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The New Releases page has been updated to include this month’s music CD, DVD and Blu-ray releases from classic artists.

Highlights for February include:

• Paul Rodgers’ “The Royal Sessions” standard and deluxe editions (4 Feb)
• “Small Faces – Here Come the Nice” 8-disc box set (4 Feb)
• 4-CD “Otis Redding – The King of Soul” and “Aretha Franklin – The Queen of Soul” box sets (4 Feb)
• 19-CD “Rainbow – Singles Box Set 1975-1986” (11 Feb)
• 5-CD “Original Album Classics” sets from artists including Bob Dylan and Billy Joel (18 Feb)
• 4-CD “True To the Blues: The Johnny Winter Story” career-spanning box set (25 Feb)
• John Lennon’s “Imagine” in Blu-ray audio (25 Feb)
• “Muscle Shoals” on DVD and Blu-ray (25 Feb).

Bruce Springsteen guested on Late Night With Jimmy Fallon on Tuesday night to celebrate the release of his new album “High Hopes”.

Springsteen and the E Street Band, including guitarist Tom Morello, performed three songs from the album, including the title track, “Heaven’s Wall,” and “Just Like Fire Would”. Springsteen also found time to once again duet with Jimmy Fallon, this time with a parody of “Born to Run” which poked fun at Governor Chris Christie over the so-called “Bridgegate” scandal.

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The New Releases page has been updated to include this month’s music CD, DVD and Blu-ray releases from classic artists.

Highlights for January include:

• Bruce Springsteen’s “High Hopes” (14 Jan)
• The 20-CD “The Perfect Elvis Presley Soundtrack Collection” – (14 Jan)
• “20 Feet from Stardom” on DVD and Blu-ray (14 Jan – Not UK)
• “The Beatles – The U.S. Albums” 13-CD box set and individual album releases (21 Jan)
• “The Doors – R-Evolution” on DVD and Blu-ray
• “Small Faces – Here Come the Nice” 8-disc box set (28 Jan)
• David Crosby’s “Croz,” his first studio album in over 20 years (28 Jan).

The download-only collections “The Beatles Bootleg Recordings 1963” and The Beach Boys’ “The Big Beat 1963” will be released on December 17.

Both releases are designed to satisfy European copyright laws. From 2014, the EU copyright protection on sound recordings is extended from 50 to 70 years, but this protection does not extend to recordings that have never been released.

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Legacy Recordings will release an album of previously unheard Johnny Cash recordings in March 2014.

“Johnny Cash – Out Among the Stars” will feature 12 recently discovered songs, including two penned by Cash, and duets with June Carter Cash and Waylon Jennings. These are songs that are new to the Cash discography, not demos, outtakes or alternate versions.

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