Sly & the Family Stone - The Incredible and Unpredictable Sly and the Family Stone - Non-Album Tracks (1968-1970)

In May 1969, the Sly and the Family Stone album "Stand!" was released. In November 1971, that band released the album "There's a Riot Goin' On." Both albums are great, and are on Rolling Stone Magazine's list of the top 500 albums of all time. But that's two and a half years between albums. Today, a gap like that would be typical, or even slightly speedy. But in that era, that was an eternity. Most bands released an album a year. Heck, in 1969, Creedence Clearwater Revival released three hit studio albums of mostly original material!

It turns out there were plans for an album in between. In the March 19, 1970 issue of Rolling Stone Magazine, an article about band leader Sly Stone stated: "Now he's finishing up an album, the most optimistic of all, with Sly Stone having gauged his power around the country. He'll call it 'The Incredible and Unpredictable Sly and the Family Stone.' It's a line out of one of Epic's publicity releases last year." 

But the months passed, and no new album emerged. However, the band was still very popular. They released three hit singles in late 1969 that didn't appear on any album: "Hot Fun in the Summertime," "Everybody Is a Star," and "Thank You "Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin." But at the same time, Sly Stone was falling deeper and deeper into serious drug addiction, and was becoming increasingly erratic and unproductive.  For instance, he became notorious for showing up late to his band's concerts, if he showed up at all.

As a result of a lack of progress on a new album, the record company decided to put out a "Greatest Hits" album to give the fans something while everyone waited for a new album. It contained the three stand-alone hits, plus earlier hits, and was a huge seller. 

I've decided to try to put together a 1970 studio album instead. But even though the proposed album had a title, I don't think it ever got to the point of having a song list. There already has been a big Sly and the Family Stone box set, but only one relevant unreleased song appeared on it. So what I've done is taken pretty much every good song from the band I could find up through and including 1970 and gathered them into an album. It's not THE lost album spoken of in that Rolling Stone article, but it's full of quality songs and makes for a great listen just the same.

I started with the three hit songs mentioned above. Then I added in outtakes from the previous two albums which have since appeared as bonus tracks and/or on the box set, plus the song from the box set. All those songs make up most of the album. I also added "This Is Love" from the band's 1974 album "Small Talk." I could be wrong, but I understand the band was running low on new material at the time, as Sly Stone's drug problem got worse, so they used this track that was actually recorded in 1969 or 1970.

But on top of that, I've added in three songs that technically aren't Sly and the Family Stone songs at all. What was a band song is somewhat fluid. Although Sly Stone was the leader, it was a genuine band, and many songs had prominent lead vocals by other band members. I figured if a song was written or co-written by him, was produced by him, and was performed and sung by him and/or other members of the band, that was good enough for me. He actually spent some of his energies during that long gap between albums coming up with songs for his female vocalists, who were called "Little Sister." I've included the two songs they released that he wrote. I've also included one song by Abaco Dream, which wasn't a real band at the time, but instead was the name for a collaboration between soul singer Joe Hicks and Sly and the Family Stone.

If you add up all those songs, it makes 43 minutes of music, which is an ideal album length for the era. Even though many of the songs are album outtakes, I think most or all of them are as good as the songs from those albums. So this makes for a very good album, especially with the three classic singles included. If the record company was smart, they should have put together an album just like this.

Note that there's another music blog that has made an album with the same name and general idea. You can find that here:

Albums Forgotten Reconstructed 2.0: Sly & The Family Stone - "The Incredible and Unpredictable". (Unreleased 1970 album).

The song list is significantly different though, for both double album and single album versions. Some different outtakes were used, and live versions were used too. Many of the songs used date back to 1967. I limited my choices to just songs from 1968 to 1970.

01 Hot Fun in the Summertime (Sly & the Family Stone)
02 Pressure (Sly & the Family Stone)
03 Seven More Days (Sly & the Family Stone)
04 Only One Way Out of This Mess (Sly & the Family Stone)
05 What's That Got to Do with Me (Sly & the Family Stone)
06 Sorrow [Instrumental] (Sly & the Family Stone)
07 Everybody Is a Star (Sly & the Family Stone)
08 You're the One [Early Version] (Little Sister [Sly & the Family Stone])
09 Life and Death in G & A (Abaco Dream [Joe Hicks & Sly & the Family Stone])
10 Thank You [Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin] (Sly & the Family Stone)
11 Soul Clappin' II (Sly & the Family Stone)
12 This Is Love (Sly & the Family Stone)
13 Stanga (Little Sister)

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Luckily, I made an album cover before my recent computer troubles. I took a promotional photo of the band from around 1969 and added a fish-eye lens effect to distort it. Then I added some psychedelic lettering which I also warped. Hopefully, the result mimics the "psychedelic soul" album covers of that era.

Rosanne Cash - Strawberry Music Festival, Camp Mather, Yosemite, CA, 8-31-1997

Musical associate Lil Panda recently posted this elsewhere on the Internet. I did some minor editing, mainly boosting the vocals for the banter between songs. But I didn't have to do much, because the sound quality is fantastic. 

This is a really great Rosanne Cash bootleg concert, partially because of the sound quality, but also because of the set list at an interesting time in her career. In 1996, Cash put out the album "10 Song Demo," which consisted of acoustic demos. She didn't tour much to support it in 1996, and in 1997, according to setlist.fm, she only played two concerts. In 1998, she started to record a new album, but that was halted when she developed a polyp on her vocal chords. She was unable to sing for nearly three years. She didn't come out with another album until "Rules of Travel" in 2003.

So this concert is a peek at what might have been, had she continued to record and perform into 1998. After her acoustic 1996 album, she was back to rocking for most of this concert, with some acoustic moments thrown in. She played "September When It Comes," an original song that would first appear on her 2003 album. Furthermore, she did a full-band version of "Western Wall," which also would appear on her 2003 album. 

She also played the nice original "Greg and George." Weirdly, she would never release this as such, except in 2013 she had an obscure Internet-only release for charity of the song "Jim and George," which is nearly identical in all respects except for the slightly changed title. (I put that on the stray tracks album "Land of Dreams.")

She also played some rare covers, such as "Then You Can Tell Me Goodbye," "Wouldn't It Be Loverly," and a long, jammy version of the Beatles' "Things We Said Today." 

When she returned to playing concerts in 2003, her set list was significantly different. She said goodbye to many of her older songs and moved into more of a folky direction. So this concert caught her at a time of transformation.

This concert is an hour and 25 minutes long.

01 talk (Rosanne Cash)
02 I Want to Know (Rosanne Cash)
03 Runaway Train (Rosanne Cash)
04 What We Really Want (Rosanne Cash)
05 talk (Rosanne Cash)
06 I Don't Know Why You Don't Want Me (Rosanne Cash)
07 talk (Rosanne Cash)
08 Western Wall (Rosanne Cash)
09 talk (Rosanne Cash)
10 Greg and George [Jim and George] (Rosanne Cash)
11 Green, Yellow and Red (Rosanne Cash)
12 talk (Rosanne Cash)
13 September When It Comes (Rosanne Cash)
14 talk (Rosanne Cash)
15 If I Were a Man (Rosanne Cash)
16 talk (Rosanne Cash)
17 Blue Moon with Heartache (Rosanne Cash)
18 talk (Rosanne Cash)
19 Things We Said Today (Rosanne Cash)
20 Bells and Roses (Rosanne Cash)
21 Tennessee Flat Top Box (Rosanne Cash)
22 talk (Rosanne Cash)
23 Seventh Avenue (Rosanne Cash)
24 talk (Rosanne Cash)
25 Then You Can Tell Me Goodbye (Rosanne Cash)
26 707 (Rosanne Cash)
27 Seven Year Ache (Rosanne Cash)
28 talk (Rosanne Cash)
29 Wouldn't It Be Loverly (Rosanne Cash)
30 The Wheel (Rosanne Cash)

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Perhaps the reason that Cash played this concert in a year when she didn't go on tour was because of its unique and remarkable location, in the middle of Tuolumne Meadows in Yosemite National Park! She commented on this several times during the concert. I couldn't find any photos of her at the concert, or even good photos of her on stage from around 1997 at all. So instead, I decided to show the concert stage for the cover art, since it is so unusual. This photo doesn't feature Cash, and I don't even know what year it's from. But it is the stage she played this concert on, and she mentioned it was a night concert, so I picked a photo of it at night. 

Once again, I was assisted by PJ of "Albums I Wish Existed," who turned the photo into an album cover. I asked him to highlight the tall trees as much as possible. He did, but the square shape of the album cover can't do the trees justice. They tower much higher off the top of the picture frame.

The Beach Boys - Paramount Theater, New York City, 11-26-1993

I love the Beach Boys, but as far as I'm concerned, nearly all their great stuff is from the 1960s and 70s. They haven't done much that's musically worthy after about 1980. But there are a few exceptions, and when it comes to a recording of an entire concert, this one from 1993 could actually be the best of their entire career.

There are a few reasons for that. I do prefer their live recordings from their peak years in the 60s and 70s, but all the best recordings I know of are either short or incomplete. (I plan on posting some collections of their best live stuff from those years.) This concert is usually long for the band, at just over two hours.

