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Willie Nelson p5
Mary J. Blige p14
Music Buyer’s Guide March 2022
michael bublé
A romantic collection of covers and original songs. CD available March 25. See page 3 for details.
Dolly Parton teams up with bestselling author James Patterson for her first ever foray into fiction. She has also created a new album that serves as a companion to the book.
Butterfly Records • Country The companion album to the new novel with the same name, partnered with author James Patterson. Parton’s new album is a mix of country, bluegrass, and Americana. 14810336 $12.99 AVAILABLE MARCH 4 AB CD 12 Discs AB Flex Metered 24 Mo. eB Flex Metered 24 Mo.
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March Music Table of Contents 8-9 / Rock
12 / Classical
4-5 / Hot New Releases
10 / Country
13 / Reissues
6-7 / Top Music Picks
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14 / R&B; Rap; Blues
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/ Best of March
/ Electronic & Dance
15 / Jazz
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New albums from the biggest names. / Best of March Maren Morris Humble Quest
Avril Lavigne Love Sux
Sony Music • Country Maren Morris’s third full-length album is the follow-up to her 2019 project Girl. The 11-song album features the first single Circles Around This Town. 14822082 $8.99
New Elektra • Pop/Rock Guest Artists: Machine Gun Kelly, Mark Hoppus Eight-time Grammy Award nominee Avril Lavigne is back with her seventh album, her first new music since 2019. The second single, Love It When You Hate Me, features an appearance by blackbear. 14836749 $12.99 PARENTAL ADVISORY
AVAILABLE MARCH 25
Roddy Ricch Live Life Fast
Thomas Rhett Where We Started
Digital release now available on CD.
Valory • Country Guest Artist: Katy Perry Thomas Rhett returns with a mix of uptempo, transcendent romance, and sonic trailblazing songs as country’s resident good-life philosopher. The new album also includes the singles Slow Down Summer and Sixteen. 14860950 $11.99
Atlantic Mod • Rap/Hip-Hop Guest Artists: Future, Kodak Black Grammy Award-winning star Roddy Ricch drops his sophomore album, which comes with the single 23 Million. There are also guest appearances from Future, Kodak Black, 21 Savage, Jamie Foxx, and more. $15.99 14867337 PARENTAL ADVISORY
AVAILABLE APRIL 1
Michael Bublé Higher Reprise • Jazz Guest Artist: Willie Nelson Michael Bublé’s album catapults the star’s enormous talent into the stratosphere as he continues his ongoing journey reinventing and interpreting the music of America’s most beloved standards, among others. Fitting perfectly throughout these gems are a handful of Bublé originals that further cement his gift for writing and performing great pop tunes and luscious ballads. 14860954 $14.99 AVAILABLE MARCH 25
A romantic mix of original songs and classic covers.
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Hot New Releases
Mary J. Blige Good Morning Gorgeous 300 Entertainment • R&B The Queen of Hip-Hop Soul shares positive self-talk on her new release. The first single Amazing features DJ Khaled. PARENTAL ADVISORY 14853266 $12.99
New album from the big game halftime show performer.
