destiny’s Child. That disc soon became the most successful entry in the Playlist series. So it might come as no surprise that the label will
Essentially Repackaged: Legacy Reissues Double-Disc Compilations Under New Names
There's something familiar about many of Legacy's new entries in their ongoing The Essential series hitting stores in April and May. Of the four double-disc compilations - one for prog-rock masters Blue Öyster Cult, one apiece for country stars Alan Jackson and Brooks & Dunn and one for pop chanteuse Mariah Carey - three have already been reissued under different names. The country ones are repackages of each performer's latest hits set (Jackson's 2010 contract-closing 34 Number One Hits
First Name Basis: Ozzy, Willie, Janis, Iggy Among Legacy's Offerings For Record Store Day
Here at Second Disc HQ, we're eagerly anticipating April 21, or Record Store Day, the industry-wide celebration of all things vinyl (and a few CDs, too!). Record Store Day, now in its fifth year, gives shoppers the chance to interact with big crowds of fellow music enthusiasts in the brick-and-mortar retail environment cherished by so many of us. Legacy Recordings has announced its impressive line-up of limited edition releases that will line the shelves of your favorite independent music
The Name Was Barry
It is with a heavy heart that I pass along to you the news that film composer John Barry died on Sunday. Barry, a five-time Oscar winner, is of course best known for his work on 12 of the 22 James Bond films. Though his authorship of the iconic theme is under dispute even after a U.K. court ruled that it was Dr. No composer Monty Norman's work alone, Barry is still the name most synonymous with Bond music, and crafted some of the series' best themes. The timing of Barry's passing comes at an
Reissue Theory: David Seville, By Any Other Name
If you told anyone following the music industry in 1958 that David Seville's musical legacy would be eagerly consumed by kids more than 50 years into the future, they might laugh. After all, Seville's greatest "discoveries" aren't exactly real - they're in fact a trio of animated chipmunks named Alvin, Simon and Theodore. And their musical style - a high-pitched warbling that made novelties like "Witch Doctor" and "The Chipmunk Song (Christmas Don't Be Late)" into left-field, award-winning hits
Make My Wish Come True: Vinyl, Singles, SACD to Commemorate 30 Years of Mariah Carey's 'Merry Christmas'
With the run-up to Christmas approaching full speed, the holiday's musical queen is looking to take back her crown. To celebrate the 30th anniversary of Carey's Merry Christmas and its unforgettable, cross-generational hit single "All I Want for Christmas is You," the Elusive Chanteuse will deliver an expanded version of the album on vinyl, featuring material from its most recent reissue and a 24-page booklet in a hardbound package with some holiday surprises. To boost "All I Want for
An Ennio Morricone Score Expansion Worth 'A Few Dollars More'
The Man with No Name is back! Following a recent deluxe expansion of Ennio Morricone's unforgettable score to Sergio Leone's The Good, The Bad and The Ugly, the Italian label Beat Records will follow suit with a generous CD and vinyl expansion of its predecessor and the second film in the "Dollars Trilogy": 1965's For a Few Dollars More. This hour-plus presentation offers both the original eight-cue soundtrack program issued by RCA Records in Europe on a double bill with selections from
Release Round-Up: Week of November 8
Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of the new titles available today. As an Amazon affiliate, we earn from qualifying purchases. Whitney Houston, The Concert for a New South Africa (Durban) (Arista/Legacy) CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Legacy Recordings, in collaboration with Whitney Houston's estate, will release the late artist's The Concert for a New South Africa (Durban). The CD and
Sugar Town: Light in the Attic Reissues, Expands Nancy Sinatra's "Sugar" and "Country, My Way"
Light in the Attic is accelerating its Nancy Sinatra Archival Series with the November 29 reissue of the singer's fourth and fifth studio albums, both from 1967: Sugar and Country, My Way. Both of these expanded editions will be available on CD, LP, and digitally. Sugar capped off an incredibly prolific year for Sinatra. The fourth album she recorded in 1966, Sugar was nominally named for the sweet and seductive, Lee Hazlewood-penned "Sugar Town," a top 5 Pop/No. 1 AC hit. Though album
In Memoriam: Quincy Jones (1933-2024)
Quincy Delight Jones was just 14 years old when he introduced himself to Ray Charles. Though the pianist-singer was just two years older, he was already an inspiration to the younger musician. Charles had the gift of synthesizing the various strains of music - jazz, folk, country, pop, soul, rhythm and blues, and gospel, among them - into a sound both wholly new and wholly American. Jones was struck by how Charles overcame adversity, and their shared ethos became one which shaped young
Super Sequel Soundtracks Are La-La Land's Black Friday Focus for 2024
Before announcing their typically grandiose year-end slate of archival soundtrack titles, there were rumblings in the film score fan community that La-La Land - whose release schedule offered everything from Star Trek to James Bond to the first Steven Spielberg-John Williams collaboration in 2024 - might do things a little differently. It turns out those rumors were correct: ahead of their usual Black Friday blowout, the label has instead announced three titles approved for license from major
The Weekend Stream: November 2, 2024
Welcome to another edition of The Weekend Stream, The Second Disc's review of notable catalogue titles (and some new ones, too!) making digital debuts. We've got all the usual stuff you'd expect - reissues from Usher, rarities from The Alan Parsons Project, and another unique Daryl Hall-related EP - and some stuff you might not, like truly unusual Christmas collections and a new app from one of the best places for music in video games! Nintendo Music app One genre the Second Disc team has
A Cool Yule: Verve Expands Ella Fitzgerald's 'Swinging Christmas' for Vinyl, Plans Gift Set with Louis Armstrong's Christmas Collection
You've hung up your costumes and sorted through all your Halloween candy - now it's time to get excited for the holiday gift-giving season, packed with great reissues under your tree and spirited carols on the stereo. Two new vinyl products from Verve Records feature both: some of the most beloved holiday hits from two of the label's most iconic voices. Verve will release a special gift set this season: Ella & Louis Wish You a Swinging Holiday - a 2LP set that brings together a bona fide
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