Prince: Previously Unreleased Album ‘Welcome 2 America’ Coming Out in July
Prince fans will be getting a new album of previously unreleased material from the late music icon this July.
Due out July 30, Welcome 2 America will be released in a variety of formats and track variations. The standard album contains 12 tracks, among them is “Stand Up and B Strong,” a Soul Asylum cover.
In a statement, Prince’s estate said, “Recorded in 2010 before the Welcome 2 America Tour, the studio album ‘Welcome 2 America’ documents Prince’s concerns, hopes, and visions for a shifting society, presciently foreshadowing an era of political division, disinformation, and a renewed fight for racial justice.”
Expanded editions feature a Blu-Ray disc of Prince’s April 28, 2011 performance at The Forum in Inglewood, Calif. The setlist for that performance contains a number of covers including Janet Jackson’s “What Have You Done For Me Lately,” Bob Dylan’s “Make You Feel My Love” and Wild Cherry’s “Play That Funky Music.”
Currently, the album’s title track is now available for streaming and download on all major digital platforms here and can be heard below.
Welcome 2 America is available for pre-order on all major digital platforms here, while physical copies can be pre-ordered at Prince.com.
Prince – Welcome 2 America
- Welcome 2 America
- Running Game (Son of a Slave Master)
- Born 2 Die
- 1000 Light Years From Here
- Hot Summer
- Stand Up and B Strong *
- Check The Record
- Same Page, Different Book
- When She Comes
- 1010 (Rin Tin Tin)
- Yes
- One Day We Will All B Free
* Soul Asylum cover
Prince – Welcome 2 America (Live at The Forum, April 28, 2011)
Concert Performance (Blu-Ray):
- Joy In Repetition
- Brown Skin (India.Arie cover)
- 17 Days
- Shhh
- Controversy
- Theme From “Which Way Is Up” (Stargard cover)
- What Have You Done For Me Lately (Janet Jackson cover)
- Partyman
- Make You Feel My Love (Bob Dylan cover)
- Misty Blue (Eddy Arnold cover)
- Let’s Go Crazy
- Delirious
- 1999
- Little Red Corvette
- Purple Rain
- The Bird (The Time cover – Prince composition)
- Jungle Love (The Time cover – Prince composition)
- A Love Bizarre (Sheila E. cover – Prince composition)
- Kiss
- Play That Funky Music (Wild Cherry cover)
- Inglewood Swinging (cover of Kool & the Gang’s “Hollywood Swinging”)
- Fantastic Voyage (Lakeside cover)
- More Than This (Roxy Music cover)
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