Procol Harum - A Salty Dog [Deluxe Edition] (2015) FLAC Beolab1700

Procol Harum - A Salty Dog [Deluxe Edition] (2015) FLAC Beolab1700



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Procol Harum - A Salty Dog (Deluxe Edition)
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Artist...............: Procol Harum
Album................: A Salty Dog (Deluxe Edition)
Genre................: Rock
Source...............: CD
Year.................: 2015
Ripper...............: EAC (Secure mode) / LAME 3.92 & Asus CD-S520
Codec................: Free Lossless Audio Codec (FLAC)
Version..............: reference libFLAC 1.3.1 20141125
Quality..............: Lossless, (avg. compression: 53 %)
Channels.............: Stereo / 44100 HZ / 16 Bit
Tags.................: VorbisComment
Information..........:

Posted by............: Beolab1700 on 01/08/2015

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Tracklisting
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CD1
01. A Salty Dog
02. The Milk Of Human Kindness
03. Too Much Between Us
04. The Devil Came From Kansas
05. Boredom
06. Juicy John Pink
07. Wreck Of The Hesperus
08. All This And More
09. Crucifiction Lane
10. Pilgrims Progress

CD2
BBC Radio One "Top Gear" session - 6th. October 1968
01. Skip Softly (My Moonbeams)
02. Wish Me Well
03. Long Gone Geek

Live in the USA, April 1969
04. Goin' Down Slow
05. Juicy John Pink
06. Crucifiction Lane
07. Skip Softly My Moonbeams / Also Sprach Zarathustra

BBC Radio One "Symonds on Sunday" session - 20th. May 1969
08. The Milk of Human Kindness

BBC Radio One "Top Gear" session - 27th. May 1969
09. Juicy John Pink

"A Salty Dog" Single, May 1969
10. A Salty Dog [Single, mono]
11. Long Gone Geek [Single]

12. The Milk of Human Kindness [Take 1] (Raw Backing Track - Abbey Road Studios, 31st. January 1969)

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Newly re-mastered deluxe edition include 12 bonus tracks over two CDs, including the mono single mix of the title track and its non-album B-side; an early take of ‘The Milk of Human Kindness’, plus five previously unreleased tracks from BBC Radio sessions from October 1968 & May 1969 along with four live tracks recorded in the USA in April 1969.

This album, the group’s third, was where they showed just how far their talents extended across the musical landscape, from blues to R&B to classical rock. In contrast to their hastily recorded debut, or its successor, done to stretch their performance and composition range, A Salty Dog was recorded in a reasonable amount of time, giving the band a chance to fully develop their ideas. The title track is one of the finest songs ever to come from Procol Harum and one of the best pieces of progressive rock ever heard, and a very succinct example at that at under five minutes running time — the lyric and the music combine to form a perfect mood piece, and the performance is bold and subtle at once, in the playing and the singing, respectively. The range of sounds on the rest includes “Juicy John Pink,” a superb piece of pre-World War II-style country blues, while “Crucifiction Lane” is a killer Otis Redding-style soul piece, and “Pilgrim’s Progress” is a virtuoso keyboard workout.

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