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Release Round-Up: Week of August 26

August 26, 2022 by The Second Disc | No Comments

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up featuring a selection of the new titles in stores today! Blondie, Against All Odds 1974-1982 (Numero/Capitol/UMC) 10LP/10″/7″ Super Deluxe: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 8CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 4LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 3CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada The long-awaited Blondie box set – a catalogue number was assigned back in 2016! – is finally on the way. Against the Odds 1974-1982 is coming in a variety of formats including a very limited 10LP/10″/7″ Super Deluxe vinyl box, a 4LP cutdown, an 8CD box, and a 3CD set with just…

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Classic Rock, Jazz, Pop, Rock, Soundtracks

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Blondie, Emerson Lake and Palmer, Jerry Jeff Walker, Steve Earle, Vince Guaraldi

Holiday Gift Guide Spotlight: Cherry Red Box Set Bonanza – Rhinoceros, Jerry Jeff Walker, Fumble

December 21, 2020 by Joe Marchese | 2 Comments

Welcome to the third part of our Holiday Gift Guide Spotlight – Cherry Red Box Set Bonanza! Click here for Part One, featuring Evelyn “Champagne” King, and here for Part Two featuring Graham Bonnet! When one thinks of bands assembled by audition, The Monkees usually spring to mind. Davy, Micky, Peter, and Michael had been assembled by Screen Gems for the purposes of starring in a new television sitcom, and by sheer force of will became a “real” band making some of the era’s most intoxicating music. But The Monkees were far…

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Classic Rock, Country, Folk, Pop

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Fumble, Holiday Gift Guide, Jerry Jeff Walker, Rhinoceros

Release Round-Up: Week of November 20

November 20, 2020 by The Second Disc | No Comments

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up! The Jimi Hendrix Experience, Live in Maui (Experience Hendrix/Legacy) 2CD/Blu-ray: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 3LP/Blu-ray: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Experience Hendrix and Legacy Recordings have a brand-new collection that celebrates The Jimi Hendrix Experience’s near-mythic performances on Maui, Hawaii in 1970. Live In Maui brings together audio and video with a new feature-length documentary called Music, Money, Madness: Jimi Hendrix In Maui. The collection will be available in 2-CD/Blu-ray and 3-LP/Blu-ray configurations, all due on November 20. Director John McDermott’s new documentary film chronicles the Jimi Hendrix Experience’s visit to…

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Blu-Ray, Books, Box Sets, CD, DVD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl

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Blues, Classic Rock, Country, Folk, Holiday, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock

Storytellers: Raven Anthologizes Jerry Jeff Walker, Bobby Bare

May 20, 2015 by Joe Marchese | No Comments

Two American country legends have recently been celebrated by Australia’s Raven Records label with new 2-CD, multi-label anthologies – Jerry Jeff Walker (“Mr. Bojangles”) and Bobby Bare (“Detroit City”). No Leavin’ Texas 1968-82: The Classic Jerry Jeff follows Raven’s recent reissue of three of the New York-born troubadour’s albums in one package. This 2-CD anthology collects 39 tracks sourced from 15 albums on five different labels (Atco, Vanguard, Decca, MCA and Elektra) originally released between 1968 and 1982. It kicks off, appropriately enough, with “Mr. Bojangles” from Walker’s debut album of the…

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Country, Folk, Pop

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Bobby Bare, Jerry Jeff Walker

I Knew A Man, Bojangles: Raven Reissues Early Jerry Jeff Walker

June 6, 2014 by Joe Marchese | No Comments

“It’s about a guy I met in a jail cell in New Orleans. We were both in the drunk tank over a long weekend. He told stories, and to me he was the ‘eyes of age.’ I never saw him again.” From such inauspicious roots came Jerry Jeff Walker’s unlikely but enduring standard “Mr. Bojangles.” The song gave the title to the singer-songwriter’s 1968 Atco Records debut which has just been reissued by Raven Records as a three-for-one edition also containing his two Atco follow-ups, Five Years Gone and Bein’ Free. This…

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Country, Folk, Pop

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Jerry Jeff Walker