12/09/2024
Dwight Twilley - Scuba Divers (Blueprint Edition)
Dwight Twilley’s second solo album had a protracted birth. Recording sessions began in 1978 for an album to be titled 'Blueprint' and planned for release through Arista Records. Complex legal entanglements slowed progress until a different label, EMI America at last released the retitled album, 'Scuba Divers' in the summer of 1982.
Yet Dwight never stopped writing and cutting throughout the enforced interval since his 1979 solo debut, 'Twilley'. Along the path, dozens of his very best songs and performances came in and out of consideration as numerous album sequences were compiled then recompiled.
Now, 25 essential songs from years of studio work paint a fuller picture of Dwight Twilley at a peak of creativity.
Rough bootlegs of the first iteration of 'Blueprint' have been breathlessly traded by fans throughout the decades, as Dwight Twilley’s unreleased album took on a legendary status. But 'Scuba Divers (Blueprint Edition)' goes way beyond by presenting 7 additional songs that have never circulated, along with the best of the previously bootlegged material in original master-sourced sound.
'Scuba Divers (Blueprint Edition)' is now available for preorder through music retailers.
TRACK LIST
original 'Scuba Divers' album
1. I’m Back Again
2. Somebody To Love (extended album version)
3. 10,000 American Scuba Divers Dancin’
4. Touchin’ The Wind
5. Later That Night
6. I Think It’s That Girl
7. Dion Baby
8. Cryin’ Over Me
9. I Found The Magic (extended album version)
10. Falling In Love Again
'Blueprint' Bonus Tracks
previously unreleased *except where noted
11. Somebody To Love (1979 7” version)*
12. Then We Go Up
13. I Love You So Much*
14. She’s All My Light
15. Just Like You Did It Before
16. Shark (In The Dark)*
17. Tiger Eyes
18. Living In The City
19. Baby’s Got The Blues Again
20. It’s So Amazing
21. Sky Blue
22. Rock Yourself, Son
23. Firefly*
24. I’m Back Again (early version)
25. Leave Me Alone With My Baby