Covered: Neil Young, Volume 9: 2020-2022

Here's the ninth volume of the "Covered" series for Neil Young. We're getting near the end, with only one more volume after this. Once again, thanks to Fabio from Rio for doing most of the work putting this together. Here's Fabio's summary of this time period:

The early 2020s brought an unexpected new chapter in the long afterlife of Neil Young's songs. During the Covid pandemic years, musicians around the world turned to home recordings, livestream performances, and online collaborations. In that environment, Young's catalog proved once again remarkably adaptable: intimate acoustic songs worked perfectly in stripped-down home recordings, while his electric epics continued to inspire roots-rock and Americana bands. At the same time, Young himself remained a visible cultural figure, both through the expanding Neil Young Archives project and through public debates about streaming platforms and artists' rights. The covers in this volume reflect that moment: a mixture of independent artists, online collaborations, and established performers revisiting songs from every phase of Young's long 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 Razor Love (Brandon Wolfe Scott with Stacey)
02 Unknown Legend (Mandolin Orange)
03 Eldorado (Sioux 13)
04 No Wonder (Blue Raincoat)
05 Lookout Joe (Marc Ford)
06 Be the Rain (Gil Michaels)
07 I'm the Ocean (Dark Wrangler)
08 It's a Dream (Cody Simpson & Ben Harper)
09 Surfer Joe and Moe the Sleaze (Rust for Glory)
10 Comes a Time (Jeff & Laura)
11 When God Made Me (Ronnie Drew & Eleanor Shanley)
12 Love in Mind (Cowboy Junkies)
13 Mother Earth (Zach)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/ZPTnfKq1

alternate:

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

The cover photo is from 2015. 

Bettye LaVette - Soulville - Non-Album Tracks (2017-2023)

I've been posting a few Bettye LaVette albums lately. Here's another one. It's another collection of non-album tracks, from 2017 to 2023. This gets us caught up to current day, since I didn't find any non-album tracks worthy of inclusion since 2023.

Six of the songs here are unreleased: tracks 2, 6, 7, 9, 10, and 12. All of them are from concert bootlegs. They generally come from tribute concerts. I removed the audience cheering from all of them so they'd fit in better with the studio tracks.

Tracks 1 and 3 come from the deluxe edition of "Music from The American Epic Sessions." Track 4 is from the Todd Rundgren album "White Knight." Tracks 8 and 11 are from tribute albums. For more details, look at the mp3 tags for each song, as usual.

This album is 52 minutes long. 

01 Nobody's Dirty Business (Bettye LaVette)
02 Jingle Bells - White Christmas - This Christmas (Bettye LaVette)
03 When I Woke Up This Morning (Bettye LaVette)
04 Naked and Afraid (Todd Rundgren & Bettye LaVette)
05 Person to Person (Bettye LaVette)
06 Ain't No Way (Bettye LaVette)
07 Soulville (Bettye LaVette)
08 Loser (Dave McMurray with Bettye LaVette & Bob Weir)
09 On Your Way Down (Little Feat & Bettye LaVette)
10 A Apolitical Blues - Long Distance Call (Little Feat & Bettye LaVette)
11 Call It Stormy Monday (Count Basie Orchestra with Bettye LaVette)
12 The Man I Love (Bettye LaVette)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/cgPapJ5S

alternate: 

https://bestfile.io/en/9QsaHww5PLK38MI/file

The cover photo was taken at the Apollo Theater in New York City on April 4, 2019. I used Photoshop to remove some writing on the wall behind her head.

Diana Ross - BBC In Concert, Glastonbury Festival, Worthy Farm, Pilton, Britain, 6-26-2022

Here's Diana Ross performing a set at the annual Glastonbury Festival. It's the only music I've found from her performed for the BBC.

This was the only time Ross has performed for the festival. In 2022, when this concert took place, she was 78 years old. Unfortunately, I think she might have waited a little too long, because her vocals made me wince a few times. I wonder if that's due to age, or if she doesn't have the kind of voice needed to fill massive venues like this one, or some combination. But in any case, the vocals might be a bit off sometimes, but she performed classic after classic. She's sold over 100 million records in her music career, both as part of the Supremes and then in her long solo career.

This is another album I wasn't actively looking for, but I saw that musical friend Prosprog had it, so I decided what the heck, why not post it. Just like the Lionel Richie one I also posted today, I saw that it has been available as a massive video file. But this might be the first time it's being shared as an audio bootleg, I'm not sure. 

This album is an hour and 14 minutes long.

01 Instrumental (Diana Ross)
02 I'm Coming Out (Diana Ross)
03 More Today than Yesterday (Diana Ross)
04 My World Is Empty without You (Diana Ross)
05 Baby Love (Diana Ross)
06 Stop, in the Name of Love (Diana Ross)
07 You Can't Hurry Love (Diana Ross)
08 talk (Diana Ross)
09 Chain Reaction (Diana Ross)
10 talk (Diana Ross)
11 Thank You (Diana Ross)
12 talk (Diana Ross)
13 Tomorrow (Diana Ross)
14 talk (Diana Ross)
15 If the World Just Danced (Diana Ross)
16 I'm Still Waiting (Diana Ross)
17 Upside Down (Diana Ross)
18 Love Hangover - Take Me Higher (Diana Ross)
19 Ease on Down the Road (Diana Ross)
20 Why Do Fools Fall in Love (Diana Ross)
21 Theme from Mahogany [Do You Know Where You're Going To] (Diana Ross)
22 Ain't No Mountain High Enough (Diana Ross)
23 I Will Survive - All I Do Is Win (Diana Ross)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/vZTxjGM3

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/OrxATmvNfRZdi2p/file

The cover photo is from this exact concert. 

Covered: Antonio Carlos Jobim, Volume 3: 2012-2024

Here is the third and final Covered album celebrating the songwriting of Antonio Carlos Jobim.

I didn't get around to writing about the basics of Jobim's life with the first two volumes in this series, so let me do that now. Jobim was born in 1927 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. In the 1940s, he made a living playing piano in bars and nightclubs in Rio. His first song to be recorded by someone happened in 1953. But he didn't have significant success until 1958, when Joao Gilberto recorded what would become one of his most famous songs, "Desafinado (Out of Tune)." Then, in 1964, he really hit it big with "The Girl from Ipanema." A version of that song by Stan Getz and Astrud Gilberto reached the Top Five in the U.S. singles chart. But its success went way beyond that. In fact, it has become the second most recorded song of all time, behind only "Yesterday" by the Beatles.

This song led many people to discover not only other songs written by Jobim, but songs from Brazil in general, especially bossa nova music. For a couple of years, there was a sort of bossa nova craze in Western countries, especially in the jazz world. Jazz musicians in particular fell in love with Jobim's songs, because they were both musically complicated and interesting while being tuneful and catchy. Many of his songs became standards. Looking at the website secondhandsongs.com in 2025, which tallies cover versions, I count 34 songs written or co-written by Jobim that have been covered over 100 times. It may not sound like a lot, but that's a crazy amount. By comparison, only 18 songs by Bob Dylan have been covered over 100 times. Or consider Carole King, one of the most successful songwriters of all time. Only eight of her songs have been covered over 100 times.

