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November 1, 2024 By The Second Disc 1 Comment

King of America and Other Realms

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of the new titles out today.  As an Amazon affiliate, we earn from qualifying purchases. Elvis Costello, King of America and Other Realms (UMe) 6CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 140-gram Black LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 140-gram Gold Nugget LP: Official Store / uDiscover Music / The Sound of Vinyl Elvis Costello is looking back on his tenth

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Categories: Holiday Gift Guide Formats: Blu-Ray Audio, CD, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Country, Folk, Holiday, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Carly Simon, Carpenters, Chicago, Elvis Costello, Kelly Clarkson, Melanie, Ronnie Milsap, Seal, The Flaming Lips, Todd Rundgren, Uncle Walt's Band, Weezer, Willie Nelson

September 19, 2024 By Mike Duquette 1 Comment

RonnieMilsap BestOf LPVinyl Black

The smooth, blockbuster country sound of Ronnie Milsap is coming back to vinyl. Craft Recordings will issue a wide-release black LP pressing of 2020's The Best of Ronnie Milsap, issued on CD and digitally not long after the label became the home for Milsap's winning streak of RCA Records albums and singles through the '70s, '80s and beyond. (A dark-red vinyl was issued exclusively for Cracker Barrel stores back then; this time around, a "tan smoke" variant will be available to Milsap's top

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Categories: News Formats: Vinyl Genre: Country Tags: Ronnie Milsap

March 11, 2022 By The Second Disc 3 Comments

KISS Off the Soundboard Virginia Beach

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of the titles arriving in stores today! Grateful Dead, Road Trips Vol. 1 No. 4: From Egypt with Love (Real Gone Music) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) A little over a month after playing a concert on the desert grounds surrounding the Great Pyramids of Giza in Egypt, the Grateful Dead returned home to San Francisco for a five-show stint at Winterland.  The band brought along a slide show of their Egyptian stand

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Country, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Soundtracks Tags: Alison Krauss, Amy Grant, Bryan Adams, Carole King, Celine Dion, Dolly Parton, Grateful Dead, Hank Williams, Harry Connick Jr., Irma Thomas, KISS, Liza Minnelli, Michael Feinstein, Ronnie Milsap, Rosanne Cash, Vince Gill

April 30, 2021 By The Second Disc 4 Comments

Nesmith Packshot

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

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Blu-Ray, Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, DVD, Vinyl Genre: Blues, Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Classical/Opera, Country, Everything Else, Jazz, R&B/Soul Tags: 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

May 29, 2020 By The Second Disc 2 Comments

Ronnie Milsap The Best Of

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! Ronnie Milsap, The Best of Ronnie Milsap (Craft Recordings) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) The Best of Ronnie Milsap gathers up 12 of the artist's biggest hits from his first tenure at RCA, including "It Was Almost Like a Song," "Any Day Now," and "What a Difference You've Made in My Life." Craft's parent company, Concord Music, acquired the rights to 16 of Milsap's RCA albums from between 1977-2006 last year, and this is the first

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, DVD, Vinyl Genre: Blues, Classic Rock, Country, Disco/Dance, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: David Bowie, Def Leppard, Diana Ross, Iggy Pop, Jimmy Buffett, John Lee Hooker, Lady Gaga, Petula Clark, Prince, Ronnie Milsap, Rush

April 9, 2020 By Randy Fairman 8 Comments

Ronnie Milsap The Best Of

Craft Recordings has just announced a new collection celebrating country superstar Ronnie Milsap. Due out on May 29, The Best of Ronnie Milsap gathers up 12 of the artist's biggest hits from his first tenure at RCA. Craft's parent company, Concord Music, acquired the rights to 16 of Milsap's RCA albums from between 1977-2006 last year, and this is the first physical product to come from the acquisition (an expanded digital version of this compilation featuring 25 songs was released last June by

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Country, Pop Tags: Ronnie Milsap

January 18, 2019 By The Second Disc Leave a Comment

John Lennon 75th Birthday Concert

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! Rush, In Rio [4-LP Vinyl] (Atlantic/Rhino) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Recorded live during their 2002 "comeback" tour, Rush's In Rio was originally released on CD and DVD in 2003. Now, the 28-song set featuring hits and deep cuts from across their career arrives on vinyl for the first time, across four 180-gram discs. The collection includes all 29 songs from the Rio gig, plus two bonus tracks recorded at other stops during the

