kbps17 829 kbps00:16:18.110 15 888 kbps00:17:46.498 15 283 kbps00:16:08.500 62 200 bytes 617 973 bytes00:17:51.503 Cat Stevens – Maybe You’re Right (Live At Plumpton Jazz & Blues Festival, 08-08-70) – 3:20 (415 kbps , 9.92 MB) During Stevens’ extended convalescence, he studied classical music, metaphysical literature, and meditative self-reflection. The album that emerged, Mona Bone Jakon, expressed the torment he had experienced but combined it with self-referential humour and a spiritual awakening. A notable creative partnership kbps19 459 kbps00:19:53.125 15 892 kbps00:19:49.121 15 446 kbps00:19:44.116 62 079 bytes 620 170 bytes00:19:27.566 Both albums are also being issued as 2CD deluxe sets (with ‘highlights’ bonus CDs with demos and live material) and on vinyl LP and single CD editions. Note that the 2020 remix is exclusive to each box set on both CD and vinyl. The individual releases offer only the remastered versions.

Can you explain the meaning behind the line “Wrapped by sorrow’s lonely gown, the poet hides in tears”? The album’s 50th anniversary is also marked by a 12” etched vinyl EP featuring the rare audience recording of Live At Plumpton Jazz & Blues Festival from August, 1970. Further, a BluRay disc features the original video of “Lady D’Arbanville” and eight live TV performances, plus the HD audio of the new 2020 mix. Newly signed to Island Records, Stevens’ Mona Bone Jakon album (released in April 1970) wasn’t a really a hit at all, but it did deliver a top ten UK single in ‘Lady D’Arbanville’ and its standing grew when Tea for the Tillerman was a major success – driven by the single ‘Wild World’– when released only seven months later, in November of that same year.

A blu-ray in both sets provides a hi-res stereo of the new mix of each album, plus various videos of live and/or TV appearances and both box sets come with vinyl versions of the new 2020 mixes and 12-inch EPs with further content. Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992 (illustrateded.). St Ives, N.S.W.: Australian Chart Book. p.293. ISBN 0-646-11917-6.

The original, glorious album on which dandified pop star was reborn as bedsit poet is augmented in this expanded 50th-anniversary “super deluxe” edition with a new 2020 mix, a disc of stripped-down demos that sound even more introspective than the fully worked album versions, and a further disc of contemporaneous live performances. years on, the songs on ‘Mona Bone Jakon’ still sound as fresh as the day they were recorded. Presented here in a new 2020 Remastered version on CD, and a new 2020 Mix by David Hefti on CD and LP, the Super Deluxe Edition also includes an exclusive third CD of previously unreleased studio material, and a fourth CD featuring 18 live performances from 1970/71. The 2020 remaster was completed at Abbey Road Studios, and was overseen by original album producer, Paul Samwell-Smith.The remixed version does what a good overhaul should;brings out subtleties in the performance that had been hidden before, boosts the vocals, and generally adds more presence without desecrating or commercializing the overall initial recording. kbps17 829 kbps00:20:53.885 15 890 kbps00:22:22.274 15 283 kbps00:20:44.276 62 291 bytes 619 432 bytes00:22:27.279 kbps17 829 kbps00:28:08.386 15 887 kbps00:28:19.898 15 283 kbps00:27:58.777 61 842 bytes 617 506 bytes00:28:24.903

Marking the start of a long-running creative partnership with producer (and former Yardbird) Paul Samwell-Smith, the album includes the deeply Romantic “Lady D’Arbanville”, The spiritually uplifting ‘I Think I See The Light’, the tongue-in-cheek ‘Pop Star’ and the heart-rendering ‘Trouble’ – which has connected with many a tormented soul including Elliott Smith, Chris Cornell and John Frusciante who have all covered the song. The songs themselves were darker in tone: the madrigal-inspired ballad " Lady D'Arbanville" elevated the tragedy of a lost lover (in this case, Stevens' former girlfriend Patti D'Arbanville) to that of a deceased one and " Trouble" was a plea to stave off death. There were also lighter songs: "Pop Star" showcased Stevens' dramatic change in voice by satirising the triviality of celebrity.Again, we get the original album as heard at the time and in a new remix, plus the recent Yusuf-sings-Cat 2020 updates on the songs recently released as Tea For The Tillerman 2. Then there’s a swathe of live recordings and another disc of demos, this time with two previously unreleased songs, the heartfelt “Can This Be Love?” (which could have been a contender) and the throwaway “It’s So Good” (which has no such pretensions).