Elmer Gantry - Elmer Gantry's Velvet Opera - 2025 Remaster CD (Digipack Packaging, Remastered, Booklet) ( VINYL )
Description
Elmer Gantry's Velvet Opera's self-titled 1968 masterpiece returns in a definitive CD edition, featuring their underground classic "Flames" alongside perfectly crafted psychedelic gems like "Mother Writes" and "Mary Jane." This special reissue comes in a digipak format with an 8-page booklet featuring detailed liner notes by Ugly Things magazine's Mike Stax, chronicling the band's fascinating evolution from R&B stalwarts to psychedelic innovators. Features bonus tracks including the rare "Talk of the Devil" and previously unreleased material that completes the story of this remarkable band.
Label: Think Like a Key Rec
UPC: 720053286045
Release Date: April 25, 2025
Track List
- Intro
- Mother Writes
- Mary Jane
- I Was Cool
- Walter Sly Meets Bill Bailey
- Air
- Lookin’ For A Happy Life
- Flames
- What’s The Point Of Leaving
- Long Nights Of Summer
- Dream Starts
- Reaction Of Young Man
- Now She’s Gone
- Talk Of The Devil [From the short film ‘Talk Of The Devil’]
- Salisbury Plain
- Dreamy
- A Quick “B”
- Flames [Single Mix]
- Mary Jane [Single Version]
- Volcano
- And I Remember
- To Be With You
- Salisbury Plain [Extended Demo Version]
- Flames [Demo Version]
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