Must-Have Releases

Featuring the single ‘Bad Habits.’ Ed Sheeran Equals

Atlantic • Pop/Rock 14465662 $18.99 The fourth installment in Ed Sheeran’s symbol album series finds him taking stock of his life and the people in it, as he explores the varying degrees of love, loss, resilience, and fatherhood, while also processing his reality and career.

ABBA’s first new album in 40 years.

ABBA • Voyage

Capitol • Pop/Rock • Available November 5 14555850 $18.99 Before kicking off a series of unique concerts, which will utilize avatar technology, ABBA offers up new music. Among the ten new tracks are the songs Don’t Shut Me Down and I Still Have Faith in You.

Follow-up to the Grammy Award-winning Golden Hour.

Kacey Musgraves Star-Crossed

MCA Nashville • Country 14475742 $15.99 A bold, empowering, and personal series of songs that displays the six-time Grammy Award winner’s continued growth as one of the finest singer-songwriters of our time.

Mighty Fine An Austin City Limits Tribute to Walter Hyatt Various Artists

Omnivore Recordings Artists: Lyle Lovett, David Ball First CD and digital release of material from the star-studded 1997 PBS broadcast. Bonus tracks include six previously unissued tracks recorded at the show and four Hyatt solo recordings. 14517367 $22.99

Jesse Dayton

Beaumonster

Hardcharger Records Jesse Dayton’s latest is filled with song interpretations that are part greaser, a whole lotta twang, and quintessentially outlaw country badass. It encapsulates a life filled with adventure and lore. Available November 5 14598056 $18.99

Jackson+Sellers

Breaking Point

Anti Jade Jackson and Aubrie Sellers are two rising stars who aligned during the pandemic to write one of the most compelling duo albums of the last decade. Their album is a masterclass in unexpected vocal harmonic convergence. 14558494 $15.99

Cody Johnson

Human The Double Album

Warner Music Nashville 2 Discs 14577646 $22.99 Guest Artist: Willie Nelson The sophomore major-label release from Cody Johnson features songs that were originally rejected by other Nashville artists, for what Johnson considers as being too country for country.

Parmalee

For You

Stoney Creek Records Guest Artists: Blanco Brown, Fitz Parmalee, the band behind the hit Carolina, is back with a new album. It features the song Just the Way, their hit collaboration with Blanco Brown. 14511254 $19.99

The Isaacs

The American Face

House of Isaacs The new album from Grammy Award nominees the Isaacs is split between original material and covers of songs like Extreme’s More Than Words; Chicago’s You’re the Inspiration; and the Beatles’ We Can Work It Out. 14517362 $19.99

The Steel Wheels

Everyone a Song Volume 2

Big Ring Records Storytelling is power. During a time of isolation, the Steel Wheels chose to connect with their audience in new and profound ways. Available November 5 14582984 $16.99

Willie Nelson

The Willie Nelson Family

Legacy Recordings Available November 19

14598072 $15.99 This new album finds Willie Nelson joined in his Pedernales Studios by a host of his family members and extended family of longtime band members, performing songs that they have performed for much of their lives.

Randy Travis

Storms of Life

Warner Music Nashville Randy Travis’s 1986 debut album is remastered and rereleased to include three additional tracks from the vault. 35th Anniversary Deluxe Edition 14587792 $16.99

Deana Carter

Did I Shave My Legs for This?

Capitol Nashville Catalog Guest Artists: Lauren Alaina, Ashley McBryde The debut album from Deana Carter features a total of eleven tracks and includes the hit Strawberry Wine. This edition of the album has been remastered from the original recordings and will be released with two bonus tracks. Available November 5 25th Anniversary Edition 14587768 $18.99

At My Piano Brian Wilson

DECCA Available November 19

14596218 $18.99 Music legend Brian Wilson retraces his steps and reimagines the most iconic songs from his back catalogue into their purest form, him alone at the piano.

Schubert Impromptus D899 Moments Musicaux D780 Alexandre Tharaud

Erato The program for Alexandre Tharaud’s first album of Schubert comprises the four Impromptus D 899 (op 90), the six Moments musicaux, and, in Tharaud’s own transcription for piano, four excerpts from the stage music for Rosamunde. 14558513 $24.99

Amata Dalle Tenebre

Anna Netrebko

Deutsche Grammophon Guest Artists: Orchestra Del Teatro Alla Scala Anna Netrebko’s visual album is based on four arias from her latest recordings. It explores Anna’s performative practices to embody different heroines and their stories. Available November 5 14587776 $18.99

12 Stradivari

Janine Jansen

Decca Janine Jansen embarks on a journey recording on twelve of the world’s most precious instruments. Available November 5 14391890 $22.99

Alla Napoletana

Christina Pluhar, L’Arpeggiata

Erato Christina Pluhar, L’Arpeggiata, and eight guest singers explore the musical highways and byways of Naples, the most intoxicating and idiosyncratic of Italy’s large cities. This double album expresses the city’s mercurial personality in music over a span of centuries. 2 Discs 14558514 $24.99

Cello Unlimited

Kian Soltani

Deutsche Grammophon Kian Soltani has always been a big fan of movies; now he takes this passion one step further and creates an unprecedented album with his own arrangements of great blockbuster hits. 14582955 $18.99

Bernstein Candide

London Symphony Orchestra

LSO Live Guest Artists: Jane Archibald, Anne Sofie Von Otter Marin Alsop leads the London Symphony Orchestra and Chorus in a new recording of Bernstein’s riotous satirical operetta. Alsop’s new version was captured during celebratory concerts marking Bernstein’s centenary year, and features an outstanding array of soloists. 2 Discs 14455188 $29.99

The Proust Album

Shani Diluka

Warner Classics Guest Artists: Orchestre De Chambre De Paris Shani Diluka releases a project dedicated to Marcel Proust and composers he loved, to celebrate the 150-year anniversary of his birth in 2021 and the 100-year anniversary of his death in 2022. 14558562 $24.99

Muse

Sheku KannehMason & Isata Kanneh-Mason

Decca Star duo Sheku and Isata Sheku KannehMason have performed together all over the world. Now they present an impassioned program of Barber and Rachmaninov, including each composer’s Cello Sonata and a selection of beautiful songs transcribed for cello. Available November 5 14587775 $18.99

Il Volo Sings Morricone Il Volo

Masterworks Available November 5

14593208 $15.99 Guest Artists: Hauser, David Garrett Il Volo’s new much-awaited album dedicated to Ennio Morricone (1928-2020), one of the greatest composers of the twentieth century, features fourteen songs with some of the maestro’s most famous and unforgettable melodies.