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Review: "Groove and Grind: Rare Soul '63-'73"

September 3, 2015 By Joe Marchese 3 Comments

Groove and Grind

Got a few spare hours?  You'll definitely want to put some time aside for a new box set that just might get you up and dancing... The four packed CDs comprising RockBeat Records' Groove and Grind: Rare Soul '63-'73 (ROC-CD-3255)- that's 112 songs, most of which have never previously appeared on CD - add up to one of the most exhaustive rare soul archives in the CD era, and one which you'll want to spend hours and hours exploring.  As accompanied by a 112-page book with Bill Dahl's copious,

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Categories: Reviews Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: R&B/Soul Tags: Various Artists

Wicked Good: Wilson Pickett's "Complete RCA" Arrives TOMORROW From Second Disc Records!

September 3, 2015 By Joe Marchese 2 Comments

Wilson Pickett Mr. Magic Man

This Friday, Second Disc Records and Real Gone Music continue the story of one of soul music's leading lights.  The late Wilson Pickett (1941-2006) lived life - and made music - on strictly his own terms.  Everybody knows the story of The Wicked Pickett's groundbreaking tenure at Atlantic Records during which time he largely defined the sound of sixties soul.  Hits such as "In the Midnight Hour," "Land of 1,000 Dances," "Mustang Sally" and "Funky Broadway" all still cornerstones of any classic

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: R&B/Soul Tags: Wilson Pickett

Greasepaint Smile

September 2, 2015 By

Elyse Weinberg

Numero Group excavates a never-before-released 1969 album from singer-songwriter Elyse Weinberg.  The label describes the album's sound: "Weinberg's finger-picked acoustic is layered over distant drumming, while her gravel-pit voice evokes life, love, and mortality."  Neil Young, J.D. Souther, Nils Lofgren and Kenny Edwards all guest on this lost California-rock gem produced by Young's longtime associate David Briggs.

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Formats: CD, Digital Download, Vinyl Genre: Folk, Pop

Hunting High and Low: 30th Anniversary Edition

September 2, 2015 By

a ha hunting2

The 2015 deluxe edition of a-ha's smash 1985 debut is getting revisited by Rhino, sans the DVD of six music videos which was originally included.  Disc One has the original, remastered album, while Disc Two boasts 25 demos, Disc Three has 15 singles, B-sides and extended versions, and Disc Four takes in ten previously unreleased alternate mixes.  It all adds up to another chance for those who missed out on this stellar set the first time around!

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Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Pop

Both Sides: Deluxe Edition

September 2, 2015 By

Phil Collins Both Sides 2015

Phil Collins' 1993 album Both Sides is expanded to two CDs as part of his Take a Look at Me Now reissue campaign!  Bonus tracks include B-sides, demos and live tracks, with six of the ten bonus cuts previously unreleased on CD.  The original album will also be available on vinyl.

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

Face Value: Deluxe Edition

September 2, 2015 By

Phil Collins Face Value 2015

Phil Collins' 1981 classic featuring "In the Air Tonight" gets expanded to two CDs with the addition of eight live tracks and four demos (plus a new, modern cover photograph echoing the original).  Ten of the twelve bonuses are new to CD.  The original album will also be available on vinyl.

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

Music from "Love and Mercy"

September 2, 2015 By

Love and Mercy OST

Capitol Records belatedly releases a soundtrack to director Bill Pohlad's acclaimed Brian Wilson biopic Love and Mercy featuring Atticus Ross' original score plus music from the solo Wilson ("Love and Mercy," "One Kind of Love"), The Beach Boys ("God Only Knows," "Good Vibrations," "Don't Worry Baby") and star Paul Dano ("God Only Knows").