Critically, the sound quality is absolutely fantastic. It's a pristine soundboard, so pristine that one can barely hear the audience at all. I considered trying boosting the volume of the audience reactions to songs, but there simply wasn't enough to work with. I've decided instead to enjoy it as it is, as if it was an entire concert performed for a soundcheck. The sound is so incredible, it beats the pants even off most of their official live material!

Not only that, but it happens to have been recorded at a remarkably fortuitous time. In 1993, the band released their great "Good Vibrations" box set. To celebrate that release, they played only nine shows in which they dug deeper into their back catalog and played songs to celebrate the box set release. If you look at the set lists from other shows they did in 1993, they played more songs from their recent albums, which generally were terrible. This only has a single new song from their most recent album at the time, "Still in Paradise."

Even better, the early 1990s was the time when the "unplugged" trend was all the rage. Perhaps due to that trend, they did portions of the concert in a semi-acoustic format, which was a very rare thing for the band.

In terms of personnel, there were four surviving original Beach Boys in the concert: Carl Wilson, Mike Love, Al Jardine, and Bruce Johnston. (Brian Wilson technically was a band member, but for the vast majority of the band's existence he hasn't played with them on stage.) In my opinion, the presence of Carl Wilson is critical. He probably was the best singer in the band (which is saying a lot!), and sang lead vocals on some of their best songs, such as "God Only Knows" and "Good Vibrations." He died of cancer in 1998, but he still sounded a great as he ever did here.

By the way, two performances here have been officially released: "Caroline, No" and "You Still Believe in Me." I'm still including those, though, so you can hear the full concert just as it was. The only editing I did was I boosted the volume for some of the banter between songs, and I cut out some of the guitar tuning and other dead air.

01 California Girls (Beach Boys)
02 I Can Hear Music (Beach Boys)
03 Come Go with Me (Beach Boys)
04 talk (Beach Boys)
05 Rock and Roll Music (Beach Boys)
06 Do You Wanna Dance (Beach Boys)
07 talk (Beach Boys)
08 In My Room (Beach Boys)
09 Do It Again (Beach Boys)
10 talk (Beach Boys)
11 Catch a Wave (Beach Boys)
12 Hawaii (Beach Boys)
13 talk (Beach Boys)
14 Darlin' (Beach Boys)
15 talk (Beach Boys)
16 Be True to Your School (Beach Boys)
17 talk (Beach Boys)
18 Under the Boardwalk (Beach Boys)
19 talk (Beach Boys)
20 Little Deuce Coupe (Beach Boys)
21 409 (Beach Boys)
22 Shut Down (Beach Boys)
23 I Get Around (Beach Boys)
24 talk (Beach Boys)
25 California Dreamin' (Beach Boys)
26 Summer in Paradise (Beach Boys)
27 talk (Beach Boys)
28 Heroes and Villains (Beach Boys)
29 talk (Beach Boys)
30 Vega-Tables (Beach Boys)
31 Take a Load Off Your Feet (Beach Boys)
32 talk (Beach Boys)
33 Little Saint Nick (Beach Boys)
34 talk (Beach Boys)
35 Surfer Girl (Beach Boys)
36 Hushabye (Beach Boys)
37 talk (Beach Boys)
38 Add Some Music (Beach Boys)
39 talk (Beach Boys)
40 Their Hearts Were Full of Spring (Beach Boys)
41 All This Is That (Beach Boys)
42 Wonderful (Beach Boys)
43 talk (Beach Boys)
44 Disney Girls [1957] (Beach Boys)
45 Caroline, No (Beach Boys)
46 You Still Believe in Me (Beach Boys)
47 God Only Knows (Beach Boys)
48 Sloop John B (Beach Boys)
49 Wouldn't It Be Nice (Beach Boys)
50 Good Vibrations (Beach Boys)
51 Kokomo (Beach Boys)
52 Help Me, Rhonda (Beach Boys)
53 talk (Beach Boys)
54 Barbara Ann (Beach Boys)
55 Fun, Fun, Fun (Beach Boys)
56 Surfin' Safari (Beach Boys)

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I had a heck of a hard time finding a good photo to use for the cover art. I couldn't find any good ones of the band from 1993. I ended up using the cover of a bootleg of this concert. I don't know where the photo they used comes from, but it looks to be from the early 1990s. PJ of his "Albums I Wish Existed" helped me by replacing the text at the bottom. Otherwise, it's exactly the same as the bootleg cover.

The Bangles - Kaaboo Festival, Del Mar Fairgrounds, Del Mar, CA, 9-15-2019

There seems to be some kind of curse when it comes to live recordings from the Bangles. The band has never released an official live album, and when it comes to bootlegs, nearly all of them sound middling to bad. But the Bangles are known for their harmony vocals, and you need excellent sound to be able to fully appreciate that. 

Happily, I've finally found a Bangles bootleg with truly excellent sound. I've taken it from a high-quality video file (not YouTube), so I don't think it's ever circulated as audio files before.

When it comes to music by the Bangles, I like their earliest stuff the best. My favorite album from them is their first one (1984's "All Over the Place") and I like their EP from 1982 even better. This concert is from MUCH later, 2019. But in terms of the music, it's almost like it's from the early 1980s instead. For most of the 2010s, the Bangles were just a three-piece band. But in 2018, their original bassist, Annetta Zalinskas, who quit the band after that first EP, rejoined the band. Maybe because of that, their set list leaned heavily on their early stuff, with them playing four out of the five songs from that EP, and more from that first album. The latest song they played was "Eternal Flame" from 1989, which they probably felt obliged to play since it was a number one hit.

When it comes to sound quality, as I said above, this is truly excellent. That's because it was professionally recorded for a live Internet broadcast. There were no problems whatsoever. The audience is relatively low in the mix, but that enables one to hear the band that much more clearly.

The only downside is I wish the concert was longer. This is only 51 minutes long. But they were part of a big music festival with dozens of acts, so they had to cut their usual set short. Still, when considering sound quality, performance, and song selection, if I had to pick just one live recording of that band to play to someone, I would pick this one.

01 talk (Bangles)
02 A Hazy Shade of Winter (Bangles)
03 I Want You (Bangles)
04 talk (Bangles)
05 Manic Monday (Bangles)
06 talk (Bangles)
07 Mary Street (Bangles)
08 I'm in Line (Bangles)
09 The Real World (Bangles)
10 talk (Bangles)
11 Going Down to Liverpool (Bangles)
12 talk (Bangles)
13 September Gurls (Bangles)
14 He's Got a Secret (Bangles)
15 talk (Bangles)
16 If She Knew What She Wants (Bangles)
17 Dover Beach (Bangles)
18 In Your Room (Bangles)
19 Hero Takes a Fall (Bangles)
20 talk (Bangles)
21 Walk like an Egyptian (Bangles)
22 talk (Bangles)
23 Eternal Flame (Bangles)

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The cover art is was made by PJ of his "Albums I Wish Existed" blog. For the band name, he used the exact lettering from the band's 1982 EP, which I find very fitting, since many of the songs come from that. The picture is a screenshot taken from the exact concert in question. It may not be the best photo, but I asked if he could use one of all four band members, and that was a tough ask, since they were standing far apart from each other.

John Denver - The Bandersnatch Coffeehouse, Granville, OH, 3-15-1969

First off, I have to say I'm not that big of a John Denver fan - I generally like him at about a greatest hits level - and you don't have to be a big fan of his either to enjoy this concert. (Though of course you'll probably like it even more if you are.)

This is atypical of Denver's usual stuff for a few reasons. The first and most important is this concert dates from before his first official studio album, which was released later in 1969. So you get almost none of the songs on his typical "best of "albums, with the exception of "Rhymes and Reasons." 

Instead, what you get is basically a covers concert, with only four originals out of the 18 songs here. Denver started out as a folk singer in the early 1960s, and was a member of the Chad Mitchell Trio (a folkie group in the mold of the Kingston Trio or Peter, Paul and Mary) from 1965 to late 1968. This concert caught Denver during a pivotal change in his music career. His solo career was only a few months old. He'd written "Leaving on a Jet Plane" a few years earlier, and Peter, Paul and Mary would have a number one hit with it, but not until late 1969. He wouldn't have any hits of his own until "Take Me Home, Country Roads" was a number one hit in 1971. As a result, at the time of this concert, Denver was a virtual unknown outside of a limited folkie crowd, and he was playing in small clubs.

So, in my opinion, this is less of a typical John Denver concert and more of a snapshot of the folk music scene in 1969. Folk music was huge in the early 1960s, but that morphed into folk-rock around 1965,. True folk music plummeted in popularity in the late 1960s, with garage rock, psychedelia, country rock, and all sorts of other musical trends dominating instead. But the folkie types would have a big comeback in the early 1970s, with the rise of the singer-songwriter movement, led by the likes of James Taylor, Cat Stevens, Joni Mitchell, Carole King, and many more. Denver covered most of the big names as of 1969, like Tim Hardin, Joni Mitchell, Gordon Lightfoot, Tom Paxton, and Leonard Cohen.

Another unique aspect of this concert is that it's just Denver and his acoustic guitar. After he hit it big with "Take Me Home, Country Roads" in 1971, he almost always played with a full band. It wouldn't be until the 1980s and after when he occasionally played in the solo acoustic format again. But by then, of course, the set list would be almost entirely different. Plus, he would never play as a relative unknown for such a small crowd again. This almost has a "John Denver playing on a front porch for a group of friends" feeling.

