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The Band’s Classic ‘Stage Fright’ Album to Get 50th Anniversary Deluxe Reissue
Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorThe Band’s classic 1970 album is often considered slightly inferior to its two stone-cold-classic predecessors, the group’s debut “Music From Big Pink” and the self-titled follow-up — but what’s not often stated is that “slightly inferior” to those albums still makes it one of the best albums of the year if not the era.While the group had started to fragment a bit at the time of its recording — largely due to substance abuse — it still contains several of their all-time best songs, like the title track, “The Shape I’m In,” “Strawberry Wine” and others.On February 12, Capitol/UMe will celebrate the album’s 50th anniversary with a set of newly remixed, remastered and expanded editions, including a multi-format