David Byrne - Ryman Auditorium, Nashville, TN, 8-20-2001

The other day, I found this concert on a bootleg torrent tracker, and I was impressed with the performance and the sound quality, so I've decided to share it here.

David Byrne, of course, was the lead singer and main songwriter for the Talking Heads. His solo career since that band fizzled out around 1987 has been more hit and miss, in my opinion, but he still has many quality songs. This concert is roughly evenly split between Talking Heads songs and his subsequent solo career.

There is an official live album from this tour, though a different date, called "Live from Austin, Texas." However, I prefer this. For one thing, at an hour and 26 minutes, it's about 25 minutes longer. And for another, the sound quality is every bit as good. The song selection is basically identical; it's just that you get more songs here.

There was only one sonic flaw with this album, and that was with the song "U. B. Jesus." The recording came to a halt about halfway through. I patched that with a version of that song taken from a bootleg from Denver on the same tour. That has similarly awesome sound, and the fix was so seamless that I doubt you'll notice it.

If you're a Talking Heads fan but you haven't paid much attention to Byrne's solo career, this is a good place to dip your toes in, since it has that mix of about half Talking Heads songs and half solo ones. It also has an interesting, unexpected cover of the Whitney Houston hit "I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me)."

01 The Revolution (David Byrne)
02 talk (David Byrne)
03 [Nothing But] Flowers (David Byrne)
04 talk (David Byrne)
05 Buck Naked (David Byrne)
06 Broken Things (David Byrne)
07 talk (David Byrne)
08 And She Was (David Byrne)
09 Once in a Lifetime (David Byrne)
10 talk (David Byrne)
11 The Great Intoxication (David Byrne)
12 talk (David Byrne)
13 Marching through the Wilderness (David Byrne)
14 talk (David Byrne)
15 Dura Europas (David Byrne)
16 talk (David Byrne)
17 Sax and Violins (David Byrne)
18 talk (David Byrne)
19 This Must Be the Place [Naive Melody] (David Byrne)
20 talk (David Byrne)
21 What a Day that Was (David Byrne)
22 talk (David Byrne)
23 Desconocido Soy (David Byrne)
24 Like Humans Do (David Byrne)
25 talk (David Byrne)
26 U. B. Jesus [Edit] (David Byrne)
27 talk (David Byrne)
28 I Wanna Dance with Somebody [Who Loves Me] (David Byrne)
29 Life during Wartime (David Byrne)

https://www.upload.ee/files/15274974/DavicByr_2001_RymnAuditoriumNashvilleTN__8-20-2001_atse.zip.html

The cover photo of Byrne was taken backstage at the Warfield in San Francisco in 2001.