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CMW 2018 Shares Sneak Peek Featuring This Will Destroy You, Cupcakke, Slow, Lydia Lunch, Sloan And More

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CANADIAN MUSIC WEEK announces a sneak peek at the 36th edition of Canada’s largest and longest running new music festival. This year’s festival will take place between May 7-13 at over thirty official CMW venues across downtown Toronto. An early look at the line-up reveals reunited Vancouver Punk Legends Slow, Chicago rapper CupcakKe, This Will Destroy You performing “S/T” in its entirety, Juno nominated Iskwe, Annie Hart (Au Revoir Simone), New York no wave noise artist Lydia Lunch, early shoegaze psych rock outfit The Brian Jonestown Massacre, and Spanish indie-rock band Hinds, join previously announced artists Lindi Ortega, and Keys’n’ Krates. Please see below for full list of confirmed acts.

In addition, Toronto music fans can look forward to a free show at Yonge-Dundas Square featuring Canadian indie-rock royalty Sloan on Saturday May 12th. The band will be touring in support of their upcoming 12th album release.

New Additions to line-up:
Annie Hart
The Brian Jonestown Massacre
Birds of Bellwoods
Christophe Mae
City Mouse
CupcakKe
The Dirty Nil
Hinds
Iskwé
Jess Williamson
Lydia Lunch
Mad Caddies
Madison Beer
Modern Space
Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever
Single Mothers
Sloan
Slow
This Will Destroy You performing “S/T” in its entirety
Valley
Yonatan Gat

Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds With That Scissors Player Performs On Jimmy Fallon

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Music guest Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds performs “It’s a Beautiful World” for the Tonight Show audience and…yes, there were the scissors.

https://youtu.be/TDCCCZU536M

John Prine Releases First Album Of New Songs In 13 Years, “The Tree Of Forgiveness” Out April 13

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Legendary singer, songwriter and performer John Prine will release his highly anticipated new album, The Tree of Forgiveness, April 13 on his own independent label, Oh Boy Records. Produced by Grammy Award-winning Dave Cobb, the album is Prine’s first featuring new material in over 13 years. In advance of the release, the song “Summer’s End” is premiering today.

In celebration of the album, Prine will embark on an extensive tour that will span throughout 2018, including a very special co-headline concert at New York’s Radio City Music Hall with Sturgill Simpson (solo) on album release day as well as newly announced shows at L.A.’s Ace Theatre, Boston’s Wang Theatre, Austin’s Bass Hall and Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium (two nights). Tickets for the newly added dates will be available for presale beginning Wednesday, February 14 with general on sale starting Friday, February 16. See below for complete details. Every concert ticket sold will include a copy The Tree of Forgiveness (CD only) upon its release.

Recorded at Nashville’s historic RCA Studio A, the album includes ten new songs written by Prine along with co-writers Pat McLaughlin, Roger Cook, Dan Auerbach, Keith Sykes and Phil Spector. Along with Prine (lead vocals and acoustic guitar), Cobb (acoustic guitar, mellotron, claps, kazoo) and Prine’s longtime band, the album features special guests Brandi Carlile (harmony vocals on tracks 2, 4, 10), Jason Isbell (electric guitar on track 7, slide guitar and background vocals on track 9, 10) and Amanda Shires (fiddle and background vocals on track 9, background vocals on track 10).

The landmark album and tour follow a noteworthy 2017, which included an “Artist of the Year” award at the Americana Music Honors & Awards and a Chicago/Midwest Regional Emmy Award for his “Chicago Voices” performance with Renée Fleming. Last year also saw the release of Prine’s debut book, John Prine Beyond Words, which includes a selection of favorites songs, photographs and stories from Prine’s beloved catalogue. More info is available here.

