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The Weekend Stream: October 4, 2025

October 4, 2025 by Mike Duquette | 1 Comment

Welcome to another edition of The Weekend Stream, The Second Disc’s review of notable catalogue titles (and some new ones, too!) making digital debuts. From the Foo Fighters entering Bandcamp for a cause to a Record Store Day rarity by Rage Against the Machine, the dream of the ’90s is very much alive here…plus much more from other decades, too! Are Playing Where??? Vol. I by Foo Fighters Foo Fighters, Are Playing Where??? Vol. 1 (Roswell) (Bandcamp) After kicking off a season of drummer exodus – sacking session drummer Josh Freese, who’d join…

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Bob Mould, Dave Grohl, David Longworth Wallingford, Donal Leace, Foo Fighters, Gary Numan, Gavin Creel, Jennifer Lopez, Joan Baez, King Creosote, Rage Against the Machine, Roberta Flack, Sugar

I Was Young When I Left Home: Bob Dylan’s New Bootleg Series Entry Covers His Earliest Beginnings

September 17, 2025 by Joe Marchese | 8 Comments

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The Weekend Stream: August 7, 2022

August 7, 2022 by Mike Duquette | 2 Comments

Welcome to The Weekend Stream, a relaxing weekly review of notable digital-only catalogue titles. There may be no CD or vinyl, but there’s plenty of great new/old music to discover! From new remixes of old favorites and throwback remixes of new hits, to deep dives into ’80s alt-rock, mid-century easy listening, ’70s live folk and ’90s tracks to run on the beach in slow motion to…we’re pulling out all this stops this Sunday! Beyoncé & Madonna, Break My Soul (The Queens Remix) (Parkwood/Columbia) (iTunes / Amazon) Queen Bey had a busy month gearing…

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Country, Disco/Dance, Folk, Funk, Jazz, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks

My Eyes Have Seen: Odetta, The Weavers, Joan Baez, More Featured on Vinyl Me, Please’s “Anthology: The Story of Vanguard”

August 9, 2021 by The Second Disc | 1 Comment

A vanguard is, by definition, a position at the forefront of new ideas or developments. And in the fertile musical stomping ground of the early 1960s, some of the newest, most avant-garde ideas were being espoused on the Vanguard Records label. Yet these so-called radical, even “dangerous” thoughts were being espoused in forms so traditional, they might have seemed as old as time. Vanguard was formed in 1950 by Maynard and Seymour Solomon as a classical label and later moved into jazz. The Solomons dived headfirst into the flourishing folk music scene…

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Buffy Sainte-Marie, Doc Watson, Joan Baez, Odetta, Pete Seeger, Skip James, The Weavers

An Illusion to Me Now: “Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story” Gets DVD, Blu-ray Release from Criterion

October 19, 2020 by Sam Stone | 3 Comments

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“I cut off my hair and I rode straight away, for that wild unknown country where I could not go wrong.” So sings Bob Dylan in “Isis.” It’s a line fitting for the mercurial Dylan, especially in 1975 as he and his merry cohorts – both friends and musicians – embarked on a tour of North American cities large and small on the circus-like Rolling Thunder Revue. Back in 2019, we told you about Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese. Part concert document and part mockumentary, the controversial film…

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Allen Ginsberg, Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Joni Mitchell, Patti Smith, Ramblin' Jack Elliott, Roger McGuinn

We Were Half A Million Strong: Massive Woodstock Collection Arrives in High-Resolution Digital Formats

August 17, 2020 by Sam Stone | 3 Comments

Fifty-one years ago this past weekend, a crowd of half a million converged at Max Yasgur’s Farm in Bethel, New York for the Woodstock Music and Art Fair. The four-day event became a cultural touchstone and mythical ideal, strengthened even more by the Woodstock film and soundtracks that proliferated the marketplace during the early ’70s and beyond. While performers, fans, and countless supposed attendees participated in even more myth-building, a small group of historians and researchers worked to piece together what really happened. Last year, a decade-long dive into Woodstock tape vaults…

Year-End Review: Bob Dylan, “The Rolling Thunder Revue: The 1975 Live Recordings”

January 6, 2020 by Sam Stone | 2 Comments

As we continue to look back on the year that was, it’s hard to disagree that Bob Dylan was 2019’s king of the reissue. Since releasing More Blood, More Tracks in time for the holidays in 2018, Legacy Recordings and the Dylan team approved MoFi’s deluxe audiophile version of Blood on the Tracks; celebrated the first leg of the famed Rolling Thunder Revue with a new film, CD box set, and LP reissue; delivered a new Bootleg Series installment focusing on his time in Nashville in the late ’60s; and quietly issued…

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Bob Dylan, Eric Andersen, Joan Baez, Joni Mitchell, Robbie Robertson, Roger McGuinn

The Times They Are A-Changin’: Shout! Factory Brings Peter, Paul and Mary’s “Newport 1963-65” to CD, DVD

August 15, 2019 by Joe Marchese | 3 Comments

The Newport Folk Festival was created in 1959 in Newport, Rhode Island as a response to the rising prominence of folk music in America. In 1961, one of the great groups of the genre was formed when Peter Yarrow, Noel Paul Stookey, and Mary Travers lifted their voices in song as Peter, Paul and Mary. The trio frequently took the stage at Newport with many of their classic songs, and now, Shout! Factory is collecting eighteen such performances on a new set coming to CD, DVD, and digital formats tomorrow, August 16….