Jobim released several dozen albums, with about half of them being collaborations with other famous musicians. He often collaborated with singers, since he wasn't much of a singer himself. His own albums didn't sell that well, but his collaboration albums often did. Overall, he had much more success with other musicians covering his songs. 

Here's his Wikipedia entry, if you want to know more:

Antônio Carlos Jobim - Wikipedia 

He died in 1994 at the age of 67. As a result, all of the songs here are from well after his death. Most of them were written in the 1950s to 1970s, and it just so happens these are the versions that Fabio from Rio and I liked the best (since all three of these albums were put together by Fabio and myself). As with the two previous volumes in the series, the focus was on songs sung in English, when in fact there are even more covers of his songs in other languages, especially Portuguese, which is spoken in his home country of Brazil.

Thanks again to Fabio of Rio for his helping putting this Jobim albums together. I already had plans to make Covered albums from Jobim on my own. But they wouldn't have been nearly as good without Fabio's input, since he's much more familiar with this type of music than I am. 

This album is 46 minutes long. 

01 I Love You [Eu Te Amo] (Alessandra Maestrini)
02 Somewhere in the Hills [O Morro Nao Tem Vez] (Lisa Sanchez & Jon Eriksen Quartet)
03 Forever Green [Sempre Verde] (Trudy Kerr)
04 Photograph [Fotografia] (Stephanie Patton)
05 Little Bird [Passarim] (Daniel Vincke)
06 Once I Loved [O Amor em Paz] (Baila Nova)
07 This Happy Madness [Estrada Branca] (Delicatessen)
08 Useless Landscape [Inutil Paisagem] (Emma Pask)
09 Meditation [Meditacao] (Nicole Magolie)
10 One Note Samba [Samba de Uma Nota So] (Arpi Alto)
11 Wave (Natalie Jacob, Tamir Hendelman, Anthony Wilson & Kevin Winard)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/uUAZTVi5

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/kSoOFxh4c0rb9Nm/file

The cover photo is cropped from a photo of Jobim with Sting. I don't know when it was taken, but I'd guess it's from the 1990s, because the two of them collaborated on a song around then which was released in 1996. The original version was black and white, but I colorized it with the help of the Kolorize program.

Midnight Oil - Malkin Bowl, Vancouver, Canada, 6-1-2022

Today, I updated the links for most of the Midnight Oil albums posted here, for various reasons. While doing that, I got to wondering what they were doing lately. I found out they say they performed their last tour in 2022, but they're still open to doing more studio work. I had assumed they would release a live album from that tour, but they haven't. So I found this, which I think is the best bootleg from that tour.

This bootleg stands out because it's a combination of an IEM recording and an audience bootleg. "IEM" stands for "in ear monitor," and it's usually an audio feed meant to help the band members hear themselves, being broadcast directly into earpieces they wear. Soundwise, it's usually like a great soundboard boot. But it can have flaws, such as not including much crowd noise. So mixing in an audience boot can take care of that. In short, this sounds fantastic, the kind of sound one would expect from an official live album.

In 2002, Midnight Oil broke up after being together since the early 1970s. The band's lead singer Peter Garrett then pursued a political career in Australia. He was elected to Parliament, then went on to first be Minister for the Environment, Heritage and the Arts, and then Minister for Education. But in 2017 he returned to music and Midnight Oil went back on tour. In 2022, they released, "Resist," their first studio album since 2002. After a short tour in Australia, this was the first show they performed on the tour in North America. This concert includes four songs from the "Resist" album: "At the Time of Writing,"
"Nobody's Child," "Rising Seas," and "Barka-Darling River."

This album is exactly two hours long. 

01 Intro [Instrumental] (Midnight Oil)
02 Read about It (Midnight Oil)
03 Brave Faces (Midnight Oil)
04 talk (Midnight Oil)
05 Nobody's Child (Midnight Oil)
06 talk (Midnight Oil)
07 Barka-Darling River (Midnight Oil)
08 talk (Midnight Oil)
09 Redneck Wonderland (Midnight Oil)
10 Truganini (Midnight Oil)
11 talk (Midnight Oil)
12 First Nation (Midnight Oil)
13 The Dead Heart (Midnight Oil)
14 My Country (Midnight Oil)
15 U.S. Forces (Midnight Oil)
16 Short Memory (Midnight Oil)
17 talk (Midnight Oil)
18 Kosciusko (Midnight Oil)
19 Only the Strong (Midnight Oil)
20 talk (Midnight Oil)
21 At the Time of Writing (Midnight Oil)
22 Power and the Passion (Midnight Oil)
23 Rising Seas (Midnight Oil)
24 talk (Midnight Oil)
25 Sometimes (Midnight Oil)
26 King of the Mountain (Midnight Oil)
27 Beds Are Burning (Midnight Oil)
28 Blue Sky Mine (Midnight Oil)
29 talk (Midnight Oil)
30 Forgotten Years (Midnight Oil)
31 talk (Midnight Oil)
32 Hercules (Midnight Oil)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/gC5WjRzi

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/a4NHbKszaFuBkI4/file

The cover photo shows band members Peter Garrett (with bald head) and Rob Hirst (on drums) performing at the  Hordern Pavilion, in Sydney, Australia, on October 3, 2022. I was glad to find a photo of both Garrett and Hirst, because Hirst is a key songwriter for the band in addition to being a drummer. 

Also, I used the primitive computer styled lettering for the cover, because that's the type of font the band used for this tour.

Various Artists - Gershwin Prize for Popular Song Honoring Lionel Richie, D.A.R. Constitution Hall, Washington, DC, 3-9-2022

In the past couple of weeks, I've posted some award ceremonies from the (mostly) annual Gershwin Prize for Popular Song. I've found some, and I'm still looking for others. I put out a request from him, and a kind commenter here named Berni found this one for me. So thanks very much to Berni for that. In 2022, it was Lionel Richie's turn to win the prize.

I'm not going to go into Richie's career here. Suffice to say that he's sold over 100 million records, making him one of the best selling musical acts of all time. And if you're wondering why Richie has won this prize and the likes of Bob Dylan haven't yet, keep in mind the word "popular" in the title of the prize. They're basically awarding the most successful, not necessarily the most critically acclaimed.

The recording of this concert is different from all the other Gershwin Prize ones I've heard so far. Richie was awarded the prize after just two songs sung by others. Richie gave his acceptance speech at that point. Then, after some more songs sung by others, Richie returned to perform a couple of songs at the end of the concert. For all the others, the winner of the prize was given the prize at the end of the concert. I don't know if this is the correct order or if the song order was redone by someone for some reason. But in any case, this is what we have, and I don't have any proof it happened otherwise, so I'm keeping it like this.