A two-time Grammy-winner, Prine is among the English language’s premier phrase-turners. Almost 50 years years into a remarkable career that has drawn effusive praise from Bob Dylan, Kris Kristofferson, Bonnie Raitt, Roger Waters, Tom Petty, Bruce Springsteen and others who would know, Prine is a smiling, shuffling force for good. He is a Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame member and a PEN New England Lyrics Award recipient whose classic debut album, simply titled John Prine, is recognized as part of the Recording Academy’s Grammy Hall of Fame and whose songs have been recorded by Johnny Cash, Carly Simon, Bette Midler, Bonnie Raitt, Norah Jones, George Strait, Miranda Lambert, Zac Brown Band and many others.

Following the 2015 death of his friend and business partner Al Bunetta, Prine is now President and sole owner of Oh Boy Records. He lives in Nashville, TN with his wife, Fiona, and enjoys spending time with their three sons, a daughter-in-law and his grandchildren.

THE TREE OF FORGIVENESS TRACK LIST
1. “Knockin’ On Your Screen Door” (by John Prine and Pat McLaughlin)
2. “I Have Met My Love Today” ft. Brandi Carlile (by John Prine and Roger Cook)
3. “Egg & Daughter Nite, Lincoln Nebraska, 1967 (Crazy Bone)” (by John Prine and Pat McLaughlin)
4. “Summer’s End” (written by John Prine and Pat McLaughlin)
5. “Caravan of Fools” (by John Prine, Dan Auerbach, and Pat McLaughlin)
6. “The Lonesome Friends of Science” (by John Prine)
7. “No Ordinary Blue” (by John Prine and Keith Sykes)
8. “Boundless Love” (by John Prine, Dan Auerbach, and Pat McLaughlin)
9. “God Only Knows” (by John Prine and Phil Spector)
10. “When I Get to Heaven” (by John Prine)

JOHN PRINE 2018 TOUR DATES
*tickets excluded from album bundle
BOLD presale February 14, general on sale February 16

April 11 /// Woodstock, NY /// evon’s Place
April 13 /// New York, NY /// Radio City Music Hall (co-headline with Sturgill Simpson (solo))
April 14 /// Philadelphia, PA /// Merriam Theatre (with Kurt Vile)
April 25 /// Milwaukee, WI /// Riverside Theatre (with Milk Carton Kids)
April 27 /// Chicago, IL /// Chicago Theatre (with Milk Carton Kids)
April 28 /// Champaign, IL /// Virginia Theatre (with Milk Carton Kids)
May 11 /// Beaver Dam, KY /// Beaver Dam Amphitheater* (with Tyler Childers)
May 12 /// Indianapolis, IN /// Clowes Hall (with Tyler Childers)
May 18 /// Los Angeles, CA /// Ace Theatre (with Sam Outlaw)
May 19 /// San Diego, CA /// Balboa Theatre (with Sam Outlaw)
May 23 /// Folsom, CA /// Harris Center (with Ramblin Jack)
May 24 /// San Francisco, CA /// The Warfield (with Sam Outlaw)
June 1 /// Vienna, VA /// Wolf Trap (with Margo Price)
June 2 /// Norfolk, VA /// Chrysler Hall (with Margo Price)
June 8 /// Louisville, KY /// Palace Theatre (with Colter Wall)
June 9 /// Cincinnati, OH /// Taft Theatre (with Tyler Childers)
June 13 /// Burlington, VT /// Flynn Theatre (with Valerie June)
June 15 /// Boston, MA /// Wang Theatre
June 16 /// Concord, NH /// Capitol Theatre (with Valerie June)
June 29 /// Dallas, TX /// AT&T Center (with Amanda Shires)
June 30 /// Austin, TX /// Bass Hall (with Amanda Shires)
July 14 /// Somerset, KY /// Musicians Festival
July 20 /// Pittsburgh, PA /// Heinz Hall (with Langhorne Slim)
August 2 /// Glasgow, U.K. /// Kelvingrove Bandstand (with John Moreland)
August 3 /// Birmingham, U.K. /// Town Hall (with John Moreland)
August 5 /// Cambridge, U.K. /// Cambridge Folk Festival
August 8 /// Oslo, Norway /// Konserthurst (with Tanya McCole)
August 10 /// Amsterdam, Netherlands /// Paradiso (with Tanya McCole)
August 13 /// Dublin, Ireland /// National Concert Hall (with Tanya McCole)
September 14 /// Huntsville, AL /// Von Braum Center (with Kelsey Waldon)
September 15 /// Memphis, TN /// Orpheum Theatre (with Kelsey Waldon)
September 19 /// Eugene, OR /// Hult Center (with Todd Snider)
September 21 /// Portland, OR /// Schnitzer Theatre (with Todd Snider)
September 22 /// Seattle, WA /// Paramount Theatre (with Todd Snider)
September 28 /// Columbus, OH /// Ohio Theatre (with Lilly Hiatt)
October 3 /// Knoxville, TN /// Tennessee Theatre (with Kelsey Waldon)
October 5 /// Nashville, TN /// Ryman Auditorium
October 6 /// Nashville, TN /// Ryman Auditorium
November 7 /// Breckenridge, CO /// Riverwalk Center (with Nathaniel Rateliff)
November 8 /// Grand Junction, CO /// Avalon Theatre (with Nathaniel Rateliff)
November 10 /// Denver, CO /// Buell Center (with Nathaniel Rateliff)
December 12 /// Las Vegas, NV /// Westgate Theatre (with John Paul White)
December 14 /// Phoenix, AZ /// Celebrity Theatre (with John Paul White)
December 15 /// Tucson, AZ /// Fox Theatre (with John Paul White)

