NewsSupertramp / Brother Where You Bound and Free As A Bird vinyl reissues
Half-speed mastered
Vinyl reissue campaign reaches the mid-’80s
The Supertramp reissues keep coming. The third batch of 50th anniversary releases arrives in June, with Brother Where You Bound and Free As A Bird back on vinyl.
In keeping with the previous releases in the series, both are 180g pressings and have been half-speed mastered by Miles Showell at Abbey Road Studios.
During the tour for 1982’s Famous Last Words co-frontman Roger Hodgson decided to quit the band, leaving Rick Davies as the band’s sole songwriter. The following album, 1985’s Brother Where You Bound, was the group’s proggiest album in over a decade – see the pulsing ‘Better Days’ and the 16-minute title track, which features cameos from guitarists David Gilmour and Scott Gorham. Two years later, Free As A Bird marked another change of direction, with a shift towards dance-pop, an attempt to move with the times that underwhelmed fans and sounds dated today.
Still, both albums are long overdue a vinyl reissue having not been re-pressed since they were first on shelves. And with the previous European CD reissues being back in 2002 (Brother) and 2003 (Free), fans will be hoping a CD reissue programme is on the way.
Brother Where You Bound and Free as a Bird will be released on 19 June via UMR/Polydor.
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Tracklisting
Brother Where You Bound Supertramp / Half-speed mastered vinyl reissue
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Side One
- Cannonball
- Still In Love
- No Inbetween
- Better Days
Side Two
- Brother Where You Bound
- Ever Open Door
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Tracklisting
Free As A Bird Supertramp / Half-speed mastered vinyl reissue
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Side One
- It’s Alright
- Not The Moment
- It Doesn’t Matter
- Where I Stand
- Free As A Bird
Side Two
- I’m Beggin You
- You Never Can Tell With Friends
- Thing For You
- An Awful Thing To Waste
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