The White Stripes - Who's to Say - Non-Album Tracks (2003)

The White Stripes were a prolific band. Usually, for every album they released, they'd have another album's worth of stray tracks.

This is a case in point. In 2003, they released the album "Elephant." All of the songs here are also from 2003. Four of them come from B-sides. But that also was the year Jack White had some songs on the "Cold Mountain" soundtrack, so I've included those. The rest are unreleased, generally live songs with the audience noise removed. Three of those come from a rare (for the time period) solo concert by guitarist Jack White.

By the way, "Cold Brains" is a song by Beck, and "Hear My Train A-Comin'" is a song by Jimi Hendrix. Anybody who covers both Beck and Hendrix is okay by me. ;)

In short, if you like the White Stripes, you should like this.

01 Black Jack Davey (White Stripes)
02 Good to Me (White Stripes)
03 Who's to Say... (White Stripes)
04 St. Ides of March (White Stripes)
05 Wayfaring Stranger (Jack White)
06 Never Far Away (Jack White)
07 Great High Mountain (Jack White)
08 Everywhere I Go, I'm Always There (White Stripes)
09 Dyin' Crapshooter's Blues (Jack White)
10 Cold Brains (Jack White)
11 Fragile Girl (Jack White)
12 Mr. Cellophane (White Stripes)
13 Hear My Train A-Comin' - Ball and Bisquit (White Stripes)

https://www.upload.ee/files/16701099/TWHITSTRPES2003_WhostoSy_atse.zip.html

For the album cover, I took a 2003 concert poster, cropped it, and changed some lettering to add in the album title.

Belle & Sebastian - Heaven in the Afternoon - Non-Album Tracks (2006-2010)

This is the seventh Belle and Sebastian stray tracks album I've posted. I have one more to post after this. Oh, and band leader Stuart Murdoch had a side project called God Help the Girl in 2009 and 2010. I've got an album coming that's just the stray tracks from that.

So clearly, this is a group where almost half of their recorded output hasn't come out on album. And, as usual with this album, I think their non-album stuff is consistently good.

As I've done with past albums by them, I'm including the best songs from solo projects. This time around, that's six of the 14 songs, mostly by either Isobel Campbell or Murdoch. Most of the non-solo stuff are B-sides or bonus tracks connected to the Belle and Sebastian albums released in 2006 and 2010.

UPDATE: On February 4, 2021, I updated the mp3 download file. I found one song I'd missed, a cover of the Badfinger hit "No Matter What," from an unreleased radio station appearance.

01 Heaven in the Afternoon (Belle & Sebastian)
02 Long Black Scarf (Belle & Sebastian)
03 I Took a Long Hard Look (Belle & Sebastian)
04 Are You Going to Leave Me (Isobel Campbell)
05 No Matter What (Belle & Sebastian)
06 Cassaco Marron (Belle & Sebastian)
07 Are You Coming Over for Christmas (Belle & Sebastian)
08 Eyes of Love (Future Pilot AKA with Stuart Murdoch & Sarah Martin)
09 Florence's Sad Song (Stuart Murdoch)
10 Another Saturday [Wild Mountain Thyme] (Stuart Murdoch)
11 Suicide Girl (Belle & Sebastian)
12 Last Trip (Belle & Sebastian)
13 Sunrise (Isobel Campbell)
14 Blue Eyes of a Millionaire (Belle & Sebastian)
15 Fly (Stuart Murdoch)

https://www.upload.ee/files/15832824/BellenS_2006-2010_HeavnintheAfternoon_atse.zip.html

The cover art comes from a 2015 concert poster. Unfortunately, as usual, such posters are rectangular and album covers are square. So I squished things vertically below the woman's waist to make it fit. I also removed some text at the bottom and added in the album title.

The Beach Boys - Caribou Ranch - Non-Album Tracks (1974-1975)

In 1973, the Beach Boys released "Holland," the latest in a long series of albums that tended to come at least once a year. And then... nothing. The band was riding a big wave of popularity, thanks to the release of the greatest hits album "Endless Summer" in 1974 that did surprisingly well, going all the way to number one in the charts in the US. But they didn't put out another album of new material until 1976, and by that time, their critical momentum was lost. 

From the mid-1970s onward until today, the band essentially turned into an "oldies" band, playing their earlier greatest hits the vast majority of the time, with their new material of much less interest to the average fan. 

It turns out the band was having big personnel problems. They tried recording a new album in 1974 and 1975 at Caribou Ranch in Colorado, but they couldn't get it together. The main problem, it seems, was genius Brian Wilson. His father died in mid-1973, and that sent him into a spiral of heavy drug use and general bad behavior. His voice deteriorated significantly due to heavy cocaine use and smoking, and he pretty much gave up on music. Rumors of him spending an entire year in bed date to around this time. So, with Brian as the creative leader of the group, it's no wonder they couldn't put finish an album.

That said, a lot of recording was done, and what I've heard sounds pretty good. Much music recorded around this time has never been made public, not even on bootleg, but there's enough for me to put this album together. However, I had to dig pretty deep in order to find enough material. I included "Good Timin'" and "It's OK"even though they weren't released until 1979 and 1976 respectively, because they actually were recorded during this time. I'm also including an early version of Dennis Wilson's "River Song" that was recorded in 1974, even though another version would be released on his 1977 solo album "Pacific Ocean Blue." I'm also including a Dennis Wilson song "Holy Man" that was recorded during this time, but he never got around to adding the vocals. So, many years later, a Dennis Wilson sound alike finished it off, and that version got officially released. Furthermore, I've included a solo piano version of "Disney Girls," even though that song was on an earlier Beach Boys album. I just think this very is really cool.

On top of all that, I went to some lengths in order to include a version of "You Are So Beautiful." Although Dennis Wilson isn't officially credited as a co-writer to the hit song by Billy Preston, it is widely believed that he did help write it. He played it in concert frequently from 1975 onwards, but unfortunately all the versions I've heard are just a snippet of about one minute long, with lots of audience singing. So I've stitched together different versions to create a full performance that's almost three minutes long.

Add all those songs together, plus the rest, and you get an album that's 37 minutes long. Clearly, this was not a creative high point for the band. But they could and should have put together an album to keep their career going, especially since there are reports that there was a lot more recorded that has yet to be released. Plus, they could have drawn on the volumes of songs that had been recorded in previous years and were still unreleased and totally unheard of at the time. Oh well.

01 Good Timin' (Beach Boys)
02 Holy Man (Dennis Wilson with Taylor Hawkins)
03 California Feelin' [Demo] (Brian Wilson)
04 It's OK (Beach Boys)
05 My Love Lives On (Beach Boys)
06 River Song [Early Version] (Beach Boys)
07 Child of Winter (Beach Boys)
08 Barnyard Blues (Beach Boys)
09 Don't Fight the Sea (Beach Boys)
10 In the Back of My Mind [Demo] (Brian Wilson)
11 Disney Girls [Solo Version] (Bruce Johnston)
12 You Are So Beautiful [Live] [Edit] (Beach Boys)

https://www.upload.ee/files/16376710/TBECHBYS1975CarbuRnch_atse.zip.html

I kind of cheated with making the cover art. I found a photo of the barn at the Caribou Ranch near Boulder, Colorado, where the Beach Boys and many other big name artists recorded in the 1970s. I also found another photo that wasn't very good, but included the Caribou Ranch sign over the road leading to the place. I liked the sign and the barn, so I combined the two photos. I figured there's no good place left to add "The Beach Boys," so I just left that off.

Tom P*tty & the Heartbreakers - Next Time You See Memphis - Non-Album Tracks (2003-2010)

Here's yet another stray tracks album for Tom P. and the Heartbreakers.

