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Seems like 13 years qualifies as "long-awaited," yes? Taylor’s first new album of original songs since 2002’s "October Road" finally arrives, in four editions. On the CD and 180-gram vinyl (with download card) you’ll find "Today Today Today," "You and I Again," "Stretch of the Highway," "Montana," "Watchin’ over Me," "Wild Mountain Thyme" and more gentle folk-flavored gems that recall his ’70s singer-songwriter days. The great touring band that joined James in his barn to record this album includes Steve Gadd on drums and Jimmy Johnson on bass. The story of how James retreated to solitude in Rhode Island to write and returned to his Western Massachusetts home to record is told on the deluxe-edition "making-of" DVD. The super-deluxe edition expands on the deluxe edition with bonus tracks on the CD, an expanded edition of the documentary on the DVD and a 40-page hardbound book full of photos, liner notes and a collector’s envelope with handwritten lyrics and other memorabilia, all housed in a numbered, die-cut slipcase! Concord.