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Edge of the World: Run Out Groove Announces Sam Phillips' "Fan Dance" as Next Release, Voting Open for Next Month's Title

October 16, 2019 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Sam Phillips Fan Dance

Run Out Groove has recently announced its latest limited-edition title. The winner of the last fan vote is singer-songwriter Sam Phillips' Fan Dance, her ninth studio album and first for Nonesuch Records. For its first worldwide release on vinyl, Fan Dance has been freshly remastered. It will be issued on 180-gram vinyl in a deluxe tip-on jacket with a booklet, and the lacquers will be cut at Sam Phillips Recording Studio (the other, Sun Records Sam Phillips, that is). It will be pressed and

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Categories: News Formats: Vinyl Genre: Pop Tags: Sam Phillips

The Soft Parade: 50th Anniversary Deluxe Edition

October 16, 2019 By

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3CD/1LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 1CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada The Soft Parade is turning 50 with a new box set limited to 15,000 individually numbered copies, including the original studio album - and the non-LP B-side of "Wishful Sinful," "Who Scared You" on CD - as newly remastered by the band's longtime collaborator, Bruce Botnick on CD and 180-gram vinyl plus new liner notes by rock journalist David Fricke. 15 rarities including 13 previously

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

Review: Lee Hazlewood, "400 Miles from L.A.: 1955-56"

October 16, 2019 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Lee Hazlewood 400 Miles from LA

400 Miles from L.A.: Phoenix, Arizona was the birthplace of Lee Hazlewood's professional career. The future writer of "These Boots Are Made for Walkin'" was well-acquainted with the Greyhound bus between Phoenix and Los Angeles, making frequent trips in the hopes of selling his songs. Though he was a successful DJ in Phoenix, Hazlewood wanted more, and songwriting seemed to be his means of attaining it. Lee wrote his first songs, it's believed, in 1953; the following year, his first songs

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Categories: Reviews Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Pop Tags: Lee Hazlewood

From Them To You: The Beatles To Release New Vinyl Singles Box

October 16, 2019 By The Second Disc 3 Comments

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It turns out the remixed, expanded Abbey Road isn't the only piece of The Beatles' catalogue getting reissued for the holidays. The group just announced the release of a box set gathering the band's singles on vinyl, to be released November 22. The Singles Collection includes original singles and B-sides on 22 pieces of vinyl, plus a newly created 23rd single featuring "Free As a Bird" and "Real Love," both single A-sides released to promote the multi-volume Anthology project in 1995 and

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, Rock Tags: George Harrison, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, The Beatles

We've Known Each Other For So Long: Rick Astley Preps Hits Collection

October 15, 2019 By The Second Disc Leave a Comment

Rick Astley Best of Me

With all the surprise of a Rickroll, British singer Rick Astley went from pop star to Internet meme to solid entertainer over the past three decades. This fall, he's got a new compilation celebrating that evolution. The Best Of Me, to be released October 25, collects his biggest international hit singles and beloved cuts throughout his career, including tracks from 50 (2016) and Beautiful Life (2018), which marked a return to original music after 15 years. 50 debuted atop the U.K. albums

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Pop Tags: Rick Astley

Review: James Taylor, "The Warner Bros. Albums 1970-1976"

October 15, 2019 By Joe Marchese 4 Comments

James Taylor The Warner Bros. Albums

Over six years at Warner Bros. Records, James Taylor laid the groundwork for a career that is now in its sixth decade. The Massachusetts native's records were key exponents of the early Laurel Canyon sound, not to mention the entire confessional "singer-songwriter" movement that today is synonymous with the 1970s. The six albums he released at Warner Bros. were collected over the summer in one essential CD or vinyl LP box set, The Warner Bros. Albums 1970-1976, that's perfect for the impending

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Categories: Reviews Formats: Box Sets, CD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop Tags: James Taylor

What's The 411? Mary J. Blige's Early Years Anthologized On 'HERstory'

October 15, 2019 By The Second Disc Leave a Comment

HERstory box

Long established as one of the premiere female hip-hop/R&B artists of her generation, Mary J. Blige is telling her story - the one that earned her the title of Queen of Hip-Hop Soul - through HERstory, Vol. 1, a new multi-format compilation coming this December. Born in The Bronx and raised in both Savannah, Georgia and the projects of Yonkers, New York, Mary J. Blige's three-decade-plus career has been supported by music that balances street sounds with feminine soul and the pen of a

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Pop, R&B/Soul, Rap/Hip-Hop Tags: Jay-Z, LL Cool J, Mary J. Blige, P. Diddy, The Notorious B.I.G.

