Chris Cornell - Capitol Theatre, Port Chester, NY, 6-25-2016

Here's another concert from the April 2026 Port Chester soundboard leak. With the newer and even more exciting Bob Matthews collection leak happening, with close to one new release per day, I want to make more of an effort to get these posted so I can focus on fewer things at once. So here's a solo acoustic concert from Chris Cornell.

Cornell is best known for being the lead singer and songwriter for the bands Soundgarden and Audioslave. I must admit that I never got into either of those bands, although I've really liked some songs. I guess I'm just not big on grunge in general. That said, I was very surprised at how much I enjoyed this. I'm much more of a solo acoustic music kind of guy, and that's all this is, although Cornell was backed by a second musician. 

Everyone knows that Cornell had a great voice. But I was impressed with his songs in this format. And he did some interesting covers of some very famous musical acts ("Nothing Compares 2 U" by Prince, "Thank You" by Led Zeppelin, "The Times They Are A-Changin'" by Bob Dylan, "Billy Jean" by Michael Jackson, and "A Day in the Life" by the Beatles). In fact, I'm so impressed that this makes me want to hear more of his music. And that rarely happens to me with this type of music. I guess I should have known that the guy who wrote "Black Hole Sun" was an uncommonly good songwriter, because that's a totally classic song, and one with an unusual melody and chord structure. 

This concert took place in 2016, which is less until his death by suicide in May 2017. While that death is certainly tragic, the silver lining for this album is this is a good summary of his entire music career.

There are only two problems with this recording, one I could fix and one I couldn't. I couldn't fix the fact that it's all in mono. The other problem was that the last song, "Higher Truth," came to a sudden stop about a minute before the song ended. I found another version of the song (from a concert in Manchester the same year) and used that to patch up the ending. That's why that one song has "[Edit]" in the title.

This album is two hours and 24 minutes long.

01 talk (Chris Cornell)
02 Before We Disappear (Chris Cornell)
03 Can't Change Me (Chris Cornell)
04 talk (Chris Cornell)
05 'Til the Sun Comes Back Around (Chris Cornell)
06 talk (Chris Cornell)
07 Nothing Compares 2 U (Chris Cornell)
08 talk (Chris Cornell)
09 Nearly Forgot My Broken Heart (Chris Cornell)
10 talk (Chris Cornell)
11 The Times They Are A-Changin' Back (Chris Cornell)
12 talk (Chris Cornell)
13 Halfway There (Chris Cornell)
14 talk (Chris Cornell)
15 Josephine (Chris Cornell)
16 Fell on Black Days (Chris Cornell)
17 Thank You (Chris Cornell)
18 talk (Chris Cornell)
19 Getaway Car (Chris Cornell)
20 talk (Chris Cornell)
21 Doesn't Remind Me (Chris Cornell)
22 River of Deceit (Chris Cornell)
23 Blow Up the Outside World (Chris Cornell)
24 Let Your Eyes Wander (Chris Cornell)
25 The Last Remaining Light (Chris Cornell)
26 talk (Chris Cornell)
27 Wide Awake (Chris Cornell)
28 talk (Chris Cornell)
29 Say Hello 2 Heaven (Chris Cornell)
30 talk (Chris Cornell)
31 Billie Jean (Chris Cornell)
32 Scream (Chris Cornell)
33 talk (Chris Cornell)
34 Rusty Cage (Chris Cornell)
35 talk (Chris Cornell)
36 Black Hole Sun (Chris Cornell)
37 Hunger Strike (Chris Cornell)
38 talk (Chris Cornell)
39 Wooden Jesus (Chris Cornell)
40 A Day in the Life (Chris Cornell)
41 talk (Chris Cornell)
42 I Am the Highway (Chris Cornell)
43 talk (Chris Cornell)
44 Seasons (Chris Cornell)
45 talk (Chris Cornell)
46 Higher Truth [Edit] (Chris Cornell)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/dX4SvfaH

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/5a0aXLNL30k3H7k/file 

The cover image apparently comes from this exact concert. I say "apparently" because I'm not entirely sure about the source. But it's from this 2016 tour, at least.

St. Vincent - Cover Versions, Volume 2: 2016-2021

Here's a second volume of covers performed by singer-songwriter St. Vincent (a.k.a. Annie Clark). 

This volume is evenly split between officially released and unreleased. Tracks 1, 2, 6, 7, 10, 14, 15, and 16 are the officially released ones. Check out the mp3 tags for each song for specific details about where they come from. 

The others generally come from concert bootlegs, or in-person radio station appearances, or the like. Again, check the mp3 tags for more info. They all sound excellent, except for "Perfect Day." That one was from an audience bootleg with rough sound quality. But I ran it through several filters with the MVSEP audio editing program, and I think it sounds decent now. 

Note that "Masseduction-One Kiss" isn't a cover in the usual sense. Instead, it's a medley of a song by St. Vincent with one by Dua Lipa, and performed by them together. I thought it was interesting enough to include, even though it's only sort of half of a cover version.

This album is 53 minutes long.

Here's a list of the original artists for each song:

01 Something on Your Mind - Karen Dalton
02 Bad Girls - Elegant Too
03 Crazy - Willie Nelson / Patsy Cline
04 London Calling - Clash
05 Possum Kingdom - Toadies
06 Consideration - Rihanna featuring SZA
07 And Then She Kissed Me - Crystals
08 Court and Spark - Joni Mitchell
09 Perfect Day - Lou Reed
10 Wouldn’t Want to Be like You - Sheryl Crow
11 Masseduction-One Kiss - St. Vincent & Dua Lipa
12 Controversy - Prince
13 Martha My Dear - Beatles
14 The Eddy - Glen Ballard & Randy Kerber
15 All Tomorrow’s Parties - Velvet Underground
16 Sad but True - Metallica

Here's the usual song list: 

01 Something on Your Mind (St. Vincent)
02 Bad Girls (St. Vincent)
03 Crazy (St. Vincent)
04 London Calling (St. Vincent)
05 Possum Kingdom (St. Vincent)
06 Consideration (St. Vincent)
07 And Then She Kissed Me (St. Vincent)
08 Court and Spark (St. Vincent)
09 Perfect Day (St. Vincent)
10 Wouldn’t Want to Be like You (St. Vincent & Sheryl Crow)
11 Masseduction-One Kiss (St. Vincent & Dua Lipa)
12 Controversy (St. Vincent)
13 Martha My Dear (St. Vincent)
14 The Eddy (St. Vincent)
15 All Tomorrow’s Parties (St. Vincent & Thomas Bartlett)
16 Sad but True (St. Vincent) 

https://pixeldrain.com/u/aDXXHLWb

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/Tq1uPHx8lyLlKNL/file

The cover image was taken in New York City on September 6, 2017.

