Robert Plant - The Boardwalk, Sheffield, Britain, 9-25-1999

The other day, I posted a Robert Plant concert that mostly consisted of him singing fairly obscure cover songs. That reminded me of this concert, which entirely consists of Plant singing fairly obscure cover songs. There isn't a single Led Zeppelin or Plant solo song in sight, unless one counts "We've Gotta Groove," which is a song that Led Zeppelin covered and put on their album "Coda."

The backstory behind this is fairly interesting. Around 1967, a year before Plant joined Led Zeppelin, he was in a band called the "Band of Joy." They mostly did cover songs, especially folk rock from the West Coast of the US. They never had much success, and only recorded a few songs in the studio. By 1999, it seems Plant was tired of being a musical superstar and playing his same hits over and over in concerts. instead, he got involved with musical programs at Kidderminister College. That's a pretty obscure college in Britain, but it's very near where he grew up. He even briefly took chartered accountancy classes there before dropping out and becoming a musician. 

The main connection was that guitarist Kevyn Gammond had been in the Band of Joy with Plant in the 1960s, but went on to become a professor in the Kidderminister College music department. Plant ended up forming a band with Grammond and other professors and students from the college. They called themselves the "Priory of Brion." The name combined "Priory of Zion," a supposed ancient French secret society made famous in Dan Brown novels like "The Da Vinci Code," with "The Life of Brian," a classic Monty Python movie.

At first, in 1999, Priory of Brion was very low key. They played small venues in Britain of only a few hundred people. They were billed just as "Priory of Brion," so few knew that it was really Plant's latest band. They only played cover songs of the type the Band of Joy played back in the 1960s. But the word about them slowly grew, and they began playing larger venues. By 2000, Plant's involvement was well known, and the band played big festivals and the like. But still, they only did relatively obscure covers. 

Plant broke up the band by the end of 2000, and he has never released any material by the band, either live or in the studio (with an obscure exception I'll detail below). However, he did carry over some of the songs with his next band, the Strange Sensations. And when he put out his next studio album in 2002, "Dreamland," there were some Priory of Brion covers on it, including two songs played here, "Morning Dew" and "Darkness, Darkness."

So this is a relatively lost chapter of his music career, but a particularly interesting one, I think. Unfortunately, as far as I can tell, there is only one Priory of Brion bootleg with excellent soundboard sound quality, this one. I wish there were more, because the band played at least 40 different cover songs, and there are only 17 here. The band also recorded three of those songs in the studio, but they've only come out on extremely obscure various artists compilations that were linked to benefits related to Kidderminister College. 

Although this bootleg generally sounds great, it did have some flaws. I had to edit four songs enough that I put "[Edit]" in their names. For instance, "Morning Dew" had a blast of loud noise in the middle of it that lasted a couple of seconds. I managed to patch it up with a section from elsewhere in the song. "Early in the Morning" had some very small skips in it, some of them less than a second. I closed them as best I could, and patched up the second where most of them were. So it went for the others. And some songs ended abruptly, with no applause. So I added applause taken from the ends of other songs to those.

However, there was one serious flaw I couldn't fix. The last song, "High School Confidential" is brutally cut off. It lasts less than a minute. And this was a song played as a special request for a friend. I couldn't find any other instances of Plant ever singing it, so there was nothing I could do to fix the short length. I considered dropping it altogether, but Plant had some interesting comments leading up to it, and it is super rare, so I kept it in.

But that meant the concert ended on a disappointing note. So I added one more song to the end, taken from a different Priory of Brion concert (Rome, Italy, in September 2000). The sound quality is worse than the rest, but still decent. It's one of my favorite obscurities, "Flames," originally by Elmer Gantry's Velvet Opera. Hopefully with that song, the concert ends in a more satisfying manner.

Plant must have particularly liked that song too, because it was one of only three songs Priory of Brion recorded in the studio, as I mentioned above. I recently discovered recordings of those three songs. I'll probably add them to a stray tracks collection someday, but in the meantime I'm including them as bonus tracks here. They're all from really obscure compilation albums released in the early 2000s, but I've put 2000 for the year in the mp3 tag, because that's when they were recorded. As if they weren't obscure enough already, for the song "Flames," Plant used the pseudonym "Johnny Volcano!"

This album is an hour and 20 minutes long. That does include the extra song from a different concert at the end, but it does not the three studio bonus tracks.

Here's a list of the original artists for each song (some numbers are skipped due to the talking tracks):

02 Season of the Witch - Donovan
03 Morning Dew - Bonnie Dobson
04 A House Is Not a Motel - Love
05 Wondrous Place - Billy Fury
07 Girl from the North Country - Bob Dylan
08 If I Were a Carpenter - Tim Hardin
10 Darkness, Darkness - Youngbloods
12 Think - "5" Royales / James Brown
14 Early in the Morning - Ray Charles
16 We're Gonna Groove - Ben E. King
17 Baby Please Don't Go - Big Joe Williams / Them
19 No Regrets - Tom Rush
20 Gloria -Them
21 Trouble in Mind - Richard M. Jones / Muddy Waters
22 Evil Woman - Spooky Tooth / Canned Heat
24 High School Confidential - Jerry Lee Lewis
26 Flames - Elmer Gantry's Velvet Opera

Here's the usual song list:

01 talk (Robert Plant)
02 Season of the Witch (Robert Plant)
03 Morning Dew [Edit] (Robert Plant)
04 A House Is Not a Motel (Robert Plant)
05 Wondrous Place (Robert Plant)
06 talk (Robert Plant)
07 Girl from the North Country (Robert Plant)
08 If I Were a Carpenter (Robert Plant)
09 talk (Robert Plant)
10 Darkness, Darkness (Robert Plant)
11 talk (Robert Plant)
12 Think [Edit] (Robert Plant)
13 talk (Robert Plant)
14 Early in the Morning [Edit] (Robert Plant)
15 talk (Robert Plant)
16 We're Gonna Groove (Robert Plant)
17 Baby Please Don't Go (Robert Plant)
18 talk (Robert Plant)
19 No Regrets (Robert Plant)
20 Gloria (Robert Plant)
21 Trouble in Mind [Edit] (Robert Plant)
22 Evil Woman (Robert Plant)
23 talk (Robert Plant)
24 High School Confidential [Incomplete] (Robert Plant)
25 talk (Robert Plant)
26 Flames (Robert Plant)

Morning Dew (Robert Plant)
Evil Woman (Robert Plant)
Flames (Robert Plant)

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I couldn't find any really good pictures of Plant in concert in 1999. This one is from August 2000, in Belgium, when he was still backed by the Priory of Brion.

k. d. lang - BBC Four Sessions, St. Luke's Church, London, Britain, 2-3-2008

I'm not really familiar with the music of k. d. lang, outside her hit "Constant Craving" and a few more songs. But I recently came across a bunch of BBC concerts from the "BBC Four Sessions" TV series, and hers was one of them. I do know she has an outstanding voice, so here's her BBC show.

k. d. lang is short for her birth name Kathryn Dawn Lang, but she prefers to spell her name with all lower case letters. She's a Canadian singer whose music has been various combinations of country, pop, and folk. If you want to know more about her, here's her Wikipedia entry:

k.d. lang - Wikipedia

This concert took place within days of the release of her studio album of original material, "Watershed." So naturally it has some songs from that. One unusual feature of the concert is that she was backed by a full orchestra. 

