Recorded over two days in early January of 2017, Detour Ahead: The Music of Billie Holiday is John's tribute to the great Lady Day. Arranged, produced and mixed by Asbury Jukes saxophonist John Isley, the album is a ten-song offering of all original arrangements and interpretations of some of Billie's most classic songs as well as a few hidden gems.

01. Ain’t Nobody's Business   02. Detour Ahead   03. Don't Explain  04. Billie's Blues  05. You Don't Know What Love Is 06. Lover Man  07. Do Nothin Till Ya Hear From Me 08. In My Solitude    09. These Foolish Things 10. Crazy He Calls Me 

Years before their groundbreaking Oscar for "It's Hard Out Here For A Pimp," Memphis' Three 6 Mafia were making a splash throughout the South with self-released, hard albums for a growing legion of street-rap fans. To anyone listening to their earlier work today, it will come as no surprise that they started out as a straight-up "horrorcore" group. Chpt. 2: World Domination is the group's third album overall and their first on Relativity. In many ways, this was the country's first introduction to the crew, centered around producers / MCs DJ Paul and Juicy J. The horrorcore aesthetic is never far from the surface with the crew, heard clearly on the rolling, menacing and downright catchy "Are U Ready 4 Us" (with Michigan's The Dayton Family), "Spill My Blood" and "Bodyparts 2" (with guests including Memphis affiliate Project Pat). "Tear Da Club Up '97" was one of the album's singles, and it resonates in Southern clubs to this day. "Late Nite Tip," another single, has similar resonance among fans, showing a more serious side to the group's lyricism. "Who Got Dem 9s" (with Project Pat) and the sex-fueled chatter on "Watcha Do" and "Neighborhood Hoe" show that they have range, even if it's not what their neighborhood preacher might want to hear (or at least cop to it in public). The group was still on the rise in 1997 when this southern classic hit, and had even bigger things ahead of them. But 20 years ago they also had the template in place to create a sound that would still rock fans and shake car rims to this day.

A1. We Are Waiting • A2. Intro • A3. Will Blast • A4. Hit A Muthafucka • A5. Are U Ready 4 Us • A6. Prophet Pose • A7. Motivated B1. I Ain't Cha Friend • B2. Watcha Do • B3. Spill My Blood • B4. Who Got Dem 9's • B5. Gunclaps • B6. 3-6 In The Morning C1. Tear Da Club Up '97 • C2. Late Nite Tip • C3. Bodyparts 2 • C4. Flashes • C5. Neighborhood Hoe • C6. N 2 Deep D1. Anyone Out There • D2. Land Of The Lost • D3. Weed Is Got Me High D4. Tear Da Club Up (DJ Herb's Crunk & Tear It Up Remix) (Radio Edit) D5. Late Night Tip (DJ Herb's Ride Out Late Nite Remix) (Radio Edit)

A limited edition 10", produced by Sean Lennon, with two new songs and two new mixes from the band Pitchfork describes as "Like a group of road-tripping teenagers who've scored a Groupon for the five-star hotel and opt to take a dump in the bidet."

"Ask For The Wolfman", "58 Drops", "The Last Cul de Sac" (new mix), "It Won't Be Long" (new mix)

The incredibly influential power pop band Big Star (1971-1974) was formed in Memphis, TN by Alex Chilton, Chris Bell, Jody Stephens and Andy Hummel. They continue to inspire fans and musicians alike to this day. Big Star's Third Live is the vinyl companion of the recently released THANK YOU FRIENDS BIG STAR'S THIRD LIVE AND MORE, featuring such musical luminaries as Jeff Tweedy, Chris Stamey, Mitch Easter, Mike Mills and Robyn Hitchcock, performing Big Star songs. This vinyl release will feature the third portion of the live concert including "Femme Fatale" which was not included on the CD and DVD/Blu Ray release. As an added bonus, five additional songs recorded during the concert but not included on the CD + DVD/BR release are here, including versions of "Till the End of the Day" and "The Letter." This is the first time on vinyl for any of these recordings with a total of six previously unreleased songs. Get yourself a little Big Star this Christmas!

