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Long Train Runnin’: The Doobie Brothers’ “The Captain and Me” Returns as Audiophile Blu-ray

December 10, 2025 by The Second Disc | No Comments

Hot on the heels of a recent, lengthy 50th anniversary tour and the 2025 album Walk This Road (both of which reunited the band with Michael McDonald), The Doobie Brothers will revisit 1973’s their 2x Platinum third album, The Captain & Me, in a new Audiophile Edition. It’s due January 9 on Blu-ray from Rhino. The Captain & Me built on the success of its predecessor, the California band’s breakthrough Toulouse Street, and kicked off a run of seven consecutive top 10 album smashes for the Doobies. The album balanced Tom Johnston’s hard…

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OUT TOMORROW! The Second Disc, Lemon Collect Nicolette Larson’s Warner Bros. Albums on “Look In My Direction”

November 13, 2025 by The Second Disc | 6 Comments

On the evenings of February 21 and 22, 1998, a host of musicians took the stage of the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium to pay tribute to one of their own. Linda Ronstadt, Carole King, Jackson Browne, Jimmy Buffett, Bonnie Raitt, and Crosby, Stills and Nash were just a few of the artists who paid their respects in song to the late Nicolette Larson. The luminous singer with the honeyed voice had unexpectedly died just a couple of months earlier at the far too young age of 45. In the decades since her…

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Andrew Gold, Christopher Cross, Emmylou Harris, Linda Ronstadt, Litle Feat, Michael McDonald, Nicolette Larson, Steve Goodman, Ted Templeman, The Doobie Brothers

It’s Gonna Take a Lotta Love: The Second Disc, Lemon Collect Nicolette Larson’s Warner Bros. Albums on “Look In My Direction”

September 17, 2025 by The Second Disc | 16 Comments

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Andrew Gold, Christopher Cross, Emmylou Harris, Linda Ronstadt, Little Feat, Michael McDonald, Nicolette Larson, Steve Goodman, Ted Templeman, The Doobie Brothers

Release Round-Up: Week of June 6

June 6, 2025 by The Second Disc | 2 Comments

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. Dusty Springfield, Longing (Real Gone Music) CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Real Gone Music premieres a lost album from Dusty Springfield: 1974’s Longing. Produced by Brooks Arthur, the album features a number of singer-songwriter-oriented compositions including songs from Colin Blunstone (“Exclusively for Me”), Melissa Manchester and Carole Bayer Sager (“Home to Myself”), Janis Ian (“In the Winter”), Stephen Schwartz (“Corner of the Sky” from…

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Digital Download, Digital Streaming

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CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl

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Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Funk, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rock

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Alden Shuman, Cynthia Erivo, Dusty Springfield, Eli Paperboy Reed, Joe Henderson, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Megan Hilty, My Chemical Romance, Pulp, Rick James, Seth MacFarlane, Steely Dan, The Doobie Brothers, War, Woody Shaw

The Weekend Stream: May 17, 2025

May 17, 2025 by The Second Disc | 4 Comments

Welcome to another edition of The Weekend Stream, The Second Disc’s review of notable catalogue titles (and some new ones, too!) making digital debuts. A positively packed volume offers legends of pop, rock and country revisiting and interpreting some classic tracks; catalogue favorites from Britney to Sheena and Connie to Katrina; intriguing film scores and show tunes; and remembrances of a few legends we lost this week. Steve Perry & Willie Nelson, “Faithfully” (Dark Horse) (Apple / Amazon) One of rock’s most recognizable voices joins forces with country’s most enduring living icon! Former Journey…

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The Weekend Stream: March 15, 2025

March 15, 2025 by Mike Duquette | 2 Comments

Welcome to another edition of The Weekend Stream, The Second Disc’s review of notable catalogue titles (and some new ones, too!) making digital debuts. We’ve got some early classics in Atmos from England’s not-so-newest hitmakers, a soundtrack to a classic Tom Petty streaming feature, and new tracks from some of our favorite women in pop and rock! The Rolling Stones, The Rolling Stones EP / The Rolling Stones (U.K.) / England’s Newest Hit Makers / Five by Five EP / 12 X 5 / The Rolling Stones No. 2 / The Rolling Stones, Now! / Let…

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Chappell Roan, HAIM, The Doobie Brothers, The Rolling Stones, Tom Petty, Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers

