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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 September include:

• Johnny Winter’s final studio album “Step Back” (2 Sep)
• “Eric Clapton & Friends – The Breeze (An Appreciation of JJ Cale)” 2 CD and 4 LP special editions (2 Sep)
• “The Beatles in Mono” 14-LP vinyl box set (9 Sep)
• Robert Plant’s new studio album “lullaby and… The Ceaseless Roar” (9 Sep)
• “Queen: Live at the Rainbow” on Blu-ray and DVD (9 Sep)
• Jimi Hendrix’s “Cry of Love” and “Rainbow Bridge on CD and vinyl (16 Sep)
• Barbara Streisand’s duets album “Partners” (16 Sep)
• “George Harrison – The Apple Years 1968-75” 7 CD/DVD box set and individual remastered Apple albums (23 Sep)
• Leonard Cohen’s new album “Popular Problems” (23 Sep)
• Prince’s new albums “PlectrumElectrum” and “Art Official Age” (30 Sep)
• “ABBA – Live at Wembley” on CD and vinyl (30 Sep).

Watch Barbra Streisand and Billy Joel discussing their collaboration on Joel’s great song “New York State of Mind,” which will appear on Streisand’s duets album “Partners”.

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Legendary rock ‘n’ roller, Jerry Lee Lewis, will release his new album, “Rock & Roll Time,” in October, as well as a memoir titled “Jerry Lee Lewis: His Own Story.”

As with his 2006 album, “Last Man Standing,” and his 2010 album, “Mean Old Man,” the new album will feature many guest artists, including Neil Young, Keith Richards, Ron Wood, Nils Lofgren, Robbie Robertson and Shelby Lynne.

The album’s title track was co-written by Kris Kristofferson, Bob Neuwirth and Roger McGuinn, and originally featured on Kristofferson’s 1974 album “Spooky Lady’s Sideshow”. Jerry Lee is joined on the track by singers, Vonda Shepard and Bernard Fowler, and guitarists, Doyle Bramhall II, Jon Brion and Kenny Lovelace.

The tracklist for “Rock & Roll Time” is as follows:

1. Rock & Roll Time (with Doyle Bramhall II and Jon Brion)
2. Little Queenie (with Keith Richards and Ron Wood)
3. Stepchild (with Daniel Lanois and Doyle Bramhall II)
4. Sick and Tired (with Jon Brion)
5. Bright Lights, Big City (with Neil Young and Ivan Neville)
6. Folsom Prison Blues (with Robbie Robertson and Nils Lofgren)
7. Keep Me in Mind (with Jon Brion)
8. Mississippi Kid (with Derek Trucks and Doyle Bramhall II)
9. Blues Like Midnight (with Robbie Robertson)
10. Here Comes That Rainbow Again (with Shelby Lynne)
11. Promised Land (with Doyle Bramhall II).

Jerry Lee’s memoir, “Jerry Lee Lewis: His Own Story,” was written with Pulitzer Prize-winning author Rick Bragg. The book will tell the story of the singer’s career highs and lows, his relationships with other musicians, and his often troubled personal life.

Jerry Lee says that he has “waited ’til the right time” to set the record straight, and that “All these other books have come out, and there wasn’t no truth in any of them.”

The book and album are available via the links below.

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The forthcoming 6-CD “The Basement Tapes Complete: The Bootleg Series Vol. 11” brings together all of the recordings from Bob Dylan’s so-called “Basement Tapes,” including many that have not been heard before. The box set and a 2-CD collection of highlights from the set will be released in November.

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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 August include:

• “Elvis: That’s the Way It Is: Deluxe Edition” 10-disc box set and two-disc “Legacy Edition” (5 Aug)
• “Eric Clapton & Friends – The Breeze (An Appreciation of JJ Cale)” 2 LP standard vinyl edition and 4 LP special vinyl edition (26 Aug)
• “Elvis: That’s the Way It Is: Special Edition” on Blu-ray/DVD (12 Aug)
• Brian Setzer’s “Rockabilly Riot! All Original” on CD (12 Aug) and Vinyl (19 Aug)
• Midge Ure’s new album “Fragile” (19 Aug)
• Smokey Robinson’s duets album “Smokey & Friends” (19 Aug)
• Ace Frehley’s new solo album “Space Invader” in standard and deluxe editions (19 Aug)
• The Kinks’ “Lola Versus Powerman & The Moneygoround, Part One – Deluxe Edition” (25 Aug)
• Ian Anderson’s “Thick as a Brick – Live in Iceland” on Blu-ray, DVD and CD (25 Aug)
• U.S. edition of the Small Faces’ “Here Come the Nice” 8-disc box set (26 Aug).