This concert is unreleased. I think the music hasn't been widely bootlegged, because I had to break up a video file into individual mp3s. The sound quality is excellent, as you'd expect from the BBC.

This album is an hour and 25 minutes long.

01 talk (k. d. lang)
02 Upstream (k. d. lang)
03 Helpless (k. d. lang)
04 Thread (k. d. lang)
05 Western Stars (k. d. lang)
06 talk (k. d. lang)
07 I Dream of Spring (k. d. lang)
08 Coming Home (k. d. lang)
09 Once in a While (k. d. lang)
10 Wash Me Clean (k. d. lang)
11 Sunday (k. d. lang)
12 Smoke Rings (k. d. lang)
13 talk (k. d. lang)
14 The Valley (k. d. lang)
15 Hallelujah (k. d. lang)
16 talk (k. d. lang)
17 Flame of the Uninspired (k. d. lang)
18 Constant Craving (k. d. lang)
19 talk (k. d. lang)
20 Close Your Eyes (k. d. lang)
21 talk (k. d. lang)
22 Don't Smoke in Bed (k. d. lang)
23 talk (k. d. lang)
24 Pay Dirt (k. d. lang)
25 talk (k. d. lang)
26 Jealous Dog (k. d. lang)
27 Je Fais la Planche (k. d. lang)
28 Shadow and the Frame (k. d. lang)

https://www.upload.ee/files/15262215/ldlng_2008_BBFourSssionsStLukesChurch__2-3-2008_atse.zip.html

The cover photo is a screenshot of this exact concert I took from YouTube. I only found a few songs from this concert there, but there may be more if you look hard.

Chrissie Hynde - Later Tonight - Non-Album Tracks (2009-2014)

My long series of Pretenders stray tracks albums continues here. However, this is so dominated in the credits by Chrissie Hynde, the lead singer and songwriter of the Pretenders, that I'm billing it as a Chrissie Hynde album. Only two songs have the Pretenders in the credits, and even those are duets.

The Pretenders put out an album in 2008, "Breaking Up the Concrete." They didn't put out another one until 2016, "Alone," nearly a decade later. The Pretenders had basically been Hynde plus a changing cast of backing musicians for a long time prior to this era. But I guess she figured putting the band name on an album meant that a certain style was expected.

In this time period, she increasingly moved away from that style. In 2010, she created a band with her boyfriend at the time, called "JP, Chrissie & The Fairground Boys," and put out an album called "Fidelity." Then, in 2014, she released her first true solo album, "Stockholm."

But on top of that she was doing other musical projects that often further expanded her musical range. For instance, she'd gotten into Brazilian bossa nova music in a big way back in 2004, even living in Brazil for a while. That interest continues on a couple of songs here. She also sang some in French!

Six of the 12 songs here are officially released. They generally come from various artists compilations. For instance, her version of "Let It Be" appeared on a tribute album to Paul McCartney. The unreleased songs are tracks 2, 3, 4, 9, 11, and 12. "This Kiss" and "Cry" come from an episode of the TV show "CMT Crossroads" in which she collaborated with country star Faith Hill. The others are cover songs done in concert. "Murder in My Heart for the Judge" was by Moby Grape, "Under My Thumb" by the Rolling Stones, and "Vocal" and "Later Tonight" by the Pet Shop Boys.

This album is 43 minutes long.

01 Postcard from London (Ray Davies & Chrissie Hynde)
02 Murder in My Heart for the Judge (JP, Chrissie & the Fairground Boys)
03 This Kiss (Pretenders & Faith Hill)
04 Cry (Pretenders & Faith Hill)
05 Un Garcon Qui Pleure (Benjamin Schoos, Marie France & Chrissie Hynde)
06 The Empty Boat (Chrissie Hynde, Moreno, Kassin & Domenico)
07 Laisse-moi t'Aimer - We'll Be Together (Michel Berube & Chrissie Hynde)
08 Rodeo (Paul Allen & the Underthinkers with Chrissie Hynde)
09 Under My Thumb (Ingrid & Chrissie Hynde)
10 Let It Be (Chrissie Hynde)
11 Vocal (Chrissie Hynde)
12 Later Tonight (Chrissie Hynde)

https://www.upload.ee/files/16700859/TPRETNDRS2009-2014_LatrTonght_atse.zip.html

The cover photo is from a private dinner event in 2014. Hynde was sitting next to supermodel Cindy Crawford, but unfortunately I felt obliged to crop her out.

Love with Arthur Lee - BBC in Concert, Manchester Academy, Manchester, Britain, 3-21-2004

Yesterday, I posted a Robert Plant concert that was part of a benefit concert for Arthur Lee, the leader of the band Love. I actually found that recently while doing some research for this. So it's fitting that I post them back to back.

Arthur Lee was a musical great, in my opinion, who rarely lived up to his full potential. Some of his troubles were not of his own making. A big one was that in 1996, he was sentenced to 12 years in prison for the negligent discharge of a firearm. The evidence of this relatively minor charge didn't even point to him. A court later reversed the charge, and the prosecutor was found guilty of misconduct, but nonetheless Lee ended up spending five and a half years in prison.

By the time Lee was released at the end of 2001, there was a growing interest in the music of Love. He began touring all over the world using the name "Love with Arthur Lee," which is a bit odd and redundant in my opinion since he basically was Love, having written and sung the vast majority of the band's songs. His musical skills were still intact, and he even was writing the occasional new song that were worthy of the ones from the 1960s.

Unfortunately though, he didn't have long to enjoy this career resurgence. He toured through 2005. But he was diagnosed with leukemia, and his health started to fail fast. He died in 2006 at the age of 61.

There's one really excellent official album from this late stage of his career, called "The Forever Changes Concert," recorded and released in 2003. The songs chosen here are pretty similar, with a heavy emphasis on the classic 1967 album "Forever Changes." Still, I enjoy both concerts. Because this one was recorded by the BBC, the sound quality is excellent, probably as good as the official live album.

Unfortunately, there is only one song here that was written recently at the time, "Rainbow in the Storm." But in my opinion it fits in well with the others, showing he still had his creativity intact. Perhaps if he'd lived a few years longer he would have released an acclaimed album of new material.

This album is an hour and 24 minutes long.

