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Rocks: Primal Scream’s “Give Out But Don’t Give Up: The Original Memphis Recordings” Gets Run Out Groove Reissue

January 19, 2021 By Joe Marchese 3 Comments

Primal Scream Give Out But Dont Give Up ROG

PRE-ORDER NOW FROM RUN OUT GROOVE

The Scottish rockers of Primal Scream always refused to be pigeonholed, with their music reflecting a wide range of sounds from jangle pop and garage rock to psychedelia and house/dance.  In 1993, the band traveled to Memphis, Tennessee’s Ardent Studios for a brace of blues-rock sessions with legendary producer Tom Dowd (Dusty Springfield, Aretha Franklin, Jackie DeShannon), engineer Jeff Powell, and the Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section.  But Creation Records reportedly wasn’t happy with the results, so the tapes were remixed by George Drakoulias (Black Crowes) with additional recording taking place, too – including a new title track co-written with producer George Clinton.  The reworked productions first appeared on 1994’s Give Out But Don’t Give Up, yielding the U.K. hit single “Rocks” (a Faces pastiche so effective, Rod Stewart later covered it).  The album fared well, reached No. 2 in the U.K. and No. 22 on the Billboard U.S. Heatseekers Albums Chart.  But in 2018, Primal Scream revisited the sessions on Give Out But Don’t Give Up: The Original Memphis Recordings.  Now, Run Out Groove is reissuing those original Tom Dowd mixes on vinyl for the first time in the United States, expanding the album to include the Ardent demos in their vinyl premiere.

Vocalist and Primal Scream co-founder Bobby Gillespie (who penned all of the songs with Robert Young and Andrew Innes) comments in ROG’s press release, “We are so happy to be able to release our Give Out But Don’t Give Up: The Original Memphis Recordings in the country where it was recorded. We love American music especially the soul sound of Memphis and Muscle Shoals in the 1960s and 70s which was such a huge influence on this album. We were working class boys from Glasgow who realized our dream to work with the legendary producer Tom Dowd, Roger Hawkins and David Hood of the Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section and Wayne Jackson and Andrew Love of the Memphis Horns. All of whom produced and played on so many classic soul records. Working at Ardent where Big Star recorded was also part of our dream that came true. Finally, American music fans can hear the full fruits of our labor during that long, hot Memphis summer of 1993. Hope u have as much fun listening to it as we all had making it.”

The 3LP set has three sides of 140-gram vinyl presenting the original nine Tom Dowd mixes intended for album release and three sides with the Ardent Studios outtakes including jams, rehearsals, alternates, and covers of Elvis Presley, Bob Dylan, The Bee Gees, and The Everly Brothers.  This deluxe vinyl set will be mastered and lacquered by original engineer Jeff Powell at Sam Phillips Recording Studio on 33 1/3 speed for the first time.  A booklet includes liner notes and photos.  It’s all housed in a lavish tri-fold sleeve with new cover artwork.  (The CD release used a cassette tape box as the cover art.) This individually numbered and limited release is available to pre-order until February 17 with a tentative release date of June 4.

You’ll find the track listing and pre-order link for Primal Scream’s Give Out But Don’t Give Up: The Original Memphis Recordings on Run Out Groove below.

Primal Scream, Give Out But Don’t Give Up: The Original Memphis Recordings (Sony U.K. 19075815742, 2018 – reissued Run Out Groove, 2021)

Side A (Original Tom Dowd Album Mix)

  1. Jailbird
  2. Rocks
  3. Call on Me
  4. Everybody Needs Somebody

Side B (Original Tom Dowd Album Mix)

  1. Sad and Blue
  2. Big Jet Plane
  3. Free

Side C (Original Tom Dowd Album Mix)

  1. Jesus
  2. Cry Myself Blind
  3. Side D (Ardent Outtakes)
  4. Billy/To Love Somebody
  5. Memphis Groove (Improvised Song Jam)
  6. Sad and Blue (Early Rehearsal Jam)
  7. Call on Me (Monitor Mix)
  8. Big Jet Plane (Early Rehearsal Jam/Tom Dowd Instructions)

Side E (Ardent Outtakes)

  1. Free (Bobby Vocals/Full Band Rehearsal Jam)
  2. Everybody Needs Somebody (Alternate Recording)
  3. Blue Moon of Kentucky/Trying to Get to You
  4. Jailbird Guitar
  5. Jesus (Monitor Mix)

Side F (Ardent Outtakes)

  1. Funky Jam (Original Recording)
  2. Free (Early Rehearsal – Sitar/Piano/Bobby Vocal)
  3. Cry Myself Blind (Monitor Mix) / Big Jet Plane (Sitar Version)
  4. All I Have to Do Is Dream

Categories: News Formats: Vinyl Genre: Rock Tags: Primal Scream

Joe Marchese

JOE MARCHESE (Editor) joined The Second Disc shortly after its launch in early 2010, and has since penned daily news and reviews about classic music of all genres. In 2015, Joe formed the Second Disc Records label. Celebrating the great songwriters, producers and artists who created the sound of American popular song, Second Disc Records, in conjunction with Real Gone Music, has released newly-curated collections produced by Joe from iconic artists such as Johnny Mathis, Bobby Darin, Laura Nyro, Melissa Manchester, Chet Atkins, and many others. He has contributed liner notes to reissues from a diverse array of artists, among them Nat "King" Cole, Paul Williams, Lesley Gore, Dusty Springfield, B.J. Thomas, The 5th Dimension, Burt Bacharach, The Mamas and the Papas, Carpenters, Perry Como, Rod McKuen, Doris Day, Jackie DeShannon, and Andy Williams, and has compiled releases for talents including Robert Goulet and Keith Allison of Paul Revere and the Raiders. Over the past two decades, Joe has also worked in a variety of capacities on and off Broadway as well as at some of the premier theatres in the U.S., including Lincoln Center Theater, George Street Playhouse, Paper Mill Playhouse, Long Wharf Theatre, and the York Theatre Company. He has felt privileged to work on productions alongside artists such as the late Jack Klugman, Eli Wallach, Arthur Laurents, Betty Comden and Adolph Green. In 2009, Joe began contributing theatre and music reviews to the print publication The Sondheim Review, and in 2012, he joined the staff of The Digital Bits as a regular contributor writing about film and television on DVD and Blu-ray. Joe currently resides in the suburbs of New York City.

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Comments

  1. Tanner the Teenager says

    January 19, 2021 at 7:47 pm

    Is a compact disc too much to ask for?

    Reply
    • Joe Marchese says

      January 19, 2021 at 8:06 pm

      All of this material was released on CD in 2018.

      Reply
  2. D W says

    January 22, 2021 at 6:30 am

    There’s a reason the original mixes remained unreleased for a quarter century and the album was remixed before it was release at the time.

    This release should appeal to only the hardest of hardcore Scream fans, and only barely at that

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