Keane announces details of "Hopes and Fears Remastered 20th Anniversary Celebrations" out May 10

Here are a slew of great details about the 20th Anniversary deluxe reissue of Keane's incredible debut "Hopes and Fears"...Robert Kinsler

Keane announce Details Of Hopes and Fears Remastered 20th Anniversary Celebrations...  Out May 10th 1 LP Galaxy Vinyl / 2LP Coloured Vinyl / 3CD / Limited Edition Box Set Deluxe Edition / 2CD Live / Digital “Somewhere Only We Know” (Tim Demo, September 2002) Previously Unreleased - LISTEN HERE 2024 World Tour Includes 8 SOLD OUT UK Arena Dates And Shows at Nashville’s The Ryman and NYC’s Radio City Tickets On Sale HERE FEBRUARY 16, 2024 (New York, NY) -- Exactly 20 years after its initial release on May 10, KEANE announce full details of their forthcoming special remastered version of Hopes and Fears, undoubtedly one of the best debut albums ever. Pre-order HERE. The band also take to the road this year to embark on a full world tour. U.S, dates include LA’s prestigious Greek Theatre on Sept. 5th, Nashville’s fabled The Ryman Auditorium on September 15th and NYC’s legendary Radio City Music Hall on September 24th. UK and Irish dates include two huge and extremely special shows at London’s O2 Arena on May 10th and 11th. Making up this 20th anniversary celebratory release, comes a special version of the original album remastered and cut by Frank Arkwright at Abbey Road Studios, as well as the unveiling of B-Sides, previously unreleased demos and rarities. 5.1 Dolby Atmos mixes come from David Kosten. FORMATS:   - 1 LP Galaxy Vinyl (Original Album Remastered) - 2LP Coloured Vinyl (Original Album Remastered + B-Sides & Rarities) - 3CD (Original Album Remastered + B-Sides & Rarities + Demos) - Limited Edition Box Set Deluxe Edition (Numbered commemorative ticket, Hopes And Fears notebook, band silhouette print envelope containing 2 postcards designed by Dave Lupton (1 signed) fold out postcard frame, 3CD, 7” Love Actually vinyl single, printed inner bag w/ handwritten lyrics & wall poster) - 2CD Live (Original Album Remastered & Live Recordings from Mexico City 2024) - Digital (All audio available on all DSPs) On the same day as the box set release, the band play the first of two London 02 Arena shows as part of a world tour that kicks off April 1st in Mexico City before reaching Europe and the UK. Their U.S. tour starts off in September at UC Berkeley’s Greek Theatre on September 4th and concludes at Washington, DC’s The Anthem. More dates are to be announced. Keane recently took their live show to India and South Africa, playing these countries for the very first time and proving the ever-growing demand for the band worldwide. They were joined onstage in Mumbai with Anoushka Shankar to play a special version of “Everybody’s Changing” - watch here.   Hopes and Fears was a landmark album for Keane and has set all kinds of records in the process. It’s one of the best-selling albums in UK chart history having sold over 2.5 million in the UK in its first year, and a million in the USA propelled by their absolutely classic song “Somewhere Only We Know”. Hopes and Fears is 9x platinum in the UK, a remarkable achievement. The album has sold over 10 million copies worldwide. KEANE photo credit: Alex Lake Keane emerged alongside a new vanguard of bands that would change the shape of music: Snow Patrol, Scissor sisters, the Killers and Coldplay. They were the first to create a sound solely revolving around keyboards which enhanced the emotional pull of their songs. “Everybody’s Changing” from Hopes and Fears became a fan favorite and a top five hit.   In 2004, Keane were the biggest selling British artist in the UK. The following year they won two BRIT Awards: Best British Album for Hopes and Fears and British Breakthrough act award as voted for by Radio 1 listeners.   “Somewhere Only We Know” has enjoyed a recent revival on Tik Tok going viral in Asia which lit the spark for a global renaissance of the track which is currently clocking up over two million Spotify streams a day, and in the past 12 months has become Island Records’ biggest selling single. In total, it has been streamed over a billion times.   