Arthur Lee & Love’s classic Blue Thumb label recordings finally reissued – along with an hour of unreleased live material!

Arthur Lee’s untimely passing in 2006 was felt in the hearts, minds and ears of music lovers. While their Elektra recordings tend to garner the most print, their recordings for the Blue Thumb label not only carried on that tradition, but ushered Lee and company into the next decade—and rock & roll history.


Hip-O Select is proud to present Love: The Blue Thumb Recordings – a collection of Love’s first two post-Elektra releases and a previously unreleased live set from their 1970 tour of England. This three-CD set contains over 2 & 1/2 hours of Love – including nearly an hour of never-before-heard live material!

The collection begins with 1969’s Out Here – which is, in reality, the remainder of the sessions used for 1969’s classic Four Sail. Recorded after the release of Love’s seminal Forever Changes, this release (originally a double-album) is an integral part of the Love catalog. While Lee delivered Elektra the necessary tracks to complete their contract (note the Four Sail title and its dual meaning), the remainder of those highly prolific sessions produced over an hour of extra material, which was released as Out Here. With tracks ranging from one minute to nearly twelve minutes in length, Out Here shows the band at a creative peak.

The band followed this release with False Start. Another masterpiece, the album was written and arranged by Lee, with the exception of its opening track –“The Everlasting First” – on which he co-wrote and shared arrangement credits with Jimi Hendrix. If that wasn’t enough, Hendrix contributed lead guitar work recorded just six months before his tragic death. Out of print for years, False Start (like Out Here) bursts from the speakers with stunning audio remastering by noted engineer Suha Gur.

Perhaps the jewel in the crown is a collection of live tracks from the band’s 1970 tour of the U.K. Titled Live In England 1970, this set’s third disc encompasses soaring versions of songs from the band’s career including “My Little Red Book,” “Orange Skies” and Forever Changes’ “Andmoreagain.” Hiding in the vaults for nearly four decades, these performances are truly a revelation and must be heard to be believed.

Produced by Grammy® -winning producer Bill Levenson, Love: The Blue Thumb Recordings is an indispensable document of one of rock’s most important bands, and one of music’s greatest voices. Housed in Select’s exquisite packaging, Love: The Blue Thumb Recordings is the bookmark to the end of the 1960’s and the entry into the next decade for a band that is required listening for Rock & Roll 101.



Out Here
1. I’ll Pray For You
2. Abalony
3. Signed D.C.
4. Listen To My Song
5. I’m Down
6. Stand Out
7. Discharged
8. Doggone
9. I Still Wonder
10. Love Is More Than Words or Better Late Than Never
11. Nice To Be
12. Car Lights On In The Daytime Blues
13. Run To The Top
14. Willow Willow
15. Instra-Mental
16. You Are Something
17. Gather ’Round

False Start
1. The Everlasting First
2. Flying
3. Gimi A Little Break
4. Stand Out
5. Keep On Shining
6. Anytime
7. Slick Dick
8. Love Is Coming
9. Feel Daddy Feel Good
10. Ride That Vibration

Live In England 1970
1. Good Times
2. August
3. My Little Red Book
4. Nothing
5. Orange Skies
6. Andmoreagain
7. Gather ’Round
8. Bummer In The Summer
9. Singing Cowboy
10. Signed D.C.
11. Love Is More Than Words or Better Late Than Never

Updated Mr Fuse's thread title with the in-store release date ~ L.

Thanks for the heads-up! I'll be grabbing that one!

Me too! Thanks!

I wish it had come out a day earlier - then it would have been included in my Hip-O Marvin Gaye and Funkadelic shipment.

Me, three. Thanks a lot!

I'm in. Thanks for the post.

This will be going into general release on Tuesday, June 26th:



https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000QUU4W8/?tag=imwan-20

While I'm here I might as well post about this forthcoming Love release too ~ the Forever Changes Concert is being expanded to two CDs, and this new edition will be released in the UK on July 17th:



>> 2007 UK 20-track enhanced 2-CD set featuring their classic 1967 masterpiece 'Forever Changes' performed live at the Royal Festival Hall in January 2003 during which Arthur Lee's performance was described as 'trul y outstanding' and this interpretation of the all time classic was cited by critics as matching the quality and importance of the original work, includes a Bonus CD featuring 8 bonus recordings plus CD-Rom Section containing the 'Alone Again Or' music video, photo gallery and downloadable screensaver! <<

CD1:
1. Alone Again Or
2. A House Is Not A Motel
3. Andmoreagain
4. The Daily Planet
5. Old Man
6. The Red Telephone
7. Maybe The People Would Be The Times Or Between Clark And Hilldale
8. Live And Let Live
9. The Good Humor Man He Sees Everything Like This
10. Bummer In The Summer
11. You Set The Scene

CD2:
1. Orange Skies
2. She Comes In Colors
3. Listen To My Song
4. August
5. Seven And seven Is
6. Your Mind And We Belong Together
7. Signed DC
8. My Little Red Book
9. CD-Rom Section:
* Alone Again Or - CD-Rom Video
* Picture Gallery
* Downloadable Screensaver

Amazon USA:
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B000QCQUHE/?tag=imwan-20

Amazon UK:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B000QCQUHE/?tag=imwan-21

(This is a good title to pre-order since the current price of the expanded import is actually cheaper than the single disc domestic pressing.)

Thanks for the notice on this.

I am so happy with the Hip-O (I was going to say I loved it but....) it hasn't left my playlist yet.