The Weekend Stream: January 25, 2025

January 25, 2025 by Mike Duquette | 2 Comments

Welcome to another edition of The Weekend Stream, The Second Disc’s review of notable catalogue titles (and some new ones, too!) making digital debuts! A quiet week previews a new album by The Doobie Brothers, revisits the latest from one of TSD’s favorite indie singer-songwriters, and so much more – plus a reminder of how you can help one of our favorite reissue labels, one that’s been affected by the ongoing fires in California. Doobie Brothers, Walk This Road (Rhino) (iTunes / Amazon) The Doobie Brothers are giving a preview of their…

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Classic Rock, Comedy, Country, Disco/Dance, Folk, Latin, Rock

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Ernie Kovacs, Hank Snow, Livingston Taylor, Steve Wariner, The Doobie Brothers

Release Round-Up: Week of December 13

December 13, 2024 by The Second Disc | No Comments

It’s Friday the 13th, but it just might be your lucky day for reissues! Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of the titles available today. As an Amazon affiliate, we earn from qualifying purchases. Luther Vandross, Never Too Much: Greatest Hits (Epic/Legacy) 2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada In conjunction with a new documentary film, Legacy Recordings issues a new double-disc anthology of the late Luther Vandross’ work, accompanied by several rare and unreleased tracks. Never Too Much: Greatest Hits offers 20 tracks on two CDs that represent the…

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Anais Mitchell, David Grisman, Foghat, Jason Robert Brown, Jefferson Starship, Jerry Garcia, Luther Vandross, Stephen Sondheim, The Doobie Brothers, The J. Geils Band, Wham!, Yachtley Crew

Listen to the Music: Rhino’s New Batch of Quadio Titles Includes Doobie Brothers, Jefferson Starship, J. Geils Band, Foghat

October 18, 2024 by Joe Marchese | 1 Comment

Rhino’s ongoing series of Quadio four-channel surround releases on Blu-ray Audio Discs has already presented a host of classic albums by the eclectic likes of Joni Mitchell, Bette Midler, Bread, Chicago, Seals and Crofts, Spinners, Randy Newman, and many others. Today, the label announced a new batch with three returning artists (The Doobie Brothers, Jefferson Starship, J. Geils Band) and one band new to Quadio (Foghat). Each of the four discs, currently available exclusively from Rhino.com, has a quadraphonic mix and a 192/24 stereo mix. British rock band Foghat‘s third album, Energized,…

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Listen to the Music: Rhino’s Rocktober Slate Features Doobie Brothers, Yes, Fleetwood Mac, Monkees, More

October 10, 2024 by The Second Disc | 5 Comments

Rhino’s annual Rocktober campaign – this year encompassing 43 limited edition colored vinyl reissues of rockers both classic and contemporary – kicked off on October 4 with titles from Black Sabbath, Bush, Deep Purple, Devo, The Doobie Brothers, Fleetwood Mac, The Monkees, Stone Temple Pilots, and more. Next, on October 18, the collection will grow to include releases from Ramones and The Velvet Underground. The slate concludes on October 25 with The Cars, Foghat, Iron Butterfly, and more, including a second volume of Yes’ Yessingles. As usual, Rocktober titles will only be…

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Rhino Ushers In Summer with Frankie Valli, Van Morrison, Linda Ronstadt, Randy Newman, Chicago, Grateful Dead, and More

July 1, 2024 by The Second Disc | 5 Comments

Today, Rhino announced its new Sounds of the Summer initiative, which will see a total of over two dozen vinyl releases hitting brick-and-mortar stores beginning this Friday, July 5, and continuing throughout the month of July. These titles encompass various reissues as well as new entries in the label’s ongoing Now Playing series of compilations. As of now, these LPs are all exclusive to independent record stores and Barnes & Noble locations. You’ll find the full list of releases below including descriptions courtesy of TSD. July 5 Genesis, And Then There Were…

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Al Stewart, Chicago, Crosby Stills and Nash, Daryl Hall and John Oates, Fleetwood Mac, Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons, George Benson, Grateful Dead, Jimmy Cliff, Linda Ronstadt, Little Feat, Randy Newman, Rod Stewart, Sonny and Cher, The Doobie Brothers, Utopia, Van Morrison, War, Yes

Baby Let’s Swing: Rhino Celebrates 45 Years with Limited Edition Reissues from Doors, Aretha, Otis, Todd, Chicago, Ramones, More

August 7, 2023 by The Second Disc | 12 Comments

Since its founding 45 years ago by Richard Foos and Harold Bronson, Rhino Records has established itself as the gold standard in catalogue music. Though much has changed over the decades, the label still maintains a prodigious schedule of releases which has lately encompassed such top-tier titles as Joni Mitchell’s Archives series, the Quadio line of reissues, deluxe editions from Little Feat, and a host of Record Store Day releases. Now, to celebrate its anniversary, Rhino has announced the launch of “Rhino Reds,” a series of limited-edition LP reissues all pressed on…

