Country

Harris Emmylou: Spyboy/Live 1998 (Rem) [Digipack / CD]

Workin' Man: Willie Sings Merle is Willie Nelson's 78th solo studio album and 155th album overall. It features Willie's new interpretations of classic songs written by Merle Haggard, the latest in Nelson's storied history of focusing entire albums on a single songwriter's or artist's work. Nelson and Haggard were longtime friends and collaborators who released three collaborative albums together: 1983's Pancho and Lefty, 2007's Last Of The Breed (alongside Ray Price) and 2015's Django and Jimmie. Eleven of Willie's favorite Merle compositions were handpicked for the album. Nelson's new performances include songs from various parts of the legend's career, from tracks off of Merle's first #1 Country album, 1966's Swinging Doors ("Swinging Doors," "Tonight The Bottle Let Me Down") and late 60s career defining hits ("Mama Tried," "Okie From Muskogee") to 70s classics (the heart-breaking holiday track "If We Make It Through December," the southern-rock tinged "Ramblin' Fever") and Merle's #1 honky-tonk classic from 1980 "I Think I'll Just Stay Here And Drink." Produced by the artist with longtime collaborator Mickey Raphael, the album was recorded at Nelson's Pedernales Studios in Austin and features the final recordings he did alongside longtime Family band members "Sister Bobbie" Nelson and Paul English. Constants in Nelson's personal and professional world longer than anyone, Sister Bobbie on piano and English on drums are joined by Raphael on harmonica, Kevin Smith on bass and Paul's brother Billy English on drums and percussion.

DIGIPAK

Sir Douglas Quintet: Rote Fabrik Zurich 1985 [2 CD]

Charlie Daniels Band: Epic trilogy vol 2 1977-80 [2 CD]

Horton Johnny: North to Alaska [2 CD]

Låtarna i Out Among The Stars spelades från början in i Nashville, Tennessee i 'Columbia Studios' i 1981 och '1111 Sound Studios' i 1984 och producerades av Billy Sherrill som ansvarade för A&R på CBS Records Nashville vid det tillfället. Då Cash hamnade i konflikt med Billy Sherrill valde han att inte släppa albumet. Han tog hem inspelningarna som inte sett dagens ljus förrän nu. <br/><br/>På albumet - som bl.a. innehåller duetter med June Carter Cash och Waylon Jennings - jobbade Johnny med en omfattande ensemble bestående en ung Marty Stuart på gitarr och mandolin och Nashville A-Team medlemmarna Jerry Kennedy (gitarr), Pete Drake (steel guitar), Hargus "Pig" Robbins (piano) and Henry Strzelecki (bas). <br/><br/>Inspelningarna på Out Among The Stars dök först upp 2012, när John Carter Cash, tillsammans med Cash experterna på Legacy, katalogiserade sin fars och mors arkiv i Hendersonville, Tennessee och på Sony Music Archives. "When my parents passed away, it became necessary to go through this material," säger John carter Cash. "We found these recordings that were produced by Billy Sherrill in the early 1980s.they were beautiful." <br/><br/>John Carter Cash, tillsammans med samproducenten och arkivarien Steve Berkowitz samlade Marty Stuart, Buddy Miller och Carlene Carter, såväl som andra mästarmusiker, att samarbeta för att återställa albumet på Cash Cabin Studios i Hendersonville, TN.