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Release Round-Up: Week of August 2

August 2, 2024 by The Second Disc | 1 Comment

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. Van Morrison, Live at Orangefield (Orangefield Records) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Christmas 1959 saw Van Morrison take the stage of Orangefield Secondary School in Belfast for his very first live performance. Van, on guitar and vocals, joined his fellow students John McCullough on tea-chest bass, Cyril Downey on guitar, Billy Ruth on guitar, and Walter Blakely on washboard for a skiffle show. In August…

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Release Round-Up

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CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl

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Folk, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock

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Drive-By Truckers, Howard Jones, Jeremy Jordan, Melanie, Sam Smith, Van Morrison, Warren Smith, Ween

Release Round-Up: Week of June 16

June 16, 2023 by The Second Disc | 7 Comments

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of the titles available today. The Weather Girls and Martha Wash, Carry On: The Deluxe Collection 1982-1992 (SoulMusic/Cherry Red) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Hallelujah! Carry On: The Deluxe Collection 1982-1992 is a long-overdue assessment of Martha Wash and Izora Armstead’s unlikely journey toward the top of the pop charts, some fascinating music that came before it – and a triumphant second act by Wash following some truly bizarre situations that only could have happened in the music industry. This 4CD box set, compiled and produced…

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Release Round-Up

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Box Sets, CD

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

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Bettye LaVette, Bobby Brown, Cat Stevens, Drive-By Truckers, John Mellencamp, Martha Wash, Paul Young, Pet Shop Boys, Poco, Steve Lukather, The Weather Girls, Toto, Yusuf

Where the Devil Don’t Stay: Drive-By Truckers Plan “Director’s Cut” of ‘The Dirty South’

April 12, 2023 by Mike Duquette | No Comments

Nearly 20 years ago, genre-bending Southern rock outfit Drive-By Truckers got their first shot of mainstream success with an intriguing concept album called The Dirty South. Now, the group is revisiting that release on The Complete Dirty South. It’s a release that frontman Patterson Hood is deeming a “director’s cut” of the original work, featuring an expanded, altered track list and a few songs that are remixed, featuring new vocals or both. (All tracks have been remastered by Greg Calbi.) “The period from 2002, a few months after we self-released our breakthrough album,…

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News

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CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl

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Country, Rock

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Drive-By Truckers, Jason Isbell, Patterson Hood

Play Tetris Til My Eyes Fall Out: The Second Disc’s Bandcamp Friday Picks, October 2020

October 2, 2020 by Mike Duquette | No Comments

The month’s best new release day is back! Since March, indie music retailer Bandcamp has waived their share of revenue for indie artists and labels using their platform to give “the little guys” a leg up in the face of the pandemic. The result was more music bought by more fans than any day on the site, a record broken on the first Friday of May. Bandcamp Fridays have since taken place in June, July, August, and September – plus the first of an annual occurrence when the service will donate its…

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Features

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CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl

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Electronic, Folk, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks

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Bob Dylan, Dave Alvin, Drive-By Truckers, John Prine, Pearl Jam, Suzanne Ciani, The Blasters, The Feminine Complex