The Sheepdogs Announced As Record Store Day’s Champions Of Canada

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Saskatchewan’s own The Sheepdogs have been named as the “Record Store Day’s Champions of Canada.” The honour has been bestowed on the bearded rockers as part of the lead up to 2018’s Record Store Day, the eleventh year of the event which connects independent record stores to artists and vinyl enthusiasts. Record Store Day 2018 takes place on April 21, 2018. The Sheepdogs are the first band to ever be named “Champions of Canada,” and join notables Elton John (2017 RSD Champion of Great Britain), Jack White (2013 RSD Ambassador) and Dave Grohl (2015 RSD Ambassador) in celebrating independent record stores.

To commemorate the announcement the band sat down with their record collections to reminisce about some of the most meaningful vinyl from their personal collections – fans can watch that video below.

For their contribution to Record Store Day The Sheepdogs will be releasing an exclusive pressing of the live performances of “Nobody” and “I’ve Got a Hole Where My Heart Should Be,” both of which were recorded at the YouTube Creator Space in Toronto. This pressing will be a 7” vinyl, and will only be available to Record Store Day shoppers. What’s more, the band will also be releasing the first ever vinyl pressing for their first two LPs, Big Stand and Trying to Grow. Fans should arrive early at their local record stores to pick these up, as quantities will be limited.

In addition to their work with Record Store Day, The Sheepdogs have just released their new album Changing Colours. The album was heralded by “I’ve Got a Hole Where My Heart Should Be,” which reached the top spot at rock radio to join the ranks of the bands #1 hits “Feeling Good,” “The Way It Is” and “How Late, How Long”. The Sheepdogs are returning to the road on a coast-to-coast 28 date tour from Campbell River, BC right across to St. Johns, NL.

The Sheepdogs have been nominated for seven Juno Awards, including Rock Album of the Year nominations for their three latest studio albums. In addition to this, their albums Learn & Burn and The Sheepdogs have achieved Platinum and Gold status respectively.

Record Store Day, the global celebration of the culture of the record store, takes place annually in April.

Watch Sid Caesar And Nanette Fabray Mime To Beethoven With Hilarious Results

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From the 1950s sitcom Caesar’s Hour comes this classic sketch, Argument to Beethoven’s 5th, showing you don’t need to say a word to make the world laugh with you.

Chris Cornell, Rosanne Cash, Kris Kristofferson Elvis Costello And More Turn Johnny Cash’s Poems Into Songs

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Legacy Recordings, a division of Sony Music Entertainment, will release Johnny Cash: Forever Words–a collaborative album consisting of songs created from Johnny Cash’s unknown poetry, lyrics, and letters set to music by an astounding array of contemporary artists–on Friday, April 6.