(Note that I'm not using the full name of this artist due to concerns about copyright issues.)

I'm especially proud of making this album, because of the extra legwork it took me to find all the songs to put on it. In 2003, P. played a series of concerts at the Vic Theatre in Chicago. He hardly ever played original songs in concert before putting them on album, but he played no less than five new songs in those shows. Stranger still, he didn't release any of them at the time. One, "Melinda," came out on the "Live Anthology" in 2009. A studio version of another, "Two Men Talking," came out in 2018, but this was a 2010 version that was significantly different and two minutes shorter. Yet another, "Black Leather Woman," came out on a DVD of a concert in 2009, but not in any audio recording format.

I was able to find soundboard 2003 versions of those three songs easily. But the remaining two, "My New Guitar" and "Next Time You See Memphis" proved to be much trickier. In the vastness of the Internet, I could only find a few references that these songs existed at all! I had to resort to contacting a bunch of die-hard P. fans at a P. message board before I was able to find someone who had a recording of them.

So these are very rare. And yet they're good songs. I'm really puzzled by their obscurity, even on bootlegs. Clearly, P. was in a bluesy mood in those Chicago shows. He played a bunch of blues covers, and all five of the original songs are bluesy to some degree. Perhaps he didn't release them because he figured the typical P. fan didn't expect such a bluesy sound from him.

Anyway, those five songs make up the first half of this album. The rest consists of all studio tracks, though two of them remain unreleased. There's more than enough material here for P. to have released another solid album in the mid-2000s, if he'd wanted to.

This album is 49 minutes long. 

I'm not including the track list due to copyright issues. But you can find it in the mp3 download file.

https://pixeldrain.com/u/hshhbWpM

alternate:

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

The cover art comes from a bootleg of one of the Chicago 2003 shows. Very similar art appears on an official DVD of one of those shows. However, I believe both of those took their art from one of the concert posters of the shows.

The Bangles - You Were On My Mind - Various Acoustic Songs (2000-2011)

I've finished posting all the Bangles' stray tracks album I've made. But I consider this as essential to any Bangles fan. It's them performing many of their best songs in the studio in a semi-acoustic style.

The Bangles reformed in 1999 after being broken up for about ten years. Since reuniting, they haven't caught the world on fire like they did the first time around, but they're just as musically talented. Unfortunately, key member Michael Steele left in 2005, turning the foursome into a threesome. But this is from before her departure.

The songs come from 2000 and 2003, but in terms of the music you can't notice the gap of three years. The first four songs are technically recorded in front of an audience, but with the clapping stripped away, you can't tell. The entire thing sounds like an "unplugged" show recorded in a studio, which means their excellent harmonies are on display.

Many of the songs are from their 2003 album "Doll Revolution," but I think those songs sound better here in this stripped-back form. They also do a cover of the 1960s folk rock hit "You Were On My Mind" which doesn't appear on any of their albums.

This album is 57 minutes long.

01 Eternal Flame (Bangles)
02 Ride the Ride (Bangles)
03 You Were on My Mind (Bangles)
04 Manic Monday (Bangles)
05 The Rain Song (Bangles)
06 Something that You Said (Bangles)
07 A Hazy Shade of Winter (Bangles)
08 Here Right Now (Bangles)
09 September Gurls (Bangles)
10 Stealing Rosemary (Bangles)
11 Tear Off Your Own Head [It's a Doll Revolution] (Bangles)
12 Between the Two (Bangles)
13 Through Your Eyes (Bangles)
14 What a Life (Bangles)
15 Anna Lee [Sweetheart of the Sun] (Bangles)
16 Let It Go (Bangles)
17 A Hazy Shade of Winter [Fully Acoustic Version] (Bangles)

https://www.upload.ee/files/16700530/TBANGLS2000-2011_YouWreonMyMndAcustic_atse.zip.html

I'm not sure where or when the cover art photo comes from, but it seems certain it's from the early 2000s, before Steele left the band.

The Who - Rock Is Dead - Long Live Rock - Non-Album Tracks (1971-1973)

Here's the next stray tracks album from the Who.

This has been a difficult album for me to make, because I originally did it a different way. The basic idea is that the Who were planning an album in 1972 to be called "Rock Is Dead - Long Live Rock." The song "Love Live Rock" obviously was a centerpiece of that. However, some of the songs planned for this album were apparently never recorded by the Who, or if they have been, they've never reached the public.

Furthermore, a couple of the songs that were recorded by the Who were later included on their 1973 album "Quadrophenia," and I wouldn't want to include songs that are on that very well-known album.

Wikipedia has a good page about the unfinished album:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock_Is_Dead%E2%80%94Long_Live_Rock!

Originally, I made a version of this album with Pete Townshend demos substituting for the songs the Who never recorded or released. But I've also posted a series of Townshend albums at this blog that already include those songs, and I don't want to use the exact same recordings on different albums if I can help it.

So I was left with an album that's too short. Luckily, I was able to beef it up by adding some songs intended for "Quadrophenia" that didn't make the final cut of that album. Some of these songs were recorded by the Who around 1979 for the soundtrack of the "Quadrophenia" movie. I had to be careful not to use those versions. Luckily, demos or other versions from the 1972 to 1973 time frame do exist for most of them. I also included a cover version, "Road Runner," from 1971, to help make the album long enough.

So this is a patchwork album. But the Who were in their prime during this time period, so it doesn't matter much because everything they did was very good.

There's one more cover song from 1971 that I considered including to make the album sufficiently long: "Going Down." However, I don't consider it as good of a song as the others on the album, so I've only included it as a bonus track.

Without that song, the album is 33 minutes long, which is shorter than I'd like. Hopefully, someday some other songs the Who did around this time will get released, such as their version of the obscure Townshend song "Ambition." Townshend played an acoustic version of it in 2005, and said it just missed being included on  the super deluxe version of "Quadrophenia." (You can find it at this blog on the "In the Attic" Townshend album.)

01 The Relay (Who)
02 Put the Money Down (Who)
03 When I Was a Boy (Who)
04 [I'm A] Road Runner (Who)
05 Four Faces (Who)
06 Long Live Rock (Who)
07 Joker James (Who)
08 We Close Tonight (Who)
09 Join Together (Who)

Going Down (Who)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/RCc8ee39

alternate: 

https://bestfile.io/l4yeuLPj2lO4i9v/file

The cover art was made by Jon Hunt, and taken from his blog of alternate album covers. In 2025, I colorized it with the help of the Kolorize program.

The Zombies - She's Not There - Non-Album Tracks (1964)

A while back, I was asked to fix the discographies of the Zombies and the Yardbirds. The Yardbirds are still coming, but here's the start to the Zombies.

It's understandable to ask for a reorganization of the Zombies' music, because they've been treated very badly over the years. Basically, they never were popular enough for their record company to treat them seriously. They only issues two albums and a bunch of singles while they were together in the 1960s, and one of those albums, the classic "Odessey and Oracle," came out after the band broke up.

What I've discovered is that the Zombies recorded enough music for six albums, not two! That's an amazing difference! And they had a high consistency, so it's pretty much all good stuff. I'm getting nearly all of their music from the 1997 box set "Zombie Heaven." This has to be one of the best and most influential of all box sets, and probably was the key factor for critics to reassess their legacy, ultimately resulting in them getting into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

But while that box set did a big service in putting all of the Zombies' music in one place, including lots of previously unreleased material, I think it can be organized better. For one thing, it's four CDs of about 70 minutes each. I think the Zombies are better served by albums less than 40 minutes each. That's how their music was meant to be heard back in the day. For instance, their two albums released in the 1960s were 33 and 35 minutes long respectively.

