Imelda May - Cheltenham Jazz Festival at Home, Dublin, Ireland, 5-9-2020

Imelda May has a new album out, called "11 Past the Hour." I've given it a listen and I think it's pretty good, so I hope you'll check it out. It's hit number one in Ireland and the top five in Britain (though sadly she remains very little known in the US). In celebration of that, I'm posting this home concert she did in 2020.

May has played acoustic versions of songs from time to time. In fact, I plan on posting an album or two of that kind of thing later. But during the height of the coronavirus pandemic lockdown, when lots of artists were playing acoustic home concerts, it seems she only did this one. At least, it's the only one I could find. It's rather short, at only 18 minutes long. So I've fleshed it out a bit by adding four songs at the end, all of them also done in acoustic mode at various points that year. That boosts the total length to 28 minutes, which is still short, but that's all the music I could find that fits the format.

I like this concert for a couple of reasons. For one, it's great to her May perform in such a stripped down acoustic style (with guitar and occasional backing vocals by Niall McNamee). But also, she did a bunch of songs she's never done anywhere else, including covers of "These Arms of Mine" by Otis Redding, "Lean On Me" by Bill Withers, "Wild Night" by Van Morrison, "How Can I Tell You" by Cat Stevens, and "We'll Meet Again" by Vera Lynn. Plus, speaking of her new album "11 Past the Hour," she played one song from that album for the first time in public, "Don't Let Me Stand on My Own."

01 talk (Imelda May with Niall McNamee)
02 These Arms of Mine (Imelda May with Niall McNamee)
03 talk (Imelda May with Niall McNamee)
04 Lean on Me (Imelda May with Niall McNamee)
05 talk (Imelda May with Niall McNamee)
06 Stay [Poem] (Imelda May with Niall McNamee)
07 talk (Imelda May with Niall McNamee)
08 Black Tears (Imelda May with Niall McNamee)
09 talk (Imelda May with Niall McNamee)
10 Don't Let Me Stand on My Own (Imelda May with Niall McNamee)
11 talk (Imelda May with Niall McNamee)
12 It'll Be Easier in the Morning (Imelda May with Niall McNamee)
13 Wild Night (Imelda May)
14 How Can I Tell You (Imelda May)
15 We'll Meet Again (Imelda May)

https://www.upload.ee/files/15602805/ImeldaM_2020_CheltenhamJzzFestivlatHmeDublinIrland__5-9-2020_atse.zip.html

The cover art comes from a screenshot I took of a YouTube video of the exact concert in question.