Elle Cordova & Toni Lindgren - Sunday Mornings with Elle and Toni, Volume 2: 2016-2017

A few weeks ago, I posted the first of many albums I plan on posting featuring acoustic cover versions by Elle Cordova and Toni Lindgren. Don't feel bad if you've never heard of them. I hadn't until last month, and they're not that well known. But Elle Cordova is a talented songwriter (check out her original albums), and together they do really nice, mellow versions of great songs from a wide variety of genres.

As with the last album I posted, most of these songs are fairly well known, but they also have some unexpected choices that work out well. For instance, if you look at their general roots rock vibe, you wouldn't expect a Beyonce song, but they play one here. Ditto with a Prince song. They also do a song by David Rawlings, who I'd never heard of before. So it's a good mix of the familiar and less familiar.

Note that the first album I posted in this series dealt with the years 2013 to 2015, and this one deals with 2016 to 2017. In fact, there was only one song from 2015 on the previous album, and there is over a year and a half gap between the last song on that album and the first one here. Partially, that's because they did some original songs during that time for their weekly YouTube releases, which don't fit the covers format here. But it also seems they suspended their weekly releases for a while. Happily, since they've resumed in 2016, they've been doing it consistently all the way until the present day.

This album is 45 minutes long.

Here is a list of the original artists for each song:

01 Jambalaya (On the Bayou) - Hank Williams
02 Tennessee Waltz - Patti Page
03 English Tea - Paul McCartney
04 I Just Don't Think I'll Ever Get Over You - Colin Hay
05 XO - Beyonce
06 Mountain Dew - traditional
07 Doctor My Eyes - Jackson Browne
08 I Will Always Love You - Dolly Parton / Whitney Houston
09 Step into Christmas - Elton John
10 When You Were Mine - Prince
11 Tonight I'll Be Staying Here with You - Bob Dylan
12 Ruby - David Rawlings
13 Rollin' in My Sweet Baby's Arms - traditional

Here is the usual song list:

01 Jambalaya [On the Bayou] (Elle Cordova & Toni Lindgren)
02 Tennessee Waltz (Elle Cordova & Toni Lindgren)
03 English Tea (Elle Cordova & Toni Lindgren)
04 I Just Don't Think I'll Ever Get Over You (Elle Cordova & Toni Lindgren)
05 XO (Elle Cordova & Toni Lindgren)
06 Mountain Dew (Elle Cordova & Toni Lindgren)
07 Doctor My Eyes (Elle Cordova & Toni Lindgren)
08 I Will Always Love You (Elle Cordova & Toni Lindgren)
09 Step into Christmas (Elle Cordova & Toni Lindgren)
10 When You Were Mine (Elle Cordova & Toni Lindgren)
11 Tonight I'll Be Staying Here with You (Elle Cordova & Toni Lindgren)
12 Ruby (Elle Cordova & Toni Lindgren)
13 Rollin' in My Sweet Baby's Arms (Elle Cordova & Toni Lindgren)

https://www.upload.ee/files/16534264/ELLECRDVATNILINDRN2016-2017SndyMrnngswthEllTniVlum2_atse.zip.html

The cover photo comes from a YouTube video recorded in Las Vegas in 2017. Fittingly for the location, they did the song "The Gambler." Unfortunately, I felt I couldn't include this version due to the poor sound quality, thanks to it being recorded in a crowded location. It was almost the only one I had to completely reject due to sound quality issues. But don't worry, because they did another version later that was recorded much better, so that appears on a later album in this series.