Name: Ace - 50th Anniversary
Brand: Bobby Weir

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Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

0603497840144

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Extended format

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Format detail

Remastered New Mix of Ace plus Live Version.

Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2023-01-13

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Signed copies: No

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Warner Music Group

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Standard:20

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2 / CD / Extended format: No / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

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Remastered New Mix of Ace 

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2023-02-03

1 / Extended format: No / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No / black

Artist

Bobby Weir

Genre GB

Classic

Label GB

Rhino

Rhino Records, also known as Rhino, is a renowned music label that was established in 1973 by Richard Foos. Starting as a record store in Westwood California, Rhino quickly gained recognition with its first successful release "Go To Rhino Records" by Wild Man Fischer in 1975. The label's early logo featured "Rocky the Rhino" and focused on novelty, surf, local new wave bands, and reissues of out-of-print records from other labels.

Under the guidance of Bill Inglot for production, Ken Perry for mastering, and A&R team Gary Stewart and James Austin, Rhino expanded its catalog to include a wide range of reissues by the mid-1980s. The label underwent a logo redesign during this time period to simply "Rhino". In 1984, Rhino released its first CD and became known for manufacturing high-quality CDs made by Sanyo (1984-85) and various manufacturers from Japan or Switzerland thereafter.

In 1985, Rhino entered into a distribution deal with Capitol Records which lasted until 1992. This partnership allowed access to Capitol's back catalog and led to the release of reissues of old Capitol albums. Additionally, EMI and Rhino acquired the Roulette family of labels in 1989. As their deal with Capitol came to an end in 1992, Time-Warner offered an opportunity for growth. Half of the label was sold to Time-Warner

When Weir started working on Ace at Wally Heider’s Studio in San Francisco in early 1972, he wasn’t planning for the Grateful Dead to be his backing band. It just happened. “I pretty much knew in the back of my mind what would happen,” Weir told Crawdaddy a few months after the sessions. “I go and get the time booked and start putting the material together. Everybody gets wind of the fact I got the time booked and I may be going into the studio. So, one by one, they start coming around…”

It made sense, the band was already familiar with most of the music, having road-tested six of the album’s eight songs, including “Greatest Story Ever Told,” “Mexicali Blues,” and “Playing In The Band,” destined to become one of Weir’s signature tunes. Ace also marked the beginning of Weir’s long-running collaboration with lyricist John Perry Barlow and includes early standouts “Cassidy” and “Looks Like Rain.”

2CD - Ace: 50th Anniversary Deluxe Edition double-CD pairs a remastered new mix of Weir’s solo debut album with a new live version recorded earlier this year at radio city music hall, featuring The Wolf Bros., and special guests Tyler Childers and Brittney Spencer. Original album Remixed by Derek Featherstone and mastered by Grammy® Award-winning engineer David Glasser.

Bobby Weir celebrated the 50th anniversary of his solo debut, Ace, on stage in April with two special shows at New York City’s Radio City Music Hall. On both nights, he performed the entire album live with his group Bobby Weir and Wolf Bros featuring The Wolfpack, a string and brass quintet, pedal steel player Barry Sless, and special guests Tyler Childers and Brittney Spencer.

The liner notes that accompany the new anniversary edition were written by Jesse Jarnow, co-host of the Good Ol’ Grateful Deadcast and author of Heads: A Biography Of Psychedelic America. He writes about Weir realizing his 50-year dream of touring with strings and horns in 2021 when the Wolfpack joined him and the Wolf Bros on the road. 

Ace - 50th Anniversary

Music GB