Imelda May - Festival Luna Lunera, Sos del Rey Catolico, Spain, 7-23-2010

Irish singer-songwriter Imelda May has changed and diversified her musical styles over the years. But in the early part of her career, she was all about rockabilly. Imagine the stray cats fronted by an exceptional female vocalist. This live bootleg captures her and her band when they were rocking hard, performing mostly originals but in that 1950s rockabilly style.

Unfortunately, there are very few excellent sounding Imelda May bootleg recordings out there, and she has yet to release an official live album. Luckily, I was able to find this one as a YouTube video. I converted it into individual mp3 tracks. It was professionally filmed and recorded (you can watch the whole thing on YouTube still), so the sound quality is excellent. It sounds better than virtually all the other bootlegs I've found of her music.

Most of this comes from a festival that took place in a village in Spain of less than a 1,000 people. The festival was an annual tradition for many years, but unfortunately this was the last year it was held. The concert recording is rather short as concerts go, with a length of 59 minutes long. I happened to have a few bonus tracks of different live songs from that same time period, so I added those on to the end. Thus, the songs from "My Babe" to the end are made up of these bonus tracks. I don't know where or when they were recorded, except they're bonus tracks to the 2008 album "Love Tattoo."

The entire album, including the extra songs at the end, is an hour and 14 minutes long.

01 Feel Me (Imelda May)
02 Love Tattoo (Imelda May)
03 Big Bad Handsome Man (Imelda May)
04 talk (Imelda May)
05 Proud and Humble (Imelda May)
06 All for You (Imelda May)
07 talk (Imelda May)
08 Falling in Love with You Again (Imelda May)
09 Smokers' Song (Imelda May)
10 talk (Imelda May)
11 Pulling the Rug (Imelda May)
12 Smotherin' Me (Imelda May)
13 talk (Imelda May)
14 Watcha Gonna Do (Imelda May)
15 Psycho (Imelda May)
16 Mayhem (Imelda May)
17 talk (Imelda May)
18 Johnny Got a Boom Boom (Imelda May)
19 talk (Imelda May)
20 Tainted Love (Imelda May)
21 talk (Imelda May)
22 My Baby Left Me (Imelda May)
23 talk (Imelda May)
24 My Babe (Imelda May)
25 Don't Do Me No Wrong (Imelda May)
26 Rollin' and Tumblin' (Imelda May)
27 Wild about My Lovin' (Imelda May)
28 talk (Imelda May)

https://www.upload.ee/files/16693317/IMELDMY2010_FestivalLnaLuneraSpin__7-23-2010_atse.zip.html

The cover photo is a screenshot taken from the YouTube video of this exact concert.