Also, the box set organizes their music thematically, for instance by songs that were officially released at the time and those that weren't, and those that were played at the BBC. I think it makes much more sense to organize the songs chronologically. So, using the box set's extensive liner notes, I figured out which month and year each song was recorded, and used that. (I've included that info in the album field of the mp3 tags to help me keep things straight.)

So here's the first of the six albums I've made. These albums include all the song they recorded minus the "Odessey and Oracle" album. There's no need for me to post that here because it's perfect the way it is. After I post all that, I may also post alternate versions of some of the songs done in the studio or at the BBC.

Naturally, I'm titling this "She's Not There" for one of their biggest hits, and I'm putting that song first. It also happens to be one of the first things they recorded. The Zombies were great from the very start.

01 She's Not There (Zombies)
02 Summertime (Zombies)
03 It's Alright with Me (Zombies)
04 You Make Me Feel Good (Zombies)
05 Leave Me Be (Zombies)
06 Woman (Zombies)
07 Kind of Girl (Zombies)
08 Sometimes (Zombies)
09 Early One Morning (Zombies)
10 Road Runner (Zombies)
11 Sticks and Stones (Zombies)
12 I Don't Want to Know (Zombies)
13 I Remember When I Loved Her (Zombies)
14 What More Can I Do (Zombies)
15 Walking in the Sun (Zombies)
16 I'm Going Home (Zombies)

https://www.upload.ee/files/16701158/TZOMBIS1964_ShesNtThre_atse.zip.html

The cover comes from one of the many cover variants of the "She's Not There" single.

Velvet Underground - I'll Keep It with Mine (1966) (MASH-UP)

Here's something that's pretty weird, and I'm curious if anyone has feedback on it.

Today, I was going to post a Velvet Underground (VU) stray tracks album, but first I went poking around the Internet to see if I'd missed anything. I came across a 1966 live recording of the VU doing the Bob Dylan song "I'll Keep It with Mine," with vocals by Nico. This really surprised me. I knew Nico recorded that song on her first solo album, 1967's "Chelsea Girls." But while about half of the songs from that album had backing by most of the VU, that song was not one of them.

So this would have been a really nice find, except that while the bootleg recording had decent sound, Nico's vocals were so low in the mix as to be nearly inaudible. No doubt that's why it hasn't appeared on any of the VU's archival releases, because hearing faint vocals is much worse than no vocals at all. But then I had a crazy idea: what if I took Nico's vocals from her performance of that song on "Chelsea Girls" and add them to the recording?

There was a big problem with this, in that VU performed the song totally differently. On the "Chelsea Girls" album, Nico does a folky version of the song, with strings and flutes as pretty much the only musical backing. But the live VU version, while lacking drums, has a slow but driving rock and roll rhythmic guitar backing. It's a really unusual version of the song in general, and some of the chord structure had to be changed to get the rhythmic pattern to work. Plus, there were differences in pitch and tempo. It turned out the two versions were in totally different keys,and I had to try to sync them up. I also had to try to isolate just the vocals from the "Chelsea Girls" version, and I'm very inexperienced in doing that.

But I gave it a go anyway just as an experiment, and much to my surprise, it kind of works! Since Nico's vocals can be faintly heard on the VU version, one can tell that it turns out she sings the song nearly exactly the same way in both versions, despite the totally different backing.

I made a lot of changes to tempo and pitch and so on, and the final result is far from perfect. Sometimes, some of the strings from the "Chelsea Girls" version can be heard, and sometimes the faint Nico vocals from the VU version can be heard, and sometimes the timing of the vocals doesn't quite match up with the musical backing. But, all in all, I'm pretty happy at how this turned out, given that it was a Hail Mary that it would even come close to working. Hopefully, this is close to how the song actually would have sounded if one had been there in person.

Like I said, I'd be really curious to see what other people think. Is this a travesty or kind of a long-lost VU and Nico song? And I just made a rough guesstimate to match the keys from the two versions - does that sound okay? I can change it if you think it's a bit flat or sharp.

I must admit that I have next to no knowledge in how to properly do this sort of thing - I'm just winging it. Perhaps someone with real musical editing skills can take the two original versions and mash them up in a better way. I'd love to hear an improvement.

I have included this edit as a bonus track for a Velvet Underground stray tracks album. You can find that here:

https://albumsthatshouldexist.blogspot.com/2019/09/the-velvet-underground-wrap-your.html

John Fogerty - Hoodoo (1976)

With this blog, I've been concentrating on posting albums that I've compiled myself. But there also are "albums that should exist" that have been bootlegged but never released, don't need any changing, and should reach a wider audience. I plan on posting lots of those too, by and by. Here's one.

Here's a short history of this album. Although John Fogerty was wildly successful with his band Creedence Clearwater Revival in the late 1960s and early 1970s, he had trouble getting any momentum going with a solo career after CCR broke up in 1972.

He put out two solo albums, "Blue Ridge Rangers" in 1973 and "John Fogerty" in 1975, but neither of them sold very well. "Blue Ridge Rangers" is all covers of country songs, so you probably won't like it if you're not into country music. But 1975's "John Fogerty" sounds exactly like a CCR album and is just as good as any CCR album, so you should definitely hear that if you like CCR at all. Two of the songs on it, "Rockin' All Over the World" and "Almost Saturday Night," weren't hits at the time for Fogerty, but have been covered by many other artists since, and sometimes have been hits.

Fogerty submitted a new album, "Hoodoo," to his record company in 1976. A single of two songs from it, "You Got the Magic" backed by "Evil Thing," was released, and barely scraped the bottom of the charts. After that failure, Fogerty and the record company agreed not to release the album. It's been sitting in the vaults ever since. Although it's been widely bootlegged, Fogerty has made clear in interviews that he never plans on releasing it, though he's said he might want to redo some of the songs from it someday.

So, was it a good call not to release the album? Admittedly, it's not a great lost treasure, and it's not even as strong as "John Fogerty" from the year before. But Fogerty has been remarkably consistent in his career, so even a "bad" Fogerty album is pretty good. The main problem, I think, is that Fogerty's music was out of sync with what was popular at the time. Remember, already by 1976, disco has essentially taken over. Disco fever was so overwhelming that artists from the Rolling Stones to Ethel Merman recorded disco songs, and those who didn't often had plunging record sales. Fogerty kept on doing his chooglin' CCR thing regardless of musical trends - and still does to this day. In retrospect, that was much better than him getting trendy with disco, but he suffered for it at the time.

Sadly, Fogerty was so discouraged by the failure of this album to even get released that he stopped making music for several years. He finally would have a big comeback with his "Centerfield" album nine years later.

This album is 30 minutes long.

01 You Got the Magic (John Fogerty)
02 Between the Lines (John Fogerty)
03 Leave My Woman Alone (John Fogerty)
04 Marchin' to Blarney [Instrumental] (John Fogerty)
05 Hoodoo Man (John Fogerty)
06 Telephone (John Fogerty)
07 Evil Thing (John Fogerty)
08 Henrietta (John Fogerty)
09 On the Run (John Fogerty)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/844SPHtY

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/1INGC7BCPQnfHuc/file

The "Hoodoo" album was so close to being officially released that all of the artwork for it had been completed. So this is just the exact intended cover. The only problem is it's a bit low-res. If anyone has a better version, please let me know and I'll upgrade it. 

In March 2025, I upgraded the image with the use of the Krea AI program. But that could only help so much, since the original lacked clarity.

Paul McCartney - We All Stand Together - Non-Album Tracks (1981-1984)

There are so many musical artists with so many albums that should exist! I'll still trying to finish up the careers of some artists I've started, rather than move onto new ones willy nilly. Thus, here's more Paul McCartney even though I haven't posted any of John Lennon's solo stuff yet. That, and a lot more, is coming eventually.

