DWIGHT TWILLEY SCUBA DIVERS (Blueprint Edition)

DWIGHT TWILLEY

SCUBA DIVERS (Blueprint Edition)

THE MOST REQUESTED DWIGHT TWILLEY MATERIAL!

INCLUDES 15 BONUS TRACKS FROM THE LEGENDARY BLUEPRINT SESSIONS

(11 PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED)

ORIGINAL ALBUM HAS BEEN UNAVAILABLE ON CD FOR 15 YEARS

NEW LINER NOTES ESSAYS BY HOWIE EDELSON (THE BEACH BOYS’ CREATIVE CONSULTANT/BIOGRAPHER) AND JEREMY HOLIDAY (REISSUE COMPILER/PRODUCER)

NEVER-BEFORE-SEEN PHOTOS BY ZOX FROM THE BLUEPRINT AND SCUBA DIVERS SHOOTS

DIGITALLY REMASTERED BY VIC ANESINI FROM ORIGINAL MASTERS

AVAILABLE JANUARY 31, 2025

Dwight Twilley’s second solo album had a protracted birth. Recording sessions began in 1978 for an album to be titled Blueprint and planned for release through Arista Records. Complex legal entanglements slowed progress until a different label, EMI America at last released the retitled album, Scuba Divers in the summer of 1982.

Yet Dwight never stopped writing and cutting throughout the enforced interval since his 1979 solo debut, Twilley. Along the path, dozens of his very best songs and performances came in and out of consideration as numerous album sequences were compiled then recompiled.

Now, 25 essential songs from years of studio work paint a fuller picture of Dwight Twilley at a peak of creativity

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Rough bootlegs of the first iteration of Blueprint have been breathlessly traded by fans throughout the decades, as Dwight Twilley’s unreleased album took on a legendary status. But Scuba Divers (Blueprint Edition) goes way beyond by presenting 7 additional songs that have never circulated, along with the best of the previously bootlegged material in original master-sourced sound.

TRACK LIST

original Scuba Divers album

1. I’m Back Again

2. Somebody To Love (extended album version)

3. 10,000 American Scuba Divers Dancin’

4. Touchin’ The Wind

5. Later That Night

6. I Think It’s That Girl

7. Dion Baby

8. Cryin’ Over Me

9. I Found The Magic (extended album version)

10. Falling In Love Again

Blueprint Bonus Tracks

previously unreleased *except where noted

11. Somebody To Love (1979 7” version)*

12. Then We Go Up

13. I Love You So Much*

14. She’s All My Light

15. Just Like You Did It Before

16. Shark (In The Dark)*

17. Tiger Eyes

18. Living In The City

19. Baby’s Got The Blues Again

20. It’s So Amazing

21. Sky Blue

22. Rock Yourself, Son

23. Firefly*

24. I’m Back Again (early version)

25. Leave Me Alone With My Baby