This year’s tour will celebrate Keane’s acclaimed body of work from their imperious debut Hopes and Fears through to their 2019 studio album Cause and Effect.   Lead singer Tom Chaplin says; “I remember standing by that amazing old mixing desk at Heliocentric Studios where we made Hopes and Fears, listening to an early mix of ‘Somewhere Only We Know.’ I had this feeling that we’d come up with something that had an extra bit of magic. Making music is so often a process full of doubt…but on this occasion there was something undeniable about what we’d created. Clearly a lot of people felt the same when the album came out!” Founding band member and songwriter Tim Rice-Oxley said: “When I think about these songs, I still picture us playing them in little rooms in pubs around the UK. I remember how exciting it was watching the crowds start to grow. Those songs opened the door to another dimension for us; everything that has happened in our lives since then was born out of that moment. It’s an incredible privilege for us that people are still listening after all this time.” TOUR DATES: UK TOUR DATES May Fri 3rd LEEDS, First Direct Arena SOLD OUT Sat 4th BIRMINGHAM, Utilita Arena SOLD OUT Sun 5th MANCHESTER, Co-Op Live SOLD OUT Tue 7th BOURNEMOUTH, BIC SOLD OUT Wed 8th CARDIFF, Utilita Arena SOLD OUT Fri 10th LONDON, The O2   Sat 11th LONDON, The O2   Mon 13th DUBLIN 3Arena   WORLD TOUR DATES April Mon 1st MEXICO CITY, Sports Palace SOLD OUT Wed 3rd GUADALAJARA, Auditorio Telmex SOLD OUT Fri 19th AMSTERDAM, AFAS Live SOLD OUT Sun 21st KOLN, E-Werk SOLD OUT Mon 22nd KOLN, E-Werk SOLD OUT Wed 24th BRUSSELS, The Cirque Royal SOLD OUT Thu 25th BRUSSELS, The Cirque Royal SOLD OUT Fri 26th PARIS, L’Olympia SOLD OUT Sat 27th PARIS, L’Olympia SOLD OUT   September Wed 4th BERKELEY, CA, The Greek Theatre at UC Berkeley   Thu 5th LOS ANGELES, CA, The Greek Theatre   Fri 6th SAN DIEGO, CA, Humphreys Concerts By The Bay SOLD OUT Sun 8th SALT LAKE CITY, UT, Venue TBC   Mon 9th DENVER, CO, Temple Hoyne Buell Theatre   Wed 11th DALLAS, TX, The Majestic Theater SOLD OUT Thu 12th AUSTIN, TX, ACL Live At The Moody Theatre   Sat 14th ATLANTA, GA, The Eastern   Sun 15th NASHVILLE, TN, Ryman Auditorium   Tue 17th MINNEAPOLIS, MN, Palace Theater   Wed 18th CHICAGO, IL, The Chicago Theatre   Fri 20th TORONTO, ON, The Queen Elizabeth Theater SOLD OUT Sat 21st PHILADELPHIA, PA, The Met   Mon 23rd BOSTON, MA, MGM Music Hall At Fenway   Tue 24th NEW YORK, NY, Radio City Music Hall   Thu 26th WASHINGTON, DC, The Anthem SOLD OUT   Hopes And Fears 20 - Original Album Remastered Track Listing  Somewhere Only We Know Bend And Break We Might As Well Be Strangers     Everybody's Changing Your Eyes Open She Has No Time Can't Stop Now Sunshine This Is The Last Time On A Day Like Today Untitled 1    Bedshaped   B-Sides & Rarities: Snowed Under Fly To Me Something In Me Was Dying She Opens Her Eyes To The End Of the Earth (Previously Unreleased)  The Way You Want It (Previously Unreleased) Allemande (Previously Unreleased) Walnut Tree Love Actually Wonderful River (Previously Unreleased) More Matey Get Away From Yourself (Previously Unreleased) Demos: (all previously unreleased) Somewhere Only We Know (Tim Demo, September 2002) Somewhere Only We Know (Demo, December 2002) Bend And Break (Demo, April 2002) We Might As Well Be Strangers (Tim Demo, September 2003) Everybody's Changing (Demo, July 2002) Your Eyes Open (Demo, April 2002)  She Has No Time (Demo, October 2002) Can't Stop Now (Demo, January 2003) Sunshine (Demo, February 2002) This Is The Last Time (Demo, May 2002) On A Day Like Today (Tim Demo, September 2003) Untitled 1 (Tim Demo, May 2002) Bedshaped (Demo, October 2002)   7” Vinyl Single: Side A: Love Actually (Studio Version) Side B: Love Actually (Demo)   Keane "Everybody's Changing (Official Music Video)" Link: https://youtu.be/RSNmgE6L8AU?si=HhmNbKjL9DdlJ6-9