When Johnny Cash and June Carter Cash passed, they left behind what John Carter Cash, their son and Johnny Cash: Forever Words co-producer, describes as a “monstrous amassment” of things, including a treasure trove of undiscovered material that includes Johnny Cash’s handwritten letters, poems and documents, penned across the entirety of his life.

Over the past two years, album producers John Carter Cash and Steve Berkowitz invited a stellar cast of musicians to create new music to accompany these newly discovered Cash writings.

Recorded primarily at The Cash Cabin Studio in Hendersonville, TennesseeJohnny Cash: Forever Words is also the musical companion to the best-selling “Forever Words: The Unknown Poems,” a volume of Cash’s unpublished writing edited by Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Paul Muldoon and curated by John Carter Cash and Steve Berkowitz.

Many of the songs on Johnny Cash: Forever Words were directly inspired by material in the book while others are drawn from different sources of Cash’s unpublished writings. The tone of the album is established with the opening track “Forever/I Still Miss Someone” featuring Kris Kristofferson reciting the last poem Cash ever wrote alongside guitar accompaniment from Willie Nelson, both lifelong friends of Johnny. Continuing the close-to-home theme, the music then transitions to the deeply personal “To June This Morning,” a letter Johnny wrote to his wife, June Carter Cash, now interpreted by real-life couple Ruston Kelly and Kacey Musgraves.

Twenty-one years after Johnny Cash recorded his cover of Soundgarden’s “Rusty Cage” for his Grammy Award winning album, UnchainedChris Cornell continues this special relationship with “You Never Knew My Mind,” setting some of Cash’s own poignant and introspective words to original music on one of Cornell’s last solo recordings.

The album also showcases Rosanne Cash, Johnny Cash’s eldest daughter, who interpreted her father’s “The Walking Wounded,” marking just the second time that she has collaborated on a record with her half-brother John Carter Cash.

John Carter Cash also collaborated here with his half-sister Carlene, his mother June’s first daughter, on “June’s Sundown.” Carlene Carter was just twelve years old when her mother June Carter married Johnny Cash, but bonded immediately with her stepfather who she referred to as “Big John.”

The Grammy Award winning bluegrass super-group Alison Krauss & Union Station made a rare recording together on “The Captain’s Daughter,” the group’s first new studio recording in six years.

“Determining the artist for each song was truly a matter of the heart,” said John Carter Cash. “I picked the artists who are most connected with my father, who had a personal story that was connected with Dad. It became an exciting endeavor to go through these works, to put them together and present them to different people who could finish them in a way that I believed that Dad would have wanted.”

When making the Johnny Cash: Forever Words album, producers John Carter Cash and Steve Berkowitz tapped into a spirit of musical collaboration between the musicians and the words of Johnny Cash. The goal of Johnny Cash: Forever Words was not to create a “lost” Johnny Cash album, but rather for musicians to connect with these poems and allow them to flourish in a new musical world.

Johnny Cash: Forever Words 
1. Forever/I Still Miss Someone – Kris Kristofferson and Willie Nelson
2. To June This Morning – Ruston Kelly and Kacey Musgraves
3. Gold All Over the Ground – Brad Paisley
4. You Never Knew My Mind – Chris Cornell
5. The Captain’s Daughter – Alison Krauss and Union Station
6. Jellico Coal Man – T. Bone Burnett
7. The Walking Wounded – Rosanne Cash
8. Them Double Blues – John Mellencamp
9. Body on Body – Jewel
10. I’ll Still Love You – Elvis Costello
11. June’s Sundown – Carlene Carter
12. He Bore It All – Daily and Vincent
13. Chinky Pin Hill – I’m With Her
14. Goin’, Goin’, Gone – Robert Glasper featuring Ro James, and Anu Sun
15. What Would I Dreamer Do? – The Jayhawks
16. Spirit Rider – Jamey Johnson

Lin-Manuel Miranda To Release New Salsa-Remix Of “Almost Like Praying” To Benefit Hurricane Relief Efforts In Puerto Rico