This album covers the stray tracks from 1981 to 1984, which is when he released "Tug of War" in 1982 and "Pipes of Peace" in 1983. There are a lot of nice songs here, even though he was essentially coasting with "Pipes of Peace," filling that album with songs that didn't make the much better "Tug of War." One of the songs here, "We All Stand Together," even was a number three hit in Britain, though I don't think it was released as a single in the US.

Oh, and he also released the soundtrack to "Give My Regards to Broad Street." Ugh. I consider that a critical mistake both as a movie and an album. The album mostly consists of remakes of Beatles and McCartney solo songs, only these remakes aren't as good. There are only three new songs. For your typical McCartney fan, those are the only three songs from the album that you need. So I've included them here, at the end.

01 Stop, You Don't Know Where She Came From (Paul McCartney)
02 Simple as That [Demo] (Paul McCartney)
03 I'll Give You a Ring (Paul McCartney)
04 Rainclouds (Paul McCartney)
05 For No One [Acoustic Version] (Paul McCartney)
06 Ode to a Koala Bear (Paul McCartney)
07 On the Wings of a Nightingale [Demo] (Paul McCartney)
08 The Honorary Consul [Instrumental] (Paul McCartney)
09 We All Stand Together (Paul McCartney)
10 Lindiana (Paul McCartney)
11 No More Lonely Nights (Paul McCartney)
12 Not Such a Bad Boy (Paul McCartney)
13 No Values (Paul McCartney)

https://www.upload.ee/files/15259174/PaulMcC_1981-1984_WeAllStndTogethr_atse.zip.html

The photo used for the cover art is a black and white photo that I colorized, taken from the photo shoot for the video to "We All Stand Together."

Van Morrison - Live Rarities, Volume 1: 1970-1971

If it hasn't been made obvious already, I'm a big fan of Van Morrison music in the 1960s and 1970s. (I think he's much more hit or miss since then.) I've been trying to post the best of his live music from that time.

To that end, I've posted four of his best concerts in full, from 1968, 1970, and two from 1971. Then I posted an alternate version of his classic 1973 live album "It's Too Late to Stop Now," but only using songs not on the official album OR on any of the other four live albums I've posted here. He played such a wide variety of songs in the early 1970s that that was possible, and using only soundboard quality recordings to boot.

But those five live albums don't gather up all of his worthwhile live material. There are other songs he played here and there that are interesting, usually due to their rarity. For instance, every now and then he might pull out a song he used to do with his mid-1960's band Them, or a cover version he almost never did, or a lesser known and rarely played original. This is the first of a number of albums that collects such live stray tracks.

Be warned that the sound quality in this series isn't always great. I pretty much used up the excellent soundboard recordings with my previous live postings. There are some soundboard sourced songs here sometimes, but more often one has to rely on audience recorded bootlegs. That said, I have certain standards I set for myself. I rejected a bunch of interesting songs because the sound quality wasn't listenable, in my opinion.

It's worth downloading this album for the first song here, "Astral Weeks," alone. But even though its one of his most celebrated songs, he only played it about eight times total in the 1970s. Luckily, this version comes from a pristine soundboard, and it's a great one, where the song that's seven minutes long on the studio is extended to twelve minutes here. Unfortunately, the balance was way off, with the vocals too low and the saxophone too loud. But it turns out the vocals were mostly in one stereo channel and the saxophone in the other, so I was able to boost or lower the volume of each channel to make this much more listenable.

For the remainder of this album, there are two songs former played by Them ("You're the One (That I Adore)" and "Mystic Eyes"), and one very rare original, "Beautiful Obsession." The rest are covers.

If you like this album, the series continues chronologically with four more albums. Like this one, each one is about 45 minutes long.

01 Astral Weeks (Van Morrison)
02 You're the One [That I Adore] (Van Morrison)
03 Sweet Little Sixteen (Van Morrison)
04 Danny Boy (Van Morrison)
05 Rock Me Baby (Van Morrison)
06 Beautiful Obsession (Van Morrison)
07 Mystic Eyes (Van Morrison)

https://www.upload.ee/files/16701211/VANMRRSN1970-1971_LivRritiesVolum1_atse.zip.html

I made the cover by taking a screenshot from a YouTube video of a 1970 concert performance.

Tom P*tty & the Heartbreakers - Sweet William - Non-Album Tracks (1996-2001)

Here's another stray tracks album for Tom P. and the Heartbreakers.

(Note that I'm not using the full name of this artist due to concerns about copyright issues.)

In terms of released albums, this was not a particularly impressive time, with just the "She's the One" soundtrack and "Echo" albums being released in those seven years. But P. was staying busy all the while, as this album of stray tracks demonstrates. It contains five originals, two remade originals, and the five covers. One of the remade originals, "On the Street," was originally done by P.'s first band, Mudcrutch. The other, "Surrender," was first done in the late 1970s, but never put on an album at that time.

One of the songs here, "Goldfinger," is done by a group called the Blue Stingrays. That's just an alias for P.'s band the Heartbreakers, which put out an album of surf music instrumentals in 1997. I only included one song from that album, because it's a specialist appeal, but I think their version of this movie theme in particularly cool, and P. and the Heartbreakers played it in concert around that time.

This album is 41 minutes long. 

I'm not including the track list due to copyright issues. But you can find it in the mp3 download file.

https://pixeldrain.com/u/wDE7t92u

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/RZSUJ4OuCB1hjuE/file

The cover art is based on a 2010 concert poster. I made some changes, including removing the text "Tom P*tty and the Heartbreakers" near the bottom and replacing it with "Sweet William."

The Kinks - Did Ya - Non-Album Tracks (1986-1992)

The last years of the Kinks, the late 1980s and early 1990s, were not a good time for their music. Their albums were critically and commercially unsuccessful, and were a mere shadow of their great earlier works. But, in my opinion, that was due more to poor song selection and production choices. Ray and Dave Davies could still write very good songs, though admittedly they weren't at their peak in this era.

This is yet another stray tracks album. Even though these are supposedly the "leftovers," I'd argue that the songs here make up a stronger album than some Kinks albums at the time, such as "Think Visual" or "UK Jive." Replacing some of the weaker tracks on those albums with some of the stronger ones here could have resulted in much better albums.

Three of the songs (tracks 9, 10, and 11) come from a 1991 EP called "Did Ya." Two songs, tracks 4 and 5, come from the live album "Live: The Road," although one of them, "The Road," is actually a studio track. "Quiet Life" is from a movie soundtrack. Three more comes come from a Dave Davies archival album, "Fragile," and the last song comes from a different Dave Davies archival album. "Bright Lights" was a bonus track, and "The Million Pound Semidetached" comes from yet another archival album, "Waterloo Sunset."

One song here, "How Do I Get Close," actually comes from the studio album "UK Jive." But this is an unreleased version performed on a TV show that is an improvement on the album version, in my opinion.

Note that two songs here, "Did Ya" and "Look through Any Doorway," also appear on my revised version of the Kinks' last album, "Phobia." This is a different version of "Look through Any Doorway," so I suppose the duplication is okay. I think "Did Ya" better fits here, since it was released in 1991, two years before "Phobia," but it's included as an official "Phobia" bonus track, so I guess it can go there too.

The is the last of my Kinks stray tracks albums. But it isn't the last of Kinks stuff that I plan on posting, since they're one of my very favorite musical groups.

This album is 48 minutes long.

