Richard Thompson - The Fairport Convention Era - Home Concert, London, Britain, 9-27-2020

In 2020, the worst year of the Covid pandemic, Richard Thompson performed a few home concerts that were broadcast over the Internet. I could be wrong, but I believe I've already posted all but one of them at this blog. Here, finally, is the last one. 

Richard Thompson was a member of Fairport Convention from 1967 to 1971, the most celebrated years of the band's long musical history. For this solo acoustic home concert, he decided to perform just songs from his Fairport Convention era. I'm not aware of any other concert where he had this exclusive focus, this this is a special treat for both Richard Thompson solo and Fairport Convention fans.

The reason I've never posted this before is because when the concert happened, it was one of those "pay to view" deals. I don't want to deny Thompson of a revenue stream, especially considering it's become increasingly hard for musicians to make a living. But I figure enough time has passed, and I checked the download page for this, and it's defunct. There's no way to pay for it. (By the way, if anyone has any more of these types of "pay to view" shows from artists that are also expired, please let me know so I can help share them.) 

Thompson performed the concert with just his acoustic guitar. Because it was in his home, there was no audience. However, his girlfriend Zara Phillips, who is a talented musician in her own right, joined him near the end of the concert to sing song harmony vocals. He largely played the songs in chronological order of the years the songs were recorded. However, he saved up some harmony one for the end with Phillips.

This concert is especially interesting because Thompson only sang on a minority of songs when he was in Fairport Convention, since the band had other sings, especially Sandy Denny. But in this concert, he sang some songs in public for the very first time that were sang by Denny and others, in order to show off a full picture of the band in that era. He also played a few songs from his first solo album, "Henry the Human Fly" from 1972, apparently since he linked that with the Fairport years in his mind.

There's a lot of interesting banter between songs. In recent years especially, Thompson has an annoying habit of coughing quite a lot when he's on stage. (I'm guessing this is related to a stuttering problem he's had his whole life.) So I edited out most of the coughs.

This album is an hour and 28 minutes long.

01 talk (Richard Thompson)
02 Jack O'Diamonds (Richard Thompson)
03 talk (Richard Thompson)
04 One Sure Thing (Richard Thompson)
05 talk (Richard Thompson)
06 She Moves through the Fair (Richard Thompson)
07 talk (Richard Thompson)
08 Who Knows Where the Time Goes (Richard Thompson)
09 talk (Richard Thompson)
10 Reynardine (Richard Thompson)
11 talk (Richard Thompson)
12 Matty Groves (Richard Thompson)
13 talk (Richard Thompson)
14 The Deserter (Richard Thompson)
15 talk (Richard Thompson)
16 Crazy Man Michael (Richard Thompson)
17 talk (Richard Thompson)
18 Sir Patrick Spens (Richard Thompson)
19 talk (Richard Thompson)
20 Sloth (Richard Thompson)
21 talk (Richard Thompson)
22 Now Be Thankful (Richard Thompson)
23 talk (Richard Thompson)
24 Roll Over Vaughan Williams (Richard Thompson)
25 talk (Richard Thompson)
26 The Poor Ditching Boy (Richard Thompson)
27 talk (Richard Thompson with Zara Phillips)
28 I Still Miss Someone (Richard Thompson with Zara Phillips)
29 talk (Richard Thompson with Zara Phillips)
30 Gone, Gone, Gone (Richard Thompson with Zara Phillips)
31 talk (Richard Thompson with Zara Phillips)
32 Poor Will and the Jolly Hangman (Richard Thompson with Zara Phillips)
33 talk (Richard Thompson with Zara Phillips)
34 Genesis Hall (Richard Thompson with Zara Phillips)
35 talk (Richard Thompson with Zara Phillips)
36 Meet on the Ledge (Richard Thompson with Zara Phillips)
37 talk (Richard Thompson with Zara Phillips)

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alternate: 

https://bestfile.io/en/kow2GTpg0mqKq62/file

I used a promotional advertisement for the cover. The only change I made was that I swapped the text at the bottom.

David Gilmour - Von Trapped Family Home Concerts, London, Britain, 4-2-2020 to 12-2020

How did I miss this one? I was oblivious until now, but during the height of the Covid pandemic, David Gilmour did a bunch of acoustic home concerts with his family, then posted everything to YouTube. I just happened to stumble across it the other day while looking for some other Gilmour music. People, if you see something interesting like this and think I might have missed it, please bring it to my attention.

Anyway, this is nothing like what you'd normally expect from David Gilmour's music. He's primarily known as the lead guitarist for Pink Floyd, but there isn't even a hint of lead guitar playing here, and there isn't a single Pink Floyd song. Instead, it's made up of cover songs (with a couple of exceptions) sung by Gilmour and his family while they were all in lockdown. The name "Von Trapped Family" is a joke they made, combining the Von Trapp family singers, made famous through "The Sound of Music" move, with the word "trapped," since they were feeling trapped at home due to the pandemic.  It has a feeling like a family singing songs around a campfire.

Note that the family involvement is no small thing. David Gilmour sang lead on the vast majority of the songs, but not always. For instance, he alternated lead vocals with his daughter Romany Gilmour on the song "The Magpie." Furthermore, his wife Polly Samson sang competent harmony vocals on most of the songs, though note this was a very casual affair and occasional mistakes were made by all involved. Other family members joined in from time to time, with other backing vocals and other instruments, such as harp.

More, annoyingly, there was a baby present for some of the songs, and that baby occasionally cried out or even tried (badly) to sing along. Luckily, this was only very occasionally, and I managed to edit out most of the baby noises. That was particularly a problem for the songs "Hey, That's No Way to Say Goodbye," "So Long, Marianne," and "Hickory Wind." I had to do a lot of careful editing on those, which is why they have "[Edit]" in their titles. And I edited pretty much all the songs at least a little bit, just not as much as those troublesome three. But there were times I couldn't get rid of the baby noises because they happened at the same time as the singing.

Here's a list of the original artists for all of the songs:

01 Yes, I Have Ghosts - David Gilmour
02 So Long, Marianne - Leonard Cohen
03 Bird on the Wire - Leonard Cohen
04 On an Island - David Gilmour
05 Fingerprints - Leonard Cohen
06 Hey, That's No Way to Say Goodbye - Leonard Cohen
07 Hickory Wind  - Gram Parsons
08 Thanks for the Dance - Leonard Cohen
09 Dominoes - Syd Barrett
10 If It Be Your Will - Leonard Cohen
11 Octopus - Syd Barrett
12 Who by Fire - Leonard Cohen
13 Diamond Ring - Erik Darling
14 Nature Boy - Eden Ahbez
15 The Magpie - David Dodds
16 Morning Has Broken - Cat Stevens

 If you look at that list, you'll notice a lot of Leonard Cohen songs. No less than seven of the 16 songs were written by Cohen. There's a very good reason for that. Gilmour's wife Polly Samson is an author, and right as the pandemic hit, in April 2020, she published the novel "A Theatre for Dreamers." It's based on true accounts of the life Leonard Cohen and other musicians and artists lived in Greece, years before Cohen started his music career. These home concerts were largely done as a way to promote the book.

