Tuesday, September 3, 2024

Bonnie Raitt - VH-1 Storytellers, Sony Studios, New York City, 5-12-1998

Here's another "VH-1 Storytellers" episode, this time of Bonnie Raitt.

In 1998, Raitt released a new studio album, "Elemental." As part of her tour, she did a Storytellers episode. However, only two of the songs, "Blue for No Reason" and "One Belief Away," were from that album.

She mostly played slide guitar as part of a full band. But, very usually, she also played a short solo version of "Give It Up or Let Me Go" on piano, which is not her usual instrument.

I couldn't find any audio bootleg of this show. But I found a video of it, so I converted that to mp3s. I believe everything here is officially unreleased.

This album is 45 minutes long.

01 Something to Talk About (Bonnie Raitt)
02 talk (Bonnie Raitt)
03 Give It Up or Let Me Go [Solo Piano Version] (Bonnie Raitt)
04 Give It Up or Let Me Go (Bonnie Raitt)
05 Thing Called Love (Bonnie Raitt)
06 talk (Bonnie Raitt)
07 One Part Be My Lover (Bonnie Raitt)
08 talk (Bonnie Raitt)
09 Nick of Time (Bonnie Raitt)
10 talk (Bonnie Raitt)
11 Blue for No Reason (Bonnie Raitt)
12 talk (Bonnie Raitt)
13 I Can't Make You Love Me (Bonnie Raitt)
14 talk (Bonnie Raitt)
15 One Belief Away (Bonnie Raitt)
16 talk (Bonnie Raitt)
17 The Road's My Middle Name (Bonnie Raitt)

https://www.upload.ee/files/17056598/BONNIRTT1998StrytllrsSnyStdosNwYrkC__5-12-1998_atse.zip.html

alternate link:

https://pixeldrain.com/u/dC8XRq75

The cover is a screenshot taken from this exact concert.

3 comments:

  1. Fantastic! Thanks so very much, G.

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  2. love the above comment...so relevant! But i digress... I also love all these VH1 Storyteller series... great stuff! Not as great as the comment above... but soooo close!
    M

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    1. I deleted the spam comment you were referring to, so now you just seem like a crazy person reacting to Gman's comment. ;)

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