01 Quiet Life (Ray Davies)
02 Give Something Back (Dave Davies)
03 No More Mysteries (Dave Davies)
04 It [I Want It] (Kinks)
05 The Road (Kinks)
06 The Million Pound Semidetached (Kinks)
07 Bright Lights (Kinks)
08 Look through Any Doorway [Open Up Your Heart] [Demo] (Dave Davies)
09 Days [1991 EP Version] (Kinks)
10 New World (Kinks)
11 Did Ya (Kinks)
12 I've Got Your Number [Demo] (Dave Davies)

https://www.upload.ee/files/15485577/TKnks_1985-1992_DdYa_atse.zip.html

The cover is the exact cover of the 1991 "Did Ya" EP.

Norah Jones - Day Dreaming - Non-Album Tracks (2003-2004)

Norah Jones is a real problem for me. Namely, once I post an album here, I don't want to make changes to it. But Jones has a seemingly bottomless number of stray tracks, lots of them very obscure. Every time I think I've found all her songs that I want to include on my compilation albums, I'll go down some Internet rabbit hole and end up finding a bunch more.

And the weird thing is, the vast majority of them are really good. In fact, I've made the argument in past Jones postings that her non-album songs are better overall than those on her albums. That's because her albums tend to suffer from a certain "easy listening" sameness, whereas she stretches herself with a variety of interesting and classic material with her non-album tracks, which usually take the form of collaborations with other artists.

That said, I think I've found nearly all of the rare Jones songs I'm likely to find, so I'm going to press forward with posting more of her albums. If I end up adding to or changing them later, oh well. She's a special case, due to her virtual second career guest singing (lead!) and playing for others.

This album fits the pattern of all the other stray track albums of hers I've made. I'm sorry Norah, you're a good songwriter, but I'd rather hear you bringing your special voice and style to great classic songs. On this album, she does songs made famous by Dolly Parton ("Grass Is Blue"), Elvis Presley ("Love Me Tender"), Aretha Franklin ("Day Dreaming"), Waylon Jennings ("Wurlitzer Prize"), and more, including some songs from the so-called Great American Songbook.

This album is 42 minutes long.

01 What Makes You (Jesse Harris & Norah Jones)
02 Beautiful Friendship (Norah Jones & Marian McPartland)
03 I Could Lie to You (Noam Weinstein & Norah Jones)
04 Why Can't He Be You (Norah Jones)
05 The Grass Is Blue (Norah Jones)
06 Wurlitzer Prize [I Don't Want to Get Over You] (Norah Jones)
07 Moon Song (Norah Jones)
08 Stella (Norah Jones & Jim Campilongo)
09 These Foolish Things (Norah Jones)
10 Day Dreaming (Norah Jones)
11 Rita (Rachel Loshak & Norah Jones)
12 Love Me Tender (Norah Jones)

https://www.upload.ee/files/16696760/NORHJNS2003-2004_DyDreaming_atse.zip.html

I made the cover based on a photo from the early 2000s. But I don't know the exact year or other details of where the photo is from.

Curtis Mayfield - Beat Club, Bremen, Germany, 1-19-1972

I'm a big fan of soul music from the 1960s and 1970s (which unfortunately pretty much got killed off by disco in the late 1970s). For a variety of reasons, it's rare for me to come across entire "albums that should exist" in this genre. But every now and then I do, and here's a really nice one.

Curtis Mayfield certainly in a giant of soul music. He had a long run of good music, but I think he peaked around 1970 to 1972. So here's a "live" album that captures him at that peak. I put "live" in quotes because there actually is no audience whatsoever, but he plays an entire concert as if there was, including some between song banter.

The cause of this strange situation is the German TV show "Beat Club." By 1972, it had evolved to where it would let major artists stretch out and play more than just the usual one or two hits. I think in Mayfield's case he had three songs get on air at the time, but he recorded an hour of music in a TV studio for the producers to select from.

Most of this performance was lost in someone's vault for many years. But a bunch of complete Beat Club performances have been recently been making their way to YouTube, and just last month Mayfield's appearance got posted. I converted it to mp3 format and broke it into individual tracks.

The concert is from early 1972, so it predates his huge selling "Superfly" soundtrack later in the year. But it's got lots of great songs from his two earlier acclaimed solo albums, "Curtis" and "Roots." The set list is somewhat different from his 1971 album "Curtis/Live" (recorded 12 months earlier), and of course there's the sound quality advantage of having no crowd noise (though you may feel one loses some of the live concert vibe).

I particularly like his version of Marvin Gaye's "Inner City Blues." This song fits him so perfectly that it almost seems like he wrote it for Gaye instead.

I've cleaned up the recording in the sense that I removed some false starts and dead silence between songs. Also, he performed the last song, "We're a Winner," all the way through, then decided he didn't like it and performed it all the way through again. I only kept the second take.

I was all set to post this, but then it occurred to me that it didn't seem right to post something from Mayfield from 1972 and not include anything from the fabulous "Superfly" soundtrack. So I poked around and found four key songs from that done in 1972 that match the studio sound quality of the rest of this. Two of them actually were done live in the studio with no audience, the same as the Beat Club performance. I've added those at the end.

The result is an hour and nine minutes of prime Mayfield. This really should be released officially, just like so many BBC performances have been.

And by the way, if you want to see it and not merely listen to it, just search for it on YouTube.

01 Inner City Blues - Ain't No Sunshine (Curtis Mayfield)
02 Check Out Your Mind (Curtis Mayfield)
03 Mighty Mighty [Spade and Whitey] (Curtis Mayfield)
04 We've Only Just Begun (Curtis Mayfield)
05 We've Gotta Have Peace (Curtis Mayfield)
06 We People Who Are Darker than Blue (Curtis Mayfield)
07 Keep On Keeping On (Curtis Mayfield)
08 talk (Curtis Mayfield)
09 Stare and Stare (Curtis Mayfield)
10 talk (Curtis Mayfield)
11 Move On Up (Curtis Mayfield)
12 We're a Winner (Curtis Mayfield)
13 Pusherman (Curtis Mayfield)
14 Freddie's Dead (Curtis Mayfield)
15 Eddie, You Should Know Better (Curtis Mayfield)
16 Superfly (Curtis Mayfield)

https://www.upload.ee/files/16687918/CURTSMYFLD1972_BetClbBremnGermny__1-19-1972_atse.zip.html

The album cover is a screenshot I took from the YouTube video of Mayfield's Beat Club performance.

Larkin Poe - Vintage Cover Versions, 2014-2015

It's time for some more of my favorite current obscure group that should be widely known and celebrated, Larkin Poe. If you've missed my previous posts, they are a duo of sisters who sing great harmonies, write very good songs, and one of them adds killer slide guitar.

Starting in 2017, they've posted a series of occasional YouTube videos of their acoustic covers of classic songs, called "Tip O' the Hat." I've made three album compilations of these versions (with more hopefully coming if they keep posting them). But it turns out they did an identical thing back in 2014 and 2015. Only that time, they called it "Vintage Cover Videos."

One can still find a bunch of videos from this series posted on their YouTube channel. Unfortunately, a bunch of them have slipped into "private viewing mode" only, which means I can't access them. Luckily, I grabbed a bunch of them a couple of years ago, so I think I have most of them. If anyone knows how to get access to the private ones, please let me know.

They posted about one album's worth of songs, but due to the private ones I can't access, it's a short album. To make up for that, I looked around for other cover versions they did in 2014 or 2015 also done as just an acoustic duo instead of their full band, and I found four more songs. Adding those in, it makes for an album that's 39 minutes long.

On this album, you'll find covers from Michael Jackson to Bing Crosby, from the Arctic Monkeys to Sonny and Cher, from Elliott Smith to Leadbelly. I love their wide ranging taste in music, and how they manage to put their personal stamp on everything they do.

