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

Eagles, To the Limit: The Essential Collection (Rhino)

3CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Rhino.com
3CD with replica tour pass: Target.com
6LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Rhino.com
2LP Highlights: Target.com

To the Limit: The Essential Collection celebrates Eagles' current Long Goodbye tour.  The first major compilation for the band since 2003's 2-CD The Very Best of Eagles (released in some territories as The Complete Greatest Hits), To the Limit presents 51 songs on 3 CDs vs. that earlier release's 33.  The first two discs feature studio recordings while the third offers a selection of previously released live performances from over the years.  It's available as a 3CD set, a 6LP set on 180-gram vinyl, and digitally.  A limited edition, embossed lithograph will be available to those who pre-order directly from Rhino.com.  A 2LP "highlights" edition and an exclusive CD with replica tour pass will be available exclusively at Target stores and through Target.com.  Read more here.

Glad, A New Tomorrow: The Glad and New Breed Recordings (Now Sounds/Cherry Red) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada)

Cherry Red's Now Sounds imprint is back with the first-ever CD release of Glad's 1969 psych-rock LP, originally released on ABC Records, produced by Eirik Wangberg (a.k.a. Eirik The Norwegian, as he was dubbed by Paul McCartney).  The band once referred to as "The Beatles of Sacramento" comprised future Poco/Eagles member Timothy B. Schmit, Ron Floegel, Tom Phillips, and George Hullin; they were signed to Terry Melcher's Equinox production company for their lone LP.  This deluxe set adds all of their unique mono mixes as well as the complete recorded output of their pre-Glad iteration, The New Breed.  A 24-page booklet chronicles the band's full story; Now Sounds' Steve Stanley has produced, designed, and annotated this reissue.

Emerson, Lake, and Powell, Complete Collection (Cherry Red/Spirit of Unicorn) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada)

Cherry Red, in partnership with Spirit of Unicorn Music, will issue Emerson, Lake & Powell's studio and live material as Complete Collection, a 3CD set. It will include the prog trio's self-titled 1986 album (including two CD-only bonus tracks and a single edit of "The Score") and two self-released titles on ELP's Manticore label: Live in Concert (recorded during the group's U.S. tour) and The Sprocket Sessions, a collection of live-in-studio rehearsals for said tour. Andy Pearce has remastered all the material, with PROG editor-in-chief Jerry Ewing writing liner notes.  Read more here.

Blue Oyster Cult, Ghost Stories (Frontiers) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada)

BOC has dug into their archives for this collection of songs originally begun between 1978 and 1983 - plus one from 2016 - and newly completed.  Some of the material has been culled from "workshop" session tapes, and some from rehearsal tapes. The band's original engineer George Geranios co-produced the original 1978-83 recordings along with BOC. Studio work for the new album was completed by Richie Castellano along with remaining original members Eric Bloom and Donald "Buck Dharma" Roeser; both Albert Bouchard and Rick Downey appear on drums with additional overdubs recorded by Joe Bouchard. Available on CD, LP, and digitally.

Manic Street Preachers, Lifeblood 20 (Sony U.K.) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada)

This deluxe, remastered 3CD set marks the 20th anniversary of Manic Street Preachers' seventh studio album Lifeblood by adding non-LP B-sides, demos, live tracks, alternate mixes, and outtakes plus two new remixes of the lead track "1985": one by Steven Wilson and one by Welsh artist Gwenno. The booklet features new liner notes by John Harris and previously unpublished photos by Mitch Ikeda.  Out today in the U.K. and next Friday, April 19, in North America.

Mark Knopfler, One Deep River (Blue Note)

1CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada
2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada
2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 
3LP/2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada

Mark Knopfler returns with his 10th studio album featuring a dozen original songs.  Available on CD, half-speed-mastered 180-gram vinyl, and digitally.  The 3LP/2CD box set adds bonus tracks in both CD and vinyl formats as well as swag (guitar picks, enamel pin, lithograph).  A 2CD European edition is also available with 5 additional songs on the bonus disc.

