Even as they get ready to undertake winter and spring tours in celebration of their 2024 album, The Head and the Habit (review here), Sweden’s Greenleaf are taking time to mark the 25th anniversary of the band. Their 2000 self-titled debut EP (discussed here) and 2001 follow-up debut LP, Revolution Rock (discussed here) have been compiled onto what Blues Funeral Recordings is billing as Revolution Rock Deluxe, a jam-packed-with-jams 15-track presentation of Greenleaf‘s earliest work, remastered by Karl Daniel Lidén. It’s about as close to a no-brainer as you can get without actually getting into not having a brain.

The remaster of “Sold My Lady (Out the Back of an Oldsmobile)” — which has always been a better title than a song, but is going to grab attention one way or the other — is streaming at the bottom of this post, along with The Head and the Habit should you want to do a side-by-side of the band Greenleaf were with the band they are now. There’s a lesson about predicting the future in there somewhere.

Info from the PR wire:

Blues Funeral Recordings team up with Swedish heavy rock giants Greenleaf to present “Revolution Rock Deluxe”, a 15-track monster of a record combining their landmark album “Revolution Rock” (featuring members of Dozer, Lowrider, Demon Cleaner) with the long out-of-print 2000 debut EP onto one single package, fully remastered by Karl Daniel Lidén Produktion and adorned with a fresh design by Peder Bergstrand.

⚡️ STREAM newly remastered single “Sold My Lady (Out the Back of An Oldsmobile)”: https://lnkfi.re/soldmylady
📀 PREORDER: https://greenleaf-sweden.bandcamp.com/album/revolution-rock-deluxe

It will be released on March 28th in limited and worldwide edition 2xLP and digipak CD formats as well as in an extremely limited special deluxe vinyl edition for Blues Funeral’s upcoming PostWax Unlimited subscription series. More info about PostWax Unlimited: bluesfuneral.com/collections/postwax

TRACKLIST:
1. Vat 69
2. Devil Woman
3. Status: Hallucinogenic, Phase II
4. You Got Me High
5. Red Tab
6. The Shipbuilder
7. Electric Ryder
8. Hexagram
9. Monostereowhatever
10. Get Your Love Outta Here
11. Sold My Lady (Out the Back of An Oldsmobile)
12. Kvinna Du Ger Mig Ingen Kärlek
13. Smell the Green
14. Land of Lincoln
15. Status: Hallucinogenic

Led by guitarist Tommi Holappa of European desert rock icons Dozer, Greenleaf began as an informal collective of friends making music inspired by their shared love of ’70s riff rock.

Having transformed into a proper band in 2013, Greenleaf enters 2025 at the forefront of the global heavy scene on the heels of acclaimed latest album The Head & The Habit. Moving into the staggering twenty fifth year of a monumental career, they mark the milestone with a very special reissue of their earliest releases.

Featuring members of Dozer, Lowrider, Demon Cleaner and more, Greenleaf’s first album Revolution Rock was self-released in 2001 and never widely distributed nor repressed since its original 500-copy run. The new Revolution Rock Deluxe combines that landmark album with Greenleaf’s long out-of-print 2000 debut EP onto a single stunning edition, with all songs fully remastered by Karl Daniel Lidén and the original art and design brilliantly refreshed and updated by Lowrider’s Peder Bergstrand.

Join us in celebrating a quarter century of riff majesty with Revolution Rock Deluxe, and experience Greenleaf’s Big Bang for the first time again!

GREENLEAF WINTER & SPRING 2025:

⚡️AUSTRALIA TOUR 2025⚡️:

20.2 Mo’s Desert Club, Gold Coast
21.2 Soapbox, Brisbane**
22.2 Marrickvile, Sydney **
23.2 The Baso, Canberra **
26.2 Tanwells Hotel, Beechworth **
27.2 Medusa, Geelong **
28.2 The Gaso, Melbourne**
1.3 The Cranker, Adelaide**
2.3 Spliffs n Riffs Festival, Perth **
** @iron_blanket

⚡️THE TRICKING TREE TOUR 2025⚡️

28.03.25 (DE) Karlsruhe, SOL Psych Out
29.03.25 (DE) Cologne, SOL Sonic Ride ^
30.03.25 (FR) Wasquehal, The Black Lab *
31.03.25 (FR) Paris, Backstage *
01.04.25 (FR) Nantes, Le Ferrailleur *
03.04.25 (NL) Deventer, Burgerweeshuis * ^
04.04.25 (NL) Eindhoven, Effenaar * ^
05.04.25 (DE) Aschaffenburg, Colos-Saal * ^
* @highdesertqueen
^ @gnomeverse

“Revolution Rock Deluxe” lineup:
Jocke Åslund – Hammond Organ
Bengt Bäcke – Bass, keys
Peder Bergstrand – Vocals, guitar, bass
Tommi Holappa – Guitars, bass
Daniel Lidén – Drums, percussion
Fredrik Nordin – Vocals

GREENLEAF is:
Arvid Hällagård – vocals
Tommi Holappa – guitars
Sebastian Olsson – drums
Hans Fröhlich – bass

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Greenleaf, Revolution Rock Deluxe (2025)

Greenleaf, The Head and the Habit (2024)

Now I know how the Libyans must have felt when they found old Doc Brown in that mall parking lot…

After months of fruitless searching, pointless eBaying and Amazon scouring, download-refusing and wishful thinking, I finally found a place online selling Greenleaf‘s Revolution Rock that, when I ordered it, didn’t tell me, “Oh sorry, we were just kidding about that, please go fuck yourself now, thanks for ordering.” I finally feel like I can sleep at night.

Thanks to the good people at the Freebird Records mailorder, the package arrived in the valley Saturday afternoon in a conspicuous black envelope which I tore into like radiation through a cancer patient. When I found a padded envelope inside the flat envelope (postage is cheaper that way, it’s an old shipping trick), I had visions of unwrapping envelope after envelope until I finally got to a tiny, one inch by one inch one with a note inside that “Gotcha!” with a smiley face under the exclamation point.

But nope, within that second envelope was Revolution Rock in all its glory and though I didn’t get to listen to it until nigh on 4AM Saturday night/Sunday morning, it was worth every second of the wait. And with the Greenleaf lineup of Tommi Holappa (Dozer), Fredrik Nordin (Dozer), Daniel Lid?n (ex-Dozer, Demon Cleaner, Vaka and recent The Obelisk comment-leaver) and Bengt B?cke (who near as I can tell was never in Dozer), you really get a sense of the band’s side-project beginnings. It’s almost like a bonus early Dozer record, actually. Can’t go wrong with that. I’m just relieved that, after all this time looking, it doesn’t suck.

Thanks again to Freebird, for, you know, existing. If anyone needs me, I’ll be drowning myself in the fuzz of “The Shipbuilder.”