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In The News: Lindsey Buckingham And Christine McVie, Melvins, Loretta Lynn, New York Dolls, Little Steven, Joseph Arthur And More

Fleetwood Mac’s Lindsey Buckingham and Christine McVie have teamed up for their first-ever album as a duo, Lindsey Buckingham/Christine McVie, which will be available from Atlantic on June 9 … Fantasy has announced the June 9 release of Gov’t Mule’s new record, Revolution Come…Revolution Go. The band will tour the U.S. this summer in support … A Walk With Love And Death is the first-ever double album from the Melvins, due out July 7 via Ipecac … On August 8, the new Loretta Lynn studio album, Wouldn’t It Be Great, will be available from Legacy … Two classic ’70s LPs by the New York DollsNew York Dolls and Too Much Too Soon—will be reissued on limited-edition colored vinyl by UMe on May 5 … John Prine will release a songbook featuring a selection of his favorite songs, photographs and stories. John Prine Beyond Words is out on April 18 from Oh Boy … Parlophone will honor the 40th anniversary of Jethro Tull’s Songs From The Wood with a three-CD/two-DVD boxed set (featuring live rare recordings and footage) on May 19 … Soulfire is the first solo album by Little Steven in nearly 20 years, due out May 19 from UMe … May 26 will see the release of the soundtrack to Grateful Dead documentary Long Strange Trip on Rhino. The Amir Bar-Lev-directed doc will be released in theaters the same day … The first solo album by the Only Ones’ Peter Perrett, How The West Was Won, will be available from Domino on June 30 … Flat Duo Jets’ self-titled debut will be reissued as a three-disc vinyl boxed set, Wild Wild Love, complete with outtakes and the (In Stereo) EP, on April 22 by Daniel 13 … Real World will reissue Joseph Arthur’s Redemption’s Son in honor of the album’s 15th birthday on June 23. Arthur will perform the LP start to finish on a limited solo tour this summer … Twitching In Time, the new Elf Power record, is set for a May 12 release via the band’s own Orange Twin label … On June 9, an album featuring Kronos QuartetSam Amidon, Olivia Chaney, Rhiannon Giddens and Natalie Merchant on songs originally performed at Nonesuch Record’s 50th anniversary celebration, Folk Songs, will be released … The three June 2016 performances by Ritchie Blackmore’s Rainbow in Birmingham will be available on Live In Birmingham 2016 via Eagle Rock on June 9.

—Emily Costantino