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The Weekend Stream: March 12, 2022

March 12, 2022 by Mike Duquette | 4 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! Georgia Satellites, Lightnin’ in a Bottle: The Official Live Album (Cleveland International/Rhino) (iTunes / Amazon) Recorded at Cleveland club Peabody’s at the end of 1988 – two years after their only hit, the No. 2 smash “Keep Your Hands to Yourself,” had fallen off the charts – this blistering set showcases the power of the Satellites as blues-boogie party band. Includes renditions…

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Features, The Weekend Stream

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Digital Download, Digital Streaming

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Blues, Classic Rock, Disco/Dance, Electronic, Everything Else, Funk, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rap/Hip-Hop, Rock

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Andy Williams, Angela Bofill, Depeche Mode, Elvis Costello, Georgia Satellites, Jon Anderson, Jr. Walker and the All-Stars, La Toya Jackson, The Roots

The Spell: Jon Anderson’s “Animation” Returns from Cherry Red, Esoteric

April 30, 2021 by Joe Marchese | No Comments

The early 1980s marked a time of constant change for Jon Anderson. He departed the band he co-founded in March after sessions with Roy Thomas Baker (Queen, Dusty Springfield) failed to click and tensions rose with his bandmates Chris Squire, Steve Howe, and Alan White. (Rick Wakeman left Yes at the same time.) He was finding more creative freedom when he joined the electronic music pioneer Vangelis as “Jon and Vangelis.” Their debut Short Stories, released in January 1980, was a top five album in the U.K., and the duo followed it…

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Classic Rock, Pop, Rock

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Jon Anderson, Yes

Release Round-Up: Week of April 30

April 30, 2021 by The Second Disc | 4 Comments

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up! Michael Nesmith, Different Drum: The Lost RCA Victor Recordings (Second Disc Records/Real Gone Music) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Real Gone Music) For our first release of 2021, Second Disc Records and Real Gone Music take a deep dive into the archives for Michael Nesmith’s Different Drum: The Lost RCA Victor Recordings. This compendium features 22 tracks on CD drawn from the RCA Victor vaults, every one of which is previously unreleased in any physical format. These songs were originally released to digital platforms in 2018 as bonus tracks to…

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Release Round-Up

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

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Blues, Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Classical/Opera, Country, Everything Else, Jazz, R&B/Soul

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Beryl Reid, Bob Wills, Bobby Womack, Chester Thompson, Dickey Betts, Howard Jones, Jerry Herman, Joan Turner, Jon Anderson, Leonard Bernstein, Marianne Faithfull, Marilyn McCoo and Billy Davis, Michael Nesmith, Mick Fleetwood, Pink Floyd, Ronnie Milsap, The Jacksons

Flight of the Moorglade: Cherry Red, Esoteric Reissue Jon Anderson’s “Olias of Sunhillow”

March 26, 2021 by Joe Marchese | 9 Comments

Jon Anderson’s 1976 solo debut Olias of Sunhillow was a lockdown album decades before those were in vogue. Recorded in his home’s garage with Anderson on every instrument, the singer-songwriter recalled three months of 10-hour days to bring the ambitious sci-fi/fantasy concept album to life. While its success was modest – it peaked at No. 47 in the U.S. and a stronger No. 8 at home in the U.K. – Olias musically anticipated Anderson’s collaborations with Vangelis and is today fondly looked upon as one of the finest, if not the finest,…

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News, Reviews

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CD, DVD

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Classic Rock

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Jon Anderson, Yes

Release Round-Up: Week of March 26

March 26, 2021 by The Second Disc | 2 Comments

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up! Neil Young, Young Shakespeare (Reprise) [Various Formats] CD/DVD/LP box: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Greedy Hand CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Greedy Hand LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Greedy Hand DVD: Greedy Hand Digital: Neil Young Archives (Streaming) / XStream (Digital Download) / Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. Young Shakespeare documents the earliest known filmed live concert footage of Neil Young, in an array of formats. The previously unreleased, solo acoustic show was filmed in Stratford, Connecticut in 1971, as Young was preparing his commercial breakthrough, Harvest, and just two months after the release of After the Gold Rush. He treated the…

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Release Round-Up

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Box Sets, CD, DVD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl

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Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock

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3 Doors Down, Badfinger, Chuck Berry, Elvis Costello, Gerry Beckley, Harpers Bizarre, Joe Strummer, Joey Molland, Jon Anderson, Lynn Ahrens, Neil Young, Rodgers and Hammerstein, Stephen Flaherty, The Jacksons

Release Round-Up: Week of July 31

July 31, 2020 by The Second Disc | 6 Comments

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up! Paul McCartney, The Paul McCartney Archive Collection: Flaming Pie [Various Formats] (MPL/Capitol/UMe) 2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Deluxe 5CD/2DVD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Super Deluxe 5CD/2DVD/4LP: Paul McCartney Online Shop 2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 3LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada The Paul McCartney Archive Collection returns with a new volume dedicated to Macca’s 1997 back-to-basics album Flaming Pie, produced by Jeff Lynne. Inspired by the simpler, more immediate recording style that The Beatles used decades before, he returned to Abbey Road with some of his favorite collaborators, including Ringo Starr, George Martin,…

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News

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Box Sets, CD, DVD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl

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Classic Rock, Country, Jazz, Pop, R&B/Soul, Reggae, Rock

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