Complex sentence: Because of his growing popularity, Evidence Records released Weathersby's first album, "Don't Lay Your Blues on Me", in 1996, and his subsequent albums, up to "Best of Carl Weathersby".
Split into simpler sentences: Because of his growing popularity, Evidence Records released Weathersby's first album, "Don't Lay Your Blues on Me" (1996). They published all of his subsequent albums, up to "Best of Carl Weathersby".