Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of the many titles being released today as we inch closer to the holiday shopping season!  As an Amazon associate, we earn from qualifying purchases.

Nancy Sinatra, Keep Walkin': Singles, Demos, and Rarities (1965-1978) (Light in the Attic)

CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada
Standard Black 2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada
Zodiac Blue 2LP: Nancy's Bootique
Highway Song Yellow 2LP: Nancy's Bootique
"Sugar Me" Pink Splatter 2LP: Spotify
Abridged 4-Track Tape: Nancy's Bootique
Abridged 8-Track Tape: Nancy's Bootique

Following the release of the anthology Start Walkin' 1965-1976 and expanded editions of Boots, Nancy and Lee, and Nancy and Lee Again, LITA is delivering a companion volume to Start Walkin' which focuses on Nancy's B-sides and hidden gems.  Keep Walkin': Singles, Demos, and Rarities (1965-1978) arrives in a plethora of formats including CD, various 2LP editions, digitally, and 4-track and 8-track cassettes.  The collection features three previously unreleased outtakes, all newly mixed in 2022, as well as one track making its debut in a physical format.  Read more here.

Various Artists, Produced by Tony Visconti (Edsel)

4CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada
6LP Signed: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada
2LP Highlights: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada

In the course of a career spanning seven decades, Tony Visconti has produced seminal albums in the classic rock genre including high profile collaborations with David Bowie, T. Rex, Gentle Giant, Strawbs, and Badfinger.  But Visconti's C.V. runs much deeper, from folk (Ralph McTell, Tom Paxton) to musical theatre (Elaine Paige) and everything in between (Sparks).  Edsel now releases the first large-scale tribute to Visconti's enormous musical legacy.  Produced by Tony Visconti has been curated by its subject.  It will be available in a variety of formats including 4 CDs, 6 LPs, and 2 LPs, with the 6LP edition including a signed print by Visconti.  The CD box boasts 77 tracks from the producer's distinguished career, while the LP box offers 73 and the highlights 2LP set has 30 songs. Phil Kinrade has mastered all audio at AIR Mastering with Visconti's approval.  The 4CD version has an 80-page booklet with an introduction by Visconti, track-by-track notes by Mark Paytress, artist tributes, and previously unpublished photographs.  The 6LP vinyl edition is strictly limited to 1,000 units, with each LP pressed on 140-gram vinyl and a 60-page booklet included.  Artwork for both formats was designed by the Barnbrook studio. Get more details here.

Devo, 50 Years of De-Evolution (1973-2023) (Warner/Rhino)

2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada
4LP: Rhino.com
2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada

The 50-track set will include hits and album cuts from each of Devo's nine albums released between 1978 and 2010, plus an assortment of rare B-sides, single-only tracks, and soundtrack songs. (The 7" version of "Disco Dancer," from 1988's Total Devo, is being released as a teaser, marking its first digital release.) All the songs you know and love are there, including "Whip It," "Girl U Want," "Beautiful World," "Uncontrollable Urge," "Jerkin' Back 'n' Forth" and more. The full compilation will be released on two CDs and four clear vinyl LPs; the latter is available exclusively through Rhino's official store and includes a 28-page book, album art lithograph, air freshener and foldable paper replica of the group's signature "energy dome" headwear, all packed in a slipcase. A 25-track 2LP cut-down (featuring the contents of the first disc plus New Traditionalists album cut "Love Without Anger") will be available, with physical retailers getting the set pressed on red and blue vinyl. Read more here.

Goo Goo Dolls, Live at The Academy New York City 1995 (Warner Records)

2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada
3LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada

Goo Goo Dolls' Live At The Academy, New York, City, 1995 features two breakthrough sets from the band: a memorable performance for the CMJ Music Conference, recorded just as they were starting to enjoy their first success on the radio; and an invite-only soundcheck that became treasured by fans when it was taped off radio performances. A mobile recording truck captured the entire thing, and the fruits of that work will be presented on two CDs or three LPs.  Get more details here.

Bob Dylan, Mixing Up the Medicine / A Retrospective (Columbia/Legacy)

CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada
LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada
Book: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada

Next Tuesday, October 24, publishing house Callaway will release Mixing Up the Medicine, a 600+-page tome promised to be "the most comprehensive book yet published on the work of Nobel Prize-winning singer-songwriter-poet and cultural icon, Bob Dylan."  As entire libraries could be filled with the books written on Dylan, that's no small boast - but this hefty coffee table volume looks like it might live up to the hype.  Written and edited by Mark Davidson and Parker Fishel, the book celebrates both Dylan himself and The Bob Dylan Center, the expansive Tulsa, Oklahoma museum that opened to the public in May 2022 which has become ground zero for studies of the artist's life and work.  Though the book is massive - filled with over 1,100 images by 135 photographers plus 30 original essays, an introduction by Sean Wilentz, and an epilogue by Douglas Brinkley - its companion CD/LP is a brief Dylan primer with just a dozen tracks spanning 1964-2000 including "Blowin' in the Wind," "Tangled Up in Blue," and "Things Have Changed."  Get the track listing here!

The Vince Guaraldi Quartet, A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving: Original Soundtrack Recording (Lee Mendelson Film Productions) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada)

A Vince Guaraldi classic premieres on CD and vinyl.  This 50th anniversary of the soundtrack to A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving features the pianist-composer's complete score for teh television special plus bonus material as remixed and remastered from the original, recently-discovered multitrack tapes. Featuring Guaraldi joined by Mike Clark on drums; Seward McCain on electric bass; Tom Harrell on trumpet; and Chuck Bennett on trombone, the soundtrack has been remixed by Terry Carleton, restored and mastered by Vinson Hudson, and produced by Sean and Jason Mendelson.

