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Way Out West: The Lost Transcriptions for Tiffany Music 1946-1947 - Volume Two

March 18, 2021 By

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Real Gone unveils another 50 previously unreleased radio transcriptions from "King of Western Swing" Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys on this deluxe 2-CD set.  The oversized booklet features liner notes from James Austin (Rhino, Rockbeat Records) encompassing testimonials from folks like ZZ Top's Billy F Gibbons, Asleep at the Wheel's Ray Benson, and singer-songwriter Chris Isaak.  All 50 recordings have been restored and remastered by Bob Fisher.

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In The Long Run: Eagles Announce Vinyl Reissues of "Live," "Long Road Out of Eden," and "Millennium Concert"

March 18, 2021 By Sam Stone 7 Comments

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Few captured the spirit of the '70s like California's own Eagles, whose multiplatinum double-album live document Eagles Live joins the 2007 two-disc comeback album Long Road Out of Eden and the hard-to-find release The Millennium Concert in a batch of new, 180-gram vinyl reissues due April 2. 1980's Eagles Live remains a beloved document of two of the band's tours, recorded in California in 1976 and 1980.  The 7x Platinum-certified collection featured then-recent tracks "Heartache Tonight"

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Categories: News Formats: Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock Tags: Eagles

Back to the Garden: Rhino Expands Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young's "Déjà Vu" In New Box Set

March 17, 2021 By Joe Marchese 29 Comments

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Crosby, Stills, and Nash's eponymous debut was one of the most auspicious and omnipresent records of 1969, a remarkable and harmony-rich affair featuring such era-defining material as "Suite: Judy Blue Eyes," "Marrakesh Express," "Guinnevere," "Wooden Ships," "Long Time Gone," and "Helplessly Hoping."  CSN blended folk, country, jazz, rock, and a dash of pop into an often-imitated but never-duplicated sound.  In the U.S. alone, the album reached No. 6 on the Billboard Top LPs chart and the top

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Classic Rock Tags: Crosby Stills Nash and Young, David Crosby, Graham Nash, Joni Mitchell, Neil Young, Stephen Stills

The Weekend Stream: March 13, 2021

March 13, 2021 By The Second Disc Leave a Comment

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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! Watch this: not a whole

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Categories: Features, The Weekend Stream Formats: Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Classic Rock, Rock Tags: John Lennon, Queen

Listen to the Band: Andrew Sandoval Reveals "The Monkees: The Day-by-Day Story" In June

March 11, 2021 By Joe Marchese 4 Comments

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Since its publication in 2005, author Andrew Sandoval's The Monkees: The Day-by-Day Story has been an indispensable reference tool for fans of Davy, Micky, Peter, and Michael - not to mention one helluva read.  But as the years passed, the guide to all things Monkees went out of print, with secondhand copies fetching in the three-figure range.  Happily, Sandoval has returned to the book for a completely new edition due this June.  We were thrilled to have the chance to speak with the author

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Categories: Interviews, News Formats: Books Genre: Pop Tags: Davy Jones, Michael Nesmith, Micky Dolenz, Peter Tork, The Monkees

Reach for the Secret: Pink Floyd's "Live At Knebworth 1990" Performance Sees Stand-alone Release on CD, Vinyl, Digital

March 10, 2021 By Sam Stone 3 Comments

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Last year, Pink Floyd released a re-edited version of Delicate Sound of Thunder, the first breakout release from the expansive box set The Later Years: 1987-2019. The celebration of the David Gilmour-led lineup continues on April 30 with Live at Knebworth 1990, which will be released on CD, 2-LP, and through digital platforms wherever music is enjoyed. The Knebworth Festival took place June 30, 1990 with a bill that featured Paul McCartney, Cliff Richard, Eric Clapton, Dire Straits, Elton

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock Tags: Pink Floyd

Second Chance: Cherry Red, Lemon Collect Bon Scott's Fraternity on "Seasons of Change: The Complete Recordings 1970-1974"

March 10, 2021 By Joe Marchese 2 Comments

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Before achieving international fame as the high-powered vocalist of AC/DC, Bon Scott earned his bona fides in his native Australia - first with The Valentines and then with Fraternity.  A few years back, Cherry Red's RPM imprint traced Scott's journey with the pop-oriented Valentines.  Now, the Lemon imprint has collected his work with Fraternity in a new 3-CD box set Season of Change: The Complete Recordings 1970-1974 which includes an entire disc of never-before-released

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Classic Rock Tags: Bon Scott, Fraternity

Different Drum: The Lost RCA Victor Recordings

March 9, 2021 By

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For our first release of 2021, Second Disc Records and Real Gone Music take a deep dive into the archives for Michael Nesmith's Different Drum: The Lost RCA Victor Recordings.  This compendium features 22 tracks on CD drawn from the RCA Victor vaults, every one of which is previously unreleased in any physical format.  These songs were originally released to digital platforms in 2018 as bonus tracks to Nesmith's RCA six albums - solo and with The First and Second National Bands.  Over the course

