Saturday, October 7, 2023

Bonnie Raitt - BBC Sessions, Volume 3: In Concert, Carling Apollo Hammersmith, London, Britain, 6-21-2003

It's been a long while since I posted Volume 2, but I'm back with another album of Bonnie Raitt playing for the BBC. Like both Volumes 1 and 2, this is a single concert (though it probably was edited down by the BBC to fit an hour-long time slot).

This remains officially unreleased, but the sound quality is truly excellent, even by BBC standards. It sounds as good as an official live album. There were virtually no problems. The only editing I had to do was that there was virtually no applause after the last song, due to a rapid cut to some BBC DJ talking over the cheering. So I patched in some cheering from the ends of other songs to make that one have a normal amount of applause as well.

Otherwise, there's not much to say. Raitt performed with a full band, as she almost always did during this phase of her career. There were no unexpected song choices. It's the best from her most recent album, plus greatest hits from earlier in her career.

This album is 57 minutes long.

01 Love Letter (Bonnie Raitt)
02 talk (Bonnie Raitt)
03 Fool's Game (Bonnie Raitt)
04 talk (Bonnie Raitt)
05 Silver Lining (Bonnie Raitt)
06 Hear Me Lord (Bonnie Raitt)
07 talk (Bonnie Raitt)
08 Nick of Time (Bonnie Raitt)
09 talk (Bonnie Raitt)
10 Love Me like a Man (Bonnie Raitt)
11 Never Make Your Move Too Soon (Bonnie Raitt)
12 Something to Talk About (Bonnie Raitt)
13 talk (Bonnie Raitt)
14 I Can't Make You Love Me (Bonnie Raitt)
15 Angel from Montgomery (Bonnie Raitt)
16 Fundamental - Good Woman, Good Man (Bonnie Raitt)

https://www.upload.ee/files/15945370/BonniR_2003_BBSesionsVolum3InConcrtCarlingAplloHmmersmthLondnBrtain__6-21-2003_atse.zip.html

The cover photo comes from the Martin Scorsese Presents Salute to the Blues Concert, held on February 7, 2003, at the Radio City Music Hall in New York City.

9 comments:

  1. is it not possible to just dowload the music ?

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    1. It is. There's a download link at the bottom of each post. Here it is for this one, in case you missed it:
      https://www.upload.ee/files/15778456/BonniR_2003_BBSesionsVolum3InConcrtCarlingAplloHmmersmthLondnBrtain__6-21-2003_atse.zip.html

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    2. that file dont work,it s only an exe file in there

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  2. upload is a bit odd. if the link opens a new tab close it and try again. i have to do that twice before the actual link comes up. not sure why, but that's how it's working.

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  3. Hi Paul I've said it before but I'll say it again, thanks for all your hard work providing such excellent music. I just wanna point out that track 3, Fool's Game' is missing from the download.

    Cheers Leon

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  4. Additional to the last comment
    This was actually a session with audience from Maida Vale studios rather than the Hammersmith Apollo.

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  5. Thanks as always. As mentioned earlier track 3 seems to be missing for the zip file.

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    1. Huh. I don't know how that happened, but it should be fixed now.

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