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    Posted: February 01 2021 at 07:47
Two disc edition to be released on March 26, 2021. Remastered from the first-generation master tapes by Alan Parsons, also includes nine live tracks recorded at the Paramount Theater, Seattle in October 1976 and a new mix of the track ‘Belsize Blues’, recorded at Abbey Road Studios in September 1975.



Track Listing:

DISC ONE

1. LORD GRENVILLE
2. ON THE BORDER
3. MIDAS SHADOW
4. SAND IN YOUR SHOES
5. IF IT DOESN’T COME NATURALLY, LEAVE IT
6. FLYING SORCERY
7. BROADWAY HOTEL
8. ONE STAGE BEFORE
9. YEAR OF THE CAT
BONUS TRACK
10. BELSIZE BLUES (RECORDED AT ABBEY ROAD STUDIOS IN SEPTEMBER 1975)

DISC TWO

1. APPLE CIDER RE-CONSTITUTION (LIVE 1976) (PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED)
2. THE DARK AND THE ROLLING SEA (LIVE 1976) (PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED)
3. ONE STAGE BEFORE (LIVE 1976) (PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED)
4. ON THE BORDER (LIVE 1976) (PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED)
5. BROADWAY HOTEL (LIVE 1976) (PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED)
6. ROADS TO MOSCOW (LIVE 1976) (PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED)
7. YEAR OF THE CAT (LIVE 1976) (PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED)
8. SAND IN YOUR SHOES (LIVE 1976) (PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED)
9. IF IT DOESN’T COME NATURALLY LEAVE IT (LIVE 1976) (PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED)

Source:
https://www.cherryred.co.uk/product/al-stewart-year-of-the-cat-2cd-remastered-expanded-edition/

There will be coming out on the same date a 3 CDs + 1 DVD edition including the entire gig, a 5.1 surround sound mix (also by Parsons) and a hi-res version of the new remaster.

Source:
https://www.superdeluxeedition.com/news/al-stewart-year-of-the-cat-box-set/
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Nice one, definitely will get this. I do like Al Stewart and he flirted with prog ideas quite a bit during his career.
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Originally posted by richardh richardh wrote:

Nice one, definitely will get this. I do like Al Stewart and he flirted with prog ideas quite a bit during his career.

In the last two years, we had reasessed whether AS shpould be in the PA DB, and we asked the admins (who declined) for his inclusion in PA under Prog-related, but more on the strenght of his albums before the Parsons and Hipgnosis days (Cat and Passages).

Albums like Chronicle, Orange Modern Times and PP& F are proggy-ish in the psych/acid/prog folk sense

YotC and TP are defintetely more AOR-ish, IMHO.






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I dunno, listen to "Life in Dark Water" from Time Passages.  Very proggy mood.  I think TP(!) is my favourite Stewart album.  Seen him live in relatively recent years, very congenial and talented.  Few artists had such a genuine grasp of history and fused it into their music and performances
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Dark and the Rolling Sea, from Modern Times, is a fave of mine. The News From Spain (Orange), too
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Originally posted by Sean Trane Sean Trane wrote:

Originally posted by richardh richardh wrote:

Nice one, definitely will get this. I do like Al Stewart and he flirted with prog ideas quite a bit during his career.

In the last two years, we had reasessed whether AS shpould be in the PA DB, and we asked the admins (who declined) for his inclusion in PA under Prog-related, but more on the strenght of his albums before the Parsons and Hipgnosis days (Cat and Passages).

Albums like Chronicle, Orange Modern Times and PP& F are proggy-ish in the psych/acid/prog folk sense

YotC and TP are defintetely more AOR-ish, IMHO.







I don't agree with the AOR tag. He was a little folk/prog in his early days as you suggest but then became a little more commercial while still retaining a level of intelligence in his music that put him well above the dreaded AOR label. He also collaborated with the very talented Peter White for a long time.

His obvious prog tracks between 1975-1987
Nostradamus
Rumours Of War
Where Did They Go?
Merlin's Time
Lord Grenville
Roads To Moscow
The Last Days of The Century
On The Border
Fields of France
Helen and Cassandra

enough to make a big album of prog material but there isn't any single album that is really 'prog' . Famously he grew up in the small Dorset village of Wimbourne at the same time as a certain Robert Fripp and even took a week of guitar lessons off the great man!

I'm not sweating on his inclusion but there is an awful lot of stuff listed in PA that has even less to do with prog imo.







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The Palace Of Versailles is a nice classically-oriented song, worthy of an open pair of prog ears.
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