St. Vincent - Cover Versions, Volume 1: 2006-2016

I started to be familiar with the music of St. Vincent when I posted her Glastonbury performance in August 2025. But I didn't know she did a lot of interesting cover versions until musical friend Lil Panda tipped me off. He sent me a bunch of covers. I took that and ran with it, finding a bunch more. In the end, we came up with enough for three albums worth.

One thing I like about her covers is she has a wide range of influences, and often some lesser known ones. Check out the below list to see what I mean.

This album is 50 minutes long.

These are the original artists for each song: 

01 These Days - Jackson Browne / Gregg Allman
02 Dig a Pony - Beatles
03 Sleep All Summer - Crooked Fingers
04 Every Drop of Rain - David Byrne & Fatboy Slim
05 Need You Tonight - INXS
06 Never Tear Us Apart - INXS
07 Tango Till They're Sore - Tom Waits
08 She Is Beyond Good and Evil - Pop Group
09 Some of Them Are Old - Brian Eno
10 Early Autumn - Woody Herman & His Orchestra
11 Make Believe - Vince Giordano & the Nighthawks
12 Lithium - Nirvana
13 Emotional Rescue - Rolling Stones

Here's the usual song list: 

01 These Days (St. Vincent)
02 Dig a Pony (St. Vincent)
03 Sleep All Summer (St. Vincent & the National)
04 Every Drop of Rain (David Byrne & Fatboy Slim with Candie Payne & St. Vincent)
05 Need You Tonight (Beck, St. Vincent & Liars)
06 Never Tear Us Apart (Beck, St. Vincent & Liars)
07 Tango Till They're Sore (St. Vincent)
08 She Is Beyond Good and Evil (St. Vincent)
09 Some of Them Are Old (St. Vincent)
10 Early Autumn (St. Vincent & the Living Sisters)
11 Make Believe (St. Vincent)
12 Lithium (Nirvana & St. Vincent)
13 Emotional Rescue (St. Vincent)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/MoHyMmek

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/WQGIrd3rhDTPdrO/file

The cover image comes from the PLUG Independent Music Awards ceremony in New York City on March 6, 2008.

The B-52's - Capitol Theatre, Port Chester, NY, 2-27-2016

Here is another concert coming from the April 2026 leak of dozens of mono, soundboard bootleg recordings from the Capitol Theatre in Port Chester, New York. This time, it is the B-52's in 2016.

I've posted some things from the B-52's already, so I don't think I have to say much this time. In my opinion, they had their best years from the late 1970s until the early 1990s. In fact, after 1992 they didn't release another studio album until "Funplex" in 2008, and this concert took place eight years after that. So they basically just did their greatest hits instead of promoting any kind of new material. But that's OK because their best songs are pretty great.

This album is an hour and 27 minutes long.

01 Pump (B-52's)
02 talk (B-52's)
03 Mesopotamia (B-52's)
04 talk (B-52's)
05 Private Idaho (B-52's)
06 talk (B-52's)
07 Lava (B-52's)
08 talk (B-52's)
09 Dance This Mess Around (B-52's)
10 Revolution Earth (B-52's)
11 talk (B-52's)
12 Roam (B-52's)
13 talk (B-52's)
14 52 Girls (B-52's)
15 talk (B-52's)
16 Party Out of Bounds (B-52's)
17 talk (B-52's)
18 Love in the Year 3000 (B-52's)
19 talk (B-52's)
20 Is That You, Mo-Dean (B-52's)
21 talk (B-52's)
22 Strobe Light (B-52's)
23 talk (B-52's)
24 Whammy Kiss (B-52's)
25 talk (B-52's)
26 Love Shack (B-52's)
27 talk (B-52's)
28 Planet Claire (B-52's)
29 talk (B-52's)
30 Rock Lobster (B-52's)
31 talk (B-52's)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/vJSPLqDJ 

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/lw3pi7cPbiMl1fV/file

The cover image is from a concert at the Tanglewood venue, in Lenox, Massachusetts, on September 2, 2016.

Covered: Brian Wilson, Volume 4: 2010-2016 (A Fabio from Rio Guest Post)

Here is more of the "Covered" series for Brian Wilson. This is the fourth out of five volumes.

This volume covers the first half of the 2010s, with yet another generation joining the ever-growing ranks of Brian Wilson admirers. By this point, his status as one of the most important songwriters of the second half of the twentieth century had long been firmly established.

You may notice several songs here performed by a relatively unknown artist named Kayla Williams. Fabio and I discovered her while searching for covers of some of Brian Wilson’s more obscure compositions. When we were unable to find suitable versions through the usual sources (tribute albums, cover-song databases, and fan recommendations) we turned to YouTube, which contains dozens, sometimes hundreds, of performances that are not documented elsewhere. This approach had already yielded excellent discoveries for previous "Covered" projects, such as those devoted to Neil Young and Tom Waits.

As it turned out, Kayla Williams is a remarkably talented singer who has recorded more than two dozen Brian Wilson songs. We were impressed enough that we are even considering assembling a future collection dedicated entirely to her interpretations of his songs. For the time being, however, we have limited ourselves to three of her finest performances.

Another highlight of this volume is Lana Del Rey’s version of "The Last Song". The recording emerged as part of the "Big Leak", a recent wave of unreleased Beach Boys and Brian Wilson material that surfaced online, and one that will likely inspire future posts here at this blog. Although the track is officially credited to both Lana Del Rey and Brian Wilson, it is essentially a Lana solo performance, with Brian’s contribution remaining quite subtle.

Note that while Wilson had most of his commercial success with the Beach Boys, especially in the 1960s and 70s, he continued to write songs nearly to the end of his life. While he had more of a mixed record with those songs, sometimes he would show his old magic. So Fabio and I made a particular effort to include songs from the later part of his career when they were worthy of inclusion. But on this volume, The vast majority of songs were originally recorded much earlier in his music career.

This album is 58 minutes long.

