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"Bedsitter Images", his first album from 1967, has never been available on CD by itself anywhere
in the world! This reissue includes all the tracks from both versions of the album's
original release. The bonus tracks are amazing; "Go Your Way", from Al's legendary
(1965) never released London acetate recording ( the first time that a track from
the album has ever been made available by Al) and "My Contemporaries", a unique
and unreleased send-up of the Who’s "My Generation!"
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"Love Chronicles", Al’s second album and Melody Maker's Folk Album of the Year for 1969,featured
Richard Thompson, Ashley Hutchings and most of Fairport Convention as Al's band.
Bonus tracks are "Jackdaw", from the fan-club-only CD "Seemed Like a Good Idea
at the Time", the never released "She Follows Her Own Rules " and the unreleased
demo of another Al original, "Fantasy".
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"Zero She Flies" from 1970, includes three superlative bonus tracks. "Stormy Night", an early
recording with Peter White, "News from Spain", a remix of the classic track, previously
available only as an import plus "Lyke Wake Dirge", an unreleased, traditional
folk song featuring Al and Mimi Farina.
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"Orange", released in 1970,featuring Brinsley Schwarz and Rick Wakeman,is next up. The
bonus tracks on this CD are a new version of "Soho (Needless to Say)", previously
only available only on "Seemed LIke A Good Idea At The Time", the wonderful "Elvaston
Place", Al's perfect love song set in the street where he spent the last part
of the 60's and "It Doesn’t Matter Anymore" an unreleased demo version of the
Paul Anka song.
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"Modern Times" includes some absolutely stunning extra songs; the demos of "A Sense of Deja
Vu" and "Willie the King" are included along with a lost Al original from 1974,"Swallow
Wind".
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"24 Carrots", Al's September 1980 recording for Arista Records, is at long last re released
here and again extra tracks are included. "The Ringing of Bells" and "Tonton Macoute"
are two studio originals that never made the original album and they join "Candy
Came Back" from "Seemed Like A Good Idea At The Time" as Bonus Tracks that will
more than keep lovers of this album happy!
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"Indian Summer", Al’s double live album from 1981, has only ever been a vinyl only release,
featuring 3 sides of Al and Shot In The Dark live in Los Angeles along with a
whole side of studio Tracks. And here, for the first time ever together on a CD,
all of that music is available once again!
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1984's "Russians and Americans" features all of the tracks from it's various Worldwide releases along with
the another three bonus tracks; the superb "World According to Garp" along with
"In Red Square" and "How Does It Happen?"
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'Last Days of the Century', from 1988, featured the then unknown Tori Amos as backing vocalist and after
these sessions were completed she and Al sat down at his piano and worked together
on two previously unreleased, original compositions. These two demos, "Ten Cents"
and "Dreaming" are pure, absolute gold and join a rare vocal version of "Ghostly
Horses of the Plain" here to form a trio of mind boggling bonus tracks.
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"Rhymes in Rooms", the next CD in the series, is Al and Peter White at the top of their game
on tour in America and Japan in 1991. The bonus cuts released here are very, very
interesting indeed... an early demo of "Timeless Skies" and Al's version of the
Elvis Costello song "London’s Brilliant Parade".
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The next re issue, 1993's "Famous Last Words", sees the long overdue release of Al's epic historical song "The Coldest Winter
in Memory" along with a pair of demos from the mid 80's,"Blow Your Mansion Down"
and "In the Dark".
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"Between the Wars", the first of Al's trilogy of albums with Laurence Juber, is the next CD to
get the special re issue treatment here and comes complete with two more rarities
in "The Bear Farmers of Birnam" and the haunting "Merry Monks".
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"Down in the Cellar" from September 2000 was never released in the US after Al's record label, Miramar,
went bust a few days before it's release but here it is now with another two extra
tracks in "Dark Side" and "Belsize Blues" to round off this seriously stunning
set of Al Stewart re-releases. Enjoy!
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