Marry Me Jennifer Lopez & Maluma
FKA Twigs Caprisongs
Sony Music Latin • Soundtracks The first new album in eight years from Jennifer Lopez also serves as the soundtrack to her new romantic comedy. Along with tracks with Maluma, the album features the single After Love. 14822081 $12.99
Atlantic Mod • Pop/Rock Guest Artists: Pa Salieu, The Weeknd Fun, carefree, upbeat, and bold songs, brimming with messages of confidence and independence. Along with the bangers and bops are vulnerable, honest, eerie, and soft songs that highlight FKA Twigs’ lyrical prowess. 14867335 $15.99 PARENTAL ADVISORY
Cordae From a Birds Eye View
Khruangbin & Leon Bridges Texas Moon
Atlantic Mod • Rap/Hip-Hop Guest Artists: Gunna, H.E.R. Cordae knows exactly what he wants to say. He speaks from a place of truth. That is why the platinum-selling Marylandraised rapper became one of the modern generation’s most trusted narrators. 14867336 $15.99 PARENTAL ADVISORY
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Dead Oceans, Inc. • Pop/Rock Singer-songwriter Leon Bridges, from Fort Worth, and trailblazing Houston trio Khruangbin have joined forces for the follow-up to 2020’s acclaimed Texas Sun project. $10.99 14789953
Top titles from the music world. / Hot New Releases Willie Nelson A Beautiful Time
Rokia Kone & Jacknife Lee Bamanan
Legacy • Country Willie Nelson is back with his 72nd solo studio album. A full-fledged album of new studio material produced with longtime collaborator Buddy Cannon, it will come on his 89th birthday and shows off just how prolific he continues to be. $11.99 14822083
Real World Records • World On her debut international release, Rokia Koné (aka the Rose of Bamako) teams up with Irish-born, California-based rock producer Jacknife Lee and reimagines the Malian sound in ways both leftfield and groundbreaking. $18.99 14843078
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AVAILABLE MARCH 25
YoungBoy Never Broke Again Colors
Reba McEntire My Chains Are Gone
Atlantic Mod • Rap/Hip-Hop Prolific rap star YoungBoy Never Broke Again adds to his list of popular recordings with a new album that includes the single Fish Scale. It also sees him take his sound in new directions. 14867263 $18.99 PARENTAL ADVISORY
UMG Nashville • Country A collection of hymns and gospel favorites from Reba McEntire. Featuring twelve tracks, the album is a mix of songs from her 2017 award-winning release, Sing It Now: Songs of Faith and Hope, combined with four brand-new selections. $11.99 14860953 AVAILABLE MARCH 25
Brad Mehldau Jacob’s Ladder
Elevation Worship Lion
Nonesuch • Jazz Features new music that reflects on scripture and the search for God through music inspired by the prog rock Mehldau loved as a young adolescent, which was his gateway to the fusion that eventually led to his discovery of jazz. 14860955 $12.99
Elevation Worship Records • Religious Guest Artists: The Valley Boys, Chris Brown, Jonsal Barrientes The new album from Elevation Worship is a collection of both live and studiorecorded songs captured over the past year. It encompasses both congregational and personal songs that together reflect a love for God. 14860971 $12.99
AVAILABLE MARCH 18
AVAILABLE MARCH 18
Ghost Impera
Michael Feinstein Gershwin Country
Loma Vista Recordings • Pop/Rock Ghost, one of the most esteemed and celebrated rock bands in the world today, returns with their fifth psalm, fronted by the newly anointed Papa Emeritus IV. A dozen songs take on themes of isolation and demigod worship, as well as colonization of both space and mind. And all with the infectious, hooky brand of rock their fans have grown accustomed to. 14843095 $14.99
Craft Recordings • Country Guest Artists: Mandy Barnett, Rosanne Cash, Amy Grant New duets collection from the Grammy and Emmy-nominated entertainer Michael Feinstein, who reimagines the timeless Gershwin songbook through the contemporary lens of country music. 14843090 $15.99
AVAILABLE MARCH 11
AVAILABLE MARCH 11
Features collaborations with Dolly Parton, Rosanne Cash, and more.
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Top Music Picks / Top titles patrons are looking for.
Jason Mraz Lalalalovesongs Atlantic Catalog Group • Pop/Rock 14760924 $12.99
Summer of Soul…Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised
Jack White Fear of the Dawn
Dustin Lynch Blue in the Sky
Legacy Recordings • Soundtracks 14744564 $12.99
Third Man • Pop/Rock 14768402 $14.99
Broken Bow Records • Country 14794535 $13.99
AVAILABLE APRIL 8
A collection of Jason Mraz’s top love songs.
Soundtrack to the acclaimed documentary by Questlove.