01 Girls on the Beach (Tribute Co.)
02 Little Deuce Coupe (Mc6)
03 Marcella (Michael Carpenter)
04 The Night Was So Young (Kayla Williams)
05 Do It Again (Wilson Phillips)
06 Good Vibrations (Cornshed Sisters)
07 I Get Around (Red Hot Chili Peppers)
08 Lonely Sea (Karina Denike, Lily Taylor & Melody Jeune Ferris)
09 Still I Dream of It (Carice van Houten)
10 That's Why God Made the Radio (B. Dubson)
11 Wind Chimes (Kayla Williams)
12 Wouldn't It Be Nice (Saint Etienne)
13 You Still Believe in Me (Magnetic North)
14 Anna Lee the Healer (Kayla Williams)
15 God Only Knows (Monalisa Twins)
16 When I Grow Up [To Be a Man] (Pen Friend Club)
17 The Last Song (Lana Del Rey with Brian Wilson)
18 Please Let Me Wonder (Pen Friend Blub)
19 Good Timin' (Brady Harris)
20 Our Prayer (Wild Honey Vocal Group with the Wild Honey Orchestra)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/z62DNerS

alternate: 

https://bestfile.io/en/8WOJ4KVm7f4Eyfh/file

The cover image is from 2005. 

Various Artists - Musical Salad, Volume 2 (1939-2025) (A Fabio from Rio Guest Post)

Here is the second volume of "Musical Salad,"a collection of songs about vegetables. For real. 

As I mentioned with the release of "Musical Salad, Volume 1," this project began as one of Fabio from Rio's eccentric ideas, supported at first by my cautiously skeptical encouragement. But after we finished "Volume 1," I have to admit I was already looking forward to a second helping.

Nearly all of the songs in "Volume 1" were found by Fabio. But for this volume, I went digging and found a majority of these ones. As with the first volume, Fabio really went above and beyond the usual call of duty, making an artistic booklet with text, talking about each song and including an illustration for each song, made by AI. (He wrote all the text however.) I also provided ideas and suggestions for many of the illustrations generated with the help of Fabio's AI-assisted artwork process.

As I have mentioned elsewhere, I have concerns about the use of AI. For instance, I have been careful to never include any music made by AI in this blog. But the AI artwork made for this booklet was just too good not to include. In fact, it's kind of "scary good," since it can do what a human can do for practically no cost in just a tiny fraction of the time.

At any rate, as I mentioned in the write up for the first volume, the songs here had to actually be about vegetables in some way and not just have a fitting title. So for instance, we didn't use the song "Vegetable Man" by Pink Floyd, because all of the lyrics reference clothes and fashion, with just a mysterious line in the chorus, "Vegetable Man, where are you?" That may well refer to someone being a mental vegetable and have nothing to do with actual edible vegetables at all.

But now that we are posting the second volume, if you can think of any fitting songs that are worthy of inclusion for a possible third volume, please let us know. I thought that we had pretty much found all the good ones that fit, but already we've had a few suggestions in the comments for valuable one that look promising. I could easily see a third volume, including more of the fun artwork, if we can just find enough songs that keep up the standards of the first two volumes. 

Also, if you have suggestions for other theme, albums, similar to this one, please let us know. I doubt I would spearhead any project like that (since I have my hands full with so many other albums I want to post already), but there's no telling what kind of off the wall ideas that might appeal to Fabio. In fact, I already get the feeling that he is thinking about other food related albums, so if you have some suggestions for songs along those lines, please let us know about those too.

This album is 50 minutes long.

01 Our Garden (Lucy Kalantari)
02 Life in the Slaw Lane (Kip Addotta)
03 I Love Onions (Jackie Weaver)
04 Cheese and Onions (Rutles)
05 Homegrown Tomatoes (Guy Clark)
06 Solid Potato Salad (Ella Mae Morse)
07 Potato (Cheryl Wheeler)
08 The Potato Stomp (Killin' Jivers)
09 Beans and Cornbread (Louis Jordan)
10 Eat Every Bean and Pea on Your Plate (Daddy A Go-Go)
11 Cornbread and Butterbeans (Carolina Choc Drops)
12 The Spinach Song (Julia Lee)
13 Broccoli (Association)
14 Artichokes (Maps & Atlases)
15 Avocado Woo Woo (The Tin Men)
16 Fruit Salad (Tierra Whack)
17 Coleslaw (Louis Jordan)
18 Vegetables [1993 Live Version] (Beach Boys)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/eN4EguPz

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/khZ7cVB1EQwxUMr/file

The cover image was made by Fabio, using AI. As mentioned above, he also used AI to have illustrations of each of the songs. Here's one that I particularly liked, for the song Avocado Woo Woo." 

Various Artists - Musical Salad, Volume 1 (1939-2025) (A Fabio from Rio Guest Post)

As part of this music blog's ongoing Brian Wilson Week, here's another tribute to one of the most original musical minds of the Twentieth Century. If we've got our dates right, this should be appearing on June 17th, which happens to be National Eat Your Vegetables Day in the United States.

The idea for this collection emerged during a late-night Discord conversation with Fabio from Rio, when preparing the "Covered: Brian Wilson" discs. While discussing Brian Wilson's wonderfully eccentric song "Vegetables", we started wondering whether anyone else had ever written songs about vegetables. What began as a joke I made quickly turned into a challenge taken up by Fabio. A few days later, he returned with a surprisingly long list of candidates, and before long we realized there might actually be enough material for an entire compilation – or two.

The result is "Musical Salad." It's a collection of songs inspired by vegetables, salads, and assorted garden-related culinary adventures. Some tracks are genuinely great, some are bizarre, some are funny (either deliberate or not), and a few somehow manage to be all three at once. Taken together, they form one of the strangest and most entertaining themed collections we've assembled so far.

Note that there are many many songs that have a vegetable or something vegetable related in the title. We decided that wasn't good enough. The song has to actually be discussing something vegetable-related in the lyrics.  Furthermore, it had to hold up musically as well. I know this concept may seem strange. But just as your parents probably told you when faced with eating an unfamiliar vegetable for the first time, "try it, you'll like it." I was skeptical at first, but I think these ended up being fun albums.

There is a second volume coming, hopefully tomorrow.

This album is 58 minutes long.

01 Vegetables (Beach Boys)
02 Sam the Vegetable Man (Stuff Smith)
03 Cauliflower (Rattles)
04 The Onion Song (Marvin Gaye & Tammy Terrell)
05 Don't Touch Me Tomato (Phyllis Dillon)
06 Hot Potatoes (Kinks)
07 Eat Your Green Beans (Happy Campers)
08 Call Any Vegetable (Frank Zappa & the Mothers of Invention)
09 Potatoes, Tomatoes, Gravy and Peas (Terry Scott Taylor)
10 Carrot Juice Is Murder (Arrogant Worms)
11 Eggplant (Train)
12 Leaf and Lime (High Llamas)
13 [Don't Give Me That] Broccoli (Phenomenauts)
14 Vegetable Town (Barenaked Ladies)
15 The Boy Who Wouldn't Hoe Corn (Johan Heldenbergh & Veerle Baetens)
16 Lettuce and Croutons with Fresh Daily (ScienZe)
17 Red Peppers (Peppes)
18 Hang On Little Tomato (Pink Martini)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/wnZK6i25

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/zj3KlY4Ns9gV2Jq/file

The cover image was made by Fabio, using AI. Furthermore, he went above and beyond and used an AI art generator to create a visual picture of each of the songs. I was skeptical of that at first as well, especially since I'm not a big fan of AI art, or really AI much of anything. But I have to admit these pictures that Fabio made for the songs turned out really well. In fact, they turned out so well that I told Fabio they make me fear for the future, because if AI can make one of these in a matter of seconds, I don't see how people will be able to stay employed as artists. But that's a discussion for another time and place perhaps. Here is a sample of one such picture. This one illustrates the song "Carrot Juice Is Murder." You can find an entire booklet that he made with these AI created pictures as well as descriptions of each song in the download zip file.

