Album: Roadhouse Garden

1998: Beautiful Strange ◄

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Roadhouse Garden

Album details Intended Release Date: 1999 Label(s): NPG Records (assumed) Studio(s): First Avenue, Minneapolis, MN, USA; Galpin Blvd Home Studio, Chanhassen, MN, USA; Sunset Sound, Hollywood, CA, USA; Crosstown Circle Warehouse, Eden Prairie, MN, USA; Kiowa Trail Home Studio, Chanhassen, MN, USA; Paisley Park Studios, Chanhassen, MN, USA See also In All My Dreams

Roadhouse Garden is an unreleased album announced on 's website Love4OneAnother.com on 7 October, 1998 (following an announcement on 30 September, 1998 that "Prince and the Revolution r releasing a new album on NPG"), with a presumptive release date of 1999. It was announced to be by Prince and the Revolution, although the announcement stated that "the group needn't b 2gether 2 release an album" and that "can and will finish the album alone unless the tide turns otherwise." claimed to have offered Wendy Melvoin and Lisa Coleman co-production work on the project, but they later denied this. The album was said to include "things left unfinished" when the band dissolved in 1986, and "several new cuts that is putting together using parts from many tunes". The exact tracklist (if any was completed) is unknown, but the tracks mentioned in association with the album are listed below. Splash was later released in 2001 as a download from the NPG Music Club (the first and only Prince and the Revolution track to be offered through the club). Empty Room was released as a 2002 live version as a download on the NPG Music Club (and later included on the compilation C-Note. In A Large Room With No Light was available as an audio stream on the Montreux Jazz Festival website in 2009 in conjunction with Prince's two shows at the festival. The other tracks believed to have been included on the album remain unreleased in any form. Artwork was later posted online by a graphic designer for an NPG Music Club album titled In All My Dreams, which may have been a later version of the Roadhouse Garden album, but nothing else is known about this album, which also remains unreleased. Track listing CD or Download The specific sequence of tracks is unknown, but tracks believed to have been included are: Roadhouse Garden Witness 4 The Prosecution Splash All My Dreams In A Large Room With No Light Empty Room Wonderful Ass All songs written by Prince except where noted. Personnel Musicians Prince - all vocals and instruments, except where noted Bobby Z. - drums Brown Mark - bass guitar Wendy Melvoin - guitar Lisa Coleman - keyboards and background vocals Dr. Fink - keyboards and background vocals Other recording personnel details unknown Production - producer (assumed) Other production details unknown.

Additional Information Trivia References The Vault: The Definitive Guide to the Musical World of Prince by Per Nilsen & JooZt Mattheij, with the UPTOWN Staff (Uptown: 2004) ISBN 91-631-5482-X

1998 Beautiful Strange

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Unreleased Albums (Related Artists)

2000 High