Covered: Neil Young, Volume 10: 2023-2026

Finally, here's the tenth and last volume for the Neil Young "Covered" series. A big thanks again to Fabio from Rio for doing most of the work to put these together.

Before I go to Fabio's notes about the songs, I want to mention something. My rule here was to include only one cover version of each song (and no versions performed by Young himself). We kept to that, except for two songs, "Heart of Gold" and "Cortez the Killer," where we had two versions. Now that I'm posting this last volume, you can look over all the volumes and see just what songs we included or didn't include. Let us know if you think there are any great Young songs that we didn't include a cover for.

Also, Fabio says he's going to make a kind of "extras" album or albums, consisting of cover versions that he liked that didn't make it here. That's a good opportunity to have second covers of some songs, instead of just one. So if you have ideas of covers that you don't see here, please post them in the comments. I'm sure Fabio will look those over and take that feedback into consideration for his "extras."

One more thing. Fabio wanted this to end on a strong song Young wrote in recent years, specifically "Green Is Blue." But we didn't have a good cover version for that one. So Fabio reached out to the Neil Young "Rust" community. A person named Jeff Winter stepped up and recorded a version of that song just for this collection. So thanks to Jeff as well.

Now, here's Fabio's comments about this time period. 

More than sixty years after Neil Young first emerged in the folk clubs of Toronto, Canada, and later with Buffalo Springfield in the mid-1960s, his songs continue to travel across generations, genres, and continents. The covers gathered throughout these ten volumes show how Young's catalog has become a kind of shared musical language: interpreted by classic rock veterans, indie artists, folk revivalists, Americana performers, and even bedroom musicians recording from home studios.

In recent years this process has only accelerated. Streaming platforms, Bandcamp releases, and fan communities have made it easier than ever for musicians to reinterpret songs from every era of Young's career - from the fragile acoustic ballads of the early seventies to the politically charged songs of his later decades. At the same time, Young himself has continued to release new music and expand his archival releases, ensuring that both longtime fans and new listeners keep rediscovering the depth of his songwriting.

This final volume works almost like an epilogue to the project: a reminder that Neil Young's songs remain very much alive, constantly finding new voices and new meanings. Even when he will no longer be with us - after all, we are all mortals - as long as musicians keep picking up guitars or sitting down at a piano, these songs will continue their journey.

As a final note, I'd like to add that putting together this collection has been both a challenge and a pleasure. Revisiting more than six decades of songwriting made it clear once again how remarkably durable Neil Young's music is: the same songs can survive countless reinterpretations while still retaining their emotional core.

My thanks go to Paul for the idea, the patience, and the many suggestions along the way - and also to the worldwide community of fans, collectors and musicians (the "Rusties") who keep discovering, performing and sharing these songs. Without that ongoing enthusiasm, projects like this would hardly be possible.

Most of all, this collection is simply a tribute to one of the most distinctive songwriters of the last sixty years. As long as people continue to listen to, perform and sing these songs, Young's music won't burn out nor will it rust. And his legacy will never fade away. 

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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 six minutes long.

01 Ten Men Working (Enrico Di Bella)
02 Berlin (Jens Thomas)
03 There’s a World (Sufjan Stevens)
04 Hitchhiker (Minus 5)
05 Out of My Mind (Minus 5)
06 Crime in the City [Sixty to Zero Part 1] (Paul Besselle)
07 No More (Gil Michael)
08 One of These Days (Kassi Valazza)
09 Borrowed Tune (Chris Eckman)
10 Lookin' for a Love (Jeffrey Martin)
11 Philadelphia (Brandi Carlile)
12 White Line (Kurt Vile)
13 Cowgirl in the Sand (Anders Osborne)
14 Here We Are in the Years (Sharon Van Etten)
15 Sail Away (Tyler Ramsey & Carl Broemel)
16 Green Is Blue (Jeff Winter)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/FNWt2ezZ

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/5h1gcKPqlUwhS7q/file

The cover photo is from 2019. 

Bettye LaVette - Blackpool International Soul Festival, Winter Gardens, Blackpool, Britain, 6-22-2024

Here's a really interesting concert by Bettye LaVette. I'm not totally certain, but I think it may be the only one like it she's ever done in her long career. In short, in this concert, she ONLY performed songs from the 1960s phase of her career.

As I've explained in other posts, LaVette pretty much had two music careers. She was a decently popular soul singer in the 1960s, but that career petered out in the early 1970s. Then, in the early 2000s, she had a career revival that has kept going strong ever since then. She ended up being more popular as a senior citizen than she ever was when she was young. 

Generally speaking, since her career revival began, she's only played songs from her recent albums, with only a few exceptions. The biggest exception is "Let Me Down Easy," which she plays at all her concerts. It wasn't a big hit at the time, but it's grown to be considered a soul classic, and her signature song. I looked up her song stats at the setlist.fm database website, and it's pretty clear that she's never performed the vast majority of these songs in concerts ever, at least not since the 1960s. 

I don't know what inspired her to do this. According to a knowledgeable commenter, the promoters hired her to perform this kind of concert, and even chose the songs. Even so, it's a pretty bold and challenging move, when she could have just rested on her laurels and played the same songs as usual. Keep in mind she was 79 years old at the time of this concert! Yet her voice was just as soulful as ever. 

I found this concert on Bettye LaVette's YouTube page. It hasn't gotten much notice there, and I haven't seen mention of it anywhere else. I did my usual thing of converting the video to audio then chopping it into mp3s. I couldn't find a song list anywhere, so I had to figure out the song titles myself. I got a couple of them wrong at first, but a commenter corrected me, so they should be good now.

The music here is unreleased. The sound quality on this is as good as typical soundboard or FM radio broadcast. 

This album is an hour and four minutes long.