Jeff Beck - Capitol Theater, Port Chester, NY, 7-19-2016

For some reason, I’ve noticed that there aren’t many Jeff Beck concert recordings with really excellent sound quality. So I was especially pleased to see that when there was a big leak of soundboard recordings from the Capitol Theater in Port Chester back in April 2026, two of those are Jeff Beck concerts. Here is the first one I’m posting.

This concert was part of a tour to support his 2016 studio album “Loud Hailer.” It got good reviews, but the sales were disappointing. A lot of the songs on the album had vocals. I was pleasantly surprised to discover a song called The Ballad of the Jersey Wives,” which was performed in this concert, concerns the widows of the 9/11 victims and their search to find out what really happened in the events related to that terror attack. I didn’t know Beck wrote or cowrote those kinds of songs.

Some of the songs performed in the concert or instrumentals. Other others are sung by vocalist Rosie Bones, And still, others are sung by vocalist Jimmy Hall. You can see which is which in the song list.

A friend of musical associate Lil Panda was the one who split a single audio file into separate songs. I made a little change of boosting the volume of the applause between songs. That was too low, as is often the case with soundboard recordings. 

You sound quality is excellent. But note that the recording is mono, not stereo, just like virtually all the others from the Port Chester leak. 

This album is an hour and 23 minutes long.

01 The Revolution Will Be Televised (Jeff Beck)
02 Freeway Jam [Instrumental] (Jeff Beck)
03 Stratus [Instrumental] (Jeff Beck)
04 Live in the Dark (Jeff Beck with Rosie Bones)
05 The Ballad of the Jersey Wives (Jeff Beck with Rosie Bones)
06 The Pump [Instrumental] (Jeff Beck)
07 Morning Dew (Jeff Beck with Jimmy Hall)
08 A Change Is Gonna Come (Jeff Beck with Jimmy Hall)
09 Even Odds [Instrumental] (Jeff Beck)
10 Cause We've Ended as Lovers [Instrumental] (Jeff Beck)
11 O.I.L. [Can't Get Enough of That Sticky] (Jeff Beck with Rosie Bones)
12 Scared for the Children (Jeff Beck with Rosie Bones)
13 You Never Know [Instrumental] (Jeff Beck)
14 Rollin' and Tumblin' (Jeff Beck with Jimmy Hall)
15 Superstition (Jeff Beck with Jimmy Hall)
16 Right Now (Jeff Beck with Rosie Bones)
17 A Day in the Life [Instrumental] (Jeff Beck)
18 talk (Jeff Beck with Jimmy Hall)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/u79KGFbF

alternate: 

https://bestfile.io/en/cx70kxxgyWCFYlu/file

The cover image is a screenshot I took from a video of this exact concert. 

Covered: Neil Young: Alternates, Volume 4: 2016-2026 (A Fabio from Rio Guest Post)

In recent days, I've been posting four alternate "Covered" album by Neil Young. As I explained previously, I mostly picked the songs in the ten volume "Covered" series for him. But these four are the turn for guest poster Fabio from Rio to make the picks. This is the fourth and last of those alternates.

There's not much else to say that I didn't say in previous write-ups. However, I'll reiterate that, for these four alternate volumes as a whole, about half the songs are different versions of songs on the original ten-volume "Covered" series, and the other half are songs that didn't get included there. But I'd say on this volume, only a few are unique, like "Ramada Inn," "Hey Babe," and "Human Race." And there actually are two versions of "Pressure" in these alternate albums, and none in the original 10-volume series.

Thanks again for Fabio for his role in making all these albums, both the original series and this series of alternates.  

This album is an hour and five minutes long. 

01 Pressure (Ossifer)
02 Expecting to Fly (Jakob Dylan & Regina Spektor)
03 Ambulance Blues (Jeff Rosenstock, Laura Stevenson)
04 The Losing End (Bill Janovitz)
05 Thrasher (Scott the Hoople)
06 Like an Inca (Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real)
07 Ramada Inn (Scott the Hoople)
08 Hey Babe (Jeff Rosenstock & Laura Stevenson)
09 Human Race (Bernhard Schafers)
10 Lotta Love (Juliana Hatfield)
11 Give Me Strength (Emma Swift)
12 Such a Woman (Charlie Greene)
13 Comes a Time (Lena Hall)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/x61VMjCZ 

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/0rXP3r6JnwvGlv0/file

The cover image is from 2012 or thereabouts.

Covered: Neil Young: Alternates, Volume 3: 2007-2016 (A Fabio from Rio Guest Post)

Here's the third volume out of four containing alternates to the "Covered" volumes made for the songs of Neil Young.

As with the other volumes in this series, the song selections were almost entirely made by guest poster Fabio from Rio. I just made a few small suggestions. So thanks again to him for his work on this.

I've already said pretty much all I wanted to say in Volumes 1 and 2 in this series, so look to that for more commentary. Also, Fabio wrote some liner notes, which are included in the download zip. (But they're the same notes for all four volumes.) 

This album is one hour long.

01 Bandit (Liam Titcomb)
02 Sugar Mountain (Harpoondodger & Pat Robitaille)
03 Long May You Run (Chris Seldon)
04 Wonderin' (Nils Lofgren)
05 Coupe de Ville (Jens Severin & Helpless)
06 I Am a Child (Eliza Gilkyson, John Gorka & Lucy Kaplansky)
07 Words [Between the Lines of Age] (Chip Taylor)
08 You and Me (Trappers Cabin)
09 On the Way Home (America)
10 Lost in Space (Cosmo D)
11 Shots (Max Spada)
12 Can't Stop Workin' (Minus 5)
13 Hangin' on a Limb (Hall - Eserstam)
14 Country Home (Ragged Glory Holes)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/HkT8kKJb

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/tNUkYbG4WCAjmCj/file

The cover image is from 2005.

