The Year In Review: The 2021 Gold Bonus Disc Awards, From A to Z – Part Two

Happy 2022!  Welcome, friends, to Part Two of The Second Disc’s 12th Annual Gold Bonus Disc Awards! Once again, we’ve all faced unprecedented challenges over the past twelve months.  A year that began with hope and promise has ended with further uncertainty for many of us.  But music continues to fill a significant role in our lives, providing solace, comfort, and escape in a time unlike any other.  With that spirit in mind, The Second Disc wishes to recognize 2021’s cream of the catalogue music crop – those exemplary reissues and box…

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Release Round-Up: Week of December 3

Welcome to the first Release Round-Up of the last month of 2021! The Doors, L.A. Woman: 50th Anniversary Edition (Elektra/Rhino) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Rhino.com) The sixth and final studio album from The Doors featuring Jim Morrison gets a 50th anniversary expansion from Rhino on 3 CDs and 1 LP.  The original stereo album (newly remastered by Bruce Botnick) is present on both CD and LP while the bonus discs have more than two hours of previously unreleased sessions.  The first CD also includes two bonus tracks, a previously unheard Sunset Sound recording…

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You Make My Day: Omnivore Collects Trini Lopez’s “Rare Reprise Singles”

Singer-guitarist Trini Lopez, Texas-born and of Mexican descent, skyrocketed to fame with his 1963 recording of Pete Seeger’s “If I Had a Hammer.”  Lopez’s bright and spirited rendition of the protest song went to No. 3 on the Billboard Hot 100 and even eclipsed Peter, Paul, and Mary’s Grammy-winning top ten hit of one year earlier.  It launched Lopez to a successful career as an all-around entertainer, television and film actor, and prolific recording artist.  “If I Had a Hammer” came to disc because producer-arranger Don Costa caught Lopez’s act at the…

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