Description
This 3CD/1LP will be released on December 3, 2021.
L.A. Woman: 50th Anniversary Deluxe Edition includes the original album newly remastered by The Doors’ longtime engineer and mixer Bruce Botnick, two bonus discs of unreleased studio outtakes, and the stereo mix of the original album on 180-gram virgin vinyl.
For this new collection, the original album has been expanded with more than two hours (on the 2 extra cd’s) of unreleased recordings taken from the sessions for L.A. Woman, allowing the listener to experience the progression of each song as it developed in the studio. An early demo for “Hyacinth House” recorded at Robby Krieger’s home studio in 1969 is also included. The outtakes feature Jim Morrison, John Densmore, Robby Krieger, and Ray Manzarek working in the studio with two additional musicians. The first was rhythm guitarist Marc Benno, who worked with Leon Russell in The Asylum Choir. The other was bassist Jerry Scheff, who was a member of Elvis Presley’s TCB band. Among the outtakes of album tracks, you can also hear the band joyously ripping through the kinds of classic blues songs that Morrison once described as “original blues.” There are great takes of Junior Parker’s “Mystery Train,” John Lee Hooker’s “Crawling King Snake,” Big Joe Williams’ “Baby Please Don’t Go,” and “Get Out Of My Life Woman,” Lee Dorsey’s funky 1966 classic, written by his producer Allen Toussaint.
Tracklist:
LP
1. The Changeling
2. Love Her Madly
3. Been Down So Long
4. Cars Hiss By My Window
5. L.A. Woman
6. L’america
7. Hyacynth House
8. Crawling King Snake
9. The Wasp (Texas Radio and the Big Beat)
10 Riders On the Storm
Tracklist CD’s:
– 1 –
1. The Changeling
2. Love Her Madly
3. Been Down So Long
4. Cars Hiss By My Window
5. L.A. Woman
6. L’america
7. Hyacinth House
8. Crawling King Snake
9. The Wasp (Texas Radio and the Big Beat)
10 Riders On the Storm
11 Hyacinth House (Demo)
12 Riders On the Storm (Sunset Sound Version)
– 2 –
1. The Changeling (Takes #-#)
2. Love Her Madly (Takes #-#)
3. Riders On the Storm
4. L.A. Woman (Part 1 – Takes #-#)
– 3 –
1. L.A. Woman (Part 2 – Takes #-#)
2. She Smells So Nice
3. Rock Me Baby
4. Mr. Mojo Rising
5. Baby Please Don’t Go
6. L.A. Woman (Part 3 – Takes #-#)
7. Been Down So Long
8. Get Out of My Life Woman
9. Crawling King Snake
10 The Bastard Song of Jimmy & Mama Reed (Cars Hiss By My Windo
11 Been Down So Long (Takes #-#)
12 Mystery Train [0:24]
13 The Wasp (Texas Radio and the Big Beat) (Take 1)