Various Artists - Covered: Joan Baez, Volume 1: 1967-2016 (A Fabio from Rio Guest Post)

Here's another Fabio from Rio guest post. A couple of months ago (as I write this in May 2026), he really got into Joan Baez's music for the first time. In particular, he was struck by her songwriting talent, despite the fact that she's best known for covering songs written by others. So he put together five albums containing all of her original songs, which I recently posted. But he also made two "Covered" albums, showing off her songwriting in a different way. Some people don't like her singing. I have a friend like that, who finds it too high and shrill. So here you can enjoy her songs entirely through cover versions.

Probably the most unexpected cover here is the version of "Diamonds and Rust" by heavy metal band Judas Priest. Even more surprising, it went on to be quite popular, making their "best of" albums and inspiring more hard rocking cover versions. Here's what Baez had to say about it:

"I love that! I was so stunned when I first heard it. I thought it was wonderful. It's very rare for people to cover my songs. I think there are a couple of reasons. One is they're personal – they don't have a universal quality to them. And I think maybe it's because I've already sung them, and who wants to compete with that? But it's always flattering when somebody does." 

There's a lot more to be said about this album. But, as usual with Fabio guest posts, I'll leave that to the liner notes he wrote, which are included in the download zip. 

This album is 49 minutes long.

01 North (Tom Scott with the California Dreamers)
02 Saigon Bride (Gabor Szabo & the California Dreamers)
03 Sweet Sir Galahad (Gary & Randy Scruggs)
04 Song for David (Judy Collins)
05 Last Lonely and Wretched (Wild Rice)
06 Outside the Nashville City Limits (Mabel Joy)
07 Diamonds and Rust (Judas Priest)
08 For Sasha (Louise Tobestill)
09 All the Weary Mothers of the Earth (Annie Patterson)
10 Play Me Backwards (Sin Frontera)
11 Winds of the Old Days (Lori Blois)
12 Here's to You (Lisa Simmons)
13 Only Heaven Knows (Joanne Cooper)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/D4agojYd

alternate: 

https://bestfile.io/en/NJ5kf1Y6ukB05fs/file

The cover image is from 1974.

Flight of the Conchords - Capitol Theatre, Port Chester, NY, 6-9-2016

Normally, I don't post comedy at this blog, since it's a music blog. But I'll make an occasional exception for comedic songs. I've posted music from Allen Sherman and Spinal Tap in the past, for instance. Here's another one: Flight of the Conchords. If you haven't seen their TV show, you're missing out. I really enjoyed that. It's about a fictional musical duo, starring Bret McKenzie and Jemaine Clement, who are New Zealanders struggling to make it as musicians in New York City. One vital part of that show was that each episode featured a couple of original songs, which were consistently both funny and just well written songs. It's not easy to do both.

This is part of the leak of dozens of concerts from Port Chester, New York. Another person split the single audio file into songs. I further split out the talking parts.

The "Flight of the Conchords" T.V. show ran from 2007 to 2009, on H.B.O. They also put out albums in 2007, 2008, and 2009, plus a live one in 2019. They toured off and on from 2001 to 2018. This concert was the start of their 2016 tour. I just looked up their info, and I'm pleased that they resumed touring just last month, April 2026, for the first time since 2018. So let's hope the Conchords are starting a new chapter. They don't really need to reunite, because both Bret McKenzie and Jemaine Clement have been successful as actors in T.V. and movies.

Note that the first half hour of this recording is the opening act, a stand-up comedy routine by Arj Barker. There's a good connection to the main act, because in addition to being a stand-up comedian, Barker played a recurring minor role in the Flight of the Conchords T.V. show. I've made his stand-up act track "00." That way, if you just want to listen to the main act, that starts with track 01.

The music here is unreleased. The sound quality is excellent, although there's some echo/reverb marring the sound a bit. 

This album is two hours long exactly. It is an hour and 26 minutes long if you don't include Arj Barker's opening act. 

00 Arj Barker Stand-Up Routine (Arj Barker)
01 talk by Arj Barker (Flight of the Conchords)
02 talk (Flight of the Conchords)
03 Chips and Dips (Flight of the Conchords)
04 talk (Flight of the Conchords)
05 Father and Son (Flight of the Conchords)
06 talk (Flight of the Conchords)
07 Foux du Fafa (Flight of the Conchords)
08 talk (Flight of the Conchords)
09 Stana (Flight of the Conchords)
10 talk (Flight of the Conchords)
11 The Most Beautiful Girl [In the Room] (Flight of the Conchords)
12 talk (Flight of the Conchords)
13 Shady Rachel (Flight of the Conchords)
14 Mutha'uckas (Flight of the Conchords)
15 talk (Flight of the Conchords)
16 Seagull (Flight of the Conchords)
17 talk (Flight of the Conchords)
18 Iain and Deanna (Flight of the Conchords)
19 talk (Flight of the Conchords)
20 Summer of 1353 (Flight of the Conchords)
21 talk (Flight of the Conchords)
22 Bowie (Flight of the Conchords)
23 talk (Flight of the Conchords)
24 Business Time (Flight of the Conchords)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/QBF1PR7M

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/9PggXRFxVjjJ8N5/file

The cover image comes from this exact concert.

Tom P*tty & Mudcrutch - Capitol Theatre, Port Chester, NY, 6-14-2016

Yesterday, I posted an announcement (and a poll) about a leak of dozens of soundboard bootleg recordings from a venue in Port Chester, New York. I encourage people to tell me which ones they would most like to see put up on this blog. But in the meanwhile, today I listened to one of the concerts I was most interested in, Tom P*tty with his band Mudcrutch. (Note that I'm still using the * in the name just to be extra careful with the copyright police.) As I listened to the single music file, I chopped the songs into mp3s, as I often do, and added in the song names and such. Here's the result.

The main reason I was keen on listening to this concert is that P*tty put out two albums with his band Mudcrutch in 2008 and 2016, but while many audience bootlegs have emerged, this is the first one I know of with soundboard level quality. 

By the way, Mudcrutch was Petty's band in the early 1970s, before they morphed into the Heartbreakers (and before they had a chance to release an album). A couple of key members, Mike Campbell and Benmont Trench, were in both bands, since way back then. But starting in 2008, P*tty, Campbell, and Trench reunited with other former Mudcrutch members, Tom Leadon and Randall Marsh, after about 40 years of not playing together in a band.

When performing concerts like this one, the reunited Mudcrutch insisted on performing only Mudcrutch songs, no songs P*tty put on his other albums with or without the Heartbreakers. So if you're looking for versions of his classic hits, you won't find them here. A few of the songs are covers: "Shady Grove," "Six Days on the Road," "Lover of the Bayou," and " Knockin' on Heaven's Door." All of those except "Knockin' on Heaven's Door" were included in the band's 2008 album, "Mudcrutch."

