Really?

[cactusjack]

I've talked to the guys who do a lot of these reissues (I'm helping with some right now that haven't been announced yet )
Basically, record companies are happy to license out the rights to companies specialising in reissues for artists where they don't think there is much money left to be made out of them - but they're happy for someone else to do the work and produce the reissues. For someone of Stevie's stature, Warner still see they can make some money out of her, so they want to do them in-house BUT no-one ever actually gets around to it. It's a sort of inverted compliment that they won't license out Stevie.

having said that, none of us would be happy with Stevie reissues done by these companies, as they wouldn't be able to use all the demos that we would expect with proper 2CD reissues.