Midwest Tape March 2022 Music Catalog S

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Dolly Parton p2

Mary J. Blige p4

Willie Nelson p5

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.

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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

AVAILABLE APRIL 29

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.

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

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AVAILABLE MARCH 11

AVAILABLE MARCH 11

Features collaborations with Dolly Parton, Rosanne Cash, and more.

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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

AVAILABLE APRIL 22

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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