But what really makes this concert stick out for me is the fantastic sound. It's incredible to me that Denver was a minor musical figure at the time who didn't even have a record contract, and yet three of his 1969 concerts were recorded as pristine soundboard bootlegs. I plan on posting all three, because they're all excellent and they have very different set lists. You can learn more about how the recordings came to be, and the songs on it, here:

http://www.cincinnatidancingpigs.com/SongNotes.html

Apparently, members of a different folk group in the Cincinnati area recorded the concerts on a reel-to-reel, with Denver's permission, so they could learn to cover some of the songs he was performing.

Unfortunately for the listener, only selected songs from these three concerts have been made public. I found many of the songs as high quality FLAC files. But then I found a similar, but sometimes different, selection of songs from the concert on YouTube. Last.fm appears to have an accurate set list of the concert, here:

John Denver Concert Setlist at Bandersnatch Coffee House, Granville on March 15, 1969 | setlist.fm

So I've used that to reconstruct as much of the concert as I could. As you can see from that list, only 18 out of the 38 songs played that night have been made publicly available. But that's not such a big loss, because the vast majority of the missed songs got played in the other two recorded concerts that I also plan on posting.

But there were some problems with this concert recording. While the sound quality is excellent, the audience applause was often quickly faded out. So I've tried my best to fix that. On some of the songs, there were slow fade-outs of the applause. I boosted the volume bit by bit, essentially undoing the fade out. In other cases, there wasn't much to work with, so I patched in applause from other songs in the concert that had complete audience reactions.

A more troublesome problem was that I'm guessing much of the talking between songs was also edited out. The high quality FLAC versions of the songs almost always had the banter cut out. Luckily, the slightly lower quality YouTube versions often did have the banter. Thus, often, I used the music from the FLAC files and the banter from the YouTube versions. Even so, Denver is a talkative guy, and I'd surmise that he said at least something before virtually every song. I'd guess that maybe half of those are missing. 

It seems Denver played long concerts in that era. Although we're missing more than half of the concert, what we have is still an hour and 11 minutes long. This sounds just like a full concert. There's enough surviving banter to get a good feeling for his personality and charisma.

Note that the final songs, "Sticky Summer Weather," might or might not have been from this concert. According to the above link, it is from this concert. But it's the one song that doesn't appear on the seemingly very accurate set list at setlist.fm, nor does it appear on the set list there for the two other recorded 1969 concerts. I stuck it as the last song because I otherwise would have had two tracks of banter in a row.

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

01 Blackbird - Beatles
02 Yesterday - Beatles
03 Rhymes and Reasons - John Denver
04 The New Frankie and Johnny Song - Bob Gibson
05 The Weight - Band
06 Reason to Believe - Tim Hardin
07 Marcie - Joni Mitchell
08 Upon a Monday Morning - Bernard Cribbins
09 Circus - John Denver
10 For Lovin' Me - Gordon Lightfoot
11 Cindy's Crying - Tom Paxton
12 San Francisco Bay Blues - Jesse Fuller
13 Abraham, Martin and John - Dion
14 [You Dun Stomped] My Heart - Mason Williams
15 Suzanne - Leonard Cohen
16 The Game Is Over - John Denver
17 Saturday Night in Toledo, Ohio - Randy Sparks
18 Sticky Summer Weather - John Denver

Here's the usual song list:

01 talk (John Denver)
02 Blackbird (John Denver)
03 talk (John Denver)
04 Yesterday (John Denver)
05 talk (John Denver)
06 Rhymes and Reasons (John Denver)
07 The New Frankie and Johnny Song (John Denver)
08 The Weight (John Denver)
09 Reason to Believe (John Denver)
10 Marcie (John Denver)
11 Upon a Monday Morning (John Denver)
12 Circus (John Denver)
13 For Lovin' Me (John Denver)
14 Cindy's Crying (John Denver)
15 San Francisco Bay Blues (John Denver)
16 Abraham, Martin and John (John Denver)
17 talk (John Denver)
18 Pretend Country Radio Announcement (John Denver)
19 [You Dun Stomped] My Heart (John Denver with Erich Zwertschek & John Marlowe)
20 talk (John Denver)
21 Suzanne (John Denver)
22 talk (John Denver)
23 The Game Is Over (John Denver)
24 Saturday Night in Toledo, Ohio (John Denver)
25 talk (John Denver)
26 Sticky Summer Weather (John Denver)
27 talk (John Denver)

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I'm happy to say that PJ (a.k.a. Peter) from his great "Albums I Wish Existed" blog has volunteered to help make the album covers I can't make for the next couple of weeks, until I get a new computer. There don't seem to be many good photos of Denver from 1969, since he wasn't famous yet. So Peter made this one from a 1970 photo at an unknown location. In February 2025, I upgraded the image with the use of the Krea AI program.

Neil Young - Homefires - Non-Album Tracks (1974)

For a long time, we only had an incomplete picture of the rare and unreleased Neil Young songs from the early to mid-1970s. Now, thanks to the release of his "Archives, Volume II" box set, we have a much more complete picture. Apparently, the only song from that time period that he recorded and remains unreleased is called "Barefoot Floors." 

 I had posted a couple of albums gathering up the stray tracks from this era, as well as a rough version of "Homegrown." I'll be replacing them with better albums. Once I have those posted, I'll delete them as obsolete. (Also, I won't be replacing "Homegrown" with anything, since that's a rare case of an "album that should exist" that now officially has been released.)

It turns out that Young had one album in mind in 1974 to be called "Homefires" and another from around that same time to be called "Homegrown." Don't be confused by the very similar titles, because they were totally different albums (though some of the same songs might have been considered for both). "Homegrown" is now a closed book, since that has been officially released. But "Homefires" remains an open mystery. Young has talked about officially releasing that some time in the future, but so far he hasn't done that. Unlike another album of his I recently posted, "Last Dance," nobody outside his inner circle knows which songs were considered for this album.

So I'm going to use this as a gathering of all his stray tracks from a certain time period, and then I'll call it "Homefires." It's not what he intended, I'm sure, but it'll have to do for now. Certainly, many of these songs would have appeared on the version he intended, since these were the ones he didn't release at the time. Furthermore, they're all really good songs. In my opinion, this album would get a five star rating, along with most of his other early to mid-1970s albums.

This time period, roughly 1974, was a very emotionally troubled time for Young, because his first marriage, to Carrie Snodgrass, was falling apart. One way he coped was by writing more songs than he knew what to do with. At the same time, he was part of a massive Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young tour that summer. A few of these songs ("Traces," "Long May You Run," "Pushed It Over the End" and "Hawaiian Sunrise") were attempted by CSNY, either live or in the studio. 

I've put those on my "alternate CSNY universe" albums, where CSNY actually put out some albums together in the mid-1970s. But that won't stop me from including them here too. Generally speaking, they're very different in these versions. That's especially the case with "Pushed It Over the End." CSNY did a rocking, full-band version of it. But here, Young did it just with solo acoustic guitar.

The vast majority of the songs here were officially released in these versions for the first time on "Archives, Volume II." The exceptions are "Winterlong," which came out on his "Decade" compilation in 1977, plus "Long May You Run" and "Pushed It Over the End." The latter two performances come from his great solo concert appearance at the Bottom Line in May 1974. I've posted the whole thing, which you can get here:

http://albumsthatshouldexist.blogspot.com/2019/03/neil-young-citizen-kane-junior-blues.html

It's officially unreleased now, but apparently Young has plans to release it in 2021 (though we'll see if those come through on time). 

Anyway, the only version I have of those two songs comes from an excellent sounding audience bootleg, but an audience bootleg just the same. That means the audience could be heard from time to time. A particularly annoying aspect was that some people in the audience thought "Long May You Run" was a jokey song (since Young sings about his car), and they laughed from time to time through it. I carefully edited the recording to get rid of the laughing and other noise as much as possible. I made a lot of improvements, but I couldn't completely get rid of all of it. I did the same with "Pushed It Over the End," but I had a lot less trouble there.

"Sweet Joni" was also from a concert recording. But that was a pristine soundboard, and it got released as part of "Archives, Volume II." So all I really had to do there was remove some crowd noise right at the start and end of the song. With that removed, you'd think it was recorded in the studio.

In terms of the song order, because we don't have any proposed song list for this album, I didn't have anything to go on. With a few exceptions, I decided to go with the song order as presented on "Archives, Volume II." All the songs here from that came from the same album, and they flow together well. The main alteration I did was to put "Greensleeves" at the very end. That's a cover of the well-known traditional song, and it just felt right to me to put it last.

Note that although this isn't the exact "Homefires" that Young intended, it holds together very well as an album, in my opinion. In part, that's because the vast majority of it is acoustic, or at least semi-acoustic, so it has a consistent sound. There are no long Crazy Horse guitar jams here. But also, it's almost a concept album, with nearly all the songs relating to his crumbling marriage with his wife. In fact, they were so personal and painful that that's probably the main reason they remained unreleased for decades (and that was the same case with the "Homegrown" songs). 

Even some songs that may not seem thematically related to that, such as "Pushed It Over the End," probably are. (That song deals with political matters, especially the Patty Hearst kidnapping, and personal matters simultaneously.) "One More Sign" actually is a song he originally did in the 1960s with Buffalo Springfield, but it's drastically overhauled with a slow acoustic arrangement, and fits in to the divorce theme. Admittedly, a couple songs don't fit the theme, with "Sweet Joni" especially standing out. But I didn't have a better album to put it on, since it didn't really fit with the previous stray tracks album, "Last Dance."

