Gerry Rafferty: Who Knows What The Day Will Bring? The Complete Transatlantic Recordings 1969-71, 2CD

•    A full anthology of Gerry Rafferty’s early years is available under one roof.

•    With all tracks taken from the master-tapes.

•    Featuring every album track, stray B-side and remixed single, plus a cache of previously- unreleased songs and alternative versions (including two early versions of ‘Who Cares’, a song that would later turn up in substantially different format on the second Stealers Wheel LP).

•    With a host of hitherto-unheard songs and performances, the first-ever complete re- issue of ‘Can I Have My Money Back?’ (previous attempts have substituted an unauthorised overdubbed ‘Mary Skeffington’ in place of the original, far superior album version).

•    A digipack release, with a 20-page booklet featuring numerous photos, obscure European picture sleeves and a definitive 5000 word note on Gerry’s early years.

Whether recording as a solo performer, a member of Stealers Wheel or as one-half of The Humblebums (the other half, of course, being Billy Connolly), the late Gerry Rafferty was always a master craftsman, leaving behind a dazzling portfolio of songs headed by huge hits ‘Stuck In The Middle With You’ and the equally timeless ‘Baker Street’.

Although early success eluded him, it was during his time with the nominally folk-oriented Transatlantic label that Gerry learnt his craft, sharing space with Connolly on two Humblebums albums before the superb 1971 solo set ‘Can I Have My Money Back?’.

TRACK LISTING

DISC ONE

1  LOOK OVER THE HILL AND FAR AWAY

2  PATRICK

3  RICK RACK

4  HER FATHER DIDN’T LIKE ME ANYWAY

5  PLEASE SING A SONG FOR US

6  BLOOD AND GLORY

7  COCONUT TREE

8  I CAN’T STOP NOW

9 ALL THE BEST PEOPLE DO IT

10  STEAMBOAT ROW

11  SHOESHINE BOY

12  KEEP IT TO YOURSELF

13  SONG FOR SIMON

14  MY SINGING BIRD

15  HALF A MILE (Church version)

16  HALF A MILE (backing track)

17  CONTINENTAL SONG

18  CONTINENTAL SONG (backing track)

DISC TWO

1  NEW STREET BLUES

2  DIDN’T I?

3  MR. UNIVERSE

4  MARY SKEFFINGTON

5  LONG WAY ROUND

6  CAN I HAVE MY MONEY BACK?

7  SIGN ON THE DOTTED LINE

8  MAKE YOU, BREAK YOU

9 TO EACH AND EVERYONE

10  ONE DRINK DOWN

11  DON’T COUNT ME OUT

12  HALF A CHANCE

13  WHERE I BELONG

14  SO BAD THINKING

15  MARY SKEFFINGTON (overdubbed version)

16  WHO CARES* (demo version)

17  BERNARD*

18  IN LOVING MEMORY*

19  MAKE YOU, BREAK YOU* (alternative version)

20  DON’T COUNT ME OUT* (alternative version)

21  MR. UNIVERSE* (alternative version)

22  MARTHA*

23  WAY OF KNOWING*

24  WHO CARES (finished master)

*PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED