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Good Clean Fun: Rhino Preps New Monkees Singles Collection

January 13, 2026 by Joe Marchese | 7 Comments

Following last year’s deluxe box of The Monkees’ Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn and Jones, Ltd., Rhino has announced its first release from the band in 2026. The A’s, The B’s and The Monkees, at long last, brings together on 2 CDs all of the band’s commercial singles originally released between 1966 and 1970, from “Last Train to Clarksville” b/w “Take a Giant Step” through “Oh My My” b/w “I Love You Better.” The set is due from Rhino on January 30. (Some copies ordered directly from Rhino are already shipping.) The A’s, The…

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Continuing: 7a Reissues, Expands Michael Nesmith’s “Ranch Stash” on CD and Vinyl

April 7, 2023 by Joe Marchese | 2 Comments

Michael Nesmith Pretty Much Your Standard Ranch Stash 50th

7a Records, hot off its recent reissue of Macy Gray’s jazz/R&B gem Stripped, has returned to the milieu of The Monkees with the latest in its series of expanded and remastered 50th anniversary reissues from the catalogue of Michael Nesmith. Pretty Much Your Standard Ranch Stash is out now in CD and 180-gram gray vinyl formats, both of which add the alternate RCA version of “Marie’s Theme” as a bonus track. As detailed in the always-compelling liner notes by Andrew Sandoval, Nesmith’s sixth and final RCA album captured the artist in a…

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Release Round-Up: Week of August 12

August 12, 2022 by The Second Disc | No Comments

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of the titles arriving in stores today! Jimi Jamison, Rock Hard (Iconoclassic) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Iconoclassic Records is now premiering Rock Hard, Survivor lead singer Jimi Jamison’s previously unreleased 1990 album, in a deluxe, expanded CD edition. Intended to be Jamison’s solo debut, Rock Hard features 10 songs including three previously unreleased compositions, three previously unreleased recordings, and a pair of previously unreleased mixes/arrangements. Jimi’s non-LP solo single (issued in Germany, Japan, and promotionally in the U.S.) of his Survivor bandmates Jim Peterik…

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Release Round-Up: Week of August 5

August 5, 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! 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) Second Disc Records and Real Gone Music are bringing Michael Nesmith’s Different Drum: The Lost RCA Victor Recordings to vinyl for the first time today! This 2-LP compendium features 22 tracks on CD drawn from the RCA Victor vaults, most of which are new to vinyl. These songs were originally released to digital platforms in 2018 as bonus tracks…

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Alan Silvestri, Andy Bey, Bobbie Gentry, Eugene Ormandy, James Horner, Jerry Lee Lewis, Judy Garland, Mario Lanza, Michael Nesmith, Neil Young, Paul McCartney, Promise of the Real, Sha Na Na, Tintern Abbey

Shake Your Soul: Real Gone Reissues Britny Fox, Baton Rouge, More

August 4, 2022 by Randy Fairman | No Comments

We filled you in yesterday on the first part of Real Gone Music’s expansive August 5 slate featuring rare psychedelia, soundtrack classics, and more. Here’s another pair of releases due tomorrow! Philadelphia glam metal band Britny Fox parlayed their connections with fellow Philly group Cinderella to score a major label contract with CBS. By 1991, though, they’d moved over to the Warner-affiliated EastWest label and made some changes. For their third full-length album Bite Down Hard, the band enlisted Tommy Paris on lead vocals (replacing “Dizzy” Dean Davidson) to join remaining members…

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Loose Salute: Michael Nesmith’s “Different Drum: The Lost RCA Victor Recordings” Comes to Vinyl in August

July 19, 2022 by The Second Disc | 3 Comments

You asked, we answered! Since Michael Nesmith’s Different Drum: The Lost RCA Victor Recordings premiered on CD in April 2021 from Real Gone Music and Second Disc Records, we’ve been inundated with requests for a vinyl edition. In a little over two weeks, on August 5, the 22-track anthology will make its debut in the format as a deluxe gatefold 2-LP set pressed on “blue smoke” vinyl. Let’s fill you in with our official press release: Michael Nesmith long travelled to the beat of a “Different Drum” – whether as the writer…

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Release Round-Up: Week of June 3

