GRATEFUL DEAD 
AMERICAN BEAUTY 50TH ANNIVERSARY DELUXE EDITION 

Three-CD Deluxe Edition And Limited Edition Vinyl Picture Disc Of The
Grateful Dead’s Fifth Studio Album Will Be Available On October 30

Previously Unreleased Live Version Of “Truckin’” 
Available Today On All Digital Download And Streaming Services

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LOS ANGELES – By any measure, 1970 was a high-water mark for the Grateful Dead. Hot on the heels of the incredible success of Workingman’s Dead that summer, the band returned in the fall with the equally stunning American Beauty. Those back-to-back classics not only introduced songs that would be a key part of the group’s live repertoire for decades, but they also opened a gateway into the world of the Grateful Dead for generations of Dead Heads. American Beauty will celebrate its 50th anniversary this year with two new releases. 
 
AMERICAN BEAUTY: 50th ANNIVERSARY DELUXE EDITION will be available on October 30 for $34.98. This three-CD set includes the original album with newly remastered audio, plus an unreleased concert recorded on February 18, 1971 at the Capitol Theatre in Port Chester, NY. The show was mixed from the 16-track analog master tapes by Jeffrey Norman at Bob Weir’s Marin County TRI Studios and mastered by Grammy® Award-winning engineer, David Glasser. One of the highlights from the Capitol Theatre show, the previously unreleased performance of “Truckin’” is available today on all digital download and streaming services. Click HERE to listen now. 

AMERICAN BEAUTY: 50th ANNIVERSARY VINYL PICTURE DISC will be available the same day for $21.98. Produced in a limited edition of 15,000 copies, it contains the newly remastered version of the original album. 

Jerry Garcia, Bob Weir, Ron “Pigpen” McKernan, Phil Lesh, Bill Kreutzmann and Mickey Hart recorded American Beauty in August and September 1970 at Wally Heider Studios in San Francisco with producer Stephen Quinn Barncard. When they entered the studio, Workingman’s Dead was still on the charts going strong. Such a quick follow-up on studio albums was unheard of for the band, and a feat they would never repeat. Equally shocking was the high level of craftsmanship exhibited by new songs like, “Friend Of The Devil,” “Sugar Magnolia,” “Truckin’,” and “Ripple.” Today, it’s still considered to be one of the greatest albums ever made. 

“It still boggles my mind to think of the Grateful Dead's creative output in 1970. For any other band, catching lightning with an album as perfect and excellent as Workingman's Dead is a once-in-a-lifetime achievement. The Dead, however, followed up just a few months later with an album that virtually every Dead Head considers its equal. Ten songs, nearly all of which became cornerstones of the band's live repertoire for the next 25 years. Today, 50 years on, these songs are still essential parts of the band members' continuing live activities,” says David Lemieux, Grateful Dead archivist and the set’s producer. “The 50th Anniversary Deluxe Edition includes one of the first, and best, live performances of 1971, just a couple of months after the release of American Beauty, and the five live debuts in the show demonstrate that the spectacular creativity of 1970 was no fluke. This was the new Dead, and we're still tapping our feet and humming along to these songs 50 years later.” 
AMERICAN BEAUTY: 50th ANNIVERSARY DELUXE EDITION includes the band’s previously unreleased live performance from February 18, 1971 at the Capitol Theatre, one of the most requested archival recordings in the Dead’s vault. 

On stage that night, the Dead debuted a whole new batch of songs, five in all: “Wharf Rat,” “Playing In The Band,” “Bertha,” “Greatest Story Ever Told” and “Loser.” Fans were also treated to a few standbys from the previous decade, including “St. Stephen” and an inspired “Dark Star” jam that led into “Wharf Rat” and back to “Dark Star.” Notably, keyboardist Ned Lagin (who played piano on “Candyman” on American Beauty) sat in with the band for the show. 