This album is an hour and 58 minutes long. 

The song list lacks mentions of you know who, for the reason mentioned above. But you can find that version of this list included in the download zip. 

01 talk
02 Shady Grove
03 talk
04 Orphan of the Storm
05 talk
06 Six Days on the Road
07 talk
08 Scare Easy
09 talk
10 Trailer
11 talk
12 This Is a Good Street
13 Lover of the Bayou
14 talk
15 Beautiful World
16 talk
17 Dreams of Flying
18 talk
19 Save Your Water
20 talk
21 Hungry No More
22 talk
23 I Forgive It All
24 Knockin' on Heaven's Door
25 talk
26 The Other Side of the Mountain
27 talk
28 Hope
29 Welcome to Hell
30 talk
31 Victim of Circumstance
32 The Wrong Thing to Do
33 Bootleg Flyer
34 talk
35 Crystal River

https://pixeldrain.com/u/pfcZ4TtD

alternate: 

https://bestfile.io/8ieGP6jACUopOq1/file

The cover image shows Tom performing with Mudcrutch at the Fonda Theatre in Los Angeles, California, on June 25, 2016.

Elton John - Cover Versions, Volume 6: 2008-2017

Here's the sixth and last album in a series of albums of cover versions by Elton John. I had started posted this series back in 2023, but I stopped for a couple of years due to problems with the copyright police. But they seem to be going easy on me lately, so I'm finally finishing off the series.

Only four of the songs here are unreleased. "Back in the U.S.S.R." and "Birthday" are from a bootleg of a joint concert John did with Billy Joel in 2009. (He's done a lot of those over the years.) Unfortunately, the sound quality of those two songs are lower than the rest, despite my best efforts to make some audio editing improvements. "Streets of Philadelphia" is from a 2013 MusiCares tribute concert to Bruce Springsteen that I've posted in full on this blog. "Gravity," a duet with Sara Bareilles, is from a 2014 concert.

Pretty much all the other songs are from John's appearances on albums by other musical acts. Check the mp3 tags for more details. The one exception is "I Love You All the Time," which was released as an A-side in 2016.

This is probably going to be the last album in this series because, rather surprisingly, I can't find any good cover versions he did after 2017. Mind you, he's done lots of songs on his studio albums, but these albums only collect covers that aren't the versions from his studio albums. If anyone knows of covers I've missed from this time period, or after, let me know and I'll probably add them in to this album. 

This album is 45 minutes long. 

01 Joseph, Better You than Me (Killers, Elton John & Neil Tennant)
02 Back in the U.S.S.R (Elton John & Billy Joel)
03 Birthday (Elton John & Billy Joel)
04 Snowed In at Wheeler Street (Kate Bush & Elton John)
05 Oh Well, Part 1 (2Cellos & Elton John)
06 Streets of Philadelphia (Elton John with Raphael Saadiq)
07 The Tracks of My Tears (Smokey Robinson & Elton John)
08 Gravity (Sara Bareilles & Elton John)
09 I Love You All the Time (Elton John)
10 Where Do the Guilty Go (Elton John & Frankie Miller)
11 Alone Again, Naturally (Pet Shop Boys & Elton John)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/5co2GBbS

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/MyoGx6JEfwTVUTa/file

The cover image is from a concert at the Manchester Evening News Arena, in Manchester, Britain, on December 20, 2008.

Various Artists - Covered: Neil Young, Volume 8: 2016-2020

As I write this, I’m sitting in an airplane, about to fly back to the U.S. I’m glad to see my plan to keep posting albums while on vacation has worked out. 

Here’s the next album in the Neil Young “Covered” series. There are two albums to go after this one. Once more, thanks to Fabio from Rio from doing most of the heavy lifting for these albums. Here is the intro to his notes:

By the late 2010s, Neil Young's songwriting had fully entered the digital age of reinterpretation. Covers were no longer limited to traditional tribute albums or major-label releases. Many now emerged through independent recordings, Bandcamp releases, streaming platforms, and fan communities online. At the same time, a younger generation of indie-folk, Americana, and roots musicians continued to rediscover Young's catalog, often gravitating toward the emotional honesty and melodic simplicity that have always defined his best work. Meanwhile, Young himself remained active both musically and politically, releasing albums that addressed environmental and social issues while also opening vast portions of his archival material through the Neil Young Archives project. The performances collected here reflect that ecosystem: established artists, roots musicians, and independent performers revisiting both classics and deep cuts from across his remarkable career.

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Note that Fabio wrote individual paragraphs about all the songs in this volume. To see that, please look at the Word file added to the download zip file. Thanks again to Fabio for his help putting these albums together. 

This album is an hour and three minutes long. 

01 Country Girl (Sanford Markley & Paul Cronin)
02 Hangin' on a Limb (Lars Hall & Saga Eserstam)
03 Don't Be Denied (Norah Jones)
04 Long May You Run (Sarah Jane Scouten & the Paperboys)
05 My My, Hey Hey [Out of the Blue] (Keller Williams)
06 Alabama (Tedeschi Trucks Band)
07 Nothing Is Perfect (Change Partners)
08 Time Fades Away (Harrison Clock)
09 Heart of Gold (Charles Bradley)
10 Flying on the Ground Is Wrong (Kelley Suttenfield)
11 Vampire Blues (Rayland Baxter)
12 Sample and Hold (Joi Noir)
13 Buffalo Springfield Again (Danielle Brilo)
14 Everybody's Alone (Cajsalisa Ejemyr)
15 Through My Sails (Jeff Rosenstock & Laura Stevenson)
16 Light a Candle (Scott the Hoople)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/AFArzv51

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/GG7osrRgekL0szG/file

The cover photo is from 2008.

Various Artists - Covered: Neil Young, Volume 7: 2012-2016

Here we go with another Neil Young “Covered” album. Since I’m still on vacation, I’ll keep this short. Once again, thanks to Fabio from Rio for putting this together. And here’s his comments:

By the early 2010s, Neil Young's influence had spread even further across musical generations. Indie folk, alt-country, and singer-songwriter circles were openly embracing the emotional directness and melodic simplicity that had always defined Young's songwriting. At the same time, the digital era had changed how tribute recordings appeared: covers increasingly emerged from online projects, independent releases, and small tribute compilations rather than traditional label-driven albums. Young himself remained highly visible during this period, releasing politically engaged records and increasingly speaking out on environmental issues, while continuing to inspire younger artists discovering his catalog for the first time. The recordings in this volume reflect that diverse ecosystem: indie reinterpretations, roots-oriented performances, and the occasional stylistic surprise.