01 talk (Love with Arthur Lee)
02 Live and Let Live (Love with Arthur Lee)
03 Your Mind and We Belong Together (Love with Arthur Lee)
04 talk (Love with Arthur Lee)
05 Alone Again Or (Love with Arthur Lee)
06 Andmoreagain (Love with Arthur Lee)
07 Seven and Seven Is (Love with Arthur Lee)
08 talk (Love with Arthur Lee)
09 Old Man (Love with Arthur Lee)
10 The Daily Planet (Love with Arthur Lee)
11 The Red Telephone (Love with Arthur Lee)
12 Orange Skies (Love with Arthur Lee)
13 My Flash on You (Love with Arthur Lee)
14 Signed D. C. (Love with Arthur Lee)
15 A House Is Not a Motel (Love with Arthur Lee)
16 Bummer in the Summer (Love with Arthur Lee)
17 You Set the Scene (Love with Arthur Lee)
18 talk (Love with Arthur Lee)
19 Rainbow in the Storm (Love with Arthur Lee)
20 talk (Love with Arthur Lee)
21 Singing Cowboy (Love with Arthur Lee)
22 Singing Cowboy Band Intros (Love with Arthur Lee)
23 talk (Love with Arthur Lee)
24 Can't Explain (Love with Arthur Lee)
25 Maybe the People Would Be the Times or Between Clark and Hilldale (Love with Arthur Lee)

https://www.upload.ee/files/16695520/LOVEE2004_BBCncrtMnchestrAcdemy__3-21-2004_atse.zip.html

The cover photo isn't from this exact concert. However, it was taken at the nearby city of Liverpool at around the same time in 2004.

Robert Plant - Benefit for Arthur Lee, Beacon Theatre, New York City, 6-23-2006

Singer Robert Plant has long been a fan of 1960s West Coast rock and folk rock, especially the bands Moby Grape and Love. By early 2006, the health of Arthur Lee, the main singer and songwriter of Love, was in rapid decline, due to leukemia. Love was a very critically acclaimed band, but their sales had never been that big, so Lee didn't have much money for his medical care. Thus, some of his musical friends and admirers stepped up to perform a benefit concert to help pay his medical bills. Musical artists at the concert included Robert Plant, Ian Hunter, Ryan Adams, Nils Lofgren, Yo La Tengo, and Garland Jeffreys.

The bad news is that only a bootleg of Plant's set is publicly available, as far as I know. The good news is that the sound quality of his set is fantastic, just as good as an official album.

The really bad news though is that nothing could stop Lee from getting worse. This concert took place in June 2006. Lee had already started chemotherapy sessions, but he died on August 3, 2006, at the age of 61. Probably his health was so bad that he couldn't attend the concert in person. 

Plant's usual backing band at the time also wasn't there. Instead, he was backed by Ian Hunter's band. He also sang a duet with Hunter, the Everly Brothers classic "When Will I Be Loved." For this concert, the band also included lead guitarist Johnny Echols, who was one of the founders of Love and stayed with the band until shortly after the 1967 release of the band's most acclaimed album, "Forever Changes."

As you'd expect at a concert for Arthur Lee, Plant sang some Love songs. Specifically, he did "Bummer in the Summer," "Old Man," "A House Is Not a Motel," and "Seven and Seven Is." And while Love didn't write the song "Hey Joe," they were one of the first bands to record it for an album (prior to it becoming famous by Jimi Hendrix). Plant has sang some of those songs many times in concert. But this appears to be the only time he's ever sang "Old Man" in public.

Plant, having been the singer for Led Zeppelin, also played three classics by that band: "In the Evening," "What Is and What Should Never Be," and "Ramble On." But what's odd is that he did some cover versions not associated with Love that he rarely or never played in other concerts: "For What It's Worth," "When Will I Be Loved," "Can't Help Falling in Love," and "Nature Boy." In fact, this appears to be the only concert he ever played "When Will I Be Loved" and "Can't Help Falling in Love," and he only did "Nature Boy" three other times.

So this is a unique concert for him. If you're a fan of both Plant (solo and in Led Zeppelin) and Love, like I am, this is a no-brainer to listen to. I'm surprised it's not better known in bootleg circles, especially given the excellent sound quality.

This album is an hour and four minutes long.

01 In the Evening (Robert Plant)
02 talk (Robert Plant)
03 Bummer in the Summer (Robert Plant)
04 talk (Robert Plant)
05 What Is and What Should Never Be (Robert Plant)
06 talk (Robert Plant)
07 Old Man (Robert Plant)
08 talk (Robert Plant)
09 For What It's Worth (Robert Plant)
10 talk (Robert Plant)
11 When Will I Be Loved (Robert Plant & Ian Hunter)
12 talk (Robert Plant)
13 A House Is Not a Motel (Robert Plant)
14 talk (Robert Plant)
15 Can't Help Falling in Love (Robert Plant)
16 talk (Robert Plant)
17 Hey Joe (Robert Plant)
18 Nature Boy (Robert Plant)
19 talk (Robert Plant)
20 Seven and Seven Is (Robert Plant)
21 talk (Robert Plant)
22 Ramble On (Robert Plant)

https://www.upload.ee/files/16697035/ROBRTPLNT2006_BenfitforArthrLeBeacnThetre__6-23-2006_atse.zip.html

The cover photo comes from this exact concert. I found a few, so I could have used one with just Plant in it. But I thought it was more interesting to include this one, which has Ian Hunter on guitar at his side. Hunter was much lower in the photo (probably due to some weird perspective issue), but I used Photoshop to raise him up some.

Tir Na Nog - In the Morning - Alternate Version (1970)

I'm going to post a few things from the Irish folk duo Tir Na Nog, starting here. They're rather obscure. I hadn't even heard of them until a couple of years ago (as I write this in 2023). But if you haven't heard of them either, you might want to give them a try. Here's how they're described in their Wikipedia entry: "They are often considered one of the first progressive folk bands with other artists like Nick Drake or groups like Pentangle. Their music mainly consists of their own compositions, based on strong Celtic roots and typically featuring intricate acoustic guitar playing and close harmony singing."

The duo consists of Leo O'Kelly and Sonny Condell, with both of them singing and writing songs. They put out three albums from 1971 to 1973 that were critically acclaimed but didn't sell that well. They probably would have done a lot better except for the fact that they broke up after only those three albums. They later reunited, and put out a new studio album in 2015, but their momentum had been lost.

Here's the band's Wikipedia entry, if you want to know more:

Tír na nÓg (band) - Wikipedia

But instead of thinking of them putting out three studio albums in the early 1970s, you really could make it four. In 1999, the album "In the Morning" was released. It consists of 15 previously unreleased demos recorded in 1970, before the band recorded anything else. I've created an alternate version by removing all the songs that were later included on their other studio albums in that time period. Then I also added the A- and B-sides to a 1970 single, because those two songs never appeared on any of their later albums. (They did make it as bonus tracks to a much later release of their 1971 album "Tir Na Nog.") 

