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.

Bob Dylan, The 1974 Tour Recordings (Columbia/Legacy) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada)

In 1974, Bob Dylan embarked on an extensive tour with his old backing band.  Now, they, too, were universally known - as The Band - and the double bill hit indoor arenas across North America for 40 concerts over 30 dates and 21 cities.  The tour became one of the largest and highest-profile of the era, in no small part due to the promotional efforts of David Geffen, who'd spurred on the talks and had recently lured Dylan away from Columbia Records to his own Asylum label.  While Dylan's Asylum affiliation would be short-lived, the incendiary recordings from the tour have lived on thanks to the release of Before the Flood, the Platinum-certified live album.  Bob Dylan and The Band's The 1974 Live Recordings, a 27-CD box from Columbia/Legacy, brings together 133 professionally recorded tracks (all newly-mixed from 16-track tape) and every single surviving soundboard recording.  In total, 417 of the 431 tracks are previously unreleased.  Read more here, and watch this space for our full review!

Double Exposure, My Love Is Free: The Salsoul Recordings (1976-1979) (SoulMusic/The Second Disc) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Cherry Red)

My Love Is Free: The Salsoul Recordings (1976-1979) brings together expanded editions of all three of Philadelphia disco quartet Double Exposure's Salsoul albums plus the newly-curated collection I Got the Hots: Remixes and Rarities, for a total of 46 tracks on 4 CDs including the first-ever commercially-released 12-inch single, "Ten Percent." My Love Is Free: The Salsoul Recordings (1976-1979) has been compiled by Tim Dillinger for God's Music Is My Life, who has co-produced the set with historian Craig Seymour and TSD's Joe Marchese.  Nick Robbins has remastered all of the audio, and John Sellards has designed the 28-page, full-color booklet which features new liner notes by DJ Dyn-O-Mite of Substack column Jointzoftheday.org.  The four discs (all adorned with replica Salsoul labels) are housed in individual wallets replicating the original cover artwork for each title; they're housed within a clamshell case.​ Get more details here!

Cher, Forever (Warner)

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Cher's first hits collection in nearly two decades, Forever features 21 newly remastered songs curated by the artist on 1 CD or 2 LPs (pressed on crystal-clear vinyl).  It's accompanied by the Forever: Fan Edition, a digital-only expanded album with couple of true rarities that still await physical release. Forever, sequenced non-chronologically, includes the No. 1 hits "Gypsys, Tramps, and Thieves" (1971), "Dark Lady" (1974), "After All" (1989, AC), "If I Could Turn Back Time" (1990, AC), "Believe" (1998), "Strong Enough" (1999, Dance), "Song for the Lonely" (2002, Dance), "You Haven't Seen the Last of Me" (2010, Dance), "Woman's World" (2013, Dance), and "DJ Play a Christmas Song" (2023, AC) as well as a number of fan favorites from the singer's extraordinary career.  Read more here!

Fleetwood Mac, Mirage Tour '82 (Warner/Rhino)

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Recorded over two nights at The Forum just outside Los Angeles - the same venue where Rumours Live was taped - Mirage Tour '82 now presents a fuller picture of those shows over two CDs or three LPs (with an Amazon-exclusive clear vinyl variant also available). Singer/guitarist Lindsey Buckingham, singer Stevie Nicks, singer/keyboardist Christine McVie, bassist John McVie, and drummer Mick Fleetwood took attendees through a 22-song set that may have been light on material from their then-newest album ("Eyes of the World," "Gypsy," "Love in Store" and "Hold Me") but still infused the power of that latest album into renditions of songs from their previous three albums, both hits ("Rhiannon," "Go Your Own Way," "You Make Loving Fun," "Tusk") and deeper cuts ("Blue Letter," "Songbird," "Sisters of the Moon").  Six tracks make their debuts here: the Rumours hits and favorites "Don't Stop," "Dreams" and "Never Going Back Again"; the Stevie Nicks-fronted "Landslide" (from the self-titled album) and "Sara" (from Tusk); and "Oh Well," the sole standard from the earliest incarnations of the band with frontman Peter Green at the helm. Journalist/songwriter Bill DeMain contributes the set's liner notes.  Read more here!

Phil Collins, Both Sides (All the Sides) (Atlantic/Rhino) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada)

Phil Collins' fifth album, 1993's Both Sides, is getting the deluxe treatment on vinyl. The 5LP box Both Sides (All the Sides) features the original album, demos, B-sides, and live tracks.  The 2016 CD expansion of Both Sides featured a mix of rare B-sides, demos and unreleased live material - an approach that stymied some fans for its lack of comprehensiveness. (All the uncompiled remixes and rarities were later issued on two digital-only collections.) Both Sides (All the Sides) amends this with its track list, offering all the tracks from that reissue and era-specific material from original singles "Both Sides of the Story," "Everyday," and "We Wait and We Wonder." The original album is spread across two LPs, a third offers all the demos and most of the studio B-sides, the fourth includes all the live tracks from the 2016 expansion, and the fifth is a mixed bag of live B-sides, and odds and ends like Collins' rendition of "I've Been Trying" from a Curtis Mayfield tribute album. (Only three live versions of "Hang in Long Enough," "Hand in Hand" and "Doesn't Anybody Stay Together Anymore," released on a U.S. maxi-single, didn't feature on any of those previous reissues.)  The slipcase features the album's original cover artwork.  Get more detail here!

Grateful Dead, Duke '78 (Rhino)

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Rhino culls the Dead's Cameron Indoor Stadium, Duke University, Durham, NC concert of April 12, 1978 from the massive Friends of the Devil: April 1978 box set for standalone release today on CD and LP.  Get the track listing and more here!

Sam Phillips, A Boot and a Shoe (Omnivore) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada)

Omnivore marks 20 years of Sam Phillips' A Boot and a Shoe with this remastered edition boasting new liner notes by Sam.  2004's A Boot and a Shoe welcomed guest artists including T Bone Burnett, Marc Ribot (Tom Waits, Elvis Costello), Mike Elizondo (Fiona Apple, Eminem), session legend Jim Keltner, and The Section Quartet. "Reflecting Light" and "If I Could Write" were both featured in the Gilmore Girls original series and its subsequent Netflix revival.

Jackson Browne, For Everyman (Inside Recordings) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada)

The singer-songwriter's second album, from 1973, gets the straight reissue treatment today on CD and LP.  For Everyman welcomed guitarist David Lindley into the fold and also features guest spots from David Crosby, Glenn Frey, Don Henley, Joni Mitchell, Bonnie Raitt, and Elton John.  It opens with Browne's rendition of the Eagles mega-hit "Take It Easy" and also includes his version of "These Days" which had previously been cut by artists including Nico and Gregg Allman.

Peggy Lee / Shirley Horn, Great Women of Song (Verve/UMe)

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Verve continues its series of Great Women of Song compilations with volumes dedicated to Shirley Horn (1934-2005) and Peggy Lee (1920-2002).  The Horn volume concentrates on her later recordings with both small groups and full orchestras while Lee's entry focuses on her 1952-1956 recordings for Decca Records including selections from her classic album Black Coffee.

Herb Alpert, 50 (Herb Alpert Presents) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada)

The eternally youthful trumpeter, 89, is looking back on decades of music-making with his 50th album - which also happens to mark his 50th anniversary to singer and musical partner Lani Hall.  50 includes original compositions as well as covers in Herb's playful and funky style of "Are You Lonesome Tonight," "Sh-Boom," and "Baubles, Bangles, and Beads."