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Note that Fabio wrote individual paragraphs about all the songs in this volume. To see that, please look at the Word file added to the download zip file. Thanks again to Fabio for his help putting these albums together. 

This album is an hour and five minutes long.

01 Goin' Back (Beth Orton)
02 Southern Pacific (Jeff Monkman)
03 Thrasher (Andy Hill & Renee Safier)
04 Prime of Life (Gov't Mule)
05 On the Beach [CFCF Remix] (Joakim)
06 Stringman (Stevie Pling)
07 On the Way Home (Ocean Colour Scene)
08 Out on the Weekend (Lee Ann Womack)
09 Revolution Blues (Gov't Mule)
10 Sea of Madness (Ida Sand)
11 Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere (Bluebeaters)
12 Motion Pictures (Robyn Hitchcock & Emma Swift)
13 Silver and Gold (Frank Fischer & Lavina Williams)
14 Bandit (Melanie Age)
15 Who's Gonna Stand Up (Anne Rynne)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/UrGS6KRt

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/c4iwuykMMALNvdc/file

The cover photo is from 1993. Peter Buck of R.E.M. was leaning up against his shoulder, but I removed him using Photoshop. 

Joan Armatrading - BBC Sessions, Volume 6: 2011-2021

I was going through my music collection recently, and I noticed some albums in there that I thought I'd posted at my blog, yet I never had. Here's one. I previously posted five BBC albums by singer-songwriter Joan Armatrading. The previous four were concerts, but this one is a collection of studio sessions.

The first song is from a brief revival of the Old Grey Whistle Test BBC TV show in 2011. It has been released on an album, called "The Old Grey Whistle Test: Live." Everything else here is unreleased. The second song is from the BBC Folk Awards in 2016. Tracks three through five are from a 2016 radio session. Tracks six and seven are from another 2016 radio session. Finally, tracks eight and nine are from a 2021 radio session.

Most of the songs are in solo acoustic format, but not all. By the way, if anyone knows of additional BBC sessions by her that I missed, please let me know. It's easy to miss some of these.

This album is 36 minutes long. 

01 Empty Highway (Joan Armatrading)
02 Baby Blue Eyes (Joan Armatrading)
03 I Like It When We're Together (Joan Armatrading)
04 Love and Affection (Joan Armatrading)
05 The Weakness in Me (Joan Armatrading)
06 Loving What You Hate (Joan Armatrading)
07 Down to Zero (Joan Armatrading)
08 Already There (Joan Armatrading)
09 Drop the Pilot (Joan Armatrading)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/FTbswHgF

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/O8aaNKQZ8lWjGK3/file 

The cover photo was taken at the BBC Folk Awards at the Royal Albert Hall, in London, in 2016. The second song on the album is from this performance.

Nicki Bluhm & the Gramblers - The Van Sessions, Part 3 (2013-2017)

Way back in 2019, I posted two albums I made of the band Nicki Bluhm and Gramblers performing cover songs. They got some media attention for a few years through the gimmick of recording cover songs while the played inside a van driving down the road. For reasons I'll explain, I've gone back and made a third album of their van sessions. I also completely overhauled and added to the two albums I'd made already.

The one problem with these songs recorded in a van was that they were... genuinely recorded in a van! That meant a lot of ambient noise, such as the sound of gear shifts and nearby traffic. When I posted some songs back in 2019, I tried to clean that up as best I could, but there wasn't much I could do, given the tools available at the time. But recently I discovered a relatively new tool for the MVSEP program called "denoise." It does a fantastic job of reducing hiss and other noise without damaging the music. One of the first thoughts I had when I started that was that I could finally get rid of the hiss on the two albums I'd made by this band. But then it occurred to me I could probably fix more songs they did that had even more hiss. There were some I had discarded because the hiss problem was too much.

So I went back to their old videos posted on YouTube and downloaded the songs I had previously skipped. To my delight, when I tried using the denoise function on them, all that hiss disappeared, even on the extreme cases! I swear, what audio editing technology can do these days is like magic. I found enough material for a third album, as well as drastically improving the sound quality for the songs I'd posted already.

Note however that I just redid the other two albums at the same time I'm posting this, and the new songs are scattered over all three albums. Eight out of 14 songs on this album are new.  But also, six out of 16 songs on Volume 1 are new, and four out of 15 songs on Volume 2 are new. So if you like this, you really should redownload the other two volumes as well. Between the new songs and the de-hissed old songs those albums are drastically improved. Here are the links:

Volume 1: 

https://albumsthatshouldexist.blogspot.com/2019/04/nicki-bluhm-gramblers-van-sessions-part.html

Volume 2:

https://albumsthatshouldexist.blogspot.com/2019/04/nicki-bluhm-gramblers-van-sessions-part_16.html 

Nicki Bluhm and the Gramblers were in existence from about 2010 to 2018. Nicki Bluhm has continued with a successful solo career, but she hasn't done anything like the van sessions. So this focuses just on the Gramblers time period. Even with the Gramblers, the actually van sessions started strong in 2011 and 2013, and then slowly trailed off. On this album, tracks 2, 4, 5, 10, 12, and 13 were actually recorded inside their van. The rest are from various sources. Tracks 1, 11, and 14 are from concerts. (I removed the applause from those.) The others are from webcasts and radio sessions and things of that nature, without an audience. Check out the mp3 tags for the exact details.

This album is 54 minutes long.

Here's a list of the original musical acts for each song: 

01 Somebody to Love - Jefferson Airplane
02 Lido Shuffle - Boz Scaggs
03 In the Mountains - Sarah Siskind
04 Dire Wolf - Grateful Dead
05 I Wanna Dance with Somebody - Whitney Houston
06 One Toke Over the Line - Brewer & Shipley
07 I Can Get Off on You - Waylon Jennings & Willie Nelson
08 Blue Christmas - Elvis Presley
09 Bird Song - Grateful Dead
10 Mr. Saturday Night - Nicki Bluhm & the Gramblers
11 Statesboro Blues - Blind Willie McTell
12 Picture Book - Kinks
13 That's All - Genesis
14 Piece of My Heart - Janis Joplin

And here's the usual song list: 

01 Somebody to Love (Nicki Bluhm & the Gramblers)
02 Lido Shuffle (Nicki Bluhm & the Gramblers)
03 In the Mountains (Nicki Bluhm & the Gramblers)
04 Dire Wolf (Nicki Bluhm & the Gramblers)
05 I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Nicki Bluhm & the Gramblers)
06 One Toke Over the Line (Nicki Bluhm & the Gramblers)
07 I Can Get Off on You (Nicki Bluhm & the Gramblers)
08 Blue Christmas (Nicki Bluhm & the Gramblers)
09 Bird Song (Nicki Bluhm & the Gramblers)
10 Mr. Saturday Night (Nicki Bluhm & the Gramblers)
11 Statesboro Blues (Nicki Bluhm & the Gramblers)
12 Picture Book (Nicki Bluhm & the Gramblers)
13 That's All (Nicki Bluhm & the Gramblers)
14 Piece of My Heart (Nicki Bluhm & the Gramblers)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/o2xb6dLu

alternate: 

https://bestfile.io/en/0I9h1P6yZA2NzaS/file

The cover is a screenshot I took of the band performing a song in their van. I used Krea AI to improve the detail.