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Aretha Franklin, Chicago, Foreigner, Love, Otis Redding, Ramones, Starship, The B-52's, The Doobie Brothers, The Doors, Todd Rundgren, Zapp

Release Round-Up: Week of October 29

October 29, 2021 by The Second Disc | 3 Comments

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Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up! R.E.M., New Adventures in Hi-Fi: 25th Anniversary Edition (Craft Recordings) 2CD/1BD (now due November 19): Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2CD (now due November 12) : Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2LP (Original album only; out today): Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Craft Recordings is continuing its ongoing R.E.M. reissue series with a 25th anniversary edition of the Georgia band’s tenth studio album New Adventures in Hi-Fi. A 2CD/1BD Deluxe Edition will present the newly remastered original album, a disc of B-sides and rarities, and a Blu-ray with numerous features…

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Buck Owens, Emerson Lake and Palmer, Joe Grushecky and the Iron City Houserockers, Johnny Cash, Nat King Cole, Pink Floyd, R.E.M., Spice Girls, The Doobie Brothers, Whitesnake

Review: The Doobie Brothers, “Quadio”

September 8, 2020 by Joe Marchese | 22 Comments

“What the people need is a way to make ’em smile/It ain’t so hard to do if you know how,” goes The Doobie Brothers’ “Listen to the Music,” the opening song (and lead single) off the San Jose, California band’s sophomore album Toulouse Street. The Doobies knew how – and so does Quadio, the new, four-Blu-ray box set recently released by Warner Records and Rhino collecting the band’s second through fifth albums in their original quadraphonic and stereo mixes. Quadio follows Chicago’s box set of the same name. The four-channel quad mixes…

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Release Round-Up: Week of September 4

September 4, 2020 by The Second Disc | 4 Comments

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up! Rolling Stones, Goats Head Soup [Various Formats] (Polydor/Interscope/UMe) 3CD/Blu-ray: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 1CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 4LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 1LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2LP clear: The Rolling Stones Shop Cassette: The Rolling Stones Shop The Rolling Stones are revisiting their 1973 classic Goats Head Soup in a variety of new, remastered editions. The standard edition includes a new 2020 stereo mix on 1 CD. The 2CD deluxe edition features the new mix plus a disc of rarities and alternate mixes. Among…

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Billy Ocean, Bob James, Burt Bacharach, Daniel Tashian, Elton John, Emerson Lake and Palmer, Fleetwood Mac, Joan Jett, Labi Siffre, Sara Evans, T Rex, The Doobie Brothers, The Rolling Stones, Todd Rundgren, U2

Stampede: The Doobie Brothers Announce “Quadio,” Featuring Rare ’70s Surround Sound Mixes

August 4, 2020 by The Second Disc | 22 Comments

After years of speculation, Rhino has announced a new box set of rare 1970s quadraphonic surround sound mixes from The Doobie Brothers called Quadio. A follow-up to 2016’s successful Chicago box set of the same name, the Doobies’ Quadio is a limited-edition Blu-ray Audio set featuring the original quadraphonic surround mixes for the band’s second, third, fourth, and fifth LPs, all of which were produced by Ted Templeman. These four-channel mixes were available in stores on special surround sound-encoded LPs and reel-to-reel tapes back in the ’70s and are still lauded for…

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Release Round-Up: Week of June 28

June 28, 2019 by The Second Disc | 5 Comments

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up! Various Artists, Motown: The Complete No. 1s (Motown/UMe) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) For its 60th anniversary year, UMe has begun reminding fans that “Motown Did It First“; now, Motown is revisiting an essential box set that was originally released in celebration of its 50th anniversary a decade ago. Motown: The Complete No. 1s features more than 200 international chart-toppers, plus a handful of bonus masters that went to No. 1 through cover versions or samples. And the packaging is a delight: the…

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Bay City Rollers, Chris Stamey, Dave Grusin, David Bowie, Iggy Pop, Jakob Dylan, Kylie Minogue, Miles Davis, The B-52's, The Doobie Brothers

Listen to the Music: Doobie Brothers Bring “Live from The Beacon Theatre” to CD, DVD, BD

June 3, 2019 by Joe Marchese | No Comments

As The Doobie Brothers gear up for their North American summer tour with co-headliners Santana, Rhino is looking back to a recent concert for a new release. In November 2018, the Doobies, led by Tom Johnston, Patrick Simmons, and John McFee, returned to New York City’s historic Beacon Theatre for the first time in 25 years to perform two of the band’s greatest albums, Toulouse Street and The Captain and Me. Both audio and video of that special performance are now set for release from Rhino on June 28. The Doobie Brothers:…