UPDATE: On January 16, 2021, when I was getting ready to post the next stray tracks album in this series ("Dume"), I realized it made sense to move one song, "Love-Art Blues," to this album. So that's what I did. 

Then, on February 1, 2021, I added the song "Barefoot Floors." This is another excellent Young original. It was inexplicably left off the "Archives, Volume II" box set, but it was streamed on his website neilyoungarchives.com in January 2021.

01 Winterlong (Neil Young)
02 Sweet Joni (Neil Young)
03 Traces (Neil Young)
04 Long May You Run [Edit] (Neil Young)
05 Pushed It Over the End [Edit] (Neil Young)
06 Homefires (Neil Young)
07 Hawaiian Sunrise (Neil Young)
08 L.A. Girls and Ocean Boys (Neil Young)
09 One More Sign (Neil Young)
10 Frozen Man (Neil Young)
11 Give Me Strength (Neil Young)
12 Love-Art Blues (Neil Young)
13 Barefoot Floors (Neil Young)
14 Greensleeves (Neil Young)

https://www.upload.ee/files/16696715/NELYNG1974c_Hmefies_atse.zip.html

Phew! I've mentioned that I had some computer troubles lately. Luckily, I made this album cover just before those troubles. I'm really happy at how it turned out. I searched the Internet for "Neil Young" and "fire," and found this photo of him in front of a fire. I don't know where or when it's from, but it looks like it's from the 1970s.

Morgan James - Acoustic Cover Songs, Volume 6, 2019-2020

This is the sixth and last album in my series of Morgan James acoustic cover songs... kind of. What I mean by that is, she has performed an even greater number of acoustic cover songs in 2020, which she calls "Quarantunes," where she played 100 new (for her) cover songs in 100 days. This album contains all the acoustic covers she did in the last year or so that I could find and that are NOT included as part of her Quarantunes series. I'll be posting a separate series of albums for that. So, if you like this kind of thing from her, there's a lot more to come.

I've mentioned it before, but I'll mention it again: one thing I really enjoy about her acoustic covers is the breadth of her source material. That can be seen especially clearly for this particular album. She covers songs dating from the 1930s to the 2010s, doing everything from show tunes to country to soul, and more.

As usual, it's just Morgan James on lead vocals, with her husband Doug Wamble on acoustic guitar and sometimes backing vocals. Wamble has a bigger role singing on a few of these than usual, enough for me to credit the songs are duets. 

Also as usual, all the songs are officially unreleased, and come from YouTube. The only unusual thing to note this time, I think, is the performances of the last two songs. James is terrible at playing guitar, but on "These Boots Are Made for Walkin'," she attempted to play guitar for the first time for any of her videos. Her minor flubs, or near flubs, made her and Wamble laugh a lot. For the last song, "We Belong," she attempted that as a request despite being totally unprepared for it. She and her husband managed to get through most of it, until they finally broke down laughing.

Here's a list of the artists that originally made these songs famous:

01 Just the Two of Us - Bill Withers & Grover Washington Jr.
02 Over the Rainbow - Judy Garland
03 You'll Be Back - Lin-Manuel Miranda
04 I Can't Stand the Rain - Ann Peebles
05 Lush Life - Billy Strayhorn
06 All I Have to Do Is Dream - Every Brothers
07 Tutti Frutti - Little Richard
08 Maps - Maroon 5
09 Kokomo - Beach Boys
10 Walking on Sunshine - Katrina & the Waves
11 Smooth Operator - Sade
12 On the Road Again - Willie Nelson
13 Vision of Love - Mariah Carey
14 These Boots are Made for Walkin' - Nancy Sinatra
15 We Belong - Pat Benatar

Here's the usual song list:

01 Just the Two of Us (Morgan James)
02 Over the Rainbow (Morgan James)
03 You'll Be Back (Morgan James)
04 I Can't Stand the Rain (Morgan James)
05 Lush Life (Morgan James)
06 All I Have to Do Is Dream (Morgan James)
07 Tutti Frutti (Morgan James)
08 Maps (Morgan James)
09 Kokomo (Morgan James & Doug Wamble)
10 Walking on Sunshine (Morgan James & Doug Wamble)
11 Smooth Operator (Morgan James & Doug Wamble)
12 On the Road Again (Morgan James)
13 Vision of Love (Morgan James)
14 These Boots are Made for Walkin' (Morgan James)
15 We Belong (Morgan James)

https://www.upload.ee/files/15266972/MorganJ_2019-2020_AcoustcCoverSongsVolume6_atse.zip.html

As I mentioned above, Peter from the "Albums I Wish Existed" blog made this cover art. He wanted to keep the same look going for the rest of the albums in this series. Unfortunately, he didn't know the font type for that, and I don't know either since I don't have a working version of Photoshop at the moment to check my files of the other covers in the series. So he copied and pasted the artist name from one of the other albums. Then he wrote the rest of the text in the same font.

Jorma Kaukonen - Home Concerts 2, Fur Peace Ranch, Pomeroy, OH, 4-18-2020 to 4-25-2020

As I posted yesterday, I had a hard drive crash and a lot of data I had is now permanently lost. Thankfully, my music collection is stored on a different hard drive. This close call has given me a new appreciation for my music blog. If I did have a disaster and lose my music collection, at least a good portion of the unique parts of it would be here on this blog. So I'm going to focus even more on trying to post the music that hasn't been collected in the way I've collected it elsewhere.

This album is a case in point. Jorma Kaukonen has done a ton of home concerts since the pandemic began, usually once a week, sometimes solo and sometimes as part of Hot Tuna. He's still at it. But those concerts have included long question and answer sessions, as well as guest spotlights, neither of which I'm interested in. Plus, he tends to play a lot of the same songs. So this blog is probably the only place were you can find his home concerts boiled down to just the essential music and banter, without song repeats.

As a personal quirk, I've gotten bored with many of the covers he does, especially his covers of religious Rev. Gary Davis songs. So I've cut way down on those, and focused more on his original songs. I think he's underappreciated as a songwriter. There is the occasional cover song here, such as "Parchman Farm" and "I Know You Rider," but the vast majority are originals.

I have a few more in this series to post, especially if he continues to play more home concerts. This album is an hour and nine minutes long. I'm not sure why I made all the albums in this series over an hour long, but I did. It's been months since I made these albums, so I forget my reasoning, but I must have had some reason for it. ;)

01 Too Many Years (Jorma Kaukonen)
02 talk (Jorma Kaukonen)
03 Parchman Farm (Jorma Kaukonen)
04 talk (Jorma Kaukonen)
05 The Terrible Operation (Jorma Kaukonen)
06 Flying Clouds (Jorma Kaukonen)
07 Watch the North Wind Rise (Jorma Kaukonen)
08 talk (Jorma Kaukonen)
09 Reenlistment Blues (Jorma Kaukonen)
10 New Song [For the Morning] (Jorma Kaukonen)
11 I See the Light (Jorma Kaukonen)
12 talk (Jorma Kaukonen)
13 Ain't in No Hurry (Jorma Kaukonen)
14 talk (Jorma Kaukonen)
15 Third Week in the Chelsea (Jorma Kaukonen)
16 Bar Room Crystal Ball (Jorma Kaukonen)
17 Wolves and Lambs (Jorma Kaukonen)
18 talk (Jorma Kaukonen)
19 Things That Might Have Been (Jorma Kaukonen)
20 talk (Jorma Kaukonen)
21 I Know You Rider (Jorma Kaukonen)

https://www.upload.ee/files/15292182/JormaK_2020_HomeConcrts2FurPeaceRanch_4-18-2020_to_4-25-2020_atse.zip.html

The cover photo is a screenshot taken from one of the YouTube videos of the home concerts contained here.

Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings - Soulful Covers, Volume 3: 2012-2016

As I mentioned in my last post, I've been having some computer trouble. Let's see if this works and gets posted correctly.

I've posted two previous albums in this series. This is the third and last. As I mentioned before, the basic idea is that Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings released an album of cover versions recently, after almost never putting cover songs on their albums. But they missed many covers they did over the years, so this collects all the good ones I could find.

Eight out of the 11 songs here remain officially unreleased. Most of those come from concert performances. But the sound quality remains high just the same. I kept a high standard and didn't include any songs that were somewhat rough.

Sadly, Sharon Jones died of cancer in 2016, so that's why this series ends in that year.

01 Goldfinger (Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings)
02 I Ain't Got Nothin' but the Blues - Do Nothin' 'Til You Hear from Me (Joe Jackson with Sharon Jones)
03 I Heard It through the Grapevine (Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings)
04 It's a Man's, Man's, Man's World (Ed Turner & Number 9 Rock and Soul Revue with Sharon Jones)
05 What's Going On (John Legend & Sharon Jones)
06 Bring It on Home to Me (Tedeschi Trucks Band with Sharon Jones & Doyle Bramhall II)
07 Tell Mama (Tedeschi Trucks Band with Sharon Jones & Doyle Bramhall II)
08 Sing a Simple Song - I Want to Take You Higher (Tedeschi Trucks Band with Sharon Jones & Doyle Bramhall II)
09 The Letter (Tedeschi Trucks Band with Sharon Jones & Doyle Bramhall II)
10 Midnight Rider (Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings)
11 Every Beat of My Heart (Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings)

https://www.upload.ee/files/15249597/SharonJns_2012-2016_SoulfulCovrsVolume3_atse.zip.html

The cover art photo comes from the SXSW festival in 2013.