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Award winning actor, writer, composer and humanitarian Lin-Manuel Miranda will unveil a new Salsa-music remix of “Almost Like Praying,” his all-star benefit single recorded last Fall to benefit the Hispanic Federation’s “Unidos” Disaster Relief Fund, for hurricane recovery and rebuilding initiatives in Puerto Rico.   Spanish Broadcasting System (the “Company” or “SBS”) (OTCQX: SBSAA), has teamed up with Lin-Manuel Miranda to world premiere a one-of-a-kind, historic radio launch the Salsa-remix “Almost Like Praying” on Thursday, February 8, 2018 at 10:30 AM EST, in New York (Mega 97.9FM), Miami (El Nuevo Zol 106.7FM) and Puerto Rico(Estereotempo 96.5FM).  Miranda himself will introduce the single followed by an interview, live from the SBS studios in New York City. Miranda himself will introduce the single followed by an interview, live from the SBS studios in New York City.

U.S. radio listeners can tune in to one of SBS’s radio stations: WSKQ-FM MEGA 97.9FM IN NEW YORK, WXDJ-FM EL NUEVO ZOL 106.7FM IN MIAMI, and ESTEREOTEMPO 96.5FM WRXD in Puerto Rico for a chance to hear the historic Roadblock.

“The benefit single ‘Almost Like Praying’ has had tremendous success with audiences worldwide,” said Lin-Manuel Miranda.  “As we now continue to help establish long-term self-sustainable initiatives to rebuild Puerto Rico, we are thrilled to bring this new version to Salsa-music fans.  Although it has been over four months since Hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico, the island still needs much help to get its most basic infrastructure up and running – including electricity, roads and bridges, healthcare and other vital programs.”

The original “Almost Like Praying” was released for download and streaming on October 6, 2017.  Within its first week, it hit number one in digital sales in 17 countries.  100% of the proceeds have gone to the Hispanic Federation’s “Unidos” Disaster Relief Fund, which has sponsored hundreds of initiatives to assist in the relief, recovery and now rebuilding of Puerto Rico, a U.S. territory since 1898.

“Lin-Manuel Miranda fans couldn’t be more excited about the release of ‘Almost Like Praying,’ and we’re incredibly thrilled that LaMusica’s App partnership gives our subscribers early access to this long-awaited Salsa-Remix,” said Raúl Alarcón, Chairman, President, CEO of SBS. “Together, SBS and LaMusica App are connecting people who are passionate about music with the world’s most iconic artists through unique experiences like this – and there are many more to come.”

“We have a long history of collaborating with Lin-Manuel Miranda in innovative ways over the years,” said Jesus Salas, EVP of Programming of SBS & Multiplatform Coordinator. “He’s once again proved that he’s a true innovator, and we are honored to partner with him on the historic launch of his new Salsa-Remix. Our nationwide world premiere of ‘Almost Like Praying’ will reach millions of Lin-Manuel’s fans across the country – while creating millions of new ones.”

Both the original (dancehall beat) and the new Salsa-remix of “Almost Like Praying” are distributed by Atlantic Records.

The lyrics of “Almost Like Praying” are a rhyming arrangement of all 78 municipalities of Puerto Rico….78 hometowns, 78 communities, 78 sets of individuals who together make up the Puerto Rican culture. The track also samples “Maria” from WEST SIDE STORY in order to reclaim the name of the hurricane which destroyed everything Puerto Ricans know and love on their island.

To download and streaming “Almost Like Praying,” please visit http://www.almostlikepraying.com.  The Salsa Remix will be available on Friday, February 9, 2018 at 12:01 PM EST, after one day of exclusive air time on SBS radio stations.

For more information about the Hispanic Federation’s “Unidos” Hurricane Disaster Relief Fund, please visit https://www.hispanicfederationunidos.org

Do We Know What We Think We Know About Rosa Parks?