01 I Feel Good [All Over] (Bettye LaVette)
02 talk (Bettye LaVette)
03 Only Your Love Can Save Me (Bettye LaVette)
04 talk (Bettye LaVette)
05 I'm Just a Fool for You (Bettye LaVette)
06 talk (Bettye LaVette)
07 Your Turn to Cry (Bettye LaVette)
08 I'm Holding On (Bettye LaVette)
09 talk (Bettye LaVette)
10 You Made a Believer Out of Me (Bettye LaVette)
11 Ticket to the Moon (Bettye LaVette)
12 Stormy (Bettye LaVette)
13 talk (Bettye LaVette)
14 Almost (Bettye LaVette)
15 talk (Bettye LaVette)
16 Just Dropped In [To See What Condition My Condition Is In] (Bettye LaVette)
17 Hey Love (Bettye LaVette)
18 Let Me Down Easy (Bettye LaVette)
19 talk by emcee (Bettye LaVette)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/g8HeSdU8

alternate: 

https://bestfile.io/nu0btV2FX0LhEfh/file

The cover image is a screenshot I took from the YouTube video of 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.

Covered: Teddy Randazzo & Bobby Weinstein: 1960-2024

Here's another album in my "Covered" series. This time, the focus is on the songwriting team of Teddy Randazzo and Bobby Weinstein. Chances are you haven't heard of them. But I'd also bet that you're very familiar with some of their songs, such as "Goin' Out of My Head," "It's Gonna Take a Miracle," "Pretty Blue Eyes," and "Hurt So Bad."

Randazzo was born in New York City in 1935, and Weinstein was born there four years later. (I've noticed an unusual number of talented songwriters from this era were born in New York City, with many of them being Jewish. In this case, Randazzo was ethnically Italian and Weinstein was Jewish.) Both of them got involved with rock and roll bands. Randazzo had more success, being a member of the Three Chuckles. They had a Top Twenty hit in 1954, and appeared on the Ed Sullivan Show several times. In 1957, they began writing songs together. Their first big success was "Pretty Blue Eyes," which was a Top Ten hit for Steve Lawrence in 1960.

Randazzo had the good looks of a potential star, and kept a solo career going for several more years, but didn't have any big hits. However, he and Weinstein found more and more success as songwriters. Their biggest success of all was probably "Goin' Out of My Head." Little Anthony and the Imperials first had a Top Ten hit with it in 1964. But it's endured strongly, with over 400 cover versions, some of them hits as well. It's now in the top 50 of the most recorded and best selling songs of all time. Randazzo and Weinstein wrote many more songs for Little Anthony and the Imperials, even arranging and producing entire albums for them. Another big hit for that band was "Hurt So Bad," which was written by Randazzo, Weinstein, and Bobby Hart of the Boyce and Hart songwriting team. (I've already posted a "Covered" album for them, which includes a Linda Ronstadt version of that song.)

Most of the hits by Randazzo and Weinstein were in the 1960s. "It's Gonna Take a Miracle" was first a hit for the Royalettes in 1965. However, I've included a 1982 version by Deniece Williams because that was a bigger hit, reaching the Top Ten. It seems the songwriting partnership faded in the 1970s. Randazzo continued writing some hits in that decade, particularly for the soul groups the Manhattans and the Stylistics. However, I've only included one, "A Million to One" by the Manhattans in 1971.

Randazzo moved to Hawaii and had some limited success as a producer and songwriter there. He died in 2003 at the age of 68. Weinstein became a music executive, eventually becoming the president of the National Academy of Popular Music. He died in 2022 at the age of 82.  

Here's the Wikipedia entry for Randazzo:

Teddy Randazzo - Wikipedia 

And here's the entry for Weinstein:

Bobby Weinstein - Wikipedia 

This album is 46 minutes long. 

01 Pretty Blue Eyes (Steve Lawrence)
02 Let the Sunshine In (Dee Dee Sharp)
03 Goin' Out of My Head (Little Anthony & the Imperials)
04 I'm on the Outside [Looking In] (Little Anthony & the Imperials)
05 Can't Stop Running Away (Ian & the Zodiacs)
06 Hurt So Bad (Little Anthony & the Imperials)
07 Trick or Treat (Teddy Randazzo & All 6)
08 Don't Tie Me Down (Little Anthony & the Imperials)
09 Buttercup Days (Kane Triplets)
10 Sweet Cream Ladies, Forward March (Box Tops)
11 I'm Hypnotized (Little Anthony & the Imperials)
12 Yesterday Has Gone (Cupid's Inspiration)
13 Rain in My Heart (Frank Sinatra)
14 A Million to One (Manhattans)
15 It's Gonna Take a Miracle (Deniece Williams)
16 Where's the Love (Vivian Buczek)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/AeftLAgu

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/user/files/EM9pT1qmY7eaGeM/file

Photos of Teddy Randazzo and Bobby Weinstein are extremely rare. Luckily, I found one of them hugging each other. It's from when they were older. That's Randazzo on the left and Weinstein on the right.

Various Artists - Gershwin Prize for Popular Song Honoring Elton John and Bernie Taupin, D.A.R. Constitution Hall, Washington, DC, 3-20-2024

Here's yet another concert celebrating another winner of the Gershwin Prize for Popular Song. This time, it's actually two winners, because it celebrates the songwriting team of Elton John and Bernie Taupin. 

As I write this in September 2025, this is the most recent award concert in the series. I figure there won't be one in 2025, because they've always taken place earlier in the year than that. And while this award is given most every year, some years are skipped (though I don't know why).

In my opinion, this concert was treated as more of a big deal than many of the others for the award, due to the music of John and Taupin being so beloved. Once can see this by the caliber of the stars who sang the songs here, and compare that to who showed up for some of the other awards concerts. 

Unfortunately, however, note that Paul McCartney only sent some complimentary commentary via video, and didn't perform any songs. On the plus side, I'm impressed Joni Mitchell showed up. She hardly ever attends these sorts of things, especially in recent years with her considerable health problems.

Typically for these concerts, Elton John showed up and sang a couple of songs at the end of the concert. There's no evidence of the lyric writer Bernie Taupin being there if you just listen to this recording. But he shows up in numerous photos, including the one I used for the cover. So his role probably just got edited out. Not by me, though.

As is usual with these award concerts, the music here is unreleased. But the sound quality is excellent. 

This album is an hour and 32 minutes long. 

