Stage Fright - 50th Anniversary

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In 2015, "Stage Fright" finally became available again—but only within the big 8-LP box "The Band: The Capitol Albums 1968–1977." Now, you can get it again on LP, but this remastered edition features the album’s 50th-anniversary stereo remix on 180-gram vinyl. That stereo remix (by Bob Clearmountain) is also heard on the 2-CD edition here, which adds alternate mixes of "Strawberry Wine" and "Sleeping" plus seven thoroughly charming, unreleased recordings the Band made in a Calgary hotel room during the time period in 1970 when the album was being mixed ("Get Up Jake," "Before You Accuse Me," "Mojo Hannah," "The W.S. Walcott Medicine Show" and more). You’ll also hear a previously unreleased 1971 Royal Albert Hall concert: songs they’d just introduced on "Stage Fright" ("The Shape I’m In," "Time to Kill," "Strawberry Wine," the title track and more) plus "The Weight," "Up on Cripple Creek," "Rag Mama Rag," "Chest Fever," "The Unfaithful Servant," "I Shall Be Released," "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down" and more. All of the above come in the super deluxe set, too (the 180-gram vinyl and the 2-CD set) as does a Blu-Ray disc with the Clearmountain mix in 5.1 surround sound plus a hi-res stereo mix of the album, the bonus tracks and the concert. Particularly collectible is the 7" vinyl single that’s exclusive to this box: a reproduction of the Spanish pressing of the Band’s 1971 vinyl single "Time to Kill" b/w "The Shape I’m In" (in their new stereo mixes). The box rounds out with a photo book with notes by Robbie Robertson and John Scheele (the Band’s touring photographer), three lithographs and a reprint of the original Robert Hilburn album review in the Los Angeles Times. An essential chapter in the Band’s story, this 1970 album returns with 50th-anniversary flair now! Capitol.