Good News and Bad News

I had something bad happen to me a few days ago. There was an overnight power outtage, and it destroyed my primary hard drive (even though it's an SSD drive that's less than a year old). I had a lot of important files there, and it's been a few months since it was backed up, so I've sent it off to a company that specializes in hard drive recoveries. 

The good news is, the vast majority of my music was on a secondary drive that survived. Still, I'm going to be hobbled for a while. I've decided to get a new computer since I have to start from scratch on a lot of things anyway. It'll be a couple of weeks before the new computer is delivered, and it'll take more time after that for me to get all the programs installed, settings changed, etc... Oh, I also have to figure out how to switch to Windows 10, since I'd been using Windows 7 until now. In the meantime, I'm using a different computer, and I'm limited in what I can do. Luckily, I have some albums ready to be posted, including the cover art. But I may be posting less for a while, and/or posting albums without cover art, until I'm fully recovered from my computer woes.

Oh, one more thing. I tried to get back to SoulseekQT using the same user name as before (albumsthatshouldexist), but I don't seem to sync up with my previous account. So, for the time being, my albums aren't appearing there, and I won't be posting new ones there. Hopefully I'll get that sorted out once I get my computer situation fixed. I plan to keep posting this music through Soulseek, one way or another.

UPDATE: Dammit! I just found out my hard drive is NOT recoverable, according to the top drive recovery experts. Sigh. What a sucky year. It's a good thing most of my music was on my other drive, or this blog probably would be done.

The Kinks - Blossom Music Center, Cuyahoga Falls, OH, 9-5-1985

It's been too long since I've posted anything by the Kinks, considering they're my second favorite band of all time (behind only the Beatles). I'm very delighted to post this concert, because I think it's one of their best bootleg concert recordings in terms of sound quality, yet it seems to be very little known, even by big Kinks fans. There were a few serious sound problems with it, but I've managed to fix them, so now I hope it'll get more of the attention it deserves.

In 1984, the Kinks released the studio album "Word of Mouth." It didn't sell that well, but it's always been a personal favorite of mine, helped by the fact that one of my first concert experiences was seeing the Kinks play live that year. So I have long wanted a concert recording from that time period. Unfortunately, all the bootlegs I heard didn't have the sound quality that met my listening standards. Just a few days ago, I came across this soundboard bootleg. I'm puzzled why it hasn't gotten more notice, since it's one of their best sounding concert recordings of the 1980s, if not of s their entire career.

Note that "Word of Mouth" came out in 1984, but this concert is from the latter half of 1985. The Kinks didn't release an album in 1985, but lead singer Ray Davies released his first "solo album," "Return to Waterloo." I put that title in quote marks, because in fact it was a Kinks album in all but name, featuring all of the Kinks on every song, except for his brother, lead guitarist Dave Davies. So I guess this tour was to help promote "Return to Waterloo," though the only song played from it was the title track. I suspect the lack of Dave Davies' involvement on the album limited what they played in concert from it. As a result, it seems the Kinks weren't strongly promoting any album in particular, and played songs from their last three albums in roughly equal measure, plus lots of songs from earlier in their long career.

That said, there is one great "Word of Mouth" song that wasn't played at this concert that really should have been. "Living on a Thin Line" is one of Dave Davies' best songs. I checked setlist.fm, and it was the band's fourth most played song in 1985, behind only "Lola," "Do It Again," and "Come Dancing." So I was bummed this was one of the rare nights it wasn't played. 

However, I got lucky. As I mentioned above, there aren't any other excellent live recordings from this time period. But I found a partial exception. The Kinks played a concert in Frankfurt, Germany, in December 1984 that was broadcast on the radio there. Most of it is available in middling quality, but I found a handful of songs in much better quality. Most of them were the usual suspects like "You Really Got Me," but one of them was "Living on a Thin Line." Another was another nice "Word of Mouth" song, "Good Day." So I took those two songs and stuck them into the middle this concert.

As I mentioned above, the recording had a few serious sound problems. The first was an accidental side effect of it being such a great soundboard, because while the band on stage was recorded very well, not much could be heard from the audience. Sometimes, it almost sounded like they were playing an empty arena. So I systemically boosted the volume for the audience applause at the end of each song. Luckily, there as enough of the audience on the recording to allow me to make those bits sound like normal audience reactions.

But more difficult was the fact that there was some audience participation in the middle of a couple of the songs. For "State of Confusion," "Lola," and "Lola (Reprise)" in particular, there were a few bits where Ray Davies let the audience take over singing the lead vocals. I had to very carefully amplify the volume of the audience so there wouldn't be nearly silent gaps. "Lola" was especially tricky, because there were parts where the drumming kept going over the audience vocals. Luckily, there was another section in that song with just the audience vocals and no drumming, so I patched that in and mixed it with the drumming. Hopefully, the end result is it sounds just like the audience had been recorded at a more typical level for concert albums.

Another major sound problem is that sections of three songs were missing. The very end of "Destroyer" was cut off, as well as the start of the next song, "(Wish I Could Fly Like) Superman." Unfortunately, since this bootleg is so superior to the others from the time period, I had trouble finding appropriate missing bits to patch in. For "Destroyer," I ended up using a section from a soundboard recording from 1988. But I managed to repeat a couple of vocal lines near the end of the song from earlier in the song, so the 1988 part only makes up the last 15 seconds or so. You'll probably notice the edit, since I couldn't find a close match, but at least it's better than an abrupt halt to the song.

For the start of "(Wish I Could Fly Like) Superman," I had an even more difficult time. During this tour, the band started that song with an instrumental snippet of the "Batman" theme song. The few other bootlegs with this sounded crappy, and they didn't match the key and tempo and so forth. Since it was just a short instrumental snippet, I instead decided to have the music fade in while the applause from the previous song faded out. Not much is missing, maybe 30 seconds.

A similar problem was that the second half of the last song, "Low Budget," also was missing. Again, I didn't have anything else from around that time period to fit it with. So once again I resorted to using part of a song from a 1988 soundboard. The section lasts about a minute, and goes from the start of the last verse to the end of the song. Also again, the edit is noticeable and far from ideal, but I figure it's better than nothing.

There's one more significant edit I made that wasn't the result of a sound flaw per se, but more of a personal choice. I was quite surprised to hear that "Guilty," a song written and sung by Dave Davies, began with Ray Davies saying, "And then we heard the chimes of midnight." This was followed by the clanging of bells, a loud explosion, and then about two minutes of indecipherable talking and war sounds, over a synth backing. I can only presume that while that was going on, some sort of anti-war video was played for the audience. (I'd never considered "Guilty" to be an anti-war song, more of a song railing against bad government leaders, but it does contain the line "Deaf to the cries of the innocent strangers you buried.") Anyway, this probably worked well if you were there and you saw it, but after the bells and the explosion, the rest was a frustrating listening experience, since on this recording one can't hear what was being said, or who was saying it, or why. So I edited most of that part out.

One more minor note. There's a song here called "Ohio Motorway." I don't know if you can call it a song. It's less than a minute long, and more like a snippet. I have absolutely no idea what this is called, if it had a name at all. I titled it "Ohio Motorway" to distinguish it from the famous CSNY song "Ohio."

Sorry for the rather long-winded explanation, but this concert needed some changes to bring it to its full potential. Now, with the two Frankfurt songs and missing sections added, it's an hour and 44 minutes long. If you're a Kinks fan and want just one concert of theirs from the 1980s, I recommend this one.

01 You Really Got Me Intro [Instrumental] (Kinks)
02 Do It Again (Kinks)
03 State of Confusion [Edit] (Kinks)
04 talk (Kinks)
05 Better Things (Kinks)
06 talk (Kinks)
07 The Hard Way (Kinks)
08 Don't Forget to Dance (Kinks)
09 talk (Kinks)
10 Come Dancing (Kinks)
11 Return to Waterloo (Kinks)
12 Catch Me Now, I'm Falling (Kinks)
13 Missing Persons (Kinks)
14 Destroyer [Edit] (Kinks)
15 [Wish I Could Fly Like] Superman [Edit] (Kinks)
16 Brother (Kinks)
17 Guilty [Edit] (Kinks)
18 A Gallon of Gas (Kinks)
19 Ohio Motorway (Kinks)
20 talk (Kinks)
21 Living on a Thin Line (Kinks)
22 Good Day (Kinks)
23 Lola [Edit] (Kinks)
24 talk (Kinks)
25 Lola [Reprise] [Edit] (Kinks)
26 All Day and All of the Night (Kinks)
27 I Gotta Move (Kinks)
28 Low Budget [Edit] (Kinks)

https://www.imagenetz.de/dJ5K5

alternate:

https://pixeldrain.com/u/yQkSjvpY

second alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/6EnOSkPI0IAnShm/file

The cover art photo of lead singer Ray Davies comes from a Kinks concert in Chicago in December 1984. I would have liked to use a photo showing the entire band, but I could only find a few good ones to choose from, and this was the best of the bunch.

