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The Band / Music From Big Pink: 50th anniversary edition super deluxe box

New stereo mix • Blu-ray audio with 5.1 surround mix • 2LP vinyl • box set

By Paul Sinclair

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The Band‘s debut album Music From Big Pink will be reissued as a 50th anniversary super deluxe edition box set in August, that includes a new stereo mix and a 5.1 surround mix of the 1968 album.

The box set is a five-disc set which comprises CD, blu-ray audio, 2LP vinyl and seven-inch and comes with a hardcover book. The double vinyl LP and CD elements are available separately, but not the blu-ray with the 5.1 mix.

The songs on this superb album include The Weight, This Wheel’s On Fire, Tears of Rage and To Kingdom Come and the cover art was painted by Bob Dylan (the ‘Big Pink’ being the upstate New York house where The Band wrote the songs.


Bob Clearmountain has created the new stereo mix (which features on the CD and double vinyl) from the original four-track analog masters. The CD features six outtakes/alternates (including an unreleased A Cappella version of I Shall Be Released) and the seven-inch included is a recreation the original 1968 single for The Weight and I Shall Be Released.

Music from Big Pink will be reissued on 31 August 2018.










In the Super Deluxe Edition:

CD

2018 stereo mix


  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:


  1. Yazoo Street Scandal (Outtake)

  2. Tears Of Rage (Alternate Take)

  3. Long Distance Operator (Outtake)

  4. Lonesome Suzie (Alternate Take)

  5. Key To The Highway (Outtake)

  6. 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

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. The Weight

7″ Single 

The Weight b/w I Shall Be Released

Book

 

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