Everything here is unreleased. The sound quality was pretty good. However, I noticed all the vocals were mixed pretty low. So I fixed that with the use of the UVR5 audio editing program.

As an aside, there are two more Gershwin Prize concerts that I'd especially like to find, those for Smokey Robinson and Carole King. But it turns out one can only listen to them if one has a PBS Passport, AND one lives in Wisconsin! Here are the links.

https://pbswisconsin.org/watch/in-performance/-performance-carole-king-library-congress-gershwin-prize-full-episode/

https://pbswisconsin.org/watch/gershwin-prize/gershwin-prize-smokey-robinson-library-congress-gershwin-prize/

If anyone here has donated to PBS and lives in Wisconsin, please help! That music should be available to people everywhere, not just in one U.S. state. Thanks. 

This album is 52 minutes long.

01 Dancing on the Ceiling (Gloria Estefan)
02 talk (emcee)
03 talk (Anthony Anderson)
04 Hello (Andra Day)
05 talk (emcee)
06 talk (Carla Hayden)
07 talk (Lionel Richie)
08 talk (emcee)
09 Say You, Say Me (Chris Stapleton)
10 talk (Anthony Anderson)
11 You Are (Miguel)
12 talk (emcee)
13 Easy (Boyz II Men)
14 talk (Anthony Anderson)
15 talk (Luke Bryan)
16 Lady (Luke Bryan)
17 talk (emcee)
18 Jesus Is Love (Yolanda Adams)
19 talk (Anthony Anderson)
20 talk (Lionel Richie)
21 We Are the World (Lionel Richie)
22 All Night Long (Lionel Richie)

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

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/BW8kawfLWE2PB2R/file

The cover photo is from this exact concert. It shows Richie with Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden.

Norah Jones - Tryin' to Keep It Together - Non-Album Tracks (2020-2023)

Here's another collection of non-album tracks from Norah Jones.

The Covid pandemic dominated 2020 until 2022. During that time, Jones kept quite busy with frequent home concerts. She played enough unique songs in those concerts for me to post two albums of those (as well as all of his home concerts in full). This avoids all of that in other to avoid duplication. Additionally, during this time she hosted a podcast and played even more unique songs. I'm avoiding all those as well. Hopefully those will be the subject of a future album or two posted here, though she also has released an album of highlights from her podcast, called "Playing Along."

The first two songs are bonus tracks from her album "Pick Me Up Off the Floor." Tracks 3, 4, 7, 8, and 10 are unreleased. All of those are from concerts, though most of those were not in front of audiences due to the Covid pandemic at the time. For the two that did have audience applause, I got rid of that using the MVSEP program, so they would better fit in with the studio tracks.

Tracks 5 and 6 are bonus tracks from her 2021 Christmas album, "I Dream of Christmas." The song "I Dream of Christmas" was co-written by Jones, so it's a bit strange it was only a bonus track for the album that was given the same name as the song. Track 9, "Steer Your Way," is from a Leonard Cohen tribute album. The last two are also from a concert, but an officially released one, celebrating Willie Nelson's 90th birthday. 

This album is 45 minutes long.

01 Street Stranger (Norah Jones)
02 Tryin' to Keep It Together (Norah Jones)
03 Yes We Can Can (Norah Jones with Emily King, Abeena Koomson-Davis & Amy Helm)
04 Help Me (Norah Jones)
05 I Dream of Christmas (Norah Jones)
06 The Christmas Waltz (Norah Jones)
07 I've Got a Feeling (Norah Jones)
08 Let It Be (Norah Jones)
09 Steer Your Way (Norah Jones)
10 The Warmth of the Sun (Norah Jones)
11 Seven Spanish Angels (Allison Russell & Norah Jones)
12 Down Yonder (Norah Jones)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/r5vZwP11

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/3pMRR4toL41ylIB/file

The cover photo is from 2022. 

Sheryl Crow - Nobody Told Me - Non-Album Tracks (2020-2022)

It's time for another stray tracks album from Sheryl Crow. Actually, I only need another song or two and I'll have enough to get caught up to present day. So I hope that'll happen soon.

After a 2019 album, "Threads," Crow said she was done with putting out albums and would switch to releasing singles instead. She hasn't entirely kept to that, since she released another album in 2024. But she has released fewer albums than before, and she also has released some songs only on singles. There are three single A-sides here, tracks 3, 9, and 10. Additionally, "Still the Same" is another original, released on a compilation album. Tracks 4, 5, 7, and 11 are from appearances on albums by other musical acts. 

That just leaves the unreleased songs. There are four of those, tracks 1, 2, 6, and 8. The first three were live but without an audience, because this was during the Covid pandemic, when home concerts were happening instead of concerts in front of crowds. For the tracks with audience noise (tracks 4 and 8), I removed the cheering with the MVSEP program so it would fit in with the studio tracks.

This album is 45 minutes long. 

01 Nobody Told Me (Sheryl Crow)
02 You Don't Know How It Feels (Sheryl Crow)
03 In the End (Sheryl Crow)
04 After the Fire Is Gone (Willie Nelson & Sheryl Crow)
05 How Can You Mend a Broken Heart (Barry Gibb & Sheryl Crow)
06 It's Only Love (Sheryl Crow)
07 Cool Down (Lucie Silvas & Sheryl Crow)
08 Rocket Man [I Think It's Going to Be a Long, Long Time] (Brandi Carlile & Sheryl Crow)
09 Circles (Sheryl Crow)
10 Promised Land (Toby Mac & Sheryl Crow)
11 Still the Same (Sheryl Crow)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/XxsYhEHE

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/parYCyNAHxa7Arb/file

For the cover art, I decided to do something different than the usual photo of Crow. I did an Internet search for Sheryl Crow art, and came up with this nice image. I don't know who made it.

Brandi Carlile - Cover Songs, Volume 9: 2022-2023

A couple of days ago, I posted a Brandi Carlile set from the 2025 Glastonbury Festival. That reminded me that I had fallen behind posting cover song albums from her. So I searched the Internet and found enough material for this album. Also, I'm only a couple of songs short for the next one, so hopefully that'll happen soon.

Also, before I talk about the content on this album, note that in recent days I went through all of the earlier albums in this cover songs series and got rid of the applause on the songs that had applause, using the MVSEP program. So you might want to redownload those, because that often makes the songs sound clearer, especially in cases where there's a steady stream of audience noise through the songs.

Furthermore, I recently went through all the Dusty Springfield "On TV and Radio" albums, and used the same technique to get rid of the audience noise there as well. That was a big project, because there are 12 of those albums. And while I was at it, I redid most of the album covers using the Krea AI program, including some outside of that series. So you might want to redownload those as well.

