24 track 2 disc set from Mercury / Universal.

Appears to feature the Mercury era early versions of songs that Rhino first released on "Sessions" in 2009, plus a few b'sides etc.

It will be interesting to see how this does given how badly Sessions sold..



CD 1
It’s All Over Now (Single Version)
Country Comfort (BBC Radio One Performance)
Maggie May (Early Version)
Seems Like a Long Time (Alternate Version)
Los Paraguayos (Alternate Version)
Italian Girls (Early Version)
You Wear It Well (Early Version)
I’d Rather Go Blind (Alternate Version)
Angel (Alternate Version)
What’s Made Milwaukee Famous (Has Made a Loser Out of Me)
Pinball Wizard
Ev’ry Time We Say Goodbye (Summer 1973 Sessions)

CD 2
Oh No, Not My Baby
Jodie
So Tired
Missed You
Think I’ll Pack My Bags (Early Version of “Mystifies Me”)
Girl from the North Country (Alternate Version)
(You Make Me Feel Like A) Natural Man (Alternate Version)
Farewell (Early Version)
So Tired (Early Version)
You Put Something Better Inside of Me
Crying Laughing Loving Lying
Maggie May (BBC Radio One Performance)

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00DXP0QX0/?tag=imwan-20

It's look very interesting but is it simply a subset of ?

Need to my homework first.

Rick A.

did his latest album sell?

i've read that tix for his vegas show are not selling well.

I'd be interested in 1971-74 or so rarities.

I brought this, played it once. Its not that good. The outtakes don't excite me unfortunately .

Same here, I played it a couple times to TRY to get into it but didn't do it for me. I was surprised of this outcome.

Rick A.

US: entered at #7 but out of Top 100 7-8 weeks later, so not great.

However in the UK it entered at #1 and so far has 11 consecutive weeks in the Top 5, including 4 at #2.
UK Sales will hit 300k (platinum) in the next couple of weeks I reckon, so a major hit over there.

He is touring US soon and will be releasing a new single there so things may pick up, although it's hard to resurrect once the album has bombed first time around.

This track list is better than I was expecting:

CD 1
It’s All Over Now (Single Version)
Country Comfort (BBC Radio One Performance)
Maggie May (Early Version)
Seems Like a Long Time (Alternate Version)
Los Paraguayos (Alternate Version)
Italian Girls (Early Version)
You Wear It Well (Early Version)
I’d Rather Go Blind (Alternate Version)
Angel (Alternate Version)
What’s Made Milwaukee Famous (Has Made a Loser Out of Me)
Pinball Wizard
Ev’ry Time We Say Goodbye (Summer 1973 Sessions)

CD 2
Oh No, Not My Baby
Jodie
So Tired
Missed You
Think I’ll Pack My Bags (Early Version of “Mystifies Me”)
Girl from the North Country (Alternate Version)
(You Make Me Feel Like A) Natural Man (Alternate Version)
Farewell (Early Version)
So Tired (Early Version)
You Put Something Better Inside of Me
Crying Laughing Loving Lying
Maggie May (BBC Radio One Performance)

I'd consider picking this up for $10 or less, no way in heck for $20.

Because Rarities seems to re-treads familiar ground with at least a third of the tracks previously released on the 2009 Sessions four-CD box set.

Rick A.