Reruns are common on television and “reboots” are common with movies, so I guess it should be expected with music as well now.

A couple of major “reissue” compact disc projects are coming this month to a store near you: one is the massively successful “Supernatural” release that Santana first released a decade ago. The original compact disc sold over 25 million copies and spent 12 weeks at the number one position. Santana would go on to win 9 Grammy awards for it, including Album of the Year and Record of the Year.

Now Sony is releasing a “Legacy” 2-CD edition of this album, with a second disc of material recorded for the original album, but rejected at the time as well as remixes and live recordings.

Another major project is the so-called “new” Jimi Hendrix album “Valleys of Neptune”. This album contains 12 unreleased studio tracks, including the often-bootlegged title track. The majority of these recordings came after Hendrix left his group “The Experience” and began working with Buddy Miles in a group called the “Band of Gypsies”. This album also launches the reissuing of the entire Jimi Hendrix catalogue, now owned worldwide by Sony Music.

Fans of course will want to hear everything by these two guitarists, but sometimes there are reasons why the original recordings weren’t released.