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'Sister Rosetta Tharpe Live in France: The 1966 Concert in Limoges' set for limited edition 2-LP Record Store Day release

 

SISTER ROSETTA THARPE LIVE IN FRANCE:  THE 1966 CONCERT IN LIMOGES SET FOR LIMITED-EDITION 2-LP RECORD STORE DAY RELEASE ON APRIL 20 (AND DELUXE CD EDITION ON APRIL 26)   “THE GODMOTHER OF ROCK ‘N’ ROLL” HEARD ON 21 TRACKS  NEVER BEFORE RELEASED Sister Rosetta Tharpe was such a beautiful light and for her to have such faith in her music and her spirit and no doubt to see a lot of darkness, there's a lot to be learned from that. I think there's a lot to learn from an artist like her who started doing it at five or six years old and then did it throughout her whole career and really had a passion for it. She just had a God-given gift.  – Susan Tedeschi   Sister Rosetta Tharpe was a pivotal figure in American 20th century music, though until recently her legend had languished in semi-obscurity. The pioneering gospel/blues singer, extraordinarily gifted electric guitarist and proto rock ‘n’ roll star has been rediscovered of late with a well-deserved induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2018 with Alabama Shakes’ Brittany Howard doing the honors. Thereafter, her influence at the dawn of the rock era on none other than Elvis Presley was acknowledged with a searing portrayal by Yola in Baz Luhrmann’s 2022 Elvis feature film. All of that posthumous notoriety has earned her the title “The Godmother of Rock ‘n’ Roll,” with her undeniable influence acknowledged by rock cognoscenti everywhere This coming Record Store Day, April 20, will see the release of a limited edition 2-LP set (also available on CD and digital download on April 26) titled Live in France: The 1966 Concert in Limoges, a 21-track album of newly discovered and previously unreleased performances recorded on November 11, 1966, at the Grand Theater in Limoges, the city in west-central France best known for porcelain production.