Even with the two extra songs, this album is rather short, at 30 minutes. But I don't think the demos of the songs that they later recorded for other albums are that different from those album versions, so I think this is a much better listen. The sound quality is very good, since these were done in a studio. However, I thought the lead vocals of the song "Patterns" were too low in the mix, so I used the audio editing program Spleeter to boost them. That's why there's "[Edit]" in that song title.

Their other albums generally contained only songs they wrote themselves. But this one has a number of cover songs. There's "Patterns" by Simon and Garfunkel, "Story of Isaac" by Leonard Cohen, "To Susan on the West Coast Waiting" by Donovan, "It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry" by Bob Dylan, and "Songs to Ageing Children Come" by Joni Mitchell. As you can see from those names, they knew to cover songs by the very best folk artists. The other five songs are originals.

By the way, technically speaking, the band's name should be: "Tír na nÓg." But I'm using a more conventional spelling, without the accents marks, due to many computers having trouble with those marks. In case you're curious, the band's name means "Land of the Young" and is a Celtic supernatural realm.

01 Patterns [Edit] (Tir Na Nog)
02 A Day in the Hay (Tir Na Nog)
03 Story of Isaac (Tir Na Nog)
04 To Susan on the West Coast Waiting (Tir Na Nog)
05 Maude and Co. (Tir Na Nog)
06 It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry (Tir Na Nog)
07 Songs to Ageing Children Come (Tir Na Nog)
08 My Flower Will Not Fade (Tir Na Nog)
09 I'm Happy to Be [On This Mountain] (Tir Na Nog)
10 Let My Love Grow (Tir Na Nog)

https://www.upload.ee/files/16700769/TIRNANG1970_IntheMornngAlternte_atse.zip.html

I used the official album cover art, for the most part. I didn't like the red text on it. All of the text was too small to be read easily. Plus, there was a bunch of promotional or administrative text that was unnecessary. So I removed that text, and kept just the band name and album name. I used the same font, color, and location as before, but made it larger, and framed it in white to make it stand out more.

Elton John - BBC Sessions, Volume 14: BBC Radio Theatre, London, Britain, 9-9-2001

Here's yet another in my increasingly long series of albums of Elton John performing for the BBC. This is another full concert that was played on the radio, from just two days before the 9/11 terrorist attack.

In 2001, John released the studio album "Songs from the West Coast." It got better critical reviews that he'd had in years. In fact, if you look at the current ratings at the crowdsourced rateyourmusic.com (as I write this in February 2023), it's the highest rated album he'd done since "Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy" in 1975. He and lyricist Bernie Taupin made a conscious effort to return to their successful early 1970s sound. So this was a particularly good time for another BBC concert.

John played many of the expected hits (though, surprisingly, no "Your Song"). But he also did a section in the middle of the concert with six songs in a row from "Songs from the West Coast."

This concert is unreleased, but the sound quality is excellent. There were no problems to fix.

This album is an hour and 30 minutes long.

01 Intro (Elton John)
02 Funeral for a Friend - Love Lies Bleeding (Elton John)
03 talk (Elton John)
04 Someone Saved My Life Tonight (Elton John)
05 Philadelphia Freedom (Elton John)
06 All the Young Girls Love Alice (Elton John)
07 talk (Elton John)
08 Birds (Elton John)
09 talk (Elton John)
10 American Triangle (Elton John)
11 I Want Love (Elton John)
12 Ballad of the Boy in the Red Shoes (Elton John)
13 talk (Elton John)
14 Original Sin (Elton John)
15 talk (Elton John)
16 This Train Don't Stop There Anymore (Elton John)
17 Rocket Man [I Think It's Going to Be a Long, Long Time] (Elton John)
18 Tiny Dancer (Elton John)
19 talk (Elton John)
20 Levon (Elton John)
21 I'm Still Standing (Elton John)
22 Saturday Night's Alright for Fighting (Elton John)
23 talk (Elton John)

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The cover photo was taken at this exact concert.

Lou Reed - Capitol Theatre, Passaic, NJ, 9-25-1984

I think Lou Reed's music from the early 1980s is underrated. He'd had a lot of drug addiction problems in the mid to late 1970s, and I think that negatively affected his musical output. But he cleaned up in the early 1980s, and I suspect that had a positive impact. I especially like his 1984 album "New Sensations." Maybe it's not so popular with some fans because it's rather upbeat and poppy compared to most of his other stuff, and his music isn't known for being upbeat and poppy. But new wave music was a big trend at the time, and he definitely joined that movement for a while.

This is a great concert from the 1984 tour to support "New Sensations." I count six songs from that album, which isn't that many, given that this is a fairly long concert. But he also did songs from earlier in his career, going all the way back to his Velvet Underground days, and generally did them in more of the new wave style he was favoring at the time. For instance, "I'm Waiting for the Man" and "There She Goes Again" sound different from their Velvet Underground versions.

This is unreleased, but the sound quality is excellent, like an official live album. There's no official live album of his 1984 tour. However, there is a very good one of his 1983 tour, called "Live in Italy." Personally, I like this much better. For one, it has the "New Sensations" songs. It's also a lot longer. And both of them feature the lead guitarist Robert Quine. Quine played with Reed in the early 1980s, and was Reed's favorite lead guitarist. By the time of "New Sensations," they were butting heads a lot, and Quine's playing wasn't featured on that album at all. However, Quine still did play on this tour, before permanently parting ways with Reed after it ended.

Another nice bonus about this concert is that musician Jim Carroll joined the concert near the end and basically briefly took over to sing his one minor hit, "People Who Died." He also sang backing vocals on the one song played after that one, "Rock and Roll." But you can hardly tell. I only know that for sure because there's a video of this concert on YouTube, and I saw him singing on that song.

This album is two hours and four minutes long.

01 talk (Lou Reed)
02 Sweet Jane (Lou Reed)
03 talk (Lou Reed)
04 I'm Waiting for the Man (Lou Reed)
05 talk (Lou Reed)
06 Martial Law (Lou Reed)
07 ta;l (Lou Reed)
08 Down at the Arcade (Lou Reed)
09 talk (Lou Reed)
10 Legendary Hearts (Lou Reed)
11 talk (Lou Reed)
12 There She Goes Again (Lou Reed)
13 Turn Out the Light (Lou Reed)
14 talk (Lou Reed)
15 My Red Joystick (Lou Reed)
16 talk (Lou Reed)
17 Average Guy (Lou Reed)
18 talk (Lou Reed)
19 Street Hassle (Lou Reed)
20 talk (Lou Reed)
21 Sally Can't Dance (Lou Reed)
22 Walk on the Wild Side (Lou Reed)
23 talk (Lou Reed)
24 Satellite of Love (Lou Reed)
25 talk (Lou Reed)
26 New Sensations (Lou Reed)
27 A Gift (Lou Reed)
28 Doin' the Things that We Want To (Lou Reed)
29 talk (Lou Reed)
30 Waves of Fear (Lou Reed)
31 I Love You, Suzanne (Lou Reed)
32 talk (Lou Reed)
33 White Light-White Heat (Lou Reed)
34 Turn to Me (Lou Reed)
35 talk (Lou Reed)
36 Kill Your Sons (Lou Reed)
37 Coney Island Baby (Lou Reed)
38 talk (Jim Carroll & Lou Reed)
39 People Who Died (Jim Carroll & Lou Reed)
40 talk (Lou Reed with Jim Carroll)
41 Rock and Roll (Lou Reed with Jim Carroll) 

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The cover photo was taken in Chicago in September 1984, just three days after this concert.

