Esoteric's press release offers the following details
• New remastered and expanded 2CD edition of this classic 1969 album
• twelve bonus tracks (five previously unreleased)
• previously unreleased BBC sessions from 1969• remastered from the original tapes
• fully-restored artwork and new liner notes
The package includes a lavishly-illustrated booklet that fully restores the original album artwork, and features a new essay by Henry Scott-Irvine
Esoteric Recordings are proud to announce the
release of a newly re-mastered and expanded edition of the classic 1969
album A SALTY DOG by PROCOL HARUM. Released in June 1969, the record
followed on from the huge international success of the band’s debut
single A Whiter Shade of Pale and the follow up single Homburg
and the superb albums PROCOL HARUM and SHINE ON BRIGHTLY. One of the
finest releases of the era A Salty Dog saw the exquisite song
writing of Gary Brooker and Keith Reid honed to perfection on highlights
such as the album’s title track, The Devil Came From Kansas,
The Wreck of the Hesperus [sic], The Milk of Human Kindness
and more.
Recorded at Abbey Road studios, the album captured the excellence of the
musicians in the group, namely Gary Brooker (voice, piano), Robin Trower
(lead guitar), David Knights (bass guitar), BJ Wilson (drums) and
Matthew Fisher (Hammond organ).