Stage Fright Box

Universal Music will reissue The Band‘s 3rd album "Stage Fright" across a number of formats, including a 5 disc super deluxe edition. Issued in August 1970, the 10 track album includes the songs "The Shape I’m In" and "Stage Fright" and was engineered by Todd Rundgren and Glyn Johns.

This 50th anniversary reissue presents a new running order, apparently, the originally planned order, and offers a new Bob Clearmountain stereo remix of the album. Alternate mixes of "Strawberry Wine" and "Sleeping" are issued for the 1st time and also included are 7 unearthed ‘field recordings’. These Calgary Hotel Recordings from 1970 offer a fun and loose, impromptu late night hotel jam session between Robbie Robertson, Rick Danko and Richard Manuel of several "Stage Fright" songs recorded while the album was in the mixing stage.

A full concert, "Live At The Royal Albert Hall June 1971", sees the group captured in the midst of their European tour with all 20 tracks previously unreleased. This live performance features on the 2 CD set as well as the super deluxe edition box set.

As with previous Band box sets "Stage Fright" includes a BluRay with a brand new Bob Clearmountain 5.1 surround sound mix, as well as a hi-res stereo mix of the album, bonus tracks and the live show.

The box set also features a pressing of the album on vinyl, the 2020 remix, an exclusive reproduction of the Spanish pressing of The Band’s 1971 7" vinyl single for "Time To Kill", backed with "The Shape I’m In", in their new stereo mixes, a photo booklet with new notes by Robbie Robertson and touring photographer John Scheele, a reprinting of the original Los Angeles Times album review by critic Robert Hilburn, three lithographs, and more.

Stage Fright is reissued on February 12th, 2021.