- ReleaseProduct
- Ride A Hustler's Dream (2025 Remaster)
- Artist
- Velvet Opera
- Label
- Think Like A Key Music
- Catalogue Number
- TLAK1199
- Release Date
- April 25, 2025
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CD
$13.00The "Velvet Revolution" CD Edition
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- 350g digipak (as transformative as the band itself)
- Complete 1969 album + 4 essential bonus tracks
- 8-page booklet with Mike Stax’s deep dive into the band's reinvention
Their 1969 folk-rock shapeshift finally gets the deep-dive reissue it’s long deserved—remastered and expanded.
After Elmer Gantry’s exit, Velvet Opera didn’t play it safe—they reloaded. Ride A Hustler’s Dream twists blues standards, 12-string folk, and electric raga into a raw, restless follow-up. Statesboro Blues doesn’t stroll—it sprints. Raga and Lime balances tabla and tremolo like it’s born of both. And John Ford’s bass work foreshadows the heaviness he’d bring to Strawbs. With Barry Kingston behind the board and Prof. Stoned behind the faders, this 2025 remaster hits harder than ever.
Only 400 pressed. Catch the dream before it evaporates.
- 1 Ride A Hustler's Dream 0:57
- 2 Statesboro Blues 3:43
- 3 Money By 4:00
- 4 Black Jack Davey 3:40
- 5 Raise The Light 4:14
- 6 Raga And Lime 5:34
- 7 Anna Dance Square 3:03
- 8 Depression 4:04
- 9 Don't You Realise 3:41
- 10 Warm Day In July 5:08
- 11 Eleanor Rigby 5:56
- 12 Anna Dance Square (45rpm Mono Mix) 3:04
- 13 Don't You Realise (45rpm Mono Mix) 3:39
- 14 She Keeps Giving Me These Feelings 2:41
- 15 There's A Hole In My Pocket 3:46