Various Artists - Covered: Tom Waits, Volume 4: 2013-2023 (A Fabio from Rio Guest Post)

Here's the fourth and last album in the "Covered" series celebrating the songs of Tom Waits by collecting cover versions.

Once again, I have to thank Fabio from Rio for being the prime mover behind putting these Waits albums together. He selected a large number of songs, and I narrowed it down to a reasonable amount. And one again, Fabio was nice enough to do the write up. So, take it away, Fabio:

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Waits released his last studio record to date ("Bad as Me") in 2011. His later works revisit all earlier phases in fragmented, refined form. Waits alternates tender ballads with abrasive rhythm experiments, presenting a distilled, self-aware summary of his artistic language rather than a new stylistic break.

This last volume with performances from the 2010s and 2020s is mostly filled with female voices, hinting that, musically, Waits has become something of a ladies' man — at least for a younger generation of singers.

Here again we have a wild range of different styles, from forties-like doo-wop (Ice Cream Man) to eighties-drum-machine-electro-pop ("All Stripped Down"), from jazz and blues rock ("Fumblin' with the Blues", "Shore Leave") to americana and alt-country ("Walk Away", "Blue Skies").

We will also find adult contemporary ("In-Between Love"), dark cabaret ("Little Drop of Poison", "Starving in the Belly of a Whale"), R&B ("Such a Scream"), and confessional ballad ("Martha") in the mix.

Tom Jones makes "Bad as Me" his own. "Emotional Weather Report" is a deep cut taken from the little-known jazz and spoken-word Waits seventies album "Nighthawks on the Radio", which highlights Tom Waits' deadpan humor. 

Other standouts are Rosanne Cash's "Time" and Aimee Mann's version for "Hold On" - which kind of reminded me, in spirit if not in sound, of the acappella version sung by Emily Kinney as Beth Greene in "The Walking Dead" - one of the most poignant moments of the entire series(*). 

(*) You can check it out (along with Tom Waits' original version) at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNeGLUAUbgQ&list=RDGNeGLUAUbgQ 

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This album is 55 minutes long.

01 Walk Away (Steel Wheels)
02 Bad as Me (Tom Jones)
03 Emotional Weather Report (Marissa Mulder)
04 All Stripped Down (Lisa Bassenge)
05 Ice Cream Man (Hazelnuts)
06 Blue Skies (Lisa Bassenge)
07 In Between Love (Jennifer Porter)
08 Such a Scream (Good Paper of Rev. Rob Mortimer)
09 Fumblin' with the Blues (Natascha & the Spy Boys)
10 Little Drop of Poison (Ellie Gunn and the Firethornes)
11 Hold On (Aimee Mann)
12 Time (Rosanne Cash)
13 Starving in the Belly of a Whale (Belladone)
14 Martha (Jackie Greene)
15 Shore Leave (Nickel)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/iGci1BC9

alternate: 

https://bestfile.io/en/taTjklwbZnegYK6/file

The cover photo is a screenshot I took from a video of an interview he did around 2020.

Gilbert O'Sullivan - BBC Sessions, Volume 5: Friday Night Is Music Night, Mermaid Theatre, London, Britain, 2-12-2016

I recently randomly stumbled across this concert by singer-songwriter Gilbert O'Sullivan. Since I've already posted four BBC albums by him, I decided to post it right away. It's a full concert with a complete orchestra backing him.

This is kind of the ultimate Gilbert O'Sullivan concert, due to the generous length, song selection, and many backing musicians. In addition to the orchestra mentioned above, O'Sullivan dueted with three different singers over the course of the concert.

I found this as a single file and then broke it into mp3s for each song. The music here is unreleased. The sound quality is excellent. 

This album is an hour and 43 minutes long. 

01 talk by Ken Bruce (Gilbert O'Sullivan)
02 Thunder and Lightning (Gilbert O'Sullivan)
03 Private Eye (Gilbert O'Sullivan)
04 Out of the Question (Gilbert O'Sullivan)
05 talk (Gilbert O'Sullivan)
06 Nothing Rhymed (Gilbert O'Sullivan)
07 Where Would We Be [Without Tea] (Gilbert O'Sullivan)
08 talk (Gilbert O'Sullivan)
09 We Will (Gilbert O'Sullivan & Eleanor McEvoy)
10 Houdini Said (Gilbert O'Sullivan)
11 Miss My Love Today (Gilbert O'Sullivan)
12 talk (Gilbert O'Sullivan)
13 I Guess I'll Always Love You (Gilbert O'Sullivan & Ayala)
14 talk (Gilbert O'Sullivan)
15 Can't Think Straight (Gilbert O'Sullivan)
16 talk (Gilbert O'Sullivan)
17 Ooh-Wakka-Doo-Wakka-Day (Gilbert O'Sullivan)
18 Clair (Gilbert O'Sullivan)
19 You Got Me Going (Gilbert O'Sullivan)
20 No Way (Gilbert O'Sullivan)
21 talk (Gilbert O'Sullivan)
22 No Matter How I Try (Gilbert O'Sullivan)
23 talk (Gilbert O'Sullivan & Bobby Davro)
24 Showbiz (Gilbert O'Sullivan & Bobby Davro)
25 Young at Heart [We'll Always Remain] (Gilbert O'Sullivan)
26 Or So They Say (Gilbert O'Sullivan)
27 talk (Gilbert O'Sullivan)
28 Lost a Friend (Gilbert O'Sullivan)
29 Why, Oh Why, Oh Why (Gilbert O'Sullivan)
30 Hold On to What You Got (Gilbert O'Sullivan)
31 talk (Gilbert O'Sullivan)
32 What's in a Kiss (Gilbert O'Sullivan)
33 Alone Again [Naturally] (Gilbert O'Sullivan)
34 Matrimony (Gilbert O'Sullivan)
35 Get Down (Gilbert O'Sullivan) 

https://pixeldrain.com/u/6ruNrhED

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/MfpH01we0zmoDdS/file

The cover photo is from this exact concert.