Gram Parsons - The Second Disc

Record Store Day 2025: The Best of the Rest

April 2, 2025 by The Second Disc | 7 Comments

Next Saturday, April 12, is certainly one of the most packed Record Store Days in recent memory. Since the list was announced, we drilled down on titles from Craft Recordings, Legacy Recordings, Rhino Records, Universal Music Group, Real Gone Music, Omnivore Recordings, BMG, Cooking Vinyl and Demon Music Group, as well as some notable titles that were getting later general releases on CD. Well, if you thought that was it, you’re wrong! We pored and pored over the list and are here to share with you more than four dozen one-offs, archival…

Categories:

News

Formats:

Box Sets, Vinyl

Genres:

Blues, Classic Rock, Folk, Funk, Jazz, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rap/Hip-Hop, Rock, Soundtracks

Tags:

A Tribe Called Quest, Adam and The Ants, Alex Chilton, Annie Lennox, Ariana Grande, Art Blakey, Beck, Bob Geldof, Boomtown Rats, Brad Fiedel, Brian Wilson, Bryan Adams, CHVRCHES, Cannonball Adderley, Cat Stevens, Charles Mingus, Cissy Houston, Clarence White, Cockney Rebel, Cynthia Erivo, Dave Stewart, Dead or Alive, Dusty Springfield, Elton John, Emmylou Harris, Eric Clapton, Eurythmics, Freddie Hubbard, George Harrison, Gloria Jones, Graham Parker, Gram Parsons, Grant Green, Jeff Bridges, Jerry Garcia, Jerry Garcia Band, Kenny Dorham, Little Richard, Maurice Jarre, Nick Lowe, Ohio Players, Parliament-Funkadelic, Paul Hardcastle, Pete Townshend, Peter Gabriel, Propaganda, Record Store Day, Roger Daltrey, Roger McGuinn, Scott Weiland, Shane MacGowan, Sinead O'Connor, Sly Stone, Sly and the Family Stone, Stephen Schwartz, Steve Harley, Suzi Quatro, Terry Hall, The 13th Floor Elevators, The Art of Noise, The Beach Boys, The Blasters, The Byrds, The Colourfield, The Everly Brothers, The Fall, The Hives, The Jesus and Mary Chain, The Meters, The Rolling Stones, The Who, Tina Turner, Tom Waits, Van Morrison, Vince Guaraldi, Wall of Voodoo, Wang Chung, Wayne Shorter, Wes Montgomery, Wynton Kelly, Yusuf

Release Round-Up: Week of July 19

July 19, 2024 by The Second Disc | 5 Comments

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. Mungo Jerry, Electronically Tested: Expanded Edition (7a Records) CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Mungo Jerry’s eclectic 1971 album Electronically Tested, featuring the global hit “In the Summertime,” returns in a newly remastered and expanded edition from our friends at 7a Records. It adds four bonus tracks including the infectious single “Lady Rose” and its flipside “Little Louis,” the B-side “The Man Behind the Piano,” and…

Categories:

Release Round-Up

Formats:

CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl

Genres:

Classic Rock, Country, Folk, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, Rock

Tags:

Deep Purple, Duran Duran, Emmylou Harris, George Benson, Gram Parsons, Melanie, Mungo Jerry, War

Rhino “Starts Your Ear Off Right” with New Vinyl Exclusives from CSNY, Joni, Monkees, Buffalo Springfield, More

January 3, 2019 by Joe Marchese | 1 Comment

Rhino’s popular “Start Your Ear Off Right” vinyl reissue campaign is returning to local independent record stores and Barnes & Noble locations beginning next Tuesday, January 8, and continuing through Tuesday, January 29, with a new batch of limited (and often colorful) vinyl reissues arriving each week. Each group features an eclectic line-up drawn from the Rhino archives. January 8 will see compilations from Aretha Franklin, Alice Cooper, and The Monkees, as well as a 1978 post-punk classic from Television, while January 15 brings music from ZZ Top, CSNY, The Jimmy Rogers…

Categories:

News

Formats:

