Roberta Flack, Donny Hathaway + Otis Redding New Releases
Available In Black History Month on February 6th.
A new Roberta Flack collection entitled “With Her Songs: The Atlantic Albums, 1969-1978” will soon be released.
Along with some classics that are bring re-released; Donny Hathaway‘s “Live,” and Otis Redding “Pain in My Heart” will be rereleased for Black History Month on February 6th.
The new Roberta Flack collection is the first retrospective release since the Grammy Award-winning singer passed away in 2025.
A celebration of her acclaimed tenure with Atlantic Records, the 8CD set presents newly remastered versions of her first eight studio albums.
Available from Rhino on February 6th, arriving days before what would have been Flack’s 89th Birthday on February 10th.
“With Her Songs” follows renewed activity around Flack’s catalog, including last year’s release of “Killing Me Softly” and “Feel Like Makin’ Love” in Dolby Atmos Spatial Audio.
Arriving during Black History Month 2026, the new collection revisits a decade in which Flack—a classically trained pianist and Howard University alumna—achieved sustained mainstream success as a Black female artist.
[CD1: First Take]
1. Compared To What
2. Angelitos Negros
3. Our Ages Or Our Hearts
4. I Told Jesus
5. Hey, That’s No Way To Say Goodbye
6. The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face
7. Tryin’ Times
8. Ballad Of The Sad Young Men[CD2: Chapter Two]
1. Reverend Lee
2. Do What You Gotta Do
3. Just Like A Woman
4. Let It Be Me
5. Gone Away
6. Until It’s Time For You To Go
7. The Impossible Dream
8. Business Goes On As Usual[CD3: Quiet Fire]
1. Go Up Moses
2. Bridge Over Troubled Water
3. Sunday And Sister Jones
4. See You Then
5. Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow
6. To Love Somebody
7. Let Them Talk
8. Sweet Bitter Love[CD4: Roberta Flack & Donny Hathaway]
1. I (Who Have Nothing)
2. You’ve Got A Friend
3. Baby I Love You
4. Be Real Black For Me
5. You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feelin’
6. For All We Know
7. Where Is The Love
8. When Love Has Grown
9. Come Ye Disconsolate
10. Mood[CD5: Killing Me Softly]
1. Killing Me Softly With His Song
2. Jesse
3. No Tears (In The End)
4. I’m The Girl
5. River
6. Conversation Love
7. When You Smile
8. Suzanne[CD6: Feel Like Makin’ Love]
1. Feelin’ That Glow
2. I Wanted It Too
3. I Can See The Sun In Late December
4. Some Gospel According To Matthew
5. Feel Like Makin’ Love
6. Mr. Magic
7. Early Ev’ry Midnite
8. Old Heartbreak Top Ten
9. She’s Not Blind[CD7: Blue Lights In The Basement]
1. Why Don’t You Move In With Me
2. The Closer I Get To You (duet with Donny Hathaway)
3. Fine, Fine Day
4. This Time I’ll Be Sweeter
5. 25th Of Last December
6. After You
7. I’d Like To Be Baby To You
8. Soul Deep
9. Love Is The Healing
10. Where I’ll Find You[CD8: Roberta Flack]
1. What A Woman Really Means
2. You Are Everything
3. Independent Man
4. If Ever I See You Again
5. And The Feeling’s Good
6. Knowing That We Are Made For Each Other
7. Come Share My Love
8. Baby I Love You So
9. When It’s Over
Considered to be one of the best live albums of all time, Donny Hathaway’s Live was recorded in 1971 at his shows at The Troubadour in Hollywood and The Bitter End in Manhattan.
Including his beloved covers of “Jealous Guy” and “What’s Going On,” along with his own hits like “The Ghetto,” this album solidified Hathaway as a soul legend.
The album has been cut from the original analog stereo master by Matthew Lutthans at The Mastering Lab and is pressed locally on 180 gram premium-quality vinyl at Fidelity Record Pressing‘s plant in Oxnard, California as part of the Rhino Reserve line.
Though his recording career was quite brief, Donny Hathaway has continued to be one of the most influential soul artists of the last four decades.
He was a talented songwriter with the ability to write songs that provided, in a secular format, the depth of the most heartfelt Gospel music; and he was a remarkable song stylist who defined (or redefined) nearly every song he touched.
His tragic death by an apparent suicide in 1979 cut short his career but for an artist who only recorded three solo studio albums, Hathaway left an incredible mark on soul music.
Younger soul artists from India.Arie to Frank McComb to Alicia Keys consistently list Hathaway as among their principal musical influences, and his imprint on their music is clear. He was a perceptive and powerful songwriter and clearly one of the greatest Soul voices ever.
What’s Going On (Live)
The Ghetto (Live at the Troubadour, Los Angeles, CA)
Hey Girl (Live)
You’ve Got a Friend (Live)Little Ghetto Boy (Live)
We’re Still Friends (Live at the Bitter End, New York City, 1971)
Jealous Guy (Live)
Voices Inside (Everything Is Everything)
“Pain in My Heart” is Otis Redding’s historic debut album.
Released in 1964, the album contains Otis‘ first self-penned hit, “These Arms of Mine” along with his beloved covers of “Stand By Me” and “Pain in My Heart.”
The album has been cut from the original analog mono master by Matthew Lutthans at The Mastering Lab and is pressed locally on 180 gram premium-quality vinyl at Fidelity Record Pressing‘s plant in Oxnard, California as part of the Rhino Reserve line.
Otis Ray Redding, Jr. (September 9, 1941 – December 10, 1967) was an American singer/songwriter, record producer, arranger, and talent scout.
He is considered one of the greatest singers in the history of American popular music and a seminal artist in soul and rhythm and blues.
His singing style was powerfully influential among soul artists of 1960s and helped exemplify the Stax sound.
Redding quit school at age 15 to support his family, working with Little Richard‘s backing band, the Upsetters, and also performing at talent shows for prize money.
Redding received many posthumous accolades, including the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award and induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and the Songwriters Hall of Fame.
He received the honorific nickname King of Soul.
Pain in My Heart
The Dog
Stand by Me
Hey Hey Baby
You Send Me
I Need Your Lovin’These Arms of Mine
Louie Louie
Something Is Worrying Me
Security
That’s What My Heart Needs
Lucille
