Sunday, May 30, 2021

Robbie Robertson - Bad Intentions - Non-Album Tracks (1992-1998)

I get the impression that Robbie Robertson has been in musical semi-retirement ever since he broke up the Band around 1976. He's never gone on tour, and I only know of one full-length concert he did in his decades as a solo artist, which I've posted at this blog. He takes his sweet time between albums, and doesn't promote them much. Probably he's made a ton of money from writing band classics like "The Weight" and "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down," so he can treat his music career more like a hobby than a way to earn a living.

Be that as it may, he's actually released a lot of songs that haven't come out on his studio albums. He's only put out six studio albums since his solo career began in the 1980s until now, but I've found enough material for four stray tracks albums. 

Three songs, tracks 2, 3 and 4, are from the "Jimmy Hollywood" movie soundtrack. In addition, there is a live cover version ("I Shall Be Released"), a B-side ("Deneta"), two album bonus tracks ("Holy Hell" and "Pray"), two songs from albums by other artists ("Canon (Part 2)" and "Moosonee Shout of Rage"), and three unreleased songs. 

The two unreleased songs, "Between Dog and Wolf" and "We Don't Know Their Kind of Songs," seem to be studio outtakes and sound very good.

This album is 53 minutes long.

UPDATE: On August 17, 2023, I updated the mp3 download file. I moved two songs from the previous album in this series to this one ("Canon (Part 2)" and "Slo Burn"). Then I moved eight songs from this album to the next one in the series. Finally, I added three songs I'd previously missed, "Between Dog and Wolf," "We Don't Know Their Kind of Songs," and "Moosonee Shout of Rage."

01 Canon [Part 2] (Hal Willner with Robbie Robertson)
02 Slo Burn [Instrumental] (Robbie Robertson & the Gil Evans Orchestra)
03 Bad Intentions (Robbie Robertson)
04 Let the Good Times Roll (Robbie Robertson & Cassandra Wilson)
05 Deneta (Robbie Robertson)
06 Moosonee Shout of Rage (Jazz Chromatic Ensemble with Robbie Robertson)
07 I Shall Be Released (Robbie Robertson, Elvis Costello & Rita Coolidge)
08 Holy Hell (Robbie Robertson)
09 Pray (Robbie Robertson)
10 Between Dog and Wolf (Robbie Robertson)
11 We Don't Know Their Kind of Songs (Robbie Robertson)

https://www.upload.ee/files/15598731/RobbieR_1992-1998_BadIntntions_atse.zip.html

The cover photo features Robertson at the National Museum of the American Indian in New York in 1994.

5 comments:

  1. Note that I just updated this album with one song I'd missed, "Deneta." Thanks to commenter RKMiller who pointed out the missing song and sent it to me. :)

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  2. The wonderful version of World on Fire with Sarah McLachlan was developed for the television miniseries Into the West.

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