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By: Tracking Angle

May 30th, 2025

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Stevie Nicks's "Bella Donna and Wilco's "A.M." Are Next Up For Rhino High Fidelity Series

AAA and limited to 5000 copies each

Press release): (May 30, 2025 – Los Angeles, CA) Rhino High Fidelity (Rhino Hi-Fi) continues its acclaimed series of limited-edition, high-end vinyl reissues with the solo debut from Stevie Nicks and the first album from Wilco.

 Stevie Nicks’ Bella Donna (1981) and Wilco’s A.M. (1995) are available now exclusively at Rhino.com and internationally at select WMG stores. Each release is limited to 5,000 individually numbered copies and priced at $39.98. Available while supplies last – Order now.

 Rhino Hi-Fi sets the industry standard for sound quality and packaging, building on Rhino’s 45-year legacy of award-winning audio releases. Each album is mastered by Kevin Gray, pressed on 180-gram vinyl at Optimal, and housed in gloss-laminated “tip-on” jackets that evoke the craft and care of classic vinyl.

 Stevie Nicks’ Bella Donna introduced the Fleetwood Mac singer as a solo force, delivering four hit singles, including “Edge Of Seventeen,” “Stop Draggin’ My Heart Around” (with Tom Petty), and “Leather And Lace” (with Don Henley). The album topped the Billboard 200 and has sold over five million copies worldwide.

 A deeply personal and long-overdue solo debut, Bella Donna drew on nearly a decade of songwriting that hadn’t fit within Fleetwood Mac. “What I wanted my whole life was to do this album,” Nicks says in the liner notes by GRAMMY® Award-winning music journalist Bob Mehr. “Making Bella Donna really saved my life.”

 Produced by Jimmy Iovine and recorded with a powerhouse studio band—including Benmont Tench, Roy Bittan, Russ Kunkel, and Waddy Wachtel—the album feels immediate, like a live performance. “Most of this album was done with everybody in the room,” Nicks recalled. “Very few overdubs.” Songs like “After The Glitter Fades” and “Edge Of Seventeen” showcase the emotional range and intensity that defined Nicks’ solo voice.

 Wilco’s A.M. launched the post-Uncle Tupelo era for Jeff Tweedy, capturing a band in transition—and unexpectedly, in perfect sync. Songs like “Passenger Side,” “Box Full Of Letters,” and “I Must Be High” delivered a raw, rootsy mix of alt-country and power pop, full of warmth and wit.

 “Everything was happening at breakneck speed,” Tweedy recalls in the liner notes, also written by Bob Mehr. “The urgency was all in our heads; it felt like we had to figure this out before our momentum died down or common sense caught up with us.”

 Recorded in Memphis with producer Brian Paulson and guitarist Brian Henneman, the sessions captured Wilco finding its way as a band. Much of the album was tracked live, with half the songs emerging from what began as demo sessions. The result was a debut brimming with sincerity, humor, and a sense of possibility—laying the foundation for one of indie rock’s most continually inventive bands.

 Rhino High Fidelity continues to tap into Warner Music’s vast catalog, introducing bi-monthly reissues of seminal albums across genres—from rock and pop to jazz, soul, and beyond. Each title pairs uncompromising audio with archival-grade packaging, honoring the album’s original intent in both sound and design.

 

BELLA DONNA

LP Track Listing

 

Side One

1.     “Bella Donna”

2.     “Kind Of Woman”

3.     “Stop Draggin’ My Heart Around” (duet with Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers)

4.     “Think About It”

5.     “After The Glitter Fades”

 

Side Two

1.     “Edge Of Seventeen”

2.     “How Still My Love”

3.     “Leather And Lace” (duet with Don Henley)

4.     “Outside The Rain”

5.     “The Highwayman”

 

 

A.M.

LP Track Listing

 

Side One

1.     “I Must Be High”

2.     “Casino Queen”

3.     “Box Full Of Letters”

4.     “Shouldn’t Be Ashamed”

5.     “Pick Up The Change”

6.     “I Thought I Held You”

7.     “That’s Not The Issue”

 

Side Two

1.     “It’s Just That Simple”

2.     “Should’ve Been In Love”

3.     “Passenger Side”

4.     “Dash 7”

5.     “Blue Eyed Soul”

6.     “Too Far Apart”

 

Comments

  • 2025-05-30 08:31:13 PM

    Come on wrote:

    It would be interesting to read about a comparison of the countless quite recent or past AAA reissues of Bella Donna. Some more music that aged well, but aged a bit more than some others of that era..

  • 2025-05-31 08:58:34 AM

    Mark wrote:

    Big fan of Wilco with all of the albums on vinyl except A.M. - I dabbled in the past but it was too much of an outlier when compared to my favourite electronically-influenced stuff such as Ghost and Yankee.

    This article made me have a look on Discogs, ebay, and retailers for it. Unlike the other Wilco albums there are very few copies for sale - in fact on Discogs for the UK there are only two, and they are $85! Am I missing something?

    I think I'll bite the bullet on this Rhino release.

    Saw the band in Nashville a few weeks ago - they were fantastic.

    • 2025-05-31 05:32:05 PM

      Silk Dome Mid wrote:

      A.M. was a transitional album for sure. Instead of going in a different, more modern direction like Jay Farrar did with "Trace", Jeff Tweedy continued in the same vein mined by Uncle Tupelo with a solid country rock sound. Still, I love A.M. There are some strong songs and terrific, distinctive guitar work by my neighbor Brian Henneman of the recently retired Bottle Rockets. Inm concert, Wilco still plays the rockin' cautionary number Casino Queen as well as Passenger Side, a seriocomic lament inspired by Tweedy's loss of his driver's license. I just ordered the LP.

      • 2025-06-04 05:22:41 AM

        tim davis wrote:

        The Bottle Rockets! The one time I got to see perform many years ago was a great concert at Bele Chere in Asheville.. It's also the afternoon I met World Famous Wayne.