The Record Exchange is honored to be one of 11 independent record stores across the country offering an exclusive one-night-only screening of Taste‘s What’s Going On: Live at the Isle of Wight Festival 1970 at 7 p.m. Friday, Sept. 18.
The screening via the 55-inch HD digital screen platform of Xprnc Media (xprncmedia.com) celebrates the Sept. 18 release of What’s Going On, available in multiple formats: DVD, Blu-ray, CD and double LP. The 16mm film has been restored and the sound remixed for all formats.
The DVD and Blu-ray are the first-ever release of the restored 16mm original film footage. The original 1970 footage was shot by Academy Award winning director Murray Lerner. Bonus material on the DVD and Blu-ray include three tracks from the German TV series Beat Club: (1) If The Day Was Any Longer (2) It’s Happened Before, It’ll Happen Again (3) Morning Sun; and three conceptual music videos: (1) I’ll Remember (2) What’s Going On (3) Born On The Wrong Side Of Time.
The CD and LP include all the tracks on the original 1971 Polydor LP, plus four previously unreleased additional tracks. Audio is newly mixed and mastered.
DVD/Blu-ray listing:
1) What’s Going On 2) Sugar Mama 3) Morning Sun 4) Gambling Blues 5) Sinner Boy 6) Same Old Story 7) Catfish Blues 8) I Feel So Good
CD/LP track listing:
SIDE 1: 1) What’s Going On 2) Sugar Mama 3) Morning Sun
SIDE 2: 1) Gambling Blues 2) Sinner Boy 3) I’ll Remember
SIDE 3: 1) Catfish Blues 2) Same Old Story
SIDE 4: 1) I Feel So Good 2) Blister On The Moon
Buddy Guy recently released his new album Born to Play Guitar, and we got our hands on an ultra-rare autographed vinyl test pressing of the album to give to one lucky customer!