In the set’s liner notes, So Many Roads author David Browne recounts the history surrounding the album and dives deep into the making of this masterpiece. He writes: “American Beauty was, at heart, a beautifully made record. The interplay of rippling piano, vocal harmonies, and slide guitar in ‘Brokedown Palace’ was unlike anything they had created before, even on Workingman’s Dead. Thanks to Barncard’s expertise with recording acoustic instruments, ‘Ripple,’ perhaps [Robert] Hunter and Garcia’s most meditative song, had a country-stream clarity. ‘Friend Of The Devil’—a Hunter, Garcia, and John “Marmaduke” Dawson tale of an on-the-run rogue that almost ended up with Dawson’s New Riders Of The Purple Sage—had the same crispiness. (Both tracks also benefited from overdubbed mandolin parts from David Grisman.)” 

An exclusive line of American Beauty merchandise also launched today at dead.net including a Levi’s vintage trucker jacket, sterling silver ring, vintage matchstick tin, crew sweatshirt, and a numbered, limited edition print by Liane Plant. 

AMERICAN BEAUTY: 50th ANNIVERSARY DELUXE EDITION 
CD Track Listing

Disc One: Original Album Remastered
1.      “Box Of Rain”
2.      “Friend Of The Devil”
3.      “Sugar Magnolia”
4.      “Operator”
5.      “Candyman”
6.      “Ripple”
7.      “Brokedown Palace”
8.      “Till The Morning Comes”
9.      “Attics Of My Life”
10.  “Truckin’”

Disc Two: Capitol Theatre, Port Chester, NY (2/18/71)
1.      “Bertha”
2.      “Truckin’”
3.      “Hurts Me Too”
4.      “Loser”
5.      “Greatest Story Ever Told”>
6.      “Johnny B. Goode”
7.      “Mama Tried”
8.      “Hard To Handle”
9.      “Dark Star”>
10.  “Warf Rat”>
11.  “Dark Star”>
12.  “Me And My Uncle”

Disc Three: Capitol Theatre, Port Chester, NY (2/18/71)
1.      “Casey Jones”
2.      “Playing In The Band”
3.      “Me And Bobby McGee”
4.      “Candyman”
5.      “Big Boss Man”
6.      “Sugar Magnolia”
7.      “St. Stephen”>
8.      “Not Fade Away”>
9.      “Goin’ Down The Road Feeling Bad”>
10.  “Not Fade Away”>
11.  “Uncle John’s Band”

AMERICAN BEAUTY: 50th ANNIVERSARY PICTURE DISC
1.      “Box Of Rain”
2.      “Friend Of The Devil”
3.      “Sugar Magnolia”
4.      “Operator”
5.      “Candyman”
6.      “Ripple”
7.      “Brokedown Palace”
8.      “Till The Morning Comes”
9.      “Attics Of My Life”
10.  “Truckin’”

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DAVID BOWIE   
METROBOLIST (AKA THE MAN WHO SOLD THE WORLD)   
50th ANNIVERSARY EDITION   
 
REMIXED BY TONY VISCONTI   
WITH ARTWORK BASED ON ORIGINAL TITLE AND DESIGN  
TO BE RELEASED NOVEMBER 6 ON LIMITED VINYL AND CD FORMATS  
AVAILABLE FOR STREAMING AND HIGH RESOLUTION DOWNLOAD (96kHz/24bit)  
 

Parlophone Records is proud to announce release details for METROBOLIST (aka THE MAN WHO SOLD THE WORLD) 50th ANNIVERSARY EDITION to be released on November 6, 2020.

This November sees the 50th Anniversary of the release of David Bowie’s The Man Who Sold The World in North America. The rest of the world would have to wait until April 1971 to witness Bowie’s landmark entry into the 1970s, marking the beginning of a collaboration with guitarist Mick Ronson that would last through classic works including Hunky Dory, Ziggy Stardust and Aladdin Sane—as well as the first in a 10-year series of indispensable albums stretching through 1980’s Scary Monsters...  
  
Originally titled Metrobolist, the album's name was changed at the last minute to The Man Who Sold The World. The original stereo master tapes were in fact labelled Metrobolist, with the title ultimately crossed out. The 2020 re-release of the album under its Metrobolist moniker has been remixed by original producer Tony Visconti, with the exception of the track “After All” which Visconti considered perfect as is and is featured in its 2015 remaster incarnation.  
  
