Artist: Spirit
Title: Sunrise & Salvation: The Mercury Era Anthology
Year Of Release: 2021
Label: Esoteric Recordings
Genre: Rock, Psychedelic Rock
Audio codec: FLAC | lossless
Total Time: 10:08:39

Spirit are maybe best known for their revolutionary work of the late 60s – music that took a more freeform style of jamming and focused it into some surprisingly tuneful ends – but the group were really firmly back at their best during the overlooked 70s stretch in which they recorded for Mercury Records! The lineup on most of these tracks marks the return of both Ed Cassidy and Randy California to the group – and at many moments, the sound is almost out of time – sometimes a more focused hard rock take on the group's earlier work, but at many other points a lot more freewheeling and almost as experimental as at their start – which makes for a huge amount of greatness to discover in this overstuffed package. From what we can tell, the set includes all the material from the Mercury albums Spirit Of 76, Son Of Spirit, Farther Along, and Future Games – but also has a huge amount of other rare and related material – as well as two live sets, one from Austin in 1975, one from Cleveland in the same year! There's also 23 early demo tracks, 21 tracks of rare studio material from 1974, and even 8 more solo demo tracks by group members. The package has a massive 195 tracks in all!

Tracklist:
Spirit Of '76
1-1 America The Beautiful/The Times They Are A Changing 5:26
1-2 Victim Of Society 3:01
1-3 Lady Of The Lakes 2:54
1-4 Tampa Jam (Part One) 0:54
1-5 Maunaloa 2:03
1-6 What Do I Have? 1:57
1-7 Sunrise 3:06
1-8 Walking The Dog 3:10
1-9 Tampa Jam (Part Two) 1:03
1-10 Joker On The Run 3:57
1-11 When? 4:25
1-12 Like A Rolling Stone 8:55
1-13 Once Again 3:21
1-14 Feeling In Time 3:25
1-15 Happy 3:16
1-16 Jack Bond 1:38
1-17 My Road 4:13
1-18 Tampa Jam (Part Three) 0:54
1-19 Thank You Lord 1:49

2-1 Urantia 4:01
2-2 Guide Me 3:48
2-3 Veruska 4:00
2-4 Hey Joe 6:32
2-5 Jack Bond Part Two 0:44
2-6 The Star Spangled Banner 3:44
Bonus Tracks
2-7 Guide Me (Alternate Edit Version) 2:38
2-8 Joker On The Run (Alternate Edit Version) 2:52
2-9 America The Beautiful/The Times They Are A Changing (Alternate Edit Version) 4:52
Bonus Tracks: Live At The Agora, Cleveland, Ohio - 18th November 1974
2-10 I’ve Got To Use My Imagination 4:00
2-11 Nature’s Way (Previously Unreleased) 3:48
2-12 Mr. Skin (Previously Unreleased) 3:47
2-13 Guide Me 3:55
2-14 Fresh Garbage (Previously Unreleased) 4:02
2-15 Hey Joe 7:33
2-16 Veruska (Previously Unreleased) 1:10
2-17 Run Sinner, Run (Previously Unreleased) 2:18
2-18 Victim Of Society 4:56
2-19 On The Road Again 4:46
2-20 Happy 5:34

Son Of Spirit
3-1 Holy Man 3:02
3-2 Looking Into Darkness 2:52
3-3 Maybe You’ll Find 2:38
3-4 Don’t Go Away 3:44
3-5 Family 3:05
3-6 Magic Fairy Princess 2:58
3-7 Circle 3:29
3-8 The Other Song 5:31
3-9 Yesterday 1:54
3-10 It’s Time Now 3:04
Farther Along
3-11 Farther Along 3:19
3-12 Atomic Boogie 2:37
3-13 World Eat World Dog 2:45
3-14 Stoney Night 2:31
3-15 Pineapple 2:11
3-16 Colossus 2:56
3-17 Mega Star 3:21
3-18 Phoebe 2:09
3-19 Don’t Lock Up Your Door 3:09
3-20 One With You 1:33
3-21 Diamond Spirit 2:25
3-22 Nature’s Way 2:06
Bonus Tracks: "Farther Along" Session Out-takes
3-23 Hawaiian Skies 2:25
3-24 Song for Clyde 2:32
3-25 Constant Stream 1:53
3-26 Let Me Be Your Daddy 3:29
Bonus Track: Live 1976
3-27 Farther Along 3:42

Future Games (A Magical Kahauna Dream)
4-1 CB Talk 0:43
4-2 Stars Are Love 2:19
4-3 Kahauna Dream 3:05
4-4 Buried In My Brain 3:08
4-5 Bionic Unit 2:44
4-6 So Happy Now 0:26
4-7 All Along The Watchtower 5:00
4-8 Would You Believe 2:16
4-9 Jack Bond Speaks 1:46
4-10 Star Trek Dreaming 2:15
4-11 Interlude XM 0:29
4-12 China Doll 1:56
4-13 Hawaiian Times 0:14
4-14 Gorn Attack 2:26
4-15 Interlude 2001 0:09
4-16 Detroit City 4:04
4-17 Freakout Frog 1:47
4-18 The Romulan Experience 0:58
4-19 Monkey See Monkey Do 1:35
4-20 Mt Olympus 0:29
4-21 The Journey Of Nomad 2:26
4-22 Ending 3:56
Bonus Tracks: Studio Session Tracks Circa 1976 And 1977
4-23 Detroit City (Alternate Edit Version) 2:19
4-24 Would You Believe (Alternate Edit Version) 2:17
4-25 Stars Are Love (Alternate Edit Version) 2:39
4-26 Monkey See, Monkey Do (Demo) 1:32
4-27 Chairman Mao (Full Band Version) 2:12
4-28 Would You Believe (Full Band Unedited Version) 4:13
4-29 Hollywood Dream 4:15
4-30 Something New 3:07
4-31 In Just A Little While 1:38
4-32 Love Charged 3:55
4-33 Same Old Naturally 3:57