In researching the book, Samson spent several years doing a deep dive into the life of Cohen and his friends. As her husband, Gilmour got into it too, for instance doing a lot of research for the book. As part of that overall effort, the entire family grew to be extremely familiar with Cohen's music, making it easy for them to sing many of his songs. 

The other songs are a pretty eclectic bunch. There are two Gilmour originals. "On an Island" is from his 2006 solo album by the same name. "Yes, I Have Ghosts" was cowritten with Samson and is directly tied to the content of her novel. Although there are no Pink Floyd songs per se, there are two written by Syd Barrett, who briefly led Pink Floyd to fame in 1967 before dropping out later that year. These songs are from his brief solo career that happened after that.

As I write this in November 2023, all of the videos of these songs are still up on YouTube, if want to see these performances. They're taken from longer videos that mostly consist of talking with Samson about her book and Gilmour about his music. Those are still available too.

This album is 49 minutes long.

01 Yes, I Have Ghosts (David Gilmour & His Family)
02 So Long, Marianne [Edit] (David Gilmour & His Family)
03 Bird on the Wire (David Gilmour & His Family)
04 On an Island (David Gilmour & His Family)
05 Fingerprints (David Gilmour & His Family)
06 Hey, That's No Way to Say Goodbye [Edit] (David Gilmour & His Family)
07 Hickory Wind [Edit] (David Gilmour & His Family)
08 Thanks for the Dance (David Gilmour & His Family)
09 Dominoes (David Gilmour & His Family)
10 If It Be Your Will (David Gilmour & His Family)
11 Octopus (David Gilmour & His Family)
12 Who by Fire (David Gilmour & His Family)
13 Diamond Ring (David Gilmour & His Family)
14 Nature Boy (David Gilmour & His Family)
15 The Magpie (David Gilmour & His Family)
16 Morning Has Broken (David Gilmour & His Family)

https://www.upload.ee/files/15954509/DavdGlmour_2020_VonTrppedFmilyHomeConcrtsLondnBrtain__4-2-2020_to_12-2020_atse.zip.html

For the cover I wanted something that showed David Gilmour with some family members, since this was a family project. So I took a screenshot from one of the videos. He's holding a guitar in the middle. His wife Polly Samson is sitting next to him, petting their dog. I believe that's their daughter Romany playing the harp. There were others in the video, but they got cropped out.

Norah Jones - Unique Home Concert Songs, Volume 2 (2020)

To make sure I don't forget to post it, here's the second Norah Jones album that gathers up all the songs that were only on the home concert albums I posted here previously and not on any of her other albums.

As I did with Volume 1, I just want to make clear that everything here has been posted before, when I posted 14 albums of Jones' 2020 home concerts. But I figure that some people who may not want all 14 of those albums might be happy with just these two.

As with Volume 1, most or all of the songs are covers. That helps explain why she didn't put them on her usual studio albums.

There's not much else to say, so I'll leave it there.

This album is 41 minutes long.

01 Song of the Highest Tower (Norah Jones)
02 We'll Be Together Again (Norah Jones)
03 How Deep Is the Ocean (Norah Jones)
04 Straight Up (Norah Jones)
05 Amazing Grace (Norah Jones)
06 What a Difference a Day Makes (Norah Jones)
07 I'll Fly Away (Norah Jones)
08 Blue Christmas (Norah Jones)
09 Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas (Norah Jones)

https://www.upload.ee/files/15950368/NorahJ_2020_UnqueHomeConcrtSongsVolum2_atse.zip.html

As I did with Volume 1, I made the album cover by putting together a montage of covers of the home concert albums I'd previously posted. I didn't have quite enough to fill up nine slots on both albums, so the last few are from other Norah Jones albums that I'd made.

Norah Jones - Unique Home Concert Songs, Volume 1 (2020)

This is an unusual album for me to post, because everything I've posted here has been posted before. I've posted no less than 14 albums of Norah Jones' home concerts from 2020. That's a lot of music. That vast majority of that consisted of Jones playing songs that she'd already done elsewhere. I think it was interesting hearing them done in solo acoustic mode, usually quite different from the album versions, but they had been done before. So I thought it would be useful to gather up all the songs from those home concerts that were unique to just those concerts and never recorded anywhere else. It turns out there was enough for two albums. So this is the first one.

The songs here are presented in chronological order of when she performed them. She started in mid-March 2020, mere days after the Covid pandemic became a worldwide phenomenon, and this album continues until mid-June 2020. The vast majority of the songs are covers.

If you look at the mp3 tags, you can see which songs are from which albums I've made. But since many people don't know how to look at those, I'll also explain here. The first six songs are from "Home Concerts 1." The seventh song is from "Home Concerts 2." The eighth song is from "Home Concerts 3." The ninth song is from "Home Concerts 4." The tenth song is from "Home Concerts 5."

This album is 38 minutes long.

01 Patience (Norah Jones)
02 Joey (Norah Jones)
03 You and Me (Norah Jones)
04 Lucky (Norah Jones)
05 I Remember Clifford [Instrumental] (Norah Jones)
06 I Am Missing You (Norah Jones)
07 I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry (Norah Jones)
08 Permanently Lonely (Norah Jones)
09 I'll Be Seeing You (Norah Jones)
10 Light Wind Blowing (Norah Jones)

https://www.upload.ee/files/15950366/NorahJ_2020_UnqueHomeConcrtSongsVolum1_atse.zip.html

Instead of making a normal album cover, to show how this was a compilation of selected songs from albums I'd already made, I used a montage of the photos for the albums in the home concerts series.

Richard Thompson - What We Did on Our Holidays - Home Concert, Montclair, NJ, 12-16-2020

I have a Richard Thompson Christmas-themed home concert from 2020 that I only discovered a few days ago. It seems crazy to post that in August, the exact opposite of the Christmas season, but I want to post it now because otherwise I'm liable to forget come December. Then it occurred to me, "Hey, having Trump prosecuted for the January 6th insurrection is like Christmas coming early, so this is good timing after all."