Side: 1  1) Kizza Me (featuring Jeff Tweedy and Django Haskins  2) O, Dana (featuring Jon Auer)  3) For You (featuring Jody Stephens and Luther Russell)  4) Nighttime (featuring Jeff Tweedy)  5) Jesus Christ (featuring Mike Mills)  6) Take Care (featuring Ira Kaplan)   Side: 2  1) Big Black Car (featuring Jessica Pratt and Jon Auer)  2) Blue Moon (featuring Jody Stephens)  3) Stroke It, Noel (featuring Ken Stringfellow)  4) Femme Fatale (featuring Jessica Pratt and Brett Harris  5) Downs (featuring Robyn Hitchcock)  6) Dream Lover (Featuring Skylar Gudasz and Ken Stringfellow)   Side: 3  1) Holocaust (featuring Django Haskins)  2) You Can't Have Me (featuring Skylar Gudasz and Mike Mills)  3) Kanga Roo (featuring Brett Harris  4) Thank You, Friends (ensemble)  5) Till The End of the Day (featuring Mitch Easter and Blake Mills)   Side: 4  1) Nature Boy (featuring Django Haskins  2) I Am The Cosmos (featuring Chris Stamey)  3) You and Your Sister (featuring Pat Sansone)  4) Way Out West (featuring Jody Stephens  5) The Letter (featuring Robyn Hitchcock)  6) The EMI Song (Smile For Me) (featuring Ira Kaplan)

It's clear that garage music has had an international resurgence in the underground music community over the last decade. It's easy to find bands young and old paying tribute to the fuzzy, high-energy sound that originated in American garages of the 1960's. Sadly, some of the recordings that helped start it all have long been lost to obscurity in the digital age. Garage Daze compiles some of the best tracks of that time, pulled together from 45RPM singles on labels like Roulette, Atco, and Jubilee. The tracks on this limited edition compilation LP have been remastered and pressed on color vinyl at Pallas in Germany.

A1 The Shadows of Knight “Gloria 69” 2:35 A2 The Groupies “Primitive” 3:48 A3 The Bare Facts “Bad Part of Town” 2:05 A4 The Red Dogs “Open Up” 2:05 A5 The Pedestrians “It’s Too Late” 2:00 A6 Jay Brown “Don’t Push Me Around” 2:01 A7 The Vacant Lot “I Blew It” 2:06 A8 The Tikis “Pay Attention to Me” 2:06 B1 The Third Bardo “I’m Five Years Ahead of My Time” 2:16 B2 Ognir and the Nite People “I Found A New Love” 2:10 B3 The Plunderers “Batman” 2:53 B4 The Free “(Day of) Decision For Lost Soul Blue” 3:35 B5 The Fenways “Be Careful Little Girl” 2:17 B6 The Front Line “Got Love” 1:45 B7 The Squires “Going All the Way” 2:20 B8 The Mojo Men “Dance With Me” 2:30

Country Music Hall of Famer Don Williams announced his retirement from performing last year, concluding an impressive five-decade career that includes two CMA Awards, two ACM Awards and 17 No. 1 hits. Williams unfortunately passed away in September 2017. In honor of his legendary career, Williams' longtime producer and friend Garth Fundis have produced a tribute album, Gentle Giants: The Songs of Don Williams, featuring an all-star lineup of artists. Some of the artists on Gentle Giant include Jason Isbell, Lady Antebellum, Dierks Bentley, Alison Krauss, John Prime and Garth Brooks. The 11-track album is being released on Slate Creek Records exclusively for RSD Black Friday 2017, and will serve as both a tribute and a memorial to a great man.

Tulsa Time – Pistol Annies, I Believe In You – Brandy Clark,We’Ve Got A Good Fire Goin’ - Lady Antebellum,Some Broken Hearts Never Mend – Dierks Bentley,Amanda – Chris Stapleton Feat. Morgane Stapleton,Till The Rivers All Run Dry – Alison Krauss,Love Is On A Roll – John Prine Feat. Roger Cook,If I Needed You – Jason Isbell & Amanda Shires,Maggie’S Dream – Trisha Yearwood,Lord I Hope This Day Is Good – Keb’ Mo,Good Ole Boys Like Me – Garth Brooks

This 25th Anniversary Edition of the Neil Young classic is newly remastered and presented for the first time on vinyl in North America, in case-wrapped gatefold jacket.

A - Plastic Machinery (Sleaford Mods Remix) AA - Plastic Machinery (Juan Maclean Remix)

Arkansas-reared, avant-roots/RnR raconteur Tav Falco is set to make the holidays merry with his first collection of Christmas standards, A Tav Falco Christmas. A fixture on the international music scene since 1981, Falco has been described by The New York Times as “A singer, guitarist and researcher of musical arcana who hasn’t let his increasingly technical expertise and idiomatic mastery compromise the clarity of his vision.” At the start of a scorching hot July in Memphis this year, Falco and his distinguished group of American/Euro vagabonds ensconced themselves at Sam Phillips Recording Service studios in Memphis. The lineup includes bassist Mike Watt (Minutemen, the Stooges), guitarist Mario Monterosso, and drummer Toby Dammit (currently the touring keyboardist in Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds). The album comes on a holiday red color LP, exclusively for Black Friday. 

