First Career Retrospective for Edie Brickell & New Bohemians Features Best-Loved Tracks and Seven Previously Unreleased Recordings.

Entertainment Editors & Music/Retail Writers

LOS ANGELES--(ENTERTAINMENT WIRE)--Aug. 6, 2002

Any list of musical shooting stars must include Edie Brickell & New Bohemians. Their debut album, 1988's "Shooting Rubberbands At The Stars," went #4 pop, double platinum and #10 on Rolling Stone's list of the best albums of 1989. The single "What I Am" (with its memorable "I know what I know if you know what I mean/Choke me in the shallow water/Before I get too deep") went Top 10 as well. The band debuted nationally on "Saturday Night Live" and went on tour with Bob Dylan, Don Henley and the Grateful Dead. But while they never reached that plateau again, the band and Edie solo continued making music emphasizing feeling over attitude, the small moment over the big picture -- music that has continued with a recent reunion on stage and album.

"Edie Brickell & New Bohemians: Ultimate Collection" (Hip-O Records), released September 10, 2002, their first comprehensive career overview, features 19 digitally remastered selections, including Edie solo material (produced by husband Paul Simon), recordings with Rob Wasserman/Jerry Garcia and jazz popster Chris Botti, and seven previously unreleased tracks. Compiled with Edie's and the band's participation, "Ultimate Collection" also boasts their take on Dylan's "A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall" for the 1994 "Born On The 4th Of July" soundtrack and "Big Day, Little Boat," her contribution to the George Harrison-led 1990 benefit project "Nobody's Child - The Romanian Angel Appeal."

In 1985, Edie was a Southern Methodist University freshman working as a waitress in hometown of Dallas, TX. One late night/early morning at a tiny after-hours club, inspired by a friend (and Mr. Jack Daniels), she got up on stage and sang with the band New Bohemians. Three years later, signed to Geffen Records, the shy young girl and the band were being acclaimed as the best of a new breed of new artists.

From "Shooting Rubberbands At The Stars," "Ultimate Collection" culls "What I Am," "Little Miss S." and "Circle." From 1990's "Ghost Of A Dog," there's "Woyaho" and "Swisted." Taken from "Picture Perfect Morning," Edie's 1994 Simon-produced solo album, are "Good Times" (with Barry White on vocals), "Lost In The Moment" and "Green." "Zillionaire" with Wasserman and Garcia was first heard on the former's 1993 "Trios" album, and "Like I Do Now" on Botti's 1995 "First Wish" album.

The previously unreleased tracks are from '90s sessions intended to be issued under the moniker The Slip ("Girl In A Magazine," "1873 (Buffalo Diary)" and "Invisible Man"), and four post-Geffen recordings ("A Little Time," "Boys In The Band," "Baby" and the Edie-Carter Albrecht duet "Vodka").

Edie Brickell & New Bohemians is the latest compilation album in the Hip-O "Ultimate Collection" series, which celebrates noteworthy artists.