Wildfires & Misfires: Two Decades Of Outtakes & Rarities

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Amazon.com Compiling cuts from concert tapes, demos, and unreleased studio sessions, Wildfires + Misfires is more than a trip down memory lane for the Scorchers fan. Including nine pre-1986 cuts and six more from '88 and '89, this anthology of rare recordings portrays both the young, raw outfit that roared to the head of the cow-punk class and the group that stagnated in record-label limbo before its eventual split. Among the highlights are 1983 demo takes on Bob Dylan's "Absolutely Sweet Marie" and the Jason Ringenberg original "Shop It Around," and an early version of "Comin' 'Round" (which became "Crashin' Down" on Still Standing). And there's no shortage of intriguing oddities, such as a 1984 Nashville studio cut from drummer Perry Baggs ("If Money Talks"), a 1985 guitar duel between the Scorchers' Warner Hodges and guest Link Wray ("Tear It Up"), and an unreleased Ringenberg weeper from 1988 with duet vocals by Hodges's mother, Blanche ("The Slow Train Never Ends"). --Anders Smith Lindall Product Description A must have for all Scorcher fans. Includes Absolutely Sweet Marie; Shop It Around; Lost Highway; Long Black Veil; Tear It Up - (with Lank Wray, Live); If Money Talks; Polk Salad Annie; Don't Stop Doin' It; Comin' 'round; Fallen Angel; Too Much Too Young; Break Open The Sky; Slow Train Never Ends; Window Town; Buried Me Like A Bone; Ruby Don't Take Your Love To Town; Jimmie Rodgers' Last Blue Yodel; Capuccino Rosie; Gospel Plow and more 20 in all.