01 talk (emcee)
02 talk (Billy Porter)
03 Border Song (Annie Lennox)
04 Sorry Seems to Be the Hardest Word (Garth Brooks)
05 talk (Brandi Carlile)
06 Madman Across the Water (Brandi Carlile)
07 talk (Paul McCartney)
08 talk (Billy Porter)
09 Bennie and the Jets (Jacob Lusk)
10 I Guess That's Why They Call It the Blues (Maren Morris)
11 The Bitch Is Back (Billy Porter)
12 talk (Charlie Puth)
13 Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me (Charlie Puth)
14 talk (Stevie Wonder)
15 talk (Billy Porter)
16 Funeral for a Friend - Love Lies Bleeding (Metallica)
17 Skyline Pigeon (Brandi Carlile)
18 Daniel (Garth Brooks)
19 talk (Brandi Carlile)
20 I'm Still Standing (Joni Mitchell with Annie Lennox & Brandi Carlile)
21 talk (Carla Hayden)
22 Mona Lisa and Mad Hatters (Elton John)
23 talk (Elton John)
24 Saturday Night's Alright for Fighting (Elton John)
25 talk (Carla Hayden)
26 talk (Elton John)
27 talk (Bernie Taupin)
28 talk (Elton John)
29 talk (Carla Hayden)
30 Your Song (Elton John)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/EyMoGH37

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/B4Rvyfn0wAHe7K2/file

The cover photo is from this exact concert. It shows Elton John playing the piano while Bernie Taupin looks on. I moved Taupin closer to John so both of them could show up larger. He actually was resting on the piano, but much further down it.

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. 

Squeeze - BBC Sessions, Volume 10: Quay Sessions, Kelvingrove Bandstand, Glasgow, Britain, 8-1-2024

Here's a concert by the band Squeeze, from 2024.

It's pretty amazing to consider that this band was formed in 1974, which means they've been together off and on for fifty years. Frankly, this concert mostly consists of their hits, with only three relatively new songs sprinkled in. So there isn't a big need for me to post this. However, this has been unavailable on the Internet, as far as I could tell. But an anonymous musical friend taped it off the radio when it was broadcast, and sent it to me. So by posting it here, I believe I'm making it available for anyone for the first time. So thanks to that person for their help.

One can find the full set list of this concert here:

Squeeze Concert Setlist at Summer Nights at The Bandstand 2024 on August 1, 2024 | setlist.fm 

That shows five songs were performed that didn't make it to the BBC broadcast, including the final encore, "Black Coffee in Bed." 

I do have to say that although the band members are getting up there in age, you wouldn't be able to tell just from listening to it. They still sound very good.

This album is 53 minutes long.

01 Take Me, I'm Yours (Squeeze)
02 Hourglass (Squeeze)
03 Up the Junction (Squeeze)
04 talk (Squeeze)
05 One Beautiful Summer (Squeeze)
06 talk (Squeeze)
07 You Get the Feeling (Squeeze)
08 Labelled with Love (Squeeze)
09 talk (Squeeze)
10 Goodbye Girl (Squeeze)
11 Trixie's Hell on Earth (Squeeze)
12 Slap and Tickle (Squeeze)
13 Pulling Mussels [From the Shell] (Squeeze)
14 Is That Love (Squeeze)
15 Tempted (Squeeze)
16 Cool for Cats (Squeeze)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/xnDeRNXK

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/NbpY4woxNfMZ3mU/file 

The cover photo is from the 2024 Glastonbury Festival. That's Chris Difford on the left and Glenn Tilbrook on the right. In the original image they were further apart, but I used Photoshop to bring them closer together. 

Paul Weller - BBC Sessions, Volume 21: Quay Sessions, Alhambra Theatre, Dunfermline, Britain, 4-15-2024

A-ha! The last Paul Weller BBC concert I had posted dates to 2021. I figured it was just a matter of time until he did another one. This one took place over a year ago (as I write this in August 2025), but while I knew about it, I couldn't find a recording of it. Happily, a few days ago, an anonymous musical friend sent me the recording which he taped off the radio. 

This concert took place a month prior to the release of his studio album "66." He played three songs from it. Also, he played four songs from his previous album, 2021's "Fat Pop." Other than that, it's the expected mix of songs from his time in the Jam, the Style Council, and his solo career, performed with a full band.

The sound quality is excellent, even though this remains unreleased. Two songs have "[Edit]" in their titles. That's because during the applause at the end of the songs, a BBC DJ gave a station ID mention. So I used the UVR5 audio editing program to wipe out that DJ talk.

Paul Weller keeps going strong, seemingly unaffected by age. The only disappointment with this concert is that even though it has the length of a full concert, an additional seven songs were edited out of it. In case you're curious, here are the missing songs:

Nova
All the Pictures on the Wall
Glad Times
More
Headstart for Happiness
Broken Stones
My Ever Changing Moods 

If anyone has them, please let me know so I can add them in.  

This album is an hour and 17 minutes long.

01 Rip the Pages Up (Paul Weller)
02 Cosmic Fringes (Paul Weller)
03 talk (Paul Weller)
04 Soul Wandering (Paul Weller)
05 talk (Paul Weller)
06 A Man of Great Promise (Paul Weller)
07 That Pleasure (Paul Weller)
08 talk (Paul Weller)
09 Stanley Road [Edit] (Paul Weller)
10 talk (Paul Weller)
11 Above the Clouds (Paul Weller)
12 Village (Paul Weller)
13 talk (Paul Weller)
14 Fat Pop (Paul Weller)
15 talk (Paul Weller)
16 Hung Up (Paul Weller)
17 Shout to the Top (Paul Weller)
18 talk (Paul Weller)
19 Jumble Queen [Edit] (Paul Weller)
20 Nothing (Paul Weller)
21 talk (Paul Weller)
22 You Do Something to Me (Paul Weller)
23 talk (Paul Weller)
24 That's Entertainment (Paul Weller)
25 Start (Paul Weller)
26 Peacock Suit (Paul Weller)
27 talk (Paul Weller)
28 Wild Wood (Paul Weller)
29 Rockets (Paul Weller)
30 talk (Paul Weller)
31 Town Called Malice (Paul Weller)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/F3rSkkm9

alternate: 

https://bestfile.io/en/narmguNR7lh45rO/file

The cover photo is from this exact concert. 

Various Artists - Bill McClintock Mash-Ups, Volume 6: 2024-2025

I first discovered the mash-ups created by Bill McClintock on YouTube in 2023. I posted four albums of his creations that year. Then, in 2024, he made enough new ones for me to post a fifth album. Here it is a year later in 2025, and I've found enough songs for a sixth volume.

