Horses (50th Anniversary Edition), available through Legacy Recordings, will pair the classic LP with a further nine alternate versions and outtakes from the album sessions, including two selections from Smith’s demo tape for RCA Records. (Arista, unaffiliated with RCA at the time, ended up signing her for about a quarter-century.) A demo version of standout “Redondo Beach” was released on a 2002 compilation, but the others here – including the preview track “Snowball” and a cover of The Marvelettes’ “The Hunter Gets Captured by the Game” – are heard here for the first time. The deluxe Horses, available on CD, vinyl and digitally, prefaces the publication of Smith’s new memoir, Bread of Angels, in November. (Smith’s deliberate recording pace – one album in the ’80s…

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