388 - Marshall Crenshaw - Reissue of Classic Album, #447

Marshall Crenshaw’s 40 plus year career has included ten studio albums, a US top 40 hit in 1982 with “Someday, Someway,” some collaborations, and some movie appearances. Crenshaw recently regained the rights to several albums he released originally on the Razor & Tie label. We talked to him in 2020 for the first in that series, Miracle of Science. Now comes the reissue of #447. The eleven song album is arguably one of his most adventurous, and is augmented by two newly recorded tracks issued on his own Shiny Tone label.He talks about his struggles with major labels and how being on a smaller one gave him the freedom to do the things he really wanted to do. He also gives us a preview of Deluxe Editions of his first two albums, coming later in the fall.