I've created two albums of BBC recordings. I realized I could split them logically into BBC studio sessions and BBC live sessions. That solves the problem of having some songs done twice. This is the studio sessions album.
All the songs here come from two official, but obscure, albums: "Live 1970-'71" and "Spotlight BBC Recordings 1972-1973." You can tell which ones come from the "Live 1970-'71" because those were all taken from the "Top of the Pops" BBC radio show, hosted by DJ Brian Matthew, and he was the worst offender when it came to talking over the music. So that's why the first six songs have "[Edit]" in their names. As usual, I used the audio editing program X-Minus to wipe out the talking.
Here's an interesting fact: Tir Na Nog covered "Free Ride," a song by folk singer Nick Drake, on their 1973 album "Strong in the Sun." It's performed here too. Drake died in 1974, still a relatively unknown musical figure at the time. This made Tir Na Nog the only non-obscure musical artists to cover a Drake song while he was still alive.
Speaking of covers, "Maggie's Fam" is the well known Bob Dylan song. But I believe all the others are originals.
This album is 45 minutes long.
01 Daisy Lady [Edit] (Tir Na Nog)
02 Tir Na Nog [Edit] (Tir Na Nog)
03 Mariner Blues [Edit] (Tir Na Nog)
04 Live a Day [Edit] (Tir Na Nog)
05 Maggie's Farm [Edit] (Tir Na Nog)
06 Dante [Edit] (Tir Na Nog)
07 Strong in the Sun (Tir Na Nog)
08 Cinema (Tir Na Nog)
09 Most Magical (Tir Na Nog)
10 Free Ride (Tir Na Nog)
11 Los Angeles (Tir Na Nog)
12 Backwaterawhile (Tir Na Nog)
13 Spotlight (Tir Na Nog)
https://www.upload.ee/files/15635014/TirTaN_1971-1973_BBSessionsVolume1_atse.zip.html
I believe the cover photo is an outtake from the photo sessions for their third album, "Strong in the Sun."
According to https://secondhandsongs.com/performance/40032/versions, Andrew John (no, I've never heard of him either!) covered Nick Drake's "Time Has Told Me" as early as 1972, even before Tir Na Nog covered a Drake song.
ReplyDeleteThanks. I also made a minor fix in the text.
DeleteI hear what you meant about the quality from this point on...not unlistenable but a definite quality drop from the initial posts...not complaining by any means, just agreeing with your commentary earlier.
ReplyDeleteAgain, X-Minus to the rescue! If you never mentioned you used it to clear up the first six tracks, I doubt anyone, except maybe the 6 people still alive who heard them play on that program and the DJ himself, would know those songs we spoken over originally.