Holiday Music

Lucinda Williams covers Rolling Stones and Christmas songs, and John Sebastian revisits the Spoonful songbook. Plus four more new releases.

The Band's fourth LP reappears as a 50th-anniversary box set, plus ABBA's first album in 40 years and a noteworthy Christmas CD.

The sixth and final studio album by the original Doors has been expanded to include more than two and a half hours of previously unavailable material.

The Rolling Stones' 'Tattoo You,' now available in a greatly expanded deluxe edition, could have easily ended up as a mess. Instead, it's often regarded as the group's last great album.

This is one of the most comprehensive and imaginatively assembled box sets ever released on any subject.

The veteran folksinger continues his adventurous half-century career with a pair of three-CD sets. Also, an expanded reissue of Al Stewart's '24 Carrots' and a soulful holiday CD.

A 50th anniversary edition of the Doors' 'Morrison Hotel' includes a remaster of the original album and rough but interesting works in progress. Plus, releases from Suzzy Roche and Lucy Wainwright Roche, Beth Lee, and Sweet Lizzy Project.

98 Degrees is back with their 98 Degrees at Christmas 2018 tour with stops at 36 cities in North America.

Traditional Hanukkah songs are reimagined in a big band production with 1940s-style swing.

One could view 'In Winter' as a stylish stopgap between Melua's last recording 'Ketevan' and her next album. However, one should embrace it as an inspired seasonal concept album that ties 'The House' as her most ambitious undertaking yet.