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Formats: CD Genre: Pop, Soundtracks

Genesis' Tony Banks Goes "A Chord Too Far" On Career-Spanning Box Set

September 2, 2015 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Tony Banks A Chord Too Far

It's been a pretty great year for fans of Genesis.  This morning, the news broke of upcoming reissues from Phil Collins.  Earlier this year, reissues arrived from Mike Rutherford and Anthony Phillips, and Steve Hackett released his latest solo album.  (A reissue of the 1986 album by Hackett's band GTR is on the way, and a box set of Hackett's Charisma recordings is due later this year, too.)  All has been fairly quiet on the Peter Gabriel front, but even Gabriel has some vinyl remasters on the

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Classic Rock, Classical/Opera, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Genesis, Tony Banks

Sweet Touch of Love: Raven Collects Three Albums From Allen Toussaint

September 1, 2015 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

Allen Toussaint The Real Thing

Of all the great names in the annals of R&B history, there is only one Allen Toussaint.  A pianist, singer, songwriter, producer, arranger, and all-around renaissance man, the Louisiana native is responsible - in one capacity or another - for some of the most memorable songs and recordings in the modern pop and soul canon: "Working in the Coal Mine," "Southern Nights," "Mother-in-Law," "Lady Marmalade" and "Yes We Can Can" among them.  Though those hits for Lee Dorsey, Glen Campbell, Ernie

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: R&B/Soul Tags: Allen Toussaint

It's "Happy Lovin' Time": Ace Collects Rare Sunshine Pop and More

August 31, 2015 By Joe Marchese 3 Comments

Happy Lovin Time

Ace Records has previously mined the eclectic catalogue of producer-impresario Gary S. Paxton, most notably on Hollywood Maverick: The Gary S. Paxton Story.  That 2006 volume featured Paxton's work with artists including The Hollywood Argyles ("Alley Oop"), Paul Revere and the Raiders ("Midnight Ride") and Bobby "Boris" Pickett ("The Monster Mash").  Recently, Ace has returned to the archives of Paxton's Garpax production company with the delicious Happy Lovin' Time: Sunshine Pop from the Garpax

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Categories: Reviews Formats: CD, Digital Download Genre: Pop Tags: Curt Boettcher, Gary S. Paxton, The Four Freshmen, Various Artists

WE HAVE OUR WINNERS: NICOLETTE LARSON "LOTTA LOVE" GIVEAWAY!

August 30, 2015 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Very Best of Nicolette

CONGRATULATIONS! The following 10 entrants have won a copy of Varese Vintage's brand-new Lotta Love: The Very Best of Nicolette Larson on CD!  If you entered our contest via Facebook and your name is on the list below, please drop us a line at theseconddisc-at-gmail-dot-com or a Private Message on Facebook with your name and mailing address!  If you entered via email, you don't have to do anything - your CD will be in the mail soon! Watch this space soon for more exciting

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Categories: Giveaways! Formats: CD Genre: Pop Tags: Nicolette Larson

Release Round-Up: Week of August 28

August 28, 2015 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

Faces You Can Make Me Dance

Welcome to New Release Friday and this week's Release Round-Up! Faces, You Can Make Me Dance, Sing or Anything (1970-1975) (Rhino) CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. Vinyl: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. This long-awaited 5-CD box set includes Faces' First Step (1970), Long Player (1971), A Nod Is as Good as a Wink...to a Blind Horse (1971), and Ooh La La (1973), and adds never-before-released bonus tracks to each album.  The set is topped off with a bonus disc containing non-LP selections.

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: CD, Digital Download, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Country, Disco/Dance, Pop, R&B/Soul Tags: Ashford and Simpson, Conway Twitty, Faces, Gloria Gaynor, Jimi Hendrix, Lee Hazlewood, Margo Smith, Peter Frampton, Rod Stewart, The Kitchen Cinq, Van Morrison

Soul Manifesto: 1964-1970

August 26, 2015 By

Otis Soul Manifesto

This 12-CD box set includes the eight live and studio albums recorded by Stax superstar Otis Redding between 1964 and 1967 as well as four posthumously-released albums.  The box contains the following albums in their original track listings: Otis Redding, Soul Manifesto 1964-1970 (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.) Pain In My Heart (1964) The Great Otis Redding Sings Soul Ballads (1965) Otis Blue: Otis Redding Sings Soul (1965) The Soul Album (1966) Complete & Unbelievable: The Otis