I'm going to repeat what I posted in my write-up for "Volume 5," because this is more of the exact same thing:

If you heard and liked any of the earlier volumes, you should definitely like this. For those who don't know what I'm talking about, there are a lot of people who have made mash-ups, combining the recordings of two songs to hopefully create something new and interesting. But in my opinion, McClintock is the master of this technique, and his soaring YouTube views are evidence of that.

I've mentioned in the past that McClintock has pretty much single-handedly created a new genre of music, "soul metal," by combining soul songs with heavy metal songs. The resulting mash-ups are fascinating. In my opinion, many of them could be big hits in some bizarro alternate universe. I'm not even much of a heavy metal fan, but I don't think you have to be to enjoy these.

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There's only a couple of things I want to add to that. One is that it's very hard to give adequate song titles and artist names for each track, and it's getting harder all the time. That's because, generally speaking, he mashes two songs together. But more and more, he's drawing on other songs as well as adding them into his edits. So often these credits are oversimplifications. Check out his YouTube and look at each song for more detailed and accurate information. In some cases, he's really gone wild, using many source songs. The last track is an example of that, drawing from 12 songs! 

The other thing I want to mention is that at the same time I'm posting this, I'm reposting the five earlier volumes. The music is the same for those, but I upgraded the cover art. Thanks to improving AI technology, I was able to improve the clarity and detail. I also changed the main color of the first two volumes, to better create a rainbow effect if you look at all the covers together.

If McClintock keeps posting new material at the same rate of the past couple of years, I hope to have a Volume 7 to post some time in 2026.    

This album is an hour and eight minutes long. 

01 Somebody's Snowblind [Somebody's Watching Me vs. Snowblind] (Rockwell vs. Black Sabbath)
02 Let the Bodies Get Off [Get Off vs. Bodies] (Foxy vs. Drowning Pool)
03 Fire in the Abyss [Fire vs. Seasons in the Abyss] (Jimi Hendrix vs. Slayer)
04 You Make Me Feel like Stayin' a Rocket Queen [Rocket Queen vs. Stayin' Alive vs. You Make Me Feel like Dancing] (Guns N' Roses vs. Bee Gees vs. Leo Sayer)
05 Best Unsainted Day of My Life [Best Day of My Life vs. Unsainted] (American Authors vs. Slipknot)
06 Sleigh Bitch [Sleigh Ride vs. Crazy Bitch] (Carpenters vs. Buckcherry)
07 Sabbath Toxic Sabbath [Toxic vs. Sabbath Bloody Sabbath] (Britney Spears vs. Black Sabbath)
08 Whip My Lonely, Dark Heart [Owner of a Lonely Heart vs. Let It Whip] (Yes vs. Dazz Band)
09 Motor City Woman [I'll Be Around vs. Jet City Woman] (Spinners vs. Queensryche)
10 Come as the Cat [Year of the Cat vs. Come as You Are] (Al Stewart vs. Nirvana)
11 Twist of Freak [Le Freak vs. Twist of Cain] (Chic vs. Danzig)
12 Hit the Bottoms, Jack [Bottoms Up vs. Hit the Road, Jack] (Van Halen vs. Ray Charles)
13 Hotter than a Highway to Hell with the Devil [To Hell With the Devil vs. Highway to Hell] (Stryper vs. AC-DC)
14 I'll Be a Disciple for You [I'll Be There for You vs. Disciple] (Rembrandts vs. Slayer)
15 Killing in the Name of a Terrible Holy Lie [Killing in the Name vs. Terrible Lie] (Rage Against the Machine vs. Nine Inch Nails vs. Various Artists) 

pixeldrain.com/u/UnHfYRqZ

alternate:

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

The cover is basically the exact same as the previous ones in this series, with only a bit of the text and the background color changing. That's a photo of McClintock in the center. 

Covered: Bob Crewe & Bob Gaudio, Volume 2: 1974-2024

Here's the second of two "Covered" volumes highlighting the songwriting of Bob Crewe and Bob Gaudio.

In Volume 1, the vast majority of the songs were written by Crewe and Gaudio together. In this volume, all or nearly all of the new songs (meaning new at the time) were written by either Crewe with others or Gaudio with others. However, as far as I can tell, it doesn't seem that they had a falling out, or even stopped writing songs together. For instance, as late as 1983 they co-wrote a couple of minor hit songs for the duo of Roberta Flack and Peabo Bryson. It's just that it seemed both of them had better success with other songwriters when it came to big hits in this era.

As I mentioned in my write-up for Volume 1, by the start of 1974, it seemed as if the songwriting success of both Crewe and Gaudio had petered out. Also around 1971, Gaudio phased himself out of being a member of Franki Valli and the Four Seasons, apparently due to stage fright and introversion. However, he retained a key financial stake, and continued to write songs for the group. So their musical futures were looking bleak. But both of them had a series of stunning songwriting successes, especially in 1974 and 1975.

For instance, I consider the first song here, "Lady Marmalade" by Labelle, one of the greatest dance songs of all time. It was a Number One hit in the U.S. in 1974, and then a cover of it was an even bigger Number One hit by Christina Aguiliera, Pink, and others in 2001. It was co-written by Bob Crewe and Kenny Nolan, another professional songwriter Crewe started working with around this time. Crewe also wrote "My Eyes Adored You" and "Get Dancin'" with Nolan, as well as "Swearin' to God" with another songwriter.

Crewe's "My Eyes Adored You" totally turned out the fortunes of Franki Valli and the Four Seasons, as it was a Number One hit in the U.S. in early 1975. (As with Volume 1, I've tried to avoid having lots of songs by that act, so I chose a duet version by Isaac Hayes and Dionne Warwick instead.) But then Gaudio also rose to the occasion in 1975, writing "Who Loves You" and "December, 1963 (Oh, What a Night)" with Judy Parker, who would later become his wife. "December, 1963 (Oh, What a Night)" in particular was a massive hit, not only reaching Number One in both the U.S. and Britain, but was the fourth best selling song of the year. (Again not wanting to include too many Franki Valli and the Four Seasons performances, I chose an interesting mostly acappella version from 2024.)