Marianne Faithfull - BBC Sessions, Volume 2: BBC Four Sessions, LSO St. Luke's, London, Britain, 2-18-2009

I thought I was done with Marianne Faithfull and the BBC. She did a series of BBC studio sessions in the mid-1960s, and I made an album out of that. But her life spiraled downwards in the late 1960s due to drugs and other problems, causing her musical career to spiral downwards too. I thought that was the last of her and the BBC.

But Faithfull has had a remarkable revival to her career. After wandering in the musical wilderness for most of the 1970s, she came back strong with her 1979 album "Broken English." By that time, her voice had totally changed. But before she'd relied out outside songwriters, and by that time she'd become a capable songwriter of her own. Since then, she's put out many well received albums, although her sales haven't been that big.

I recently found out that she finally got back to the BBC in 2009 (unless there are other shows that I've missed, which is very possible). This concert was filmed for a BBC TV show called "BBC Four Sessions." But as far as I can tell it hasn't appeared as a music bootleg. I had to concert a video recording into mp3s. Still, the sound quality is excellent, with no flaws.

This concert took place shortly after the release of her 2008 covers album "Easy Come Easy Go." As a result, it heavily features songs from that album. But it also has some highlights from her career. Of particular note are two 1960s songs that she almost never did in concert, due to the drastic change in her voice, as well as her musical style: "Sister Morphine" and "As Tears Go By."

This concert is an hour and 13 minutes long

Oh, by the way, now that I've posted this, I changed the title of her 1960s BBC album, adding "Volume 1" to it.

UPDATE: On March 3, 2023, I updated the mp3 download file. I added three songs from the show that I'd previously missed: "Children of Stone," "Crazy Love," and "Sing Me Back Home." A kind commenter provided them for them. They were broadcast by the BBC as extras. That meant I had to guess where they appeared in the set. As it happens, she was pretty consistent in her set lists in 2009. For instance, "Sing Me Back Home" was always played as an encore. So I followed those trends.

There were two more songs from the show that I didn't include because the sound quality was much worse, only from an audience bootleg: "Easy Come Easy Go" and "Why D'Ya Do It."

01 Down from Dover (Marianne Faithfull)
02 talk (Marianne Faithfull)
03 Times Square (Marianne Faithfull)
04 talk (Marianne Faithfull)
05 Hold On Hold On (Marianne Faithfull)
06 The Ballad of Lucy Jordan (Marianne Faithfull)
07 talk (Marianne Faithfull)
08 Solitude (Marianne Faithfull)
09 talk (Marianne Faithfull)
10 Broken English (Marianne Faithfull)
11 talk (Marianne Faithfull)
12 In Germany Before the War (Marianne Faithfull)
13 talk (Marianne Faithfull)
14 Children of Stone (Marianne Faithfull)
15 Crazy Love (Marianne Faithfull)
16 talk (Marianne Faithfull)
17 Kimbie (Marianne Faithfull)
18 talk (Marianne Faithfull)
19 Dear God, Please Help Me (Marianne Faithfull)
20 The Crane Wife 3 (Marianne Faithfull)
21 Sister Morphine (Marianne Faithfull)
22 talk (Marianne Faithfull)
23 As Tears Go By (Marianne Faithfull)
24 Sing Me Back Home (Marianne Faithfull)

https://www.upload.ee/files/15218808/MarianneF_2009_BBSessionsVolum2BBFourSssionsLSOStLukes___2-18-2009_atse.zip.html

The cover photo comes from this exact date and location. But it appears to have been taken before or after the concert itself.

Joni Mitchell - BBC Sessions, Volume 4: Old Grey Whistle Test, New Victoria Theatre, London, Britain, 4-22-1974

In 1974, Joni Mitchell arguably reached the pinnacle of her commercial success. She released the album "Court and Spark" near the start of the year. It reached Number Two in the US and sold a couple million copies. For all her previous album, she'd generally stuck to a solo acoustic sound, whereas this one was rocking, with a full band. For her next few albums she would turn more towards jazz, so this was the closest she got to a conventional rock sound. 

Towards the end of the year, she released a live album, called "Miles of Aisles," which was recorded in August 1974. It was a good time for a live album for her, allowing her to do her earlier acoustic songs with a full band. However, it only contained one song from her hit album "Court and Spark," and it was "People's Parties," which wasn't one of the album's hits. Furthermore, there was almost no banter recorded between the songs.

Unfortunately, there are almost no truly excellent sounding bootlegs from her 1974 concert. In fact, the only one with a soundboard level quality that I know of is this one. However, there are problems. About 45 minutes of this show was broadcast on the BBC TV show "The Old Grey Whistle Test." I think more of it was broadcast for BBC radio. Three of the songs seemed to have not been bootlegged at all. Ditto with the banter between songs. 

So I've had to cobble this together from different sources. The "Old Grey Whistle Test" songs all sound great. But they were selected as highlights from throughout the show, rather than being a bunch. The rest generally sound almost as good, but there are some exceptions. There were some sonic flaws here and there. For instance, for the last song, "Twisted," there were about ten seconds that were all messed up, so I patched that with a version with a lot lower sound quality. Also, there was no applause at the end. So again I patched in a different version for the very end, allowing me to include all the cheering after the song. I had to do a similar patch for "(He Played Real Good) For Free." That's why those two songs have "[Edit]" in their titles. There are a couple other spots with minor problems that I decided not to fix, since using a lower quality patch probably wouldn't sound any better.

I also decided to do something about the three songs that didn't get bootlegged:  "This Flight Tonight," "Woodstock," and "Jericho." For those, I used the best alternate versions I could find, which was a concert in Ambler, Pennsylvania, in August 1974 for the first two, and one in Seattle, Washington, for the last one. For the banter, I used additional bits of the concerts from Ambler and Seattle. But I listened to several bootlegs of her 1974 concerts, and there just wasn't that much banter.  For instance, for most of those concerts, she played the first six or so songs without any talking at all between songs. So this recording reflects that, with banter only before some of the songs. But she did talk extensively in a few cases.