Fourth studio album from the White Stripes founding member.
Follow-up to his 2020 album Tullahoma.
Tears for Fears The Tipping Point
Kanye West Donda
Luis Fonsi Ley de Gravedad
The Weeknd Dawn FM
Concord Records • Pop/Rock 14621368 $14.99
Def Jam Records • Rap/Hip-Hop 14799640 $18.99 DELUXE EDITION
Universal Music Latino • Latin 14770577 $11.99
Xo Records • R&B
First album in nearly two decades.
Kanye’s digital release comes to CD.
AVAILABLE MARCH 18
Latin Grammy winner’s new release.
Alicia Keys Keys
14795799 $13.99 PARENTAL ADVISORY 14795800 $13.99 EDITED VERSION
“4 out of 5 stars…” - Rolling Stone
RCA Records • R&B Guest Artists: Swae Lee, Lil Wayne, Khalid Keys’s eighth album and follow-up to the 2020 Alicia is a 26-track double album that features a collaboration with Brandi Carlile. 14810340 $15.99
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Featuring modern classics from Outkast, Snoop Dogg, Chamillionaire, and others.
Includes tracks from Olivia Rodrigo, Doja Cat, Dua Lipa, and more!
NOW That’s What I Call Music! 81 Now • Pop/Rock The popular music series returns with a new collection featuring Ed Sheeran’s Bad Habits; the Weeknd’s Take My Breath; Lil Nas X and Jack Harlow’s Industry Baby; and more. 14744567 $18.99
NOW That’s What I Call Music! 2000s Hip Hop Now • Rap/Hip-Hop Relive one of the biggest decades in hip-hop with a collection featuring Ja Rule’s Always on Time and many more. 14744566 $18.99
For King & Country What Are We Waiting For?
John Mellencamp Strictly a One-Eyed Jack
Charli XCX Crash
Robert Glasper Black Radio III
Word Entertainment • Religious 14783528 $11.99
Republic Records • Pop/Rock 14742464 $13.99
Atlantic • Pop/Rock 14763837 $8.99 PARENTAL ADVISORY
Concord • Jazz 14787814 $15.99
His 25th album features three collaborations New album includes the chart-topping single Relate. with Bruce Springsteen. AVAILABLE MARCH 11
AVAILABLE MARCH 18
Featuring tracks New Shapes and Good Ones.
Third installment in the series.
Rufus Du Sol Surrender
Lil Baby, Lil Durk The Voice of the Heroes
The Harder They Fall Various Artists
Anais Mitchell Anaïs Mitchell
Reprise • Pop/Rock 14789939 $18.99
Quality Control Music, LLC • Rap/Hip-Hop 14760927 $13.99 PARENTAL ADVISORY
Roc Nation • Soundtracks 14789956 $11.99 PARENTAL ADVISORY
BMG Rights Management • Folk 14760964 $14.99
Grammy Award nominee now available on CD.
Digital release now on CD!
Soundtrack to the Netflix film.
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Rock Sonic Youth In/Out/In
Ghost Impera
Three Lobed Recordings Album-formatted collection of underheard Sonic rarities from the legendary band’s 2000-2010 era, most for the first time on any physical format. Essential for the band’s hardcore fans and for enthusiasts of instrumental rock. 14843068 $11.99
Loma Vista Recordings Ghost returns with their fifth psalm, fronted by the newly anointed Papa Emeritus IV. A dozen songs take on themes of isolation and demigod worship, as well as colonization of both space and mind. 14843095 $14.99
AVAILABLE MARCH 18
AVAILABLE MARCH 11
Band of Horses Things Are Great
Rex Orange County Who Cares?