Review: Frank Sinatra, "My Way: 50th Anniversary Edition" and "Sings Alan and Marilyn Bergman"

October 14, 2019 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Frank Sinatra My Way

The album was entitled My Way for the song by Paul Anka, Claude Francois, Gilles Thibault, and Jacques Revaux, but truth to tell, the moniker would have been fitting even without that famous anthem. For the ten songs on Frank Sinatra's 1969 Reprise LP were indisputably sung as only one man could: swing - his way, pop - his way, rhythm and blues - his way. Capitol Records, Frank Sinatra Enterprises, and UMe have reissued My Way in a 50th anniversary expanded edition celebrating both the song and

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Categories: Reviews Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Popular Standards/Vocal Tags: Alan and Marilyn Bergman, Frank Sinatra

The Shape Returns: Last Year's 'Halloween' Score To Be Expanded

October 14, 2019 By The Second Disc Leave a Comment

Halloween 2018 expanded

Michael Myers is coming home again, thanks to an expanded edition of the soundtrack to last year's Halloween sequel. John Carpenter helped kickstart the slasher genre with this low-budget classic he co-wrote and directed in 1978. Jamie Lee Curtis (daughter of Tony Curtis and Janet Leigh, making her film debut) starred as Laurie Strode, a babysitter in Haddonfield, Illinois who is targeted by Myers ("The Shape"), a masked killer who murdered his sister 15 years before. Donald Pleasance

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Vinyl Genre: Soundtracks Tags: John Carpenter

Story To Story, Building To Building: INXS Remix 'Live Baby Live' For New Theatrical Reissue

October 14, 2019 By The Second Disc Leave a Comment

INXS Live Baby Live LP

When producer Giles Martin signed on as INXS' executive music director in 2018 - not long after a 30th anniversary edition of Kick was issued - it was not immediately clear what that entailed. The latest fruits of the partnership have just been unveiled - but, frustratingly, don't mean as much for the Australian band's American fans. Next month, INXS will release a completely restored version of Live Baby Live, their 1991 concert film captured on their Summer XS date at London's Wembley

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Pop, Rock Tags: INXS

Peaches En Regalia: Frank Zappa's "Hot Rats" Turns 50, Gets Expanded to Six CDs

October 14, 2019 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

Hot Rats Sessions

If an upcoming box set is any indication, Zappa Records is on fire - as Frank Zappa's 1969 solo album Hot Rats is about to get a lot hotter. On December 20, the label, in association with UMe, will issue The Hot Rats Sessions, a 6CD box set exploring that seminal album from every angle. The mostly-instrumental LP came on the heels of the breakup of the original Mothers of Invention, making it clear that Zappa was a force with which to be reckoned as a composer. Described by the artist as "a

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Jazz Tags: Frank Zappa

Record Store Day Black Friday 2019's Best Of The Rest

October 11, 2019 By Sam Stone Leave a Comment

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The major labels aren't the only ones who'll be part of Record Store Day Black Friday this year. A number of impressive indies (and other major labels with notable catalog friendly material) have announced exciting additions to the RSDBF slate. What's more, we've got coverage of some exciting new music from artists as diverse as Paul McCartney, Tank and the Bangas, Madonna, Bruce Springsteen, and Norah Jones! First up... Chuck Berry, Chuck Berry In London (Elemental) By 1965, the British

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Categories: News Formats: Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Country, Everything Else, Holiday, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Bruce Springsteen, Cheap Trick, Chuck Berry, Daryl Hall and John Oates, Devo, Hank Williams, Huey Lewis and The News, Ian and Sylvia, John Williams, Joni Mitchell, Katy Perry, Nick Lowe, Norah Jones, Patsy Cline, Paul McCartney, Paul Williams, Pretenders, Richard Thompson, Squeeze, Steppenwolf, Tank and the Bangas, The Kinks, Thomas Dolby, Todd Rundgren

Soundtrack Watch: Varese's Latest CD Club Batch Includes Goldsmith, 'Trek' and 'Cogburn'