I expect that in the next year or two, Mitchell will release her third "Archives" box set, which will include this time period. So hopefully we'll get a full version of a 1974 concert. Until then, this is the best version out there.

This concert is an hour and 47 minutes long. That makes it significantly longer than "Miles of Aisles," which is an hour and 18 minutes long.

01 talk (Joni Mitchell)
02 This Flight Tonight (Joni Mitchell)
03 You Turn Me On, I'm a Radio (Joni Mitchell)
04 Free Man in Paris (Joni Mitchell)
05 The Same Situation (Joni Mitchell)
06 talk (Joni Mitchell)
07 Just like This Train (Joni Mitchell)
08 Rainy Night House (Joni Mitchell)
09 Woodstock (Joni Mitchell)
10 talk (Joni Mitchell)
11 Cactus Tree (Joni Mitchell)
12 Big Yellow Taxi (Joni Mitchell)
13 talk (Joni Mitchell)
14 People's Parties (Joni Mitchell)
15 All I Want (Joni Mitchell)
16 talk (Joni Mitchell)
17 A Case of You (Joni Mitchell)
18 talk (Joni Mitchell)
19 Jericho (Joni Mitchell)
20 talk (Joni Mitchell)
21 For the Roses (Joni Mitchell)
22 talk (Joni Mitchell)
23 Cold Blue Steel and Sweet Fire (Joni Mitchell)
24 Blue (Joni Mitchell)
25 [He Played Real Good] For Free [Edit] (Joni Mitchell)
26 Trouble Child (Joni Mitchell)
27 Help Me (Joni Mitchell)
28 Car on a Hill (Joni Mitchell)
29 Both Sides Now (Joni Mitchell)
30 Raised on Robbery (Joni Mitchell)
31 The Last Time I Saw Richard (Joni Mitchell)
32 Twisted [Edit] (Joni Mitchell)

https://www.imagenetz.de/files/b7373b6fffb53f0562198d681bed3edb.zip

alternate:

https://pixeldrain.com/u/N5zVuRJf

The cover photo actually comes from a Joni Mitchell concert at this exact venue in April 1974. But apparently she played there a few nights, because the photo is from two days earlier, April 20th.

The Style Council - BBC Sessions, Volume 3: In Concert, Royal Albert Hall, London, Britain, 4-29-1987

This is the third and last of three Style Council BBC volumes. Like Volume 2, it's a full concert that was broadcast on BBC radio at the time.

By 1987, the Style Council were on the decline. I think in retrospect even band leader Paul Weller would agree that he took the band in the wrong direction, increasingly pursuing house music, which only had a limited audience. They broke up in 1989, with their last studio album rejected by their record company and thus unreleased. Weller would later say that band should have broken up two or three years earlier.

That said, this still is a very good concert, in my opinion. By this point, the band had built up an impressive number of hit songs, and mostly played those rather than the new music that would be less successful. Personally, I like all the songs here. From the point of view of this concert, it's hard to imagine the band would fall out of favor so quickly only about a year later.

This concert is officially unreleased, but the sound quality is still very good. It's only 59 minutes long, so I'm guessing it was edited down from a longer concert to fit in an hour-long time slot on the radio.

01 talk (Style Council)
02 My Ever Changing Moods (Style Council)
03 Shout to the Top (Style Council)
04 It Didn't Matter (Style Council)
05 Waiting (Style Council)
06 Walk in the Night (Style Council)
07 talk (Style Council)
08 The Cost of Loving (Style Council)
09 With Everything to Lose (Style Council)
10 A Woman's Song (Style Council)
11 talk (Style Council)
12 The Whole Point of No Return (Style Council)
13 Homebreakers (Style Council)
14 Heavens Above (Style Council)
15 [When You] Call Me (Style Council)
16 Internationalists (Style Council)

https://www.upload.ee/files/16700525/STYLCONCL1987_BBSessonsVol3InConcrtRoylAlbrtHallLndnBrtin__4-29-1987_atse.zip.html

The cover photo is from the Red Wedge Tour in January 1986, at the Manchester Apollo in Manchester, Britain.

Belle and Sebastian - God Help the Girl- BBC Sessions, Volume 10: 2009

Just what is "God Help the Girl?" I've posted a stray tracks album by this group, but I'll explain again anyway. This was a side project of the main singer and songwriter of Belle and Sebastian, Stuart Murdoch. In 2009, instead of putting out another Belle and Sebastian album, he wrote a bunch of songs from a female point of view meant to be sung by women. The band put out an album in 2009, as well as an EP. They didn't do anything else as a band after that, but the project continued as a movie by the same title, written and directed by Murdoch, which was released in 2014.

You can read more here:

God Help the Girl (film) - Wikipedia

Anyway, since this wasn't a "real" band, but a Murdoch side project, it seems they didn't do much touring. However, at least one short concert took place, which was recorded and broadcast by the BBC. That makes up all but the last three songs here. Murdoch was there and talked some, but left all the lead vocals to the female singers. Neil Hannon of the bands Divine Comedy and the Duckworth Lewis Method joined in for one song at the end of the concert. 

The last three songs come from a proper BBC studio session. Two of those three songs were also done in the concert, but I've included both versions of them anyway.

In my opinion, God Help the Girl was basically Belle and Sebastian but with different lead vocalists. So I'm including this in the long series of Belle and Sebastian BBC albums.

This album is 35 minutes long.

01 talk (God Help the Girl)
02 Act of the Apostle (God Help the Girl)
03 God Help the Girl (God Help the Girl)
04 talk (God Help the Girl)
05 I'm in Love with the City (God Help the Girl)
06 Baby's Just Waiting (God Help the Girl)
07 talk (God Help the Girl)
08 Come Monday (God Help the Girl)
09 talk (God Help the Girl)
10 Musician, Please Take Heed (God Help the Girl)
11 talk (God Help the Girl)
12 Perfection as a Hipster (God Help the Girl with Neil Hannon)
13 Baby's Just Waiting (God Help the Girl)
14 God Help the Girl (God Help the Girl)
15 The Psychiatrist Is In (God Help the Girl)

https://www.upload.ee/files/15901518/BellenS_2009_GodHlptheGirlBBSessionsVolume10_atse.zip.html

On the cover, Murdoch is the sole male, pictured with three God Help the Girl singers. I don't know their names, but perhaps someone can help identify them.

The Wild Honey Orchestra - Tribute to the Lovin' Spoonful, Alex Theatre, Glendale, CA, 2-29-2020

I've had a request to post more from the Wild Honey Orchestra (WHO), as well as a specific request to post the Lovin' Spoonful tribute show. So here it is.

I've posted two WHO concerts already. You can read more about this group in the write-ups to those. But, in short, it's a group of mostly Los Angeles based professional musicians who put on a concert once a year to benefit a charity. Generally, these musicians are members of bands that are successful enough for a career, but typically not really big name acts. Many of them tend to play these WHO concerts every year. If you compare the artist names for this concert with the other two WHO concerts I've posted, you'll see the vast majority played in all of them.

