Imelda May - The Word Is Out - Non-Album Tracks (2018-2021)

I'm a big fan of Irish singer-songwriter Imelda May. She's a star in Britain and Ireland, but very little known in the US. This is the sixth stray tracks collection that I've posted of her, and it finally catches up more or less to current day.

This album is typical of these sorts of albums, with lots of different things from different sources. All but three of the performances here have been officially released. The three unreleased ones are "Always on My Mind," "When You're Gone," and "Grace." The first of those is from a radio show and the last one is from a TV show, so their sound quality is very good.

Of the remaining songs, many of them come from May's appearances on other artists' albums. For instance, the first two songs come from a Jeff Golblum album (the famous actor who is also a musician) and tracks nine and ten come from a Ronnie Wood album. There also are soundtrack appearances and various artists compilations appearances. 

In 2020, May released an EP called "Slip of the Tongue" that consists entirely of spoken word poems she wrote that were set to music. I've included three songs from that ("Elephant," "Becoming," and "The Word Is Out") and scattered them through the other songs so the flow doesn't stay very long on the spoken word style. There are a total of nine poems on that EP, but I only included the ones I considered the most song-like.

This album is 47 minutes long.

01 This Bitter Earth (Imelda May & Till Bronner with Jeff Goldblum)
02 Come On-A-My House (Imelda May with Jeff Goldblum)
03 Always on My Mind (Jack Savoretti & Imelda May)
04 Molly Malone (Dervish with Imelda May)
05 When You're Gone (Imelda May)
06 Elephant (Imelda May)
07 Waltz Around the Kitchen (John Lewis with Imelda May)
08 Becoming (Imelda May)
09 Wee Wee Hours (Ronnie Wood with Imelda May)
10 Rock and Roll Music (Ronnie Wood with Imelda May)
11 The Word Is Out (Imelda May)
12 Mercy (Bobby Bazini & Imelda May)
13 The God That Failed (Imelda May)
14 The Glory of Love (Imelda May)
15 Grace (Rod Stewart & Imelda May)

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The cover photo comes from a public appearance in London in February 2020.