Blood, Sweat and Tears - Woodstock Festival, Max Yasgur's Farm, Bethel, NY, 8-17-1969

I just posted the Band's performance from the famous 1969 Woodstock Festival. I mentioned in that post that the sets of most of the famous artists at Woodstock have been officially released as individual albums, but a few have slipped through the cracks. I'm posting the skipped ones that I like. The Band was one, and Blood, Sweat and Tears is another.

In my opinion, the first two Blood, Sweat and Tears albums are excellent. Their second album, simply called "Blood, Sweat and Tears," was hugely commercially successful in 1969. But for whatever reason, they quickly declined in both critical and commercial popularity after that. I'm mainly interested in what they did in 1968 and 1969. But there haven't been any official live albums from that time period, Even the bootlegs from that time are few in number and just average sounding audience recordings. So this Woodstock recording is very welcome, since it's in great soundboard quality.

The concert is 53 minutes long. Their set was a fine performance, containing all their best known songs from that time.

01 talk (Blood, Sweat & Tears)
02 More and More (Blood, Sweat & Tears)
03 Just One Smile (Blood, Sweat & Tears)
04 Somethin' Comin' On (Blood, Sweat & Tears)
05 I Love You More than You'll Ever Know (Blood, Sweat & Tears)
06 Spinning Wheel (Blood, Sweat & Tears)
07 Sometimes in Winter (Blood, Sweat & Tears)
08 Smiling Phases (Blood, Sweat & Tears)
09 talk (Blood, Sweat & Tears)
10 God Bless the Child (Blood, Sweat & Tears)
11 talk (Blood, Sweat & Tears)
12 And When I Die (Blood, Sweat & Tears)
13 You've Made Me So Very Happy (Blood, Sweat & Tears)

https://www.upload.ee/files/15252599/BloodSweatT_1969_Woodstck_Festival__8-17-1969_atse.zip.html

The album cover photo is from the concert in question. Not all of the many band members are seen.

The Band - Woodstock Festival, Max Yasgur's Farm, Bethel, NY, 8-17-1969

In 2019, all the music from the famous three-day-long 1969 Woodstock Festival was officially released.  It was called, "Woodstock - Back to the Garden: The Definitive 50th Anniversary Archive." That's great, but it was a huge box set, containing a few dozen CDs, and it was only made available in limited numbers for one time only. Apparently, exactly 1969 copies were officially available to be sold, to mark the year of the concert. Of course, all of those were sold, and it's been out of print since then.

In the years prior to that, the complete Woodstock sets of some famous artists were officially released on a wider basis, and even more came out around the time of that box set. Here are the artists that I believe have had their performances released on individual albums:

Santana
Creedence Clearwater Revival
Janis Joplin
Sly and the Family Stone
Jefferson Airplane
Joe Cocker
Johnny Winter
Butterfield Blues Band
Jimi Hendrix

I don't want to post the sets from any of those artists, since they are easy to get. But the rest of the festival is very hard to find, and now that it's been a year since the release of that already out of print box set, it seems that's all that is likely to come out. So I want to post the sets of some other artists that I like. (I've already posted the Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young set.) One great thing about that festival is that the whole thing was recorded in soundboard quality, so we have excellent recordings from a time we might not otherwise have them.

So here's another Woodstock performance, from the Band. There is one really great live album by the Band from relatively early in their career, "Rock of Ages." But even that comes from concerts at the very end of 1971. In mid-1969, their set list was very different. Their second album - "The Band" - was due to be released only a few weeks after this concert, but they didn't play any songs from it. So their concert set list was largely based on their landmark 1968 album "Music from Big Pink," plus a couple of Motown covers ("Don't Do It" and "Loving You Is Sweeter than Ever"). But most intriguingly, they did a couple of songs from "The Basement Tapes," recorded in 1967, that wouldn't get released until 1975: "Don't Ya Tell Henry" and "Ain't No More Cane." (Note that I included both of those exact performances on my Band stray tracks album "The Basement Tapes.")

The concert is 48 minutes long. It's well performed, and as I said, the sound quality is great. The only odd thing, in my opinion, is there was virtually no talking from anyone in the Band, except for a couple of "thank yous" at the ends of songs. There doesn't seem to be the usual emcee announcement at the start or the end either, though there is one before their encore.

01 Chest Fever (Band)
02 Don't Do It [Baby Don't Do It] (Band)
03 Tears of Rage (Band)
04 We Can Talk (Band)
05 Long Black Veil (Band)
06 Don't Ya Tell Henry (Band)
07 Ain't No More Cane (Band)
08 This Wheel's on Fire (Band)
09 I Shall Be Released (Band)
10 The Weight (Band)
11 talk (Band)
12 Loving You Is Sweeter than Ever (Band)

https://www.upload.ee/files/16700631/TBND1969a_WodstckFestivlNY__8-17-1969_atse.zip.html

The cover art photo comes from the concert in question. Unfortunately, it only shows four of the five members of the Band.

Cat Stevens - Buddha and the Chocolate Box - Alternate Version (1974)

I just posted a Cat Stevens concert yesterday. While I was looking at my Stevens albums, I decided, what the heck, I'll post this one too. I've made a lot of alternate versions of albums, though I haven't posted many on my blog. Sometimes, an album is pretty good, but if you remove a few songs and add in some others, it becomes much better. That's the case here.

Stevens had his greatest success in the early 1970s, with four killer albums in a row: "Mona Bone Jakon," "Tea for the Tillerman," "Teaser and the Firecat," and "Catch Bull at Four." In my opinion, the quality of his albums took a big hit after that. He still wrote lots of excellent songs, but the albums were hit and miss.

His 1973 album "Foreigner" was a particular disappointment. It was a significant departure from his earlier folky style, and it only had five songs on it, since the "Foreigner Suite" took up half of the album. It sold well, but that was mostly due to inertia from his previous albums. His 1974 album "Buddha and the Chocolate Box" did better, both commercially and critically. But it also is hit and miss. I've removed the songs I like the least: "Sun/C79," "Jesus," and "Home in the Sky."

I've replaced those with a bunch of songs. First, I've added in the three best songs from the "Foreigner" album. "The Hurt" was a minor hit. "Love" and "Heaven" are both excerpts from the 18-minute long "Foreigner Suite," They're the best part of that, by far, and they stand on their own as individual songs.

I've removed three songs and added three songs. But "Buddha and the Chocolate Box" is a short album at only 32 minutes long, so I've added in some more, to make it 38 minutes long. "A Bad Penny" was on that album, but the overproduction (complete with strings) marred the song for me. Instead, I've chosen a live version that was put on his 2001 box set. The last two songs, though, take this album to another level. "Another Saturday Night" is a cover of a Sam Cooke song. Stevens only released it as an A-side in 1974. "Two Fine People" is another A-Side, and also appeared on his "Greatest Hits" album in 1975. Both songs were Top 40 hits in the US. 

Including "Two Fine People" is a bit of a stretch since it came out in 1975 instead of 1974, but he didn't put out an album in 1975, and in my opinion it doesn't have a better album home than this.

In my opinion, after making these changes, this album is just as strong as his four early 1970s albums mentioned above. So if you have those but have shied away from his other 1970s albums, give this a try.

01 The Hurt (Cat Stevens)
02 The Foreigner Suite- Love (Cat Stevens)
03 The Foreigner Suite- Heaven (Cat Stevens)
04 Music (Cat Stevens)
05 Oh Very Young (Cat Stevens)
06 Ghost Town (Cat Stevens)
07 Ready (Cat Stevens)
08 King of Trees (Cat Stevens)
09 A Bad Penny (Cat Stevens)
10 Another Saturday Night (Cat Stevens)
11 Two Fine People (Cat Stevens)

https://www.upload.ee/files/16687688/CATSTVNS1974_BddhaChcolateBoxAlternte_atse.zip.html

The cover is the official cover, with no changes.

Robyn Hitchcock - Acoustic Covers, Volume 11: 2011-2013

It feels like it's been a long time since I've posted any albums in this series, so here ya go. (It's hard for me to keep track of all the different artists and album series I've been posting. If you think I've fallen behind on anything else, please remind me.)

There's not much to say here except that if you like the other albums in this series, you'll like this. As usual, it's just Robyn Hitchcock and his acoustic guitar. Also, as usual, all the performances are unreleased. The sound quality is just fine for all the songs.

Maybe this album is a bit different in that he played some especially obscure songs. I had to look up who did the likes of "The Bed" and "Waving My Arms in the Air." But it's not surprising to see he plays Beatles and Syd Barrett songs the most, since those are two of his biggest influences.

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

01 The Wind Cries Mary - Jimi Hendrix
02 Dear Prudence - Beatles
03 Long Black Veil - Lefty Frizzell / Band
04 Andmoreagain - Love
05 Candyman - Grateful Dead
06 All La Glory - Band
07 More than This - Roxy Music
08 Waving My Arms in the Air - Syd Barrett
09 I Never Lied to You - Syd Barrett
10 The Bed - Lou Reed
11 Because - Beatles
12 Long Gone - Syd Barrett

Here's the usual song list:

01 The Wind Cries Mary (Robyn Hitchcock)
02 Dear Prudence (Robyn Hitchcock)
03 Long Black Veil (Robyn Hitchcock)
04 Andmoreagain (Robyn Hitchcock)
05 Candyman (Robyn Hitchcock)
06 All La Glory (Robyn Hitchcock)
07 More than This (Robyn Hitchcock)
08 Waving My Arms in the Air (Robyn Hitchcock)
09 I Never Lied to You (Robyn Hitchcock)
10 The Bed (Robyn Hitchcock)
11 Because (Robyn Hitchcock)
12 Long Gone (Robyn Hitchcock) 

This album is 44 minutes long.

https://www.upload.ee/files/15274557/RobynH_2011-2013_AcousticCoversVolume11_atse.zip.html

The cover art photo features Hitchcock at the End of the Road festival in Britain in 2012.

