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March 11, 2022 By The Second Disc 3 Comments

KISS Off the Soundboard Virginia Beach

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of the titles arriving in stores today! Grateful Dead, Road Trips Vol. 1 No. 4: From Egypt with Love (Real Gone Music) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) A little over a month after playing a concert on the desert grounds surrounding the Great Pyramids of Giza in Egypt, the Grateful Dead returned home to San Francisco for a five-show stint at Winterland.  The band brought along a slide show of their Egyptian stand

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Country, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Soundtracks Tags: Alison Krauss, Amy Grant, Bryan Adams, Carole King, Celine Dion, Dolly Parton, Grateful Dead, Hank Williams, Harry Connick Jr., Irma Thomas, KISS, Liza Minnelli, Michael Feinstein, Ronnie Milsap, Rosanne Cash, Vince Gill

March 10, 2022 By Randy Fairman Leave a Comment

Irma Thomas Full Time Woman Vinyl

Tomorrow, March 11, sees a new batch of Real Gone Music vinyl titles hitting store shelves.  Among the trio is a lost album by Irma Thomas and a pair of soundtracks to Nora Ephron rom-coms.  Two of the releases are making their vinyl debuts. First up is Full Time Woman: The Lost Cotillion Album from Irma Thomas.  Thomas, known as "The Soul Queen of New Orleans," was born approximately 50 miles from that city in Ponchatoula, Louisiana in 1941.  As a child, she sang in church choir and began

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Categories: News Formats: Vinyl Genre: Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Soundtracks Tags: Bobby Darin, Carole King, Celine Dion, Harry Connick Jr., Harry Nilsson, Irma Thomas, Randy Newman

January 21, 2022 By The Second Disc Leave a Comment

John Williams and The Boston Pops Complete Philips Recordings

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! John Williams and The Boston Pops, The Complete Philips Recordings (Decca) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Decca will celebrate John Williams' 90th by turning the clock back to 1980 when the famed composer-conductor took the baton from the legendary Arthur Fiedler to lead The Boston Pops Orchestra into a new era.  John Williams and The Boston Pops: The Complete Philips Recordings boasts 21 CDs and 22 albums originally released on

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Classical/Opera, Folk, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Billy Stritch, Charles Strouse, Harry Connick Jr., Janis Ian, Jim Caruso, John Mellencamp, John Williams, Julie Christensen, Keb' Mo', Night Crickets, Peter Cetera

March 19, 2021 By The Second Disc 1 Comment

Neil Young After the Gold Rush 50

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! Neil Young, After the Gold Rush: 50th Anniversary [Vinyl + 7" Box] (Reprise) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) This 50th Anniversary remastered edition of Neil Young's classic album was released on CD in December; now the vinyl version arrives.  The set includes two different recordings of the outtake "Wonderin'" on the bonus 45.  The A-side was recorded in March 1970 in Topanga (previously heard on Archives Vol. 1) while the B-side is

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Box Sets, Cassette, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Country, Gospel, Jazz, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Chris Cornell, Green Day, Harpers Bizarre, Harry Connick Jr., Hello, Jack Cassidy, John Raitt, Keith Jarrett, Loretta Lynn, Neil Young, Paul Stanley, Ringo Starr, Stephane Grappelli, Steve Earle, Sting, The Black Crowes

October 25, 2019 By The Second Disc 2 Comments

kinks arthur1

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! The Kinks, Arthur, or The Decline and Fall of the British Empire [Various Formats] (BMG) 4CD/4-seven-inch single box: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / The Kinks Official 2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / The Kinks Official 2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / The Kinks Official The Kinks' 1969 concept album continued in the quintessentially British vein of The Kinks Are The Village Green Preservation

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Country, Funk, Holiday, Jazz, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul Tags: Big Star, Bruce Springsteen, Curt Boettcher, David Byrne, Fleetwood Mac, Frank Zappa, Harry Connick Jr., Howard Keel, Jackson 5, James Brown, Jim Sullivan, Mandy Patinkin, Neil Young, Rick Astley, Ringo Starr, The Kinks, The Oak Ridge Boys, Van Morrison, XTC

November 9, 2017 By Randy Fairman Leave a Comment

Utopia Different POV

Real Gone Music just released its full slate of Christmas music, including our very special trio of The Supremes, The Ames Brothers, and Connie Smith.  But the label still has more releases coming for the holiday season, which you can get for yourself or a lucky someone else!  We've told you about most of them before, including the 40th anniversary edition of Debby Boone's You Light Up My Life and the deluxe reissue of Jimmy Webb's Angel Heart, but let's take a look at some more of the label's

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Categories: News Formats: Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, Soundtracks Tags: Blue Oyster Cult, Harry Connick Jr., Henry Mancini, Record Store Day, Todd Rundgren, Utopia

October 23, 2015 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

Elvis Costello Unfaithful Music

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! Elvis Costello, Unfaithful Music & Soundtrack Album (UMe) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.) Elvis Costello has compiled a 2-CD companion release to his recently-released, utterly engrossing memoir Unfaithful Music & Disappearing Ink.  Featuring songs that "offer the deepest emotional connection to the themes and stories in his book," Unfaithful Music & Soundtrack Album non-chronologically spans the onetime Angry Young Man and latter-day

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: CD, Digital Download, Vinyl Genre: Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Country, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: a-ha, Charlie Rich, Elvis Costello, Harry Connick Jr., Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass, Jack Bruce, Marvin Hamlisch, Matthew Sweet, Mighty Clouds of Joy, Rod Stewart, Susanna Hoffs, The Kinks

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