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Release Round-Up: Week of March 11

March 11, 2022 by The Second Disc | 3 Comments

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of the titles arriving in stores today! Grateful Dead, Road Trips Vol. 1 No. 4: From Egypt with Love (Real Gone Music) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) A little over a month after playing a concert on the desert grounds surrounding the Great Pyramids of Giza in Egypt, the Grateful Dead returned home to San Francisco for a five-show stint at Winterland. The band brought along a slide show of their Egyptian stand and introduced the audience to the masterful…

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CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl

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Classic Rock, Country, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Soundtracks

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Alison Krauss, Amy Grant, Bryan Adams, Carole King, Celine Dion, Dolly Parton, Grateful Dead, Hank Williams, Harry Connick Jr., Irma Thomas, KISS, Liza Minnelli, Michael Feinstein, Ronnie Milsap, Rosanne Cash, Vince Gill

Release Round-Up: Week of November 26

November 26, 2021 by The Second Disc | No Comments

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up! It’s a smaller week than usual owing to the U.S. Thanksgiving holiday as well as to Record Store Day’s slate of Black Friday releases! To all those who celebrated Thanksgiving, we hope it was a wonderful one! David Bowie, Brilliant Adventure (1992-2001) (Parlophone) 11CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 17LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Parlophone continues its career-spanning series of box sets for the late David Bowie. The fifth Era box set, Brilliant Adventure, includes: Five remastered studio albums (Black Tie White Noise (1993), The Buddha of Suburbia (1993), Outside (1995), Earthling (1997), ‘hours…’ (1999)); A remastered and expanded…

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Release Round-Up

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Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl

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Classic Rock, Folk, Holiday, Pop, Rock

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Alison Krauss, Carla Olson, David Bowie, Deep Purple, Gordon Lightfoot, Howard Jones, Michael Bublé, Robert Plant

Lay Down My Old Guitar: Craft Recordings Preps Career-Spanning Box for Doc Watson

November 2, 2021 by Joe Marchese | 2 Comments

In a career spanning seven decades, North Carolina native Arthel Lane “Doc” Watson (1923-2012) brought the sounds of Appalachia to the world at large. A towering figure in Americana, the guitarist was dedicated to the sounds of folk, blues, gospel, bluegrass, and country. Now, a comprehensive collection will salute his remarkable legacy. On December 3, Craft Recordings will release Life’s Work: A Retrospective. The anthology features 101 key tracks from his discography including collaborations with Flatt and Scruggs, Chet Atkins, Ricky Skaggs, Alison Krauss, Bill Monroe, The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, and…

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News

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Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming

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Blues, Country, Everything Else, Folk

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Alison Krauss, Chet Atkins, Doc Watson, Flatt and Scruggs, Merle Watson, Ricky Skaggs, The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band

When The Dealin’s Done: Kenny Rogers’ Farewell Tour Comes to CD, DVD

December 5, 2019 by Joe Marchese | 6 Comments

Kenny Rogers announced his farewell tour in 2015, bringing it to a close two years later at the end of 2017. The Gambler’s Last Deal celebrated the superstar’s entire career from his early recordings with The Bobby Doyle Three to his psychedelic country with The First Edition and his beloved solo work. Now, MVD Entertainment Group is bringing the acclaimed tour to a CD/DVD package on December 13. The film of The Gambler’s Last Deal was shot at the London Palladium during Rogers’ final world tour and found Rogers sharing anecdotes of…

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News

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CD, DVD

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Country, Pop

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Alison Krauss, Dolly Parton, Kenny Rogers, Linda Davis

Release Round-Up: Week of February 17

February 17, 2017 by Joe Marchese | No Comments

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up! Evanescence, The Ultimate Collection (Concord Bicycle) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) The long-delayed release ofThe Ultimate Collection features, on six vinyl albums, Evanescence’s full studio discography on 180-gram vinyl. In addition to Fallen, The Open Door (a double LP) and Evanescence, the box features the first wide release of Origin, a 2000 self-released demo collection; plus Lost Whispers, a rarities disc featuring four unreleased tracks, including a new version of Origin‘s “Even In Death.” A 52-page book of handwritten lyrics, artwork and photos rounds out…

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Release Round-Up

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Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl

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Classic Rock, Country, Rock

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Alison Krauss, Evanescence, The Standells