the reissue of the Pete Townshend/Ronnie Lane collaboration album 'Rough Mix', the best-selling boxed set 'The Faces: Five Guys Walk Into A Bar', and ex-Faces member Ian McLagan's tribute CD to Lane, 'Spiritual Boy'. The Faces were one of the great rock bands of the seventies. They had the charismatic frontman Rod Stewart (who would later go on to superstardom) and guitarist Ron Wood (who has spent the last three decades with the Rolling Stones), but they also had founding member Ronnie Lane, who--just as the Faces were at the peak of their success--left the band in 1973 to pursue a solo career. Unfortunately, in 1977 Lane was diagnosed with MS, which severely restricted his music career from that point on. He died from complications of the disease in 1997. During his post-Faces career, Lane only recorded four studio albums along with the 1977 collaboration with Pete Townshend, ROUGH MIX. Ronnie's music is hard to pigeonhole: It borrows from rock and roll, folk, country and English music hall. His bands often included fiddle, dobro, accordion, piano and mandolin--all to wonderful effect. While Lane's albums have been available (mostly through the U.K.'s New Millennium Communications label), this is the first compilation made for the U.S. market. The release date comes on the heels of what would have been Lane's sixtieth birthday last April 1. It begins with his debut 1973 single "How Come" (which peaked at #11 in the U.K.) and covers all five of his studio albums through 1980's SEE