Unfortunately, the revived successes of Crewe and Gaudio didn't last that long. Gaudio co-wrote "Silver Star," which was a big hit in 1976. But after that, the new hits for both of them became smaller and fewer, and petered out altogether in the early 1980s. However, they still had more big successes with earlier songs that eventually became hits with cover versions. For instance, "Bye Bye Baby," a minor Franki Valli and the Four Seasons hit in the 1960s, was a Number One hit in Britain for the Bay City Rollers in 1975. 

Some songs kept coming around again and again. For instance, "Let's Hang On," a Four Seasons hit in 1965, was a big hit by the Darts in Britain in 1980, then again by Barry Manilow in 1981. And "Can't Take My Eyes Off You," a hit first for Franki Valli in 1967, has been hits by other musical acts so many times that it's hard to keep track, including making Number Four in Britain in 1982 by the Boys Town Gang.

Crewe, who was 13 years older than Gaudio, died in 2014 at the age of 84. Gaudio is still alive at the age of 82 years old as I write this in 2025.

As I said in Volume 1, I think these two are very underrated songwriters. I could have included many more hits, enough for another volume or two, but I wanted to give this a stronger appeal by including only their biggest hits. It seems some of their songs are going to be hits forever, periodically revived with new cover versions. For instance, "Beggin'," a minor hit when first released by Franki Valli and the Four Seasons in 1967, is another one that keeps getting covered to big success, with Madcon having a Number Five hit in Britain with it in 2008, and then Maneskin having a Number Six hit with it there in 2020.

This album is 54 minutes long.

01 Lady Marmalade (Labelle)
02 Get Dancin' (Disco Tex & the Sex-O-Lettes)
03 Swearin' to God (Frankie Valli)
04 Sherry (Adrian Baker)
05 Bye Bye Baby [Baby Goodbye] (Bay City Rollers)
06 My Eyes Adored You (Isaac Hayes & Dionne Warwick)
07 Silver Star (Frankie Valli & the Four Seasons)
08 Rag Doll (Steeleye Span)
09 Buzz Buzz a Diddle It (Matchbox)
10 The Night (Lene Lovich)
11 Let's Hang On (Barry Manilow)
12 Walk like a Man (Mary Jane Girls)
13 Barbarella (Wondermints)
14 Who Loves You (Murray Head)
15 December, 1963 [Oh, What a Night] (Jared Halle)

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https://bestfile.io/en/Ia2z6pVWw86bXGm/file

As with Volume 1, I couldn't find good photos of the two of them together. So I found individual photos and put them on the cover. The Bob Crewe one (with red hair) is from 1976. I don't know the date of the Bob Gaudio one, but I'd guess it's from the 1970s. Both were in black and white, but I colorized them using the Kolorize program. Then I improved the quality with the Krea AI program.

Paul Weller - BBC Sessions, Volume 18: 2018-2024

Here's another album of Paul Weller performing for the BBC. This is a collection of BBC studio sessions, from 2018 to 2024.

I'm finally getting close to the end of the BBC albums from him that I want to post. I'm caught up to the present day with studio sessions (since I'm writing this in early 2025). However, I still have two more BBC concerts to post. And I assume he'll keep performing for the BBC in the future, since he's been doing so ever since he first started getting widespread attention back in 1977.

Everything here is officially unreleased, from lots of different sessions. The first four songs are from 2018. The next one is from 2019. Tracks six and seven are from 2020. Track eight is from 2021. The remainder are from 2024. A couple of the songs had some audience applause. But I used the MVSEP audio program to get rid of all of the applause, so everything sounds like a studio recording.

For the most part, the songs are originals from Weller's then-current albums, or occasionally from earlier in his music career. However, he included some covers he didn't put on albums. For instance, "Days" is the Kinks classic. "Nobody's Fool" is an obscure track also by the Kinks, only later released as a bonus track. This version was performed with Suggs, who is the lead singer of the band Madness. "What Does It Take (To Win Your Love)" is a classic 1970s soul song first done by Jr. Walker and the All-Stars. "Say You Don't Mind" was a minor hit in 1967 by Denny Laine, who was the first lead singer for the Moody Blues back in the 1960s.

This album is an hour and one minute long.

UPDATE: On August 11, 2025, I added two songs I'd previously missed, "Flying Fish" and "I Woke Up." 

01 Days (Paul Weller)
02 What Would He Say (Paul Weller)
03 Movin On (Paul Weller)
04 Gravity (Paul Weller)
05 Nobody's Fool (Suggs & Paul Weller)
06 More (Paul Weller)
07 Village (Paul Weller)
08 What Does It Take [To Win Your Love] (Paul Weller)
09 Jumble Queen (Paul Weller)
10 Soul Wandering (Paul Weller)
11 Flying Fish (Paul Weller)
12 I Woke Up (Paul Weller)
13 What Was I Made For (Paul Weller)
14 Have You Ever Had It Blue (Paul Weller)
15 Rise Up Singing (Paul Weller)
16 Say You Don't Mind (Paul Weller)
17 Burn Out (Paul Weller)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/QoZeVZPE

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https://bestfile.io/en/N1iS0XVnSZ0LEIz/file

The cover photo is from an appearance on the "Later... with Jools Holland" TV show in 2024.

Various Artists - Fallout, Season 1 - The Unreleased Complete Soundtrack (2024) (A Mike Solof Guest Post)

Here is another guest post from contributor Mike Solof. This time around, he's chosen to do a post of the complete soundtrack to season one of Netflix’s 2024 drama "Fallout," known for its extensive use of music. Normally, I would write a long introduction about the show and Mike's post of the music. But the problem is that I confess I have never watched the show, played any of the video games it was based on …and basically know nothing about it… other than I like the music. So for this post I’ll keep it short and sweet.

"Fallout," the 2024 Netflix series inspired by the popular video game franchise, plunges viewers into a post-apocalyptic world where remnants of civilization clash with mutated creatures and survivoralist factions vying for power. The show artfully blends dark humor and action, following a diverse cast of characters navigating the desolate wasteland. A standout feature is its extensive use of music from the 1940s and 1950s, which not only enhances the nostalgic atmosphere but also juxtaposes the grim setting with a sense of charm and irony, providing a captivating backdrop to the unfolding drama.

Mike’s PDF file is a "Fallout" soundtrack guide and includes details about every song and when it appears in the show. Much like its video game counterpart, each episode of the Fallout TV show features all kinds of songs that bring the franchise's 1950s aesthetic to life. Many of these songs were popular picks from the era, while other songs were lesser-known selections. 