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Joan Baez, Odetta, Pete Seeger, Peter Paul and Mary

Try and Get My Soul Free: Full Sets from Woodstock Festival Emerge on Digital and Streaming Services

August 5, 2019 by Sam Stone | 7 Comments

For fans of Woodstock, Friday was a big day. For the physical media-minded, the giant 38-CD/1-Blu-ray box began shipping out, and Craft’s standalone Creedence Clearwater Revival Live At Woodstock album was released. Those who may have been unable to purchase the big set have reason to rejoice as several individual acts’ sets from Woodstock have begun to pop up on digital download and streaming services. Last week saw the release of Woodstock recordings from Tim Hardin; Melanie; Mountain; Blood, Sweat & Tears; and Sha Na Na (whose set is missing one unrecorded…

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Blood Sweat and Tears, Joan Baez, Melanie, Mountain, Sha Na Na, Tim Hardin

Rhino’s 10-CD Woodstock Set “Back To the Garden: The 50th Anniversary Experience” Delivers the Goods

July 31, 2019 by Sam Stone | 7 Comments

Fifty years ago this summer, more than 400,000 fans convened at Max Yasgur’s farm for a music festival that would come to define not only the era, but the entire ethos of music festivals to come. With every passing decade, the magic of Woodstock has been celebrated and, indeed, re-marketed to new generations of music fans. The ’90s saw two new Woodstock-branded festivals and an array of 25th anniversary products, including a compilation called Woodstock Diary and a 4-CD box set. To mark the festival’s 40th anniversary in 2009, yet another box…

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Pastures of Plenty: Pete Seeger, Joan Baez, Arlo Guthrie, and More Feature in Previously Unreleased “Woody Guthrie All-Star Tribute Concert 1970” DVD

June 6, 2019 by Sam Stone | No Comments

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Woody Guthrie remains one of the most significant figures in folk music. His legendary songs of freedom and struggle laid the groundwork for the folk revival that arose in the fifties and sixties, and his music endures as part of America’s rich musical heritage. In 1970, renowned folk artists like Joan Baez, Pete Seeger, Country Joe McDonald, Odetta, Richie Havens, Ramblin’ Jack Elliot, Earl Robinson, The Band, and Woody’s son Arlo Guthrie, convened to pay tribute to the legendary songwriter, who had passed away from Huntington’s Disease three years earlier. The benefit…

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Arlo Guthrie, Joan Baez, Odetta, Pete Seeger, Richie Havens, The Band, Woody Guthrie

It Shall Be Released: Bob Dylan’s Rolling Thunder Revue Revived On New Box Set, Netflix Film

April 30, 2019 by Joe Marchese | 3 Comments

Fourteen years after his seminal documentary No Direction Home, director Martin Scorsese is returning to the life and music of Bob Dylan with a new concert film celebrating one of the Bard of Hibbing’s most electrifying tours. Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese debuts June 12 on Netflix. The new film shines a spotlight on Dylan’s unforgettable adventures with an amazing cast of characters on the road during his 1975-1976 tour. It will also screen in theaters in London, Paris, Washington, D.C., Nashville, New York City, Philadelphia, San…

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Bound for Glory: Dylan, Baez, Paxton, Havens, Collins Celebrate Woody Guthrie on New Bear Family Box

November 8, 2017 by Joe Marchese | No Comments

Bob Dylan once said that, upon hearing Woody Guthrie’s songs, “it was like I had been in the dark and someone had turned on the main switch of a lightning conductor.” Steve Earle opined that “Woody is my hero of heroes and the only person on earth that I will go to my grave regretting that I never met.” No less a literary eminence than John Steinbeck noted, “Woody is just Woody,” before explaining, “Harsh voiced and nasal, his guitar hanging like a tire iron on a rusty rim, there is nothing…

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DeShannon, Ronstadt, Baez, Nyro Featured on “Milk of the Tree: Anthology of Female Folk and Singer-Songwriters”

August 1, 2017 by Joe Marchese | 3 Comments

The new anthology Milk of the Tree, from Cherry Red’s Grapefruit label, sets forth its mission statement clearly in its subtitle: An Anthology of Female Vocal Folk and Singer-Songwriters 1966-1973. Still, how to anthologize such a broad and powerful group of artists during one of the most creatively fertile periods in popular music history? Grapefruit does a fine job in distilling the essence of the period – and charting the growth of artists from a pure pop framework to one in which they could address deeper issues on both a personal and…

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