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The Tragically Hip release a special version of their sophomore album, Road Apples, as a 30th Anniversary Deluxe package! Created to mark the 30th anniversary of the band’s second studio album, which became their first record to hit #1 in Canada, the Road Apples 30th Anniversary Deluxe edition was carefully crafted with input from each living member of the band. The outcome is a deep dive behind the scenes of what made this album one of the most beloved in The Tragically Hip’s vast catalog. With all tracks completely remastered in 2021 by Ted Jensen at Sterling Sound in Nashville, for the first time, fans will hear music from the band with all the grit, vibrancy, and passion of their original recordings, second only to being in the recording studio with them. This set is jam-packed with rarities and more previously unreleased and never heard before pieces of music chronicling The Tragically Hip’s Road Apples era, including: Road Apples, the original album re-mastered in 2021 by Ted Jensen at Sterling Sound in Nashville. Saskadelphia, as released earlier this year. Also, Hoof-Hearted, an album of previously unreleased demos, outtakes, and alternate versions! Recorded in 1990 in New Orleans at Daniel Langlois’ The Kingsway Studio in an old mansion that looms over the French Quarter neighborhood by a group of young men from Kingston, Ontario – singer Gord Downie, guitarists Rob Baker and Paul Langlois, bassist Gord Sinclair, and drummer Johnny Fay – Road Apples was first released in 1991. Guided by producer Don Smith and engineer Bruce Barris, the band created an album that yielded an avalanche of gritty rock ’n’ roll with a relentless quality to it, like a stream of blues that struggles to be contained. Road Apples contains some of their best-known songs, including “Little Bones,” “Fiddler’s Green,” “Long Time Running,” and “Three Pistols.” The album is now approaching double-diamond certified status in Canada.