Early Takes Vol.1

George Harrisonのアウトテイクとデモ音源を集めたコンピレーション(2012年発売)

マーティン・スコセッシ監督の2011年ドキュメンタリー映画『George Harrison: Living in the Material World』に登場した音源で、もともとDVD商品のデラックス版の一部としてリリースされた。
プロデューサーのGiles MartinがエンジニアのPaul Hicksと協力してこのアルバムをコンパイル。トラックの大半はジョージの1970年リリース3枚組アルバム『All Things Must Pass』のセッションからのもの。

Originally released as part of the deluxe Blu-ray edition of Martin Scorsese's 2011 documentary George Harrison: Living in the Material World, the 2012 disc Early Takes, Vol. 1 rounds up ten of George Harrison's demos dating from the '70s. The exact dates are fuzzy, as the liner notes are little more than hagiography, but a quick scan of the titles pegs the great bulk of them -- six, to be precise -- from All Things Must Pass, with two others dating from 1976's Thirty Three & 1/3 ("Let It Be Me," "Woman Don't You Cry for Me), another from Living in the Material World, the 1973 album ("The Light That Has Lighted the World), and, finally, a perfectly fine cover of Dylan's "Mama, You've Been on My Mind." Several of these are solo acoustic demos, some are rough band run-throughs, and nothing is all that far removed from the finished product, so the collection winds up just a tad anticlimactic for containing nothing but unreleased music: it all feels cozy. And while it's hard not to wish there were a surprise or two along the way, the familiar warmth certainly has its charms, too. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine