A posthumous album from Jeff Buckley, a new recording by Alison Brown and two Emmylou Harris reissues lead this week's folk and blues releases.

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Three years after his death by drowning, at age 30, Buckley's beautiful, romantic broodings still hold a powerful allure for fans. His mother, Mary Guibert, and touring guitarist Michael Tighe have gratified the faithful by producing Mystery White Boy, a set of live recordings circa 1995–96, culled largely from overseas concerts.

The tracks include "Mojo Pin" (RealAudio excerpt), "Last Goodbye," "Lilac Wine" and "Eternal Life" — all heard on Buckley's 1994 studio album, Grace — plus "The Man That Got Away" (RealAudio excerpt) and Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah" with "I Know It's Over."

Banjo player Alison Brown navigates the space between Flatt & Scruggs' traditional bluegrass and David Grisman's hybrid, jazzy Dawg music on her newest album, Fair Weather. Like Bela Fleck and Tony Trischka, as well as lesser-known bluegrassers such as Pat Cloud and Scott Vestal, Brown has made a career out of disproving the hayseed stereotypes that plague the banjo.

A child prodigy, Brown honed her talents on the San Diego bluegrass scene before venturing east. The Harvard grad earned an MBA at UCLA and worked a day job for two years before releasing a solo album. She subsequently joined Alison Krauss' band, Union Station, for three years and in 1991 was voted Banjo Player of the Year by the International Bluegrass Music Association.

Fair Weather is her second album for Compass, the label she co-founded in 1995.

Digitally remastered by producer Brian Ahern, Emmylou Harris' Last Date and Cimarron albums — previously available on CD only overseas — are being re-released with new liner notes by Brian Mansfield, lyric sheets and bonus tracks ("Colors of Your Heart" on Last Date, and two B-sides on Cimarron).

Originally released in 1982, Last Date is a live set of high-energy, stone-hard country played by Harris and her fabled Hot Band, with songs by Gram Parsons, Bruce Springsteen, Buck Owens and Carl Perkins. A little closer in feel to Harris' current output, 1981's Cimarron has deeper folk roots and flavors and features her duet with Don Williams on Townes Van Zandt's classic, "If I Needed You." Bonus tracks are two rare B-sides, "Maybe Tonight" and "Another Pot O' Tea."