Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of the new titles in stores today.  As an Amazon affiliate, we earn from qualifying purchases.

Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers, Long After Dark: Deluxe Edition (Geffen/UMe)

2CD/Blu-ray Audio: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada
2CD/Blu-ray Audio (with Amazon-exclusive stickers): Amazon U.S.
2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Tom Petty Store (Exclusive)

Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers' fifth studio album has gotten a deluxe makeover.  Geffen/UMe have revisited 1982's oft-overlooked Long After Dark, originally released on Backstreet Records, in various formats including 2LP and 2CD+Blu-ray. The bonus disc, featuring outtakes and songs recorded for French television, has been mixed by Petty's longtime associate Ryan Ulyate.  The Blu-ray Disc in the 2CD/1BD package contains high-resolution stereo and new Dolby Atmos mixes of the original album and bonus tracks, also mixed by Ulyate. Read more here!

The Pogues, Red Roses for Me: 40th Anniversary Edition (Rhino)

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

To mark 40 years since their unconventional sound was loosed on the European record buying public, The Pogues' debut album Red Roses for Me is being reissued by Rhino. The package will be available as a red LP on recycled vinyl - featuring a 2013 remix of the album that was first pressed on wax two years later - or a 2CD set that will make the remix available on the format for the first time, along with a bonus disc of six B-sides and a dozen live sessions for the BBC. (Those 12 tracks were issued as part of a Record Store Day-exclusive release in 2020.) Read more here.

Lou Reed, Why Don't You Smile Now? Lou Reed at Pickwick Records 1964-1965 (Light in the Attic)

CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada
2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Light in the Attic (Oxblood/Gold Vinyl)

Why Don't You Smile Now: Lou Reed At Pickwick Records 1964-1965 serves as the first official anthology (blessed by both Reed's estate and his widow, musician Laurie Anderson) covering Reed's first gig in the music business: as a songwriter and sometime musician for the budget-minded Pickwick label collective. Despite the obscurity of the material - and the iconoclast's own assessment of his time as "a poor man's Carole King" - Reed's affinity for pop and soul melodies was evident on these songs. Listeners will hear originals meant to emulate the American pop/rock landscape of the time, soundalike covers of The Beach Boys, and original compositions from the future two-time Rock & Roll Hall of Famer, including the cult dance tune "The Ostrich." The set will include unseen photos and new liner notes by author Richie Unterberger and rocker, Patti Smith Group co-founder and historian Lenny Kaye. All audio has been remastered by John Baldwin and pressed on vinyl at German plant Optimal, with a package designed for vinyl by Masaki Koike at Phys Design and for CD by Darryl Norsen.​ Get more details here.

Albert King and Stevie Ray Vaughan, In Session: Deluxe Edition (Craft Recordings)

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

An intergenerational meeting between two late blues guitar gods - Albert King and Stevie Ray Vaughan - will be revived on CD and vinyl in a new expanded package.  Originally recorded in 1983 and first released in 1999, In Session features the six-stringers trading licks on a Canadian television program of the same name, when King was a 60-year-old living legend and Vaughan a young upstart who'd turned heads with his licks on David Bowie's Let's Dance before releasing his own powerful debut Texas Flood with his trio Double Trouble.  In 2010, a CD/DVD was released that offered three additional performances filmed for the broadcast, including King's signature "Born Under a Bad Sign," the standard "I'm Gonna Move to the Outskirts of Town," and another SRV tune, the title track to Texas Flood. For the first time, this 2CD or 3LP set will include all of that audio, presented in its original sequence.  Get more info here.

NRBQ, Brass Tacks: 10th Anniversary Edition (Omnivore) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada)

For its 10th anniversary, NRBQ's Brass Tacks - featuring such favorites as "Waitin' on My Sweetie Pie," "Can't Wait to Kiss You," "Greetings from Delaware," and a cover of The King and I standard "Getting to Know You" - gets the deluxe treatment from Omnivore with new artwork, a new remastering by Alan Stockwell, and three bonus tracks (on the CD and digital versions only).  Available on CD, LP, and digitally.

Ella Fitzgerald, Ella Wishes You a Swinging Christmas: Deluxe Edition (Verve/UMe) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada)

Ella Fitzgerald's beloved 1960 album conducted by Frank DeVol gets the expanded treatment with a second LP - making for a "complete" collection of her Verve and Decca holiday recordings, 24 in total - including six tracks new to vinyl.  Will Friedwald has penned new liner notes for an enclosed booklet, and the package also contains cut-out ornaments. It's decked out in a gold cover. Alas, no CD version has been announced - leaving CD fans with the 2002 expanded edition of 18 songs.

The Kinks, Sleepwalker / Misfits (BMG)

Sleepwalker: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada
Misfits: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada

BMG has fresh remasters of two albums from The Kinks, both originally released on Arista Records (in 1977 and 1978, respectively) and ushering in the band's "arena rock" phase.  Both albums, available on CD and LP, feature the original track listings only.

Ray Charles, Country & Western Meets Rhythm & Blues / Crying Time (Tangerine)

Country & Western Meets Rhythm and Blues: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada
Crying Time: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada

Tangerine's series of reissues celebrating Ray Charles' country music recordings continues with these two ABC-Paramount albums originally released in 1965 and 1966; neither of these albums have ever been released in their original format on CD before.  Available on CD, LP, and digitally.

Lin-Manuel Miranda and Eisa Davis, Warriors (Atlantic) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada)

How to follow up Hamilton?  Lin-Manuel Miranda has teamed with playwright-singer-songwriter Eisa Davis for a concept album of a new musical, Warriors, based on the novel The Warriors by Sol Yurick and the 1979 Paramount film.  Miranda and Davis have been joined by an eclectic cast of actors and musicians including executive producer Nas, Busta Rhymes, Cam'ron, Colman Domingo, David Patrick Kelly, Casey Likes, Ghostface Killah, RZA, Mykal Kilgore, Billy Porter, and Marc Anthony; Mike Elizondo has produced.  Available on CD, 2LP, and digital formats.

Jake Shimabukuro and Mick Fleetwood, Blues Experience (40 Below) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada)

Ukelele virtuoso Jake Shimabukuro has teamed with Fleetwood Mac co-founder Mick Fleetwood for an unexpected collaborative LP drawing on their shared love of the blues.  Their Blues Experience reinvents such tunes as "Whiter Shade of Pale," "Rockin' in the Free World," and the Mac's "Songbird."  Available on CD, LP, and digitally.

Jane Monheit, Jane Monheit (Club44) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada)

Jane Monheit's new set finds the jazz singer nonpareil supported by Rick Montalbano on drums, Max Haymer on piano, Karl McComas Reichl on bass, Kevin Winard and Tiki Pasillas on percussion, and Joel Frahm on saxophone, in addition to The Nashville Recording Orchestra. Produced by Monheit and Montalbano, this self-titled LP offers the lead singles "On a Clear Day You Can See Forever" and "Whatever Lola Wants" as well as renditions of such varied fare as "Young and Foolish," "Green Finch and Linnet Bird," "Not a Day Goes By," "Too Close for Comfort," "And So It Goes," and more.