The Metrobolist 50th anniversary artwork has been created by Mike Weller who was behind the historically controversial “dress” cover which Mercury Records refused to release (the first U.S. version utilized some of the original Metrobolist design elements). The gate-fold sleeve also features many images from the infamous Keith MacMillan Mr Fish “dress” shoot at Haddon Hall that ultimately produced the cover of the The Man Who Sold The World album in the world outside the U.S. in spring of 1971.   
  
As with the Space Oddity 50th anniversary vinyl, as well as a 180g black vinyl edition, it will come in 2020 limited edition handwritten numbered copies on gold vinyl (#1971 - 2020) and on white vinyl (#1 - 1970) all randomly distributed.   
  
For the 50th anniversary the 1970 story of the gate-fold sleeve can be told in full with unused “dress” photos. As Weller explains, “There is a story concealed in the carpet-scattered playing cards, David has thrown a plain 52 card deck in the air as though ‘casting the runes’ but in a significant break from 60s Tarot divinations such as I Ching etc he casts runes using a four-suit pack and switches man-dress, along with the Court Card of the Future from right hand to left, signifying a new decade and new cultural era.”  
  
Bowie personally delivered the Metrobolist concept and his gate-fold plan to the record company for production and now with this release, it can finally be seen much closer to its original concept. Bowie speaking in 2000 said of the sleeve imagery, "Mick Weller devised this kind of very subversive looking cartoon and put in some quite personalized things. The building in the background on the cartoon in fact was the hospital where my half brother had committed himself to. So for me, it had lots of personal resonance about it.” 
   
  
DAVID BOWIE METROBOLIST   
TRACK LISTING  
 
“The Width of a Circle” 
“All the Madmen” 
“Black Country Rock” 
“After All” 
“Running Gun Blues” 
“Saviour Machine” 
“She Shook Me Cold” 
“The Man Who Sold the World” 
“The Supermen” 
 
 
 
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JOHN PRINE: THE ATLANTIC AND ASYLUM ALBUMS

Remastered Limited Edition 7-CD Boxed Set Contains Every Studio Album The Beloved Singer-Songwriter Recorded Between His Debut In 1971 And 1980 And Includes Many Of His Classics, Like “Hello In There,” “Angel From Montgomery” And “Sam Stone”

Available From Rhino On October 23

LOS ANGELES – John Prine, who passed away in April, was one of the most celebrated singer/songwriters of his generation and recipient of the 2020 Grammy® Lifetime Achievement Award. Considered a true folk-singer, Prine was known for his raspy voice and equally admired for his unique songwriting ability. His career spanned over five decades, during which he created witty and sincere country-folk music that drew from his Midwestern American roots and incorporated sounds from rockabilly, R&B and rock 'n' roll.  

Rhino remembers the man that Rolling Stone once called “The Mark Twain of American songwriting” with a newly remastered seven-CD boxed set ($54.98) that includes the first seven studio albums of his career, recorded with Atlantic Records and Asylum Records. CROOKED PIECE OF TIME: THE ATLANTIC & ASYLUM ALBUMS (1971-1980) will be available as a limited edition on October 23 and is available for pre-order now here. 

The set includes the following albums presented in mini-LP replica sleeves: John Prine (1971), Diamonds In The Rough (1972), Sweet Revenge (1973), Common Sense (1975), Bruised Orange (1978), Pink Cadillac (1979) and Storm Windows (1980). The clamshell box also contains poster inserts and a 20-page booklet with new liner notes written by acclaimed music journalist David Fricke. The cover art, commissioned especially for the set, is a painting by artist Joshua Petker that’s based on a photo of Prine taken by Jim Shea. 

