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Release Round-Up: Week of October 1

October 1, 2021 by The Second Disc | No Comments

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up! Neil Young, Official Bootleg Series Vol. 1: Carnegie Hall 1970 (Reprise/Shakey Pictures Records) 2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada The Neil Young Official Bootleg Series launches with Carnegie Hall 1970, featuring Young’s debut at the venerable venue on December 4, 1970 (the early show). Carnegie Hall 1970 will arrive on double vinyl, double CD, and digital formats (including high resolution), with the promise of five more Bootleg titles coming in 2022. The solo performance was captured on analog multitrack tape and mixed for this release by…

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

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Classic Rock, Country, Disco/Dance, Holiday, Jazz, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rock

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Arthur Baker, Artillery, Black Sabbath, Brandi Carlile, , Grateful Dead, Lady Gaga, Little Willie John, Loveland Duren, Melissa Etheridge, Metallica, Neil Young, Roger Taylor, Rudolph Johnson, Shep Pettibone, Toni Braxton, Tony Bennett, Uncle Walt's Band, Walter Bishop Jr.

You Give Me Fever: Real Gone’s October 1 Slate Includes Two Black Jazz Titles, Little Willie John, and Artillery

September 30, 2021 by Randy Fairman | 1 Comment

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Real Gone Music is once again serving up an eclectic array of music for their releases tomorrow, October 1. The four titles coming out include two 1973 albums from Walter Bishop Jr. and Rudolph Johnson as part of the label’s ongoing Black Jazz reissue series, a new compilation from 1950s R&B pioneer Little Willie John, and an album from Danish thrash metal group Artillery. First up is a pair of titles in Real Gone’s Black Jazz series. 1973’s Keeper of My Soul was Walter Bishop Jr.’s second album for the label after…

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CD, Vinyl

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Blues, Jazz, Rock

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Artillery, Little Willie John, Rudolph Johnson, Walter Bishop Jr.

Release Round-Up: Week of August 28

August 28, 2020 by The Second Disc | No Comments

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up! America, Half Century (America Records/Gonzo) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) The 50th anniversary celebration of America rolls on with a massive new box set. Half Century is an expansive 7-CD/1-DVD box packed with rare and previously unreleased material from the beloved band featuring Gerry Beckley, Dewey Bunnell, and the late Dan Peek. There’s a slew of unreleased demos circa 1970; a remastered full-length radio session in Bremen from 1973; rehearsals and demos for the Hideaway album; 11 unheard session recordings from 1981; a disc full of rarities…

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Box Sets, CD, DVD, Vinyl

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Blues, Classic Rock, Jazz, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock

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America, Bettye LaVette, Bobby Rush, Dan Penn, Doug Carn, Elliott Smith, Jean Carn, Jean Carne, Joao Gilberto, Louis Armstrong, Metallica, Oscar Peterson, Stan Getz, The Allman Betts Band, The Awakening, Unicorn, Walter Bishop Jr.

Awakening: Real Gone Music Announces Reissues of Rare and Sought-After Titles from Black Jazz Records

July 9, 2020 by Sam Stone | 4 Comments

Today, Real Gone Music announced the reissue of a batch of extremely hard-to-find albums from the legendary Black Jazz Records catalogue, due for release on August 28 on CD and LP. The legendary Black Jazz Records was founded in 1969 in Oakland, California by pianist Gene Russell and percussionist Dick Schory and released its first records in summer of 1971. From then on, it became a home for many emerging African-American jazz performers across a range of styles, including free jazz, soul-jazz, funk, fusion, and spiritual jazz. Though it was only around…

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CD, Vinyl

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Funk, Jazz

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Doug Carn, Gene Russell, Jean Carn, The Awakening, Walter Bishop Jr.