June 3, 2022 by The Second Disc | No Comments

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up, highlighted by our newest Second Disc Records release and featuring a selection of the week’s other new titles! Stoney and Meatloaf, Everything Under the Sun: The Motown Recordings (Second Disc Records/Real Gone Music) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Real Gone Music) Stoney and Meatloaf’s Everything Under the Sun: The Motown Recordings from Second Disc Records and Real Gone Music is the ultimate celebration of late rock superstar Meat Loaf’s singular collaboration with the extraordinary, Grammy-nominated Shaun Murphy (who went on to sing for more than four decades with Bob Seger…

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Al Stewart, Alan Vega, Anne-Sophie Mutter, Bill Evans, Chuck Armstrong, East Coast, Frank Sinatra, George Scott, Grateful Dead, John Williams, Mabu's Madness, Max Roach, Meat Loaf, Michael Nesmith, Prince, Shaun Murphy, Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes, Stoney and Meatloaf

Release Round-Up: Week of May 13

May 13, 2022 by The Second Disc | 1 Comment

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of the new releases arriving in stores today! The Rolling Stones, Live at the El Mocambo (UMe) 2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 4LP Black Vinyl: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 4LP Neon Vinyl: Rolling Stones Online Shop The Rolling Stones are bringing their March, 1977 secret shows at Toronto’s tiny El Mocambo club to 2-CD, 4-LP black vinyl, 4-LP neon vinyl, and digital formats. Live at the El Mocambo features the Stones’ full set from March 5 (the second and final show), plus three bonus tracks from March 4,…

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Lyle Lovett, Melissa Errico, Michael Nesmith, The Black Keys, The Muffs, The Rolling Stones

You Are My One: 7a Records Reissues Michael Nesmith’s “Tantamount to Treason Volume One” in June

April 13, 2022 by Joe Marchese | 6 Comments

Michael Nesmith Tantamount to Treason 7a

Even before the May 13 reissue of Michael Nesmith’s And the Hits Just Keep on Comin’ arrives from 7a Records, the Monkees-focused label has announced a second 50th anniversary reissue from the late singer-songwriter. On June 3, 7a will reissue 1972’s Tantamount to Treason Volume One on vinyl and in an expanded edition on CD. Tantamount to Treason Volume One was actually Nesmith’s first album of 1972, preceding Hits by roughly six months. The LP was the first and only one credited to Michael Nesmith and The Second National Band following the…

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Release Round-Up: Week of March 18

March 18, 2022 by The Second Disc | 1 Comment

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of the titles arriving in stores today! Frank Zappa, The Mothers 1971 / Fillmore East – June 1971: 50th Anniversary Expanded Edition / Rainbow Theatre – December 10, 1971 (Zappa Records/UMe) The Mothers 1971: Official Zappa Store / Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Fillmore East – June 1971: 50th Anniversary Expanded Edition: Official Zappa Store / Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Rainbow Theatre – December 10, 1971: Official Zappa Store / Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Zappa Records and UMe have three releases commemorating Frank Zappa and The Mothers’ legendary 1971 shows…

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April March, Flo and Eddie, Frank Zappa, Howard Jones, Jean-Luc Ponty, Keith Richards, Michael Nesmith, Micky Dolenz, Mountain, Son House, The Flamin' Groovies, Tony Hazzard

Harmony Constant: 7a Records Reissues, Expands Michael Nesmith’s “And The Hits Just Keep On Comin'” For Its 50th Anniversary

March 14, 2022 by Joe Marchese | 5 Comments

Michael Nesmith And The Hits Just Keep On Comin 50th

“I realized early on that Red was the magic carpet,” the late Michael Nesmith observed to this author in 2020 of his longtime collaborator Orville “Red” Rhodes. “I began to realize this guy is on another level…He’s playing music up at the highest jazz levels, but he’s playing all by himself. I thought it was some of the most inspired and celestial pedal steel guitar music -which was like an impossibility, but it really was.” Perhaps no release better epitomizes the intuitive, almost symbiotic relationship between Nesmith and Rhodes than 1972’s And…

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In Memoriam: Michael Nesmith (1942-2021)