Having been accepted and celebrated by audiences in France and throughout Europe, she toured the continent relentlessly in the ‘60s. Her 1966 performance in Limoges was in fact her third concert there over the years. It was captured on tape that night by the Office de Radiodiffusion-Télévision Française (ORTF) and discovered seven years ago by Zev Feldman, the archivist Stereophile dubbed “The Indiana Jones of Jazz,” and who was recently profiled in The New Yorker, for his uncanny ability to uncover heretofore “lost” music recorded decades ago by seminal and critically acclaimed artists. Feldman found the Limoges recording while doing a search of the INA (Institut national de l’audiovisuel) France archives and realized he had discovered something very special: an audio document of the formidable American gospel great playing solo, accompanying herself on her electric guitar. Feldman commented, "Sister Rosetta Tharpe has been a towering and trailblazing figure in music even decades and decades after her passing in 1973, and her influence is still being felt to this day. This recording has never been released before and I consider it a very special time capsule of a document that transports you back to a wonderful performance in the mid-1960s in France."   Feldman worked tirelessly to put the music he’d discovered in a setting befitting the brilliance of the artist and the significance of his find. To that end, Live in France is offered in a lavishly packaged set with rare photos, meticulous art direction and voluminous liner notes by Tharpe experts as well as commentary from contemporary musicians who are in awe of Tharpe, her talent and ongoing legacy. The album is being released on Feldman’s new imprint Deep Digs, in partnership with Elemental Music.    The set features a lengthy essay by Tharpe biographer Gayle Wald, author of Shout, Sister Shout!: The Untold Story of Rock-and-Roll Trailblazer Sister Rosetta Tharpe. Wald wrote, “Sister Rosetta was the first guitar heroine of rock & roll. Her heartfelt gospel folksiness gave way to her roaring mastery of her trusty Gibson Les Paul Custom, which she wielded on a level that rivaled the best of her male contemporaries.” Also included are descriptive notes, translated from French by Jean Buzelin, author of Sister Rosetta Tharpe: La femme qui inventa le Rock ‘n’ Roll. He chronicles her exhaustive touring in Europe and her special relationship with French audiences. Her influence on British guitar players including Keith Richards, Jeff Beck and Eric Clapton is widely acknowledged with all the overmentioned having seen her perform when she toured with Muddy Waters and other American blues greats. There is also a heartwarming narrative by Donna Rhea Hamilton (grandmother of Tedeschi Trucks Band drummer Isaac Eady), at whose childhood home in Tullahoma, TN Tharpe was a house guest when she came to town – by Greyhound Bus – to perform at the AME Church there in the late ‘60s. She recalls Sister Rosetta as a “sweet, sweet soul, down to earth just like normal people,” and helping her mother cook for the family.    Beyond those exhaustive notes are comments from Susan Tedeschi, ZZ Top’s Billy F Gibbons, Shemekia Copeland, Henry Rollins, Brian Ray and Bonnie Raitt who wrote, “Rosetta was one of the most beloved and influential artists ever in gospel music...and she blazed a trail for the rest of us women guitarists with her indomitable spirit and accomplished, engaging style. She has long been deserving of wider recognition and a place of honor in the field of music history.” Susan Tedeschi also offered, “I don't know of anybody really who plays exactly like she does, but I can hear her influence in people from Little Richard to Elvis Presley, to Clapton, to Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis, a lot of different people. You can hear her in their playing, so when you hear that rock and roll thing, it really kind of comes from her.” Billy F Gibbons commented, “As a guitarist I have to celebrate her six-string slingin’ . . . nobody had done anything like that before and is due a debt of gratitude for being the soulful pioneer she was.” Shemekia Copeland commented, “If Rosetta had been a Mister instead of a Sister, she would have been as famous as Little Richard, Chuck Berry or even Elvis. In fact, she inspired all of them. She was that original. And she’s an inspiration to me every time I perform. Sister Rosetta rocked!!!!” That assertion was seconded by Henry Rollins who stated, “Sister Rosetta rocks absolutely.”   Sister Rosetta Tharpe Live in France: The 1966 Limoges Concert   LP 1 / SIDE A 1. This Train (4:25) – R. Tharpe 2. When My Life Work Is Ended (3:45) – W.W. Harris, A.J. Bell                 3. Didn't It Rain (1:49) – Trad. - arr. R. Tharpe 4. Mother’s Prayer (5:26) – J.W. Van de Venter   SIDE B 1. Up Above My Head, I Hear Music in the Air (Trad. - arr. R. Tharpe) (2:20) 2. Moonshine (2:52) - R. Tharpe 3. Sit Down (2:23) – N. Sherman - J. Keller                                              4. Down by the Riverside (3:33) – Trad.                                                   5. When The Saints Go Marching In (2:23) – Trad. - arr. R. Tharpe           6. Joshua Fought The Battle of Jericho (2:18) – Trad. - arr. R. Tharpe                                                         LP 2 / SIDE C 1. Jesus Met the Woman at the Well (4:29) – J.W. Alexander, K. Morris    2. Two Little Fishes, Five Loaves of Bread (2:41) – B. Hanighen                           3. Traveling Shoes (3:19) – Traditional                                                                            4. Beams of Heaven (2:55) – C.A. Tindley                                                                       5. That's All / Denomination Blues (2:58) – R. Tharpe, W. Phillips 6. Going Home (2:40)    SIDE D 1. Go Ahead (3:12) – C. Jeter                                                                                         2. Bring Back Those Happy Days (3:11) – R. Tharpe                                3. Give me That Old Time Religion (2:04) – Traditional                                                     4. If Anybody Above Me (1:48) – M. Kenney 5. Nobody's Fault But Mine (4:26) – Traditional                  Recorded on November 11, 1966 at the Grand Theater in Limoges, France

