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In a White Room: Cream’s ‘Wheels of Fire’ Spins Back Into Print As Box Set

May 13, 2026 by Mike Duquette | 6 Comments

Cream’s penultimate album – the 1968 studio/live set Wheels of Fire – will be expanded this summer, offering four unique mixes of the studio disc on two CDs, an expanded concert offering on another two, and a selection of rare and unreleased cuts on a fifth CD. The Wheels of Fire (Super Deluxe Edition) will also be matched by Wheels of Fire: In the Studio, a triple LP set that, true to its name, features the studio material from the 5CD collection. (Wheels of Fire: Live At The Fillmore and Winterland, a triple album collecting the…

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Blues, Classic Rock, Rock

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Cream, Eric Clapton, Ginger Baker, Jack Bruce

Release Round-Up: Week of January 30

January 30, 2026 by The Second Disc | 4 Comments

Welcome to our final Release Round-Up of January, with a selection of the new titles available today. As an Amazon affiliate, we earn from qualifying purchases. The Monkees, The A’s, The B’s, and The Monkees (Rhino) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) The A’s, The B’s and The Monkees, at long last, brings together on 2 CDs all of the band’s commercial singles originally released between 1966 and 1970, from “Last Train to Clarksville” b/w “Take a Giant Step” through “Oh My My” b/w “I Love You Better.” It’s arranged with its 15 A-sides on…

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Classic Rock, Disco/Dance, Folk, Gospel, Jazz, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks

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Beastie Boys, Blondie, Bob Dylan, Cream, Donna Summer, Freddie and The Dreamers, Howard Jones, Linda Ronstadt, Miles Davis, Patti Smith, Ramones, Sonic Youth, Talking Heads, Television, The Monkees

I’m So Glad: Cream’s “The Goodbye Tour: Live at the Forum 1968” Arrives as 2-LP Set

April 20, 2021 by The Second Disc | 7 Comments

“Cream was a shambling circus of diverse personalities who happened to find that catalyst together…any one of us could have played unaccompanied for a good length of time. So you put the three of us together in front of an audience willing to dig it limitlessly, we could have gone on forever…And we did…just going for the moon every time we played.” That’s how Eric Clapton described his time in one of rock’s first supergroups. And while Cream released four fine albums during their four years together – Fresh Cream, Disraeli Gears,…

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Release Round-Up: Week of March 6

March 6, 2020 by The Second Disc | 5 Comments

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up! Cream, Goodbye Tour Live 1968 (Polydor/UMC) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) This new 4-CD box set expands on Cream’s farewell album Goodbye Cream, but with a twist: it drops the three studio tracks and instead presents four complete concerts including the Los Angeles Forum show from which the original three live cuts on Goodbye were culled. Overall, the book-style package has 36 tracks, 29 of which are premiering on CD. 19 of the songs are previously unreleased in any format, and 10 more…

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CD, DVD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl

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Classic Rock, Country, Jazz, Pop, Rock

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Brandy Clark, Cream, Luke Haines, Peter Buck, Ric Ocasek, Rory Gallagher, Simple Minds, The Horace Tapscott Quartet, The Human League, Will Sexton, a-ha

Cream’s Long ‘Goodbye’ Compiled For New Box Set

December 10, 2019 by Joe Marchese | 2 Comments

The fourth and final core album by Cream, 1969’s Goodbye (sometimes referred to as Goodbye Cream), followed the structure of the previous year’s Wheels of Fire. Whereas that album featured one disc of live recordings and one disc of studio tracks, the taut Goodbye had one live side and one studio side. Despite its short running time of just six songs, Goodbye packed considerable power from the triumvirate of Eric Clapton, Jack Bruce, and Ginger Baker. It reached the top of the Albums Chart in the U.K. and an impressive No. 2…

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Blues, Classic Rock, Rock

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Cream, Eric Clapton, Ginger Baker, Jack Bruce

Let It Rain: Universal Celebrates Eric Clapton, Mick Ronson with Soundtracks Featuring Beatles, Bowie, More

April 16, 2018 by Joe Marchese | 8 Comments

2018 is already shaping up to be a great year for music documentaries; one such movie, Elvis Presley: The Searcher, recently debuted on HBO to rapturous notices. Soundtracks to two more probing films are on the way from Universal On June 8, the label will deliver both Eric Clapton: Life in 12 Bars and Beside Bowie: The Mick Ronson Story. No single compilation can successfully capture the entirety of Eric Clapton’s remarkable career, though many from various labels have tried. Life in 12 Bars takes a different approach, featuring 32 tracks on…

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, Cream, David Bowie, Derek and the Dominos, Eric Clapton, John Mayall, Mick Ronson, Queen

Release Round-Up: Week of January 27

January 27, 2017 by Joe Marchese | 1 Comment

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up! Chicago, Chicago II: Steven Wilson Remix (Rhino) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Chicago’s second album gets a fully remixed edition from producer Steven Wilson, created from the original 16-track multitrack tapes and sure to highlight previously unheard or overlooked elements of this rock classic! Available on CD, with an LP edition to follow later in the year. Read more here! Cream, Fresh Cream: Super Deluxe Edition (Polydor/UMC) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) The super deluxe edition of Cream’s debut album Fresh…

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Classic Rock, Pop, Rock

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Brewer and Shipley, Carly Simon, Chicago, Cream, Grand Funk Railroad, Joe Cocker, The Move

I Feel Free: Cream Expand Debut Album In 2017

December 1, 2016 by Mike Duquette | 5 Comments

A half century after it was first released, Fresh Cream, the debut album by super-trio Cream, will get a four-disc expansion in January. One of the first supergroups of the rock era, Cream paired Yardbirds and John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers guitarist Eric Clapton with singer/bassist Jack Bruce and drummer Ginger Baker, former and current members of the Graham Bond Organisation. (The volatile Baker, in fact, was part of why Bruce left Bond’s group; the duo fought onstage frequently and Baker once held Bruce at knifepoint. By contrast, Clapton and Bruce, both…

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Release Round-Up: Week of April 29

April 29, 2016 by Joe Marchese | No Comments

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up! Various Artists, Here Today: The Songs of Brian Wilson (Vinyl) (Ace) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Ace brings its acclaimed 2015 Here Today: The Songs of Brian Wilson compilation to 180-gram white vinyl in a slimmed-down form (12 tracks vs. 25 on the CD) with all of Ace’s deluxe hallmarks of packaging and annotation! The album features Darian Sahanaja of The Brian Wilson Band and The Wondermints along with Kirsty MacColl, Carmen McRae, The Tokens, The Castells, Nick DeCaro, Betty Everett, Bobby Vee and…

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Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Country, Pop

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Bad Company, Barbara Dickson, Brian Wilson, Cream, Glen Campbell, Leon Russell, Linda Ronstadt, Various Artists

Release Round-Up: Week of December 4

December 4, 2015 by Joe Marchese | 2 Comments

Well, this is it – the final big release week of the year! While next week will see releases slow to a trickle, this week is packed with exciting box sets and much more! Bruce Springsteen, The Ties That Bind: The River Collection (Columbia) 4-CD/3-DVD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon Canada 4-CD/2-BD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon Canada This 4-CD/3-DVD or 4-CD/2-BD set celebrating The Boss’ seminal album The River features a treasure trove of previously unreleased material across its 53 audio tracks plus four hours of never-before-seen video footage. Read the full track…

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

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