October 11, 2019 By The Second Disc Leave a Comment

Air Force One deluxe

Last month, Varese Sarabande unveiled a killer trifecta of CD Club titles that featured their most requested expansion, a repress of one of their most beloved reissues of the decade, and the premiere of a classic Western score. The CD Club began some 30 years ago, but since its original soundtrack release in 1997, fans have yearned for a more complete presentation of Jerry Goldsmith's score to Air Force One. The hit action film stars Harrison Ford as an American president fighting a band of

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Soundtracks Tags: Alexander Courage, Jerry Goldsmith, Laurence Rosenthal, Michael Giacchino

Release Round-Up: Week of October 11

October 11, 2019 By The Second Disc 1 Comment

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Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! Steve Miller Band, Welcome to the Vault (Sailor/Capitol/UMe) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Welcome To The Vault is the first-ever Steve Miller Band rarities collection.  The 3CD/DVD box set features 52 songs that span Miller's career, including 38 previously unreleased recordings and 5 never-before-heard songs.  With demos, rehearsal takes, newly unearthed compositions, classic concert recordings, and more, Miller has dived into

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Categories: News Formats: Blu-Ray, Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, DVD, Vinyl Genre: Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Holiday, Jazz, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, Rock Tags: Booker T. and the MG's, Chicago, David Bowie, Frank Sinatra, Freddie Mercury, The Steve Miller Band

COMING SOON! Second Disc Records, Real Gone Music Revisit "The Great Songs of Christmas," Eugene Ormandy Classics

October 10, 2019 By The Second Disc 11 Comments

Great Songs of Christmas

Last week, Second Disc Records and Real Gone Music announced our first release of the Christmas season: Chet Atkins' The Complete RCA Victor and Columbia Christmas Recordings, due on November 8. Today, we're excited to announce two more titles coming your way this holiday season! Between 1961 and 1970, households across America delighted in an annual series of Christmas releases available exclusively through Goodyear locations. 900,000 copies of the first volume of The Great Songs of

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Classical/Opera, Holiday, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal Tags: Andre Kostelanetz, Andre Previn, Eugene Ormandy, Gary Puckett, Johnny Mathis, Mahalia Jackson, Mark Lindsay, Percy Faith, Ray Conniff, Robert Goulet, Various Artists

Word On A Wing: David Bowie's "VH1 Storytellers" Debuts on Vinyl

October 10, 2019 By Sam Stone Leave a Comment

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Twenty years ago, David Bowie appeared on the stripped-down TV series VH1 Storytellers to play a career-spanning set and tell the tales behind his songs.  As DavidBowie.com reported, the musician delved deep into his back catalog "to perform tracks such as 'Can't Help Thinking About Me' for the first time in 33 years, Aladdin Sane's 'Drive-In Saturday' which he had not performed since 1974 and 'Word On A Wing' which received its first outing in 23 years." The broadcast gained legendary status

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Hello, Carter: Cherry Red Expands Roy Budd's "Get Carter" in 3-CD Set

October 10, 2019 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Get Carter OST

The late composer Roy Budd (1947-1993) excelled in a variety of genres, from jazz to opera to motion picture soundtracks. Yet, among his many triumphs, one still stands out: his score to 1971's Get Carter. Director Mike Hodges' crime thriller starring Michael Caine and Britt Ekland proved controversial at the time of its release for its gritty depiction of violence and amorality. Looking back, it seems a forerunner of today's cinema; see no further than the current No. 1 movie in the United

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Jazz, Soundtracks Tags: Roy Budd

UPDATE: Handwritten Lyrics, Rare Artwork Collected in Joni Mitchell's "Morning Glory On the Vine: Early Songs and Drawings," Signed Edition Due October 22

October 9, 2019 By Sam Stone 3 Comments

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UPDATE: Joni Mitchell has signed 2,000 deluxe editions of her new book. Find out all the details on the standard and deluxe versions below! Music icon Joni Mitchell has been in the news a lot lately. In November, she organized and attended the Joni 75 birthday tribute concerts in her honor, which were turned into a film. There was also the 8-LP reissue of the Love Has Many Faces collection, Norman Seeff's photo book, the blue vinyl reissue of Blue, not to mention the release of Joni 75: A

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Categories: News Formats: Books Tags: Joni Mitchell

Heaven Is: Belinda Carlisle's "Runaway Horses" Turns 30, Gets Deluxe Edition; "Gold" Anthology Also Released

October 8, 2019 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Belinda Carlisle Runaway Horses 30th

