![Music From Big Pink has been reissued in newly remixed and expanded 50th Anniversary Edition packages, including a Super Deluxe CD/Blu-ray/2LP/7-inch vinyl box set with a hardbound book; 1CD, digital, […]](http://www.obsessed-with-music.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Screen-Shot-2018-08-25-at-11.10.57-PM-620x250.png "The Band’s Classic “Music From Big Pink” Gets A 50th Anniversary Reissue")
Music From Big Pink has been reissued in newly remixed and expanded 50th Anniversary Edition packages, including a Super Deluxe CD/Blu-ray/2LP/7-inch vinyl box set with a hardbound book; 1CD, digital, 180-gram 2LP black vinyl, and limited edition 180-gram 2LP pink vinyl packages. All the Anniversary Edition configurations feature a new stereo mix for the album, produced by Bob Clearmountain from the original four-track analog masters. The 50th Anniversary Edition’s CD, digital, and box set configurations also include five outtakes and alternate recordings from the ‘Big Pink’ sessions and a previously unrelesed a cappella version of “I Shall Be Released.”
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Exclusively for the box set, Clearmountain has also produced a new 5.1 surround mix for the album and the bonus tracks, presented on Blu-ray with the new stereo mix in high resolution audio. The box set also includes an exclusive reproduction of The Band’s 1968 7-inch vinyl single for “The Weight” / “I Shall Be Released” in their new stereo mixes and a hardbound book with a new essay by noted music journalist David Fricke and classic photos by Elliott Landy. For the album’s new vinyl editions, Chris Bellman cut the vinyl lacquers for the album’s new stereo mix at 45rpm at Bernie Grundman Mastering, expanding the album’s vinyl footprint from one LP to two.
Robbie Robertson recalls, “The harmonies started to blossom. The thing just kept growing.” ‘Big Pink’ was a refuge, a creative lair for The Band and for Dylan, who recorded sessions there that were soon bootlegged as “The Basement Tapes.”
In his 1993 memoir, titled This Wheel’s On Fire, Levon Helm wrote, “We wanted Music from Big Pink to sound like nothing anyone else was doing. This was our music, honed in isolation from the radio and contemporary trends.”
More info or buy: Super Deluxe | Vinyl | CD
Track listing:
THE BAND: Music from Big Pink (50th Anniversary Edition)
CD; Digital
2018 stereo mix (included in the box set and available individually)
1. Tears Of Rage
2. To Kingdom Come
3. In A Station
4. Caledonia Mission
5. The Weight
6. We Can Talk
7. Long Black Veil
8. Chest Fever
9. Lonesome Suzie
10. This Wheel’s On Fire
11. I Shall Be Released
Bonus Tracks:
12. Yazoo Street Scandal (Outtake)
13. Tears Of Rage (Alternate Take)
14. Long Distance Operator (Outtake)
15. Lonesome Suzie (Alternate Take)
16. Key To The Highway (Outtake)
17. I Shall Be Released (A Cappella)
BLU-RAY
Tracklist above in new 5.1 surround mix + 96kHz/24bit high resolution stereo (exclusive to the box set)
2LP VINYL
180g black vinyl (included in the box set and available individually); ltd. edition 180g pink vinyl (available individually)
SIDE ONE
1. Tears Of Rage
2. To Kingdom Come
SIDE TWO
1. In A Station
2. Caledonia Mission
3. The Weight
SIDE THREE
1. We Can Talk
2. Long Black Veil
3. Chest Fever
SIDE FOUR
1. Lonesome Suzie
2. This Wheel’s On Fire
3. I Shall Be Released
“The Weight”
Reproduced 1968 7-inch single (exclusive to the box set)
A. The Weight
B. I Shall Be Released
BIG PINK
A pink house seated in the sun
of Overlook Mountain in
West Saugerties, New York.
Big Pink bore this music and
these songs along its way.
It’s the first witness of
this album that’s been thought
and composed right there
inside its walls.
More info or buy: Super Deluxe | Vinyl | CD
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