The Long Road Home : 40th Anniversary

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THE LONG ROAD HOME: THE 40TH ANNIVERSARY COLLECTION is a box set with 6 disc and a 56 page booklet with liner notes and color pictures. The Hollies include: Allan Clarke (vocals, guitar); Tony Hicks, Graham Nash (guitar); Bernie Calvert (keyboards, bass); Bobby Elliott (drums). Producers include: John Miles, The Hollies, Will Burch, Mike Batt, Ron Richards. Compilation producer: Tim Chackfield. Recorded between 1963 & 2003. Includes liner notes by Peter Doggett. Personnel: Alan Coates, Graham Nash, Terry Sylvester, Tony Hicks (vocals, guitar); Allan Clarke (vocals, harmonica); Ian Parker (vocals, keyboards); Mikael Rickfors, Peter Sellers (vocals); Jamie Moses (guitar, background vocals); Pete Wingfield (piano, keyboards); Elton John, Burt Bacharach (piano); Denis Haines, Bernie Calvert, Peter Arnesen, Paul Bliss (keyboards); Don Rathbone, Bobby Elliott (drums); Phil Smee (box). Audio Mixers: Paul Hicks; Peter Mew; Tony Hicks ; Tony Taverner. Audio Remasterer: Peter Mew. Recording information: AIR Studios (04/04/1963-02/02/2003); Basing Street (04/04/1963-02/02/2003); Bell Studios, NY (04/04/1963-02/02/2003); Chappells (04/04/1963-02/02/2003); Christchurch Town Hall, New Zealand (04/04/1963-02/02/2003); Coconut Studios (04/04/1963-02/02/2003); EMI Abbey Road Studios, London, England (04/04/1963-02/02/2003); Emison Studios (04/04/1963-02/02/2003); Harrogate International Centre, England (04/04/1963-02/02/2003); Konserthus, Stockholm, Sweden (04/04/1963-02/02/2003); Lansdowne Studios (04/04/1963-02/02/2003); Lewisham Odeon, England (04/04/1963-02/02/2003); Maison Rouge (04/04/1963-02/02/2003); Matrix Studios (04/04/1963-02/02/2003); Mike Moran's Studio (04/04/1963-02/02/2003); Odyssey Studios (04/04/1963-02/02/2003); Riverside Studios (04/04/1963-02/02/2003); Rudy Records (04/04/1963-02/02/2003); The Manor (04/04/1963-02/02/2003); Utopia Studios (04/04/1963-02/02/2003); Wessex Studios (04/04/1963-02/02/2003); White house Studios (04/04/1963-02/02/2003). Editors: Allan Clarke ; Bobby Elliott. Photographers: Bob Richards; Gered Mankowitz; Wolfgang Heilemann; Henry Diltz; Bruce Fleming; Rod Shields. This box is a difficult thing to recommend, good -- no, make that great -- though it is. Partly, that's because it's almost too much of a great thing for most Hollies fans -- if they don't mind paying $120 for the six-CD U.K. import set, but most listeners aren't capitalized that way. And it does have its shortcomings, despite its cost. In contrast to, say, Crossroads by Eric Clapton, or Dreams by the Allman Brothers, it isn't where one could start listening to the Hollies -- there's too much that's not here, including "Bus Stop," and "Look Through Any Window." The shortcomings are understandable in a way, because between EMI in England, Sony Music in America (which still controls the Hollies classic sides from between 1966 and 1973 in that market), and sub-licensors like Disky in Holland, the Hollies may be the most heavily anthologized '60s British group this side of the Who; what to include, and how far to overlap existing collections become major problems, and they seem to have limited the hits to those that are biographically important in the band's history. such as "He Ain't Heavy He's My Brother," which re-established them commercially after Graham Nash's departure, or "Long Cool Woman in a Black Dress," which precipitated a major personnel crisis. Even with that limitation, there's almost too much here, at 136 tracks spanning 40 years. Disc One is certain to appeal to all of the group's fans, opening in 1963 with the first three tracks they ever recorded, the jangling "Hey, What's Wrong With Me," "Ain't That Just Like Me," and the achingly beautiful ballad "Whole World Over," only one of which has made extensive appearances in the decades since. Then things start jumping around in some pleasing and unexpected ways, between singles and album tracks that do showcase the many sides of the group's sound -- the selection