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June 30, 2023 By The Second Disc Leave a Comment

Grateful Dead RFK Stadium 1973

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! Frank Zappa, Funky Nothingness (Zappa/UMe) 3CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Zappa.com / uDiscoverMusic.com 2LP Standard Vinyl: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Zappa.com / uDiscoverMusic.com 2LP Colored Vinyl with exclusive guitar pick: Zappa.com / uDiscoverMusic.com / SoundofVinyl.com UMe and Zappa Records have taken another deep dive into the vaults for Funky Nothingness.  Recorded in the year following the

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Jazz, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, Rock Tags: Alan Jay Lerner, Betty Comden and Adolph Green, Big Country, Blossom Dearie, Charlie Watts, Frank Zappa, Frederick Loewe, Grateful Dead, Jerry Garcia Band, Johnny Desmond, Jule Styne, Lucinda Williams, The Baseball Project, Vivian Blaine

April 11, 2023 By Mike Duquette 2 Comments

Driving to Damascus

Today would have been the 65th birthday of Stuart Adamson, the brilliant leader of Scottish rock group Big Country. Sadly, Adamson left us far too soon in 2001, losing a battle with depression and alcoholism - so perhaps it is fitting that today we bring the news of Cherry Red expanding the last work by the classic line-up of the band. Following similar releases for the band's material through the '90s from the label (including the expansive Out Beyond the River set and a deluxe edition of

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Rock Tags: Big Country

September 25, 2020 By The Second Disc Leave a Comment

Prince Sign o the Times

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! Diana Ross & The Supremes, Sing and Perform Funny Girl (Second Disc/Real Gone Music) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Real Gone Music) Real Gone Music and Second Disc Records debut Diana Ross & The Supremes Sing and Perform "Funny Girl": The Ultimate Edition, a deluxe 2-CD celebration of the classic 1968 Motown-meets-Broadway gem.  Greatly building upon the digital-only Expanded Edition issued in 2014, The Ultimate Edition

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Blu-Ray, Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, DVD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Holiday, Jazz, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rap/Hip-Hop, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Big Country, Bob Merrill, Chubby Checker, Coolio, Diana Krall, Diana Ross and The Supremes, Jule Styne, Kellee Patterson, Kevin Rowland, Lou Reed, Peggy Lee, Prince, Raymond Scott, Slade, The Rolling Stones, Todd Rundgren

July 29, 2020 By The Second Disc 3 Comments

BC Safety Net

Cherry Red's longtime association with Scottish rockers Big Country - which manifested in a release of the group's last album The Journey in 2013 and continued with deluxe reissues of latter-day and live bootleg material in 2017 and 2018 - continues with another multi-disc anthology project due this September. Out Beyond The River - The Compulsion Years Anthology showcases the group's journey through the mid-'90s as they released The Buffalo Skinners, their sixth album, in 1993. After seeing

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, DVD Genre: Pop, Rock Tags: Big Country

June 29, 2018 By The Second Disc 4 Comments

Supremes Sing HDH

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! The Supremes, Sing Holland-Dozier-Holland: Expanded Edition (Motown/UMe) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) The Supremes' smash 1967 album featuring "You Keep Me Hangin' On" and "Love Is Here and Now You're Gone" gets a must-have 2-CD deluxe treatment, including the original mono and stereo albums, rarities, outtakes, remixes, and a live set from The Copacabana in 1967 featuring one of the last joint performances of Diana Ross, Mary

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Blu-Ray, Blu-Ray Audio, Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, DVD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Jazz, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Big Country, Buffalo Springfield, Chicago, David Bowie, Graham Nash, Guns N' Roses, John Coltrane, Procol Harum, Ray Davies, Smash Mouth, Social Distortion, The Feeling, The Flaming Lips, The Posies, The Supremes, Yes

June 28, 2018 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Big Country Why the Long Face

A beloved album from Big Country is about to get a lot bigger.  Tomorrow, Cherry Red Records will expand the Scottish band's 1996 album Why the Long Face into a 4-CD edition also including their live album from the same year, Eclectic, and two discs of bonus material. Last year, TSD described Big Country: "The story of Big Country goes like this: the quartet, featuring ex-Skids guitarist Stuart Adamson on vocals and guitar, guitarist Bruce Watson, bassist Tony Butler and drummer Mark

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Rock Tags: Big Country

December 6, 2017 By Mike Duquette Leave a Comment

Big Country

Everyone's got a band they love that just gets under their skin the way that others don't. Maybe they're loved by countless others around the world, maybe they've got a smaller but intense cult following - but when their music hits you, the air around you changes, you feel lighter, you want to share the feeling with your most loved and trusted friends. Big country is one of those bands for me. "In a Big Country," the band's sole U.S. Top 40 hit from 1983, had a profound impact on me as a

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Rock Tags: Big Country

December 1, 2017 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Rolling Stones On Air

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! The Alan Parsons Project, Eye in the Sky: 35th Anniversary Edition (Arista/Legacy) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) The eye in the sky is still looking at you...Legacy Recordings has a 35th anniversary box set celebrating The Alan Parsons Project's 1982 best-seller Eye in the Sky.  The album, which yielded the APP's biggest hit single with its title track as well as the classic instrumental "Sirius," will be enhanced for this lavish

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Blu-Ray, Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Country, Jazz, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Soundtracks Tags: Big Country, Ella Fitzgerald, John Williams, Minnie Riperton, Neil Young, Rush, Sex Pistols, The Alan Parsons Project, The Rolling Stones, U2, Van Morrison, Wilco

March 31, 2017 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

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Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up, featuring some of the most hotly-anticipated sets of the year! Fleetwood Mac, Tango in the Night [Various Editions] (Warner Bros./Rhino) 3CD/1DVD/1LP: 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 Fleetwood Mac's 1987 album featuring "Little Lies" and "Everywhere" returns in a variety of formats including a 3-CD/1 DVD/1 LP version (with the original

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, DVD, Vinyl Genre: Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Classical/Opera, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Big Country, Bob Dylan, Derrick Anderson, Fleetwood Mac, Johnny Cash, Leonard Bernstein, Neil Diamond, The Bangles, The Bee Gees, The Doors, Various Artists, Vera Lynn

October 20, 2011 By Mike Duquette Leave a Comment

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Could a release of Let It Be, The Beatles' harrowing 1970 documentary/epitaph, finally be happening? Director Michael Lindsay-Hogg says so. In an interview with WNYC-FM, Lindsay-Hogg discussed the film, saying, "we have been been working on it pretty much every year for the last couple of years. And the plan is, at the moment, to have it come out, I think, in 2013." A premiere release of the DVD, featuring outtakes and additional footage highlighting the making of the film, would follow a

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Categories: News Formats: CD, DVD Genre: Classic Rock, Pop Tags: Big Country, The Beatles

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