The Fallout TV show follows the story of its three main characters, Lucy, Maximus, and Cooper Howard, as they each race across the wasteland in an attempt to chase down a valuable head. Fallout's cast of characters have their stories interweave throughout the show, with each of their various adventures being scored by these popular songs. Since there's no official soundtrack album with all the songs, Mike decided to make one. He realized on a Fallout fan wiki that had details about all the songs on the show.

One problem Mike and I faced is how to divide the music up into something listenable. All in all, this makes up two hours and 15 minutes of music. That's way too much for an album. But there were eight episodes, and if you break this up into one album per episode, some of those are too short. For instance, one episode only had two songs in it that weren't in previous episodes. So we decided to split this into four albums, each containing the music from two episodes. 

Thus, this ends up being either one really big album, or four smallish albums, depending on how you look at it. To cover all bases, we made one album cover for the whole thing, then individual album covers for each of the four sub-sections.

The show has been a big hit and already has been renewed for a second season. So let's hope Mike will be game to make a sequel to this if the next season has lots of interesting music like the first one.

By the way, a real technical note here. I used the fan wiki mentioned above to track down the years each song was first recorded (which get mentioned in the mp3 tags, as well as Mike's PDF file). But three songs were so obscure that the wiki didn't know when they were released, and I couldn't figure those out either. So, for those three songs, I just put in the year 2024.

EPISODES 1 & 2:

01 Orange Colored Sky (Nat King Cole)
02 Journey into Melody (Sam Fonteyn)
03 Don't Let the Stars Get in Your Eyes (Perry Como)
04 Who Do You Suppose (Connie Conway)
05 Some Enchanted Evening (Castells)
06 Keep That Coffee Hot (Scatman Crothers)
07 A Nervous Kiss (Carl Coccomo)
08 So Doggone Lonesome (Johnny Cash)
09 All Over Again (Johnny Cash)
10 Brighter Side (Connie Conway)
11 Mariachi de Amigos (Donald Quan)
12 Crawl Out Through the Fallout (Sheldon Allman)
13 Into Each Life Some Rain Must Fall (Ink Spots)
14 Don't Fence Me In (Bing Crosby & The Andrew Sisters)
15 It's a Man (Betty Hutton)
16 I Don't Want to Set the World on Fire (Ink Spots)

EPISODES 3 & 4:

01 Maybe (Ink Spots)
02 We'll Meet Again (Ink Spots)
03 Tweedle Dee (LaVern Baker)
04 In the Mood (Glenn Miller Orchestra)
05 Act Naturally (Buck Owens)
06 Let's Go Sunning (Jack Shaindlin)
07 Just Fine (Michael Brown & Company)
08 What to Do (Buddy Holly)
09 It Ain't the Meat, It's the Motion (Swallows)
10 I Can Dream, Can't I (Andrews Sisters)

EPISODES 5 & 6:

01 Jet Tones (Henry)
02 Robin in the Pine (Bonnie Guitar)
03 Battle Hymn of the Republic (Rick Rhodes & Danny Pelfrey)
04 National Pride (Cedric King Palmer)
05 Ladyfingers (Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass)
06 What a Difference a Day Makes (Dinah Washington)
07 It's Just a Matter of Time (Brook Benton)
08 Texas and Beyond (John Scott)
09 Improvisation on Tchaikowsky's Pathetique Andante (Django Reinhardt)
10 Dardanella (Alvino Rey)
11 The Theme from a Summer Place (Percy Faith & His Orchestra)
12 Lonely Hours (Gene Armstrong)
13 Summer in Love (Romolo Grano)
14 Give Me the Simple Life (June Christy)
15 Skitter Skatter (Metrotones)
16 I'm Tickled Pink (Jack Shaindlin)

EPISODES 7 & 8:

01 Sixteen Tons (Tennessee Ernie Ford)
02 Only You [And You Alone] (Platters)
03 Bossa Angela (Roland Kovac Rhythm & Strings)
04 Annie's Song (John Denver)
05 Yeah Yeah Baby (William 'Cool Papa' Jarvis)
06 You're Everything (Danleers)
07 From the First Hello, to the Last Goodbye (Jane Morgan)
08 Oktoberfest (Douglas Wood)
09 I Don't Want to See Tomorrow (Nat King Cole)
10 We Three [My Echo, My Shadow and Me] (Ink Spots)

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The cover art comes from a promotional poster for the show. Don't look at what the dog has in its mouth!

Amanda Marshall - Acoustic and Full Band Rarities (1992-2024) (A Mike Solof Guest Post)

Before I finish off the last day of the 1982 US Festival, here's a guest post by Mike Solof.

Personally, I had never heard of Amanda Marshall until Mike came to me with this album idea. It turns out she has a great voice, but she never had a big hit song or album, at least in the U.S. (She's Canadian, and her albums were big sellers in Canada.) She's had a strange career in that she put out three albums in 1995, 1999, and 2001, and then waited 22 years before reviving her career with an album in 2023.

Anyway, if you want to know more about her, I suggest you read Mike's PDF included in the download. Also, here's her Wikipedia page:

Amanda Marshall - Wikipedia

One kind of curious thing I should also mention though is this is kind of two albums in one. There's basically an album of acoustic rarities, and another album of full band rarities presented here. But Mike wanted them bundled together. So there's an overall album cover, as well as covers for the acoustic and full band sections. 

ACOUSTIC RARITIES:

01 Birmingham (Amanda Marshall)
02 Fall from Grace (Amanda Marshall)
03 Trust Me [This Is Love] [Acoustic Version] (Amanda Marshall)
04 Dark Horse (Amanda Marshall)
05 Shades of Grey (Amanda Marshall)
06 Calgary (Amanda Marshall)
07 I Hope She Cheats (Amanda Marshall)
08 Believe in You (Amanda Marshall)
09 Castles Made of Sand [Edit] (Amanda Marshall)
10 Love Lift Me (Amanda Marshall)
11 Why Don't You Love Me (Amanda Marshall)
12 Chill Out for Christmas (Amanda Marshall)

FULL BAND RARITIES:

01 Marry Me (Amanda Marshall)
02 I Can't Stand the Rain - Let It Rain (Amanda Marshall)
03 Cross My Heart (Amanda Marshall)
04 Don't Let It Bring You Down (Amanda Marshall)
05 Just Love Me (Amanda Marshall)
06 Until We Fall In (Amanda Marshall)
07 Hey Goodlooking (Amanda Marshall)
08 Closer to the Ground (Amanda Marshall)
09 Eleanor Rigby (Amanda Marshall)
10 Believe in You [Long Version] (Amanda Marshall)
11 This Could Take All Night (Amanda Marshall)
12 Chrome Plated Heart (Amanda Marshall)
13 Snake Charm (Amanda Marshall)

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https://pixeldrain.com/u/bFSqwS82

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I'm not sure about any of the details of the cover photo. Mike picked it.