Side A:ICE White Walker/Night King image from HBO 1) Wall of Ice 2) White Walkers 3) Hardhome Part 2 4) The Army of The Dead 5) Winter is Here Side B: FIRE Dragon image from HBO 1) Dracarys 2) Blood of the Dragon 3) Dragonstone 4)Spoils of War, Part 1 5) Gorgeous Beasts

Gone is Gone may be a new name in the rock world but its members are anything but familiar. This rock "supergroup" includes members of Mastodon, Queens of the Stone Age and At The Drive In. This blood red 7" hits only months after the band's explosive full length, Echolocation, follows seamlessly in its footsteps. Side A - "Phantom Limb" / Side B: "Starlight" (Acoustic) (recorded live) on blood red 7" vinyl

Side A - "Phantom Limb" / Side B: "Starlight" (Acoustic, recorded live)

The latest album from Gorillaz, for the first time on picture disc format

Intro: I Switched My Robot Off  0:23 Ascension  2:35 Strobelite  4:32 Saturnz Barz  3:01 Momentz  3:16 Interlude: The Non-Conformist Oath  0:21 Submission  3:21 Charger  3:33 Interlude: Elevator Going Up  0:04 Andromeda  3:17 Busted And Blue  4:37 Interlude: Talk Radio  0:19 Carnival  2:15 Let Me Out  2:55 Interlude: Penthouse  0:11 Sex Murder Party  4:19 She's My Collar  3:29 Interlude: The Elephant  0:11 Hallelujah Money  4:23 We Got The Power  2:17

In the early 1980s, Alice Coltrane Turiyasangitananda formed an ashram in Agora Hills, California. There a beautiful, multi-ethnic and multi generational religious community grew up around her. The highpoint of living in this very special and loving environment took shape on Sundays when Alice would lead the community in a musical ceremony, mixing both gospel and Indian chant, to create a music she wholly invented - it was something extraordinarily powerful. The Ashram is still there today. There are still some who live there and there is still a weekly Sunday service that is open for everyone.
The folks who populated the Ashram world of Alice Coltrane Turiyasangitananda were a very special group of people. Many of the adult members were musicians before having moved there, and many of the younger followers have become musicians and film makers as they grew older. One these amazing artists is John Panduranga Henderson.
Panduranga played organ, piano and sang with Ray Charles in the 1970's where he was a star performer in Ray's band. When he joined the Ashram, he became in essence a star performer there as well, though of course there were no 'stars'. Alice sitting at the organ would say, "Panduranga" and John would come to the front and let loose one of his amazing gospel-esque solos praising Rama or Vishnu or Jesus, Muhammad, Moses and more. He made one record under his own name - a record so obscure it's not listed on Discogs, nor found on the interweb? what?!
Today, for you dear listener, we would like to present Panduranga Henderson's "Ocean of Love." Om Shanti.

A1 Hari Nameste (Greetings) (10:04) A2 Hari Haraya (12:20)B1 Rama Rama, Sri Bhagwan (11:39) B2 Om Namah Shivaya (6:14)

Recorded at the Rising Sun Celebrity Jazz Club in Montreal, Quebec, on May 5, 1977, Black Night Is Falling finds John Lee Hooker in fine voice and backed by a driving band composed of John Garciaon guitar, Steve Jones on bass, and Larry "Wild Man" Martin on drums, with the end result being an excellent example of live Hooker at his best. Highlights include impressive romps through two of Hooker's signature tunes, "Boom Boom," which simply blazes with raw energy here, and "One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer," which is delivered as a wonderfully paced barroom cautionary tale. This is what the live Hooker sounded like with a sympathetic band behind him, a band that luckily wasn't afraid to push him a little.

A1 Chicken and Gravy, A2 Serves Me Right to Suffer, A3 Boom Boom, B1 Black Night, B2 One Scotch, One Bourbon, One Beer, B3 One Room Country Shack

Black Rooster, the EP that started it all! Originally released on Dim Mak in 2002, Black Rooster was the start of what's been an incredible career for Alison Mosshart and Jamie Hince of The Kills. Now in their 15th year as a band, The Kills have been looking back and celebrating with a string of anniversary shows, retrospective features, and now this special Black Friday 2017 re-issue of their very first release. Steve Aoki, owner of Dim Mak and another artist who has proven a career with similar staying power, had some words to share on the release of Black Rooster: "Many moons ago, back in 2002, I had to make a decision whether to pursue a Ph.D. Program or continue with my label Dim Mak & after hearing a demo from The Kills and becoming the first American label to release their EP Black Rooster, I knew what path I was going to choose. They took me under their wing and I hit the road with them as their tour manager, merch guy, driver (we all took turns) and label. I'll never forget that and love Jamie and Alison forever. Thank you for believing in lil me when not many people gave two shits about Dim Mak and what we were doing. Ride or Die." Back in press in North America for the first time since it's limited 2002 release, get your hands on The Kills first ever statement to the world, and the beginning of many wild things to come.