Willie Nile, Live at Daryl's House Club (River House) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada)

Buffalo, NY singer-songwriter Willie Nile took the stage at Daryl Hall's club Daryl's House on September 3, 2022 for this concert recorded by the club's in-house engineer Peter Moshay.  This set of hard-hitting rock-and-roll draws on all phases of Nile's career and features Johnny Pisano (bass/backing vocals); Jimi K. Bones (lead guitar/backing vocals); Jon Weber (drums); and Willie (guitar/piano/vocals). The album has been mixed and mastered by Dave Darlington at Bass Hit Recordings in NYC and captures Nile and his band firing on all cylinders.  The CD is housed in a digipak with B&W photos of the group onstage.

Beyoncé, Cowboy Carter (Columbia/Parkwood) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada)

Unless you've been under a rock, you've heard by now about Beyoncé's Cowboy Carter, a fantasia and rumination on country music, Americana, and the black experience featuring appearances by Paul McCartney (via a sample of the original backing track of The Beatles' "Blackbird"), Dolly Parton, Willie Nelson, Linda Martell, Miley Cyrus, and a host of African-American country artists including Tanner Adell, Brittney Spencer, Tiera Kennedy, Reyna Roberts, Shaboozey, and Willie Jones.  Note that the physical releases do not include all of the songs on the sprawling album: shockingly, standout track "Ya-Ya" has been eliminated from both the CD and LP versions.  (Copies purchased from Beyoncé's online store reportedly add one of the missing tracks back.)  Curious how one of the year's biggest sellers could drop key tracks off its only physical releases?  You're not the only one.  Visit TSD's own Mike over at Duque's Delight for his thoughts!

Various Artists, My Black Country: The Songs of Alice Randall (Oh Boy) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada)

With Trisha Yearwood's 1994 single "XXXs and OOOs (An American Girl)," Alice Randall became the first African-American woman to write a No. 1 Country song.  Now - (not?) coincidentally the same week as the physical release of Cowboy Carter - she's the subject of a new album that's also a companion to her memoir of the same title.  My Black Country: The Songs of Alice Randall features such African-American country artists as Rhiannon Giddens, Rissi Palmer, and Allison Russell revisiting and reimagining Randall's songs.  Available on CD, LP, and digitally.

Torn Boys, 1983 (Independent Project Records) (Bandcamp)

The good people at IPR have a new collection out today that's up to the label's usual high standard.  Torn Boys' 1983 rounds up ten live and studio rarities (nine songs and an intro) from the band formed in 1982 by guitarist-singers Jeffrey Clark and Kelly Foley of Stockton, California.  The duo's tastes were eclectic; in the liner notes, Clark recalls the duo performing acoustic versions of songs by Television alongside "Mack the Knife" (heard on the release) and "Wild Thing."  In late spring 1983, Grant-Lee Phillips was brought in as a new guitarist, solidifying the trio.  Though the group was ultimately short-lived, there's much to like in their dark, hazy, electronic psychedelia with flourishes of New Wave, country guitar, performance art, and beyond.  1983 is available on CD and LP (both with a bonus DVD of four newly-created music videos) and digitally.

Woo, Xylophonics + Robot X (Independent Project Records) (Bandcamp)

We also wouldn't want you to miss this recent IPR release.  U.K. band Woo, a.k.a. brothers Mark and Clive Ives, were part of IPR's roster in the 1980s with their cult-favorite albums Whichever Way You Are Going, You Are Going Wrong and It's Cosy Inside.  They returned to the label roughly four decades later for another pair of albums, 2016's Robot X and 2017's Xylophonics.  Both LPs found the brothers still as steadfastly experimental as before, creating electronica with a futuristic bent; Robot X was assembled from material originally recorded in the 1980s while Xylophonics drew on pieces of tracks first worked on in the 1990s.  The results were strikingly original, in both cases.  This new reissue brings both latter-day Woo albums together in one beautiful package on CD or vinyl.