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We all know Rosa Parks as the “tired old lady” on a bus who unknowingly sparked a civil rights firestorm by refusing to give up her seat in Montgomery, Alabama. But is that true? Not entirely. Rosa Parks was in fact a civil right activist who spent years fighting for justice and she knew exactly what she was doing. In fact, she wasn’t even the first black woman to refuse to give up her seat. The truncated version of the story we all know today eliminates many of Ms. Parks’ most incredible achievements, particularly her many years fighting for civil rights.

So why do we all know a misleading story about Rosa Parks? Watch the episode to find out.

Short Cuts: The Best Songs Heard On February 8, 2018 From The Indie World

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Grad Party
Make You Better
They met at college. Bowers plays guitar. Ladd plays the keys. Both of them sing. How come there were no people like this when I went to school? I would have killed to be their third in a trio, even without any of my musical talent, just to watch how the magic of songwriting happens. Just soulful and lovely.

Niclas Lundin
Something About You
This Swedish-based writer has penned songs for Rick Springfield, Andreas Moe, and James LaBrie, which continues for everyone else in the music industry to ask, what is in the water over there? Invest in him, and you’ll find the rewards of great songwriting and performance, right here.

The Unlikely Candidates
Oh My Dear Lord
At the same deep end of Imagine Dragons’ pool, this band is more straightforward to get to the punch, and still has as much of the verve to ward off the competition. I bet they’re killer live.

Set Mo
Nightmares Feat. Scott Quinn
This banger of a track’s verses move forward until you know the big chorus is coming up. It doesn’t disappoint. So compelling, I listened to it twice before taking a breath and sharing it here.

The Engagement
Home (featuring Hayley Beatson)
Melbourne’s Fox FM described the project as “a cool 80’s/retro sound”, while Triple M personality Jane Gazzo simply called it “Fantastic”. I LOVE both stations, so this was an interesting listen for me – a cross between Muse and Coldplay, it’s organic enough to get them fans, and fast. Watch this song climb the charts if there’s any justice.

Michel Bellens
Only Love
More poppier than R&B, more silkier than your bedroom sheets, this is a gorgeous soul anthem in the making.

Clement Bazin
Romeo
An exercise in the house genre influence still being felt today. It’s a long way from the 90s, but this sends me back right into those clubs.

Sealab
Stardust
Formed in DC in 2013 by a group of college friends with a mutual love for Radiohead, hypnotic grooves, and improvisation, they turn the rock genre on its head, revealing every ambition and coolness it should always have.

Mr Gabriel
Millennial Falcon
A knack for creating ear-worming melodies that cut through the sheer noise of whatever else you’ve heard today.

Tai Shan
Oldest Lullaby
Written about a woman who was addicted to the sand that would make her sleep from Neil Gaiman’s graphic novel Sandman. So, if you’re a fan of him, or Eva Cassidy, or just a soothing sound before falling into slumber, you’ll be playing this one a lot.

Gerry Liberty
Boom Boom
Let’s take a wild guess. Play this one, and you’ll be wanting to go to a club in seconds. You, too, right? Find grooves from start to finish.

Markus meo
Let’s Be Together
Born in Glasgow, and now based in Australia, Markus has the elegance of MOR 80s hit singles, and that’s a really tough style to do without irony. But there’s a reason why those songs still hold up, prom after prom. Staggering in the vibe and sound.

Elvis Presley: The Searcher (The Original Soundtrack) Gets Released On Friday, April 6

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Legacy Recordings, the catalog division of Sony Music Entertainment, and RCA Records will release Elvis Presley: The Searcher (The Original Soundtrack) on Friday, April 6.

The musical companion to the two-part documentary directed by Emmy and Grammy award winner Thom Zimny, Elvis Presley: The Searcher (The Original Soundtrack) will be available in digital and physical configurations including an 18-track definitive soundtrack, a 2LP gatefold 12″ vinyl edition and a 3CD collectible deluxe box set.

Elvis Presley: The Searcher (The Original Soundtrack) includes the 18 essential Elvis Presley hits, powerful performances, and rare alternative versions of songs at the musical core of the groundbreaking three-hour two-part film which focuses on the development of Elvis’ spellbinding artistry, from his early blues and country roots and influences through his seismic contributions to popular culture to his 1976 recording sessions at the Jungle Room in Graceland. The two-part documentary film, which will premiere in the United States on HBO on April 14, 2018, uses rare footage lensed throughout Elvis’ life and career as a means of exploring Elvis’ singular musical vision in all its complexity.