CROOKED PIECE OF TIME – which takes its name from a song on Bruised Orange – represents an essential and timeless American songbook and includes tracks that have become modern-day folk and country standards like: “Hello In There,” “Sam Stone,” “Illegal Smile,” “Angel From Montgomery,” “Paradise” and “That’s The Way The World Goes Round.” The expansive collection also contains favorites like: “Far From Me,” “Dear Abby,” “Christmas In Prison,” “Fish and Whistle” and “Automobile.” 

In addition to earning the Lifetime Achievement Award this year, Prine also won Grammy® Awards for The Missing Years (1991) and Fair and Square (2005). His songs have been recorded by a long list of well-respected artists, including Joan Baez, Johnny Cash, Bonnie Raitt, Kris Kristofferson, Carly Simon, George Strait, Norah Jones, John Denver, Miranda Lambert, The Everly Brothers, Bette Midler, Paul Westerberg, Tammy Wynette and Dwight Yoakam. 

CROOKED PIECE OF TIME: THE ATLANTIC & ASYLUM ALBUMS (1971-1980) 
Track Listing:

John Prine
1.      “Illegal Smile”
2.      “Spanish Pipedream”
3.      “Hello In There”
4.      “Sam Stone”
5.      “Paradise”
6.      “Pretty Good”
7.      “Your Flag Decal Won’t Get You Into Heaven Anymore”
8.      “Far From Me”
9.      “Angel From Montgomery”
10.  “Quiet Man”
11.  “Donald and Lydia”
12.  “Six O’Clock News”
13.  “Flashback Blues”

Diamonds In The Rough
1.      “Everybody”
2.      “The Torch Singer”
3.      “Souvenirs”
4.      “The Late John Garfield Blues”
5.      “Sour Grapes”
6.      “Billy the Bum”
7.      “The Frying Pan”
8.      “Yes I Guess They Oughta Name A Drink After You”
9.      “Take The Star Out Of The Window”
10.  “The Great Compromise”
11.  “Clocks And Spoons”
12.  “Rocky Mountain Time”
13.  “Diamonds In The Rough”
 
Sweet Revenge
1.      “Sweet Revenge”
2.      “Please Don’t Bury Me”
3.      “Christmas In Prison”
4.      “Dear Abby”
5.      “Blue Umbrella”
6.      “Often Is A Word I Seldom Use”
7.      “Onomatopoeia”
8.      “Grandpa Was A Carpenter”
9.      “The Accident (Things Could Be Worse)”
10.  “Mexican Home”
11.  “A Good Time”
12.  “Nine Pound Hammer”
 
Common Sense
1.      “Middle Man”
2.      “Common Sense”
3.      “Come Back To Us Barbara Lewis Hare Krishna Beauregard”
4.      “Wedding Day In Funeralville”
5.      “Way Down”
6.      “My Own Best Friend”
7.      “Forbidden Jimmy”
8.      “Saddle In The Rain”
9.      “That Close To You”
10.  “He Was In Heaven Before He Died”
11.  “You Never Can Tell”
 
Bruised Orange
1.      “Fish And Whistle”
2.      “There She Goes”
3.      “If You Don’t Want My Love”
4.      “That’s The Way That The World Goes ’round”
5.      “Bruised Orange (Chain Of Sorrow)”
6.      “Sabu Visits The Twin Cities Alone”
7.      “Aw Heck”
8.      “Crooked Piece Of Time”
9.      “Iron Ore Betty”
10.  “The Hobo Song”
 
Pink Cadillac
1.      “Chinatown”
2.      “Automobile”
3.      “Killing The Blues”
4.      “No Name Girl”
5.      “Saigon”
6.      “Cold War (This Cold War With You)”
7.      “Baby Let’s Play House”
8.      “Down By The Side Of The Road”
9.      “How Lucky”
10.  “Ubangi Stomp”
 
Storm Windows
1.      “Shop Talk”
2.      “Living In The Future”
3.      “It’s Happening To You”
4.      “Sleepy Eyed Boy”
5.      “All Night Blue”
6.      “Just Wanna Be With You”
7.      “Storm Windows”
8.      “Baby Ruth”
9.      “One Red Rose”
10.  “I Had A Dream”

