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April 6, 2018 By The Second Disc Leave a Comment

Chicago VI Decades Live

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up, and one of the biggest Release Fridays of the year to date! Chicago, VI Decades Live: This is What We Do (Rhino)  (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Chicago celebrates 50 years on the road with this expansive new box set featuring 4 CDs and 1 DVD of previously unreleased live music recorded between 1969 and 2014.  This set includes two complete concerts - The Isle of Wight, 1970 on CD and a Rockpalast broadcast from Germany in 1977 on

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Blu-Ray Audio, Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, DVD, Vinyl Genre: Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Country, Jazz, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Chicago, Cy Coleman, Debby Boone, Diana Ross and The Supremes, Don Gibson, Ella Fitzgerald, Elton John, Elvis Presley, Frank Sinatra, Girlschool, Howard Shore, Jack Kerouac, John Fogerty, Johnny Cash, Louis Armstrong, Love, Mike Ness, Scientist and Prince Jammy, Tiny TIm

February 27, 2018 By Randy Fairman Leave a Comment

God Bless Tiny Tim Stereo

We recently told you about Real Gone's line-up of limited edition vinyl soundtracks due in April and now we've got word of four more limited vinyl titles.  All of these are due to be released on April 6. First up is the 1982 dub album Scientist and Jammy Strike Back!.  Scientist (Hopeton Overton Brown) and Prince Jammy (Lloyd James) were both proteges of King Tubby (Osbourne Ruddock), a sound engineer who was a pioneer in dub and remixing in Jamaica in the 1960s and 1970s.  Both Scientist and

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Categories: News Formats: Vinyl Genre: Everything Else, Pop, Reggae, Rock Tags: Girlschool, Jack Kerouac, Scientist and Prince Jammy, Tiny TIm

April 7, 2017 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Outlaw Celebrating Waylon

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! B.J. Thomas, New Looks from an Old Lover-The Complete Columbia Singles (Real Gone Music) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) New Looks from an Old Lover - The Complete Columbia Singles from B.J. Thomas gathers up all of the A and B sides the singer recorded for that label during his tenure there in the 1980s including the No. 3 Country hit "Two Car Garage" and two No. 1s: "Whatever Happened To Old-Fashioned Love" and "New Looks from an

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Country, Holiday, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, Rock Tags: Allan Holdsworth, Allen Ginsberg, Antonio Carlos Jobim, B.J. Thomas, Brinsley Schwarz, David Allan Coe, Frank Sinatra, Jack Kerouac, Steve Allen, Waylon Jennings

February 28, 2017 By Randy Fairman 1 Comment

BJ Thomas New Looks

As the winter season draws to a close, we now look ahead to spring.  Real Gone Music has just announced its titles for the first full month of the season.  Due on April 7, the new slate features country and spoken word projects together with a few limited vinyl repressings. First up is a release featuring notes by our very own Joe Marchese.  The single disc New Looks from an Old Lover - The Complete Columbia Singles from B.J. Thomas gathers up all of the A and B sides the singer recorded for

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Country, Everything Else, Pop, Rock Tags: Allen Ginsberg, B.J. Thomas, David Allan Coe, Jack Kerouac, Steve Allen

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