Now, let's turn to the content of this album. A few of the songs here are officially released. They generally come from Carlile's appearances on the albums of other musical acts, and they are covers of songs first done by those acts. Those are "How" by Marcus Mumford and Brandi Carlile (which actually is cowritten by Carlile), "You're Gonna Go Far" by Noah Kahan, "Thousand Miles" by Miley Cyrus, and "Dear Insecurity" by Brandy Clark. The only other released song is "Closer to Fine," done for the 2023 "Barbie" movie.

The rest all are unreleased. All of those come from concerts, and are versions of famous songs. For those, I used the MVSEP program to get rid of as much of the crowd noise as possible, so the live tracks would fit in with the studio ones. 

This album is 48 minutes long. 

Here are the original artists for each song: 

01 Coat of Many Colors - Dolly Parton
02 How - Marcus Mumford & Brandi Carlile
03 Every Day Is a Winding Road - Sheryl Crow
04 You're Gonna Go Far - Noah Kahan
05 She's Got You - Patsy Cline
06 Thousand Miles - Miley Cyrus
07 In My Room - Beach Boys
08 Closer to Fine - Indigo Girls
09 God Only Knows - Beach Boys
10 Dear Insecurity - Brandy Clark
11 Islands in the Stream - Kenny Rogers & Dolly Parton 
12 Shine - Joni Mitchell

Here's the usual song list: 

01 Coat of Many Colors (Brandi Carlile & Pink)
02 How (Marcus Mumford & Brandi Carlile)
03 Every Day Is a Winding Road (Brandi Carlile & Sheryl Crow)
04 You're Gonna Go Far (Noah Kahan with Brandi Carlile)
05 She's Got You (Brandi Carlile)
06 Thousand Miles (Miley Cyrus with Brandi Carlile)
07 In My Room (Brandi Carlile)
08 Closer to Fine (Brandi Carlile & Catherine Carlile)
09 God Only Knows (Brandi Carlile & John Legend)
10 Dear Insecurity (Brandy Clark & Brandi Carlile)
11 Islands in the Stream (Brandi Carlile & Nathaniel Rateliff)
12 Shine (Brandi Carlile with Lucius & Celisse)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/oC9aQYDt

alternate: 

https://bestfile.io/xqgaQsHKYaJnbi3/file

The cover photo is from a concert in Nashville, Tennessee, on September 22, 2023.

Various Artists - Homeward Bound: A Grammy Salute to the Songs of Paul Simon, Hollywood Pantages Theater, Los Angeles, CA, 4-6-2022

I've recently discovered a bunch of tribute concerts. I find these really interesting, but they seem to often slip through the cracks in terms of being shared bootlegs. So I'm going to try to make posting these a higher priority. Here's a Grammy-related tribute to Paul Simon from 2022. It took place just three days after the annual Grammy Awards ceremony that year, and in the same city, so many of the stars who attended that could attend this one as well.

It goes without saying that Simon is one of the greatest songwriters of all time, so he deserves a tribute like this. In fact, I've found a MusiCares tribute concert from 2001 and a Gershwin Prize tribute concert from 2007 both celebrating his songs that I plan on posting too. Like those, this one features many big stars playing his most beloved songs.

It also features Simon performing a couple of songs of his own at the end of the concert. This is especially significant because he was 80 years old at the time of this concert, and his voice was noticeably weakening with age. He announced a farewell tour in 2018, so this seemed like one of his last public performances. Since then, though, he decided to have one more tour in 2025, with about 20 concerts. Be that as it may, one can hear the change in his voice in this performance. Thankfully, he realized his limitations and had another singer tackle the vocally challenging song "American Tune" while he just played guitar on it.

The music here remains officially unreleased. However, it was broadcast on television, so there are video files of it. I took a high quality version, converted it to audio format, and broke it into mp3s. The sound quality is excellent. I kept most everything, except I cut out some talk from the unnamed female emcee every time there was a commercial break, which happened every few songs. Hopefully this now sounds seamless, without any hints of those commercial breaks.

Some of the banter between songs were little speeches by famous non-musicians, such as Woody Harrelson, Dustin Hoffman, and Oprah Winfrey. Famous rock star Elton John also only talked. In his case, his talk was a video broadcast, so he probably didn't sing as well because he wasn't there in person.

This album is an hour and 24 minutes long.

01 talk (emcee)
02 Kodachrome (Brad Paisley)
03 talk (Woody Harrelson)
04 50 Ways to Leave Your Lover (Jonas Brothers)
05 talk (Garth Brooks)
06 The Boxer (Garth Brooks and Trisha Yearwood)
07 talk (Elton John)
08 talk (Susanna Hoffs)
09 A Hazy Shade of Winter (Susanna Hoffs)
10 talk (Herbie Hancock)
11 talk (Sting)
12 America (Sting)
13 talk (Billy Porter)
14 Loves Me like a Rock (Billy Porter)
15 talk (Dustin Hoffman)
16 talk (Stevie Wonder)
17 Mrs. Robinson (Stevie Wonder with Sheila E. & the Jonas Brothers)
18 talk (Bonnie Raitt)
19 Something So Right (Bonnie Raitt & Brad Paisley)
20 talk (Stevie Wonder)
21 Bridge Over Troubled Water (Stevie Wonder & Ledisi)
22 talk (Sofia Carson)
23 Mother and Child Reunion (Jimmy Cliff & Shaggy)
24 Take Me to the Mardi Gras (Trombone Shorty & Irma Thomas)
25 talk (Eric Church)
26 Homeward Bound (Eric Church)
27 Slip Slidin' Away (Little Big Town)
28 talk (Folake Olowofoyeku)
29 Homeless (Take 6)
30 Under African Skies (Angelique Kidjo with Dave Matthews)
31 You Can Call Me Al (Dave Matthews with Angelique Kidjo)
32 talk (Oprah Winfrey)
33 Graceland (Paul Simon)
34 talk (Paul Simon)
35 American Tune (Rhiannon Giddens with Paul Simon)
36 The Sound of Silence (Paul Simon)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/5j4GUcC1

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/Vz5ALstXCYeahHB/file 

The cover shows Paul Simon about to receive a hug from Oprah Winfrey. It's from this exact concert.

John Fogerty - Weeping in the Promised Land - Non-Album Tracks (2013-2022)

I recently got a request from a commenter to post more of my non-album track albums by John Fogerty. I only have one more by him before we get to the present day, more or less. So here it is. (And by the way, I still have lots of these stray track albums to post by various musical acts, but they've been on the backburner compared to BBC albums and other things recently.)

In 2013, the year of the first song in this album, Fogerty was 68 years old. In 2022, the year of the last song in this album, he was 77 years old. As I write this in 2025, he still has a strong voice and plays lead guitar very well, but it's obvious his songwriting creativity has slowed way down. He hasn't released an album of new original songs since 2007. So the songs here mostly consist of cover versions, plus acoustic versions of songs from earlier in his career, with only a couple new originals ("The Holy Grail" and "Weeping in the Promised Land").