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WILCO’S SUMMERTEETH GETS DELUXE TREATMENT 

4-CD Set Features A Remastered Version Of The Original Album Expanded 
With Unreleased Studio Recordings, And An Unreleased 1999 Concert

Limited Edition, 180-gram, 5-LP Version Exclusively Features An Unmitigated Disaster, Wilco’s 1999 Live Performance At Tower Records Available From Rhino On November 6 

Previously Unreleased Version Of “Summer Teeth” (Slow Rhodes Version) Out Today

LOS ANGELES – Wilco’s third album, Summerteeth, arrived in March 1999 to glowing reviews for its daring arrangements, lush harmonies and revealing lyrics. More than 20 years later, the Chicago-based band is expanding one of its best with multiple collections packed with hours of unreleased studio and live recordings. 

The first is SUMMERTEETH: DELUXE EDITION, a four-CD set that includes a Bob Ludwig 2020 remastered version of the original album (making its CD debut), along with an entire disc of unreleased studio outtakes, alternate versions and demos that chart the making of the album from songwriting demos to alternate studio arrangements to finished masters. 

Summerteeth introduced many fan-favorite classic tracks that the band continues to play live today, including “I’m Always In Love,” “A Shot In The Arm” and “Via Chicago.” The 24 previously unreleased recordings that debut on the DELUXE EDITION explore the making of the critically acclaimed album with demos “No Hurry” and “I’ll Sing It,” outtakes “I’m Always In Love” (Early Run Through) and “Viking Dan,” and alternate versions “Summer Teeth” (Slow Rhodes Version) and “Pieholden Suite” (Alternate). 

The two remaining discs in the CD version of SUMMERTEETH: DELUXE EDITION feature a previously unissued live show. The concert took place late in the Summerteeth tour, on November 1, 1999 in Colorado at The Boulder Theatre, when the new songs had been road-tested and the band was in top form. Sourced from an uncirculated soundboard recording, it features band members Jeff Tweedy, John Stirratt, Ken Coomer and Jay Bennett. Most of the songs on Summerteeth were performed during the show, along with several tracks from the band’s two previous records, Being There (1996) and A.M. (1995), as well as Mermaid Avenue (1999). The latter was the first in a series of albums that Wilco recorded with Billy Bragg where the group wrote music for and sang previously unheard lyrics penned by folk icon Woody Guthrie. 

The CD set will be released on November 6 for $49.98 and will also be available from digital and streaming services.

A limited-edition vinyl version of SUMMERTEETH: DELUXE EDITION will also be released on November 6 for $99.98. Limited to 6,500 copies, the five-LP set features the remastered studio album as well as the unreleased demos, alternates and outtake recordings pressed on 180-gram vinyl. However, instead of the Colorado concert included in the CD package, the LP version contains a special, exclusive performance from early 1999 titled, An Unmitigated Disaster, a previously unreleased live in-store performance at Tower Records on March 11, 1999, just two days after the album was released. The 10-song set, which was broadcast on Chicago radio station WXRT-FM, highlights several tracks from Summerteeth (“We’re Just Friends,” “How To Fight Loneliness” and “Can’t Stand It”). This show will only be available in the LP collection. 

All versions of SUMMERTEETH: DELUXE EDITION are designed by original Summerteeth art director and Grammy ® award winner, Lawrence Azerrad. The iconic cover art is revisited and re-imagined with deluxe treatments, including metallic foil packaging. Additionally, a special 180-gram colored-vinyl version will also be released the same day. Limited to 2,000 copies, the five-LP set will be available exclusively from WilcoStore.com for $99.98. All versions of the release are available for pre-order today. 

Finally, Jeff Tweedy recently announced his second book, How To Write One Song, available on October 13 via Dutton. With How To Write One Song, Tweedy creates a candid and fascinating primer on the art form he knows best, revealing both the behind-the-scenes process, and the joy he gets from making something new. More information on the book can be found here. 