BMG Rights Management (US) LLC The sixth studio album for the Seattle rock band. Features the lead single Crutch with sliding electric guitar riff over acoustic strums. 14670044 $14.99 PARENTAL ADVISORY
RCA Records Guest Artist: Tyler, the Creator Rex Orange County releases his eagerly anticipated new album, which includes the new single Keep It Up. Working closely with Benny Sings, the singer-songwriter has created a playful album. 14860970 $12.99 PARENTAL ADVISORY
AVAILABLE MARCH 4
AVAILABLE MARCH 11
Sub Pop Father John Misty returns with his fifth album and first new material since the release of God’s Favorite Customer in 2018. It was written and recorded from August through December 2020 and features arrangements by Drew Erickson. 14797431 $9.99 AVAILABLE APRIL 8
Singersongwriter’s first new album since 2018.
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Sounds from alternative, metal, and beyond. / Rock Fontaines D.C. Skinty Fia
Bloc Party Alpha Games
Partisan Records 2020’s A Hero’s Death saw Fontaines D.C. land a number two album in the UK and receive nominations at the Grammys, Brits, and Ivor Novello Awards. Now the band returns with their third record in as many years. 14815996 $13.99
INFECTIOUS MUSIC Bloc Party’s first new album in seven years is also the first to be written and recorded by the band as a quintet. It captures the spark of their live shows to deliver their most exciting music to date. 14763419 $16.99 PARENTAL ADVISORY
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AVAILABLE APRIL 29
Lucius Second Nature
Daniel Rossen You Belong There
Mom+Pop Guest Artists: Brandi Carlile, Sheryl Crow The new album from Lucius was recorded in Nashville with producers Dave Cobb and Brandi Carlile. The songs were inspired by the many stages of grief and the moments of happiness that slowly begin to emerge. 14815997 $13.99
Warp Records For nearly two decades, Daniel Rossen was a crucial component of Grizzly Bear. Here he slowly builds a unique world through a riveting ten-song reintroduction to a voice that sounds both entirely familiar and fully reenergized by the act of unfettered expression. 14853223 $14.99
AVAILABLE APRIL 8
Solo debut from the Grizzly Bear guitarist.
AVAILABLE APRIL 8
Placebo Never Let Me Go
Matisyahu Matisyahu
Rise Records Modern-day glam rockers Placebo unveil their long-awaited eighth studio album, which comes nine years after the release of their last studio album, Loud Like Love. 14763420 $14.99 PARENTAL ADVISORY
Fallen Sparks Records. Guest Artists: Salt Cathedral On his new album, the Grammy Awardnominated singer-songwriter-rapper shares his most autobiographical work to date, merging that personal revelation with a shapeshifting collision of reggae and hip-hop and boldly inventive pop. 14810337 $11.99
AVAILABLE MARCH 25
AVAILABLE MARCH 4
Gang of Youths Angel in Realtime.
Superchunk Wild Loneliness
Warner Records According to Gang of Youths, their new album is based on the legacy of frontman Dave Le’aupepe’s father. At times it’s solely focused upon the precise, personal experiences of loss. 14763835 $12.99 PARENTAL ADVISORY
Merge Records Guest Artists: Sharon Van Etten, Teenage Fanclub Recorded one musician at a time from home end of 2020 into early 2021, this release steers away from the anger of What a Time to Be Alive to instead refocus on gratitude. 14789955 $12.99
AVAILABLE MARCH 18
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Country The Po’ Ramblin’ Boys Never Slow Down Smithsonian Folkways Recordings The Po’ Ramblin’ Boys kick it into high gear on their newest collection of classic songs and soon-to-be-classic originals. The Grammy-nominated group pours every ounce of passion they have into these recordings, as they always have. 14853273 $14.99 AVAILABLE MARCH 25
Michael Feinstein Gershwin Country
Willie Nelson A Beautiful Time
Craft Recordings Guest Artists: Dolly Parton, Brad Paisley New duets collection from the Grammy and Emmy-nominated entertainer Michael Feinstein, who reimagines the timeless Gershwin songbook through the contemporary lens of country music. $15.99 14843090
Legacy Willie Nelson is back with his 72nd solo studio album. A full-fledged album of new studio material produced with longtime collaborator Buddy Cannon, it will come on his 89th birthday and shows off just how prolific he continues to be. 14822083 $11.99
AVAILABLE MARCH 11
AVAILABLE APRIL 29
Willie Nelson’s finest songwriting and performances in years.