Anyway, if that excuse doesn't work for you, consider that it's not really that much of a Christmas-themed album in the first place. Thompson did give the home concert the title "What We Did on Our Holidays" - a clever reference to the title of a 1969 Fairport Convention album - and he did play a few Christmas-themed songs: "Father Christmas" by the Kinks, "Christmas Wrapping" by the Waitresses, "Blue Christmas" by Elvis Presley, a rockabilly version of "Winter Wonderland," and his own "The Wrong Present." But for the 13 other songs, there's little to no Christmas connection. Still, it's a fun bunch of songs, which some rarely played tunes included.

As with his other home concerts, this was done in the solo acoustic format, except his partner Zara Phillips added harmony vocals to a bunch of the songs. The sound quality is excellent, with no problems at all. I did cut out a little bit of dead air between songs, such as guitar tuning, but not much. 

Also, in recent years, Thompson has developed a very annoying habit of loudly and frequently clearing his throat or coughing. That happened between every single song here, though thankfully never during any of the songs. I tried to edit out all such noises. Perhaps I missed one or two, but I got nearly all of them, at least.

This album is an hour and 21 minutes long.

Oh, and by the way, if you're a Trump supporter, what the heck are you doing listening to Richard Thompson? He even wrote an anti-Trump song in 2014, "Fergus Laing," before Trump started his run for president. I put that on my "Rock Trump Out" compilation, which you can find here:

https://albumsthatshouldexist.blogspot.com/2020/10/various-artists-rock-trump-out-volumes_24.html

01 talk (Richard Thompson with Zara Philips)
02 Father Christmas (Richard Thompson with Zara Philips)
03 talk (Richard Thompson with Zara Philips)
04 As I Hold You (Richard Thompson with Zara Philips)
05 talk (Richard Thompson with Zara Philips)
06 Tinker's Rhapsody (Richard Thompson with Zara Philips)
07 talk (Richard Thompson with Zara Philips)
08 The Rattle Within (Richard Thompson with Zara Philips)
09 talk (Richard Thompson)
10 The Cutty Wren (Richard Thompson)
11 talk (Richard Thompson)
12 1952 Vincent Black Lightning (Richard Thompson)
13 talk (Richard Thompson)
14 Sloth (Richard Thompson)
15 talk (Richard Thompson)
16 Flowers of the Forest (Richard Thompson)
17 talk (Richard Thompson)
18 Christmas Wrapping (Richard Thompson)
19 talk (Richard Thompson)
20 If I Could Live My Life Again (Richard Thompson)
21 talk (Richard Thompson)
22 Blue Christmas (Richard Thompson)
23 talk (Richard Thompson)
24 Jet Plane in a Rocking Chair (Richard Thompson with Zara Philips)
25 talk (Richard Thompson with Zara Philips)
26 The Wrong Present (Richard Thompson with Zara Philips)
27 talk (Richard Thompson with Zara Philips)
28 I Still Miss Someone (Richard Thompson with Zara Philips)
29 talk (Richard Thompson with Zara Philips)
30 The Fortress (Richard Thompson with Zara Philips)
31 talk (Richard Thompson with Zara Philips)
32 When the Saints Rise Out of Their Graves (Richard Thompson with Zara Philips)
33 talk (Richard Thompson with Zara Philips)
34 I Want to See the Bright Lights Tonight (Richard Thompson with Zara Philips)
35 talk (Richard Thompson with Zara Philips)
36 Winter Wonderland (Richard Thompson with Zara Philips)
37 talk (Richard Thompson with Zara Philips)

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alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/quGwAoJkjqp3N7R/file

The cover is a screenshot I took from a video of this concert. In January 2025, I improved the image with the Krea AI program.

Shawn Colvin - Home Concerts 3, Austin, TX, 5-15-2020 to 12-25-2020

Phew. I'm glad to get this monkey off my back. I should have posted this two years ago, but at least it's done now.

This album is very much like the last one. It's a collection of home concert performances, typically just one or two songs at a time. I collected everything that fit that I could find from May to December 2020. I search for similar videos from 2021, but I didn't find a single one. So this is a good point to end the series.

A couple of the songs, "Everybody's Talkin'" and "I'm Gone," are only partial versions. She did them as teasers to promote a new album called "Live From These Four Walls - My Favorite Movie Songs." It's pretty obscure, but you can find it (and pay for it) on Bandcamp. I kept them because I don't have that one and wouldn't share it if I did, since it's an officially released album, but she put these versions out for anyone for free on YouTube. Plus, there's some interesting banter that goes with them.

This album is 38 minutes long.

01 talk (Shawn Colvin)
02 The Facts about Jimmy (Shawn Colvin)
03 talk (Shawn Colvin)
04 Summer Dress (Shawn Colvin)
05 American Tune (Shawn Colvin)
06 talk (Shawn Colvin)
07 The Phoenix (Shawn Colvin)
08 talk (Shawn Colvin)
09 There's a Rugged Road (Shawn Colvin)
10 Cry like an Angel (Shawn Colvin)
11 Everybody's Talkin' (Shawn Colvin)
12 talk (Shawn Colvin)
13 I'm Gone (Shawn Colvin)
14 talk (Shawn Colvin)
15 talk (Shawn Colvin)
16 In the Bleak Midwinter (Shawn Colvin)
17 talk (Shawn Colvin)
18 Little Road to Bethlehem (Shawn Colvin)

https://www.upload.ee/files/15492164/ShawnC_2020_HomeConcrts3AustinTX__5-15-2020_to_12-25-2020_atse.zip.html

The cover photo is a screenshot from the YouTube video of the last song here.

Shawn Colvin - Home Concerts 2, Austin, TX, 3-22-2020 to 5-11-2020

I must admit that I feel embarrassed to post this album. It's Shawn Colvin home concert stuff recorded in 2020, at the height of the Covid pandemic. I duly collected it at the time, posted "Home Concerts 1," and then forget about the rest. Sigh! 

But in my defense, I think one reason I didn't post it then was because I thought the sound quality was a bit iffy. Her "Home Concerts 1" was recorded in a single setting, and generally sounded pretty good. But this is a collection of different sessions, some just a single song, and some sounded better than others. Luckily, since 2020 audio editing technology has advanced quite a lot. So I used the programs Audacity and UVR5 to make these sound better. They still don't sound fantastic, since it's obvious Colvin just turned on a microphone in her house and didn't have optional studio conditions, but it's very listenable now.

As you'd expect from home concert recordings from a pandemic, all of this is solo acoustic. And Colvin is quite talkative between songs, usually giving more insight into the songs and how they were created.