SUMMERTEETH: DELUXE EDITION
4-CD Track Listing:

Disc One: Original Album
1.      “Can’t Stand It”
2.      “She’s A Jar”
3.      “A Shot In The Arm”
4.      “We’re Just Friends”
5.      “I’m Always In Love”
6.      “Nothing’severgonnastandinmyway (Again)”
7.      “Pieholden Suite”
8.      “How To Fight Loneliness”
9.      “Via Chicago”
10.  “ELT”
11.  “My Darling”
12.  “When You Wake Up Feeling Old”
13.  “Summer Teeth”
14.  “In A Future Age”
15.  23 Seconds Of Silence
16.  “Candyfloss”
17. “A Shot In The Arm” (Remix) 
 
Disc Two: Outtakes/Alternates/Demos *
1.      “Tried And True” (Demo) 
2.      “I’m Always In Love” (Demo)
3.      “All I Need” (Demo)
4.      “I’ll Sing It” (Demo)
5.      “Two Guitars” – Instrumental (Demo)
6.      “Candyfloss” (Demo)
7.      “In A Future Age” (Demo)
8.      “No Hurry” (Demo)
9.      “She’s A Jar” (Demo)
10.  “Can’t Locator It” (Guitar Riff Demo)
11.  “Nothing’severgonnastandinmyway (Again)” (Demo)
12.  “Summer Teeth” (Slow Rhodes Version)
13.  “Pieholden Suite” (Alternate)
14.  “I’m Always In Love” (Early Run Through)
15.  “My Darling” (Alternate)
16.  “Tried And True” (Alternate)
17.  “She’s A Jar” (Alternate)
18.  “Nothing’severgonnastandinmyway (Again)”
19.  “Candyfloss” (Intro)
20.  “Every Little Thing” (Alternate)
21.  “Viking Dan” (Outtake)
22.  “We’re Just Friends/Yee Haw” (10/29/99 Minneapolis Soundcheck)
23.  “Summer Teeth” (Alternate)
24.  “In A Future Age” (Take 3)

Disc Three: Live At The Boulder Theater, Boulder, CO (11/1/99) *
1.      “Via Chicago”
2.      “Candyfloss”
3.      “Summer Teeth”
4.      “I’m Always In Love”
5.      “I Must Be High”
6.      “How To Fight Loneliness”
7.      “Hotel Arizona”
8.      “Red-Eyed And Blue”
9.      “I Got You (At The End Of The Century)”
10.  “Nothing’severgonnastandinmyway (Again)”
11.  “She’s A Jar”
12.  “A Shot In The Arm”
13.  “We’re Just Friends”
14.  “Misunderstood”
 
Disc Four: Live At The Boulder Theater, Boulder, CO (11/1/99) *
1.      “Hesitating Beauty”
2.      “Christ For President”
3.      “Passenger Side”
4.      “Can’t Stand It”
5.      “Forget The Flowers”
6.      “New Madrid”
7.      “California Stars”
8.      “Kingpin”
9.      “Casino Queen”
10.  “Outta Mind (Outta Sight)”
11.  “Hoodoo Voodoo”
12.  “Monday”
 
SUMMERTEETH: DELUXE EDITION
5-LP Track Listing

LP One: Original Album
Side One
1.      “Can’t Stand It”
2.      “She’s A Jar”
3.      “A Shot In The Arm”
4.      “We’re Just Friends”

Side Two
1.      “I’m Always In Love”
2.      “Nothing’severgonnastandinmyway (Again)”
3.      “Pieholden Suite”
4.      “How To Fight Loneliness”

LP Two: Original Album
Side One
1.      “Via Chicago”
2.      “ELT”
3.      “My Darling”
4.      “When You Wake Up Feeling Old”

Side Two
1.      “Summer Teeth”
2.      “In A Future Age”
3.      23 Seconds Of Silence
4.      “Candyfloss”
5.      “A Shot In The Arm” (Remix) 
 

LP Three: Outtakes/Alternates/Demos *
Side One
1.      “Tried And True” (Demo)
2.      “I’m Always In Love” (Demo)
3.      “All I Need” (Demo)
4.      “I’ll Sing It” (Demo)
5.      “Two Guitars” – Instrumental (Demo)
6.      “Candyfloss” (Demo)
7.      “In A Future Age” (Demo)

