Blues Traveler - 25 (2012)

CD1:
01 – Run-Around
02 – Hook
03 – The Mountains Win Again
04 – But Anyway
05 – You, Me and Everything
06 – Amber Awaits
07 – After What
08 – Back In The Day
09 – Girl Inside My Head
10 – Carolina Blues
11 – Let Her and Let Go
12 – Gina
13 – 100 Years
14 – What’s For Breakfast
15 – NY Prophesie
16 – Unable To Get Free
17 – How You Remember It
18 – What I Got

CD2:
01 – The Demon
02 – The Poignant & Epic Saga Of Featherhead & Lucky Lack
03 – Blue Hour
04 – Trust In Trust
05 – Didn’t Mean To Wake Up
06 – But Anyway ’88
07 – Random Amounts
08 – Twelve Swords
09 – The Sun and The Storm
10 – Traveler’s Suite
11 – Run-Around (Gunslinger Remix)

Personnel:
    John Popper - Vocals, harmonica, 12-string guitar
    Chan Kinchla - Guitar
    Bobby Sheehan, Tad Kinchla - Bass
    Brendan Hill - Drums, percussion
    Ben Wilson - Keyboards
    Joan Osborne - Backing vocals on "100 Years"
    Warren Haynes - Slide guitar on "The Mountains Win Again"
    Arnie Lawrence - Soprano saxophone on "100 Years"

Released to commemorate the band's quarter-century anniversary, 2012's 25 is a double-disc compilation that digs deep into Blues Traveler's career. The first disc contains the hits and album tracks -- not all of them, with the 1997 Top 40 hit "Most Precarious" being the most conspicuous absence -- but the core of the jam band's canon is here, including "But Anyway," "Run-Around," "Hook," "The Mountains Win Again," and "Carolina Blues," topped off with a newly recorded cover of Sublime's "What I Got." That's just the beginning of the collector bait: the rest of the retrospective is devoted to B-sides, rarities, and outtakes, including such nuggets as an early version of "Run-Around" called "The Poignant and Epic Saga of Featherhead and Lucky Lack," a brand new Gunslinger Remix of "Run Around," a version of "But Anyway" from 1988, and all four cuts from the 2000 EP Decisions of the Sky: A Traveler's Tale of Sun and Storm, including the 20-minute saga "Traveler's Suite." Combined, the hits and the rarities may not have one specific targeted audience -- the casual fans will like the first, the hardcore the second, and neither may necessarily have the need for the other -- but taken together the two discs show Blues Traveler at both their most accessible and their most adventurous, so, in a sense, it is a representative introduction. ---Stephen Thomas Erlewine, AllMusic Review

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