Jeremy Gluck With Nikki Sudden & Rowland S. Howard Featuring Jeffrey Lee Pierce, Epic Soundtracks – I Knew Buffalo Bill

Hey there! I definitely agree with you. One of the last tendencies of the record industry (beside the vinyl revival since many years, now) is to re-press the original album with "additional tracks", "alternative versions" & other bullshit... One of the most representative blunders of this marketing trick is "Forever Changes" Love's album, for example: the additional material consisted, minimally, in adding "takes" of some songs (obviously "hits"); basically rehearsals!!! And this neo-fetishism –you can hear Arthur Lee getting upset with his musicians, etc. OK! GREAT! WOW! IMPRESSIVE! Come o0Oon, guys…– they try to sell ends up distorting and altering the musical flow (words, rhythms, silences, sighs, etc. in each side of the record!) of the original release. Man… Sometimes, it's better to keep what the artist gave us as what HE considered HIS final material. These shitty "additional materials" has no interest (except, maybe, as an archive for some study about it), ’cause they’re just first drafts, rough copies, outlines… There is a nice anecdote the great poet Mahmud Darwish told during an interview: “Many of my friends and journalists ask me about my first drafts as a key to some secret or mystery. And I always answer the same: Don't waste your time looking for them; there’s not first drafts. Once I consider the poem finished, I throw all versions I did before.” There’s no real interest to try to get everything that an artist does. However, we can recreate, by our own, the way he wrote this or that, dream of it to “prolong” (and not “to extend” like the music industry enjoys her “extended fuckin' versions”) the artist’s gesture in many ways. “I Knew Buffalo Bill” original album –musically, lyrically…– is just astonishing! I consider it as one of my bedside albums; every listening is a new way to cross over every track… Basically, I Keep looking for a place to fall! Thanks for the comment, man! Take care, Buddy! Zoheir.