Dig, if you will, the picture: It was 2010 and Prince set out on his Welcome 2 America Tour, threading the world and playing sold-out venues. He delivered a mix of anthems and pop hits drawn from his 39 studio albums. And yet, there was something curiously missing from that Welcome 2 America tour: songs from the album Welcome 2 America – an album Prince wrote and recorded right before the tour, but then never released or performed in public. That music - which you ll hear for the first time tonight - went into Prince s vault, a trove of material this blazingly prolific artist secreted away. Five years after Prince s death, administrators of his estate are cracking open the vault. Welcome 2 America and welcome to the singular ways of Prince.
Exploring the unreleased music in Prince s vault
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Exploring the unreleased music in Prince s vault
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A previously unheard studio album that
Prince recorded in 2010 called
The 12-track collection finds Prince musing on a variety of issues and themes that concerned him about the state of the U.S. at the time, and that now seem prescient.
In advance of
Welcome 2 America‘s arrival, the album’s title track has been released as a digital single and via streaming services.
The song features Prince offering up a spoken-word critique of modern-day America focusing on the superficiality of social media, reality TV and celebrity culture, the corporate-run music business and more.
Welcome 2 America, which you can pre-order now, will be available on CD, vinyl LP and digitally, as well as a deluxe version featuring the CD, the LP and a Blu-ray with a video of a full unreleased concert that Prince played with his