But this concert was a bit unusual, due to the presence of members of the Lovin' Spoonful, the band that was the focus on the tribute this year. There were four members of the band in the 1960s: John Sebastian, who was the lead singer and main songwriter, and Joe Butler, Steve Boone, and Zal Yanovsky (who was replaced by Jerry Yester before the end of the 1960s). This concert was as good of a reunion of the original band as one could hope for, with Sebastian, Butler and Boone participating. Both Yanovsky and Yester died in the years prior to the concert.

The Lovin' Spoonful did reform in the 1990s, and has played concerts ever since then. However, crucially, John Sebastian didn't take part, and he was the heart of the band. He did play with the others for one concert in 1979, for the Paul Simon movie "One Trick Pony," then again in 2000 for the band's induction in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. But that's been it, with this exception of this concert.

Even better, the original band didn't just play a song or two. They had a big role in the concert, with Sebastian singing lots of songs. There are no concert recordings of the original band with Sebastian that I know of, other than a song here or there on TV shows, so we're very lucky a bootleg recording of this concert has survived. And the sound quality is excellent all the way through. The one downside is that this is generally only the songs, with very little of the banter between songs. There's only a few bits of banter, mostly comments by Sebastian.

The band had a fairly small recorded output, with just five albums, from 1965 to 1969. So a large portion of their songs were played here, including some rather obscure songs. Also, some songs from Sebastian's solo career were included, such as "Stories We Could Tell," "How Have You Been," and his Number One hit "Welcome Back."

There are a few performers here not seen on the two previous WHO concerts I've posted. For instance, Marshall Crenshaw, the duo of Marti Jones & Don Dixon, Dave Alvin, Peter Lewis from Moby Grape, and Peter Case. 

This concert is two hours and six minutes long.

01 Coffee Blues (John Sebastian with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
02 talk (John Sebastian)
03 Lovin' You (John Sebastian, Steve Boone & Joe Butler with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
04 talk (John Sebastian)
05 Full Measure (Joe Butler with John Sebastian & Steve Boone with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
06 Butchie's Tune (Dennis Diken & John Sebastian with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
07 It's Not Time Now (Iain Matthews & John Sebastian with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
08 Fishin' Blues (Eleni Mandell, John Sebastian & Elliot Easton with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
09 Nashville Cats (Bill Lloyd & John Sebastian with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
10 There She Is (Nick Guzman with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
11 Pow (John Easdale & John Sebastian with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
12 Darlin' Companion (Bill Mumy & John Sebastian with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
13 Money (Cindy Lee Berryhill with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
14 Rain on the Roof (Marshall Crenshaw with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
15 Coconut Grove (Thomas Walsh with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
16 Didn't Want Have to Do It (Mark Eitzel with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
17 You're a Big Boy Now (Skylar Gudasz, John Sebastian & Elliot Easton with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
18 Respoken (Marti Jones & Don Dixon with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
19 Warm Baby (David Goodstein with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
20 Other Side to This (Peter Lewis with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
21 Summer in the City (Joe Butler, John Sebastian, Steve Boone & Mark Sebastian with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
22 Welcome Back (John Sebastian with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
23 Lonely (John Sebastian with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
24 She's Still a Mystery (Darian Sahanaja & the Three O'Clock with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
25 Darlin' Be Home Soon (Rob Laufer with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
26 Six O'Clock (Wednesday Week with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
27 Never Goin' Back (Joe Butler with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
28 talk (John Sebastian)
29 You Baby (Claudia Lennear & John Sebastian with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
30 Younger Girl (Steve Stanley with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
31 Stories We Could Tell (Carla Olson & John Sebastian with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
32 Younger Generation (Kathy McCarty with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
33 How Have You Been (Dead Rock West with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
34 Daydream (Micky Dolenz with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
35 Night Owl Blues (John Sebastian & Dave Alvin with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
36 talk (Peter Case)
37 Blues in the Bottle (Peter Case with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
38 Four Eyes (Peter Case & Carla Olson with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
39 Did You Ever Have to Make Up Your Mind (Carnie Wilson & Rob Bonfiglio with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
40 You Didn't Have to Be So Nice (Susan Cowsill with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
41 Jug Band Music (John Sebastian with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
42 Do You Believe in Magic (John Sebastian, Steve Boone & Joe Butler with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
43 Daydream [Reprise] (John Sebastian, Joe Butler & Steve Boone with the Wild Honey Orchestra)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/biZSzH1G

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/E83U4jHEtdjvzKw/file

alternate:

https://www.imagenetz.de/i3sa6

The cover is exactly from a promotional poster for the concert. All I did was crop out some parts at the top and the bottom that didn't contain much useful information.

Sheryl Crow - Always on Your Side - Non-Album Tracks (2004-2005)

It feels like a really long time since I've posted a stray tracks album from Sheryl Crow, so here's another one. I'm moving forward chronologically, but as you can see, there are many more to come after this one.

Eight of the 12 songs here have been officially released. They're from soundtracks, various artists collections, and appearances on albums by other artists. The four unreleased songs aren't that different. Two of them, "Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain" and "I Never Loved a Man (The Way I Love You)" are studio outtakes and have great sound quality. "Pride and Joy" and "Levon" are both from concerts, but also have solid sound quality.

The song "Always on Your Side" needs a bit of explanation I suppose. It first appeared on Crow's 2005 album "Wildflowers." But when the song was picked for release as a single, it seems the record company thought that turning it into a duet with another big name musician would help, so it was redone as a duet with Sting. So this is the Sting version. Some later albums contain this version as a bonus track.

This album is 46 minutes long.

01 All Kinds of People (Sheryl Crow)
02 Begin the Beguine (Sheryl Crow)
03 Old Habits Die Hard (Mick Jagger & Sheryl Crow with Dave Stewart)
04 Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain (Sheryl Crow)
05 I Never Loved a Man [The Way I Love You] (Sheryl Crow)
06 No Depression in Heaven (Sheryl Crow)
07 Blue (Zucchero & Sheryl Crow)
08 Pride and Joy (Sheryl Crow & Doyle Bramhall ll)
09 Need Your Love So Bad (B. B. King & Sheryl Crow)
10 Ring of Fire (Sheryl Crow)
11 Levon (Sheryl Crow)
12 Always on Your Side (Sheryl Crow & Sting)

https://www.upload.ee/files/15105093/SherylC_2004-2005_AlwysonYourSide_atse.zip.html

The cover photo was taken at the Annual American Music Awards in November 2004.

Madness - BBC Sessions, Volume 4: In Concert, Hammersmith Odeon, London, Britain, 12-31-1985

It's time for the next volume of the British band Madness playing for the BBC. Like the last volume in the series, this is a full concert that was broadcast live.

