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The Weekend Stream: April 11, 2026

April 11, 2026 by The Second Disc | 4 Comments

Welcome back to another edition of The Weekend Stream, The Second Disc’s review of notable catalogue titles making digital debuts, plus new works from legacy acts and even some personally curated favorites. Another George Michael single is redelivered, XTC demos get delivered and a reinvented video game dance classic enters the arena – plus a whole lot of oddities and buried treasure from 1976! George Michael, Faith (Single) (Columbia/Legacy) (Apple / Amazon) The second of George Michael’s Faith singles to be delivered to digital with the original covers and B-sides is the effortlessly classic title…

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The Weekend Stream

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Blues, Cast Recordings, Country, Electronic, Everything Else, Folk, Jazz, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks

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Abbey Lincoln, Andre Kostelanetz, Andy Partridge, Aztec Two-Step, Cedar Walton, Chet Atkins, Danny Davis, David Gates, Earl Scruggs, Freddy Weller, Gary Stewart, George Michael, John Lee Hooker, Lea Michele, Lou Courtney, Lynn Anderson, Markolino Dimond, Tim Rice, XTC

The Weekend Stream: May 11, 2024

May 11, 2024 by Mike Duquette | 2 Comments

Welcome to another edition of The Weekend Stream, The Second Disc’s review of notable catalogue titles (and some new ones, too!) making digital debuts. A legendary rock vocalist revives one of his deep cuts with a new generation of talent, a ’70s pop classic comes to digital for the first time and one of our favorite current bands preps their new album – plus so much more! The Effect & Steve Perry, “It Could Have Been You” (Core4) (iTunes / Amazon) Rock band The Effect is full of second-generation talent – guitarist…

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The Weekend Stream

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Classic Rock, Country, Disco/Dance, Jazz, Pop, Rock

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Bill Danoff, Carlos Alomar, Charly Bliss, Chet Atkins, INXS, Jerry Reed, Journey, Kenny Nolan, Starland Vocal Band, Steve Perry

Release Round-Up: Week of April 19

April 19, 2024 by The Second Disc | 1 Comment

Smokey Robinson and The Miracles Four Fer

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of the new titles available today. With Record Store Day events taking place tomorrow, this is one of the biggest weeks in recent memory – so if you hit up your local indie store tomorrow, remember: there’s plenty of non-exclusive releases to check out, too. As an Amazon affiliate, we earn from qualifying purchases. TSD also mourns the passing of Dickey Betts, 80. As a singer, songwriter, guitarist, and founding member of The Allman Brothers Band, Betts left behind an extraordinary legacy of…

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Release Round-Up

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Blu-Ray Audio, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl

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Classic Rock, Country, Folk, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock

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Bruce Springsteen, Chet Atkins, Gene Clark, Glen Campbell, Ian Hunter, King Crimson, Linda Martell, Lou Reed, Luther Vandross, Nancy Sinatra, New Riders of the Purple Sage, Pearl Jam, Smokey Robinson and the Miracles, T Bone Burnett, Taylor Swift, The Flying Burrito Brothers

The Weekend Stream: September 2, 2023

September 2, 2023 by Mike Duquette | 1 Comment

Welcome to The Weekend Stream, a relaxing review of notable digital-only catalogue titles. There may be no CD or vinyl, but there’s plenty of great new/old music to float you into the weekend. It’s a full ’80s revival this week, including a rare Duran Duran track and some live cuts from Squeeze,and – whether you’re ready for it or not – a batch of Christmas catalogue titles. Duran Duran, Ball and Chain (Tape Modern/BMG) (iTunes / Amazon) Duran Duran are back in a big way this fall, set to release the album…

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The Weekend Stream

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Digital Download, Digital Streaming

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Country, Disco/Dance, Electronic, Holiday, Jazz, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock

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Art Blakey, Chet Atkins, Duran Duran, George Benson, Herbie Hancock, Madonna, Mickey & Sylvia, Squeeze, Stanley Turrentine, Tamar Braxton, The Art of Noise, Visage

These New Changing Times: Cherry Red, Morello Reissue Another Trio from Waylon Jennings