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Formats: CD Genre: Classic Rock, Country, Pop

Second Disc Records, Real Gone Music Premiere Michael Nesmith's "Different Drum: The Lost RCA Victor Recordings" on CD in April

March 9, 2021 By The Second Disc 28 Comments

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The Second Disc is proud to announce the first Second Disc Records/Real Gone Music release of 2021 - and it's one that's been years in the making! Michael Nesmith has always travelled to the beat of a "Different Drum"-whether as the writer of that classic hit for Linda Ronstadt and The Stone Poneys, the wool hat-clad member of The Monkees, or one of the earliest progenitors of the country-rock genre.  In recent years, Nesmith has penned the critically acclaimed autobiography Infinite Tuesday,

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Classic Rock, Country, Pop Tags: Michael Nesmith, The Monkees

People All Over the World, Join Hands: United Souls Announces First Philadelphia International Records Albums Box Set, "Get On Board the Love Train"

March 8, 2021 By Joe Marchese 14 Comments

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Back in late January, we shared news of Philadelphia International Records' 50th anniversary plans.  The centerpiece of the campaign announced by Sony Music's Legacy Recordings was a series of CD box sets presenting every PIR album in chronological order.  Now, the first of those box sets is available for pre-order with a release date of May 28. Get On Board the Soul Train: The Sound of Philadelphia International Records Vol. 1 is a product of the U.K.-based United Souls, an imprint of

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Vinyl Genre: R&B/Soul Tags: Billy Paul, Dick Jensen, Harold Melvin and The Blue Notes, Kenny Gamble, Leon Huff, MFSB, The Intruders, The O'Jays, Thom Bell

Now and Then

March 6, 2021 By

Paul Stanleys Soul Station Now and Then

KISS' Paul Stanley debuts his new side group Soul Station with Now and Then, a collection of five original songs and nine classic R&B covers - mainly of Motown ("Baby, I Need Your Loving," "Ooo Baby Baby," "Just My Imagination (Running Away with Me)" and Philly soul ("Could It Be I'm Falling in Love," "La-La Means I Love You," "You Are Everything") with dashes of Memphis ("Let's Stay Together") and Chicago ("O-o-h Child") soul, too.  Available on CD, LP, and digital formats.

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

John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band: The Ultimate Collection

March 6, 2021 By

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6CD/2BD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 1CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada The 6-CD/2-BD John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band: The Ultimate Collection contains everything recorded by John and Yoko during the sessions for John's 1970 Plastic Ono Band LP, totaling 159 tracks on CD and 131 on Blu-ray, or 11 hours of music, all completely remixed from the original multitracks.  (The

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Formats: Blu-Ray, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock

The United States vs. Billie Holiday: Music from the Motion Picture

March 6, 2021 By

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Andra Day stars in Lee Daniels' biopic about the late, great Billie Holiday, streaming on Hulu.  The soundtrack features Day's renditions of such Holiday signature songs as "Strange Fruit," "God Bless the Child," "Lover Man," and "T'Aint Nobody's Bizness If I Do," as well as the Golden Globe-nominated original song "Tigress and Tweed."  Available on CD as well as download/streaming.

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Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Jazz, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Soundtracks

The Weekend Stream: March 6, 2021

March 6, 2021 By The Second Disc 2 Comments

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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! Madonna, Like a Prayer

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Categories: Features, The Weekend Stream Formats: Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Pop, R&B/Soul Tags: Bruno Mars, Madonna, Nick Jonas

Smoke from the Chimney

March 4, 2021 By

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Easy Eye Sound premieres a new album of nine never-before-released songs from the late Tony Joe White, completed and produced by The Black Keys' Dan Auerbach (also Easy Eye's founder) with a host of talented musicians including keyboardist Bobby Wood of The Memphis Boys, Nashville pedal steel titan Paul Franklin, and Grammy-winning fiddler Stuart Duncan, as well as younger players such as guitar wunderkind Marcus King.  Available on CD, LP, and digital services.

