TESLA will release the Tesla Gold album on August 26th, a two-CD Best Of retrospective. The tracklist is as follows:

Disc 1: 'Cumin' Atcha Live', 'Ez Come Ez Go', 'Modern Day Cowboy', 'Gettin' Better', 'Rock Me To The Top', 'Little Suzi', 'Hang Tough', 'Heaven's Trail (No Way Out)', 'Lazy Days, Crazy Nights', 'The Way It Is', 'Love Song', 'Love In Vain'+, 'I Ain't Superstitious'++, 'Rock The Nation'++, 'Signs' (live), 'Paradise' (live), 'Children's Heritage' ++, 'Cotton Fields' ++.

Disc Two: 'Edison's Medicine', 'Call It What You Want', 'Song & Emotion', 'What You Give', 'Mama's Fool', 'Try So Hard', 'A Lot To Lose', 'The Ocean', 'Last Action Hero', 'Steppin' Over', 'Into The Now', 'Heaven Nine Eleven', 'Caught In A Dream', 'Thank You'

+ previously unreleased

++ non-lp single b-side

As previously reported, Tesla drummer Troy Lucketta contacted BW&BK; directly today (July 31st) to announce that the band has finished recording their new album and will start mixing it tomorrow with an October release date in mind. he also confirmed that the song 'Dear Pvt. Ledbetter' premiered on the live DVD Comin' Atcha Live will be on the new CD, "but it is completely different... it's slower and moodier." They've also altered the song's bridge.

Finally, Lucketta revealed that the band's career retrospective box set is nearing completion. A whopping 40 UNRELEASED songs have been mixed and mastered and are ready to go. A release is planned for "the first quarter of 2009."

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