I've heard this title referenced before, and read through this Yahoo-news story from '98 to research it... So what's the story with this album? Was it just tossed back in the vault?


New Prince & The Revolution, The Artist Reschedules Dates

10/02/1998 6:00 PM, LAUNCH
Craig Rosen

(10/2/98, 3 p.m. PDT) - According to the Artist Formerly Known As Prince's love4oneanother website, a new album by Prince & the Revolution--with the working title Roadhouse Garden--will be released on NPG Records.

The site claims that the Artist has been "secretly doing overdubs and even offered 2 let Wendy & Lisa handle some co-production chores." The album, according to the site, will include several songs left unfinished with the Revolution imploded in the '80s, as well as several new cuts. The Artist even spoke to the website about the project in his usual Princely dialect. "Eye am approaching this like a new record, as tho the band never split because in spirit, eye doubt we ever did." In addition, the Artist hinted about resurrecting the Revolution. "The Newpower Soul Festival is turning in2 a musical commune--all are welcome!" Saxophonist Candy Dulfer recently joined the NPG in New York, and Rosie Gaines is expected to join the band in San Francisco. "So imagine Shelia E., Lisa and Wendy in the mix?!" the Artist added. "Rhonda [Smith, NPG bassist] and eye trip on it many nights!"

Former Revolution princesses Wendy & Lisa, meanwhile, recently released a new album under the moniker Girl Bros. The title, which was initially only available on the Internet, will hit record store shelves on Oct. 6.

Their former boss, the Artist, is recovering for a pulled ligament, and has rescheduled the remaining dates on his tour.

Just one of many projects that never got finished or released.

pity....

This was last mentioned when Kurt Loder asked him about it in an MTV News Interview in Nov. '99, and Prince stated it's been put on the backburner, probably since him Wendy & Lisa never got a chance 2 work on it 2gether. It was 2 included such songs as:

Roadhouse Garden
Empty Room
In A Large Room With No Light
Splash
All My Dreams
Witness 4 The Prosecution
Wonderful Ass

if this article is real, the whole project would have been a dream come true

Yup, it's totally real - got it on Yahoo's own music site. Hopefully this record sees the light of day... I've always felt that The Revolution deserved one more record before being disbanded.

I remember I read an interview in a brazilian magazine from 98 where he said he wanted to release Roadhouse Garden soon, because he felt it was the right time, because according to him, it was too ahead of its time when it was recorded.

GustavoRibas said:

much like 1999, hey?

In the Prince.org FAQ that Dansa compiled, it has the following to say:

1998: Prince announces on his Love4OneAnother website that he is working on a new Prince & The Revolution album entitled: 'Roadhouse Garden' (named after an unreleased track from 1984) The record will consist of "things left unfinished" when the band broke up, and "several new cuts that is putting together using parts from many tunes" according to the website.

Prince claims at the time to have offered Wendy Melvoin and Lisa Coleman co-production credits on the project - something they later deny. Wendy and Lisa did however state in an issue of Entertainment Weekly in 1998 that they are "doing an album together soon" - which was presumed to be 'Roadhouse Garden'.

In October of 1999, Kurt Loder asks Prince in an interview for MTV: "There's been talk of some old tracks with The Revolution coming out, is that maybe going to happen?" Prince's response was: "We did 3 tracks for the record, meaning I went in and finished them, and then I put Roadhouse Garden on one side, so right now it's not... nothing's really happening".

All true. Just another unreleased project gathering dust in the vault.

NPG2045 said:

One of the few unreleased tunes I have...excelent stuff