Vinyl

Genres:

Blues, Classic Rock, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rap/Hip-Hop, Rock

Tags:

Alice Cooper, Aretha Franklin, Buffalo Springfield, Crosby Stills Nash and Young, Gram Parsons, Grateful Dead, Joni Mitchell, Lupe Fiasco, Ramones, Television, The Monkees, Warren Zevon, ZZ Top

Wild Horses: Intervention Reissues The Flying Burrito Brothers’ “Burrito Deluxe” On LP, Hybrid SACD

August 13, 2018 by Joe Marchese | No Comments

On the heels of recent releases including the first-ever SACD of Gene Clark’s classic A&M album White Light, Intervention Records has turned its attention once more to a group of California legends with ties to The Byrds: The Flying Burrito Brothers. Following its previous release of the Burritos’ debut The Gilded Palace of Sin on both hybrid SACD and deluxe vinyl, Intervention will reissue the band’s sophomore LP, Burrito Deluxe, in those formats. The 180-gram vinyl LP will arrive by October, with the SACD due by year’s end. Burrito Deluxe marked the…

Categories:

News

Formats:

CD, SACD, Vinyl

Genres:

Classic Rock, Country

Tags:

Chris Hillman, Gram Parsons, The Flying Burrito Brothers

Review: The Flying Burrito Brothers, “The Gilded Palace of Sin” from Intervention Records

May 10, 2017 by Joe Marchese | 3 Comments

In 1969, The Flying Burrito Brothers welcomed listeners into their Gilded Palace of Sin. The album, released on Herb Alpert and Jerry Moss’ A&M label, heralded a new style of music – one which co-founder Gram Parsons would famously dub “Cosmic American Music.” Indeed, the sounds emanating from this Palace were, at the same time, surprisingly traditional and completely radical. For the Burritos melded the harmonies of the Everlys or the Louvins with the gutbucket soul of the deep south, the instrumentation of classic Nashville, and the experimentation of psychedelia. The sound…

Categories:

Reviews

Formats:

Vinyl

Genres:

Classic Rock, Country

Tags:

Gram Parsons, The Flying Burrito Brothers

Hot Burrito No. 2: Intervention Reissues Flying Burrito Brothers’ “Gilded Palace of Sin” On Vinyl and SACD

February 23, 2017 by Joe Marchese | 5 Comments

Intervention Records will soon be giving the deluxe audiophile treatment on both hybrid stereo SACD (playable on all CD players) and 180-gram vinyl LP to a bona fide country-rock classic. The Flying Burrito Brothers’ 1969 A&M Records release The Gilded Palace of Sin remains a landmark album, fusing genres to create something wholly new – “Cosmic American Music,” as Gram Parsons memorably named it. It will arrive on LP in May and later in the year on SACD. Though the group’s original incarnation was short-lived, The Flying Burrito Brothers inspired generations to…

Categories:

News

Formats:

CD, SACD, Vinyl

Genres:

Classic Rock, Country

Tags:

Chris Hillman, Gram Parsons, The Flying Burrito Brothers

(Don’t) Walk On By: Rhino’s Record Store Day Lineup Boasts a-ha, Bee Gees, Bowie, Doors, Dionne, More

March 12, 2015 by Joe Marchese | 7 Comments

Rhino isn’t resting on its laurels for Record Store Day! The label has announced its biggest slate ever for Record Store Day, with 30 limited edition 12-inch, 10-inch, and 7-inch vinyl releases due on Saturday, April 18. Full details as provided by the label for all titles can be found below. As always with RSD, these releases will be available exclusively at select independent music retailers on April 18, and you can find the list of participating shops here! a-ha – Take On Me 7-inch picture disc. Limited edition of 6,500 copies, $14.98 Air – Playground Love…

Categories:

News

Formats:

Vinyl

Genres:

Classic Rock, Jazz, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock

Tags:

Bee Gees, David Bowie, Dionne Warwick, Gram Parsons, Hawkwind, Jaco Pastorius, Otis Redding, Record Store Day, The Doors, The Replacements, a-ha