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

Play This Intimately (As If Among Friends)

August 26, 2015 By

Pugwash Play This Intimately

TSD favorites Pugwash return with a new studio album on Omnivore Recordings to follow up last year's anthology A Rose in a Garden of Weeds!  If you're looking for ELO-style pop (and beyond!), look no further than Play This Intimately (As If Among Friends)  - which features guest appearances from some of Pugwash's famous friends including Ray Davies, Neil Hannon, Andy Partridge, and (lending a shout) Jeff Lynne!

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

Esoteric Reissues, Expands All Four Albums From Progressive Art-Rockers Audience

August 26, 2015 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Audience House on the Hill

If Cherry Red's Esoteric Recordings imprint has anything to say about it, the music of Audience will soon discover a new audience!  Esoteric has recently reissued all four of the British band's studio albums, originally released on the Polydor and Charisma labels between 1969 and 1972. Audience, a.k.a. Howard Werth (acoustic guitar/vocals), Keith Gemmell (flute/tenor sax/clarinet), Trevor Williams (bass) and Tony Connor (drums) formed out of the ashes of the band The Lloyd Alexander Real

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Classic Rock Tags: Audience

Loaded: Re-Loaded 45th Anniversary Edition

August 25, 2015 By

Velvet Underground Loaded

The Velvet Underground's 1970 album - and Lou Reed's swansong with the band - gets the deluxe expanded treatment from Rhino in this new box set featuring the original stereo and mono albums plus a wealth of bonus material, two live concerts and a DVD featuring high resolution stereo mixes plus the first-ever surround mix of the album!  The remastered stereo Loaded album will also be available as a stand-alone CD on October 30.

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Formats: Box Sets, CD, DVD Genre: Classic Rock

Jagged Little Pill: Collector's Edition

August 25, 2015 By

Alanis Jagged 4 CD Box

Rhino revisits Alanis Morissette's Jagged Little Pill in a new 4-CD box set as well as a 2-CD highlights edition. This new four-disc Jagged Little Pill: Collector's Edition includes remastered audio of the original album plus an entire disc of 10 unreleased demos from the era handpicked by Morissette from her archives. Also included is a previously unreleased concert from 1995 as well as 2005's Jagged Little Pill Acoustic.  The 2-CD version has the remastered original album plus the demo disc.

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Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download Genre: Pop

Introducing Darlene Love

August 25, 2015 By

Introducing Darlene Love

Yes, Little Steven Van Zandt is "introducing" one of the greatest voices of our time on this all-new album!  The legendary Ms. Love is out front on songs penned by Bruce Springsteen, Elvis Costello, Jimmy Webb, Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil, Linda Perry, and Little Steven himself - plus a revival of Jeff Barry, Ellie Greenwich and Phil Spector's masterpiece "River Deep - Mountain High."

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Formats: CD, Digital Download, Vinyl Genre: Pop

A Little Bit Is Better Than Nada - Prime Cuts 1990-1996

August 25, 2015 By

Texas Tornados Prime Cuts

Real Gone digs into The Texas Tornados' output with this 2-CD, 39-track set that includes prime cuts from all of their albums - the Spanish and English versions of their self-titled debut, plus Zone of Our Own, Hangin' On by a Thread and 4 Aces - together with rarities and six unreleased sides including four instrumentals and a Miller Lite beer spot!