Various Artists - Bill McClintock Mash-Ups, Volume 5: 2023-2024

I'm more convinced that ever that Bill McClintock is a twisted genius. Back in February 2023, I posted four albums containing mash-ups created by McClintock and posted on YouTube. Since then, I've been waiting for him to post enough new songs for a fifth volume. Here were finally are.

If you heard and liked any of the first four volumes, you should definitely like this. For those who don't know what I'm talking about, there are a lot of people who have made mash-ups, combining the recordings of two songs to hopefully create something new and interesting. But in my opinion, McClintock is the master of this technique, and his soaring YouTube views are evidence of that.

I've mentioned in the past that McClintock has pretty much single-handedly created a new genre of music, "soul metal," by combining soul songs with heavy metal songs. The resulting mash-ups are fascinating. In my opinion, many of them could be big hits in some bizarro alternate universe. I'm not even much of a heavy metal fan, but I don't think you have to be to enjoy these.

This album is an hour and four minutes long.

Note that, as with the other albums in this series, the track list is rather unusual. The song titles are the titles created by McClintock that often jokingly combined the titles of the source material. Then in brackets are the names of the original songs, with "vs." in between them. Then for the artist names in paranetheses, I've put both artists who created the source songs, with "vs." between those names as well.

01 Wake Me Up Before You Go Go to the Grave [Wake Me Up Before You Go Go vs. Children of the Grave] (Wlam vs. Black Sabbath)
02 More Forgiven Today than Yesterday [The Unforgiven vs. More Today than Yesterday] (Spiral Starecase vs. Metallica)
03 Shake Your Dude Thing [Shake Your Groove Thing vs. Dude Looks like a Lady] (Peaches & Herb vs. Aerosmith)
04 She's Got the Sentinel [She's Got the Look vs. The Sentinel] (Judas Priest vs. Roxette)
05 Could You Be a Freak on a Leash [Could You Be Loved vs. Freak on a Leash] (Bob Marley vs. Korn)
06 I Was Made for Boogie Wonderland [I Was Made for Lovin' You vs. Boogie Wonderland] (Kiss vs. Earth, Wind & Fire)
07 Let's Get Bleeding [The Bleeding vs. Let's Get It On] (Five Finger Death Punch & Marvin Gaye)
08 Freeze Frame City [Freeze Frame vs. Detroit Rock City] (J. Geils Band vs. Kiss)
09 Superfools [Supernaut vs. Chain of Fools] (Aretha Franklin vs. Black Sabbath)
10 Take the Soul Power Back [Take the Power Back vs. Soul Power] (James Brown vs. Against the Machine)
11 Dirty Deeds Around the Christmas Tree [Dirty Deeds Done Dirty Cheap vs. Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree] (AC-DC vs. Brenda Lee)
12 Still Coming Undone [Coming Undone vs. Feel it Still] (Korn vs. Portugal. The Man)
13 Unchained Love Machine [Unchained vs. Love Machine] (Van Halen vs. Miracles)
14 Squareboys from Hell [Square Biz vs. Cowboys from Hell] (Teena Marie vs. Pantera)
15 Celebrate Both Worlds [Good Times vs. Best of Both Worlds] (Van Halen vs. Kool & the Gang)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/xa8EUwfA

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/C4vBdsV9QOmLPNs/file 

The cover is basically the exact same as the previous four in this series, with only a bit of the text and the background color changing. That's because I was lucky to find any photos of McClintock at all. 

Elle Cordova & Toni Lindgren - Sunday Mornings with Elle & Toni, Volume 15: 2023-2024

Since 2020, I've posted the Sunday Mornings album series of cover versions by Reina del Cid and Toni Lindgren. But since I posted the most recent album in this series (the 14th!), the main singer-songwriter in this duo, Reina del Cid, decided to change her stage name to Elle Cordova. That was her real name all along, and "Reina del Cid" was just a nickname. Of course, that's her right, and I want to respect that, just as, say, "John Cougar" turned into "John Cougar Mellencamp" and then finally "John Mellencamp." 

But I thought it would be strange to have some albums posted under the name "Reina del Cid and Toni Lindgren" and other albums under the name "Elle Cordova & Toni Lindgren," so I've just finished renaming ALL of their previous albums. That meant renaming all the songs and changing all the cover art. It was a pain in the rear, but now it's done. So you may well want to redownload all the previous albums, to get with what hopefully will be the permanent name going forward. Note also that they're calling their Sunday morning postings "Sunday Mornings with Elle and Toni," so that's what I'm using as well.

With that out of the way, let me get to this album. That's not much to say that hasn't been already said about previous albums in this series. As usual, it's all unreleased cover versions taken for the duo's YouTube page (which, by the way, is now simply called "Elle and Toni"). Most of the time, just the duo performs on the songs, with occasional extra guests. But for three of the songs, it's just Toni Lindgren, who is stepping up as a lead singer slightly more often.

This album is 48 minutes long.