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

Rearrange the Art: Craft Recordings Reissues Sarah Jarosz's "Build Me Up From Bones," Vinyl Due on April 9

March 2, 2021 By Sam Stone Leave a Comment

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Craft Recordings continues its exploration of roots music with a new vinyl release from one of folk's brightest.  On April 9, Sarah Jarosz's 2013 acclaimed Build Me Up From Bones will hit shelves and online storefronts in a deluxe vinyl package.  Her web store will also stock an exclusive red vinyl edition. Just five years after singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist Jarosz signed to the Sugar Hill Records label, the phenom of the Americana scene released her most fully-realized

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Categories: News Formats: Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Country, Folk Tags: Sarah Jarosz

Good with the Soul: "California Music Presents Add Some Music" Features Beach Boys, Friends, Family

March 1, 2021 By Joe Marchese 5 Comments

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"Add Some Music to Your Day," The Beach Boys' paean to the power of music, anchored the group's 1970 album Sunflower.   The song's imagery conjures music from the seemingly mundane to the undeniably transcendent, expressing the belief that "the world could come together as one/If everybody under the sun" would add some music to their day.  Now, the gentle, uplifting Brian Wilson-Mike Love-Joe Knott anthem is anchoring a new album for a very worthy cause. On April 23, Omnivore Recordings will

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Pop Tags: Al Jardine, Bruce Johnston, California Music, David Marks, Mike Love

The Weekend Stream: February 27, 2021

February 27, 2021 By The Second Disc 6 Comments

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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! Cheap Trick, Out to Get

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Categories: Features, The Weekend Stream Formats: Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Cheap Trick, Donny Hathaway, Ne-Yo, The Lennon Sisters

All the Girls

February 26, 2021 By

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The Broadway community was devastated late in 2020 by the death of the luminous Rebecca Luker (Mary Poppins, The Sound of Music, Show Boat) at the age of 59 after a courageous battle with ALS.  PS Classics now delivers a gift to fans of the late artist.  All the Girls is based on the cabaret show by Luker and her friend Sally Wilfert (The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Assassins).  Exploring their close bond and the nature of female friendship, the album features their renditions of a wide variety of

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

The Who Sell Out [Various Formats]

February 26, 2021 By

The Who Sell Out

5-CD/2x7" box set: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Your Local Record Shop 2-CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Your Local Record Shop 2-LP (stereo): Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Your Local Record Shop 2-LP (mono): The Who Online Shop​ The Who revisit 1967's Sell Out in a variety of editions including a massive 5-CD/2x7" box set featuring the original mono and stereo album mixes, bonus tracks in mono and stereo, demos, alternates and outtakes, and a

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

I Can See For Miles: The Who Announce Rarities-Filled Deluxe Reissue of "The Who Sell Out" Due April 23

February 26, 2021 By Sam Stone 14 Comments

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If you're troubled and you can't relax, close your eyes and think on this... So begins "Armenia City in the Sky," the first track on The Who Sell Out.  Originally released in December 1967, the album reflects not only the hippie counterculture, but also the maturing of rock music as an art form.  Here, The Who go between psych-rock, pop, childlike ditties, jazzy ballads, and even a rock opera - not to mention the breakthrough hit "I Can See For Miles".  It's tied together (rather loosely)

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop Tags: The Who

Bad Side of the Moon: Cherry Red, Esoteric Reissue Toe Fat's Complete Rare Earth/EMI Recordings

February 25, 2021 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

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Motown's Rare Earth imprint intended to bring the sound of rock to the home of The Supremes, The Miracles, Martha and The Vandellas, The Temptations, and Four Tops.  The imprint was named after a white rock band from Detroit and its artists were both home-grown and licensed from other parties.  In the latter category was Toe Fat, a U.K. psych-rock band built around the talents of Cliff Bennett, formerly of the beat group Cliff Bennett and The Rebel Rousers.  Both of Toe Fat's albums - issued on

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Categories: News, Reviews Formats: CD Genre: Classic Rock Tags: Bee Gees, Elton John, Jethro Tull, Toe Fat, Uriah Heep

The Poet II

February 22, 2021 By

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ABKCO reissues Bobby Womack's The Poet II, the 1984 sequel to his best-selling 1981 album, on CD, 180-gram vinyl, and digital formats.  The Poet II features three duets with Patti LaBelle including the top 5 R&B hit "Love Has Finally Come at Last."  The album has been remastered from the original tapes.

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

The Poet

February 22, 2021 By

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ABKCO reissues Bobby Womack' s chart-topping 1981 "comeback" album featuring the hit single "If You Think You're Lonely Now" (a sample of which was the basis of Mariah Carey's subsequent hit "We Belong Together").  Remastered from the original tapes and available on CD, 180-gram LP, and digital formats.

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The Show Time Series EP Collection: Volume One

February 22, 2021 By

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Stage Door launches a three-volume series collecting RCA Victor's 1953 Show Time EPs.  Each four-song EP celebrated a different classic musical with a starry cast (often featuring singers who had starred onstage in the show represented).  The shows included on the first volume are Oklahoma! (Rodgers and Hammerstein); Carousel (Rodgers and Hammerstein); Show Boat (Kern and Hammerstein); The Cat and The Fiddle (Kern and Harbach); Babes in Arms (Rodgers and Hart); and Jumbo (Rodgers and Hart). 

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Formats: CD Genre: Cast Recordings

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