July 11, 2022 by Joe Marchese | 5 Comments

Waylon Jennings Just to Satisfy You Three Fer

Following the release earlier this year of Waylon Jennings’ first four RCA Victor albums on one 2-CD set, Cherry Red’s Morello imprint has returned to the outlaw country legend’s early milieu with a trilogy of albums from 1969-1970 on another 2-CD collection: Waylon (1970), Just to Satisfy You (1969), and the collaboration Country-Folk with The Kimberlys (1969). This three-for-one release picks up where one of Morello’s previous collections from the prolific singer – including Love of the Common People (1967), Hangin’ On (1968), Only the Greatest (1968), and Jewels (1968) – left…

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Anita Carter, Chet Atkins, Waylon Jennings

The Weekend Stream: January 29, 2022

January 29, 2022 by The Second Disc | 1 Comment

Welcome to The Weekend Stream, a relaxing weekly review of notable digital-only catalogue titles. There may be no CD or vinyl, but there’s plenty of great new/old music to discover! A few interesting titles coming your way this week, but first, some thoughts on streaming and catalogue inspired by this week’s headlines… Usually, doing The Weekend Stream is pretty simple: check which catalogue titles have been added to digital music services, write some blurbs and drop in some links. This week, it took on some slight gravity thanks to one of the…

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Features, The Weekend Stream

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Classic Rock, Country, Disco/Dance, Everything Else, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, Rock

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Buddy Holly, Burl Ives, Chet Atkins, Jackie Gleason, Joni Mitchell, Matt Monro, Neil Young

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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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

OUT NOW! Second Disc, Real Gone Kick Off Christmas Season with Chet Atkins, Eugene Ormandy

November 8, 2019 by The Second Disc | No Comments

Chet Atkins Complete RCA and Columbia Christmas

The most wonderful time of the year is officially underway at Second Disc HQ as we’ve just released our first two holiday collections of 2019 with Real Gone Music: Chet Atkins’ The Complete RCA Victor and Columbia Christmas Recordings and Eugene Ormandy and The Philadelphia Orchestra’s The Complete Columbia Christmas Albums. 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,…

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Chet Atkins, Eugene Ormandy

Release Round-Up: Week of November 8

November 8, 2019 by The Second Disc | 13 Comments

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up! Chet Atkins, The Complete RCA Victor and Columbia Christmas Recordings (Second Disc/Real Gone) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Second Disc Records and Real Gone Music are proud to present The Complete RCA Victor and Columbia Christmas Recordings from legendary guitarist-producer Chet Atkins on a deluxe 2-CD, 46-song anthology remastered by Vic Anesini at Sony’s Battery Studios and featuring new liner notes by the set’s compiler-producer, TSD’s Joe Marchese. These joyous and virtuosic recordings encompass rare singles, the complete albums Christmas with Chet Atkins…

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News, Release Round-Up

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

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Classic Rock, Classical/Opera, Country, Holiday, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks

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Billy Vera, Chet Atkins, Dino Desi and Billy, Eugene Ormandy, Gene Clark, George Michael, Humble Pie, Jim Reeves, John Fogerty, John Legend, Margaret Whiting, Natalie Cole, Suede, The Nazz, The Police, The Rolling Stones, Wham!

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

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 recorded two albums of Christmas music throughout his singular career. We’re…

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Chet Atkins

The Second Disc’s Essential RSD Black Friday 2017 Release Guide

November 24, 2017 by Joe Marchese | 2 Comments

Leonard Nimoy Mr. Spocks Music from Outer Space

From all of us here at Second Disc HQ to all of you, we hope you’ve enjoyed a wonderful Thanksgiving in the company of beloved family and friends. Of course, from this day which conjures nostalgic and warm feelings comes a celebration of a different kind with this year’s annual Black Friday – and Record Store Day’s miniature cousin to April’s yearly event. In keeping with tradition, Mike, Randy and I have once again selected our top picks of the numerous titles being released tomorrow from many of our favorite labels, including Legacy…

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Classic Rock, Pop, Rock, Soundtracks