Thirty years ago, Belinda Carlisle released her third LP. Runaway Horses came on the heels of two successful albums: her 1986 IRS Records debut, Belinda (featuring the hit "Mad About You"), and 1987's Heaven on Earth (boasting the smash "Heaven Is a Place on Earth" as well as "I Get Weak" and "Circle in the Sand"). Runaway Horses completed the hat trick for the Go-Go-gone-solo when it reached the top five in the United Kingdom. Now, the U.K.'s Demon Music Group has revisited the album in a

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Categories: News, Reviews Formats: Box Sets, CD, Vinyl Genre: Pop Tags: Belinda Carlisle

Heaven in Here: Rare Live Tracks From Bowie's Tin Machine Collected on Digital Album

October 7, 2019 By Sam Stone Leave a Comment

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We're continuing our periodic look at digital-only titles we might otherwise have missed with a peek at a previously unreleased concert from David Bowie and Tin Machine! Thirty years ago, the ever-mercurial David Bowie embarked on a new phase of his career with his new band Tin Machine. After several commercial-leaning albums in the earlier part of the decade, Bowie joined up with the then-unknown guitarist Reeves Gabrels and former Todd Rundgren associates Tony and Hunt Sales to form Tin

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Grand Ennui: 7a Premieres Michael Nesmith and Red Rhodes' 1973 California Concert

October 7, 2019 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Michael Nesmith Cosmic Partners CD

Following last year's acclaimed Live at the Troubadour, 7a Records has unveiled a new live title from another period in the storied career of Michael Nesmith. Cosmic Partners - The McCabe's Tapes, due on November 15 in CD and LP formats, spotlights the artist with his longtime musical soul brother Red Rhodes and a small group of musicians. It was recorded on August 18, 1973 at McCabe's Guitar Shop in Santa Monica, California. Nesmith hit the road in 1973 for a mini-tour in support of his

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Country, Pop Tags: Michael Nesmith, Red Rhodes

Arthur Or The Decline And Fall Of The British Empire: 50th Anniversary Editon [Various Formats]

October 4, 2019 By

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4CD/4-seven-inch single box: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / The Kinks Official 2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / The Kinks Official 2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / The Kinks Official The Kinks' 1969 concept album continued in the quintessentially British vein of The Kinks Are The Village Green Preservation Society but carved out its own musical identity.  Building on the success of last year's Village Green box set, BMG has a similarly expansive

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

The Band: 50th Anniversary Edition [Various Formats]

October 4, 2019 By

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2-CD/2-LP/Blu-ray/7": Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / The Band Online Shop 2-CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / The Band Online Shop 2-LP black vinyl: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / The Band Online Shop 2-LP Tiger's Eye swirl vinyl: The Band Online Shop Capitol celebrates the 50th anniversary of The Band, a.k.a. The Brown Album, in a variety of deluxe formats including a 2-CD/2-LP/Blu-ray/7" set with new stereo and surround mixes, previously unreleased

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

Winter Walkin': Second Disc Records, Real Gone Music Collect Chet Atkins' "Complete RCA Victor and Columbia Christmas Recordings"

October 4, 2019 By The Second Disc 4 Comments

Chet Atkins Complete RCA and Columbia Christmas

It's for good reason that Chet Atkins remains one of the most revered names not only in country music but in American music itself. A producer, A&R man, songwriter, sometimes-vocalist, and above all, a guitarist who influenced generations that followed him, Atkins defined the sound of the genre with his championing of RCA's lush Nashville Sound. A Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Country Music Hall of Fame inductee and a 14-time Grammy winner (including a Lifetime Achievement Award), Atkins

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Country, Holiday Tags: Chet Atkins

Earwig Music Unearths Trove of Chicago Blues and Soul on "Cadillac Baby's Bea & Baby Records: The Definitive Collection"

October 4, 2019 By Sam Stone Leave a Comment

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Chicago in the '50s was overflowing with skilled bluesmen, vocal groups, gospel singers, not to mention the mom-and-pop labels eager to make a hit off the artists. There are the now-famous labels - Chess, Delmark, and Vee-Jay among them. But the Windy City was so teeming with talent (and entrepreneurial hucksters trying to launch their own careers) that small, independent labels were plentiful. Earwig Music Company celebrates one such label in its ambitious new box set, Cadillac Baby's Bea

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Categories: Reviews Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Blues, Cast Recordings, Comedy, Country, Funk, Holiday, Pop, R&B/Soul Tags: Cadillac Baby, Hound Dog Taylor, James Cotton, Sleepy John Estes

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