The Band - Cahoots

50th Anniversary Edition Super Deluxe Box Set!

Half-speed mastered 180-gram LP, 7-inch single, 2CDs & Surround Sound Blu-ray!

Newly remixed and remastered from the original masters by Bob Clearmountain

Features bonus tracks, unreleased bootleg content, lithographs and more!

The Band celebrates the 50th Anniversary of their fourth studio album Cahoots with an all-new remix and remaster by Bob Clearmountain from the original multi-track masters. The Super Deluxe Box includes the new stereo mix, bonus tracks and a previously unreleased bootleg concert at Olympia Theatre, Paris 1971, on two CDs. Also included, is a surround-sound Blu-ray, a 180-gram half-speed master LP, a 7-inch single, booklet, all-new liner notes and collectible lithographs.

Overseen by principal songwriter Robbie Robertson, the box set boasts a bevy of unreleased recordings, including Live at the Olympia Theatre, Paris, May 1971, a rousing bootleg partial concert consisting of 11 tracks culled from the initial throes of a European tour that found The Band perched at the top of their live game; and early and alternate versions of "Endless Highway" and "When I Paint My Masterpiece" along with six other early takes, outtakes, instrumentals, and stripped-down mixes.

Exclusively for this box set, Clearmountain has also created new Dolby Atmos and 5.1 surround-sound mixes of both Cahoots and four bonus tracks, presented in high resolution on Blu-Ray, alongside the new stereo mix. Every new audio mix has been mastered by Adam Ayan at Gateway Mastering.

The lift-top box set also includes an exclusive reproduction of the Japanese pressing of The Band's 1971 7-inch vinyl single for "Life Is A Carnival" b/w "The Moon Struck One" in their new stereo mixes; a 20-page booklet with new notes by Robbie Robertson and extensive insider liner notes by Rob Bowman; three classic photo lithographs, one each by Barry Feinstein, Richard Avedon (his infamous eyes-closed group portrait from the back cover) and noted New York artist/illustrator Gilbert Stone (who painted the still stunning stretched-out portrait of The Band on the album's front cover); plus a wealth of additional material and other historical data from the original recordings sessions.

When The Band pulled into the unfinished Bearsville Sounds Studios in Bearsville, New York in early 1971 to record Cahoots, their fourth studio album, they were still basking in the success of their first three history-making records.

The Band's landmark debut album, July 1968's Music From Big Pink, drew inspiration from the American roots music melting pot of country, blues, R&B, gospel, soul, rockabilly, the honking tenor sax tradition, hymns, funeral dirges, brass band music, folk and good ol' rock 'n' roll to foment a timeless new style that forever changed the course of popular music.

When they released their seminal eponymous second album, The Band, the following year in September 1969 — or "The Brown Album," as it would lovingly be called — not much more was known about the reclusive group. Even so, August 1970's Stage Fright, recorded over 12 days on the stage of the Woodstock Playhouse in upstate New York, cemented the fulfilled promise of those initial back-to-back albums that solidified The Band as one of the most exciting and revolutionary groups of the late 1960s, who were able to carry their avowed excellence directly into the 1970s without interruption.

Indeed, The Band, made up of four Canadians and one American, was still purposefully shrouded in mystery at the turn of the decade, allowing for listeners and the music press to let their imaginations run afield about who these men were and what this music was that sounded unlike anything else happening as the psychedelic '60s officially wound down.

Dressed like 19th-century fire-and-brimstone preachers and singing rustic, sepia-toned songs about America and the deep south, The Band — Garth Hudson (keyboards, accordion, horns), Levon Helm (drums, vocals, mandolin, guitar), Richard Manuel (keyboards, vocals, drums), Rick Danko (bass, vocals) and Robbie Robertson (guitar, piano, vocals) — was still somewhat enigmatic as the '70s began to unfold and unravel around them, but there's no denying how The Band was able to forge such an ineradicable impact on the music scene at large heretofore unmatched by any group that came before them, or since.

Features:
50th Anniversary Super Deluxe Box Set
180-gram Vinyl LP — Half-Speed Mastered
Remixed & remastered by Bob Clearmountain from the original multi-track tapes
45 RPM 7" Vinyl Single — Reproduction of "Life is a Carnival" Japanese Pressing
2CD
Unreleased Recordings, Early Takes, Alternate Versions & Outtakes
Live At The Olympia Theatre, Paris, May 1971 — Previously Unreleased Bootleg Recording
Blu-Ray — Dolby Atmos & 5.1 Surround-Sound Mixes of Cahoots + 4 Bonus Tracks
New Blu-Ray Audio Mixes Mastered by Adam Ayan at Gateway Mastering
Release Overseen by Principal Songwriter, Robbie Robertson
Lift-Top Box
20-Page Booklet
New Liner Notes by Robbie Robertson & Rob Bowman
Three Lithographs by Barry Feinstein, Richard Avedon & Gilbert Stone