Release Round-Up: Week of June 2

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of the new titles available today. Sylvester, Disco Heat: The Fantasy Years 1977-1981 (Second Disc/Real Gone) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Real Gone Music) Disco Heat: The Fantasy Years 1977-1981 celebrates the late disco/dance music pioneer with 26 tracks on two CDs drawn from all six of his albums for the label, as well as the rare 12-inch Disco Versions that kept the dancefloors burning.  In addition to crossover smashes including “You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real)” and “Dance (Disco Heat),” the collection offers an array…

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The Weekend Stream: May 20, 2023

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 usher you into the weekend.From Rufus Wainwright to Lana Del Rey, Donna Summer to ZTT, we’re bringing you the goods. Rufus Wainwright, Rufus Wainwright (25th Anniversary Edition) (Geffen/UMe) (iTunes / Amazon) One of the best-reviewed albums of 1998 was the baroque-pop debut from singer/songwriter Rufus Wainright. With an incredible family pedigree (his parents are Loudon Wainwright III and Kate McGarrigle), he carved an…

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The Weekend Stream: August 7, 2022

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! From new remixes of old favorites and throwback remixes of new hits, to deep dives into ’80s alt-rock, mid-century easy listening, ’70s live folk and ’90s tracks to run on the beach in slow motion to…we’re pulling out all this stops this Sunday! Beyoncé & Madonna, Break My Soul (The Queens Remix) (Parkwood/Columbia) (iTunes / Amazon) Queen Bey had a busy month gearing…

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Release Round-Up: Week of June 11

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up! Black Sabbath, Sabotage: Super Deluxe Edition (Warner/Rhino) 4CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Rhino.com 4LP/7″: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Rhino.com Rhino is expanding Black Sabbath’s 1975 album Sabotage to 4CD and 4LP/7″ proportions.  The upcoming Super Deluxe Edition boasts a remastered version of the original album plus a complete live show from Sabbath’s 1975 tour.  The vinyl version only includes a bonus 7-inch single of the single edit of “Am I Going Insane (Radio)” b/w “Hole in the Sky,” replicating…

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One’s on the Way: New Loretta Lynn Album Due in March

Loretta Lynn’s fourth album for Legacy Recordings will be available this spring, it was announced yesterday. Still Woman Enough, available March 19, is the country icon’s fourth batch of songs recorded with producers Patsy Lynn Russell (her daughter) and John Carter Cash (Johnny Cash and June Carter’s son) at the legendary Cash Cabin studio in Hendersonville, Tennessee. It’s also her 60th album overall – an incredible body of work altogether. Thematically, this record focuses primarily on the tradition of women in the country genre. Four beloved female performers make guest appearances: Reba…

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Release Round-Up: Week of October 16

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up! Tom Petty, Wildflowers & All the Rest (Warner Records) 2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 3LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 4CD Deluxe Edition (above plus Home Recordings & Wildflowers Live): Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 7LP Deluxe Edition: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 5CD Super Deluxe Edition (above plus Finding Wildflowers): TomPetty.com 9LP Super Deluxe Edition: TomPetty.com 9LP Ultra Deluxe Edition: TomPetty.com (Sold out during pre-order period) The late Tom Petty’s long-awaited box dedicated to the gestation of his classic Wildflowers album is finally here.  Wildflowers & All The Rest rounds up the original 1994 album alongside several bonus discs of…

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Release Round-Up: Week of August 23

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up! Here’s what arriving today, August 23. Elvis Presley, American Sound 1969 (RCA/Legacy) (Amazon U.S.) The Elvis 1969 celebration continues! In January of that year, Presley and his band began sessions with producer Chips Moman at American Sound Studios in Memphis, which resulted in his acclaimed From Elvis In Memphis album and its lead single “In the Ghetto.” He also laid down such iconic songs as “Suspicious Minds,” “Kentucky Rain,” “Rubberneckin’,” and “Don’t Cry Daddy” at the famed studio. American Sound 1969 (available digitally today, with a…

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Walk Through The Sand: Morello Reissues Tanya Tucker’s Columbia Albums On A 2-CD Set

Cherry Red’s Morello imprint has been reissuing the discographies of country artists for years, and the label has recently taken a look at the beginning of country superstar Tanya Tucker’s career.  The new 2-CD compilation collects all of the singer’s four original 1970s studio albums for Columbia as she began her ascendancy to country royalty: Delta Dawn, What’s Your Mama’s Name, Would You Lay With Me (In A Field Of Stone) and You Are So Beautiful. Tucker’s debut recording on Columbia was released when she was just thirteen in 1972.  But she…

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Find Out What’s Happening: Ace Explores “Where Soul Meets Country” On New Collection

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 studio to re-record one of the label’s own hits, Johnnie Taylor’s “Who’s Making Love,” in…

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Go Crazy: Varese Collects “The Very Best of Paul Davis”

With hits like “Cool Night,” “I Go Crazy” and “’65 Love Affair,” Paul Davis established himself as one of the most appealing singer-songwriters of the late 1970s and early 1980s.  Yet the Mississippi native all but walked away from his solo career at the height of his fame, returning to his roots as a behind-the-scenes songwriter and making cameo appearances on others’ hit records.  Before his untimely death in 2008 at the age of 60, Davis notched fourteen Hot 100 hits and eight Top 40s.  Many of those beloved songs have been collected…

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