Here's yet another album in the very long series of collections of live cover versions by Tom P*tty and the Heartbreakers. I believe this is the tenth album so far, and I still have ten more years of the band's career to go. Collect them all!
(Note that I'm not using the full name of this artist due to concerns about copyright issues.)
This album is very much like the others, which means it's more quality rock and roll. As usual, P*tty is mainly interested in covering the classic songs from the 1950s and 60s that he grew up with. A couple exceptions are "Thirteen Days" by J. J. Cale, first recorded in 1979, and "Handle with Care," a song that P*tty was very much a part of with the Traveling Wilburys in 1988. But while P*tty didn't have a role in writing it, and only sang backing vocals on it, with this version, he shares lead vocals with fellow Wilbury Jeff Lynne.
(By the way, I always used to think the song "Thirteen Days" included the line "thirteen days with life to go." I was bummed to find out the correct lyrics are actually "thirteen days with five to go." I like my version better!)
Another interesting anomaly on this album is a cover of the Beatles' classic "While My Guitar Gently Weeps." Again, it's P*tty and Lynne trading off different parts of the lead vocals. But this was done in a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame concert with lots of famous musicians on stage and more in the audience. Prince took over the song and amazed everyone with his lead guitar work, then finished by tossing his guitar into the audience. You should check out the YouTube video of this if you haven't already. It has over 70 million views, and climbing!
Surprisingly, that performance is still officially unreleased. Only five of the eleven performances here have been officially released. Luckily, there isn't much decline in sound quality for the unreleased ones, except for one or two.
This album is 44 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/n3BxtvKQ
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I did some rather drastic things for the cover art this time. I found a P*tty concert poster with art I liked. (I think it's for what turned out to be his last tour, in 2016). However, the colors were really ugly, off shades of green and orange that looked horrible together. So I used Photoshop to shift all the colors together. Then I still had the problem of the poster being rectangle and album covers being square. So I chopped off a lot of the bottom, but then added back in the very bottom, so the loss wouldn't be noticeable.
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