That classic Asbury Sound is about to sound better than ever. Real Gone Music will release Southside Johnny and The Asbury Jukes: The Fever—The Remastered Epic Recordings on March 3. The 2 CD-Set contains 40 tracks – all four albums the band cut with Miami Steve Van Zandt (including the CD debut of the promo-only LP Jukes Live at the Bottom Line) in a newly remastered form.

Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes The Fever The Remastered Epic Recordings

Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes
The Fever, The Remastered Epic Recordings

Here at last is the anthology Jukes fans have been waiting for, the one that not only includes all four albums the group cut with Miami Steve Van Zandt (including the CD debut of the promo-only LP Jukes Live at the Bottom Line), but also finally, finally presents this seminal body of work in newly remastered form. Indeed, the Epic recordings of Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes, the crucial early sides that made their reputation (and featured a ton of Springsteen/E Street Band spillover), have long suffered from indifferent sound and packaging, as all reissues have been taken from the same digital masters made at the dawn of the CD era. The Fever—The Remastered Epic Recordings changes all that—all four Epic albums including I Don’t Want to Go Home, Jukes Live at the Bottom Line, This Time It’s for Real, and Hearts of Stone (plus the single version of “Havin’ a Party”) appear here in brand-new, sparkling versions remastered from the original master tapes by Mark Wilder at Battery Studios in New York. What’s more, the 2-CD, 40-track collection offers new liner notes by Chris Morris that feature fresh quotes from Southside Johnny himself, and Bruce Springsteen’s original liner notes for I Don’t Want to Go Home. Speaking of Springsteen, his fingerprints are all over these projects, with such songs as “The Fever,” “Little Girl So Fine,” “Love on the Wrong Side of Town,” “When You Dance,” “Talk to Me,” “Trapped Again,” and “Hearts of Stone” all written or co-written by The Boss, while Van Zandt not only produced all four Epic albums but wrote much of the repertoire. But the real star here, of course, is Southside Johnny himself, one of the great white R&B singers of this or any other time, backed by a crack band including The Miami Horns and with such special guests as Ronnie Spector, The Coasters, The Drifters, and The Five Satins. Joyful, soulful music finally sounding the way it oughtta!

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Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes – The Fever, The Remastered Epic Recordings

Format: 2-CD
Label: Real Gone Music
Release date: 3 March 2017

Track Listings
Disc: 1
1. I Don’t Want to Go Home
2. Got to Get You off My Mind
3. How Come You Treat Me So Bad
4. The Fever
5. Broke Down Piece of Man
6. Sweeter Than Honey
7. Fanny Mae
8. It Ain’t the Meat (It’s the Motion)
9. I Choose to Sing the Blues
10. You Mean So Much to Me
11. Havin’ a Party
12. This Time It’s for Real
13. Without Love
14. Check Mr. Popeye
15. First Night
16. She Got Me Where She Wants Me
17. Some Things Just Don’t Change
18. Little Girl So Fine
19. I Ain’t Got the Fever No More
20. Love on the Wrong Side of Town
21. When You Dance

Disc: 2
1. Got to Get You off My Mind
2. Without Love
3. Searchin’
4. Sweeter Than Honey
5. Snatchin’ It Back
6. Little by Little
7. It Ain’t the Meat (It’s the Motion)
8. The Fever
9. Havin’ a Party
10. You Mean So Much to Me
11. Got to Be a Better Way Home
12. This Time Baby’s Gone for Good
13. I Played the Fool
14. Hearts of Stone
15. Take It Inside
16. Talk to Me
17. Next to You
18. Trapped Again
19. Light Don’t Shine


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