There's one more volume of her home concerts. If I don't post it in the next few days, someone please remind me so I don't wait another couple years before I remember!

This album is 51 minutes long.

01 talk (Shawn Colvin)
02 Tenderness on the Block (Shawn Colvin)
03 talk (Shawn Colvin)
04 Venetian Blue (Shawn Colvin)
05 talk (Shawn Colvin)
06 Matter of Minutes (Shawn Colvin)
07 Before the Deluge (Shawn Colvin)
08 Climb On [A Back That's Strong] (Shawn Colvin)
09 talk (Shawn Colvin)
10 Cinnamon Road (Shawn Colvin)
11 talk (Shawn Colvin)
12 Lovers in a Dangerous Time (Shawn Colvin)
13 talk (Shawn Colvin)
14 Kill the Messenger (Shawn Colvin)
15 talk (Shawn Colvin)
16 These Four Walls (Shawn Colvin)
17 talk (Shawn Colvin)
18 Ricochet in Time (Shawn Colvin)

https://www.upload.ee/files/15485042/ShawnC_2020_HomeConcrts2AustinTX__3-22-2020_to_5-11-2020_atse.zip.html

The cover is a screenshot I took of her YouTube video of the performance included here of "Lovers in a Dangerous Time."

Morgan James - Home Concert, New York City, 7-1-2020

This is starting to get embarrassing, but it looks like I still have some home concert recordings from the height of the Covid pandemic back in 2020 and 2021. I don't know why I didn't post them all then, but I suppose "better late than never." 

I've posted a bunch of albums by Morgan James. Virtually all of them are acoustic, with her husband Doug Wamble playing guitar, and virtually all of them consist of cover versions. This one is acoustic, as usual, but James and Wamble are a songwriting team, and this is mostly made up of originals. I think the only two covers are the last two, with "On the Road Again" by Willie Nelson and "Everybody Hurts" by R.E.M.

It seems James had done many of these kinds of shorts in recent years, but they're all behind paywalls, using services like StageIt. (If anyone has copies of them, I'd be interested in hearing them.) I'm posting this one because it was done without a paywall and posted on YouTube.

This album is 40 minutes long.

01 Vision of Love (Morgan James)
02 talk (Morgan James)
03 Making Up for Lost Love (Morgan James)
04 talk (Morgan James)
05 Give You Up (Morgan James)
06 All I Ever Gave You (Morgan James)
07 Better Me (Morgan James)
08 talk (Morgan James)
09 Love Ain't Worth Living (Morgan James)
10 talk (Morgan James)
11 I Don't Mind Waking Up [To a Love This Good] (Morgan James)
12 talk (Morgan James)
13 On the Road Again (Morgan James)
14 talk (Morgan James)
15 Everybody Hurts (Morgan James)

https://www.upload.ee/files/15411941/MorganJ_2020b_HomeConcrtNewYrkC__7-1-2020_atse.zip.html

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

Iwan Fals - Coretan Musafir, Depok, Indonesia, 12-30-2020

So far, I've posted five albums by Indonesian musical legend Iwan Fals. I'm going to keep posting some more in the hopes that there are at least a few people out there who dig it. But be warned that he's an Indonesian who naturally writes and sings all his songs in the Indonesian language. So if you can't speak that, you might not fully appreciate it. Personally though, I lived in Indonesia a couple of years in the 1990s, and I really enjoyed his music even before I understood the language.

The previous five albums I posted were a series of acoustic home recordings. This also is a home concert with no audience, done during the height of the Covid pandemic. However, this one is different from the others because it was done with a band, and a particularly large band at that. You can see what I mean from the album cover.

So, if you're looking for an introduction to Fals' music, this is probably a better place to start than those five acoustic albums I posted, since he usually plays with a band. However, keep in mind that this isn't anything like a collection of his greatest hits. He's been called the "Bob Dylan of Indonesia," and like Dylan, he has such a deep discography that one would be hard pressed to present all the "greatest hits" in one concert. But he seemingly avoided most of his best known songs. This is more like the songs he felt like doing at the time that worked well with that particular group of backing musicians.

The concert starts in semi-acoustic mode, and then generally gets more lively as it goes on. By the way, this is unreleased, but was posted on the official YouTube channel for Iwan Fals. Oh, and one other thing. The title he gave for this concert, "Coretan Musafir," roughly translates into English as "a traveler's notes" or "a traveler's scribbles."

I've created two versions. The first version is an hour and 37 minutes long. It contains all the talking between songs, the same as the actual concert. But if you don't speak Indonesian, that talking would be a meaningless waste of time for you. So I've created a second version, with just the music, that's an hour and 22 minutes long.

Here's the complete version, that includes the talking:

01 Belum Ada Judul (Iwan Fals)
02 talk (Iwan Fals)
03 Ujung Aspal Pondok Gede (Iwan Fals)
04 talk (Iwan Fals)
05 Coretan Dinding (Iwan Fals)
06 Orang Pinggiran (Iwan Fals)
07 talk (Iwan Fals)
08 Lancar (Iwan Fals)
09 talk (Iwan Fals)
10 Ada Lagi Orang Yang Mati (Iwan Fals)
11 talk (Iwan Fals)
12 Rindu Tebal (Iwan Fals)
13 Si Bujang (Iwan Fals)
14 talk (Iwan Fals)
15 Oemar Bakrie (Iwan Fals)
16 talk (Iwan Fals)
17 Musafir Anthem (Iwan Fals)
18 talk (Iwan Fals)
19 Kuda Lumping (Iwan Fals)
20 Doa (Iwan Fals)
21 Bagimu (Iwan Fals)

The download link for this version has been split in two.

Part 1:

https://www.upload.ee/files/16068290/IwanF_2020_CoretnMusafirDepokIndnesia__12-30-2020_Pt1_atse.zip.html

Part 2:

https://www.upload.ee/files/16068329/IwanF_2020_CoretnMusafirDepokIndnesia__12-30-2020_Pt2_atse.zip.html

And here's the version with the music only:

01 Belum Ada Judul (Iwan Fals)
02 Ujung Aspal Pondok Gede (Iwan Fals)
03 Coretan Dinding (Iwan Fals)
04 Orang Pinggiran (Iwan Fals)
05 Lancar (Iwan Fals)
06 Ada Lagi Orang Yang Mati (Iwan Fals)
07 Rindu Tebal (Iwan Fals)
08 Si Bujang (Iwan Fals)
09 Oemar Bakrie (Iwan Fals)
10 Musafir Anthem (Iwan Fals)
11 Kuda Lumping (Iwan Fals)
12 Doa (Iwan Fals)
13 Bagimu (Iwan Fals)

https://www.upload.ee/files/15288357/IwanF_2020_CoretnMusafirDepokIndnesia__12-30-2020_MusicOnly_atse.zip.html

The cover is a screenshot of the video of this concert that I found on YouTube. Iwan Fals is pretty hard to see in this big group picture, but he's the guy in the upper right corner holding an acoustic guitar.