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Formats: CD Genre: Everything Else

An American Treasure

August 25, 2015 By

Eydie An American Treasure

This 3-CD, 34-song set previously available as a website exclusive comes to general retail.  An American Treasure has been compiled by Steve Lawrence in tribute to his late wife Eydie Gorme.  The first disc, "The Hits," presents Eydie's a number of Eydie's most famous recordings, including "Blame It on the Bossa Nova," "If He Walked into My Life," and "What Did I Have That I Don't Have" while Disc Two, "Steve's Favorites," offers the songs he most loved hearing Eydie sing, like "Don't Go to

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Formats: CD Genre: Popular Standards/Vocal

BREAKING! Van Morrison Goes To Legacy Recordings, Deluxe Editions and Digital Releases Planned

August 25, 2015 By Joe Marchese 16 Comments

Essential Van Morrison

The music of Van Morrison is returning to CD - and about to make a splash on digital platforms, as well.  Rolling Stone broke the news today that Sony Music's Legacy Recordings has recently acquired the rights to 50 albums, videos and compilations from the venerable Northern Irish troubadour.  The vast majority of Morrison's albums have been out-of-print on CD since the plug was abruptly pulled on a U.K. series of remastered and expanded editions.  Legacy's very welcome campaign kicks off this

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download Genre: Classic Rock, Jazz, Pop, R&B/Soul Tags: Van Morrison

You Oughta Know: Rhino Celebrates 20th Anniversary of Alanis Morissette's "Jagged Little Pill" with 4-CD Box

August 25, 2015 By Randy Fairman 5 Comments

Alanis Jagged 4 CD Box

This October, Rhino is celebrating one of the biggest albums of the 1990s: Alanis Morissette's Jagged Little Pill.  To commemorate the album's 20th anniversary, a newly remastered 4-CD Collector's Edition and 2-CD Deluxe edition will be released on October 30. Alanis Morissette's first two albums did not indicate the direction her music would take for her biggest smash record.  Released on MCA in her native Canada, 1991's Alanis and 1992's Now is the Time had critics comparing her to Debbie

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download Genre: Pop Tags: Alanis Morissette

EXCLUSIVE! It's Yesterday Once More: Carpenters "Complete Singles" Released For Public Television

August 24, 2015 By Joe Marchese 28 Comments

Carpenters Complete Singles cover low res reference

On November 5, 1969, the very first single by Carpenters was released on A&M Records.  "Ticket to Ride" b/w "Your Wonderful Parade" announced the fresh talents of Richard Carpenter, 23, and Karen Carpenter, 19.  The dramatically reinterpreted Beatles song introduced radio to Karen's richly intimate voice, and the bitingly ironic flipside heralded the songwriting team of Richard Carpenter and John Bettis  - while both sides revealed Richard's prodigious gifts for arrangement

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Pop Tags: Carpenters

Midnight McCartney

August 22, 2015 By

Midnight McCartney

Paul McCartney himself suggested that the great jazz guitarist and vocalist John Pizzarelli tackle his songbook. Pizzarelli took Macca up on the notion, bringing along his wife Jessica Molaskey, dad Bucky PIzzarelli and other esteemed talents to craft this 12-track set featuring jazz reinterpretations of "Silly Love Songs," "My Love," "No More Lonely Nights," "Let 'Em In," "Maybe I'm Amazed" and many more solo McCartney and Wings songs.

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Formats: CD, Digital Download Genre: Jazz

Release Round-Up: Week of August 21

August 21, 2015 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

Isley Brothers T Neck and RCA Masters

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up, packed with box sets, reissues, special collections, and more! The Isley Brothers, The RCA Victor and T-Neck Album Masters (Legacy) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.) Legacy has boxed up 23 discs of The Isley Brothers - featuring every one of the group's RCA and T-Neck albums released between 1959 and 1983, including one previously unreleased album and a total of 84 previously unissued or new-to-CD bonus tracks!  Every track has been newly-remastered

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, SACD Genre: Classic Rock, Everything Else, Jazz, Pop, R&B/Soul, Soundtracks Tags: Belinda Carlisle, Jeff Beck, Linda Ronstadt, Nicolette Larson, Paul Young, Peggy Lee, Singers and Players, Teddy Pendergrass, The Isley Brothers, The Mahavishnu Orchestra, The Sherman Brothers, Various Artists

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