The Thirteenth Dream (Spirit Of ’84)
5-1 Black Satin Nights 3:22
5-2 Mr. Skin 3:36
5-3 Fresh Garbage 3:06
5-4 Rasta Girl In A Ferrari (Previously Unreleased) 3:14
5-5 Nature’s Way 2:44
5-6 1984 4:04
5-7 Pick it Up 3:03
5-8 All Over The World 4:10
5-9 Give Me Your Number (Previously Unreleased) 2:56
5-10 Mechanical World 5:52
5-11 Elijah 7:05
5-12 Uncle Jack 2:57
5-13 I Got A Line On You 8:14
Bonus Tracks: Live In Detroit 1985 - Previously Unreleased
5-14 All Along The Watchtower 5:24
5-15 Animal Zoo 3:15
5-16 Dark Eyed Woman 3:20
5-17 Tobacco Road 3:33
5-18 Prelude: Nothing To Hide 4:27
5-19 Working In Detroit 4:12

Spirit Of Salvation (Studio Material From 1974-1975)
6-1 You’re So Beautiful 3:24
6-2 I’ve Got To Use My Imagination 3:14
6-3 Looking Into Darkness 3:01
6-4 Neptune Caper 2:48
6-5 Positively 4th Street 3:52
6-6 Jimmy Brown 1:37
6-7 We Are One People 2:06
6-8 Wake Up America 3:00
6-9 Family 2:46
6-10 The Other Song 5:39
6-11 Cass Drums 2:10
6-12 Salvation 1:20
6-13 Cass Drums 0:23
6-14 Future In My Hands 2:50
6-15 The Maharaji Speaks 1:18
6-16 Holy Man 3:06
6-17 Maybe You’ll Find 2:39
6-18 Yesterday 2:14
6-19 Magic Fairy Princess 3:34
6-20 Circle 2:56
6-21 Kathy’s Song 2:19
Solo Demos
6-22 Miss Lani 2:32
6-23 Sparkling Sands 2:49
6-24 High With You 2:21
6-25 Seven Fires 2:27
6-26 10,000 Days 3:06
6-27 Seems Like 1000 Years Ago 3:16
6-28 Livin’ In This World 3:15
6-29 Thinking Of You 3:55

Live At Armadillo Headquarters, Austin, Texas 19th June 1975
7-1 Introduction 1:08
7-2 Going Down 4:54
7-3 So Little Time To Fly 2:31
7-4 Austin Jam 7:25
7-5 Working In Austin 4:17
7-6 Joker On The Run 3:39
7-7 All Along The Watchtower 9:27
7-8 Mr. Tambourine Man 3:00
7-9 Old Blue 2:33
7-10 Mr. Skin 3:01
7-11 Prelude: Nothing To Hide 4:02
7-12 Miss This Train 3:51
7-13 I’ve Got To Use My Imagination 3:32
7-14 All The Same 14:41
7-15 I Got A Line On You 2:48
7-16 On The Road Again/Star Spangled Banner/On The Road Again/Austin Jam 7:05

"Future Games" – The Early Demo Version
8-1 CB Talk 0:38
8-2 Stars are Love 2:31
8-3 Kahauna Dream 2:46
8-4 Buried In My Brain 2:58
8-5 Bionic Unit 2:05
8-6 So Happy Now 1:19
8-7 All Along The Watchtower 4:32
8-8 Would You Believe 3:29
8-9 Jack Bond Speaks 1:19
8-10 Star Trek Dreaming 1:51
8-11 Interlude XM 0:26
8-12 China Doll 2:13
8-13 Hawaiian Times 0:19
8-14 Gorn Attack 2:12
8-15 Interlude 2001 0:55
8-16 Detroit City 2:55
8-17 Freakout Frog 1:56
8-18 The Romulan Experience 0:46
8-19 Monkey See, Monkey Do 1:49
8-20 Mount Olympus 0:34
8-21 Journey Of Nomad 2:24
8-22 Would You Believe (Reprise) 0:46
8-23 Ending 0:37
Live At The Agora, Cleveland, Ohio - 30th June 1975
8-24 Downer 3:19
8-25 Like A Rolling Stone 9:06
8-26 Victim Of Society 3:30
8-27 Ohio Jam 4:16
8-28 Mr. Skin 3:14
8-29 Old Blue/Ohio Jam (Reprise) 4:05
8-30 All The Same 6:53
8-31 I Got A Line On You 2:53