Side Two
1.      “No Hurry” (Demo)
2.      “She’s A Jar” (Demo)
3.      “Can’t Locator It” (Guitar Riff Demo)
4.      “Nothing’severgonnastandinmyway (Again)” (Demo)
5.      “Summer Teeth” (Slow Rhodes Version)
6.      “Pieholden Suite” (Alternate)

LP Four: Outtakes/Alternates/Demos *
Side One
1.      “I’m Always In Love” (Early Run Through)
2.      “My Darling” (Alternate)
3.      “Tried And True” (Alternate)
4.      “She’s A Jar” (Alternate)
5.      “Nothing’severgonnastandinmyway (Again)”
6.      “Candyfloss” (Intro)

Side Two
1.      “Every Little Thing” (Alternate)
2.      “Viking Dan” (Outtake)
3.      “We’re Just Friends/Yee Haw” (10/29/99 Minneapolis Soundcheck)
4.      “Summer Teeth” (Alternate)
5.      “In A Future Age” (Take 3)
 
LP Five: An Unmitigated Disaster: Tower Records/WXRT (3/11/99) *
Side One
1.      Intro
2.      “I’m Always In Love”
3.      “Via Chicago”
4.      “How To Fight Loneliness”
5.      “She’s A Jar”

Side Two
1.      “We’re Just Friends”
2.      “Can’t Stand It”
3.      “I Got You (At The End Of The Century)”
4.      “Forget The Flowers”
5.      “California Stars”

* previously unreleased

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THE DOORS MORRISON HOTEL 
50th ANNIVERSARY DELUXE EDITION 

2-CD/1-LP Set Expands The Doors’ Fifth Studio Album 
With Over An Hour Of Unreleased Session Outtakes 
That Show How The Songs Evolved In The Studio 

Unreleased Take Of “Peace Frog/Blue Sunday” Available Today Digitally

LISTEN NOW 

Available From Rhino On October 9

LOS ANGELES – The Doors returned to their roots and were reborn a rock ’n’ roll band on Morrison Hotel, the group’s fifth studio album and fifth consecutive gold-certified record. Completed in only a few weeks and released in February 1970, the hard-charging album took its name from the Skid Row hotel in downtown Los Angeles that’s featured in the iconic cover photo taken by Henry Diltz. 

To commemorate the album’s 50-year anniversary, Rhino checks in again at the Morrison Hotel with a 2-CD/1-LP set that will be available on October 9 for $54.98. MORRISON HOTEL: 50TH ANNIVERSARY DELUXE EDITION includes the original album newly remastered by The Doors’ longtime engineer and mixer Bruce Botnick, plus a bonus disc of unreleased studio outtakes, and the original album on 180-gram virgin vinyl. The music will also be available from digital and streaming services the same day. An unreleased take of “Peace Frog/Blue Sunday” is available today digitally. Click HERE to listen now. 

For this new collection, the original album has been expanded with more than an hour of unreleased recordings taken from the sessions for Morrison Hotel. These 19 outtakes transport listeners into the studio with Jim Morrison, John Densmore, Robby Krieger, and Ray Manzarek for an unprecedented perspective on the making of the album. 

Botnick says: “There are many takes, different arrangements, false starts, and insightful studio conversations between the band – who were in the studio – and producer Paul Rothchild – who was in the control room. It’s like being a fly on the wall.”

Several of these unheard recordings spotlight how “Queen Of The Highway” and “Roadhouse Blues” evolved across multiple sessions. It’s especially interesting to hear how the band played with different bass players on “Roadhouse Blues.” Early versions include Harvey Brooks, who played on the band’s previous album, The Soft Parade. Later takes feature guitar legend Lonnie Mack on bass along with The Lovin’ Spoonful’s John Sebastian on harmonica who, due to contractual restrictions at the time, had to be credited as “G. Puglese.” 

