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Following its limited reissue earlier this year for Record Store Day, Emmylou Harris revisits the 1998 live album Spyboy on CD and wide-release LP with the same expanded track listing.  Produced by Harris and Buddy Miller and featuring Miller on guitar and vocals, Brady Blade on drums, percussion, and vocals, and Daryl Johnson on bass, djembe, percussion, and vocals, the new Spyboy adds live versions of Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers’ “A Thing About You,” Bob Dylan’s “Every Grain of Sand,” Bill Monroe’s “Get Up John,” Lucinda Williams’ “Sweet Old World,” and…

Willie Nelson spent much of the summer out on the road with the Outlaw Festival, so it’s only appropriate that his new studio album is paying tribute to a fellow Outlaw.  Workin’ Man: Willie Sings Merle, available on CD, LP, and digitally, finds Young celebrating his late friend Merle Haggard, with whom he recorded three albums between 1983 and 2015.  Willie’s 78th original album, Workin’ Man features a host of Hag favorites including “Okie from Muskogee,” “Tonight the Bottle Let Me Down,” “Today I Started Loving You Again,” “Mama Tried,” and “If…