Cat Stevens - The Troubadour, Los Angeles, CA, 12-8-1970

There are surprisingly few publicly available Cat Stevens concert recordings from his prime early 1970s. Even the bootlegs are scanty, with most of those from 1971 and almost nothing good from 1970, 1972 or 1973. But recently (as I write this), a super deluxe version of his 1970 album "Mona Bone Jakon" was released. It contains a previously unbootlegged and unknown concert recording of Stevens playing at the Troubadour in Los Angeles in December 1970. This recording sounds fantastic, so I'm sharing it here.

In 1970 and 1971, it seems Stevens played all his concerts in acoustic format, always with second guitarist Alun Davies accompanying him. That's the case here. 

The Troubadour songs on the super deluxe release only add up to 28 minutes. It's a shame more weren't included, because the concert must have been longer than that. In fact, one more song from it was included on a deluxe edition of "Teaser and the Firecat" (with an incorrect date). So I've added that in as well. That still made for a short album. So I've added three more songs at the end that also have just become available on the "Mona Bone Jakon" super deluxe edition. All three of those come from a French TV show recorded in Paris just one month earlier. The sound of these are virtually identical to the rest, with acoustic performances in front of small crowds. 

The super deluxe edition contains five songs recorded at another 1970 concert, at the Plumpton Racecourse in Britain in August 1970. A couple of the songs are different than the ones here, so I was tempted to add them as well. But unfortunately, the sound quality for those is poor, clearly coming from an audience bootleg that had been publicly available for years. The sound quality is such a step down from everyone else here that I decided to not even include them as bonus tracks.

By the way, I'm not entirely sure what the exact date of this concert is. Stevens played the Troubadour six nights in a row, from December 8th to December 13th. The super deluxe edition doesn't mention the specific date, though they give dates for all the other live recordings. But I came across another mention of a recording from December 8th long before the super deluxe edition came out, so that's my best guess.

This album is 41 minutes long, including the three songs at the end from the French TV show.

01 talk (Cat Stevens)
02 Where Do the Children Play (Cat Stevens)
03 talk (Cat Stevens)
04 Hard Headed Woman (Cat Stevens)
05 Longer Boats (Cat Stevens)
06 talk (Cat Stevens)
07 Wild World (Cat Stevens)
08 On the Road to Find Out (Cat Stevens)
09 Father and Son (Cat Stevens)
10 talk (Cat Stevens)
11 Into White (Cat Stevens)
12 talk (Cat Stevens)
13 Moonshadow (Cat Stevens)
14 Katmandu (Cat Stevens)
15 Maybe You’re Right (Cat Stevens)
16 Lady D’Arbanville (Cat Stevens)

https://www.upload.ee/files/16687658/CATSTVNS1970_TrubdurLosAnglesCA__12-8-1970_atse.zip.html

The cover art photo comes from an appearance on the British "Top of the Pops" TV show some time in 1970.

Elton John - BBC Sessions, Volume 8: Playhouse Theatre, Edinburgh, Britain, 9-17-1976

Here is what I presume the last of the Elton John BBC albums from the 1970s (unless something unexpected pops up). This album took place in 1976, which in my opinion marks the end of his peak years of massive success. Disco was king for the rest of the 1970s, and John didn't do well during that time, both personally and musically. But he regained success at the start of the 1980s, and kept it for decades after that.

Anyway, I think this concert may be the best of the BBC ones I've posted here. What sets it apart is that is was performed entirely solo, with just Elton John on the piano. So that makes it a different beast than all the others. I could be wrong, but I believe it was the very first concert he played solo. There's a bonus too. Because of the solo format, he played a few songs he'd rarely or never played in public before, because he thought they didn't work with a band.

The sound quality is fantastic. That said, there were some problems I had to fix. The entire show was broadcast live by the BBC. Unfortunately, some BBC DJs tried to talk between the songs. Luckily, they only did this a little bit, mostly before the show started, during the long applause between encores, and at the end. I took all those out.

A more difficult problem was that a few of the songs had glitches. For instance, "Love Song" started in mid-song, with a BBC DJ talking over it. I suspect there was some sort of short commercial break. About half of the middle of "Tonight" was missing. There were so sound problems on a couple other songs, such as a burst of static during "Candle in the Wind." Luckily, I was able to find video footage of those exact performances on YouTube. The sound quality for those was equally great, but they generally lacked the banter between songs and some of the ending applause. But I was able to use those versions to seamlessly patch in fixes for all the problems. Now, the recording should be just about perfect!

The concert is an hour and 53 minutes long.

01 talk (Elton John)
02 Skyline Pigeon (Elton John)
03 talk (Elton John)
04 I Need You to Turn To (Elton John)
05 talk (Elton John)
06 Sixty Years On (Elton John)
07 Border Song [Holy Moses] (Elton John)
08 talk (Elton John)
09 Daniel (Elton John)
10 Love Song [Edit] (Elton John)
11 talk (Elton John)
12 The Greatest Discovery (Elton John)
13 Candle in the Wind [Edit] (Elton John)
14 talk (Elton John)
15 Benny and the Jets (Elton John)
16 talk (Elton John)
17 Rocket Man [I Think It's Going to Be a Long, Long Time] [Edit] (Elton John)
18 talk (Elton John)
19 Tonight [Edit] (Elton John)
20 talk (Elton John)
21 I Think I'm Going to Kill Myself (Elton John)
22 talk (Elton John)
23 Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me (Elton John)
24 talk (Elton John)
25 Better Off Dead (Elton John)
26 talk (Elton John)
27 Sorry Seems to Be the Hardest Word (Elton John)
28 talk (Elton John)
29 Someone Saved My Life Tonight (Elton John)
30 talk (Elton John)
31 Sweet Painted Lady (Elton John)
32 talk (Elton John)
33 Your Song (Elton John)
34 talk (Elton John)
35 Island Girl (Elton John)
36 talk (Elton John)
37 Don't Go Breakin' My Heart (Elton John)
38 talk (Elton John)
39 Saturday Night's Alright for Fighting (Elton John)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/YuAsWusd

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/xJNnYtnc0usT7sL/file

The cover art photo definitely comes from the concert in question. Thanks to the YouTube videos mentioned above, I was able to confirm him wearing the same outfit.

Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young - Bridge School Benefit, Oakland Coliseum, Oakland, CA, 12-4-1988

In 1985, David Crosby kicked a very serious drug habit after serving nine months in prison. Young promised to reunite CSNY if Crosby ever got his act together, and he kept that promise. This resulted in the 1988 studio album "American Dream." To be honest, it wasn't that good, and certainly didn't live up to the hopes of their long-delayed reunion. But I would argue that most of the songs actually were pretty good, but the album was ruined by typical 1980s overproduction, which didn't suit the band at all.

Unfortunately, Young wasn't willing to go on tour to support the album. But CSNY did play the occasional benefit concert around that time, usually in acoustic format. I think their songs hold up much better in these concerts. Thanks to the acoustic format, the bad production issues are avoided, and CSNY shined in acoustic mode anyway.

Out of these several late 1980s CSNY benefit concerts, the one bootleg recording with the best sound quality has to be the 1988 Bridge Benefit concert. So that makes up the bulk of this album. But CSNY also played at the very first Bridge Benefit concert, in 1986. (It would become an annual event after skipping 1987.) That was a historically significant concert for CSNY, because it was only the second time they reunited since the 1970s, with the first taking place at the Live Aid concert in 1985. 

CSNY only played four songs in the 1986 Bridge Benefit show. Luckily, all four of them are different from the songs they played in the 1988 show. So I start this album out with the short 1986 concert, and then all of the 1988 concert. The only sang is that the sound quality for the 1986 concert isn't as good. It's fairly good, but it's an audience bootleg. Whereas the 1988 concert is a pristine soundboard bootleg. If the sound quality for the 1986 songs aren't good enough for you, just skip those, and you still have a decent length concert with the 1988 stuff.

For the 1988 Bridge Benefit, Young began the concert with a few solo numbers, which I haven't included here since it's just him. But for the last song in that set, "American Dream," CSN surprised the crowd by showing up shortly after the song began. This version is nearly acappella, and in my opinion it's way better than the studio version, again due to those overproduction problems. Too bad the crowd roars due to CSN showing up.

After that one brief appearance, CSNY left the stage. Then they didn't return until nearly the end of the show, after all the other acts. Most of this album is made up of their second and much longer time on stage together. By the way, Bruce Springsteen was the other big headline act for the concert, and CSNY joined Springsteen to sing backing vocals for his hit "Hungry Heart." I didn't include that here though since I decided a Springsteen song is a very different thing and wouldn't fit in with the rest. Plus, the CSNY vocals don't sound that distinctive on that song.

For both concerts here, I broke all the talking between songs into their own tracks. I generally boosted the volume a lot for that banter. In some cases, they were talking off mike to each other but by increasing the volume a lot I made it possible to clearly hear what they were saying. 