The first song, "Sharp Dressed Man," is a ZZ Top song done with Billy Gibbons, the lead vocalist and lead guitarist in ZZ Top. Both Fogerty and Gibbons sang and played lead guitar on it. It's unreleased, from a bootleg. "New Orleans" is a cover of a 1960s hit performed in concert for a Dr. John tribute album. "Give Peace a Chance" and "In My Life" are John Lennon songs done for a Lennon tribute concert in 2015. They come from an official album of highlights of that concert. Tracks 5, 6, 11, and 12 are unreleased acoustic versions of hits Fogerty had earlier in his career, mostly from when he a member of Creedence Clearwater Revival. They're from radio or Internet shows. "Long as I Can See the Light" is particularly interesting since it was played on piano instead of guitar as usual. 

"Love and War" is a song performed with country star Brad Paisley from his 2017 album, also called "Love and War." "I Won't Back Down" is a cover of the classic Tom Petty song. This is from an concert bootleg, and the sound quality is a little poorer than the other songs. "The Holy Grail" is a single from 2018, and "Weeping in the Promised Land" is a single from 2021. 

"With a Little Help from My Friends" is a cover of the Beatles song from the 2019 official live album "50 Year Trip: Live at Red Rocks." However, it is done in the same style as Joe Cocker's famous hit cover version. "Walk, Don't Run," is a cover on the famous instrumental hit by the Ventures. Fogerty only performed it once in concert, on January 22, 2022, because it was done in honor of the lead guitarist for the Ventures, Don Wilson, who died earlier in the day. Finally, "The City of New Orleans" is yet another cover song of a classic, done from a various artists collection of train songs in 2022.

This album is 49 minutes long.

01 Sharp Dressed Man (John Fogerty & Billy Gibbons)
02 New Orleans (John Fogerty)
03 Give Peace a Chance (John Fogerty)
04 In My Life (John Fogerty)
05 Have You Ever Seen the Rain [Acoustic Version] (John Fogerty)
06 Centerfield [Acoustic Version] (John Fogerty)
07 Love and War (Brad Paisley & John Fogerty)
08 I Won't Back Down (John Fogerty)
09 The Holy Grail (John Fogerty with Billy Gibbons)
10 With a Little Help from My Friends (John Fogerty)
11 Bad Moon Rising [Acoustic Version] (John Fogerty)
12 Long as I Can See the Light [Piano Version] (John Fogerty)
13 Weeping in the Promised Land (John Fogerty)
14 Walk, Don't Run [Instrumental] (John Fogerty)
15 The City of New Orleans (John Fogerty)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/QmbAsD2Q

alternate: 

https://bestfile.io/en/F6uTZi3doqx4Kvi/file

The cover photo is from a concert at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada on April 8, 2013.

Darius Rucker - CMT Storytellers, Worldwide Stages, Spring Hill, TN, 8-29-2022

I recently found two "CMT Storytellers" albums I considered worthy of posting. The first was Brooks and Dunn. This, the second one, is Darius Rucker.

Like with Brooks and Dunn, I'm not much of a fan of Darius Rucker. But also like with Brooks and Dunn, I know there are plenty of people who are fans of his music, and I'm trying to post all the at least decent Storytellers albums I can find.

Rucker first hit it big with his band Hootie and the Blowfish in the 1990s. Their 1994 album "Cracked Rear View" went on to sell more than 22 million copies worldwide! But by the end of the 1990s, the band faced declining sales. None of their albums went gold (meaning selling half a million copies) - a far cry from their earlier success. 

Starting in 2001, Rucker began transitioning into a solo career in country music. He never entirely gave up Hootie and the Blowfish, and still occasionally performs with them, but his solo career soon became his main focus. That's because he's found a lot of commercial success with that too. For instance, he's had nine Number One songs on the U.S. country singles chart. One song, a cover of "Wagon Wheel," sold about four million copies in 2013.

Here's his Wikipedia entry if you want to know more:

Darius Rucker - Wikipedia 

This concert has him mainly in country mode. However, he played a couple of his biggest hits with Hootie and the Blowfish too: "Let Her Cry" and "Only Wanna Be with You."

I had to make a lot of edits to make this sound like one coherent concert. I faced the usual problems of the applause getting cut off too early and having to get rid of snippets of songs from later in the show, meant to keep people watching right before going to commercials. But it should sound good now, I hope.

Note that as I write this in December 2024, there have been four additional episodes of "CMT Storytellers," three in 2023 and one in 2024. They featured:

Kelsea Ballerini
Kane Brown
Dierks Bentley
Little Big Town

I don't think I'm going to find and post any of those shows. None of them really interest me. For instance, a couple of them fall into the "bro country" sub-genre, which I try to avoid. Plus, I don't think they're nearly as popular as either Brooks and Dunn or Darius Rucker. But if anyone thinks I'm wrong, let me know. I have to admit I didn't look into them very closely either.

This album is 43 minutes long.

01 talk (Darius Rucker)
02 Let Her Cry (Darius Rucker)
03 talk (Darius Rucker)
04 Alright (Darius Rucker)
05 talk (Darius Rucker)
06 For the First Time (Darius Rucker)
07 talk (Darius Rucker)
08 It Won't Be like This for Long (Darius Rucker)
09 talk (Darius Rucker)
10 This (Darius Rucker)
11 talk (Darius Rucker)
12 Wagon Wheel (Darius Rucker)
13 talk (Darius Rucker)
14 Only Wanna Be with You (Darius Rucker)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/R9gyTeMa

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/GYjc8z8ZvthFHHh/file

The cover photo is from this exact concert. 

Brooks & Dunn - CMT Storytellers, Worldwide Stages, Spring Hill, TN, 3-25-2022

I have to confess I'm not much of a Brooks and Dunn fan. However, I made a vow to post all the "VH-1 Storytellers" concerts I could by musical acts that are at least decent, and this country duo makes that bar. 

Technically, this isn't a "VH-1 Storytellers" concert. That TV show basically died out in 2012. But it's basically the exact same thing, same storytelling format, except it's on the CMT (Country Music Television) channel instead of the VH1 channel. Both channels are owned by the same mega corporation (Paramount). So the show was revived in 2022 with the twist that all the new episodes feature country music acts.

The duo was formed when Kix Brooks and Ronnie Dunn, both struggling singer-songwriters in the country genre at the time, decided to join forces. Their debut album as a duo went on to sell six million copies in the U.S. They had success after success after that, with a total of 20 songs that reached Number One on the U.S. country singles charts. They broke up in 2010. But they've had numerous reunions since then, including this one.