Yonder Mountain String Band Get Yourself Outside
New inspirational collection from Reba.
Frog Pad Records With its latest album, Colorado-based quintet Yonder Mountain String Band once again echoes out into the universe its place as not only a pioneering jam-grass act, but also one of the most innovative, intricate groups in the live music scene. $11.99 14770557
The Infamous Stringdusters Toward the Fray INgrooves The Grammy Award-winning bluegrass, folk, and Americana outfit releases a new album that was written in response to the events of 2020. 14807494 $13.99
Reba McEntire My Chains Are Gone UMG Nashville A collection of hymns and gospel favorites from Reba McEntire. Featuring twelve tracks, the album is a mix of songs from her 2017 award-winning release, Sing It Now: Songs of Faith and Hope, combined with four brand-new selections. 14860953 $11.99 AVAILABLE MARCH 25
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Electronic & Dance Burial Antidawn EP Hyperdub Records • Pop/Rock The album reduces Burial’s music to just the vapors. The record explores an Interzone between dislocated, patchwork songwriting and eerie, open-world gamespace ambiance. 14760942 $16.99 AVAILABLE MARCH 4
Soft Cell *Happiness Not Included BMG Rights Management (UK) • Pop/Rock Soft Cell, legendary frontman Marc Almond and producer/instrumentalist Dave Ball, is set to return with their fifth studio album. It represents their first new album since they issued Cruelty Without Beauty back in 2002. $21.99 14815993
Stromae Multitude Darkroom/Interscope Records • Pop/Rock After eight years of absence, Stromae is back with his third album, twelve tracks that mark the return of one of the most important artists of his generation. 14760925 $18.99 AVAILABLE MARCH 4
The single L’Enfer featured on Rolling Stone’s website.
Rival Consoles Overflow
Paul Oakenfold Shine On
Erased Tapes Records • Pop/Rock Exploring themes of the human and emotional consequences of life surrounded by data, this music echoes the concept of social media, advertising, marketing companies, and political factions exploiting data. $17.99 14633792
Perfecto Records • Pop/Rock Paul Oakenfold’s new album will veer down a decidedly chilled-out path, making it an incredibly listenable album and not one solely crafted for the dance floor. $16.99 14826305
AVAILABLE MARCH 4
Charlotte Adigery & Bolis Pupul Topical Dancer
Sherelle Fabric Presents Sherelle
Because Music • Pop/Rock Belgian-Caribbean provocateur Charlotte Adigery and her long-term musical partner Bolis Pupul announce their debut album. The album brings unusual topics to the dance floor, including social media vanity, misogyny, and racism. 14661475 $12.99
FABRIC RECORDS LTD • Pop/Rock Guest Artists: Cloud9, Dwarde & Tim Reaper A compilation mix curated by Sherelle for the electronic music series. Studded with names key to the genre’s many personal friends of Sherelle’s, it’s a creation that respects the birth of the jungle scene as well as its current locality. 14611773 $11.99
AVAILABLE MARCH 18
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Classical Eden Joyce DiDonato Erato According to opera star Joyce DiDonato, her new album is ‘a vivid musical exploration through the centuries to remember and to create a new eden from within.’ 14789954 $18.99
Beethoven for Three Symphonies Nos. 2 and 5 Various Artists Sony Classical Emanuel Ax, Leonidas Kavakos, and Yo-Yo Ma’s new recording explores two of Beethoven’s iconic symphonies in trio arrangements, maintaining all of the power and immediacy of the composer’s orchestral works within the intimate language of a chamber ensemble. 14853265 $12.99
Tormento D’amore Ian Bostridge Warner Classics Guest Artists: Cappella Neapolitana Ian Bostridge demonstrates the important place that the tenor voice held in Italian opera from the mid-17th to the mid-18th century. The album offers five instrumental sinfonie and a traditional Neapolitan song, Lu cardillo. 14770544 $18.99
