John Mellencamp, Keb’ Mo’, Greensky Bluegrass top this week’s new releases

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Albums by John Mellencamp, Keb’ Mo’, Kiefer Sutherland and Greensky Bluegrass top this week’s batch of new music releases...

Album of the Week: John Mellencamp is joined by Bruce Springsteen for three tracks on the Indiana Rock and Roll Hall of Famer’s “Strictly A One-Eyed Jack” (Republic), his first batch of new material in five years. The 12-song set -- out nearly 40 years after Mellencamp’s breakthrough “American Fool” (as John Cougar) -- features a cover painted by Mellencamp’s youngest son Speck.

Album Title of the Week: The January Lanterns, “For the Kids, When They’re Older” (Secret Pasture Sound)

Did Ya Know?: More than 55 years after “Society’s Child,” Janis Ian is releasing what she says will be a final studio album, “The Light at the End of the Line” (Rude Girl), on which she’s joined by Vince Gill, Diane Schuur and others.

New & Noteworthy:

Billy Talent, “Crisis of Faith” (Spinefarm)

Christina Aguilera, “La Fuerza” (Sony Latin)

Greensky Bluegrass, “Stress Dreams” (Thirty Tigers)

Eels, “Extreme Witchcraft” (PIAS/E Works)

Walker Hayes, “Country Stuff the Album” (Monument/Sony)

Miles Kane, “Change the Show” (BMG)

Keb’ Mo’, “Good to Be...” (Rounder)

Aoife O’Donovan, “Age of Apathy” (Yep Roc)

Brian Straw, “Baby Stars/Dead Languages” (self-released)

Kiefer Sutherland, “Bloor Street” (Cooking Vinyl)

Hot New Singles: Jason Aldean, “Trouble With a Heartbreak”; Babyface Ray, “Face” Dancing With the Devil”; Brandon Boyd, “Dime in My Dryer”; Kane Brown, “Whiskey Sour”; CNCO, “PHA”; Brett Eldredge, “Want That Back”; 50 Cent, “Power Powder Respect” featuring Lil Durk and Jeremih; Fontaines D.C., “Jackie Down the Line”; Korn, “Forgotten”; Loverboy, “Release”; Metronomy, “Things Will Be Fine”; Parquet Courts, “Watching Strangers Smile”; Particle Kid, “Someone Else’s Dream”; Dolly Parton, “Big Dreams and Faded Jeans”; Royksopp, “The Ladder; “Saxon, “Remember the Fallen”; Slash featuring Myles Kennedy & the Conspirators, “Call Off the Dogs”; Taeyeon, “Can’t Control Myself”; Eddie Vedder, “Brother The Cloud”; Jack White, “Love is Selfish”; White Lies, “Am I Really Going to Die”; Tyla Yaweh, “Do No Wrong” featuring Trippie Redd and PnB Rock; Yuju, “Play”

Also Out:

Ben Abraham, “Friendly Fire” (Atlantic)

Artsick, “Fingers Crossed” (Slumberland)

Aurora, “The Gods We Can’t Touch” (Decca)

Brad Barr, “The Winter Sessions” (Secret City)

Battle Beast, “Circus of Doom” (Nuclear Blast)

Beauz, “Rave Game” (Astralwerks)

Berthold City, “When Words Are Not Enough” (WAR)

Biggabush, “Biggabush Freevisited” (Tru Thoughts)

Boris, “W” (Sacred Bones)

Boy Harsher, “The Runner (Original Soundtrack)” (Nude Club/City Slang)

Keedron Bryant, “Keedron” (Warner)

Julie Christensen, “From Kevin: Songs of Kevin Gordon” (Wirebird)

Chrystabell, “Midnight Star” (Love Conquered)

Confess, “Revenge at All Costs” (Rexius)

Cordae, “From a Birds Eye Via” (Art@War/Atlantic)

Danielia Cotton, “Good Day” (Cottontown)

Diamond Dogs, “Slap Bang Blue Rendezvous” (Sound Pollution)

Ludovico Einaudi, “Underwater” (Decca)

Tinsley Ellis, “Devil May Care” (Alligator)

The Ferrymen, “One More River to Cross” (Frontiers)

Ludovico Einaudi, “Underwater” (Decca)

Fazer, “Plex” (City Slang)

Jake Xerxes Fussell, “Good and Green Again” (Paradise of Bachelors)

Ghostly Kisses, “Heaven Wait” (AKIRA)

iann dior, “On To Better Things” (10K Projects)

The January Lanterns, “For The Kids, When They’re Older” (Secret Pasture Sound)

Jazzanova, “Creative Musicians” (BBE Music/180 Proof)

Kandia, “Quaternary” (Frontiers)

Kid On a Crime Spree, “Fall in Love Not in Line” (Slumberland)

King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard, “Butterfly 3001″ (KGLW)

Kissin’ Dynamite, “Not the End of the Road” (Napalm)

Lost Dog Street Band, “Glory” (Anti-Corp)

Logan Lynn, “New Money” (Kill Rock Stars)

Magic City Hippies, “Water Your Garden” (self-released)

Lee McKinney, “In the Light of Knowledge” (Sumerian)

Midnite Hellion, “Kingdom Immortal” (Power Chord Productions)

Modern Era, “Victim of a Modern Age” (Rude)

NLE Choppa, “Me Vs. Me” (NLE Choppa/Warner)

Paul Oakenfold, “Shine On” (Perfecto)

Palace, “Shoals” (Avenue A/Fiction)

Penny & Sparrow, “Olly Olly” (I Love You/Thirty Tigers)

Reptilians, “Multiverse” (Captured Tracks)

Tammy Rogers and Thomm Jutz, “Surely Will Be Singing” (Mountain Fever)

Michael Rother and Vittoria Maccabruni, “As Long as the Light” (Groenland)

SetYourSails, “Nightfall” (Napalm)

Silverbacks, “Archive Material” (Full Time Hobby)

SOM, “The Shape of Everything” (Pelagic)

Teddy Swims, “Tough Love” (Warner)

Various Artists, “Le Coq Records presents the Jazz All Stars Vol. 2″ (Le Coq)

Various Artists, “Paper Route Empire Presents: Long Live Dolph” (Paper Route Empire)

VRSTY, “Welcome Home” (Spinefarm)

William Russell Wallace, “Confidence Man” (BearDog)

The Whitmore Sisters, “Ghost Stories” (Compass)

Years & Years, “Night Call” (Interscope)

YoungBoy Never Broke Again, “Colors” (Never Broke Again/Atlantic)

From The Vaults:

Brothers Osbourne, “Skeletons (Deluxe Edition)” (EMI Nashville)

The Dollyrots, “Down the Rabbit Holes” (Wicked Cool)

DownTown Mystic, “21st Century Rock ‘n’ Roll” (Sha-La Music)

Lil Wayne, “Sorry for the Wait” (Young Money/Cash Money)

Various Artists, “NOW That’s What I Call Punk & New Wave” (Sony)

Various Artists, “Revolt into Style 1979″ (Cherry Red)

Various Artists, “Sun Records’ 70th Anniversary Compilation Vol. 1″ (Sun)

The Waterboys, “The Magnificent Seven: The Waterboys Fisherman’s Blue/Room to Roam Band 1989-90″ (Chrysalis)

John Williams and the Boston Pop Orchestra, “Complete Phillips Recordings” (Decca)

Soundtracks:

“Annie Live! Original Soundtrack of the Live Television Event on NBC” (Sony Masterworks)

New Music Video:

“Annie Live!” (Universal)