Issued by underground imprint RCA Neon in mid-1971, the Shape Of The Rain album 'Riley Riley Wood & Waggett' sold poorly at the time despite glowing reviews from the British music weeklies. A surging collision of Beatlesesque writing and harmonies and Byrds-like jingle-jangle guitars, sadly it would take another couple of decades before the LP was finally disinterred by a new generation of record collectors.

Half-a-century after its original release, that lost jewel of an album finally gets the attention it deserves as the cornerstone of Grapefruit's definitive new 3-CD anthology of a criminally neglected late Sixties/early Seventies British band.

In addition to that 1971 album, our release features a post-LP single, a clutch of studio demos, taped rehearsals and alternative versions as well as more than a dozen previously-unissued demos of material for an aborted second album. Recorded in 1972 by band leader and chief vocalist/songwriter Keith Riley, these songs are a staggering new find, occupying similar musical territory to newly-solo McCartney, Badfinger man Pete Ham's home demos and Chris Bell's post-Big Star work.

Our release also features some incendiary Shape Of The Rain live recordings, including a 50-minute show from May 1970 that stands as a rare and enthralling document of a West Coast-influenced English psychedelic band captured in full and glorious flow at the turn of the decade.

Boasting a 24-page booklet that includes numerous rare photos as well as a new history of the band, this expanded, four-hour edition of 'Riley Riley Wood & Waggett' features approximately two hours of previously unreleased music.

Track Listing

• Woman
• Patterns
• Castles
• Wasting My Time
• Rockfield Roll
• Yes
• Dusty Road
• Willowing Trees
• I'll Be There
• Broken Man
• My Friend John
• The Very First Clown
• What You Gonna Do Now
• You're The One
• From Me And From You
• No Use Cryin' Again
• Watercolour Sunshine
• Nothin' You Could Do
• We Can Put It Right
• Lady Of My Dreams
• It All Depends On You
• Listen To My Heart
• Now's The Time To Start
• Don't You Know
• Second Time Around

• Broken Man (Demo Version)
• I Don't Need Nobody
• I'll Be There (Demo Version)
• We're Not Their Boys
• Hallelujah
• Hello 503
• I Doubt If I Ever Will
• Willowing Trees (Demo Version)
• Canyon
• Spring
• Words
• Look Around
• Advertising Man
• Go Around And See It
• It's So Good Here
• Big Black Bird
• Everyone The Fool
• You Just Call
• It's My Life
• Dusty Road (Demo Version)
• Too Many Lies
• Yes (Demo Version)

• Willowing Trees
• Passing Of Time
• Imagination
• I've Been Wrong
• Spring
• Everyone The Fool
• Vanishing Cottage
• Ceiling
• Big Black Bird
• Go Around And See It
• Say It's Goodbye
• Woman
• We're Not Their Boys
• Hello 503

Additional Details

Label: Grapefruit

Genre: Pop/Rock

Run Time: 120 mins

Region: 0

Release Date: 04/24/20

UPC: 5013929186705