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I've
Had It All (Remix)
+ 6 Live Tracks  Parachute/Mercury SACD 864
Promotional release only Out-of-print |
Re-mixed by Jim Scott at Skip Saylor Sound, Los Angeles, CA 2. Walk
Away Renee - 2:44 3. Just
To See You - 4:40 4. We
Belong (Junto A Ti) - 3:39 5. Dreams
I Left Behind - 2:44 6. Tomorrow
Is A Long Time - 3:27 7. Pride
And Hunger - 4:46 Disk Mastered by Eddy Shreyer at Future Disk Systems |
Long considered the Holy Grail of Lowen & Navarro collectibles, Mercury released this promotional-only CD to push a new single — a remix of "I've Had It All" (remixed to fix a minor vocal glitch and punch it up for radio). We filled the rest of it with cuts from concerts in early 1994, as well as a couple of 1990 live radio recordings from Cities' 97 in Minneapolis.
Until Hogging The Covers came out in 2006, it was the only available L&N recording of "Walk Away Renee" (written by our friend Michael Brown) which had become a staple of our live set from around 1992. It remains the only available L&N recording of Bob Dylan's "Tomorrow Is A Long Time".
The bi-lingual version of "We Belong" had been released on the 1992 Volume 4 Cities Sampler, a limited edition CD of in-studio live cuts by various artists, issued by KTCZ for charity every Thanksgiving. Because the Chameleon version of Walking On a Wire had featured an all-English version, it was a true rarity, until Mercury's re-released six months later replaced the all-English version with a bilingual version. This version appeared again in 2008 on the 20th Anniversary Cities Sampler, but the entire edition of 35,000 sold out in an hour.
The performance of Just To See You from Park West in Chicago came just three days after the birth of Eric's twins, Sam & Annie-Claire. Eric had flown home from Portland, ME, for the birth (making it just in time) and rejoined us on the road the day of this performance. Emcee Lin Brehmer, WXRT's morning DJ, announced the births to the 800 people at the sold-out show as he was introducing us. So the applause you hear on Eric's vocal line, "But here I am and I'm the lucky one" was in fact a mass-congrats form the audience. This concert has been featured periodically in WXRT's series of Sunday Night Concert broadcasts.
The two performances from Boulder's Fox Theatre were toward the end of nearly two months of touring in below-zero weather. Later that night, Dan slipped on some ice in the hotel parking lot (ably abetted by vast quantities of pub ale, courtesy of Big Head Todd's road manager) and broke his elbow. Good times.
Mercury pressed around 1500 of these EPs, sent 150 or so to radio stations and the rest to fans who had returned the tear-off cards from the insert to Broken Moon. So it's out-of-print and extremely difficult to find. Occasionally they show up on eBay, they go for between $50 and $100.
We've considered releasing it again, though it seems a cruel thing to do to those why ponied up big bucks for the collectible. So we will likely make the tracks available in their original concert context as part of the Live Archive Series we will be launching in 2009.
From the original CD package:
Dear
Friends and Fans of Lowen & Navarro,
This special CD is something many of you have requested. After seeing
their live show, "I've Had It All" was a song that sparked the set and
we felt it could benefit from a rockin' remix. So here it is, along
with six other odds and sods that have become staples of the Lowen
& Navarro live show. Enjoy it and play it 'til your heart's
content. Tell a friend about these guys, and thanks for all your
support.
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