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“The Great Yellow Light” (his 21st studio album; producers: Nile, Stewart Lerman; guests: Steve Earle, Paul Brady, Rob Hyman, Eric Bazilian, Larry Kirwan, Waddy Wachtel, et al; new single: “We Are, We Are”; Hear here; Vinyl; Download; Apple Music; On Tour)
River House
Joshua Redman
“Words Fall Short” (eight original compositions, with his new quartet: pianist Paul Cornish, bassist Philip Norris, drummer Nazir Ebo; guests: vocalist Gabrielle Cavassa, saxophonist Melissa Aldana, trumpeter Skylar Tang; new single: “A Message to Unsend”; Hear here; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Download; Apple Music; On Tour)
“Sweet Relief: We Can Help” (Double CD; 18-track compilation benefits Sweet Relief Musicians Fund, featuring Lucinda Williams, Ben Harper, Richard Thompson, Sixpence None the Richer, Peter Case, Laura Veirs, et al; new single: “Hallelujah, I’m a Bum,” Michael Penn and Aimee Mann; Hear here; Double Vinyl)
Flatiron Recordings
Edna Vazquez
“Te Esperaba” (Mexican-born, Portland, OR-based artist’s first full album in traditional Mexican music styles; new single: “Te Esperaba”; See here; Vinyl; Download; Apple Music)
“do it afraid” (Brooklyn R&B singer-songwriter’s sixth album; 18 songs; guests: Nigel Hall, Butcher Brown, Father Philis, Rahrah Gabor, Exaktly; new single: “raisins”; See here; Read here; CD out Aug. 15; Apple Music; On Tour)
“Every Ghost” (Kentucky singer-songwriter’s sixth album; recorded at Southern Grooves studio in Memphis with her band, The Muleskinners; new single: “Tiger Lillies”; See here; Vinyl; Apple Music; On Tour)
Oh Boy
Tyler Bradley Walker
“The Sun The Moon The Earth and Me” (Gone to Color member’s debut solo album; producer: Walker, Brian Deck; new single: “Moon Broke Quiet,” feat. Tim Rutili of Califone; See here)
“Bright Lights 1974-1983” (six-CD clamshell box set includes the band’s five albums, along with their U.S. Top 5 hit “Der Kommissar” and demos, B-sides and live tracks; See here; Read here; Amazon UK)
“Christopher Cross (Expanded Edition)” (1979 debut album, featuring “Ride Like the Wind,” “Sailing” and “Never Be the Same”; won Grammys for Album, Song and Record of the Year, as well as Best New Artist; with previously unreleased demos and bonus tracks recorded during the album’s sessions; See here; Vinyl; Amazon.ca; Download released on May 2; Apple Music; On Tour, with Toto and Men At Work)
“The LP Collection Vol. 1” (two-CD set contains “The Bobby Goldsboro Album,” “I Can’t Stop Loving You,” “Little Things” and “Broomstick Cowboy,” with 14 bonus cuts)
JGJ Records
Melanie
“United Kingdom Live” (20-song performance in Morecambe, a seaside town in Lancashire, from 2008, featuring her son Beau Jarred on guitar; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca)
Cleopatra
John Mellencamp
“A Biography” (his second album, from 1978, credited as Johnny Cougar; initially released by Riva Records in the U.K. and Australia but not the U.S.; “I Need a Lover” was a Top 10 hit in Australia but didn’t surface in the U.S. until his third album, “John Cougar,” in 1979; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Merch)
“Natural Gas (Original Master Edition)” (1976 debut album from supergroup featuring Joey Molland, Jerry Shirley, Mark Clarke and Peter Wood; remastered, with 10 bonus tracks: two pre-album demos and eight live soundboard recordings)
