[2023-01-13] Bob Weir "Ace (50th Anniversary Deluxe Edition)" 2CD set (Warner)

Linda · **Posted:** Mon Oct 03, 2022 12:28 pm

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Description
Bobby Weir celebrated the 50th anniversary of his solo debut, Ace, on stage in April with two special shows at New York City’s Radio City Music Hall. On both nights, he performed the entire album live with his group Bobby Weir & Wolf Bros, featuring The Wolfpack, a string and brass quintet, pedal steel player Barry Sless, and special guests Tyler Childers and Brittney Spencer. One of those performances will be released early next year in a special edition of Ace that also includes a remastered new mix of the original album.

On January 13, ACE: 50th ANNIVERSARY DELUXE EDITION will be released as a double-CD.

When Weir started working on Ace at Wally Heider’s Studio in San Francisco in early 1972, he wasn’t planning for the Grateful Dead to be his backing band. It just happened. “I pretty much knew in the back of my mind what would happen,” Weir told Crawdaddy a few months after the sessions. “I go and get the time booked and start putting the material together. Everybody gets wind of the fact I got the time booked, and I may be going into the studio. So, one by one, they start coming around…”

It made sense, the band was already familiar with most of the music, having road-tested six of the album’s eight songs, including “Greatest Story Ever Told,” “Mexicali Blues,” and “Playing In The Band,” destined to become one of Weir’s signature tunes. Ace also marked the beginning of Weir’s long-running collaboration with lyricist John Perry Barlow and includes early standouts “Cassidy” and “Looks Like Rain.”

The liner notes that accompany the new anniversary edition were written by Jesse Jarnow, co-host of The Good Ol’ Grateful Deadcast and author of Heads: A Biography Of Psychedelic America. He writes about Weir realizing his 50-year dream of touring with strings and horns in 2021 when the Wolfpack joined him and the Wolf Bros on the road.

Jarnow writes: “By the time they played a pair of nights at New York’s Radio City Music Hall in April 2022 to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Ace, Bobby Weir & Wolf Bros featuring The Wolfpack had found their flow at the thrilling, porous border of improvisation and arrangement. In the eternal present tense of the Grateful Dead’s music, none of the songs had stopped evolving in the previous 50 years… At Radio City, everything was heard in its newest (and perhaps already outdated) incarnations, the evolutions acting as a progress report on the ensuing half-century of Weir’s life, musical and otherwise.”

Tracklist
[CD1: Ace (2023 Remaster)]
1. Greatest Story Ever Told
2. Black-Throated Wind
3. Walk In The Sunshine
4. Playing In The Band
5. Looks Like Rain
6. Mexicali Blues
7. One More Saturday Night
8. Cassidy

[CD2: Live At Radio City Music Hall, New York NY (4/3/22)]
1. Greatest Story Ever Told – featuring Tyler Childers
2. Black-Throated Wind
3. Walk In The Sunshine – featuring Brittney Spencer
4. Playing In The Band
5. Looks Like Rain – featuring Brittney Spencer
6. Mexicali Blues – Intro
7. Mexicali Blues
8. One More Saturday Night
9. Cassidy

djgarver · 18 Dec 2007

Excellent - this has needed a remaster for some time - IN!

Mr Fuse · 01 Dec 2006

The bonus might have been better if it was something rare from this time period instead of something from 2022.

NoURider · **Joined:** 21 Jul 2006 **Posts:** 3308

Mr Fuse wrote:

The bonus might have been better if it was something rare from this time period instead of something from 2022.

I hear you...possibly better to have have done a 3 CD set to include both. Having seen Bob and the Wolf Brothers on the 2022 tour I am very interested in this show as well, though.

Now, where is the Garcia 50th Anniversary!

Mr Fuse · 01 Dec 2006

NoURider wrote:

Mr Fuse wrote:

The bonus might have been better if it was something rare from this time period instead of something from 2022.

I hear you...possibly better to have have done a 3 CD set to include both. Having seen Bob and the Wolf Brothers on the 2022 tour I am very interested in this show as well, though.

Now, where is the Garcia 50th Anniversary!

Or the Rolling Thunder 50th!

NoURider · **Joined:** 21 Jul 2006 **Posts:** 3308

Mr Fuse wrote:

NoURider wrote:

Mr Fuse wrote:

The bonus might have been better if it was something rare from this time period instead of something from 2022.

I hear you...possibly better to have have done a 3 CD set to include both. Having seen Bob and the Wolf Brothers on the 2022 tour I am very interested in this show as well, though.

Now, where is the Garcia 50th Anniversary!

Or the Rolling Thunder 50th!

Linda · **Posted:** Wed Oct 05, 2022 2:47 pm

A sample:

Linda · **Posted:** Mon Dec 19, 2022 1:40 am

And another:

ranasakawa · 26 Jan 2007

It's my favourite Grateful Dead album. I have zero interest in the 2nd CD.

[2023-01-13] Bob Weir "Ace (50th Anniversary Deluxe Edition)" 2CD set (Warner)

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