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Johnny Cash BOOTLEG VOL. IV: THE SOUL OF TRUTH Available everywhere starting April 3, 2012

Wednesday, February 8, 2012
FIRST RELEASE IN JOHNNY CASH'S 80TH BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION
JOHNNY CASH - BOOTLEG VOL. IV : THE SOUL OF TRUTH FOCUSES ON SONGS OF FAITH RECORDED IN THE 1970s AND '80s
2-CD, 51-TRACK COLLECTION GATHERS RELEASED AND PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED STUDIO MATERIAL RECORDED IN NASHVILLE AND HOUSE OF CASH IN HENDERSONVILLE, TN

Sony Music's Popmarket.com Releases Complete Albums Collections by Jazz Masters Stanley Clarke & George Duke

Friday, January 20, 2012

The Ultimate Jazz Festival continues as Sony Music's PopMarket.com presents Complete Albums Collections from the Epic Records archives by two of the greatest names in modern jazz - Stanley Clarke and George Duke. These box sets contain the most famous and successful albums in these artists' respective careers, nearly all of them reaching high chart positions on the Billboard Jazz, R&B and Pop charts.

The Essential Kirk Franklin Available everywhere starting January 24, 2012

Thursday, January 19, 2012
THE ESSENTIAL KIRK FRANKLIN

20th ANNIVERSARY YEAR CELEBRATED OF REIGNING #1 ARTIST IN CONTEMPORARY GOSPEL MUSIC

2-CD, 28-SONG COLLECTION RANGES FROM EARLIEST 1992 TRACKS WITH 'THE FAMILY' TO MOST RECENT ALBUM OF 2011, HELLO FEAR

Includes landmark songs "Why We Sing" with the Family, "Looking For You," "Stomp (Remix)" with God's Property, "Now Behold The Lamb (live)" Christmas song, Grammy®-winners "Imagine Me" and "Help Me Believe" - and more!

Janis Joplin "The Pearl Sessions" Available Tuesday, April 17

Thursday, January 19, 2012
LEGACY RECORDINGS COMMEMORATES JANIS JOPLIN'S BIRTHDAY WITH ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE PEARL SESSIONS

DEFINITIVE TWO-DISC EDITION OF JANIS JOPLIN'S FAREWELL ALBUM MASTERPIECE DEBUTS NEWLY DISCOVERED STUDIO OUTTAKES, BANTER & RARITIES INCLUDING NINE PREVIOUSLY UNAVAILABLE TRACKS

Janis Joplin - The Pearl Sessions
Available Everywhere Tuesday, April 17, 2012

Big Brother and the Holding Company's "Live at the Carousel Ballroom 1968" feat. Janis Joplin - Available March 13, 2012

Thursday, January 5, 2012
COLUMBIA/LEGACY RECORDINGS RELEASING
THE FIRST OF "BEAR'S SONIC JOURNALS":
BIG BROTHER & THE HOLDING COMPANY FEATURING JANIS JOPLIN
LIVE AT THE CAROUSEL BALLROOM 1968,
RECORDED & PRODUCED BY OWSLEY STANLEY ("BEAR")

Long Awaited Release of Seminal Concert Recording
from Mythic Soundman's "Sonic Journals"
Available Tuesday, March 13, 2012

THIS MONTH'S Legacy NEED 2 KNOW Artist BILLIE HOLIDAY

Wednesday, January 4, 2012

Billie Holiday, nicknamed "Lady Day", was an American jazz singer and songwriter who transformed jazz and pop singing in the 20th Century. Her vocal style, strongly inspired by jazz instrumentalists, pioneered a new way of manipulating phrasing and tempo. Critic John Bush wrote that Holiday "changed the art of American pop vocals forever."

Available January 31, 2012 - Knew You Were Waiting: The Best of Aretha Franklin 1980-1998

Monday, December 19, 2011
KNEW YOU WERE WAITING:
THE BEST OF ARETHA FRANKLIN 1980-1998

QUEEN OF SOUL'S 70th BIRTHDAY CELEBRATED
WITH 15-SONG COLLECTION SPOTLIGHTING
FIRST 18 YEARS AS AN ARISTA ARTIST

FROM 1980's "UNITED TOGETHER" TO 1998'S "ROSE IS STILL A ROSE" - INCLUDING #1 HITS "JUMP TO IT," "GET IT RIGHT," AND GRAMMY AWARD®-WINNING "FREEWAY OF LOVE" (WITH CLARENCE CLEMONS)

The Rise of Profile Records and the Dawn of Hip-Hop Culture in America

Friday, December 9, 2011

GIANT SINGLE: PROFILE RECORDS RAP ANTHOLOGY - DELUXE
31-SONG, 2-CD PACKAGE TRACES LABEL'S HISTORY, 1981-1996
GENRE-DEFINING TRACKS FROM RUN- D.M.C., DANA DANE,
DR. JECKYLL & MR. HYDE, ROB BASE & DJ EZ ROCK, PRT,
ONYX, DJ QUIK, NINE, CAMP LO, AND MORE!
30 years since Dr. Jeckyll & Mr. Hyde's ground-breaking "Genius Rap" in 1981
Available everywhere starting January 31, 2012 - in advance of
Black History Month in February - through Profile/Legacy

Hooverphonic Releases Deluxe Box Set of Debut Album "A New Stereophonic Sound Spectacular"

Friday, December 9, 2011

AVAILABLE FROM DECEMBER 5TH - FREE SHIPPING WITHIN EUROPE

15 years after its release, Hooverphonic presents a lavish deluxe re-issue box set version of their groundbreaking debut album "A New Stereophonic Sound Spectacular". Founding band members Alex Callier, Raymond Geerts and Frank Duchêne opened their personal archives especially for this release.

SONY LEGACY: Holiday BOX SET Gift Guide (2011)

Friday, December 2, 2011

It's that time again! Let Legacy help you get some special gifts for the music lovers in your life. Here is our 2011 gift guide. Enjoy & Happy Holidays!