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April 20, 2024 By The Second Disc 18 Comments

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Tomorrow, Record Store Day is once again upon us! It's that time of year where music lovers and vinyl flippers get together at their favorite physical music retailers and wait in line to snag some treasured albums - almost all of which are pressed on vinyl instead of CD (or, you know, sold on secondary marketplaces for above their retail value).  This year, the list tops out at over 350 titles, so there's very nearly something for everybody.  It wasn't easy to narrow our choices down to around

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Country, Folk, Funk, Jazz, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Average White Band, Bernie Taupin, Bill Evans, Chappell Roan, Dr. John, Elton John, Ennio Morricone, Farm Dogs, Fools Garden, Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons, Joe Pesci, John Barry, John Lennon, Lamont Dozier, Linda Ronstadt, Lowell George, Lulu, Marianne Faithfull, Parliament, Record Store Day, Talking Heads, The Who, Todd Rundgren, Wilco, Willie Nelson

February 24, 2024 By Mike Duquette 1 Comment

Stream 2024

Welcome to another edition of The Weekend Stream, The Second Disc's review of notable catalogue titles making digital debuts. A lot of exciting stuff this week: a celebration of a classic '90s pop album, the first in a series of digital archive titles for a British art rock duo, and the streaming debut of one of the biggest hits of the '80s! As an Amazon affiliate, we earn from qualifying purchases. Eddy Grant, Killer on the Rampage (Ice Records) (iTunes / Amazon) Possibly the biggest

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Categories: The Weekend Stream Formats: Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Average White Band, Bonnie Bramlett, Eddy Grant, The Alan Parsons Project, The Dells, TLC

February 20, 2024 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Lulu Man with the Golden Gun

As the week unfolds, we'll be continuing our ongoing look at this year's massive Record Store Day list.  Here is a glance at all of the releases coming from Demon Music Group.  All descriptions are taken directly from the label.  If you are interested in any of these titles, they will be available at your local record store on April 20.  Head over to recordstoreday.com for a list of participating retailers.  U.K. readers, please visit recordstoreday.co.uk and Canadian readers, please

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Categories: News Formats: Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Disco/Dance, Funk, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Average White Band, Dead or Alive, Donna Summer, Lamont Dozier, Lulu, Parliament, Pixies, Record Store Day, Steps, T Rex, The Yardbirds, Travis Biggs

February 2, 2024 By The Second Disc Leave a Comment

Andy Williams When You Fall in Love

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. Andy Williams, When You Fall in Love: Lost Columbia Masters 1977-1982 (Real Gone Music) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) When You Fall in Love: Lost Columbia Masters 1977-1982 rounds up eighteen rarities from the late, great Andy Williams.  Over a dozen never-before-heard recordings premiere here which teamed Andy with

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Disco/Dance, Jazz, Poetry, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Soundtracks Tags: Andy Williams, Average White Band, Julie Andrews, Mariah Carey, Paul McCartney, Rodgers and Hammerstein, Wings

January 19, 2024 By Joe Marchese 7 Comments

Randy Newman Good Old Boys

Today, Rhino announced four new titles in its ever-growing line of Quadio Blu-rays: Randy Newman's Good Old Boys (1973), WAR's The World Is a Ghetto (1972), Gil Evans' Svengali, and Average White Band's AWB.  The Second Disc had the opportunity to preview this quartet of Blu-ray reissues of classic albums in quadraphonic (four-channel) sound, and we're happy to report that this is another feast for surround fans with all four titles making good - or better - use of surround.  (Those equipped

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Categories: News, Reviews Formats: Blu-Ray Audio Genre: Classic Rock, Funk, Jazz, Pop, R&B/Soul Tags: Average White Band, Gil Evans, Randy Newman, War

August 9, 2021 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

AWB Cover to Cover Soul to Soul

Today, we're taking a look at three recent releases from Demon Music Group! On their 1974 Atlantic debut and breakthrough LP AWB, Average White Band proclaimed that they had "Work to Do."  The group's confident stab at The Isley Brothers' 1972 funk classic closed the first side of AWB; now, it's one of ten tracks comprising the enjoyable new vinyl collection Cover to Cover, Soul to Soul out on Demon Records. Cover to Cover, Soul to Soul offers a bounty of AWB's most soulful tracks - not

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Vinyl Genre: Pop, R&B/Soul Tags: Average White Band, Barry Blue, The Rubettes

November 3, 2020 By Joe Marchese 2 Comments

Average White Band On the Strip

The opening track of Average White Band's new/old release On the Strip: The Sunset Sessions couldn't have a more apropos title: "Let's Go Round Again."  Following a successful run of albums with producer-arranger Arif Mardin, the funky big band outfit was re-establishing itself.  1979's Feel No Fret was a self-produced affair on which the band was joined by co-producer Gene Paul; it yielded hit singles in "Atlantic Avenue" and a revival of Burt Bacharach and Hal David's "Walk on By."  For a

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Categories: News, Reviews Formats: Vinyl Genre: Pop, R&B/Soul Tags: Average White Band, Bill Champlin, David Foster

July 13, 2020 By Joe Marchese 5 Comments

Average White Band Anthology

In selecting a name, the Average White Band certainly was modest. Over a career spanning nearly 50 years, the Scottish band recorded thirteen studio albums and seven live sets; charted nine hits in the U.K. and U.S. and a further 15 songs on the U.S. R&B survey; scored a million-seller with "Pick Up the Pieces;" and had so many songs sampled that the group was ranked the fifteenth most sampled artist in history as of around a decade ago. The AWB is still active today under the auspices of

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Categories: News, Reviews Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Funk, Pop, R&B/Soul Tags: Average White Band

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