Another reissue that could be promising is the Hendrix estate's revamped version of Jimi Hendrix's complete Live At Monterey, which features the great guitarist's legendary performance at the 1967 rock festival which established his career in America, after he had already conquered Britain.
Other reissues and retrospective packages out this week include Santana's Ultimate Santana, as well as several albums from the catalog of Love Sculpture, which was the early psychedelic blues-rock band led by guitarist Dave Edmunds.
Rounding out the highlights this week are the return of emo/alternative band Jimmy Eat World (Chase This Light), while Toby Keith loads the presents into the Ford pickup truck for A Classic Christmas.
At least next week, we'll have a new Neil Young to talk about.
Here are all of this week's new album releases courtesy of All Music Guide:
Aretha Franklin
Rare & Unreleased Recordings from the Golden Reign of the Queen of Soul
Atlantic/Rhino
Deep Soul, Soul, Southern Soul, Pop
Jimmy Eat World
Chase This Light
Interscope
Alternative Pop/Rock, Emo
Underworld
Oblivion with Bells
ATO
Techno, Acid Techno, Club/Dance
Alabama 3
M.O.R.
One Little Indian
Electronica, Alternative Pop/Rock, Trip-Hop
Cecilia Bartoli
Maria
Decca
Romantic & Classical Vocal Music
Behold... The Arctopus
Skullgrid
Metal Blade
Progressive Metal, Speed Metal
The Blakes
The Blakes
Light in the Attic
Indie Rock
The Capstan Shafts
Environ Maiden
Rainbow Quartz
Indie Pop, Lo-Fi
Natalie Clein
Elgar: Cello Concerto
EMI Classics
Post-Romantic Cello Music
Edwyn Collins
Home Again
EMI/Heavenly
Indie Pop, Adult Alternative Pop/Rock
DJ Spooky
Creation Rebel
Sanctuary Trojan Us
Contemporary Reggae, Downtempo, Roots Reggae, Dancehall
Juan Diego Florez
Arias for Rubini
Decca
Romantic Opera Arias
The Fray
Reason EP
Epic
Adult Alternative Pop/Rock, American Trad Rock
Stephen Fretwell
Man on the Roof
Universal/Polydor
Contemporary Singer/Songwriter, Folk-Rock
Gov't Mule
Mighty High
ATO
Southern Rock, Hard Rock, Blues-Rock, Rock & Roll
Peter Grant
Traditional
Universal
Adult Contemporary, Standards, Traditional Pop, Vocal Pop
Grit Boys
Ghetto Reality in Texas
MoBetta Music/TVT
Southern Rap, Hardcore Rap
The Jimi Hendrix Experience
Live at Monterey
Experience Hendrix
Album Rock, Psychedelic, Hard Rock, Blues-Rock, Acid Rock
Hinder
Extreme Behavior (Deluxe Edition) (CD/DVD)
Republic
Post-Grunge
Keith Jarrett/Gary Peacock/Jack DeJohnette
My Foolish Heart: Live at Montreux
ECM
Hard Bop, Post-Bop, Bop
Jeru the Damaja
Still Rising
Ashenafi
East Coast Rap, Hip-Hop
Article comments
1 - Donald Gibson
The early buzz on that Aretha compilation is that it's very, very good. If Amazon would get on the stick and ship mine, I'd know for sure, though.
Thanks for the link in your article.
-Donald
2 - Glen Boyd
I'll look forward to reading your review on the Aretha once you get it Donald. My pleasure on the link -- it was a great review.
-Glen
3 - Tom Johnson
Some weird stuff is up with Amazon, Donald. They messed up an order of mine last week, then I noticed last night that the DVD version of Jimi's Live at Monterey is listed as unavailable, which is strange since I held it in my hands at Best Buy earlier that day while getting the Tom Petty DVD set. They've been messing up a bunch of things over the past two months or so, not sure why - order problems, things not available that should be, etc.
4 - Josh
Yeah, there's the Petty set which I got. There's another release that's slipping through the cracks that I've started talking about at Fanboy from Dan Wilson and will be discussing further in the coming days.
5 - Doc
The Luther Vandross new CD box set is wonderful! It is very well put together.
This is coming from a male not a lady.
Thanks