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.

Keb Mo - Mo at Home - Home Concerts, Franklin, TN, 3-20-2020 to 4-29-2020

Back in 2020 and 2021, due to the Covid pandemic, there were lots of home concerts by different musical artists, and I've posted dozens of them here. But there are a few I just plain forgot to post. I noticed this one today as I was fixing broken links. Yeah, it's a couple of years late, but better late than never. :)

I did manage to post a different 2020 home concert by Keb Mo. You can find that here:

https://albumsthatshouldexist.blogspot.com/2020/04/keb-mo-home-concert-franklin-tn-4-4-2020.html

This is from a similar time period. But that was one single, album-length performance. This comes from a bunch of different dates over a one month time span. Mo's discography is big enough though that most of the songs are different. The ones played in both are "Grandma's Hands" and "Life Is Beautiful."

Personally, I think Mo's special talent is playing acoustic blues. Unfortunately, he's usually chosen to go in an "adult contemporary" direction instead. So it's great to have recordings like this, where he went back to his acoustic roots.

Everything here is unreleased, by the way. Most of the videos come from Mo's YouTube webpage. He's the one that gave the series of videos the title "Mo at Home."

This album is 44 minutes long.

01 talk (Keb Mo)
02 America the Beautiful (Keb Mo)
03 One Friend (Keb Mo)
04 talk (Keb Mo)
05 I'm a Hero (Keb Mo)
06 talk (Keb Mo)
07 Hand It Over (Keb Mo)
08 talk (Keb Mo)
09 Just like You (Keb Mo)
10 I See Love (Keb Mo)
11 Grandma's Hands (Keb Mo)
12 talk (Keb Mo)
13 I'm Telling You Now (Keb Mo)
14 In Spite of Ourselves (Keb Mo & Robbie Brooks Moore)
15 I'll Be Your Water (Keb Mo)
16 Dangerous Mood (Keb Mo)
17 Life Is Beautiful (Keb Mo)

https://www.upload.ee/files/15158165/KebM_2020_MoatomeHmeConcertsFrnklinTN__3-20-2020_to_4-29-2020_atse.zip.html

The cover is a screenshot from one of the YouTube videos of the songs here.

Brandi Carlile - Home Concerts 5: Still Home for the Holidays, Maple Valley, WA, 12-13-2020

I'm kind of embarrassed to admit it, but there still are albums from the lockdown phase of the Covid pandemic that I haven't posted yet. In this case, it's a lucky thing, because I happened to notice this one with less than a week until Christmas, and it's a Christmas themed album.

This is just like the other Brandi Carlile home concerts I've posted, same location, same acoustic format. But since it took place in mid-December 2020, it's all Christmas songs. Two of the songs are originals: "Christmas 1984" and "The Heartache Can Wait." Carlile is backed by her long-time collaborators, "the twins," Phil and Tim Hanseroth. For "Baby, It's Cold Outside," she duets with her wife, Catherine Carlile.

For two songs, they're joined by the "Compound Kids," which just means the kids of the people living in the compound she lives in. They're horribly out of tune most of the time, as little kids usually are, but I left those songs in because the kids are very cute (as well as wanting to present the entire show).

This album is an hour and 21 minutes long.

01 talk (Brandi Carlile)
02 What Christmas Means to Me (Brandi Carlile)
03 talk (Brandi Carlile)
04 All I Want for Christmas (Brandi Carlile)
05 talk (Brandi Carlile)
06 Christmas 1984 (Brandi Carlile)
07 talk (Brandi Carlile)
08 Last Christmas (Brandi Carlile)
09 talk (Brandi Carlile)
10 O Holy Night (Brandi Carlile)
11 talk (Brandi Carlile)
12 River (Brandi Carlile)
13 talk (Brandi Carlile)
14 Hard Candy Christmas (Brandi Carlile)
15 talk (Brandi Carlile)
16 Baby, It's Cold Outside (Brandi Carlile & Catherine Carlile)
17 talk (Brandi Carlile)
18 Instrumental (Brandi Carlile)
19 talk (Brandi Carlile)
20 The Heartache Can Wait (Brandi Carlile)
21 talk (Brandi Carlile)
22 Mary (Brandi Carlile)
23 talk (Brandi Carlile)
24 Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (Brandi Carlile with the Compound Kids)
25 talk (Brandi Carlile)
26 Jingle Bells (Brandi Carlile with the Compound Kids)
27 talk (Brandi Carlile)
28 Hallelujah (Brandi Carlile)
29 talk (Brandi Carlile)
30 Silent Night (Brandi Carlile)
31 talk (Brandi Carlile)
32 Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas (Brandi Carlile)
33 talk (Brandi Carlile)
34 The Heartache Can Wait (Brandi Carlile)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/9Vp9LH6z

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/bXgQh8PuU0cuqgn/file

The cover photo shows Carlile flanked by "the twins." It comes from an article promoting the concert. I also took the text at the top from more promo material.

Morgan James - Quarantunes, Volume 7 (2020)

In 2020, I saved tons of home concert recordings made during the worst of the Covid pandemic. I've posted most of that, but there are still things here and there that I've missed. I just realized I have more to post from Morgan James. This is the seventh and last in her "Quarantunes" series, where she did 100 acoustic cover versions in 100 days. and posted them all on YouTube. But I have even more home concert recordings from her after that that I'll get to later.

In case you missed her earlier posted albums, Morgan James has an excellent voice, the kind that female stars of Broadway shows often have. But she has an unusual affinity for doing acoustic covers, probably helped by the fact that she has a husband, Doug Wamble, who is an excellent acoustic guitar player and accompanies her on all these songs. She also has an unusual range of a musical tastes for her covers, doing everything from songs from the 1920s to modern pop. 

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

01 Only the Lonely - Motels
02 Soon - George and Ira Gershwin
03 Lonesome Loser - Little River Band
04 Memories of You - Louis Armstrong
05 Someone Saved My Life Tonight - Elton John
06 Only the Lonely - Roy Orbison
07 Perfectly Lonely - John Mayer
08 I Am a Rock - Simon & Garfunkel
09 Officially Missing You - Tamia
10 Sign O' the Times - Prince
11 Miss You like Crazy - Natalie Cole
12 We'll Be Together Again - Carl Fischer and Frankie Lane
13 Everybody Hurts - R.E.M.

