{"product_id":"buffalo-tom-sleepy-eyed-expanded-edition-cd","title":"Buffalo Tom: Sleepy Eyed - Expanded Edition (CD)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ciframe title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/TT-n0WAF7EE?si=ww6DhsAAMxcbRo3O\" height=\"300\" width=\"full\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBeggars Banquet is happy to release an expanded edition of Buffalo Tom’s fifth album \u003cem\u003eSleepy Eyed\u003c\/em\u003e, celebrating its 30th Anniversary this year.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSet for release on October 31st, on 2XLP\/CD, the album has been expanded to include six demos that the band unearthed specifically for this release. All home recordings, “Hold Me Up” and “Don’t Blow Your Wind” are gorgeous completely unheard songs that somehow didn’t make it any further than a demo. “Tangerine”, “Summer”, “Kitchen Door” and “Clobbered” are a window into how these Buffalo Tom classics got their start.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eSleepy Eyed\u003c\/em\u003e has been expanded into a double LP, and the refreshed artwork includes new photos and images of ephemera plus notes written by the band and producer John Agnello about the recording of the album.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eSleepy Eyed\u003c\/em\u003e marked a turning point for the band. Their previous album, 1993’s \u003cem\u003eBig Red Letter Day\u003c\/em\u003e was a huge album for them, landing on the Billboard charts and bringing them to new levels of fame when “Late At Night” was heavily featured in a pivotal scene of the short-lived mid-90s cult TV show \"My So Called Life” which starred Claire Danes and Jared Leto. The song was not only in the episode, but the band was also shown performing it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe making of that album was a massive, glossy undertaking, recorded in LA with huge producers, and as Bill Janovitz noted “It was a full-on, old-school peak-analogue record production”. The band’s inclination for their follow-up was to bring it back to a more stripped down and raw recording situation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBill said, “I was thinking of \u003cem\u003eSome Girls\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eTonight's The Night\u003c\/em\u003e, and those electric Dylan records like \u003cem\u003eHighway 61 Revisited\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eBlonde On Blonde\u003c\/em\u003e, where you could hear instruments bleeding into each other, snare drum rattling from the guitars and bass, and off-microphone stuff, and even mistakes, where it just felt like you were in the room with the band.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThey found the perfect partner in this plan with producer John Agnello and the perfect place to make it – at Dreamland Recordings Studio in upstate New York. Tom Maginnis noted that “there were really no distractions, and we ended up spending long days into the night at the studio and just crashing at the house to sleep. We would do take after take to get the right basic track, so it felt like playing many live sets in a single day.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe songs on \u003cem\u003eSleepy Eyed\u003c\/em\u003e, which include an impressive opening trio of three of their most popular - “Tangerine”, “Summer” and “Kitchen Door” are amongst many fan favourites. Their trademark harmonies, timeless songwriting and guitar fueled passion is perfectly exemplified on this release.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBuffalo Tom (Bill Janovitz, Chris Colbourn and Tom Maginnis) formed at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst in 1986 - a breeding ground of post punk guitar bands like Dinosaur Jr. and Pixies. The three longstanding bandmates recognize the achievement of their longevity as a creative unit - 10 albums, 40 years as a band. Nice work if you can get it!\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTangerine\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSummer\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eKitchen Door\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRules\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIt's You\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWhen You Discover\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSunday Night\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eYour Stripes\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSparklers\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eClobbered\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSundress\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTwenty-Points (The Ballad of Sexual Dependency)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSouvenir\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCrueler\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTangerine\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSummer\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eKitchen Door\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eClobbered\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHold Me Up\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDon't Blow Your Wind\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e","brand":"Beggars Banquet","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52315634631002,"sku":"BBQ2703CD","price":12.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1481\/5374\/files\/buffalo-tom-sleepy-eyed-expanded-edition.jpg?v=1759308656","url":"https:\/\/freebirdrecords.com\/products\/buffalo-tom-sleepy-eyed-expanded-edition-cd","provider":"Freebird Records","version":"1.0","type":"link"}