AVAILABLE MARCH 4
Mendelssohn Violin Sonatas Alina Ibragimova Hyperion Guest Artist: Cédric Tiberghien Mendelssohn may have published only one violin sonata, but that does not signify any lack of inspiration in the others left in the manuscript. The F major sonata that opens this program is a particularly substantial and ambitious work. 14843047 $19.99
Deutsche Grammophon Guest Artists: Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale Della Rai Praised for her vocal beauty and seamless technique, Nadine Sierra is one of the most promising young talents in opera today. Here she takes on three of the most beautifuland dramatic roles in nineteenth century romantic repertoire. 14843087 $13.99
AVAILABLE MARCH 4
AVAILABLE MARCH 4
Bach St. John Passion Various Artists
Unreleased Cecilia Bartoli
Deutsche Grammophon Artists: Monteverdi Choir Recorded in the Sheldonian Theatre, this performance from Good Friday 2021 marked Sir John Eliot Gardiner’s return to the stage. 14843085 $22.99 AVAILABLE MARCH 4
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Made for Opera Nadine Sierra
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Decca During the pandemic, Cecilia Bartoli paused her schedule and took time to go through her archives. She is now releasing this never-before-heard album celebrating the most famous concert arias from Haydn, Beethoven, and more. 14770580 $16.99
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Cat Stevens Harold and Maude Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
The Lemonheads It’s a Shame About Ray
A&M Records • Soundtracks
The Lemonheads’ seminal album is lovingly reissued for its 30th anniversary. The reissue includes a slew of extra material, including an unreleased My Drug Buddy KCRW session track from 1992 featuring Juliana Hatfield. 14807480 $16.99
Timed to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the landmark film’s release, this release of the soundtrack combines nine Cat Stevens originals with, for the first time, additional dialogue and instrumentals from the film. 14770589 $18.99
Fire Records • Pop/Rock
AVAILABLE MARCH 4
Daryl Hall & John Oates Marigold Sky
Marianne Faithfull Vagabond Ways
BMG Rights Management (UK) • Pop/Rock
BMG Rights Management (UK) • Pop/Rock
Daryl Hall and John Oates are reissuing their fifteenth studio album. To celebrate the 25th anniversary of the album, it is available as an expanded CD format that includes three bonus tracks previously unavailable on the original album release. 14860962 $15.99
Originally released in 1999, this includes Marianne Faithfull’s own compositions as well as interpretations of songs written by some of the finest songwriters of her generation. Includes a selection of previously unreleased bonus material. 14843059 $12.99
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AVAILABLE MARCH 4
Franz Ferdinand Tonight
David Byrne, St. Vincent Love This Giant
Domino Recording Co. • Pop/Rock
4AD • Pop/Rock
Originally released in 2009, the third album from Franz Ferdinand includes the singles No You Girls; Ulysses, and Can’t Stop Feeling. 14541251 $13.99
A collaboration in the truest sense of the word, with Byrne and St. Vincent (aka Annie Clark) co-writing ten of the album’s twelve tracks, and each artist penning one song individually. 14787807 $15.99
AVAILABLE MARCH 4
Natalie Cole Unforgettable... With Love
Pavement Terror Twilight
Craft Recordings • R&B
Matador • Pop/Rock
Natalie Cole’s 1991 album would go on to win seven Grammy Awards and sell over seven million copies. To celebrate its 30th anniversary, the album has been remastered with two additional bonus tracks. 14719621 $15.99
