The new Roberta Flack collection, WITH HER SONGS THE ATLANTIC ALBUMS, 19691978, is the first retrospective release since the GRAMMY Awardwinning 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.WITH HER SONGS spans Flacks Atlantic debut First Take through her selftitled 1978 album, covering a period when she emerged as one of the most commercially and critically successful artists of the 1970s. She was the first solo artist to win the GRAMMY Award for Record of the Year in consecutive years, for The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face 1973 and Killing Me Softly With His Song 1974. Flack recorded multiple Top 40 hits and sold millions of albums with the label, building a catalog that moved fluidly between soul, jazz, folk, and pop.WITH HER SONGS includes eight newly remastered studio albums FIRST TAKE 1969, CHAPTER TWO 1970, QUIET FIRE 1971, ROBERTA FLACK amp DONNY HATHAWAY 1972, KILLING ME SOFTLY 1973, FEEL LIKE MAKIN LOVE 1975, BLUE LIGHTS IN THE BASEMENT 1977, and ROBERTA FLACK 1978.Together, they chart a sustained period of creative momentum, from the intimacy of FIRST TAKE and CHAPTER TWO to Roberta Flack amp Donny Hathaway, a landmark collaboration that produced the GRAMMYwinning hits Where Is the Love and The Closer I Get to You. That success continued with her next two albums, KILLING ME SOFTLY and FEEL LIKE MAKIN LOVE, whose title tracks both went to 1 on the Billboard Hot 100. More hits followed as her initial run with the label concluded with BLUE LIGHTS IN THE BASEMENT and ROBERTA FLACK.WITH HER SONGS follows renewed activity around Flacks catalog, including last years release of KILLING ME SOFTLY and FEEL LIKE MAKIN LOVE in Dolby Atmos Spatial Audio.
