Robyn Hitchcock - Acoustic Covers, Volume 14: 2016

It's been a while since I've posted anything from Robyn Hitchcock, and a still have plenty to post before catching up to current day, so here's another album from him. It's yet another in the very long series of acoustic covers. I just have one more to post after this until the start of the Covid pandemic (where he began playing tons of home concerts with even more acoustic covers).

As with his other acoustic covers, he doesn't try to radically reinvent any of the songs, but he performs all of them very well, and has impeccable taste in source material.

Hitchcock is nothing if not consistent about the musicians he loves the most. Most of his favorites are featured here, though there's no Syd Barrett, and he did two John Lennon songs instead of Beatles ones. The first three songs are David Bowie songs because this took place right after Bowie died.

As with the vast majority of the volumes in this series, all the performances here are officially unreleased. They come from concert bootlegs. Not all of those are soundboard sourced, so the sound quality isn't always excellent. But it's generally at least very good. For the song "Quicksand," there were a few annoying "woo-hoo" noises from the audience in the middle of the song. So I used audio editing software to get rid of that, thus the "[Edit]" in the title.

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

01 Quicksand - David Bowie
02 Soul Love - David Bowie
03 The Prettiest Star - David Bowie
04 Pancho and Lefty - Townes Van Zandt
05 Let It Be Me - Everly Brothers
06 Candy Says - Velvet Underground
07 Pale Blue Eyes - Velvet Underground
08 Isolation - John Lennon
09 No. 9 Dream - John Lennon
10 October Song - Incredible String Band
11 Just like a Woman - Bob Dylan
12 The Butcher - Leonard Cohen
13 Isis - Bob Dylan

Here's the usual song list:

01 Quicksand [Edit] (Robyn Hitchcock)
02 Soul Love (Robyn Hitchcock)
03 The Prettiest Star (Robyn Hitchcock & Emma Swift)
04 Pancho and Lefty (Robyn Hitchcock & Grant-Lee Phillips)
05 Let It Be Me (Robyn Hitchcock & Emma Swift)
06 Candy Says (Robyn Hitchcock with Sean Nelson & Emma Swift)
07 Pale Blue Eyes (Robyn Hitchcock with Sean Nelson & Emma Swift)
08 Isolation (Robyn Hitchcock)
09 No. 9 Dream (Robyn Hitchcock)
10 October Song (Robyn Hitchcock)
11 Just like a Woman (Robyn Hitchcock & Emma Swift)
12 The Butcher (Robyn Hitchcock)
13 Isis (Robyn Hitchcock)

This album is 52 minutes long. 

https://www.upload.ee/files/15274627/RobynH_2016_AcousticCoversVolume14_atse.zip.html

The cover photo comes from a 2016 concert, but I don't recall the details.