Pavement’s complete series of expanded editions of their five studio albums culminates with this deluxe reissue of their 1999 fifth studio album. 14815998 $21.99 AVAILABLE APRIL 8
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R&B Mary J. Blige Good Morning Gorgeous
Eli ‘Paperboy’ Reed Down Every Road
300 Entertainment The Queen of Hip-Hop Soul shares positive self-talk on her new release. The first single Amazing features DJ Khaled. $12.99 14853266 PARENTAL ADVISORY
Yep Roc Records Reed pays homage to country legend Merle Haggard by putting a soulful spin on some classic tunes. $15.99 14858776 AVAILABLE APRIL 9
Mary Wilson The Motown Anthology
Khruangbin, Leon Bridges Texas Moon EP
Motown Records Inc. The first-ever collection recognizing the contribution and career of the legendary Motown superstar. The two-CD set features nearly two dozen Supremes classics and more! 14853272 $19.99
Dead Oceans, Inc. Singer-songwriter Bridges and trailblazing Houston trio Khruangbin joined forces for the follow-up to 2020’s acclaimed Texas Sun project. 14789953 $10.99
AVAILABLE MARCH 4
Rap Wildchild Omowale
Apollo Brown, Stalley Blacklight
KRB Music Across the fifteen tracks, the Cali rapper deftly explores what it means to be a Black man in the US today with timely, poignant lyrics. 14794534 $15.99
Mello Music Group Represents the combination of two titans of hip-hop, recognized as legends in their own right while also being overlooked by some when the discussions of ‘best alive’ come up. 14794512 $17.99
Popa Chubby Emotional Gangster
Natalia M. King Woman Mind of My Own
DixieFrog The Brooklyn native lets fans see a more personal side with his track Fly Away, a testimony of a father seeing his child leave the family nest. 14853229 $18.99
DixieFrog Natalia M. King chooses to totally immerse listeners for her first time going blues. With nine perfect tracks, she proves that talent knows no musical barrier. 14701054 $17.99
Blues
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Jazz John Zorn A Garden of Forking Paths Tzadik It is the fifth CD written for the all-star guitar trio of Bill Frisell, Julian Lage, and Gyan Riley. Here Zorn draws inspiration from Argentine philosopher/writer Jorge Luis Borges. 14638838 $18.99 AVAILABLE MARCH 18
Ornette Coleman Genesis of Genius Craft Recordings Contains newly remastered audio that combines legendary jazz saxophonist Ornette Coleman’s albums for Lester Koenig’s Contemporary Records. 14860949 $24.99 AVAILABLE MARCH 25
Brad Mehldau Jacob’s Ladder
Original compositions and covers of songs by Rush, Gentle Giant, and Yes!
Nonesuch The album features new music that reflects on scripture and the search for God through music inspired by the prog rock Mehldau loved as a young adolescent, which was his gateway to the fusion that eventually led to his discovery of jazz. 14860955 $12.99 AVAILABLE MARCH 18
Paul Hardcastle Hardcastle X Trippin N’ Rhythm Records Paul Hardcastle continues to churn out compelling, mesmerizing songs that solidify his enduring legacy and supply his rabid fan base. 14826345 $18.99
Manuel Valera, New Cuban Express Big Band Distancia Greenleaf Music Grammy-nominated pianist and Cuban composer Manuel Valera releases his second album, which is a spirited ensemble that fuses the music of Cuba, Puerto Rico, and Brazil. 14853252 $13.99 AVAILABLE MARCH 18
Blue Note Records debut releases!
Melissa Aldana 12 Stars
Blue Lab Beats Motherland Journey
Blue Note Grammy-nominated saxophonist Melissa Aldana grapples with concepts of child rearing, familial forgiveness, acceptance, and self-love. 14843081 $11.99
Blue Note The London-based jazztronica duo releases an album years in the making that is a celebration of pushing boundaries, taking risks, and overcoming adversity. 14807499 $13.99
AVAILABLE MARCH 4
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