Here's their Wikipedia entry, if you want to know more:

Brooks & Dunn - Wikipedia

I faced some of the exact same problems when I was putting together VH-1 Storytellers albums. For instance, the applause was often abruptly cut off at the ends of songs. And snippets of songs played later in the show were played earlier in the show, right before commercial breaks. Furthermore, some of their talking between songs was actually from interviews and not the show itself. I had to do a lot of editing to smooth all that over and get this to sound like a continuous concert. I hope I succeeded.

This album is 40 minutes long.

01 Brand New Man (Brooks & Dunn)
02 talk (Brooks & Dunn)
03 Red Dirt Road (Brooks & Dunn)
04 talk (Brooks & Dunn)
05 Neon Moon (Brooks & Dunn)
06 talk (Brooks & Dunn)
07 Ain't Nothing 'bout You (Brooks & Dunn)
08 talk (Brooks & Dunn)
09 You're Gonna Miss Me When I'm Gone (Brooks & Dunn)
10 talk (Brooks & Dunn)
11 Believe (Brooks & Dunn)
12 talk (Brooks & Dunn)
13 Boot Scootin' Boogie (Brooks & Dunn)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/GmdfoLie

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/xqz0cFEFIjMhv2O/file

The cover photo is from this exact concert. Ronnie Dunn is the one who has a big "cowboy" tattoo on his arm.

Bettye LaVette - Millennium Stage, John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington, DC, 6-1-2022

Here's an unreleased concert by soul singer Bettye LaVette. 

I'm posting it for three reasons. One, she'd backed by just a piano player, so it's basically a solo acoustic concert. That's a very unusual format for her, and one I particularly like. Two, I found this as a YouTube video, and as far as I know it's never been made available as sound files until now. Finally, three, it's a professionally recorded web broadcast, so the sound quality is excellent.

At the time of this concert in 2022, LaVette's most recent album was "Blackbirds," released in 2020. She was still touring to support that, so most of the songs come from that. But about half of the songs come from earlier albums. However, maybe because it's only an hour-long concert, only one songs goes back to her 1960s singles, "My Man - He's a Lovin' Man."

In my opinion, LaVette is one of the most soulful singers still alive and kicking, and she definitely still has her "it" factor here.

This album is 59 minutes long.

01 talk (Bettye LaVette)
02 Misty (Bettye LaVette)
03 Intro to The Forecast [Calls for Pain] (Bettye LaVette)
04 The Forecast [Calls for Pain] (Bettye LaVette)
05 talk (Bettye LaVette)
06 Hold No Grudge (Bettye LaVette)
07 talk (Bettye LaVette)
08 Save Your Love for Me (Bettye LaVette)
09 Isn't It a Pity (Bettye LaVette)
10 talk (Bettye LaVette)
11 Just Dropped In [To See What Condition My Condition Was In] (Bettye LaVette)
12 talk (Bettye LaVette)
13 Yesterday Is Here (Bettye LaVette)
14 talk (Bettye LaVette)
15 My Man - He's a Lovin' Man (Bettye LaVette)
16 talk (Bettye LaVette)
17 Love Reign O'er Me (Bettye LaVette)
18 Intro to Blackbird (Bettye LaVette)
19 Blackbird (Bettye LaVette)

https://www.upload.ee/files/16386840/BETTYLVTTE2022MllnnmStgeKnndyCntrWshngtnDC__6-1-2022_atse.zip.html

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

Fiona Apple - Cover Songs, Volume 4: 2016-2022

Here's the last of four volumes of Fiona Apple performing cover versions. I particularly enjoyed this series, and I wish it could keep going, but this is all I could find with worthy sound quality. This last volume gets us caught up to the present day, more or less (as I write this in early 2024).

All but four of the songs here have been officially released. They're from the usual mix of movie soundtracks, appearances on other artist's albums, and various artists compilations. 

As for the unreleased ones, those are tracks 1, 2, 3, and 9. The first one, "Ain't That a Shame," was done for an Internet show. The next two are from another Internet show, this one hosted by musician Andrew Bird (and they're duets with Bird). I included three other songs from that same show on the previous album in this series. Finally, the ninth song, "The Whole of the Moon," was done for the TV show "The Affair," but it only appeared in the show, not on a soundtrack for it or anything like that.

There are two bonus tracks, "All Night Thing" and "You Don't Own Me." They're both from audience concert bootlegs. Their quality was good enough for bonus tracks (some others didn't even make that cut), but not good enough for the album proper.

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

01 Ain't That a Shame - Fats Domino
02 Why - Andrew Bird
03 Oh, Sister - Bob Dylan
04 I Can't Wait to Meet You - Solangie Jimenez & Thomas Cabaniss
05 Your Molecular Structure - Mose Allison
06 It Won't Be Wrong - Byrds
07 In My Room - Beach Bosy
08 Don't Worry 'Bout Me - Katherine Perry
09 The Whole of the Moon - Waterboys
10 7 O'Clock News - Silent Night - Simon & Garfunkel medley, including "Silent Night" by Franz Xaver Gruber & Joseph Mohr
11 Love More - Sharon Van Etten
12 [Remember Me] I'm the One Who Loves You - Stuart Hamblen
13 Where the Shadows Lie - Bear McCreary

All Night Thing - Temple of the Dog
You Don't Own Me - Leslie Gore

And here's the usual song list:

01 Ain't That a Shame (Fiona Apple)
02 Why (Fiona Apple & Andrew Bird)
03 Oh, Sister (Fiona Apple & Andrew Bird)
04 I Can't Wait to Meet You (Fiona Apple)
05 Your Molecular Structure (Tippo All Stars & Fiona Apple)
06 It Won't Be Wrong (Fiona Apple & Jakob Dylan)
07 In My Room (Fiona Apple & Jakob Dylan)
08 Don't Worry 'Bout Me (Jeff Goldblum & the Mildred Snitzer Orchestra with Fiona Apple)
09 The Whole of the Moon (Fiona Apple)
10 7 O'Clock News - Silent Night (Phoebe Bridgers, Fiona Apple & Matt Berninger)
11 Love More (Fiona Apple)
12 [Remember Me] I'm the One Who Loves You (Watkins Family Hour with Fiona Apple)
13 Where the Shadows Lie (Fiona Apple & Bear McCreary)

All Night Thing (Fiona Apple)
You Don't Own Me (Shirley Manson & Fiona Apple)

https://www.upload.ee/files/16345640/FONAAPPL2016-2022CvrSngsVlum4_atse.zip.html

The cover photo was taken at the Ohana Fest in Dana Point, California, on September 9, 2017.

Marshall Crenshaw - The Human Jukebox, Volume 9: 2019-2023

We come to the end of my long series of Marshall Crenshaw cover songs albums. This is the ninth and last. 

Sadly, you should know this series ends with a bit of a disappointment, because the sound quality isn't up to my usual standards for many of these songs. The problem is, nearly all these songs come from concert bootlegs, and in Crenshaw's later years he's been playing fewer concerts and his popularity has declined some. As a result, there aren't a bunch of soundboard and/or radio broadcast concerts like there were in earlier years, so these generally come from audience boots. Thus, I've had to lower my standards some. I still do have standards, mind you. I rejected a bunch of songs for this. But I also included some that probably would have been demoted to bonus tracks on some earlier volumes.

