The Blind Boys of Alabama - The Second Disc

Release Round-Up: Week of November 4

November 4, 2016 by Joe Marchese | 2 Comments

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up, featuring a host of holiday offerings (including three new titles from Second Disc Records and Real Gone Music!) and much, much more! Jack Jones, The Jack Jones Christmas Album (Second Disc Records/Real Gone Music) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Second Disc Records and Real Gone Music proudly bring Jack Jones’ 1964 Kapp Records classic to CD for the very first time! The Jack Jones Christmas Album features lush renditions of “White Christmas,” “I’ll Be Home for Christmas,” and “The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting on…

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Release Round-Up

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Box Sets, CD, DVD, Digital Download, Vinyl

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Classic Rock, Country, Gospel, Holiday, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rock

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Bing Crosby, Eddy Arnold, Frank Zappa, Jack Jones, Mantovani, Margaret Whiting, Mitch Miller and the Gang, Mother Love Bone, Queen, Ray Conniff, Sammy Kaye, Stevie Nicks, , The Living Strings, The Norman Luboff Choir, The Robert Shaw Chorale, The Ventures

Release Round-Up: Week of May 13

May 13, 2016 by Joe Marchese | 1 Comment

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up! Linda Ronstadt, Frenesi (Remastered Edition) (Elektra/Rhino) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Linda Ronstadt’s 1992 Spanish-language album Frenesi returns to CD in a newly-remastered edition with no additional content. Consider this an appetizer for the upcoming expanded remaster of Trio! Allen Toussaint, The Complete Warner Recordings (Rhino) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Rhino has a reissue of its 2003 limited edition Rhino Handmade collection featuring the late New Orleans legend’s three 1970s Warner Bros. and Reprise albums (Life, Love and Faith;…

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Release Round-Up

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CD, Digital Download

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Classic Rock, Gospel, Jazz, Pop, R&B/Soul, Soundtracks

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Allen Toussaint, Grateful Dead, Henry Mancini, Linda Ronstadt, Miles Davis,

People Get Ready: The Blind Boys of Alabama’s Soul-Gospel Returns From Omnivore

May 12, 2016 by Joe Marchese | 2 Comments

Since first coming together as children at the Alabama Institute for the Blind in 1939, The Blind Boys of Alabama have forged a singular musical path. Forming professionally in 1944, the group has recorded over 60 albums, won five Grammy Awards, appeared in a Broadway musical, played on the world’s stages and spread the joyful sound of gospel everywhere. Tomorrow, May 13, Omnivore Recordings has newly-expanded editions of two of the group’s Grammy-winning albums: 2001’s Spirit of the Century and 2002’s Higher Ground. Both of these sublimely soulful and spirited albums bring a…

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CD, Digital Download

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Gospel, R&B/Soul

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