Here's the usual song list:

01 Only the Lonely (Morgan James)
02 Soon (Morgan James)
03 Lonesome Loser (Morgan James)
04 Memories of You (Morgan James)
05 Someone Saved My Life Tonight (Morgan James)
06 Only the Lonely (Morgan James)
07 Perfectly Lonely (Morgan James)
08 I Am a Rock (Morgan James)
09 Officially Missing You (Morgan James)
10 Sign O' the Times (Morgan James)
11 Miss You like Crazy (Morgan James)
12 We'll Be Together Again (Morgan James)
13 Everybody Hurts (Morgan James) 

This album is 46 minutes long.

https://www.upload.ee/files/15267133/MorganJ_2020_QuarantnesVolume7_atse.zip.html

The cover picture is a screenshot taken from one of the YouTube videos of one of these songs.

Iwan Fals - Ngalor Ngidulnya, Volume 1 (2020-2021)

I have to warn that this album isn't for everyone. Do you speak Indonesian? If so, you'll hopefully love this. But if not, you may well skip it, since all the songs here are sung in the Indonesian language. I figure very few people will download this, but who knows, maybe word will get out to some Indonesian groups and it'll find an audience.

Have you ever heard of Iwan Fals? Unless you've spent time in Indonesia, I highly doubt it. But I lived there for two years at one point, and in my opinion he's heads and shoulders above all other Indonesian musicians, a musical genius. He's often referred to as the "Bob Dylan of Indonesia," and with good reason. His music career started in the late 1970s, and he's still going strong today (as I write this in 2022), with a new album released in 2021. 

He's particularly known for the quality of his lyrics, and he's served as kind of the social conscience of the country, with many protest songs about poverty, injustice, corruption, and so on. (As an example, the second song here, "Ambulans Zig Zag," is a critique about the poor state of Indonesia's public health care system.) In 2002, Time Magazine listed him as a "Great Asian Hero." Also in 2005, the Asian version of Time Magazine published their opinion of the top 100 Indonesian songs of all time. Fals had the number one song, as well as the most songs on the list. Here's his Wikipedia entry if you want to know more about him:

Iwan Fals - Wikipedia 

If you've never heard his music before, this probably isn't the best place to start. These are all unreleased versions of songs he started posting on YouTube during the Covid pandemic, just as many musicians have done in other countries. They're all in a solo acoustic format. As such, there's more of a focus on the lyrics. Probably a better place to start for someone who doesn't speak the language is the full band stuff. which has often been rocking and catchy. I could try to put together an introductory best of collection of that kind of material, if people are interested.

Fals got started doing these acoustic versions in late 2020, typically doing one song a week. As I write this in January 2022, he's still going with it. So I have four more albums in this series after this one, hopefully with more to come. They're all original songs taken from his many albums. But the original versions were typically done with a band, and these acoustic versions are often quite different.

The YouTube videos these songs are taken from are usually quite long, typically ten to twenty minutes long. Most of that time t is him talking into the camera (in Indonesian), with one song performed at some point in there. So I've gone to some effort to extract only the songs and leave all the rest behind. The talking doesn't have much replay value, and has zero value if you don't speak Indonesian.

The sound quality is generally pretty good, but it's variable. Even though all the songs were recorded inside his house, it seems he's varied his recording setup and his location slightly from time to time, which has sometimes changed the sound quality. There are a few songs in this long series that I didn't include because the sound quality wasn't as good as the others. But overall, this sounds about the same as other 2020 home recordings I've posted at this blog.

This album is 50 minutes long. Most of the songs from this album are better known ones from the early part of his long career. Oh, and by the way, the name of this series, "Ngalor Ngidulnya" is the name Fals has given to all these videos, and roughly means "hanging out" in Indonesian.

01 Bangunlah Putra Putri Pertiwi (Iwan Fals)
02 Ambulans Zig Zag (Iwan Fals)
03 Puing (Iwan Fals)
04 Sarjana Muda (Iwan Fals)
05 Doa Pengobral Dosa (Iwan Fals)
06 Yang Terlupakan (Iwan Fals)
07 Oemar Bakrie (Iwan Fals)
08 22 Januari (Iwan Fals)
09 Bung Hatta (Iwan Fals)
10 Opiniku (Iwan Fals)

https://www.upload.ee/files/16064265/IwanF_2020-2021_NgalrNgidlnyaVolum1_atse.zip.html

For the album cover, I took a screenshot from one of the YouTube videos of the songs featured here. I think it was "Doa Pengobral Dosa."

The Petersens - Home Concerts 3, Branson, MO, 9-15-2019 to 4-14-2021

Happy holidays! Technically, this isn't a Christmas album. There isn't a single Christmas song on it. But, in my opinion, it has the sort of vibe. The Petersens are an American, Christian, wholesome, acoustic family band. They play the sort of music you might want to play on family gatherings on holidays. So here's another album from them.

I previously posted two full concerts they did, which they had originally posted on YouTube. This, by contrast, is a collection of individual songs that they also originally posted on YouTube. Don't mind the fact that even though this is "Home Concerts 3," the first songs here come before the dates of those two concerts. Close enough for horseshoes! ;)

The Petersens have done some nice originals, but their main forte is cover songs. These are all covers. They also have a special talent for taking songs from all sorts of genres and turning them into acoustic folk tunes. You'll see plenty of that here, with songs like "Bohemian Rhapsody" by Queen and "I Want It That Way" by the Backstreet Boys getting a radical makeover. To some, it might seem gimmicky, but I think it just shows that some songs are just really good songs, so they work well in very different styles if played by talented people.

This album is 44 minutes long.

01 High Sierra (Petersens)
02 Cloudy Days (Petersens)
03 If I Needed You (Petersens)
04 La Vie en Rose (Petersens)
05 Wade in the Water (Petersens)
06 You're Still the One (Petersens)
07 Bohemian Rhapsody (Petersens)
08 I Want It That Way (Petersens)
09 The Scientist (Petersens)
10 Goodbye Yellow Brick Road (Petersens)
11 Mamma Mia (Petersens)
12 Top of the World (Petersens)

https://www.upload.ee/files/15271437/TPetersns_2020-2021_HmeConcrts3BransnMO__9-15-2019_to_4-14-2021_atse.zip.html

There are six people in the Petersens band, five of them members of the Petersen family. However, for this album cover, I'm only showing the three sisters, 'cos I thought it's a nice image of the three of them singing into the same microphone. I could be wrong, but I believe this is a screenshot of their video for "Mamma Mia."