Mavis Staples 'Have a Little Faith' Deluxe Reissue Set For Record Store Day, April 20

 

MAVIS STAPLES' HAVE A LITTLE FAITH TO RECEIVE DELUXE 20TH ANNIVERSARY RECORD STORE DAY REISSUE "Have A Little Faith was the beginning of my solo career. That’s why I’m here today...Every song on Have A Little Faith comes straight from my heart." –Mavis Staples Originally Released In 2004 On CD Only -- Have A Little Faith  Ignited Mavis' Solo Career    Now Available For The First Time As A Remastered 2-LP Set Pressed On Silver Vinyl In Deluxe Gatefold Jacket With Expanded Artwork Featuring A Newly Written Remembrance By Mavis Staples

"One of the finest albums of Mavis' career...blues-tinged gospel about making the most of troubled times, a message Staples has been delivering her entire life." –The Chicago Tribune "A glorious album...filled with the kind of gutsy, emotional performances that have defined Mavis Staples' stellar career." –Billboard

On April 20, 2024, Record Store Day, Alligator Records will release the deluxe 20th Anniversary 2-LP vinyl reissue of soul and gospel legend Mavis Staples' landmark 2004 release, Have A Little Faith. The album, when first released, sparked Mavis' solo career and launched her into the musical mainstream. Have A Little Faith is an exhilarating collection of timeless, uplifting songs deeply seated in Mavis’ faith and spirituality. It has now been remastered and will come in a deluxe gatefold jacket with expanded artwork. The set also features a spirited remembrance of how the record came to be by Mavis herself. The two 12-inch records, pressed on silver vinyl, will spin at 45 rpm, and will deliver the best possible sound. Mavis Staples enjoying herself (and thrilling crowd) at Doheny Blues Festival in May 2011. Photo credit: Robert Kinsler Mavis possesses one of the most recognizable and treasured voices in contemporary music. From her early days sharing lead vocals with her groundbreaking family gospel group, The Staple Singers, to her storied solo recordings, Mavis Staples is an inspirational force in modern popular culture and music. So it was surprising, upon the passing of Mavis' father -- family patriarch and Staple Singers leader Pops Staples -- in 2000, that Mavis' future was uncertain. She self-financed and recorded her own solo album, and after being turned down by major labels unable to see the commercial appeal of this legend’s fresh, genre-busting approach to spiritual music, it was embraced by Alligator Records. The label's unbridled enthusiasm in working the album to press, radio and the public helped Mavis fulfill her dream and ignite her solo career. Upon release, Have A Little Faith brought Mavis' powerful music and message songs into the 21st century. From the positive and uplifting title track to the spiritual fervor of God Is Not Sleeping to the reinterpretations of Staple Singers classics Will The Circle Be Unbroken and A Dying Man's Plea (with Mavis singing lead on these two songs for the first time), the album re-introduced the world to Mavis Staples. "I was a Staple Singer," Mavis remembers in the album's new liner notes. "I wasn’t no Mavis Staples, the solo artist. But, all of a sudden, I was so busy with interviews and television shows and radio stations and concerts. That was a shock to me, because I started asking myself, 'Now how long can this last?' Because they were playing that record everywhere, and the record sounded pretty good!" Ever since the release of Have A Little Faith, Mavis has been embraced by new generations of fans through her collaborations with the likes of Jeff Tweedy, Run The Jewels, Neko Case, Ry Cooder, Justin Vernon and many others. On April 18 in Los Angeles, an all-star 85th Birthday Party concert celebration will take place at the YouTube Theatre, featuring some of today's biggest musical stars, including Chris Stapleton, Hozier, Jackson Browne, Norah Jones, Jeff Tweedy, Black Pumas, Grace Potter, Michael McDonald, Keb’ Mo’, Nathaniel Rateliff, Robert Randolph, Taj Mahal and others. This is a testament to the far-reaching, ongoing influence of Mavis Staples, and the lasting impact and beauty of Have A Little Faith.