Here are the artists who did the originals and/or famous versions for each song:

01 Off the Wall - Michael Jackson
02 Time in a Bottle [Instrumental Version] - Jim Croce
03 Black Betty [Acappella Version] - Lead Belly / Ram Jam
04 Bang Bang [My Baby Shot Me Down] - Sonny & Cher
05 Do I Wanna Know - Arctic Monkeys
06 The Sound of Silence - Simon & Garfunkel
07 Take Me to Church - Hozier
08 Needle in the Hay - Elliott Smith
09 Take Me Back - Buddy & Julie Miller
10 Withered and Died - Richard & Linda Thompson
11 Wade in the Water - traditional / Ramsey Lewis Trio
12 Mele Kalikimaka - Bing Crosby & the Andrews Sisters
13 Beat It - Michael Jackson
14 Tirineni Tsitsiki - Lila Downs
13 American Girl - Tom Petty
14 Rich Girl - Hall & Oates
15 I Got You, Babe [Acappella Version] - Sonny & Cher

Here's the usual song list:

01 Off the Wall (Larkin Poe) (Larkin Poe)
02 Time in a Bottle [Instrumental Version] (Larkin Poe)
03 Black Betty [Acappella Version] (Larkin Poe)
04 Bang Bang [My Baby Shot Me Down] (Larkin Poe)
05 Do I Wanna Know (Larkin Poe)
06 The Sound of Silence (Larkin Poe)
07 Take Me to Church (Larkin Poe)
08 Needle in the Hay (Larkin Poe)
09 Take Me Back (Larkin Poe)
10 Withered and Died (Larkin Poe)
11 Wade in the Water (Larkin Poe)
12 Mele Kalikimaka (Larkin Poe)
13 Beat It (Larkin Poe)
14 Tirineni Tsitsiki (Larkin Poe)
15 American Girl (Larkin Poe)
16 Rich Girl (Larkin Poe)
17 I Got You, Babe [Acappella Version] (Larkin Poe)

https://www.upload.ee/files/15261968/LarkinP_2014-2015_VintageCovrVersions_atse.zip.html

The cover art photo is from a 2015 concert. That's Megan Lowell in front, and Rebecca Lowell in back.

Tom P*tty & the Heartbreakers - Stories We Could Tell - Non-Album Tracks (1981-1985)

Here's another album of stray tracks by Tom P. and the Heartbreakers. 

(Note that I'm not using the full name of this artist due to concerns about copyright issues.)

As I said in a previous in this series, I think P.'s albums from his first ten or so years with the Heartbreakers are spotty, usually with some great songs, but also with some forgettable ones. So I'm surprised once again at how strong the songs that didn't make his albums are. I think with better song selection of what was available at the time, nearly all of his early albums could have been as solid as 1979's classic "Damn the Torpedoes."

It's baffling to me that a good song like "Worried Guy (Insomnia)" not only wasn't released at the time, but didn't make it on either of the box sets released since then either ("Playback" and "An American Treasure"). There are hints that there are lots more songs still in the vaults that haven't even been bootlegged. Let's hope they get released someday soon.

This time around, most of the songs are from B-sides or the two box sets I've mentioned. There's also a duet with Stevie Nicks, "I Will Run to You," that was written by P. but was only released on Nicks' 1983 album "The Wild Heart." And speaking of duets with Nicks, I've included the solo version of "Stop Draggin' My Heart Around" rather than the hit duet version with Nicks, since I figure any P. fan interested in this already has the duet version.

Four songs, "Stories We Could Tell," "The Image of Me," "Big Boss Man," and "Cracking Up," are covers. A couple of the originals are goofy throwaway type songs ("Gator on the Lawn" and "Heartbreaker's Beach Party") but I think that adds to the charm of the album.

This album is 55 minutes long. 

I'm not including the track list due to copyright issues. But you can find it in the mp3 download file.

https://pixeldrain.com/u/gsq3kb8t

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/EYutriaRbj69uLj/file

I made the album cover using a 1980 concert poster as the basis. Unfortunately, the poster is rectangular. Through the magic of Photoshop I managed to stretch some parts and squish other parts without changing the shape of P.'s head. :)

Petra Haden - Acappella 3: The Beautiful Ones (2017)

Here's the third of my four albums made from Petra Haden's YouTube videos. Never heard of Petra Haden? Don't worry about it. In short, she's got an excellent voice and she multitracks like crazy to make herself a one-person Beach Boys, performing entirely acappella versions of an interesting variety of songs.

On this album, about half of the songs are famous songs with lyrics, such as "Every Breath You Take" by the Police, "Black Hole Sun" by Soundgarden, "Maniac" from Flashdance, and "Going to California" by Led Zeppelin. The other half are originally instrumental songs that sound great done with nothing but voices, such as the theme to the Taxi TV show.

If you haven't checked out any of the albums in this series, what are you waiting for?

01 Rebel without a Cause [Main Title] (Petra Haden)
02 Going to California (Petra Haden)
03 Law and Order Theme (Petra Haden)
04 Angela [Theme from Taxi] (Petra Haden)
05 Sometimes It Snows in April (Petra Haden)
06 Whatever Was Arranged (Petra Haden)
07 Maniac (Petra Haden)
08 Every Breath You Take (Petra Haden)
09 I Burn for You (Petra Haden)
10 The Beautiful Ones (Petra Haden)
11 Black Hole Sun (Petra Haden)

https://www.upload.ee/files/15634867/PetraH_2017_Acapella3TheBeautiflOnes_atse.zip.html

I made the cover art using a screenshot from an image Haden put in one of her YouTube videos. I have no idea where the image comes from, but I think it's a fun way to illustrate acappella music.

Paul Weller - Gravity - Non-Album Acoustic Tracks (2010-2014)

I'm finally getting kind of close to current day with my Paul Weller stray tracks albums ; just a few more to go. This one is another all-acoustic affair, covering 2010 to 2014.

The first three songs are B-sides. The rest are all unreleased. Most are acoustic versions of songs from his recent albums, though there are exceptions, such as his cover of the Zombies hit "Time of the Season." The sound quality on "Waterloo Sunset" is a little below the others, but it's worth it for this rare duet between Weller and Ray Davies of the Kinks, the writer of the song.

Three of the songs near the end come from the same 100 Club concert. Unfortunately, the sound quality on those are also a bit below the rest. But Weller does some really interesting songs, including an acoustic version of the Motown classic "Heat Wave" (also once done by Weller's old band The Jam) so I figured had to include them.

Note that one of the songs here is "Gravity," which has appeared on his 2018 album "True Meanings." But as this album shows, the song was performed in concert (once) all the way back in 2013.

01 All I Wanna Do [Is Be with You] (Paul Weller)
02 Andromeda (Paul Weller)
03 No Tears to Cry (Paul Weller)
04 Time of the Season (Paul Weller)
05 Be Happy Children (Paul Weller)
06 That Dangerous Age (Paul Weller)
07 The Attic (Paul Weller)
08 Waterloo Sunset (Ray Davies & Paul Weller)
09 Gravity (Paul Weller)
10 The Pebble and the Boy (Paul Weller)
11 [Love Is like A] Heat Wave (Paul Weller)
12 White Line Fever (Paul Weller)
13 I Spy (Paul Weller)
14 Aim High (Paul Weller)

https://www.upload.ee/files/16376650/PAULWLLR2010-2014GravtyAcustc_atse.zip.html

I made the cover art using a screenshot from a YouTube video of Weller playing acoustically in 2013.

Buckingham Nicks - Buckingham Nicks (1973)

I just posted an album of demos by soon-to-be Fleetwood Mac stars Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks, recorded in 1973. That same year, they released their only album as a duo, simply called "Buckingham Nicks."

I'm posting that album here, even though I haven't changed the album in any way, because the album has been out of print since mere months after it was released in 1973. The record company only printed up a limited run, believed to be about 35,000, and never promoted it in any way, so it was a rarity pretty much since the time it came out.