Mary Chapin Carpenter - Home Concerts 5, Afton, VA, 10-18-2020 to 1-3-2021

Here's the fifth out of six home concert albums from Mary Chapin Carpenter. She started doing this in early 2020 and continued into early 2021. The songs here are chronologically ordered, as usual, and just barely dip into 2021 on the last song.

As with previous albums in this series, Carpenter played solo acoustic and talked a fair amount before each song. But also like those previous albums, I cut her talking down quite a lot, removing repetitive parts she said before each song as well as updates about her pets, and keeping the parts relevant to the songs she was playing.

For the last album in this series, I spent most of my write-up talking about the sound program created by the dog's squeaky toy. I'm glad to report that that toy didn't make much of an impact on this album. I think the only song where it can be heard is "Keeping the Faith." But luckily that was mainly during instrumental parts that were repeated, so I was able to eliminate most of the squeaking by replacing one part with another from elsewhere in the song. There's only a little squeaking at the last few seconds. There also is some squeaking in a couple places during the comments, but not enough to be annoying, in my opinion.

I believe there was only a single time Carpenter played piano instead of guitar during this entire series, and that's here, on the song "Thanksgiving Song."

This album is 48 minutes long.

01 talk (Mary Chapin Carpenter)
02 Girls like Me (Mary Chapin Carpenter)
03 talk (Mary Chapin Carpenter)
04 The Moon and St. Christopher (Mary Chapin Carpenter)
05 talk (Mary Chapin Carpenter)
06 Keeping the Faith [Edit] (Mary Chapin Carpenter)
07 talk (Mary Chapin Carpenter)
08 It's OK to Be Sad (Mary Chapin Carpenter)
09 talk (Mary Chapin Carpenter)
10 I Feel Lucky (Mary Chapin Carpenter)
11 talk (Mary Chapin Carpenter)
12 Thanksgiving Song [Edit] (Mary Chapin Carpenter)
13 talk (Mary Chapin Carpenter)
14 Bells Are Ringing (Mary Chapin Carpenter)
15 talk (Mary Chapin Carpenter)
16 Christmas Carol (Mary Chapin Carpenter)
17 talk (Mary Chapin Carpenter)
18 The Longest Night of the Year (Mary Chapin Carpenter)
19 talk (Mary Chapin Carpenter)
20 New Years Day (Mary Chapin Carpenter)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/5x5GasqX

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/3O1EDEtFYZPyvLg/file

As mentioned above, Carpenter made rare use of the piano on one of the songs here, so I took a screenshot of her at the piano on that song and used it for the album cover photo. The resulting image was rectangular in order to fit both the piano keys and her head into the frame. So I have some black space on both sides.

In February 2025, I upgraded the cover image with the use of the Krea AI program.

Mary Chapin Carpenter - Home Concerts 4, Afton, VA, 7-12-2020 to 10-11-2020

I'm trying to get back to posting more of the home concerts from 2020 that I'd missed. Here's another one from Mary Chapin Carpenter. 

There's one frustrating problem with this album that almost caused me to give up on posting the rest of her home concerts. Ever since she started posting songs performed from home on YouTube in early 2020, she'd made a big deal out of her two pets, her cat White Kitty and her dog Angus. White Kitty seemingly slept close to 24 hours a day, so was almost never seen or heard from. But Angus was usually there in the video, hanging around the same room Carpenter was in.

This typically wasn't a problem, since the dog generally stayed quiet and didn't bark in the middle of songs. But around the time frame of this album, a squeaky toy showed up, and got used. I've tried with various sound editing programs, but there doesn't seem to be a way to get rid of the squeaky toy squeaking. I guess it's too close in range to the human voice, so removing one tends to remove the other. 

I've tried to get around this in two ways. For three songs, there was so much squeaking that I decided they were unlistenable, and I haven't included them here. Those are "The Way I Feel," "We Traveled So Far," and "Where the Beauty Is." If you want to hear them, they're still on YouTube, squeaks and all. The other thing I did is that the squeaking tended to be worst during her talking before songs, since she typically engaged with Angus, petting it and so forth. Once the song started, the dog almost always settled down and stayed quiet, though there were exceptions such as those three songs mentioned above. So with the talking, I cut out more of the dialogue, if a lot of squeaking was going on at the same time.

So this is mostly squeak-free, but there's still some here and there. Hopefully, it won't annoy you too much. The good news is, this album coincides with a time in which the squeaky toy was popular. For whatever reason, it pretty much disappeared after this, so the last two volumes in this series are largely squeak-free.

01 talk (Mary Chapin Carpenter)
02 I Have a Need for Solitude (Mary Chapin Carpenter)
03 talk (Mary Chapin Carpenter)
04 Late for Your Life (Mary Chapin Carpenter)
05 talk (Mary Chapin Carpenter)
06 Secret Keepers (Mary Chapin Carpenter)
07 talk (Mary Chapin Carpenter)
08 Lafayette Square (Mary Chapin Carpenter)
09 talk (Mary Chapin Carpenter)
10 Twilight (Mary Chapin Carpenter)
11 Grand Central Station (Mary Chapin Carpenter)
12 talk (Mary Chapin Carpenter)
13 The Times They Are A-Changin' (Mary Chapin Carpenter)
14 talk (Mary Chapin Carpenter)
15 Don't Think Twice, It's All Right (Mary Chapin Carpenter)
16 talk (Mary Chapin Carpenter)
17 American Stooge (Mary Chapin Carpenter)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/TjH9bPwm

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/uFGwKOUbk2OnPpQ/file

Since my write-up is mainly about the squeaky toy problem, I thought it was fitting to include a screenshot that includes the dreaded toy. Carpenter is holding it while Angus is chewing on it. I had to use a rectangular shaped image to get both her head and the toy in view. So there's some blank space on the sides.

In February 2025, I upgraded the cover image with the use of the Krea AI program.

Mary Chapin Carpenter - Home Concerts 3, Afton, VA, 5-28-2020 to 7-9-2020

It's been a long while since I've posted one of these home concerts from Mary Chapin Carpenter, so let me refresh your memory a bit. Carpenter tended to play about a song a week from home, and post them on YouTube. But she also could be fairly talkative. Much of what she said was repetitive from song to song. She'd usually start with some greetings, then despite what her pet dog and pet cat were doing at that moment. (The pet dog was usually with her and the pet cat was almost always sleeping.) These sorts of comments don't have much relistening value, so I cut them all out. But I kept any comments she made pertaining to the song she was about to play.

The songs are mostly taken from her albums, but there are some exceptions. For instance, "No Fear" is a song she co-wrote but one she never recorded in a studio. And "Four Strong Winds" is a cover.