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Country, Pop, Rock Tags: Hot Tuna, Jefferson Airplane, Joe Jackson, John Lennon, Ronnie Milsap, Rush

March 20, 2018 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Soul on Fire

Cherry Red's Soul Time imprint is on fire!  The crate-digging team there unearthed two box sets' worth of R&B rarities in the final months of 2017 that we're happy to spotlight now! Mr. M's Northern Soul 1974-1981 is a 3-CD set celebrating the "oldies room" at the Wigan Casino, the late, fondly-remembered club in Wigan, England famous for its northern soul all-nighters held each Saturday from 2 a.m. to 8 a.m. Sunday morning.  Mr. M's was born out of necessity in 1974, a "club within a

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: R&B/Soul Tags: Bunny Sigler, Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons, Marv Johnson, Ronnie Milsap, The Contours, The Falcons, Tony Joe White, Various Artists

March 14, 2018 By Randy Fairman 3 Comments

Ronnie Milsap Almost Like a Song Four Fer

As one of the biggest country music stars of the 1970s and 1980s, Ronnie Milsap has had many compilations devoted to his career.  Recently, Cherry Red imprint Morello records released a 2-CD set featuring four of Milsap's albums from 1977 to 1980: It Was Almost Like A Song, Only One Love In My Life, Images and Milsap Magic.  It was during this period when Milsap began to experience his greatest successes as a crossover artist. By the time of 1977's It Was Almost Like A Song, Ronnie Milsap had

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Country, Pop Tags: Ronnie Milsap

November 14, 2016 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

Scepter Records Square

Sundazed Music has announced a trio of limited edition releases for Black Friday's Record Store Day event, and they're sure to be a crate-digger's delight. Scepter Records may today be best remembered as the home of Dionne Warwick's classic recordings, but the New York label founded by pioneering executive Florence Greenberg also gave a home to The Shirelles, B.J. Thomas, Chuck Jackson, Maxine Brown, and numerous other stars of soul and pop.  In addition, Greenberg nurtured a stable of some

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Jazz, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul Tags: B.J. Thomas, Ronnie Milsap, Sun Ra, The Shirelles, Tommy Hunt, Various Artists

March 17, 2016 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Where Soul Meets Country

Between 2012 and 2014, Ace issued three volumes of Where Country Meets Soul.  All three volumes featured many of the greatest soul singers of all time tackling country-and-western repertoire. Now, the label has revisited the country-soul territory - in reverse! Out of Left Field: Where Soul Meets Country presents 24 sizzling R&B songs as sung by country's greatest performers, and most are surprisingly comfortable fits. Stax thought it was onto something when it ushered Daaron Lee into the

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Country, R&B/Soul Tags: David Allan Coe, Johnny Cash, Johnny Paycheck, Loretta Lynn, Ronnie Milsap, Skeeter Davis, Tanya Tucker, Various Artists, Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson

February 8, 2016 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Dave Hamiltons Detroit Soul 2

When it comes to chronicling the various regional iterations of rock and soul, Ace Records has few equals.  The U.K. label's Kent imprint has two recent, rarities-packed collections touching on two American locales and their contributions to popular music. Dave Hamilton's Detroit Soul Volume Two brings together 24 tracks spanning the 1960s-1980s from Hamilton's small but prolific Motor City studios.  Hamilton had been a presence on the Detroit musical landscape since the late 1940s, and

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: R&B/Soul Tags: Carolyn Franklin, Martha Reeves and the Vandellas, Ronnie Milsap, Various Artists

October 1, 2014 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

ronnie milsap rca

Country music superstar Ronnie Milsap is having a great year. The Academy of Country Music has recognized him with a Career Achievement Award at the ACM Honors ceremony in Nashville, and in October, the “It Was Almost Like a Song” and “Any Day Now” singer will be inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame's 2014 class, alongside Mac Wiseman and the late Hank Cochran. Capping this incredible year of acclaim, however, will be the November 4 release from RCA Records and Legacy Recordings of The

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Country Tags: Ronnie Milsap

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