Only the first song is officially released. It comes from a various artists compilation. As I mentioned above, most, or maybe all, of the rest are from audience bootlegs. 

Crenshaw's song selections are less obscure for this time around. I know most of the songs already, and I'd guess you know most of them too. But he still had a couple of obscurities. For instance, "Lindbergh" is a Woody Guthrie song about Charles Lindbergh and other pro-fascists in the U.S. in the 1930s and 40s. As Crenshaw commented before the song, it's message is a timely one with fascist sentiments on the rise again.

This album is 47 minutes long.

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

01 What the Hell I Got - Michel Pagliaro
02 Beware of Darkness - George Harrison
03 Tight Rope - Leon Russell
04 No Matter What - Badfinger
05 Rock and Roll - Velvet Underground
06 Kicks - Paul Revere & the Raiders
07 Something - Beatles
08 Rain on the Roof - Lovin' Spoonful
09 Bob Dylan's 115th Dream - Bob Dylan
10 What a Wonderful World - Louis Armstrong
11 I'm Five Years Ahead of My Time - Third Bardo
12 Lindbergh -Woody Guthrie

Here's the usual song list:

01 What the Hell I Got (Marshall Crenshaw)
02 Beware of Darkness (Rich Pagano & Friends with Marshall Crenshaw & Brian Mitchell)
03 Tight Rope (Rich Pagano & Friends with Marshall Crenshaw)
04 No Matter What (Marshall Crenshaw & the Smithereens)
05 Rock and Roll (Marshall Crenshaw & the Smithereens)
06 Kicks (Marshall Crenshaw & the Smithereens)
07 Something (Marshall Crenshaw & the Smithereens)
08 Rain on the Roof (Marshall Crenshaw with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
09 Bob Dylan's 115th Dream (Marshall Crenshaw)
10 What a Wonderful World (Marshall Crenshaw)
11 I'm Five Years Ahead of My Time (Golden Jubilee Band with Marshall Crenshaw)
12 Lindbergh (Marshall Crenshaw)

https://www.upload.ee/files/16303129/MARSHLLCRNSHW2019-2023ThHmnJkebxVlum9_atse.zip.html

The cover photo was taken in Maplewood, New Jersey, on April 12, 2019.

Rosanne Cash - Crawl into the Promised Land - Non-Album Tracks (2019-2024)

I've posted a lot of Rosanne Cash stray tracks albums in recent years. I believe I've posted nine before this one. Finally, I get caught up to the present day.

All but three of the songs here have been officially released in one way or another. Three songs, "We’re All in This Together Now," "Crawl into the Promised Land," and "The Killing Fields," were A-sides of singles not connected to any Rosanne Cash albums. "Time" is from a Tom Waits tribute album. "I've Got a Crush on You" is from a George Gershwin album. "I Am a Pilgrim" is from a Doc Watson tribute album. "Loving Her Was Easier" is from a Willie Nelson live album.

Cash has been married to John Leventhal since 1995. Leventhal is mostly a producer and back-up musician, but in early 2024, he released a rare solo album. The final two songs here are from that.

That just leaves the three unreleased songs: "Tryin' to Get Home," "Farewell Angelina," and "Crescent City." They're all from concert bootlegs. But the sound is generally close to the studio stuff.

This album is 44 minutes long.

01 Time (Rosanne Cash)
02 We’re All in This Together Now (John Paul White & Rosanne Cash)
03 Tryin' to Get Home (Rosanne Cash)
04 Farewell Angelina (Rosanne Cash)
05 Crawl into the Promised Land (Rosanne Cash)
06 The Killing Fields (Rosanne Cash)
07 Crescent City (Rosanne Cash & Lucinda Williams)
08 I've Got a Crush on You (Michael Feinstein & Rosanne Cash)
09 Loving Her Was Easier [Than Anything I'll Ever Do Again] (Rosanne Cash with Kris Kristofferson)
10 I Am a Pilgrim (Rosanne Cash)
11 If You Only Knew (John Leventhal & Rosanne Cash)
12 That's All I Know about Arkansas (John Leventhal & Rosanne Cash)

https://www.upload.ee/files/16224168/ROSNNECSH2019-2024_CrwlntothPrmsedLnd_atse.zip.html

 The cover is almost identical to the cover for Cash's "Crawl into the Promised Land." All I did was remove John Leventhal's name, which had been under Cash's, and cropped it a little.

Elle Cordova & Toni Lindgren - Sunday Mornings with Elle & Toni, Volume 14: 2022-2023

It's a slow process that only happens once or twice a year, but once again I've collected the latest cover songs YouTube performances by Elle Cordova and Toni Lindgren. As usual, they perform mostly classic cover versions as an acoustic duo in their charming, low-key style. May this series go on forever.

Hopefully, after 13 previous volumes, you know the deal, so I don't have to say much. There's not much different with this volume, except you may note that some of the songs are done with various collaborators, such as Josh Turner, Carson McKee, Alana, and Kent Nishimura. That includes one song, "Into the Great Wide Open," that's a rare case of Toni Lindgren singing the lead vocals. She also sings lead on "Dire Wolf."

This album is 47 minutes long.

Here are the original artists for each song:

01 Save Me - Aimee Mann
02 Lovin' You - Dolly Parton
03 When You Say Nothing at All - Keith Whitley / Alison Krauss
04 Flowers on the Wall - Statler Brothers
05 Dire Wolf - Grateful Dead
06 Tiptoe through the Tulips - Nick Lucas / Tiny Tim
07 Black Water - Doobie Brothers
08 She Drives Me Crazy - Fine Young Cannibals
09 Honeybee - Connie Converse
10 Halley Came to Jackson - Mary Chapin Carpenter
11 Love Hurts - Everly Brothers
12 The Sound of Silence - Simon & Garfunkel
13 Fireflies - Owl City
14 Into the Great Wide Open - Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers

Here's the usual song list: 

01 Save Me (Elle Cordova & Toni Lindgren)
02 Lovin' You (Elle Cordova & Toni Lindgren)
03 When You Say Nothing at All (Elle Cordova & Toni Lindgren)
04 Flowers on the Wall (Josh Turner, Carson McKee, Elle Cordova & Toni Lindgren)
05 Dire Wolf (Elle Cordova & Toni Lindgren)
06 Tiptoe through the Tulips (Elle Cordova & Toni Lindgren)
07 Black Water (Josh Turner, Carson McKee, Elle Cordova & Toni Lindgren)
08 She Drives Me Crazy (Elle Cordova & Toni Lindgren)
09 Honeybee (Elle Cordova & Toni Lindgren)
10 Halley Came to Jackson (Elle Cordova, Toni Lindgren & Alana)
11 Love Hurts (Elle Cordova & Toni Lindgren)
12 The Sound of Silence (Elle Cordova & Toni Lindgren)
13 Fireflies (Elle Cordova, Toni Lindgren & Kent Nishimura)
14 Into the Great Wide Open (Toni Lindgren with Andy Mark)

https://www.upload.ee/files/17363725/ELLECRDVATNILINDRN2022-2023SndyMrnngswthEllTniVlum14_atse.zip.html

alternate:

https://pixeldrain.com/u/Eg5BKqD4

The cover shows the duo playing one of these songs in Joshua Tree National Park in California.