This album is 49 minutes long.

01 talk (Mary Chapin Carpenter)
02 No Fear (Mary Chapin Carpenter)
03 talk (Mary Chapin Carpenter)
04 Heroes and Heroines (Mary Chapin Carpenter)
05 talk (Mary Chapin Carpenter)
06 4 June, 1989 (Mary Chapin Carpenter)
07 talk (Mary Chapin Carpenter)
08 Oh Rosetta (Mary Chapin Carpenter)
09 talk (Mary Chapin Carpenter)
10 Stones in the Road (Mary Chapin Carpenter)
11 Why Walk When You Can Fly (Mary Chapin Carpenter)
12 talk (Mary Chapin Carpenter)
13 What If We Went to Italy (Mary Chapin Carpenter)
14 Goodnight America (Mary Chapin Carpenter)
15 Four Strong Winds (Mary Chapin Carpenter)
16 talk (Mary Chapin Carpenter)
17 Another Home (Mary Chapin Carpenter)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/BUL871TW

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/bklr3j7KFOOt5NI/file

Pretty much every single time she did one of these home concert recordings, she did it from inside her house. But for "No Fear," it seems she sat on a porch just outside her house. So I took a screenshot of that and used it for the cover art.

In February 2025, I upgraded the cover image with the use of the Krea AI program.

Grace Potter - Twilight Hour, Volume 8 - Home Concert, Burlington, VT, 7-27-2020 to 8-3-2020

I'm making a concerted effort to post more of the 2020 home concerts that I've been sitting on for months. If you're aware of any of the previous ones from Grace Potter, you should know the deal. She played (mostly) weekly home concerts with a small band, sometimes doing covers and sometimes doing originals. I only selected the full songs from longer concerts that contained lots of talking and some snippets of songs.

This one combines two concerts. Only the first three songs are from the first concert. The performances actually date to a soundcheck she did in early March 2020, right before the global pandemic hit hard and all concerts got cancelled. The second show consists of songs with a space theme. (Apparently, she's a really big Star Trek fan.) They're all covers of famous songs, with the exception of one space-related original ("Stars").

The last song is a bonus track of sorts. She played one song with a different band for a Tom Petty tribute concert roughly around this time period. Since the album wasn't that long, I threw it on at the end. It makes the full album 48 minutes long.

Unfortunately for this album series, she's only done two more "Twilight Hour" home concerts since this show. One was a Christmas themed show in December 2020. I have that, but there are only a few usable songs. The other was a Valentine's Day themed show in February 2021. I don't have that one. If anyone else does, and could share it with me, I probably could put together a ninth album in this series.

The reason her home concerts have ended is because she's resumed doing concerts in front of audiences, though in Covid-safe ways, like playing to people in cars in drive-through movie theaters.

01 Hot Summer Night - Delirious (Grace Potter)
02 Helpless (Grace Potter)
03 Joey (Grace Potter)
04 Supersonic Rocket Ship (Grace Potter)
05 When You Wish upon a Star (Grace Potter)
06 Fly Me to the Moon [In Other Words] (Grace Potter)
07 Rocket Man [I Think It's Going to Be a Long, Long Time] (Grace Potter)
08 Space Cowboy (Grace Potter)
09 Stars [Acoustic Guitar Version] (Grace Potter)
10 Honey Bee (Grace Potter with Resynator)

https://www.upload.ee/files/15328392/GraceP_2020_TwilghtHourVolme8HmeConcrtBurlingtonVT__7-27-2020_to_8-3-2020_atse.zip.html

To promote the space-themed show, Potter took some photos of herself in a Star Trek uniform. So that's what I've used here. I took the "Twilight Hour" lettering from the promotional artwork of another one of her home concerts.

Brandi Carlile with Mike McCready - Home Concerts 4: Vote Your Values Benefit, Maple Valley, WA, 10-9-2020

Sigh. I still have a bunch of home concerts from 2020 that I haven't gotten around to posting yet. There's too much good music in the world to keep track of it all! But a couple of days ago as I write this, Brandi Carlile released a new studio album called "In These Silent Days." That reminded me I have more to post from her. So here's the next one.

Hopefully you know who Brandi Carlile is from previous posts here, or from the fact that she's a famous musician. In case you don't know Mike McCready, he's the lead guitarist for Pearl Jam. It turns out he lives near Carlile, and the two of them are very good friends. They did a relatively short acoustic benefit concert together, with Carlile doing the lead vocals and McCready supporting on lead guitar. 

That show was only 30 minutes long. But it turns out Carlile played four other songs here and there in the same month, two of them with McCready. So I added three songs at the start and one at the end (to put them in chronological order). Added together, it makes an album that's 48 minutes long. I highly doubt you'd notice this wasn't one concert if I didn't tell you, because the instrumentation is the same, the sound quality is the same, and there's banter throughout.

This album is a nice mix of covers and originals. The covers are "Wish You Were Here" (Pink Floyd), "Red Dirl Girl" (Emmylou Harris), "Madman Across the Water" (Elton John), "The Times They Are A-Changin'" (Bob Dylan), and "Wildflowers" (Tom Petty).

01 Wish You Were Here (Brandi Carlile with Mike McCready)
02 talk (Brandi Carlile with Mike McCready)
03 Red Dirt Girl (Brandi Carlile with Mike McCready)
04 Madman Across the Water (Brandi Carlile)
05 talk (Brandi Carlile with Mike McCready)
06 The Story (Brandi Carlile with Mike McCready)
07 talk (Brandi Carlile with Mike McCready)
08 I Belong to You (Brandi Carlile with Mike McCready)
09 talk (Brandi Carlile with Mike McCready)
10 The Mother (Brandi Carlile with Mike McCready)
11 talk (Brandi Carlile with Mike McCready)
12 The Joke (Brandi Carlile with Mike McCready)
13 talk (Brandi Carlile with Mike McCready)
14 Hold Out Your Hand (Brandi Carlile with Mike McCready)
15 talk (Brandi Carlile with Mike McCready)
16 The Times They Are A-Changin' (Brandi Carlile with Mike McCready)
17 talk (Brandi Carlile with Mike McCready)
18 talk (Brandi Carlile)
19 Wildflowers (Brandi Carlile)

https://www.upload.ee/files/15281113/BrandiC_2020_HomeConcrts4VoteYurValuesBnefitMpleValleyWA__10-9-2020_atse.zip.html

The image of Carlile and McCready comes from a screenshot of the concert featured here. For the top section, I used some of the artwork designed to promote the concert. But I changed some of the text.