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November 15, 2024 By The Second Disc 8 Comments

George Harrison Living in the Material World 50th SDE Cover

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of the new titles available today...and, with the holidays approaching, it just might be the biggest release week of the year!  As an Amazon affiliate, we earn from qualifying purchases. George Harrison, Living in the Material World: 50th Anniversary (Dark Horse) 2CD/2LP/1BD/1-7": Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Blu-Ray, Blu-Ray Audio, Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Blues, Classic Rock, Comedy, Country, Disco/Dance, Folk, Holiday, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Burton Cummings, Dolly Parton, Donna Summer, Dwight Twilley, Elvis Costello, George Harrison, George Jones, Jimmy Reed, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Max Werner, Mickey Thomas, Misery Signals, Prince, Ray Charles, Ringo Starr, Robbie Robertson, Robert Gordon, Steve Martin, T Bone Burnett, The Tragically Hip, The Unfolding, Tina Turner

August 10, 2023 By Joe Marchese 8 Comments

Robbie Robertson Testimony

Storyteller, songwriter, guitarist, musicologist, singer: throughout a career spanning the 1950s through the present day, Jaime Royal "Robbie" Robertson wore many hats.  The Toronto-born musician joined his first band in 1956 and attracted the attention of Ronnie "The Hawk" Hawkins in 1959.  Hawkins liked what he heard, and recorded two of the teenaged Robertson's songs in 1959.  Before long, he was playing in Hawkins' band alongside fellow Canadians Rick Danko, Richard Manuel, and Garth Hudson,

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Categories: News Genre: Classic Rock, Rock Tags: Robbie Robertson, The Band

January 6, 2020 By Sam Stone 2 Comments

Bob Dylan Rolling Thunder Revue Cover

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

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Categories: Reviews Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Classic Rock Tags: Bob Dylan, Eric Andersen, Joan Baez, Joni Mitchell, Robbie Robertson, Roger McGuinn

September 20, 2019 By The Second Disc Leave a Comment

Gerry Rafferty Who Knows What the Day Will Bring

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! Judy Collins, The Elektra Albums: Volume Two (1970-1984) (Edsel) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Demon Music Group's Edsel label is following up its July release of Judy Collins' The Elektra Albums Volume One (1961-1968) with a second volume out today. The Elektra Albums Volume Two (1970-1984) finishes up the artist's Elektra Records tenure, comprising these nine releases on CD in their original sequences: Whales and Nightingales

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Folk, Jazz, Pop, Rock Tags: Alfred Drake, Allan Clarke, Anthony Perkins, Gerry Beckley, Gerry Rafferty, Herb Alpert, Judy Collins, Kaye Ballard, Margaret Whiting, Robbie Robertson, T.G. Sheppard, The Band, The Hollies

April 30, 2019 By Joe Marchese 3 Comments

Bob Dylan Rolling Thunder Revue Cover

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,

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Classic Rock, Rock Tags: Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Joni Mitchell, Mick Ronson, Robbie Robertson, Roger McGuinn

November 11, 2016 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

David Bowie Legacy

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up!  It's another big week for box sets from classic rock's heaviest hitters, and much, much more... Bob Dylan, The 1966 Live Recordings (Columbia/Legacy)  (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) 36 discs of music from Bob Dylan's 1966 world tour - every recording of the tour known to exist - are brought together on this monumental new collection.  Read our full review here! Bob Dylan, The Real Royal Albert Hall

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Blu-Ray, Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, DVD, Vinyl Genre: Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Country, Pop, Rock Tags: Black Sabbath, Bob Dylan, David Bowie, Garth Brooks, John Lennon, NRBQ, Pink Floyd, Robbie Robertson, Sting, The Band, Yoko Ono

August 7, 2015 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Dusty Come for a Dream

Welcome to another New Release Friday, and today's Release Round-Up! Dusty Springfield, Come for a Dream: The U.K. Sessions 1970-1971  (Real Gone) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.) Earlier this year, Real Gone released Faithful - a collection of Dusty Springfield's complete sessions with producer-songwriter Jeff Barry, compiled for the first time as originally envisioned on one disc.  Now, the label has turned its attention to Dusty's 1970-1971 London sessions intended for the album See All

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, R&B/Soul, Soundtracks Tags: Alex North, Ben E. King, Dusty Springfield, Elvis Presley, Georgie Fame, Mike Bloomfield, Robbie Robertson, Simon and Garfunkel, Tom Rush

June 16, 2015 By Joe Marchese 14 Comments

Lesley Gore Someplace Else Now

Are you ready to take a magic carpet ride with Real Gone Music this August? The label's slate for the month offers an array of rock, soul and pop heavy hitters including a number of CD debuts.  Two complete singles collections arrive, both on two CDs: one from John Kay and Steppenwolf (The Complete ABC/Dunhill Singles Collection), and another from the late, great Ben E. King (The Complete Atco/Atlantic Singles Volume 1).  Then, the label is offering up two rare soundtracks from bona fide rock

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, R&B/Soul, Soundtracks Tags: Alex North, Ben E. King, Dusty Springfield, Jorge Ben, Lesley Gore, Mike Bloomfield, Robbie Robertson, Steppenwolf

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