Emitt Rhodes - Just Me and You - Rarities, Volume 2: 1985-2015

I just posted an album of Emitt Rhodes rarities from the first half of his career. Here's the follow-up, rarities from the second half of his career.

As I mentioned in the write-up for that previous album, Rhodes had a strange career. He was very busy from the late 1960s until 1973. Then he didn't release another new album until 2015, 42 years later! During that time, he worked as a recording engineer and producer. From time to time, he made an occasional effort to record again, and very, very rarely made concert appearances. 

The first song is an extremely obscure unreleased version of the Beatles song "Things We Said Today" from the mid-1980s. (I'm guessing it's around 1985.) It definitely has the distinctive production of the era. The next five songs are from one of those very rare concert appearances, this one in 1997. Two of the songs are written and sung by Ray Paul, who put out a power pop album in 1980. A live acoustic medley from Rhodes in 2001 follows that.

Rhodes apparently completed a studio album in 2000, but nothing from it has ever come to light. He came close again in 2011, but ultimately only three songs were released on iTunes. Those three feature Vicki and Debbi Petersen from the Bangles on backing vocals, and Richard Thompson on lead guitar.

It seems very likely to me that there are a lot of Rhodes rarities still sitting in the vaults. Since he recorded all instruments by himself in his own studio, those recordings have generally stayed with him and haven't even been bootlegged. Hopefully those will be officially released someday. But in the meantime, these collections will have to suffice.

01 Things We Said Today (Emitt Rhodes)
02 Live Till You Die (Emitt Rhodes & Ray Paul)
03 Love Will Stone You (Emitt Rhodes & Ray Paul)
04 Some Sing, Some Dance (Ray Paul & Emitt Rhodes)
05 Really Wanted You (Emitt Rhodes & Ray Paul)
06 How Do You Know (Ray Paul & Emitt Rhodes)
07 No Time at All - Isn't It So - Good Enough (Emitt Rhodes)
08 Time Will Show the Wiser (Nick Vernier Band with Emitt Rhodes & Iain Matthews)
09 This Wall Between Us (Emitt Rhodes)
10 Just Me and You (Emitt Rhodes)
11 What's a Man to Do (Emitt Rhodes)
12 How Can You Mend a Broken Heart [Acoustic Version] (Emitt Rhodes)

https://www.upload.ee/files/15423580/EmittR_1985-2015_JstMeYouRaritiesVolum2_atse.zip.html

I'm not sure where or when the cover art photo is from, but judging by his appearance, it's a safe bet it's from around the time of his 2016 comeback album.