Here are the original artists for each song: 

01 Never Going Back Again - Fleetwood Mac
02 Clay Pigeons - Blaze Foley / John Prine
03 Your Smiling Face - James Taylor
04 Cuckoo's Nest - traditional
05 Brand New Key - Melanie
06 Whose Bed Have Your Boots Been Under - Shania Twain
07 Wonderful World - Sam Cooke
08 After Hours - Velvet Underground
09 The Big Rock Candy Mountain - Harry McClintock
10 Somewhere Over the Rainbow - Judy Garland
11 Will You Love Me Tomorrow - Carole King / Shirelles
12 Cruella de Vil - 101 Dalmations (movie soundtrack)
13 Gentle on My Mind - Glen Campbell
14 Ripple - Grateful Dead
15 You Never Can Tell - Chuck Berry

Here's the usual song list:

01 Never Going Back Again (Elle Cordova & Toni Lindgren)
02 Clay Pigeons (Toni Lindgren)
03 Your Smiling Face (Elle Cordova, Toni Lindgren & Kent Nishimura)
04 Cuckoo's Nest [Instrumental] (Toni Lindgren)
05 Brand New Key (Elle Cordova & Toni Lindgren)
06 Whose Bed Have Your Boots Been Under (Elle Cordova & Toni Lindgren)
07 Wonderful World (Elle Cordova & Toni Lindgren with Nataly Dawn & Lauren O'Connell)
08 After Hours (Elle Cordova & Toni Lindgren)
09 The Big Rock Candy Mountain (Elle Cordova & Toni Lindgren)
10 Somewhere Over the Rainbow (Elle Cordova & Toni Lindgren)
11 Will You Love Me Tomorrow (Elle Cordova & Toni Lindgren)
12 Cruella de Vil (Elle Cordova & Toni Lindgren)
13 Gentle on My Mind (Elle Cordova & Toni Lindgren)
14 Ripple (Toni Lindgren)
15 You Never Can Tell (Elle Cordova & Toni Lindgren)

https://www.upload.ee/files/17363708/ELLECRDVATNILINDRN2023-2024SndyMrnngswthEllTniVlum15_atse.zip.html

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The cover is a screenshot taken from the video for "After Hours" on this album.

Robyn Hitchcock - Syd Barrett Birthday Tribute, The Chapel, San Francisco, CA, 1-6-2024

Egads! Here's something that's actually from 2024 already. (I write this in February 2024.) It's a Robyn Hitchcock concert that took place last month. This one is special, because it was a one off tribute concert for Syd Barrett, the original leader of Pink Floyd. Barrett was born on January 6, 1946, and died in 2006. He would have been 78 years old on the day of this concert had he lived longer.

Instead of mostly playing his original songs, as usual, Hitchcock stuck to singing nothing but songs written by Barrett. Barrett led Pink Floyd, but only briefly. He left the band after their first year of big success, which was 1967. Tracks 4, 15, 20, 21, 22, 24, 26, 37, and 39 are Pink Floyd songs from when Barrett was the lead singer and main songwriter. The rest are either banter tracks or songs from Barrett's brief solo career, which petered out around 1970.

The first six songs were done in solo acoustic style. Then other band members began to gradually join in. By the song "Dominos," the full band was on stage. It was a small band, with just three musicians supporting Hitchcock, but they rocked pretty well for the rest of the concert.

Hitchcock has been heavily, heavily influenced by Barrett for his entire career. I previously posted an entire album of him doing solo acoustic versions of Barrett's songs over the years, which you can find here:

https://albumsthatshouldexist.blogspot.com/2019/09/robyn-hitchcock-acoustic-syd-barrett.html

Furthermore, he's done previous Barrett tribute concerts. I have one from 2007 that I'll probably post here someday. But this is the most thorough tribute I've seen from him yet, with some songs that he'd never performed before.

The recording is an audience boot. That's a bit of a bummer, since those usually don't sound as good as soundboard or FM boots. But in this case, the sound quality is very nearly as good. Furthermore, for all of the talking tracks, I ran them through the audio editing program UVR5 and got rid of a lot of background noise while boosting Hitchcock's voice. After that, I think that this generally sounds just as good as typical soundboard boots. 

There was a problem with one of the talking tracks though, track nine. For the first half of three minutes of talking, it's apparent that he moved well away from the microphone, because his voice was very distant compared to everything else. So I had to do a lot of extra work on that, but in the end I think you can hear most of what he's saying. That's why that one has "[Edit]" in the title.

This album is an hour and 39 minutes long.

01 talk (Robyn Hitchcock)
02 Terrapin (Robyn Hitchcock)
03 talk (Robyn Hitchcock)
04 Jugband Blues (Robyn Hitchcock)
05 Late Night (Robyn Hitchcock)
06 Dark Globe (Robyn Hitchcock)
07 talk (Robyn Hitchcock)
08 If It's in You (Robyn Hitchcock)
09 talk [Edit] (Robyn Hitchcock)
10 It Is Obvious (Robyn Hitchcock)
11 Long Gone (Robyn Hitchcock)
12 talk (Robyn Hitchcock)
13 Wined and Dined (Robyn Hitchcock)
14 talk (Robyn Hitchcock)
15 Chapter 24 (Robyn Hitchcock)
16 Dominoes (Robyn Hitchcock)
17 talk (Robyn Hitchcock)
18 Effervescing Elephant (Robyn Hitchcock)
19 talk (Robyn Hitchcock)
20 Bike (Robyn Hitchcock)
21 Astronomy Domine (Robyn Hitchcock)
22 Lucifer Sam (Robyn Hitchcock)
23 talk (Robyn Hitchcock)
24 See Emily Play (Robyn Hitchcock)
25 talk (Robyn Hitchcock)
26 Vegetable Man (Robyn Hitchcock)
27 talk (Robyn Hitchcock)
28 Gigolo Aunt (Robyn Hitchcock)
29 Baby Lemonade (Robyn Hitchcock)
30 talk (Robyn Hitchcock)
31 Octopus (Robyn Hitchcock)
32 talk (Robyn Hitchcock)
33 Rats (Robyn Hitchcock)
34 talk (Robyn Hitchcock)
35 Wolfpack (Robyn Hitchcock)
36 talk (Robyn Hitchcock)
37 Arnold Layne (Robyn Hitchcock)
38 talk (Robyn Hitchcock)
39 Interstellar Overdrive (Robyn Hitchcock)

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https://bestfile.io/en/eP09MwEdP8gNYEW/file

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The cover is based on a promotional poster for this exact concert. All the text and design is exactly the same as the original. However, I made one big change: I used Photoshop to reduce the entire image vertically so I could get the rectangular poster to fit in a square space. I did that for everything but the central image of Syd Barrett. I kept that unchanged, but cropped some off at the bottom so it could fit the shrunken space it was in.

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)

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 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.