The 3CD deluxe box set features 37 additional Elvis cuts plus a special disc featuring selections from Mike McCready’s(Pearl Jam) original score for “Elvis Presley: The Searcher”; Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers performing “Wooden Heart”; and the music that inspired Elvis (including R&B and country classics and “Home Sweet Home” sung by his mother, Gladys Presley). The Elvis Presley: The Searcher (The Original Soundtrack) deluxe 3CD set includes a 40-page hardcover book featuring rare photography, liner notes by Warren Zanes, and a director’s note by Thom Zimny.

In his package notes for Elvis Presley: The Searcher (The Original Soundtrack), director Thom Zimny writes, “the soundtrack was in my mind from the beginning. I wasn’t just making a film, I was thinking about the collection of recordings I would gather for a person who saw the film, who wanted to complete the experience, just as I always had. Thankfully, our friends at Sony gave me and the Searcher team the chance to create this collection. It’s been in my mind for years now. To me, this collection is part of the film.”

“So, in this collection, one gets not a Greatest Hits package but a song-by-song, curated portrait of an artist,” writes Warren Zanes in the book featured in Elvis Presley: The Searcher (The Original Soundtrack [Deluxe Box Set]), “….an artist who very consistently and courageously gave himself to his performances, as if in the giving he might find some missing part of himself. The truth in his voice, in the end, was the sound of a searcher. Along the way, he built a catalogue as deep as any found in the broad and beautiful vistas of American music.”

As Bruce Springsteen observes in the documentary, Elvis Presley belonged to a singular category of musicians in the pantheon. “You hear performers in the thrall of the beauty of invention, not knowing quite where they’re going to go, not knowing exactly what they’re doing,” Springsteen said. “Just discovering and doing it literally as the music is being played…. You’re out on the frontier and it’s a very pristine and exciting place to be.”

“You know, God bless him,” said Tom Petty. “He was a light for all of us. We all owe him for going first into battle. He had no road map and he forged a path of what to do and what not to do. And we shouldn’t make the mistake of writing off a great artist because of all the clatter that came later. We should dwell in what he did that was so beautiful and everlasting, which was that great, great music.”

Elvis Presley: The Searcher (The Original Soundtrack) is available for pre-order now:
Elvis Presley: The Searcher (The Original Soundtrack): https://Elvis.lnk.to/TheSearcher_StandardPR
Elvis Presley: The Searcher (The Original Soundtrack) [Deluxe]: https://Elvis.lnk.to/TheSearcher_DeluxePR
Elvis Presley: The Searcher (The Original Soundtrack) LP: https://Elvis.lnk.to/TheSearcher_LPPR

ELVIS PRESLEY: THE SEARCHER, an HBO Documentary Films production, in association with Sony Pictures Television, debuts in the United States on SATURDAY, APRIL 14 (8:00-11:00 p.m. ET/PT) on HBO.

Priscilla Presley, David Porter (legendary Memphis music writer and producer), Thom Zimny (director), Jon Landau(producer) and moderator John Jackson (SVP A&R, Sony Music) will discuss the film, the cultural impact of Elvis’ music and how that impact became the embodiment of rock ‘n’ roll at the 2018 SXSW Festival in March.