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Release Round-Up: Week of July 24

July 24, 2015 by Joe Marchese | 3 Comments

Today’s Release Round-Up features an array of high-resolution music, plus box sets, vintage reissues, live albums and more! Roger Waters, Amused to Death (Remixed Editions) (Columbia/Legacy) Roger Waters revisits his 1992 album Amused to Death, featuring contributions from Don Henley, Rita Coolidge, P.P. Arnold, Andy Fairweather Low and Michael Kamen, in a variety of formats featuring new stereo and 5.1 surround mixes. Read our full coverage here. CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. CD / Blu-ray: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. Hybrid SACD: Amazon U.S. TBD / Amazon U.K. Digital download: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. 2LP 200…

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Joe Walsh, Roger Waters, The Doobie Brothers, The Knack, The Rolling Stones, Todd Rundgren, Utopia, Various Artists

Takin’ It To the Streets: Rhino Announces 10-CD Doobie Brothers Box Set Collecting 1971-1983 Albums

July 13, 2015 by Randy Fairman | 8 Comments

Rhino Records is continuing to release complete album box sets of artists in their catalog. We’ve recently told you about sets for Chicago, Alice Cooper, and America and the label has just announced another similar box for The Doobie Brothers. The Warner Bros. Years 1971 -1983 features the band’s 10 albums recorded during that period, and it’s set to be released in under two weeks on July 24. The core of The Doobie Brothers was formed when drummer John Hartman and guitarist/singer/songwriter Tom Johnston decided to start a band in California in 1969. The two…

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Rare Gems Hidden in New “Playlist” Wave

January 21, 2013 by Joe Marchese | No Comments

The latest wave of Playlist releases is almost here from Legacy Recordings, and the series dedicated to collecting “the hits plus the fan favorites” doesn’t look to disappoint. On January 29, Playlist volumes will be released for an eclectic cadre of artists in a variety of genres: vintage metal (Accept), traditional pop (Andy Williams), blue-eyed soul (The Box Tops), classic rock (Mountain, The Doobie Brothers, Harry Nilsson), country (Sara Evans, The Highwaymen), hip-hop (G. Love and Special Sauce, Nas), rock-and-roll (Carl Perkins, Jerry Lee Lewis) and even New Age (Yanni). There are…

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Mountain, Nas, Sara Evans, The Box Tops, The Doobie Brothers, The Highwaymen

Rhino Unleashes “Original Album Series” in Europe

October 18, 2011 by Mike Duquette | No Comments

Ever feel like all the fancy bonus content and packaging on some reissues totally overshadows the music? Rhino’s European division must’ve felt so, too: they released a handful of Original Album Series boxes a few weeks ago, featuring a lot of music with a minimum of frills and a relatively low price. The titles – five albums by one artist, housed in mini-LP cardboard sleeves and put into a box – are the ideal quick, easy discography builder for new fans or collectors with a few notable gaps on their shelves. A myriad…

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Montrose, Pantera, Randy Newman, Sergio Mendes, Sister Sledge, The Doobie Brothers, Tim Buckley

Listen To The Music: Doobie Brothers Catalogue Expanded In The U.K.

September 2, 2011 by Joe Marchese | No Comments

Are you ready to listen to the music? If you are, you’re in for quite a treat. The U.K.’s Edsel label has just launched a series of expanded Doobie Brothers remasters, encompassing the band’s first eight studio albums (1971-1978) as four 2-CD packages. Doobie Brothers/Toulouse Street and The Captain and Me/What Once Were Vices were just released this past Monday, while Stampede/Takin’ It to the Streets and Livin’ On The Fault Line/Minute by Minute follow on September 26. These eight albums nearly represent the entirety of the band’s pre-retirement career; only 1980’s…

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Eagles, Deep Purple, Yes! Out-Of-Print DVD-Audios Coming To SACD

July 15, 2011 by Joe Marchese | No Comments

It wasn’t so long ago that high-resolution audio formats like SACD and DVD-Audio were shelved alongside CDs at major retailers such as Best Buy, Barnes and Noble and Borders. Yet with today’s retail landscape perhaps irrevocably altered (and still evolving and shrinking, thanks to the likely-imminent liquidation of Borders), those formats have been consigned to niche shoppers. For those who discovered high-rez and 5.1 audio late, the best source for many releases has been eBay, often at outrageously steep prices. Well, slight relief may be forthcoming. The Japanese SACD market has been booming of…

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