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Release Round-Up: Week of September 13

September 13, 2024 by The Second Disc | No Comments

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of the new titles in stores today! As an Amazon affiliate, we earn from qualifying purchases. Louis Armstrong, Wonderful World: The Best of Louis Armstrong (Verve/UMe) CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada This 13-song sampler draws on Satchmo’s 1951-1967 recordings for the Decca, Verve, Kapp, and ABC-Paramount labels and includes many of his most beloved songs as both a vocalist and trumpeter such as “Hello, Dolly!,” “What a Wonderful World,” “A…

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Blu-Ray Audio, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl

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Blues, Classic Rock, Holiday, Jazz, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, Rock

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Amy Grant, Continental Drifters, Frank Zappa, Lightnin' Hopkins, Louis Armstrong, Nick Lowe, Sonny Terry, Tori Amos, Vince Gill

Release Round-Up: Week of June 21

June 21, 2024 by The Second Disc | 3 Comments

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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. Joni Mitchell, The Asylum Albums 1976-1980 (Rhino/Asylum) 5CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Rhino.com 6LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Rhino.com The Asylum Albums (1976-1980) arrives on 5 CDs, 6 LPs, and digital formats, completing the Asylum period of Mitchell’s extraordinary career. Whereas 1972-1975 represented the peak of Mitchell’s hitmaking years, 1976-1980 captured her in innovative, experimental mode. Following the tour for 1975’s The Hissing of Summer Lawns, she embarked on a period of personal rediscovery…

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

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Blues, Classic Rock, Folk, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks

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Avril Lavigne, Brownie McGhee, Celine Dion, Daryl Hall, Frank Zappa, Grateful Dead, Jethro Tull, Joni Mitchell, Lightnin' Hopkins, Melanie, Olivia Newton-John, Sonny Terry, Tom Petty

How Can I Keep From Singing: Pete Seeger’s Centennial Celebrated With “The Smithsonian Collection,” 6-CD Box Including Previously Unreleased Music

February 20, 2019 by Sam Stone | No Comments

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May 3rd will mark 100 years since the birth of Pete Seeger. He was a musician of incalculable influence, an activist, lyricist, banjo picker, and, most significantly, a unifier of the masses. Like a Johnny Appleseed of music, Pete Seeger spent his life spreading music to all that would listen. From “We Shall Overcome” and “If I Had A Hammer,” and “The Bells of Rhymney,” to “Turn! Turn! Turn!” “Wimoweh,” and “Kisses Sweeter Than Wine,” Seeger left an indelible mark on music history that crosses genres, languages, and cultures. With a career…

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Box Sets, CD

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Folk

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Big Bill Broonzy, Brownie McGhee, Lee Hays, Mary Travers, Memphis Slim, Mike Seeger, Peggy Seeger, Pete Seeger, Sonny Terry, The Almanac Singers, Tom Glazer, Willie Dixon, Woody Guthrie

Release Round-Up: Week of January 11

January 11, 2019 by The Second Disc | No Comments

Welcome to today’s Release Round-Up! Taking Back Sunday, Twenty (Craft Recordings) 1CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada This 21-track anthology, available on single CD, double LP, and digital formats, celebrates 20 years of Taking Back Sunday drawing on all seven of the band’s studio albums as well as newly-recorded material. Watch for more coverage of this title later today! The Flying Burrito Bros., Burrito Deluxe (LP) (Intervention Records) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Links TBD) This deluxe,…

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News

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CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl

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Blues, Classic Rock, Folk, Rock

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Brownie McGhee, Dave Van Ronk, Lead Belly, Sonny Terry, Taking Back Sunday, The Doors, The Flying Burrito Brothers

Can’t Help Myself: Smithsonian Folkways Announces Dave Van Ronk, Lead Belly, and Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee Vinyl Reissues

January 7, 2019 by Sam Stone | 1 Comment

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Smithsonian Folkways Recordings is one of America’s iconic record labels. When Moses Asch started Folkways in 1948, his goal was to create an audio encyclopedia of the world. And 70 years and one Smithsonian Institution acquisition later, it’s safe to say they’ve stayed on track with that creed. Their repertoire now includes the 2,000+ classic Folkways titles, as well as the back catalog of other legendary labels like Cook, Paredon, Dyer-Bennett, Arhoolie, and The UNESCO Collection of Traditional Music, plus new releases by the current torchbearers of folksong. That extensive catalog boasts…

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News

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Vinyl

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Blues, Folk

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Brownie McGhee, Dave Van Ronk, Lead Belly, Sonny Terry