Spin Doctors, Pocket Full of Kryptonite: 20th Anniversary Edition (Epic/Legacy)
The "Two Princes" guys...hey, stop laughing...have their hit debut album remastered and expanded - cut that out! - with a bonus disc of demos and rarities. (Official site)
Aerosmith, Celine Dion, The Byrds and Carole King, The Essential 3.0 (Columbia/Epic/Legacy)
Four Essential compilations get the third-disc treatment. Note that the Celine Dion title is identical to 2008's My Love: The Essential Collection and the Aerosmith set is identical to 2002's O Yeah! Ultimate Aerosmith Hits. (Amazon: Aerosmith, Celine, Byrds, Carole)
Jill Scott, The Original Jill Scott: From the Vault - Volume 1 (Hidden Beach)
The R&B singer's original label, having recently lost her after a nasty court battle, decides to raid its vaults and finds 14 good tracks. (Official site)
The Association, Renaissance: Deluxe Expanded Mono Edition (Now Sounds)
Another great Association LP, nearly doubled in length by bonus tracks! (Now Sounds)
Alberta Hunter, Downhearted Blues: Live at the Cookery (RockBeat)
The legendary blues singer with a great story (Hunter sang from the '20s to the '40s before leaving the music scene to become a nurse - and then made a surprise comeback after retiring from that career in the '70s) is represented on CD with this hard-to-find performance from 1981. (Amazon)
Ice Cube, Kill at Will (RockBeat)
Cube's beloved 1990 EP is now available on CD and vinyl from one of our new favorite reissue labels. (Amazon)
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