A1 Cat Claw A2 Black Rooster (Fuck And Fight) A3 Wait B1 Dropout Boogie ("Live" At Paint It Black 4/04/02) B2 Gum (Intermission "Red Meat Heart")

Special tribute release for the late Mr. Greg Lake of Emerson, Lake & Palmer and King Crimson. Side A features the orignal 1975 global holiday smash hit that launched his solo career, Side B features a rare out-of-print 2002 version. The cover art replicates the original 1975 release. (3000 copies pressed worldwide)

Side A: "I Believe In Father Christmas" (original 1975 version) // Side B: "I Believe In Father Christmas" (2002 version) 

A six-song vinyl-only Black Friday release of Lydia Loveless and her band performing a hometown show at Skully's in Columbus, Ohio. Recorded by her longtime producer Joe Viers, the show was filmed for Gorman Bechard's documentary Who Is Lydia Loveless' which is included as a DVD in this package.

Side One:  Out on Love, More Like Them, Desire.   Side Two:  Really Wanna See You Again, Heaven, Boy Crazy

Revisiting JohnnyThunders and the Heartbreakers's 'L.A.M.F.' Live at Bowery Electric. Members of Blondie, Guns 'N Roses, MC5, and The Replacements gathered to pay tribute to Johnny Thunders and the Heartbreakers's most iconic moments. Walter Lure, the sole surviving Heartbreaker, Clem Burke of Blondie, Tommy Stinson of The Relacements and Guns & Roses, and Wayne Kramer of MC5, played the entire legendary 'L.A.M.F.' album to an ecstatic crowd. Released for Record Store Day Black Friday on transparent blue vinyl.

Born To Lose, Baby Talk, All By Myself, I Wanna Be Loved, It's Not Enough, Chinese Rocks, Get Off The Phone, Pirate Love, One Track Mind, I Love You, Goin' Steady, Let Go, Can't Keep My Eyes On You, Do You Love Me.

Ziggy Marley is a Jamacian born musician and leader of the reggae band Ziggy Marley & The Melody Makers. He is also the son of Bob Marley, one of the few men in history who actually changed the world for the better. Love Is My Religion was Marley's second solo record, released in 2006. It won a 2007 Grammy for Best Reggae Album of the Year. For RSD Black Friday 2017 it is available in North America on vinyl for the first time. Love Is My Religion features Ziggy's iconic songs "Love Is My Religion" and "Beach in Hawaii". This special release will include a digital download card with album instrumentals and live audio from the Love Is My Religion concert -- over 2 hours of bonus digital audio in total! What a great gift for the world this Black Friday!

1. Into The Groove 2. Love Is My Religion 3. Make Some Music 4. Friend 5. Black Cat 6. Beach In Hawaii 7. A Lifetime 8. Be Free 9. Keep On Dreamin' 10. Still the Storms

Alter Egos is Ingrid's recent collaboration with some of her favorite artists, and consists of re-imagned versions of select songs from her latest full-length album, It Doesn't Have To Make Sense. This special double-sided picture disc is the first physical release of Alter Egos.

The Definitive O.R.T.F. recording captures the jazz guitar legend on his only tour of Europe, at the Theatre des Champs Elysees in Paris, France, on 3/27/65

Side A: 1. Four on Six 2. Impressions 3. The Girl Next Door  / Side B: 1. Here's That Rainy Day 2. Jingles 3. To When / Side C: 1. Full House 2. 'Round Midnight / Side D: 1. Blue N' Boogie/West Coast Blues 2. Twisted Blues

Shawn Lee, born in Kansas in 1963, is one of the most prolific musicians of his generation. A multi-instrumentalist, producer, singer songwriter, composer and Radio DJ, he has released 35 albums to date. He has played, produced and written songs for hundreds of records, and has worked with a diverse range of artists including Jeff Buckley, Saint Etienne, and the late Amy Winehouse. Lee's music has been used extensively in both film & TV - including Monuments Men, House of Cards, Orange is the New Black, and many others. After a 5 year hiatus, Shawn makes a welcomed return to his Ping Pong Orchestra moniker with the Spacey concept album Techstar. This imaginary soundtrack album is filled with Cosmic Funk, Boogie, and disco. Based around the characters & happenings on a space station called Techstar, Mr. Lee blasts off into the outer regions on his latest Sci-Fi opus, proving that Space IS indeed the place....

1. Orion O’Neal 2. Ursa Major 7th 3. Space Shuffle 4. Lexina Walks In 5. Star Chimes 6. Lexina’s Theme 7. Sexy Sylvie 8. Captain Stone9. Tenaka’s Theme 10. Freddie Guitar 11. Hobots Theme 12. Carlos Theme 13. JT Space Cumbia 14. Razor Sharp 15. Doctor B 16. Dirk’s Jerk 17. Vegas In Space