BLUES TRAVELER
''25, DISC ONE''
MAR 6, 2012
HIP-O SELECT
COMPILATION
DISC ONE
1/Run-Around/4:41
2/Hook/4:49
3/The Mountains Win Again/5:08
4/But Anyway/4:12
5/You, Me And Everything/4:22
6/Amber Awaits/3:49
7/After What/3:38
8/Back In The Day/4:03
9/Girl Inside My Head/3:38
10/Carolina Blues/4:46
11/Let Her And Let Go/3:39
12/Gina/4:05
13/100 Years/3:44
14/What's For Breakfast/3:48
15/NY Prophesie/4:36
16/Unable To Get Free/4:23
17/How You Remember It/4:08
18/What I Got/3:13
DISC TWO
1/The Demon/4:07
2/The Poignant & Epic Saga Of Featherhead & Lucky Lack/5:12
3/Blue Hour/6:13
4/Trust In Trust/3:15
5/Didn’t Mean To Wake Up/4:28
6/But Anyway '88/5:07
7/Random Amounts/5:10
8/Twelve Swords/3:18
9/The Sun and The Storm/7:57
10/Traveler’s Suite/20:21
11/Run-Around (Gunslinger Remix)/4:41
Review
By Stephen Thomas Erlewine (Allmusic)
Released to commemorate the band's quarter-century anniversary, 2012's 25 is a double-disc compilation that digs deep into Blues Traveler's career. The first disc contains the hits and album tracks -- not all of them, with the 1997 Top 40 hit "Most Precarious" being the most conspicuous absence -- but the core of the jam band's canon is here, including "But Anyway," "Run-Around," "Hook," "The Mountains Win Again," and "Carolina Blues," topped off with a newly recorded cover of Sublime's "What I Got." That's just the beginning of the collector bait: the rest of the retrospective is devoted to B-sides, rarities, and outtakes, including such nuggets as an early version of "Run-Around" called "The Poignant and Epic Saga of Featherhead and Lucky Lack," a brand new Gunslinger Remix of "Run Around," a version of "But Anyway" from 1988, and all four cuts from the 2000 EP Decisions of the Sky: A Traveler's Tale of Sun and Storm, including the 20-minute saga "Traveler's Suite." Combined, the hits and the rarities may not have one specific targeted audience -- the casual fans will like the first, the hardcore the second, and neither may necessarily have the need for the other -- but taken together the two discs show Blues Traveler at both their most accessible and their most adventurous, so, in a sense, it is a representative introduction.
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