Paul Weller - Devotion - Non-Album Tracks (2009-2012)

Here's the next in my long series of Paul Weller stray tracks albums. The man is so damn prolific! As you probably know by now, I have two main kinds of these albums: acoustic and non-acoustic. This is one of the non-acoustic ones.

It's surprising to me how consistent these stray tracks albums are, because I just grabbed songs of a given time period. Typically, these contain at least one Jam song done in concert, and that's the case here ("Strange Town"). Then these usually is a redone Style Council song, which is also true ("Shout to the Top"). He also likes to do covers of classics, and we have two of those this time ("How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved by You)" and "What a Difference a Day Made"). We also often see collaborations with other artists, and there are three of those too ("Andromeda," "Let Me in Peace," and "Sun Grazers"). Plus, he loves putting original songs as bonus tracks and/or B-sides, and that's the case with the three remaining songs.

Weller is nothing if not consistently good, so here's another consistently good batch of songs from him.

This album is 47 minutes long.

UPDATE: On October 31, 2022, I updated the mp3 download file. I moved two songs, "Love's Got Me Crazy" and "Shout to the Top," from the previous stray tracks album in this series, "This Old Town." I also added one song I'd previously missed, "Mistress Brown." But to make room for these new songs, I also moved two songs, "Birthday" and "My Ever Changing Moods," to the next album in this series, "The Piper."

01 Love's Got Me Crazy (Dot Allison & Paul Weller)
02 Shout to the Top (Paul Weller)
03 7&3 Is the Striker's Name (Paul Weller)
04 Strange Town (Paul Weller)
05 Andromeda (Paul Weller & Corinne Bailey Rae)
06 How Sweet It Is [To Be Loved by You] (Paul Weller)
07 What a Difference a Day Makes (Paul Weller)
08 Let Me in Peace (Souad Massi & Paul Weller)
09 Mistress Brown (Paul Weller)
10 Starlite (Paul Weller)
11 Devotion (Paul Weller)
12 Sun Grazers (Kate Rusby & Paul Weller)
13 Lay Down Your Weary Burden (Paul Weller)

https://www.upload.ee/files/16376651/PAULWLLR2009-2012Devtin_atse.zip.html

The cover art uses a photo of Weller from 2010.