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Blue Oyster Cult, Chet Atkins, Chris Bell, Chris Cornell, Danny Elfman, Leonard Nimoy, Oingo Boingo, Paul McCartney, Petula Clark, Queen, Record Store Day, Soundgarden, Tangerine Dream, The Turtles, Tori Amos, Toto, Utopia

Release Round-Up: Week of July 1

July 1, 2016 by Joe Marchese | No Comments

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up! We’ve got the latest release from Second Disc Records and Real Gone Music as well as plenty more that we know you won’t want to miss! Eddy Arnold, Each Road I Take: The Lee Hazlewood and Chet Atkins Sessions 1970 (Second Disc Records/Real Gone Music) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Our newest release brings together two seminal, never-before-reissued albums by Eddy Arnold on one CD, both from 1970. Love and Guitars captured Arnold in a raw, acoustic setting with many of Nashville’s greatest pickers including…

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Release Round-Up

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Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Country, Folk, Funk, Pop, R&B/Soul, Soundtracks

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Betty Davis, Brook Benton, Burt Bacharach, Chet Atkins, Davy Jones, Eddy Arnold, Eric Clapton, Harry Nilsson, Kate and Anna McGarrigle, Lee Hazlewood, Micky Dolenz, Miles Davis, Quincy Jones, Sea Level, Survivor, The Delfonics

These (Cowboy) Boots Are Made For Walkin’! Eddy Arnold, Lee Hazlewood, Chet Atkins Sessions OUT TOMORROW!

June 30, 2016 by Joe Marchese | No Comments

Richard Edward Arnold – better known as Eddy Arnold – proved throughout an eight-decade career that he could sing anything. The countrypolitan crooner scored 147 U.S. chart hits between 1945 and 2008, sold over 85 million records, and earned inductions into the Country Music Hall of Fame and The Grand Ole Opry. Yet, in 1970, the superstar known as “The Tennessee Plowboy” found himself at a crossroads. That year, he released two remarkable albums ending one chapter in his career and beginning another. Love and Guitars proved to be his final full-length…

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Chet Atkins, Eddy Arnold, Lee Hazlewood

BREAKING! Eddy Arnold’s “Each Road I Take: The Lee Hazlewood and Chet Atkins Sessions 1970” Coming From Second Disc Records and Real Gone Music!

May 25, 2016 by Joe Marchese | No Comments

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Chet Atkins, Eddy Arnold, Lee Hazlewood

Tender Words: The Anita Kerr Singers, The Mike Sammes Singers Collected On él Label

September 24, 2015 by Joe Marchese | 2 Comments

A pair of recent releases from Cherry Red’s él imprint shines a well-deserved spotlight on two famed groups of background vocalists, one from each side of the Atlantic: The Anita Kerr Singers and The Mike Sammes Singers. As a major pioneer of The Nashville Sound alongside producer-guitarist Chet Atkins, Anita Kerr led her distinctive choir on records by Patsy Cline, Jim Reeves, Brenda Lee, Eddy Arnold, Willie Nelson and Floyd Cramer. The Kerr Singers’ distinctive harmonies were also heard behind Roy Orbison, Perry Como, Rosemary Clooney, Bobby Vinton, and too many others to…

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Chet Atkins, The Anita Kerr Singers, The Mike Sammes Singers

Cherry Red’s él Label Spends Christmas In Nashville with Anita Kerr and Chet Atkins

December 8, 2014 by Joe Marchese | No Comments

Cherry Red Records’ él imprint is celebrating this Christmas in Nashville with the recent release of The Anita Kerr Singers and Chet Atkins at Christmas. This new two-for-one CD includes both Christmas with Chet Atkins (1961) and The Kerr Singers’ On This Holy Night (1959) plus a smattering of related bonus tracks. It’s nearly impossible to sum up the career of Chet Atkins in a mere few words. The fourteen-time Grammy winner (1924-2001) was a mainstay of the RCA Victor label between 1947 and 1982 as a performer, producer and executive. Ranked…

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Anita Kerr, Chet Atkins, The Anita Kerr Singers