Prima SID016

The first ever single CD Long Ryders compilation features tracks from across their entire career and from every label the band were on. Featuring liner notes from the rhythm section of Tom Stevens and Greg Sowders as well as Pete Frame's very informative Long Ryders Family Tree and including over a dozen previously unseen photographs of the band in their heyday this is the one Long Ryders CD to have if you only want one and an excellent introduction to the Founding Fathers of alt-country. Officially Prima Records bestselling CD as of September 1, 2007.

Prima SID015(CD)

A great recording of the Long Ryders show at the Bottom Line in New York City on 7th May 1987 as broadcast live on FM. A wonderful showcase for a rocking fine band, the CD booklet has liner notes by the band's long time and long suffering manager John Guarnieri. Reviews in Rolling Stone (USA), The Sunday Times, Q, Mojo, UnCut et al were all estatic!

Released in July 1998, this 40 track compilation covers every period of The Long Ryders' influential existence. Every note has been expertly remastered by sonic expert Bill Inglot so the sound quality throughout is stunning. The booklet includes great sleevenotes by Rolling Stone's David Fricke and a fine selection of photographs. Tracks marked * above are previously unreleased demos, whilst those marked ** are previously unreleased final recordings. All the unreleased tracks were mixed by Sid Griffin in Los Angeles in early 1998. The Light Gets In The Way is listed on the CD as being the album version but sounds like the demo version to everyone in the Prima Records Office. The long version of Looking For Lewis And Clark from the ten inch single release makes its first appearance on CD. Unfortunately this wonderful compilation has only been released in the USA. Now out of print.

A 1994 release of recordings made and broadcast by the BBC. Recorded live at the Mayfair Club, Newcastle, 3.6.87, except for the last four tracks which were recorded for the Andy Kershaw show at the Chester Rendezvous Club, 15.10.85. An terrifically well recorded live performance captured with typical great care by BBC engineers, an especially noteworthy achievement when you consider a rather ugly fight broke out in the mosh pit during the Chester performance which involved a good half dozen male Brits whopping the beejeezus out of each other for about fifteen minutes till order was restored. NOW OUT OF PRINT

A compendium of live tracks, out takes and snippets of radio interviews. The original release was an 86 minute Long Ryders authorized fan club cassette, which was edited for CD reissue by Overground and, more recently, Prima Records by omission of the tracks marked *. Though to be out of print Prima has about four copies left for sale!
Go to the Emusic download page for tracks from this album.

The Long Ryders' final studio album from 1987, reissued in a deluxe edition containing four bonus tracks, marked * above, by Prima Records in February 1996. The new edition also includes heartfelt sleeve notes by Long Ryders' drummer Greg Sowders who is now a song publishing expert at Warner-Chappell in his native Los Angeles. Deluxe edition now out of print.

Probably their most well known and highest charting album and featuring their biggest chart hit. Reissued by Prima Records in a remastered and extended form including the bonus tracks marked *. Universal Records (UK) almost released this CD once again in summer 2004 on the strength of the Long Ryders State Of Our Reunion Tour but at the last second cancelled their plans. Now out of print.

A promotional LP containing interviews with the Long Ryders in between the album tracks. Copies are occasionally seen in specialist record shops and on eBay going for ridiculous prices. Sid recently sold his entire record collection as it was in very expensive storage in L. A. so if you have a copy to spare let Sid buy it from you...or burn him a CD-R if you can. Thanks. You could send it to: Prima Records, P.O. Box 2539, London, England NW3 6DF, United Kingdom

The first release in 1983 by the Long Ryders with Des Brewer on bass. Reissued by Demon/Zippo in the UK in 1987 with an extra track, The Trip, dating from 1985, and included on some CD releases of Native Sons. Prima is trawling its archives to come up with extra tracks for a full length reissue in 2008.

Classic Pictures DVD1093X (UK) (DVD)

In 1986 a Long Ryders show at the Roxy Theatre in Hollywood was taped for TV broadcast in Europe. This has just been released on DVD by Classic Pictures. Bonus materal on the disk includes an exclusive and quite wonderful five song solo session by Sid Griffin recorded in late 2001 in Shepperton, England. Available from amazon.co.uk and amazon.com.

* I Want You Bad c/w Ring Bells, State Of My Union(live) Island (12)IS730 (7", 12")
* Looking For Lewis And Clark(extended version) c/w Child Bride, Southside Of The Story, If I Were A Bramble And You Were A Rose Island 10IS237 (10")
* Looking For Lewis And Clark c/w Child Bride & Southside Of The Story c/w If I Were A Bramble And You Were A Rose Island ISD237 (2 x 7")
* I Had A Dream c/w Too Close To The Light (Buckskin Mix) Zippo 45-2 (7")

* Christmas In New Zealand LYN16928 (7" flexidisk)
A very rare flexidisk, given away at a few selected gigs. Since included on the Prima reissue of State Of Our Union and on The Long Ryders Anthology.
* Encore From Hell, 10-5-60 BOB11 (7" flexidisk)
Given free with Bucketful Of Brains issue 17, Encore From Hell features Sid reading reviews of the State Of Our Union album, both tracks are live recordings.
* Baby We All Gotta Go Down What A Nice Way To Turn Seventeen - Number 6 (LP)
A live version of a song originally recorded by Danny & Dusty (who included several Long Ryders) for the LP The Lost Weekend. Included on the Prima deluxe edition of Two Fisted Tales. WANWTTS was an innovative fanzine which combined a magazine with a full length vinyl LP.
* I Can't Hide real.006, 10072915 (7" flexidisk)
A cover of the Flamin' Groovies song given free with issue 28 of The Bob magazine. This version gained a more official release in 1998 on The Long Ryders Anthology.

CD-R, No label or catalogue details (CD)

This is a rather low-fi bootleg release by modern standards but quite popular, it still pops up where fine bootlegs are sold now and then. The last four tracks are the most interesting as ex-Byrd Chris Hillman guests with the Long Ryders on stage at the Roxy in Hollywood.

A great bootleg CD taken from an FM broadcast of the show at the Bottom Line in New York City on 7th May 1987. This is the very same release as the new official Long Ryders album Three Minute Warnings: The Long Ryders Live In New York City on Prima Records (SID015). However Three Minute Warnings has much, much better sound as it is from the original master tapes.

Interestingly enough those original master tapes ran out with some ninety seconds left in the concert so the tail end of 10-5-60 on Three Minute Warnings is actually a digital edit from The End Of The Trail bootleg!
Go to the Emusic download page for tracks from this album.