The Doors - L.A. Woman (50th Ann Deluxe LTD 3CD 1LP)

Rhino Records - 0349784337

3-CD/1-LP Set Expands The Doors' Sixth Studio Album with More Than Two Hours Of Unreleased Session Outtakes.

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 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.

In the collection's extensive liner notes, veteran rock journalist David Fricke explores the whirlwind making of the album, which would be the last with Morrison, who died in Paris a few months after its release. "Morrison may never have come back to The Doors," he writes. "But with his death, L.A. Woman became rebirth, achievement, and finale, all at once. It's the blues too - original blues, as Morrison promised. Fifty years later, there is still nothing like it."

CD Track Listing
Disc One: Original Stereo Mix Remastered
The Changeling
Love Her Madly
Been Down So Long
Cars Hiss By My Window
L.A. Woman
L'America
Hyacinth House
Crawling King Snake
The WASP (Texas Radio And The Big Beat)
Riders On The Storm

Bonus Tracks
Hyacinth House - Demo
Riders On The Storm - Sunset Sound Version

Disc Two: L.A. Woman Sessions, Part 1
The Changeling
Love Her Madly
Riders On The Storm
L.A. Woman (Part 1)

Disc Three: L.A. Woman Sessions, Part 2
L.A. Woman (Part 2)
She Smells So Nice
Rock Me Baby
Mr. Mojo Risin'
Baby Please Don't Go
L.A. Woman (Part 3)
Been Down So Long
Get Out Of My Life Woman
Crawling King Snake

Vinyl
Side A:
The Changeling
Love Her Madly
Been Down So Long
Cars Hiss By My Window
L.A. Woman

Side B:
L'America
Hyacinth House
Crawling King Snake
The WASP (Texas Radio And The Big Beat)
Riders On The Storm

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