The 1986 concert is 17 minutes long. The 1988 concert is 47 minutes long. Added together, the album totals an hour and four minutes.

01 talk (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
02 Only Love Can Break Your Heart (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
03 Change Partners (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
04 talk (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
05 Daylight Again - Find the Cost of Freedom (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
06 Ohio (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
07 talk (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
08 American Dream (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
09 talk (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
10 Helplessly Hoping (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
11 talk (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
12 Love The One You're With (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
13 talk (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
14 This Old House (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
15 talk (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
16 Southern Man (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
17 talk (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
18 Don't Say Goodbye (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
19 talk (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
20 Compass (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
21 Long Time Gone (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
22 Southern Cross (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
23 Teach Your Children (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)

https://www.upload.ee/files/15281880/CrosbSNY_1988_BrdgeSchoolBenefitOklandCliseumOklandCA__12-4-1988_atse.zip.html

Unfortunately, I couldn't find any good photos of CSNY from either the 1986 or 1988 Bridge Benefit shows. If you have one, please let me know. So instead I used a photo of CSNY at a Farm Aid concert in 1989. I also squeezed in the logo for the concert in the bottom left corner.

KT Tunstall - Cover Songs, Volume 3: 2008-2011

Here's some more cover versions by KT Tunstall. As with the previous albums in this series, the songs are generally done with a full band. They also generally hew fairly close to the originals. She simply is having a fun time singing the songs she loves. But every now and then, her versions do differ a lot. The version of "Sombody to Love" here is an example of that.

Often when I put together these sorts of covers albums, there are lots of songs from the 1960s and 1970s. But not here. Tunstall grew up in the 1980s and 1990s, and most of the songs originally date from those years. There are a few exceptions though, for instance "Somebody to Love" being from the 1960s and "New York, I Love You" from the 2000s.

The sound quality for this album is very high. Half the songs are officially released and half are not. But you wouldn't know which is which. Most of the unreleased ones were recorded in the studio, with only one ("Nothing Compares 2 U") coming from a concert. But that one was recorded professionally for a French TV show.

The sound quality is so high that when I relistened to this, I decided that one song, a cover of "The Drugs Don't Work" by the Verve, didn't sound good enough to fit in with the rest. It's not that that one sounds bad at all. In fact, it's pretty good. But it just don't match the others. So it was downgraded to bonus track status.

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

01 Something to Talk About - Bonnie Raitt
02 Kiss on My List - Hall & Oates
03 Walk like an Egyptian - Bangles
04 You're the Voice - John Farnham
05 Nothing Compares 2 U - Sinead O'Connor
06 Because the Night - Bruce Springsteen / Patti Smith
07 New York, I Love You [But You're Bringing Me Down] - LCD Soundsystem
08 Somebody to Love - Jefferson Airplane
09 Don't You [Forget About Me] - Simple Minds
10 Close to Me - Cure

Here's the usual song list:

01 Something to Talk About (KT Tunstall & Daryl Hall)
02 Kiss on My List (Daryl Hall & KT Tunstall)
03 Walk like an Egyptian (KT Tunstall)
04 You're the Voice (KT Tunstall)
05 Nothing Compares 2 U (Teitur & KT Tunstall)
06 Because the Night (Rhythms del Mundo with KT Tunstall)
07 New York, I Love You [But You're Bringing Me Down] (KT Tunstall)
08 Somebody to Love (Rhythms del Mundo with KT Tunstall)
09 Don't You [Forget About Me] (KT Tunstall)
10 Close to Me (KT Tunstall)

The Drugs Don't Work (KT Tunstall & Billy Bragg) 

https://www.upload.ee/files/15603052/KTTnstl_2008-2011_CovrSngsVol3_atse.zip.html

The cover art photo comes from a concert in 2008.

Linda Ronstadt with Country Gazette - McCabe's Guitar Shop, Los Angeles, CA, 6-2-1973

The other day, I stumbled across a pretty rare Linda Ronstadt concert bootleg. I really like it, as almost all of the songs are country songs that she didn't put on any of her albums or normally play in concert, and the sound quality is excellent. So I'm posting it here to help give it more attention.

Apparently, in the mid-1970s, Ronstadt occasionally played with this band, the Country Gazette, doing all country covers. Sometimes, she did the same with John Starling. But for whatever reason, these generally haven't been bootlegged, with this one exception. Most of it sounds excellent, as is probably a soundboard. But note that the sound quality for the first two songs isn't as good, with a bit more murk and hiss. Even those two sound pretty decent though.

As an aside, while I was searching the Internet to learn more about this, I came across a similar recording, of both Ronstadt and Emmylou Harris playing with the Seldom Scene in 1975. But, weirdly, they're part of an archive at the University of North Carolina at Raleigh, and you can only download the mp3s if you are physically on that campus! So if anyone reading this is a student there, please do us a favor and free these up for everyone else to hear:

https://dc.lib.unc.edu/cdm/search/searchterm/Linda%20Ronstadt%20and%20Emmylou%20Harris%20with%20The%20Seldom%20Scene/order/nosort

Anyway, getting back to this concert, although Ronstadt put a fair number of country songs on her early 1970s albums, only one of the songs here, "Crazy Arms," had appeared on any of her albums at the time of this concert. Another one, "I Can't Help It (If I'm Still in Love with You)," would appear on her 1974 album, and would be a minor country hit. So this is pretty much a "lost" Ronstadt album, except performed live.

The location of the concert is not in question. But I had a hard time figuring out just when this concert took place. Some bootlegs have it in 1974, with no specific date, but others have it in 1972, also without a specific date. I also found a comment on the Internet from someone who claimed to have been to the exact show, and taped it, and was certain it took place on June 2, 1973. I wasn't sure which way to go, until I listened to the banter between the songs. At one point, Ronstadt talked about how she'd recently been the opening act for a Neil Young tour. I Googled that, and found out that tour with Young and Ronstadt took place in early 1973 (the "Time Fades Away" tour), and ended in April 1973. Thus, the June 2, 1973 fits her comments perfectly, and must be correct.

I should note that I'm not that into country music, and I'm not that big of a Linda Ronstadt fan either. But I like this album! It's a good bunch of songs, sung and performed very well, with some nice banter between the songs.

This concert is fairly short, at only 35 minutes long.

01 Rocky Top (Linda Ronstadt with Country Gazette)
02 talk (Linda Ronstadt with Country Gazette)
03 Crazy Arms (Linda Ronstadt with Country Gazette)
04 talk (Linda Ronstadt with Country Gazette)
05 Once More (Linda Ronstadt with Country Gazette)
06 talk (Linda Ronstadt with Country Gazette)
07 Wicked Path of Sin (Linda Ronstadt with Country Gazette)
08 talk (Linda Ronstadt with Country Gazette)
09 I Can't Help It [If I'm Still in Love with You] (Linda Ronstadt with Country Gazette)
10 talk (Linda Ronstadt with Country Gazette)
11 Rollin' in My Sweet Baby's Arms (Linda Ronstadt with Country Gazette)
12 talk (Linda Ronstadt with Country Gazette)
13 The Poor Old Slave (Linda Ronstadt with Country Gazette)
14 talk (Linda Ronstadt with Country Gazette)
15 Angel Band (Linda Ronstadt with Country Gazette)
16 talk (Linda Ronstadt with Country Gazette)
17 Orange Blossom Special [Instrumental Version] (Linda Ronstadt with Country Gazette)

https://www.upload.ee/files/16695494/LINDRNSDT1973_McCbesGitarShpLsAnglsCA__6-2-1973__with_Country_Gazette__atse.zip.html

The cover art photo is from a New Year's Eve TV special hosted by Dick Clark at the end of 1973.

Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings - Soulful Covers, Volume 2: 2010-2011

A week or two ago, I posted the first of three albums of Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings doing all covers, and here's the second. This was in response to their new all-covers album, "Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Rendition Was In)." All the albums I'm posting in this series avoid any of the songs on that official album.

Six of the songs here are officially unreleased. But the sound quality is very good for that sort of thing. It helps that three of the songs come from an in-studio Internet show, and another comes from a TV show. So only two are from concert bootlegs.

The song "Everybody Needs Somebody to Love" included a long section in the middle where each band member was introduced and then played their instrument for a few moments. I cut all that out except for the intros to the two back-up singers, since I like what they did with those. I ended up cutting the song length about in half, which is why "Edit" is in the title.

01 Everybody Needs Somebody to Love [Edit] (Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings)
02 Dancing Together (David Byrne & Fatboy Slim with Sharon Jones)
03 Road of Broken Hearted Men - When the Saints Go Marching In (Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings)
04 Do What You Want, Be What You Are (Daryl Hall & Sharon Jones)
05 Hot Fun in the Summertime (Daryl Hall & Sharon Jones)
06 It's Uncanny (Daryl Hall & Sharon Jones)
07 Wild Horses (Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings)
08 You Know I'm No Good (Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings with Wanda Jackson)
09 Messin' Up (Steve Cropper & Sharon Jones)
10 Come On and Save Me (Steve Cropper, Dylan LeBlanc & Sharon Jones)
11 I'll Be Around (Lee Fields & Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings)

https://www.upload.ee/files/15328491/SharonJns_2010-2011_SoulfulCovrsVolume2_atse.zip.html

The cover art photo was taken at the Apollo Theater in New York City in 2010.