Morgan James - Acoustic Cover Songs, Volume 4, 2017-2018

Here's a quick summary if you've missed or overlooked my previous Morgan James posts. James has a great voice, the kind that sing Aretha Franklin songs or even opera. But she also has an affinity for performing songs where she's only backed by an acoustic guitar. She also has good taste in cover songs. So this is another out of many more albums of acoustic covers from her that I plan on posting.

As I've mentioned in the past, one thing I like about James's covers is that her taste in music isn't the same as mine, and she often "rescues" songs that I otherwise probably wouldn't hear or wouldn't like. In particular, she sometimes does modern pop songs that I avoid because of the usual bad modern production. It's often revelatory to hear those kinds of songs performed in the solo acoustic format. There are some examples of that here, for instance "Weak" by SWV and "Take Me to Church" by Hozier.

As usual with this series, all the songs are officially unreleased. Also as usual, the sound quality is consistently very good.

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

01 Blue Christmas - Elvis Presley
02 Do Right Woman, Do Right Man - Aretha Franklin
03 Waiting in Vain - Bob Marley
04 I Knew You Were Waiting [For Me] - Aretha Franklin & George Michael
05 Lovin’, Touchin’, Squeezin’ - Journey
06 Little Green - Joni Mitchell
07 Angel from Montgomery - John Prine
08 Weak - SWV
09 Take Me to Church - Hozier
10 Sweet Child o' Mine - Guns n' Roses
11 Who Wants to Live Forever - Queen

This is the usual song list:

01 Blue Christmas (Morgan James & Doug Wamble)
02 Do Right Woman, Do Right Man (Morgan James & Marc Broussard)
03 Waiting in Vain (Marc Broussard & Morgan James)
04 I Knew You Were Waiting [For Me] (Morgan James)
05 Lovin’, Touchin’, Squeezin’ (Morgan James)
06 Little Green (Morgan James)
07 Angel from Montgomery (Morgan James)
08 Weak (Morgan James)
09 Take Me to Church (Morgan James with Scott Bradlee)
10 Sweet Child o' Mine (Morgan James with Scott Bradlee)
11 Who Wants to Live Forever (Morgan James with Scott Bradlee)

https://www.upload.ee/files/15266924/MorganJ_2017-2018_AcoustcCoverSongsVolume4_atse.zip.html

The cover art photo was taken at a concert in Berlin in 2017. I chose it because I really like how the lighting makes it look like her hair is made out of fire. That's exactly how the original looks; I didn't change a thing.