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Release Round-Up: Week of March 28

March 28, 2025 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. Fleetwood Mac, 1975 to 1987 (Warner/Rhino) 5CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 6LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Rhino.com (with bonus 12″) Fleetwood Mac’s 1975 to 1987 is exactly what it states: a box set of Fleetwood Mac (1975), Rumours (1977), Tusk (1979), Mirage (1982) and Tango in the Night (1987) – available as a 5CD set or a 6LP crystal-clear vinyl box. (D2C orders from Rhino will add an additional reissue of a promotional 12″ on crystal clear vinyl, offering stereo and mono versions…

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Classic Rock, Country, Pop, Rock

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Buck Owens, Dio, Fleetwood Mac, Grateful Dead, Iron City Houserockers, Joe Grushecky, Pete Townshend, Robert Hunter, Santana, Sex Pistols

Release Round-Up: Week of May 24

May 24, 2024 by The Second Disc | 2 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. Joe Grushecky, Houserocker: A Joe Grushecky Anthology (Omnivore) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Houserocker: A Joe Grushecky Anthology is an all-encompassing look at the singer, songwriter, and bandleader, covering 40 years of music from The Iron City Houserockers, Joey G., Joe Grushecky and The Houserockers, and Grushecky solo. Available on 2 CDs and digitally, the anthology culls 36 key tracks from Grushecky’s discography, as newly remastered by Michael Graves. …

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Amy Winehouse, Bettye LaVette, Connie Smith, Jeannie C. Riley, Joe Grushecky, Melanie, The Spinners

Rock and Roll Heart: Omnivore Celebrates Joe Grushecky with Career Anthology, New Album

April 29, 2024 by Joe Marchese | 1 Comment

The title of the 1979 debut album from Joe Grushecky and The Iron City Houserockers proclaimed Love’s So Tough. The Pittsburgh native and his band captured their city’s blue-collar milieu, recalling a harder-edged E Street Band. The group took their sound an expansive step further with 1980’s Have a Good Time But Get Out Alive!, a bar-band classic which welcomed guests including Ian Hunter, Mick Ronson, and Stevie Van Zandt. That album introduced “Pumping Iron” which quickly became the band’s signature song. Since then, Grushecky has continued to write, record, and perform…

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Classic Rock, Rock

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Joe Grushecky, Joe Grushecky and the Iron City Houserockers

Light of Day: Cleveland International Expands Joe Grushecky’s Springsteen-Produced “American Babylon”

August 31, 2021 by Joe Marchese | No Comments

Last year, the recently-reactivated Cleveland International Records label reissued Joe Grushecky and The Iron City Houserockers’ Have a Good Time…But Get Out Alive! as a deluxe edition for its 40th anniversary. Now, the label is returning to the catalogue of the Pittsburgh rocker for a slightly belated 25th anniversary edition of The Houserockers’ 1995 album American Babylon which was produced by, and features, Grushecky’s friend Bruce Springsteen. The 2-CD expansion of American Babylon is due for release on October 29, with a vinyl edition arriving in early 2022. The vinyl reissue will…

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Bruce Springsteen, Joe Grushecky, Joe Grushecky and the Iron City Houserockers

Special Review: Joe Grushecky, “Somewhere East of Eden”

October 10, 2013 by Joe Marchese | No Comments

As these words are being published, we’re in Day 10 of the U.S. government shutdown, with no end apparently in sight. Could Joe Grushecky have picked a better time to release his seventeenth and latest solo album, the poltiically-charged and socially-conscious Somewhere East of Eden (Schoolhouse/Warner Nashville 2-535518, 2013)? Grushecky has always evinced that he cares deeply for America, and for its citizens – particularly the blue-collar, working class. On Eden, the rootsy singer-songwriter (frequently categorized alongside the likes of John Mellencamp and Bob Seger as a proponent of “heartland rock”) directs one track…

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