Deluxe three disc (two CD + DVD) edition. THE ART OF McCartney is a very special project celebrating the songs of Sir Paul McCartney. It features McCartney classics recorded by some of the world"s greatest artists and all backed by McCartney"s long time band. The caliber of artists showing their respect to Paul"s songwriting genius is simply staggering, with likes of Bob Dylan, Billy Joel, the Cure, the Who"s Roger Daltrey, Brian Wilson, Alice Cooper, Dr. John, Yusuf/Cat Stevens, Barry Gibb, Jamie Cullum, Kiss, Chrissie Hynde, ELO legend producer Jeff Lynne among many others lending their talents exclusively for this album. THE ART OF McCartney is the brainchild of Los Angeles producer Ralph Sall, who had the pleasure of working with Sir Paul in 2003 to revive a song from the 1971 Ram sessions for a movie soundtrack. Once Ralph had the idea of an album to honor Paul, he recruited McCartney"s gifted backing band guitarists, Rusty Anderson and Brian Ray, keyboard player Paul Wix Wickens, and drummer, Abe Laboriel, Jr. to play the backing tracks of all the songs.