The Velvet Underground release early live version of ‘Sweet Jane’

An early live version of the Velvet Underground‘s lo-fi classic ‘Sweet Jane‘ has been unveiled ahead of the 6CD re-release of the band’s self-titled third album for its 45th anniversary.

The live take was recorded at The Matrix Club in San Francisco in November 1969 and is a part of the comprehensive reissue which is available from today (November 24th), following similar revisits of ‘White Light/White Heat’ and ‘The Velvet Underground & Nico‘, of which Live4ever’s Early Dawning feature began:

“Some of the great musical works of our time are canonized for associations; cultural importance and gallant artistic ambition, but rarely are they primarily championed for the strength of their content alone.”

“Truly classic albums are strident works of perfection that balance this strength of composition with an often Herculean influence on what followed, shattering everything that came before and after, of which one such; ‘The Velvet Underground & Nico‘, we are still yet to fully recover from today.”