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Release Round-Up: Week of April 30

April 30, 2021 by The Second Disc | 4 Comments

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up! Michael Nesmith, Different Drum: The Lost RCA Victor Recordings (Second Disc Records/Real Gone Music) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Real Gone Music) 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…

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Release Round-Up

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Blu-Ray, Box Sets, CD, DVD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl

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Blues, Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Classical/Opera, Country, Everything Else, Jazz, R&B/Soul

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Beryl Reid, Bob Wills, Bobby Womack, Chester Thompson, Dickey Betts, Howard Jones, Jerry Herman, Joan Turner, Jon Anderson, Leonard Bernstein, Marianne Faithfull, Marilyn McCoo and Billy Davis, Michael Nesmith, Mick Fleetwood, Pink Floyd, Ronnie Milsap, The Jacksons

Where Do We Go From Here: ABKCO Reissues, Remasters Bobby Womack’s “The Poet” Albums

February 22, 2021 by Joe Marchese | No Comments

Singer, songwriter, musician, and Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee Bobby Womack (1944-2014) saw his songs covered by The Rolling Stones, Aretha Franklin, Janis Joplin, and his longtime friend Wilson Pickett. But his solo output, recorded over 40+ years for labels including Minit, United Artists, Columbia, Arista, MCA, Capitol, XL, and others, was no less impressive. Now, two of his albums for the Beverly Glen label (also onetime home of artists including Anita Baker and Johnnie Taylor) are being reissued by ABKCO in remastered editions due March 19 in North America…

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News

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CD, Vinyl

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R&B/Soul

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Bobby Womack

This Is Soul: Ace Collects “The Soul of The Memphis Boys” with Elvis, Dusty, Box Tops, More

August 31, 2020 by Joe Marchese | 3 Comments

We’ve already filled you in on Ace’s recent anthology collecting works by Philly soul maestro Thom Bell; now we’re looking to the American South with another release! Way back in 2012, Ace Records collected the multifaceted sounds of Chips Moman and Don Crews’ American Studios on Memphis Boys: The Story of American Studios. The 24-song tribute collection featured such visitors to Memphis as Dusty Springfield, Wilson Pickett, B.J. Thomas, and Solomon Burke as well as Elvis Presley, one of the city’s most famous denizens. Now, the label has returned to the milieu of…

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R&B/Soul

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Arthur Alexander, Ben E. King, Bobby Womack, Dusty Springfield, Elvis Presley, James Carr, James and Bobby Purify, Jerry Lee Lewis, Joe Tex, Solomon Burke, The Blossoms, The Box Tops, Various Artists

Ace Records Spotlight: Wilson Pickett, Chuck Jackson, Judy Henske, and “The Unexpected”

December 4, 2017 by Joe Marchese | 1 Comment

From folk to space-age pop and heartrending soul, Ace Records and its Kent Records imprint have got collectors covered with a number of recent releases. Wilson Pickett Sings Bobby Womack on Kent Records traces the many meetings of the two soul titans – 17 tracks, in fact, all recorded between May 1966 and September 1968 and culled from The Wicked Pickett’s tenure at Atlantic Records. Although Womack’s time as an artist at the New York label was short (just one 1966 single, “Find Me Somebody” b/w “How Does It Feel,” both sides…

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Folk, Pop, R&B/Soul

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Bobby Womack, Chuck Jackson, Judy Henske, Various Artists, Wilson Pickett