Tom P*tty & the Heartbreakers - Next Time You See Memphis - Non-Album Tracks (2003-2010)

Here's yet another stray tracks album for Tom P. and the Heartbreakers.

(Note that I'm not using the full name of this artist due to concerns about copyright issues.)

I'm especially proud of making this album, because of the extra legwork it took me to find all the songs to put on it. In 2003, P. played a series of concerts at the Vic Theatre in Chicago. He hardly ever played original songs in concert before putting them on album, but he played no less than five new songs in those shows. Stranger still, he didn't release any of them at the time. One, "Melinda," came out on the "Live Anthology" in 2009. A studio version of another, "Two Men Talking," came out in 2018, but this was a 2010 version that was significantly different and two minutes shorter. Yet another, "Black Leather Woman," came out on a DVD of a concert in 2009, but not in any audio recording format.

I was able to find soundboard 2003 versions of those three songs easily. But the remaining two, "My New Guitar" and "Next Time You See Memphis" proved to be much trickier. In the vastness of the Internet, I could only find a few references that these songs existed at all! I had to resort to contacting a bunch of die-hard P. fans at a P. message board before I was able to find someone who had a recording of them.

So these are very rare. And yet they're good songs. I'm really puzzled by their obscurity, even on bootlegs. Clearly, P. was in a bluesy mood in those Chicago shows. He played a bunch of blues covers, and all five of the original songs are bluesy to some degree. Perhaps he didn't release them because he figured the typical P. fan didn't expect such a bluesy sound from him.

Anyway, those five songs make up the first half of this album. The rest consists of all studio tracks, though two of them remain unreleased. There's more than enough material here for P. to have released another solid album in the mid-2000s, if he'd wanted to.

This album is 49 minutes long. 

I'm not including the track list due to copyright issues. But you can find it in the mp3 download file.

https://pixeldrain.com/u/hshhbWpM

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/erfoqZgyhtzZYwY/file

The cover art comes from a bootleg of one of the Chicago 2003 shows. Very similar art appears on an official DVD of one of those shows. However, I believe both of those took their art from one of the concert posters of the shows.