CHVRCHES, The Bones of What You Believe: 10-Year Anniversary Edition (Glassnote)

2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada
2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada

The debut album by the Scottish electronic trio gets a 10th anniversary upgrade on 2CDs or 2LPs. The album, which introduced the world to multi-instrumentalists Iain Cook and Martin Doherty alongside Lauren Mayberry's distinctive vocals, gets a fresh remaster by Gavin Lurssen, who mastered the band's fourth album Screen Violence (2020). It'll also be augmented by nine unreleased bonus tracks: four live cuts and five unheard studio tracks from the band's earliest assemblages of the album.

Back to the Future: Original Cast Recording - Deluxe Edition (Masterworks Broadway) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada)

Back to the Future, currently filling seats at Broadway's Winter Garden Theatre, is expanding its original London cast recording starring Olly Dobson and Roger Bart (currently reprising his role as Doc Brown in New York) with an entire bonus disc of demos and early versions of the score's songs by Alan Silvestri and Glen Ballard.  Read more here!

Amy Grant, Lead Me On Live 1989 (Amy Grant) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada)

Amy Grant brings a 1989 performance from her Lead Me On tour to 2CD/digital formats today.  The album was recorded in Fort Worth, Texas on March 10, 1989 and features such songs as "Saved by Love," "1984," "Say Once More," and "Lead Me On."

Richard Hawley, Now Then: The Very Best of Richard Hawley (BMG) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada)

BMG brings together 2 CDs or 2 LPs of favorite songs from Sheffield's Richard Hawley including the original versions of songs heard in Hawley's musical Standing at the Sky's Edge, soon to reopen on London's West End.

Tim Easton, Special 20 / Not Cool (Black Mesa)

Special 20: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada
Not Cool: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada

Guitarist-singer-songwriter Tim Easton, a fixture on the Americana scene, revisits his 1998 debut album Special 20 in a new 25th anniversary edition.  Produced by Brad Jones and Robin Eaton, the Nashville-recorded album introduced Easton's rock-and-roll-meets-folk voice, with songs inspired by his college days as well as his time in Europe as a street troubadour.  The long out-of-print Special 20 will be reissued on both vinyl and CD.  It's joined today on CD and LP by Easton's 2013 studio album Not Cool.  Recording in Music City, Easton welcomed veterans (bassist Joe Fick, guitarist JD Simo and drummer Jon Radford), and newcomers (violinist Megan Palmer and guitarist Sadler Vaden) alike to record the set that ended up on American Songwriter's "best-of" list for the year.  The album of which Easton remains proud ("Not Cool is the record, from start to finish, that I call my best album") is ripe for rediscovery.

The Mojo Men, There Goes My Mind (Sundazed) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada)

Sundazed digs into the archives of San Francisco's Mojo Men ("Sit Down, I Think I Love You") for this set of rarities.  Jud Cost provides new liner notes, and Kevin Gray has cut the vinyl at Cohearant Audio.  Available on CD and vinyl.

Salt 'N' Pepa, Very Necessary: 30th Anniversary Edition (Mercury/UMe)

2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada
2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Urban Legends (blue vinyl).

Salt 'N' Pepa's fourth studio album returns for a 30th anniversary edition.  It yielded hit singles including top five hits "Shoop" and "Whatta Man" (featuring En Vogue) and the Grammy-winning "None of Your Business."  A top five album, Very Necessary has been certified 5x Platinum.  This expanded edition adds single B-sides and remixes as well as the soundtrack cut "I Am the Body Beautiful" from To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar.  Available on CD and vinyl, with the latter featuring only a selection of the bonus tracks.  Get the track listing here!

Rolling Stones, Hackney Diamonds (Polydor)

Standard CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada
Standard Black Vinyl LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada
Amazon-Exclusive Green Vinyl LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada
Various Vinyl Exclusives (Including MLB): The Rolling Stones Shop
CD/Blu-ray Box (contains Atmos and hi-res stereo mixes on Blu-ray): The Rolling Stones Shop
B&N Exclusive Variant CD: Barnes & Noble
Target-Exclusive Purple Vinyl: Target.com

Hackney Diamonds, The Rolling Stones' first album of original material since 2005 and first album since 2016, arrives in a variety of formats (a mere handful of which are noted above).  It marks the Stones' first-ever album without Charlie Watts, though the late drummer is represented via recordings made before his death.  Hackney Diamonds' plethora of formats ranges from standard CD and LP to vinyl variants for every Major League Baseball team (!) as well as a Japan-exclusive edition with bonus track.

Cher, Christmas (Warner Records)

CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada
Red Vinyl LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada
Amazon-Exclusive Cover CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada
Target-Exclusive Alternate Artwork CD: Target.com

Cher releases her first-ever Christmas album including the lead single "DJ Play a Christmas Song" and guest appearances by Darlene Love ("Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)"), Michael Buble ("Home"), Cyndi Lauper ("Put a Little Holiday in Your Heart"), Stevie Wonder ("What Christmas Means to Me"), and Tyga ("Drop Top Sleigh Ride").

Carla Olson, Have Harmony, Will Travel 3 (BFD) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada)

Carla Olson unveils her third album of collaborations, with guests including The Hollies' Allan Clarke, the late B.J. Thomas, and the late Gene Clark as well as Mickey Raphael and Wings' Laurence Juber.  Available on CD and digitally.