December 10, 2021 by Joe Marchese | 15 Comments

Less than one month ago, on November 14, Michael Nesmith and Micky Dolenz brought their final tour as The Monkees to a close on the stage of Los Angeles’ Greek Theater. The show opened with Nesmith’s “Good Clean Fun,” released in 1969 on The Monkees Present. The wistful reflection builds to a sweetly triumphant proclamation which the duo delivered with relish: Well, the plane is finally down/And the engines stopped their sound And I look in the crowd and there you stand And the gap that once was time Is forever closed…

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Release Round-Up: Week of May 21

May 21, 2021 by The Second Disc | 2 Comments

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up! Micky Dolenz, Dolenz Sings Nesmith (7a Records) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Deep Discount) Micky Dolenz tackles more than a dozen compositions by his friend and longtime bandmate Michael Nesmith on this exciting new album available on CD and LP. Micky is in top vocal form bringing his own energetic stamp to Nesmith’s beguiling tunes. Tracks include “Different Drum,” “Circle Sky,” “Propinquity (I’ve Just Begun to Care),” “Tapioca Tundra,” and “You Are My One.” Michael’s son Christian Nesmith has produced and arranged the album. If you’d like to…

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Bob Dylan, Chrissie Hynde, Doug Carn, Emmit Rhodes, Jean Carne, John Hiatt, Jon Allen, Lefty Frizzell, Michael Nesmith, Micky Dolenz, Sara Bareilles, The Palace Guard, Violent Femmes

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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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

OUT TOMORROW: Michael Nesmith’s “Different Drum: The Lost RCA Victor Recordings” from Second Disc Records and Real Gone Music

April 29, 2021 by The Second Disc | 10 Comments

Michael Nesmith Different Drum The Lost RCA Victor Recordings

Tomorrow – Friday, April 30 – is the date for the first Second Disc Records/Real Gone Music release of 2021 – and it’s one that’s been years in the making! Michael Nesmith has always travelled to the beat of a “Different Drum” – whether as the writer of that classic hit for Linda Ronstadt and The Stone Poneys, the wool hat-clad member of The Monkees, or one of the earliest progenitors of the country-rock genre. In recent years, Nesmith has penned the critically acclaimed autobiography Infinite Tuesday, reformed the First National Band to…

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Listen to the Band: Andrew Sandoval Reveals “The Monkees: The Day-by-Day Story” In June

March 11, 2021 by Joe Marchese | 4 Comments

Since its publication in 2005, author Andrew Sandoval’s The Monkees: The Day-by-Day Story has been an indispensable reference tool for fans of Davy, Micky, Peter, and Michael – not to mention one helluva read. But as the years passed, the guide to all things Monkees went out of print, with secondhand copies fetching in the three-figure range. Happily, Sandoval has returned to the book for a completely new edition due this June. We were thrilled to have the chance to speak with the author about the upcoming 2021 presentation. “It’s been 15…

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Propinquity: 7a Records Announces Micky’s “Dolenz Sings Nesmith” For May Release

March 11, 2021 by Joe Marchese | 4 Comments

Micky Dolenz and Michael Nesmith have shared a musical journey together since 1966 when The Monkees first hit the NBC airwaves and the group’s chart-topping debut album arrived in stores on the Colgems label. When COVID-19 unexpectedly struck one year ago, Dolenz and Nesmith were preparing to take to the road once again for An Evening with The Monkees; once the virus rendered that impossible, Dolenz got to work on a celebration of his dedicated friend’s classic songs. The result is Dolenz Sings Nesmith, due on May 21 in CD and LP…

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Second Disc Records, Real Gone Music Premiere Michael Nesmith’s “Different Drum: The Lost RCA Victor Recordings” on CD in April

March 9, 2021 by The Second Disc | 28 Comments

The Second Disc is proud to announce the first Second Disc Records/Real Gone Music release of 2021 – and it’s one that’s been years in the making! Michael Nesmith has always travelled to the beat of a “Different Drum”-whether as the writer of that classic hit for Linda Ronstadt and The Stone Poneys, the wool hat-clad member of The Monkees, or one of the earliest progenitors of the country-rock genre. In recent years, Nesmith has penned the critically acclaimed autobiography Infinite Tuesday, reformed the First National Band to sold-out audiences, and both…

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Holiday Gift Guide Review: Peter Tork, “Stranger Things Have Happened”