Since then, the album has been tied up in legal limbo, with disputes over who exactly has the legal rights to release it. Also, it's gotten caught up in personal disputes, with Nicks apparently in favor of releasing it and Buckingham against. Given that Buckingham was fired from Fleetwood Mac in 2018, it seems highly unlikely to me that people will get together enough to officially release this anytime soon.

If you like the "Rumours" era Fleetwood Mac, you really should check it out. It's a very good album. The song "Crystal" would be redone on the 1975 Fleetwood Mac album (just called "Fleetwood Mac), and "Don't Let Me Down Again" would be done in a live version on the 1980 Fleetwood Mac album "Live." But many of the other songs were strong enough to have been included on later Fleetwood Mac albums. Interestingly, it was the song "Frozen Love" that was a local hit in Alabama and caught the interest of Fleetwood Mac drummer Mick Fleetwood and led to him wanting to get the duo to join his band.

01 Crying in the Night (Buckingham Nicks)
02 Stephanie [Instrumental] (Buckingham Nicks)
03 Without a Leg to Stand On (Buckingham Nicks)
04 Crystal (Buckingham Nicks)
05 Long Distance Winner (Buckingham Nicks)
06 Don't Let Me Down Again (Buckingham Nicks)
07 Django [Instrumental] (Buckingham Nicks)
08 Races Are Run (Buckingham Nicks)
09 Lola [My Love] (Buckingham Nicks)
10 Frozen Love (Buckingham Nicks)

https://www.upload.ee/files/15291408/FleetwodMc_1973c_BuckinghmNcksBuckinghmNcks_atse.zip.html

I've used something very close to the official album cover. But that one uses a black and white photo, and I really hate black and white. I've colorized a lot of album covers myself, but in this case I found that someone else named Sam Taylor colorized it and posted that version on the Internet, so I've used that. There are also some very slight differences here and there due to having to add in the text and other bits from scratch.

Buckingham Nicks - The Coffee Plant Demos (1972-1974)

I've posted a ton of Fleetwood Mac stuff relating to the group's early Peter Green-led blues era. I still have some more to post there, especially BBC material. But I also want to move on to the second phase of the band, its rebirth as a soft rock group.

I've already posted an album by Fritz, the late 1960s and early 1970s group led by future Fleetwood Mac stars Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks. That group evolved into the Buckingham Nicks duo. I've got a lot to post from them. In my opinion, Buckingham and Nicks basically took over Fleetwood Mac in 1975 and led them to become one of the most successful groups of all time. From a singing and songwriting perspective, it's true that Christine McVie also plays an important role. But Buckingham and Nicks were essentially two-thirds of the force behind all those big soft rock hits in the 1970s and 1980s.

Some people have noticed that Buckingham and Nicks didn't just pop out of thin air when they joined Fleetwood Mac in 1975, but in fact already had a career going with one album as a duo in 1973. But unfortunately, not nearly enough people know about their duo work, since that one album has remained unreleased pretty much since shortly after it was released. I'm going to post that album here shortly. But this album is the compliment to that, a series of demos done by the Buckingham Nicks duo around the same time as they recorded their lone album in 1973.

The bulk of this comes from a popular bootleg known as the "Coffee Plant Demos." There isn't a single song here that is also on the Buckingham Nicks album, so this is like a second album. One can call these demo recordings, but a lot of them are fairly fleshed out, with drums and bass.

In my opinion, there are a lot of good songs here, and no real duds, showing that the Buckingham Nicks duo should have had success whether they joined Fleetwood Mac or not.  In particular, one song here, "Sorcerer," has kind of become a Stevie Nicks standard, getting on her more recent greatest hits collections, even though she didn't officially release a solo version of it until 2001.

In addition to the songs from the "Coffee Plant Demos" bootleg, I've added two songs. The first song on the album, "See the World Go By," is a Stevie Nicks song that dates from 1972, and seems to fall between the cracks of when the band Fritz broke up in 1971 and when the Buckingham Nicks duo did a lot of recording for their lone album in 1973. The song quality on this song is a bit less compared to the rest, but it's still decent.

I've also added a song at the end, the classic "Rhiannon." This comes from a concert bootleg dating to 1974. I'm going to post some live Buckingham Nicks material later. But I'm adding this in here because it's kind of a free floating recording that doesn't come from the two full Buckingham Nicks concerts that were bootlegged, and yet it's in pristine soundboard quality. So I've removed the audience noise to make it fit in with the rest of the songs on the album. This is probably one of the very first time this song was every played in concert, if not the very first time. (Although the exact date and location of the recording is unknown.) It's interesting to see how this song was different in its early days, with some different lyrics and a slightly faster pace.

This album is 36 minutes long.

01 See the World Go By (Stevie Nicks)
02 Without You (Buckingham Nicks)
03 Candlebright [Nomad] (Buckingham Nicks)
04 That's Alright (Buckingham Nicks)
05 Garbo (Buckingham Nicks)
06 Sorcerer (Buckingham Nicks)
07 Cathouse Blues (Buckingham Nicks)
08 Goldfish and the Ladybug (Buckingham Nicks)
09 Going Home (Buckingham Nicks)
10 Yesterday I Saw the World (Buckingham Nicks)
11 Rhiannon (Buckingham Nicks)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/otv4rsPe

alternate:

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

There are very few photos of Buckingham and Nicks prior to their Fleetwood Mac days. In November 2019, I changed the photo for the cover art. I thought the one I'd used was from 1973, but it turns out it's from 1975. So I updated it with a photo that is from 1973. It shows Buckingham and Nicks playing in the Troubadour club in Los Angeles that year.

In 2025, I improved the detail of the image with the use of the Krea AI program.

Stevie Wonder - On the Right Track - Non-Album Tracks (1972-1973)

Stevie Wonder is a prolific genius. He's said to have written hundreds of songs that have never seen the light of day, not even on bootlegs. For instance, the musicians who played on the classic "Songs in the Key of Life" say there were many more songs they played on that were just as good as the ones that got released, and yet none of those have been released. Wonder has released almost no songs whatsoever as bonus tracks or in anthologies.

That said, he has so many of these songs that a few have slipped through the cracks just the same. Mostly, there are some that he's played live in concert and luckily got bootlegged. I consider his golden era to be 1972 to 1980. I've managed to make an album's worth of music from the first two years, 1972 and 1973.

I believe three of the songs here are cover versions (the "Close to You - Never Can Say Goodbye," "You Were My First, But Not My Last," and "Me and Mrs. Jones"), but the rest are originals. One song was officially released at the time: "To Know You is to Love You." That's a song that appeared on a 1972 Syreeta Wright album. In addition to being a talented Motown singer and songwriter, she also was married to Wonder for a few years in the early 1970s. The song is co-written between them and also performed as a duet by them. Incredibly, all the other songs are still unreleased in any form to this day. Generally speaking, I removed the audience noise to make them sound like studio tracks.

Added together, the songs here aren't as great as any of Wonder's albums at the time. But Wonder was on one of the hottest streaks in musical history, so even his leftovers are pretty damn good.

By the way, five more songs from that 1972 Syreeta Wright album, just called "Syreeta," are either written or co-written by Wonder, and yet he's never released his own versions of any of them. I didn't include any of those because Wonder doesn't prominently sing on them. But it's still an interesting album for a Wonder fan.