Morgan James - Acoustic Cover Songs, Volume 7, 2020-2022

It's been a while since I've posted any albums by Morgan James, but I'm back with more. I'm glad to see from the download numbers that a lot of people appreciate her considerable vocal talents.

This is another album consisting entirely of cover versions done acoustically. It gets a bit confusing, because I first posted six albums of her acoustic covers from the years 1994 to 2020. Then, in 2020, due to being stuck at home thanks to the Covid pandemic, she did 100 covers in a row, which she called the Quanatunes series. I posted seven albums of that. This picks up where that left off, back to more acoustic covers that aren't specifically part of that Quarantunes series.

There's not much to say here that I didn't say with earlier volumes. Although I'll note that she was especially bold with her song selection this time, covering some of the most iconic songs of all time, including "Layla" and "Stairway to Heaven!" It's interesting to hear songs like that backed only by a single acoustic guitar.

I almost didn't include "Son of a Preacher Man," because it had some big problems. The song broke down in the middle, as she and her guitarist, her husband Doug Wamble, forgot how the bridge went. However, I did some heavy editing that snipped out the problem area. There still are some bits of Wamble talking that I don't like, but I couldn't remove them because it overlapped with her singing. The song also was cut off right at the end, but I found a way to patch in a final guitar strum to give it a decent finish. All of that is why the song has "[Edit]" in the title. 

By the way, I'm most of the way to having a Volume 8, but I'm still a few songs short.

This album is 47 minutes long.

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

01 Chain of Fools - Aretha Franklin
02 Stairway to Heaven - Led Zeppelin
03 The Dark End of the Street - James Carr
04 The Middle - Jimmy Eat World
05 With or Without You - U2
06 Son of a Preacher Man [Edit] - Dusty Springfield
07 Simple Man - Lynyrd Skynyrd
08 Gethsemane - Jesus Christ Superstar Soundtrack
09 Better Man - Pearl Jam
10 Layla - Derek & the Dominos
11 Wild Horses - Rolling Stones
12 Sweet Bitter Love - Aretha Franklin

And here's the usual song list:

01 Chain of Fools (Morgan James)
02 Stairway to Heaven (Morgan James)
03 The Dark End of the Street (Morgan James)
04 The Middle (Morgan James)
05 With or Without You (Morgan James)
06 Son of a Preacher Man [Edit] (Morgan James)
07 Simple Man (Morgan James & Nicole Zuraitis)
08 Gethsemane (Morgan James)
09 Better Man (Morgan James & Nicole Zuraitis)
10 Layla (Morgan James & Nicole Zuraitis)
11 Wild Horses (Morgan James & Nicole Zuraitis)
12 Sweet Bitter Love (Morgan James)

https://www.upload.ee/files/15282129/MorganJ_2020-2022_AcoustcCoverSongsVolume7_atse.zip.html

The cover photo is of her performing in concert outdoors in Michigan in August 2022. I found some of the background distracting, so I cleaned it up using Photoshop.

Larkin Poe - Tip O' the Hat, Volume 8 - Various Cover Versions (2021-2023)

It feels like it's been a long time since I've posted any music from Larkin Poe. They've been busy, but I haven't come across anything with really high sound quality. And their acoustic cover versions series "Tip O' the Hat" seemed to have slowly petered out. But I'm glad to say that's no longer the case, with a few new songs in recent weeks, allowing me to finish off this volume. Let's hope they stay inspired to do more.

There's not much else to say. If you've been following this blog for a while, I hope you know this sisterly duo and have listened to other volumes in this series. As usual, they do acoustic versions of famous songs, although they have a few relative obscurities this time, such as "Sally's Song" (from the Nightmare Before Christmas soundtrack) and "O I Long to Feel Your Arms Around Me" by Father John Misty.

Note that I had previously been giving increasingly long titles to the album in this series. The last one was "Yet Additional Even Still More Further Tip O' the Hat." But that grew increasingly unweildy. To be honest, I didn't expect there to be this many volumes, and I hope there will be more to come. So I've resorted to simply "Volume 8" this time. 

"Money" is a relatively simple version, with just Rebecca Lovell on guitar and no Megan Lovell slide guitar solos as usual. That's probably because it's a very rare instance of Megan singing lead vocals. It also probably is from some earlier time, but it only appeared on-line for the first time in 2023, so that's where I've put it chronologically with the others.

Here are the original artists for each song:

01 Hideaway [Instrumental] - Freddie King
02 Sledgehammer - Peter Gabriel
03 Bring It on Home to Me - Sam Cooke
04 Peter Gunn Theme [Instrumental] - Henry Mancini
05 Rockin' in the Free World - Neil Young
06 Sally's Song [Instrumental] - Danny Elfman
07 Total Eclipse of the Heart - Bonnie Tyler
08 Rich Girl - Hall & Oates
09 Start Me Up - Rolling Stones
10 The Joker - Steve Miller Band
11 Wind of Change - Scorpions
12 Money - Pink Floyd
13 O I Long to Feel Your Arms Around Me - Father John Misty
14 Never Been to Spain - Hoyt Axton / Three Dog Night
15 Don't Dream It's Over - Crowded House

And here's the usual song list:

01 Hideaway [Instrumental] (Larkin Poe)
02 Sledgehammer (Larkin Poe) (Larkin Poe)
03 Bring It on Home to Me (Larkin Poe)
04 Peter Gunn Theme [Instrumental] (Larkin Poe)
05 Rockin' in the Free World (Larkin Poe)
06 Sally's Song [Instrumental] (Larkin Poe)
07 Total Eclipse of the Heart (Larkin Poe)
08 Rich Girl (Larkin Poe)
09 Start Me Up (Larkin Poe)
10 The Joker (Larkin Poe)
11 Wind of Change (Larkin Poe)
12 Money (Larkin Poe)
13 O I Long to Feel Your Arms Around Me (Larkin Poe)
14 Never Been to Spain (Larkin Poe & Mark Agnesi)
15 Don't Dream It's Over (Larkin Poe)

This album is 46 minutes long.

https://www.upload.ee/files/15267699/LarkinP_2021d-2023_TpOtheHatVolum8_atse.zip.html

The cover appears to be a promo photo from around 2022 or 2023.