Elvis Presley: The Searcher (The Original Soundtrack) – CD/Digital

  1. Trouble / Guitar Man
  2. My Baby Left Me
  3. That’s All Right
  4. Baby Let’s Play House
  5. Heartbreak Hotel
  6. Lawdy, Miss Clawdy
  7. Hound Dog
  8. Crawfish
  9. Mona Lisa
  10. Milky White Way
  11. Like A Baby
  12. Are You Lonesome Tonight?
  13. It’s Now Or Never
  14. Tomorrow Is A Long Time
  15. Suspicious Minds (take 6)
  16. Separate Ways (rehearsal version)
  17. Hurt (take 5)
  18. If I Can Dream

Elvis Presley: The Searcher (The Original Soundtrack) [Deluxe] – 3CD Deluxe Box Set

Disc 1

  1. Trouble / Guitar Man
  2. My Baby Left Me
  3. Baby, What You Want Me To Do
  4. Old Shep
  5. That’s When Your Heartaches Begin
  6. That’s All Right
  7. Blue Moon Of Kentucky
  8. Fool, Fool, Fool
  9. Tweedlee Dee
  10. Baby Let’s Play House
  11. Good Rockin’ Tonight
  12. Trying To Get To You
  13. Blue Moon
  14. When It Rains It Pours
  15. Blue Christmas
  16. Heartbreak Hotel
  17. Lawdy, Miss Clawdy
  18. Money Honey
  19. Hound Dog
  20. (There’ll Be) Peace In The Valley (For Me)
  21. Crawfish
  22. Trouble
  23. Farther Along
  24. Mona Lisa
  25. Hide Thou Me
  26. Loving You (end title take 16)
  27. Lonely Man (solo version)
  28. Power Of My Love

Disc 2

  1. Milky White Way
  2. A Mess Of Blues
  3. Fame And Fortune
  4. Love Me Tender / Witchcraft (duet with Frank Sinatra)
  5. Like A Baby
  6. Are You Lonesome Tonight?
  7. It’s Now Or Never
  8. Wooden Heart
  9. Swing Down Sweet Chariot
  10. Reconsider Baby
  11. Bossa Nova Baby
  12. C’mon Everybody
  13. Tomorrow Is A Long Time
  14. Take My HandPrecious Lord
  15. Run On
  16. Baby What You Want Me To Do
  17. Suspicious Minds (take 6)
  18. Baby Let’s Play House (rehearsal)
  19. Words (rehearsal)
  20. That’s All Right
  21. Never Been To Spain
  22. An American Trilogy
  23. You Gave Me A Mountain
  24. Burning Love (rehearsal version)
  25. Separate Ways (rehearsal version)
  26. Hurt (take 5)
  27. If I Can Dream

Disc 3

  1. Dissolution 2 – Mike McCready
  2. Satisfied – The Blackwood Brothers
  3. That’s All Right – Arthur “Big Boy” Crudup
  4. She May Be Yours But She Comes To See Me Sometimes – Joe Hill Louis
  5. Mystery Train – Little Junior’s Blue Flames
  6. Smokestack Lightning – Howlin’ Wolf
  7. Rock-A-My Soul – The Blackwood Brothers
  8. Just Walkin‘ In The Rain – The Prisonaires
  9. Rocket 88 – Jackie Brenston and his Delta Cats
  10. Write Me A Letter – The Ravens
  11. Blue Moon Of Kentucky – Bill Monroe
  12. Ain’t That Right – Eddie Snow
  13. Just Walkin‘ In The Rain – Johnnie Ray
  14. Lawdy Miss Clawdy – Lloyd Price
  15. Home Sweet Home – Gladys Presley
  16. Blowin’ In The Wind – Odetta
  17. Tomorrow Is A Long Time – Odetta
  18. The Weight – The Staple Singers
  19. Heartbreak Hotel – The Orlons
  20. Wooden Heart – Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
  21. Rebound – Mike McCready

Elvis Presley: The Searcher (The Original Soundtrack) – 2LP

Side A

  1. Trouble / Guitar Man
  2. My Baby Left Me
  3. That’s All Right
  4. Baby Let’s Play House
  5. Heartbreak Hotel

Side B

  1. Lawdy, Miss Clawdy
  2. Hound Dog
  3. Crawfish
  4. Mona Lisa
  5. Milky White Way

Side C

  1. Like A Baby
  2. Are You Lonesome Tonight?
  3. It’s Now Or Never
  4. Tomorrow Is A Long Time

Side D

  • Suspicious Minds (take 6)
  • Separate Ways (rehearsal version)
  • Hurt (take 5)
  • If I Can Dream