Among the treasure trove of unreleased outtakes are also rough versions of Morrison Hotel tracks “Peace Frog” and “Blue Sunday,” as well as The Doors rarity “I Will Never Be Untrue.” The collection also captures some incredible session outtakes of the band jamming on cover versions of the Motown classic “Money (That’s What I Want)” and B.B. King’s “Rock Me.” 

Veteran rock journalist David Fricke tells the tale behind this classic album in the set’s detailed liner notes. He writes: “As spring turned to summer in the last year of the 1960s, The Doors were a band in suspended animation. Singer Jim Morrison, keyboardist Ray Manzarek, guitarist Robby Krieger, and drummer John Densmore were off the road and in serious legal jeopardy after Morrison’s profane meltdown during a show at Miami’s Dinner Key Auditorium…The Doors were also exhausted and uncertain of their recording future after the protracted studio drama and uneven experiment of their fourth album, The Soft Parade…It was a season of chaos and anxiety. But The Doors were on the road to Morrison Hotel.” 

A new line of official Morrison Hotel merchandise has also launched today in celebration of the album’s 50th anniversary. Fans can visit www.thedoors.com for exclusive hoodies, sweats, socks, a t-shirt, a jean jacket, and a key chain from the Morrison Hotel. 

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MORRISON HOTEL: 50TH ANNIVERSARY DELUXE EDITION 
CD Track Listing

Disc One: The Original Album
Side One: Hard Rock Cafe
1.      “Roadhouse Blues”
2.      “Waiting For The Sun”
3.      “You Make Me Real”
4.      “Peace Frog”
5.      “Blue Sunday”
6.      “Ship Of Fools”
Side Two: Morrison Hotel
7.      “Land Ho!”
8.      “The Spy”
9.      “Queen Of The Highway”
10.  “Indian Summer”
11.  “Maggie M’Gill”
 
Disc Two: Mysterious Union
Black Dressed In Leather (Queen Of The Highway Sessions)
First Session (11/15/68)
1.      “Queen Of The Highway” (Take 1, She Was A Princess) *
2.      “Queen Of The Highway” (Various Takes) *
3.      “Queen Of The Highway” (Take 44, He Was A Monster) *
Second Session (1/16/69)
4.      “Queen Of The Highway” (Take 12, No One Could Save Her) *
5.      “Queen Of The Highway” (Take 14, Save The Blind Tiger) *
Third Session (Date Unknown) 
6.      “Queen Of The Highway” (Take 1, American Boy – American Girl) *
7.      “Queen Of The Highway” (Takes 5, 6 & 9, Dancing Through The Midnight Whirlpool) *
8.      “Queen Of The Highway” (Take 14, Start It All Over) *
9.      “I Will Never Be Untrue” *
10.  “Queen Of The Highway” (Take Unknown) *
Money Beats Soul (Roadhouse Blues Sessions)
First Session 
11.  “Roadhouse Blues” (Take 14, Keep Your Eyes On The Road) *
12.  “Money (That’s What I Want)” *
13.  “Rock Me Baby” *
Second Session 
14.  “Roadhouse Blues” (Takes 6 & 7, Your Hands Upon The Wheel) *
15.  “Roadhouse Blues” (Take 8, We’re Goin’ To The Roadhouse) *
Third Session 
16.  “Roadhouse Blues” (Takes 1 & 2, We’re Gonna Have A Real Good Time) *
17.  “Roadhouse Blues” (Takes 5, 6 & 14, Let It Roll Baby Roll) *
Dawn’s Highway (Peace Frog/Blue Sunday Session)
18.  “Peace Frog/Blue Sunday” (Take 4) *
19.  “Peace Frog” (Take 12) *

LP Track Listing
Side One: Hard Rock Cafe
1.      “Roadhouse Blues”
2.      “Waiting For The Sun”
3.      “You Make Me Real”
4.      “Peace Frog”
5.      “Blue Sunday”
6.      “Ship Of Fools”

Side Two: Morrison Hotel
1.      “Land Ho!”
2.      “The Spy”
3.      “Queen Of The Highway”
4.      “Indian Summer”
5.      “Maggie M’Gill”

* previously unreleased

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