01 You've Got It Bad Girl [Edit] (Stevie Wonder)
02 [They Long to Be] Close to You - Never Can Say Goodbye (Stevie Wonder)
03 Let Me Know Just How You Feel - If You Really Love Me (Stevie Wonder)
04 To Know You Is to Love You (Syreeta Wright & Stevie Wonder)
05 [Fine Young Thing] You Are Too Much for Me (Stevie Wonder)
06 Soul Train Song (Stevie Wonder)
07 You Were My First, But Not My Last (Stevie Wonder)
08 The Way You Do It Last Night (Stevie Wonder)
09 Me and Mrs. Jones (Stevie Wonder)
10 I Think I'm on the Right Track (Stevie Wonder)

https://www.upload.ee/files/15852580/StevieW_1972-1973_OnRightTrck_atse.zip.html

I made the cover art using the cover of one version of the "Higher Ground" single artwork.

Robyn Hitchcock - Surfer Ghost - Non-Album Tracks (1991-1995)

Yet another Robyn Hitchcock album. This one is of the stray tracks variety (as opposed to all acoustic or all covers).

It starts out with two 1991 songs that I've already included on a previous compilation, "Dark Green Energy" and "Watch Your Intelligence." That's because the previous versions (which I put on the album "Kiss Yourself") are solo acoustic versions, and these are significantly different full band versions. This version of "Dark Green Energy" is particularly interesting because it has Michael Stipe of R.E.M. singing on it.

Unlike most of my Hitchcock stray tracks albums, the vast majority of these songs have been officially released, with a bunch of them coming from B-sides. As a result, the sound quality is generally excellent. Only two songs - "Yes I Do" and "Direct Me to the Cheese" are unreleased, from concert bootlegs. Most of the songs are also done with a full band.

But that doesn't count the two bonus tracks, "The Fortunate Son" and "The Mousaka Song." are fun original songs. Unfortunately, they were only done rarely in concert, maybe only once, and the recordings here come from audience bootlegs that sound significantly worse than everything else. Thus I'm only including them as bonus tracks.

01 Dark Green Energy (Robyn Hitchcock with Michael Stipe)
02 Watch Your Intelligence (Robyn Hitchcock)
03 Ivy Alone (Robyn Hitchcock)
04 Bright Fresh Flower (Robyn Hitchcock)
05 The Live-In Years [The Living Years] (Robyn Hitchcock)
06 Yes I Do (Robyn Hitchcock)
07 Lost Tribes (Robyn Hitchcock)
08 Surfer Ghost (Robyn Hitchcock)
09 Testosterone Blues (Robyn Hitchcock)
10 Zipper in My Spine (Robyn Hitchcock)
11 I Something You (Robyn Hitchcock)
12 Statue with a Walkman (Robyn Hitchcock)
13 Direct Me to the Cheese (Robyn Hitchcock)

The Fortunate Son (Robyn Hitchcock)
The Mousaka Song (Robyn Hitchcock)

https://www.upload.ee/files/15122244/RobynH_1995_SurferGhst_atse.zip.html

For the cover art, I decided it would be fun to go in a very literal direction. I found a drawing of the Silver Surfer surfing through space and added some semi-transparent space background to make it seem like he's a ghost.

Richard Thompson - Hand of Kindness and Across a Crowded Room - Acoustic Version (1983-1985)

I promised to post a lot more Richard Thompson soon, so here's a bit more from him.

I recently posted an acoustic Richard-only version of the classic Richard and Thompson 1982 album "Shoot Out the Lights." I'm going to continue to post more all-acoustic albums like that if I can. But the problem is, his first two solo albums of all new material, "Hand of Kindness" and "Across a Crowded Room" have a lot of rocking songs that he's never performed acoustically (or he's never played in concert at all). So I've combined the two, making one album of ideal album length, 46 minutes.

Luckily, Thompson is popular enough to have been bootlegged a lot, with a surprising number of quality soundboards. So that means the sound quality here is generally excellent. As I often do, I've removed audience noise to make it sound like he's playing acoustic guitar in your living room.

I got especially lucky with "Across a Crowded Room." There are very few Thompson studio bootlegs at all. But there is one containing many of the songs from that album being done as acoustic demos, and in excellent sound. That enabled me to find acoustic versions of some songs that he's never done acoustically in concert. (Unfortunately, it's a short bootleg and doesn't cover all the songs from that album.)

As with all albums in this series, I'm ordering all the songs in the same order as on the original albums.  Since this covers two albums, the first five songs are from "Hand of Kindness" and the remaining eight are from "Across a Crowded Room."

Since Thompson was in a particularly rocking mode during this phase of his career, I think it's especially interesting to hear these songs done acoustically. Also, he only played the stronger songs in concert at all, so this is kind of a "best of" collection as well.

By the way, not all the songs here are from the same years these albums were released. Sometimes, I had to widen my search to get a good acoustic version. But I usually came fairly close. The versions here date from 1982 to 1991.

This album is 46 minutes long.

01 Tear-Stained Letter (Richard Thompson)
02 How I Wanted To (Richard Thompson)
03 Hand of Kindness (Richard Thompson)
04 Devonside (Richard Thompson)
05 Two Left Feet (Richard Thompson)
06 When the Spell Is Broken (Richard Thompson)
07 I Ain't Going to Drag My Feet No More (Richard Thompson)
08 Shine On Love (Richard Thompson)
09 Ghosts in the Wind (Richard Thompson)
10 Fire in the Engine Room (Richard Thompson)
11 Walking through a Wasted Land (Richard Thompson)
12 She Twists the Knife Again (Richard Thompson)
13 Love in a Faithless Country (Richard Thompson)

https://www.upload.ee/files/15268194/RichrdT_1983-1985_HndofKindnessAcrssCrowdedRoomAcoustc_atse.zip.html

I took the photo for the cover art from the Watching the Dark box set art work. The top of his head is cut off in the original, so I couldn't do anything about that.

Tom P*tty & the Heartbreakers - Surrender - Non-Album Tracks (1976-1979)

This is a stray tracks album covering the first years of Tom P.'s solo career. In my opinion, up until his "Full Moon Fever" album in 1989, I consider his albums very hit or miss: some great songs, but also some skippable songs. (I think his albums get a lot more solid after that.) So I'm somewhat surprised that a lot of his songs that didn't get released at all at the time are as good as they are. 

(Note that I'm not using the full name of this artist due to concerns about copyright issues.)

This album is a case in point. With the exception of the solid classic 1979 "Damn the Torpedoes" album, I think this is as good as most of his other albums from that era. It's strange that songs like "Dog on the Run" and "Surrender" weren't put on albums when he liked to play them frequently in concert. (By the way, "Dog on the Run" is not to be confused with a song of his released on the 1985 album "Southern Accents" called "Dogs on the Run.") Four of the songs here came out at the time as B-sides, but the eight others did not, and five of those are still officially unreleased in any form.

Some of the unreleased songs here I've seen on bootlegs as Mudcrutch songs, his early band. But they're not. Probably the confusion is that some of them were Mudcrutch songs, but then when he was looking for album material for his second and third albums, he went back to some of those same songs for renewed consideration. That's the case, for example, with the classic hit "Don't Do Me like That." In a similar way, at least the song here "Long Way from Home" was recorded by both P. and Mudcrutch and then P. and the Heartbreakers. This is the Heartbreakers version. That probably the case with some of the others. I suspect some of these good songs were rejected at the time just because they were old in the mind of P. and his band member at the time.

By the way, P. has also done many interesting cover versions over the years. I plan on making an entire separate series of those. I'm two covers here, "Don't Bring Me Down" and "Somethin' Else" because they were done in the studio with the thought of being album tracks. Whereas my series of his covers will focus entirely on concert performances.

This album is 43 minutes long. 

I'm not including the track list due to copyright issues. But you can find it in the mp3 download file.

https://pixeldrain.com/u/A4ViiRzw

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/spFnzaRregDPc9Y/file

I made the cover using a photo of P. and the Heartbreakers in 1977.