December 23, 2020 by Joe Marchese | 1 Comment

UPDATED DECEMBER 2020: 7a Records’ announcement earlier this year of a deluxe remastered and expanded edition of Peter Tork’s only solo album, 1994’s Stranger Things Have Happened, marked a major milestone for the label. Over the years, 7a has already delivered a treasure trove of releases from Micky Dolenz, Davy Jones, and Michael Nesmith on CD and vinyl, but with the inclusion of the late Tork, its roster of artists finally seems complete. The path to Stranger Things Have Happened was a long one. Tork was, by and large, musically inactive during the…

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Take a Giant Step: 7a Reissues and Expands Peter Tork’s Solo Album on CD, Vinyl

October 13, 2020 by Joe Marchese | 9 Comments

7a Records has already delivered a treasure trove of releases from Micky Dolenz, Davy Jones, and Michael Nesmith on CD and vinyl. Is anyone missing from that list? Now, 7a has just announced its first release from the late Peter Tork: the first-time reissue of his only solo album, 1994’s Stranger Things Have Happened, in a deluxe, expanded edition. It’s due on December 4 in the U.K. and December 11 in the U.S., and will feature a generous nine bonus tracks on CD – including several seeing their first release in the…

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Release Round-Up: Week of July 10

July 10, 2020 by The Second Disc | No Comments

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up! Grateful Dead, Workingman’s Dead: 50th Anniversary Deluxe Edition (Grateful Dead/Rhino) CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Often hailed as one of Grateful Dead’s most accessible albums along with its follow-up, American Beauty, Workingman’s Dead placed its focus on tighter songcraft in a country/folk-oriented vein that would later be described as “Americana.” It introduced the group’s first chart hit, the timeless “Uncle John’s Band,” as well as the favorite “Casey Jones” which has received substantial…

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Barbara Mandrell, Burt Bacharach, Carol Channing, Daniel Tashian, Donna Summer, Elvis Costello, Gordon Anderson, Grateful Dead, John Lodge, Laura Branigan, Little Steven, Michael Nesmith, Micky Dolenz, Rufus Wainwright, Tammy Wynette, The Foundations, The Monkees

Review: Michael Nesmith with Red Rhodes, “Cosmic Partners: The McCabe’s Tapes”

January 8, 2020 by Joe Marchese | 4 Comments

Since 1958, McCabe’s Guitar Shop has been a premier destination on Pico Boulevard in Santa Monica, California. Eleven years after its founding, McCabe’s began hosting concerts in a tradition that continues to this very day. Over the years, numerous notables have recorded albums at the small venue (capacity of around 150) including Mike Bloomfield, Townes Van Zandt, Maria Muldaur, and Tom Paxton. Now, thanks to 7a Records, that roster has a stellar new addition. Late in 2019, the label specializing in all things Monkees released Cosmic Partners: The McCabe’s Tapes, preserving for…

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Release Round-Up: Week of November 15

November 15, 2019 by Sam Stone | No Comments

Welcome to another installment of Release Round-Up! Here’s what’s on the way this week. David Bowie, Conversation Piece [Various Formats] (Parlophone/Rhino) Conversation Piece box set: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Space Oddity 2019 Mix CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Space Oddity 2019 Mix LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada “Space Oddity” 360 Reality Audio single: Amazon HD / TIDAL / Deezer Links TBD The 5-CD box Conversation Piece traces David Bowie’s development as a songwriter and performer throughout 1968-1969 with home demos, BBC sessions, and studio recordings with his friend and collaborator John “Hutch” Hutchinson and the mime group Feathers. The box also…

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Culture, David Bowie, Ethiopian, Junior Byles, Justin Hinds, Michael Nesmith, Red Rhodes, Ron Wood, Sting, The Band, The Clash, The Gladiators

Grand Ennui: 7a Premieres Michael Nesmith and Red Rhodes’ 1973 California Concert

October 7, 2019 by Joe Marchese | No Comments

Following last year’s acclaimed Live at the Troubadour, 7a Records has unveiled a new live title from another period in the storied career of Michael Nesmith. Cosmic Partners – The McCabe’s Tapes, due on November 15 in CD and LP formats, spotlights the artist with his longtime musical soul brother Red Rhodes and a small group of musicians. It was recorded on August 18, 1973 at McCabe’s Guitar Shop in Santa Monica, California. Nesmith hit the road in 1973 for a mini-tour in support of his final album for RCA Victor, Pretty…

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