Sony Music Legacy Recordings Vinyl, CDs & Cassettes
Johnny Cash – Man in Black: Live in Demark 1971 (CD) Pearl Jam – Vitalogy (CD) Willie Nelson – Bluegrass (CD) Pearl Jam – Yield (LP Vinyl) Willie Nelson – Red Headed Stranger (LP Vinyl) Waylon Jennings – 16 Biggest Hits (CD) Janis Joplin – Janis Joplin's Greatest Hits (LP Vinyl) Big Brother and the Holding Company ft Janis Joplin – Cheap Thrills (Mono LP Vinyl) Willie Nelson – My Way (LP Vinyl) Jimi Hendrix – Valleys Of Neptune (CD) Santana – Splendiferous (RSD 2022 2-LP Vinyl) Johnny Cash – Greatest Hits Volume 2 (LP Vinyl) Sly & The Family Stone – Higher!(Highlights CD) Jefferson Airplane – The Worst Of Jefferson Airplane (180G Remastered LP Vinyl) Willie Nelson – Live At Budokan (2-CD + DVD) Sly & The Family Stone – Small Talk (CD) Willie Nelson – I Don’t Know A Thing About Love: The Songs of Harlen Howard (CD) Willie Nelson – First Rose Of Spring (CD) Jimi Hendrix – Experience Hendrix: The Best of Jimi Hendrix (CD) Bruce Springsteen – Tracks II: The Lost Albums (7-CD Boxset) Bob Dylan – Fragments – Time Out of Mind Sessions (1996-1997): The Bootleg Series Vol. 17 (5-CD) Pearl Jam – Vitalogy (2-LP Vinyl) Pearl Jam – No Code (LP Vinyl) Bob Dylan – Greatest Hits (LP Vinyl)
Legacy Recordings is the catalog division of Sony Music, and in practice, it serves as the keeper of the vault for some of the most important recordings in American music history. Founded in 1990, its job has always been the same: take the deep archives of Columbia Records, Epic, RCA, Arista, and their extended family of imprints, and make sure those records stay alive and in front of people who care about them.
The scope of what lives here is hard to overstate. Bob Dylan's studio albums and the Bootleg Series. Bruce Springsteen's catalog and the live recordings that have been coming out of storage for years. Miles Davis, from the classic Columbia sessions through the late-career experiments. Johnny Cash and the American Recordings era. Willie Nelson's long run on Columbia. Pearl Jam, Sly & The Family Stone, Santana, Jimi Hendrix through the Capitol and Columbia years, Simon & Garfunkel.
What Legacy does well is take records that deserve more than a streaming thumbnail and give them proper treatment, with restored audio, serious liner notes, and packaging that respects the original work. The box sets and deluxe editions that come through this label are the kind of thing collectors actually seek out, not just buy once and shelve.
If you follow any of the artists here closely, there's likely something in this collection you've been looking for.