Yusuf/Cat Stevens will release a new career-spanning best-of compilation titled, On the Road to Findout: Greatest Hits on September 5. The album will arrive in advance of and support of Yusuf/Steven’s forthcoming memoir Cat on the Road to Findout, which will be published on September 17 in the U.K. and October 7 in the U.S.
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The retrospective feature songs spanning from Cat Stevens’ debut 1967 album, Matthew & Son, through Yusuf/Stevens’ most recent studio effort, King of a Land (2023).
On the Road to Findout: Greatest Hits will be available in multiple versions and formats, including single- and two-CD editions, and two-LP and four-LP vinyl sets. The one-CD and two-LP collections feature 24 tracks, while the two-CD and four-LP packages offer 47 songs. The two-LP version of On the Road to Findout will be available as a limited-edition violet-vinyl variant at select online retailers.
The compilation features Stevens’ biggest hits and most popular songs from the late 1960s and ’70s. They include “Matthew & Son,” “Here Comes My Baby,” “The First Cut Is the Deepest,” “Wild World,” “The Wind,” “Morning Has Broken,” “Moonshadow,” “Peace Train,” and “Oh Very Young.”
The album also features standout tracks from the U.K. singer/songwriter’s later work, after his conversion to Islam. During this period, he recorded under the monikers Yusuf Islam, Yusuf, and, most recently, Yusuf/Cat Stevens.
The compilation will come with 24-page booklet featuring all lyrics to the songs, as well as previously unseen reflections on the tunes penned by music by Yusuf/Stevens.
On the Road to Findout: Greatest Hits can be pre-ordered now.
Yusuf/Cat Stevens’ Statement About the New Compilation
Yusuf/Stevens issued a statement about the career-spanning album. “I’m pleased that, at last, a collection of recordings includes some important songs I wrote after my evolvement, ‘Take the World Apart’ and ‘Heaven/Where True Love Goes’ for instance, reflecting the peace and happiness which has since changed my life,” he noted. “Thank you one and all. It’s really humbling to think about how many souls have been traversing this journey with me.”
About Yusuf/Stevens’ Upcoming Memoir and Book Tour
The hits compilation will be released one day before Yusuf/Stevens’ launches a tour to promote his new memoir.
The trek, dubbed “Cat on the Road to Findout – An Evening of Tales, Tunes and Mysteries,” will visit various U.K. cities, along with a stop in Dublin, Ireland, this September. The tour will then head to North America in October.
Each event will feature an in-depth conversation with the singer/songwriter about his book, which, according to a press release, “chronicles his evolution from chart-topping pop star to spiritual explorer.” Stevens also will deliver an acoustic performance of some of his classic songs during the presentations.
In addition to the interview segments and performances, the events will include photos, film clips, artwork, recorded music, and more.
The first leg of the tour kicks off September 6 in Cambridge, England, and will run through a September 22 appearance in Glasgow, Scotland. The North American leg is scheduled from an October 2 stop in Philadelphia through an October 21-22 stand in Los Angeles.
Tickets to the tour are on sale now. VIP tickets are available that offer an autographed copy of the book.
According to an official description of Cat on the Road to Findout, the book “finally reveals the curious complexity and intellectual reasoning behind [Yusuf/Stevens’] navigation through life—a voyage which has now culminated in his return to music and art, to share his lessons with those seekers, dreamers, and believers, who still love and admire him.”
The memoir features dozens of hand-drawn illustrations by the 76-year-old singer/songwriter, as well as archival images.
Cat on the Road to Findout can be pre-ordered now, and will be available in hardback, ebook, and audiobook formats. The audiobook version is narrated by Stevens himself.
On the Road to Findout: Greatest Hits Track List (Two-CD/Digital):
CD One
- “I Love My Dog”
- “Matthew & Son”*
- “Here Comes My Baby”*
- “The First Cut Is the Deepest”*
- “Lady D’Arbanville”*
- “Trouble”
- “Where Do the Children Play?”*
- “Wild World”*
- “Father and Son”
- “Tea for the Tillerman”
- “Don’t Be Shy”
- “If You Want to Sing Out, Sing Out”*
- “The Wind”*
- “How Can I Tell You”
- “Morning Has Broken”*
- “Moonshadow”*
- “Peace Train”*
- “I Want to Live in a Wigwam”
- “Sitting”*
- “Can’t Keep It In”*
- “Foreigner Suite (Excerpt)”
- “The Hurt”*
- “Ready”
- “Oh Very Young”*
- “Another Saturday Night”
CD Two
- “Majik of Majiks”
- “Banapple Gas”*
- “(Remember the Days of the) Old Schoolyard”*
- “(I Never Wanted) To Be a Star”
- “Just Another Night”*
- “Last Love Song”
- “Butterfly”
- “Heaven/Where True Love Goes”*
- “Maybe There’s a World”
- “Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood”
- “Thinking ’Bout You”*
- “Roadsinger”
- “Gold Digger”*
- “Dying to Live”
- “Blackness of the Night”*
- “Grandsons”
- “Miles from Nowhere”
- “On the Road to Find Out”
- “Father and Son”*
- “Here Comes the Sun” (Acoustic)
- “All Nights, All Days”
- “Take the World Apart”*
* = appears on single-CD and two-LP versions of the compilation.
(Photo by Shepard Sherbell/Corbis Historical/Getty Images)
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