http://store.keneally.com/Now available for pre-order is Keneally's 1997 album "Sluggo!"
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SLUGGO! REISSUE!
My 1997 album Sluggo! has been out of print forever, but it’s finally coming back!
It’ll be available in a variety of formats featuring a great deal of unreleased audio and video material, and featuring new stereo and surround mixes of the Sluggo! album.
I’ve always felt the album is really good, but I’ve had reservations about the mix forever. It’s a long story (told at length in the new liner notes in the reissue packaging), but the upshot is I’m finally completely happy with the sound of the album. Sixteen years after recording it, I finally feel like I’ve finished Sluggo!
Pre-orders begin this Thursday, November 7, at The Mike Keneally Store. Packages will ship by early December.
Four different ways to get it - a SuperDeluxe 2 CD/2 DVD version (with a not superdeluxe price - and no marbles or scarves!), a Deluxe CD/2 DVD version, and digital downloads of the 2013 stereo mix and original 1997 stereo mix. Details?
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1) Sluggo! Deluxe (1-CD/2-DVD package) $34
Contains:
Instant download of the 2013 Stereo Mix of Sluggo! in mp3 or FLAC
CD with 2013 Stereo Mix of Sluggo! plus 2 bonus tracks
DVD-A with PCM 16/48 Stereo, DTS 24/48 5.1 Digital Surround, MLP 24/96 Lossless Stereo & MLP 24/96 Lossless 5.1 Surround
DVD with over two hours of unreleased stereo live and studio video material, the original 1997 stereo mix, more bonus audio tracks, shots of the original tracking sheets and other items
Digipak with all original artwork plus new liner notes
2) Sluggo! SuperDeluxe (2-CD/2-DVD package), $49
Signed, numbered edition of 1000
Contains all items in Sluggo! Deluxe above, PLUS:
Live At Mama Kin, a CD of Mike Keneally & Beer for Dolphins performing live in Boston on August 15, 1998 (newly mixed by Mike Keneally and Mike Harris)
Hand-numbered and signed by Mike Keneally
3) Sluggo! 2013 Stereo Mix download in mp3 or FLAC, $10
4) Sluggo! Original Stereo Mix download in mp3 or FLAC, $10
So, hi-res audio in the physical packages, lossless available in the downloads.
This is a really cool album and it covers a lot of stylistic ground. If you've ever heard Zappa's "Dangerous Kitchen", the technical approach of "Beautiful" will be familiar. There are rockers, ballads, jazzier stuff, and a tribute to Al Hirschfeld. The album contains several of my favorite Keneally tracks, so it's highly recommended from me. As a side note, the song "Drum-Running, I Am Clapboard Bound" has an acoustic part in the middle that's actually a Hamer Duo-Tone electric with a piezo pickup that Keneally played in Z (he and Dweezil played these guitars for "Peaches En Regalia"). I own that guitar now - which is pretty cool. (For those who may have heard any of my recordings, Mike makes the guitar sound good.)
