Chrissie Hynde - Later Tonight - Non-Album Tracks (2009-2014)

My long series of Pretenders stray tracks albums continues here. However, this is so dominated in the credits by Chrissie Hynde, the lead singer and songwriter of the Pretenders, that I'm billing it as a Chrissie Hynde album. Only two songs have the Pretenders in the credits, and even those are duets.

The Pretenders put out an album in 2008, "Breaking Up the Concrete." They didn't put out another one until 2016, "Alone," nearly a decade later. The Pretenders had basically been Hynde plus a changing cast of backing musicians for a long time prior to this era. But I guess she figured putting the band name on an album meant that a certain style was expected.

In this time period, she increasingly moved away from that style. In 2010, she created a band with her boyfriend at the time, called "JP, Chrissie & The Fairground Boys," and put out an album called "Fidelity." Then, in 2014, she released her first true solo album, "Stockholm."

But on top of that she was doing other musical projects that often further expanded her musical range. For instance, she'd gotten into Brazilian bossa nova music in a big way back in 2004, even living in Brazil for a while. That interest continues on a couple of songs here. She also sang some in French!

Six of the 12 songs here are officially released. They generally come from various artists compilations. For instance, her version of "Let It Be" appeared on a tribute album to Paul McCartney. The unreleased songs are tracks 2, 3, 4, 9, 11, and 12. "This Kiss" and "Cry" come from an episode of the TV show "CMT Crossroads" in which she collaborated with country star Faith Hill. The others are cover songs done in concert. "Murder in My Heart for the Judge" was by Moby Grape, "Under My Thumb" by the Rolling Stones, and "Vocal" and "Later Tonight" by the Pet Shop Boys.

This album is 43 minutes long.

01 Postcard from London (Ray Davies & Chrissie Hynde)
02 Murder in My Heart for the Judge (JP, Chrissie & the Fairground Boys)
03 This Kiss (Pretenders & Faith Hill)
04 Cry (Pretenders & Faith Hill)
05 Un Garcon Qui Pleure (Benjamin Schoos, Marie France & Chrissie Hynde)
06 The Empty Boat (Chrissie Hynde, Moreno, Kassin & Domenico)
07 Laisse-moi t'Aimer - We'll Be Together (Michel Berube & Chrissie Hynde)
08 Rodeo (Paul Allen & the Underthinkers with Chrissie Hynde)
09 Under My Thumb (Ingrid & Chrissie Hynde)
10 Let It Be (Chrissie Hynde)
11 Vocal (Chrissie Hynde)
12 Later Tonight (Chrissie Hynde)

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The cover photo is from a private dinner event in 2014. Hynde was sitting next to supermodel Cindy Crawford, but unfortunately I felt obliged to crop her out.