Rhino has released ‘With Her Songs: The Atlantic Albums, 1969–1978’, the first retrospective collection since Roberta Flack’s passing in 2025. The eight-CD set presents newly remastered versions of her first eight studio albums, from 1969’s ‘First Take’ through her self-titled 1978 record, and arrives during Black History Month, days before what would have been Flack’s 89th birthday on February 10th. A classically trained pianist and Howard University alumna, Flack built one of the most sustained commercial and critical runs in 1970s popular music, moving fluidly between soul, jazz, folk, and pop across a decade of work for Atlantic.
The collection charts that entire arc with real weight. Flack became 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” in 1973 and “Killing Me Softly With His Song” in 1974. Her collaboration with Donny Hathaway produced the Grammy-winning “Where Is the Love” and “The Closer I Get to You,” while “Feel Like Makin’ Love” and “Killing Me Softly With His Song” both reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100. ‘With Her Songs’ follows last year’s Dolby Atmos Spatial Audio releases of two of those albums, and stands as the most complete document of her Atlantic years assembled in a single package. It is, by any measure, an essential collection.
The full tracklisting across all eight discs is as follows.
CD 1: ‘First Take’ (1969)
Compared To What
Angelitos Negros
Our Ages Or Our Hearts
I Told Jesus
Hey That’s No Way To Say Goodbye
The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face
Tryin’ Times
Ballad Of The Sad Young Men
CD 2: ‘Chapter Two’ (1970)
Reverend Lee
Do What You Gotta Do
Just Like A Woman
Let It Be Me
Gone Away
Until It’s Time For You To Go
The Impossible Dream
Business Goes On As Usual
CD 3: ‘Quiet Fire’ (1971)
Go Up Moses
Bridge Over Troubled Water
Sunday And Sister Jones
See You Then
Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow
To Love Somebody
Let Them Talk
Sweet Bitter Love
CD 4: ‘Roberta Flack & Donny Hathaway’ (1972)
I (Who Have Nothing)
You’ve Got A Friend
Baby I Love You
Be Real Black For Me
You’ve Lost That Loving Feeling
For All We Know
Where Is The Love
When Love Has Grown
Come Ye Disconsolate
Mood
CD 5: ‘Killing Me Softly’ (1973)
Killing Me Softly With His Song
Jesse
No Tears (In The End)
I’m The Girl
River
Conversation Love
When You Smile
Suzanne
CD 6: ‘Feel Like Makin’ Love’ (1975)
Feelin’ That Glow
I Wanted It Too
I Can See The Sun In Late December
Some Gospel According To Matthew
Feel Like Makin’ Love
Mr. Magic
Early Ev’ry Midnite
Old Heartbreak Top Ten
She’s Not Blind
CD 7: ‘Blue Lights In The Basement’ (1977)
Why Don’t You Move In With Me
The Closer I Get To You
Fine Fine Day
This Time I’ll Be Sweeter
25th Of Last December
After You
I’d Like To Be Baby To You
Soul Deep
Love Is The Healing
Where I’ll Find You
CD 8: ‘Roberta Flack’ (1978)
What A Woman Really Means
You Are Everything
Independent Man
If Ever I See You Again
And The Feeling’s Good
Knowing That We’re Made For Each Other
Come Share My Love
Baby I Love You So
When It’s Over