Madness had a great run of singles and albums from 1979 to 1986. But by the time of this concert in late 1985, they were reaching the end. I recently did some reading about their career, and found they were tired in every way. From the beginning, their music was ska-based and energetic, and their image was of being "nutty" and wild. As they got older, they found it harder and harder to keep that going. 

Yet, in my opinion, many of their songs from 1985 or thereabouts were still as good as their earlier ones. In retrospect, they had increasing problems with bad production, which was all too typical in the mid-1980s. But that was far less of a problem in a concert setting like this one.

This concert serves as a kind of "best of" for the band's first phase. (They would later reunite, and unlike most bands from their time, they would have a lot of critical and commercial success in the 2000s.) There's not much else to say. Even though this concert remains officially unreleased, the sound quality is excellent, and there were no problems to fix.

Perhaps the only surprise here is the appearance of Feargal Sharkey on one of the songs. Sharkey was the lead singer of the British punk band the Undertones, but he left for a solo career in 1984. His first solo single, "Listen to Your Father," was written by Carl Smyth, a member of Madness, and was performed and produced by Madness. It was a minor hit in Britain. Madness also backed Sharkey when he performed the song for the BBC TV show "Top of the Pops," so it's not that surprising that they did the song together for this concert too.

This album is an hour and 17 minutes long.

I do like some of what Madness did after they later reunited, and they did more performances for the BBC then, so I'll have more to post in this series.

01 talk (Madness)
02 Keep Moving (Madness)
03 Samantha (Madness)
04 Take It or Leave It (Madness)
05 Michael Caine (Madness)
06 Mad Not Mad (Madness)
07 talk (Madness)
08 Grey Day (Madness)
09 My Girl (Madness)
10 Tomorrow's Dream (Madness)
11 talk (Madness)
12 House of Fun (Madness)
13 4 B.F. [For Bryan Ferry] (Madness)
14 Yesterday's Men (Madness)
15 Blue Skinned Beast (Madness)
16 talk (Madness)
17 Time (Madness)
18 It Must Be Love (Madness)
19 talk (Madness)
20 Burning the Boats (Madness)
21 Shut Up (Madness)
22 talk (Madness)
23 Uncle Sam (Madness)
24 talk (Madness)
25 Embarrassment (Madness)
26 talk (Madness)
27 I'll Compete (Madness)
28 talk (Madness)
29 Listen to Your Father (Madness & Feargal Sharkey)
30 One Step Beyond (Madness)
31 Baggy Trousers (Madness)
32 talk (Madness)

https://www.upload.ee/files/15603419/Madns_1985_BBSessionsVolume4InConcertHammrsmithOdeon__12-31-1985_atse.zip.html

I couldn't find any really good photos from 1985. The cover photo comes from an appearance on Saturday Night Live in April 1984.

Various Artists - Bill McClintock Mash-Ups, Volume 4: 2021-2022

This is the fourth of my volumes of Bill McClintock mash-ups.

This is just more of what's on the previous volumes, so if you like those, you'll like this too. If anything, McClintock has been getting more skilled with his mash-ups as he keeps going.

Just to review in case you've missed those previous volumes, this isn't music performed by McClintock. Instead, he takes two, or sometimes three, songs, and mashes them together. The first song is a good example, where there are parts of both "Rock Steady" by Aretha Franklin and "Sweet Emotion" by Aerosmith in roughly equal measure, but mashed together to create something new.

As I mentioned before, he often likes to mash something from a heavy metal or hard rock group with something totally different, but that's not always the case. One extreme musical clash is the mash-up of the new wave hit "Eye of the Tiger" by Survivor with a Merle Haggard country song, "Goodbye Comes Hard for Me." How is it possible those fit together?! I don't know, but somehow they do.

This album is an hour and four minutes long.

UPDATE: Many months after I first posted this, I realized that I'd used the same background color, yellow, for the album cover here and with Volume 3. So I changed the color to yellow. Everything else is exactly the same.

01 Rock Emotion [Rock Steady vs. Sweet Emotion] (Aretha Franklin vs. Aerosmith)
02 Funktonite [Kryptonite vs. Do it Any Way You Wanna] (3 Discos Down vs/ People's Choice)
03 Your Jumpin' Heart [Your Cheatin' Heart vs. Jump] (Hank Williams Jr. vs. Van Halen)
04 She's a Trooper [Maniac vs. The Trooper] (Michael Sembello vs. Iron Maiden)
05 Ten Seconds to Run [Ten Seconds to Love vs. Nowhere to Run] (Motley Crue vs. Martha and the Vandellas)
06 You Make Me Feel Sad but True [You Make Me Feel like Dancing vs. Sad but True] (Leo Sayer vs. Metallica)
07 Holy Mary Jane [Mary Jane vs. Holy Diver] (Rick James vs. Dio)
08 Strokin' More than a Feeling [Strokin' vs. More than a Feeling] (Clarence Carter vs. Boston)
09 Eye of the Haggard [Eye of the Tiger vs. Goodbye Comes Hard for Me] (Survivor vs. Merle Haggard)
10 Hey Baby, Am I Black or White [Hey Baby vs. Black or White] (Ted Nugent vs. Michael Jackson)
11 Electric Sex Machine [Electric Eye vs. Sex Machine] (James Priest vs. James Brown)
12 Mutiny at the Go-Go [Going to a Go-Go vs/ Mutiny on the World] (Smokey Robinson & the Miracles vs. the Armored Saint)
13 Land Down One-der [Land Down Under vs. One] (Men at Work vs. Metallica)
14 Look Again [Do It Again vs. Looks That Kill] (Steely Dan vs. Motley Crue)
15 Master of the Neutron Dance of Destruction [Neutron Dance vs. Symphony of Destruction] (Pointer Sisters vs. Megadeth)
16 Super Rock Hard [Super Freak vs. Rock Hard, Ride Free] (Rick James vs. Judas Priest)

https://www.upload.ee/files/16651267/BILLMCCLNTCKMSHPS2021-2022Vlum4_atse.zip.html

As with the previous volumes, the cover uses a logo from Bill McClintock's YouTube page, plus a photo of him I added in the middle of it. I used a different background color to help differentiate it from the previous volume.

Humble Pie - BBC Sessions, Volume 3: 1971-1974

Here's the third and last album of the British band Humble Pie playing for the BBC. This is a collection of BBC studio sessions.

Humble Pie was mainly created so that singer and guitarist Steve Marriott could be in the same band as singer and guitarist Peter Frampton. This worked well for a while, but Frampton left the band by the end of 1971. The first five songs here come from a BBC session in March 1971 when Frampton was definitely still in the band. But all the other songs are from 1972 or later, after Frampton had left.

Everything here is officially unreleased. The first seven songs are from BBC studio sessions. Tracks 8 and 9 come from a BBC TV show called "Full House." Tracks 10 and 11 come from another BBC TV show, "The Old Grey Whistle Test." The last song, "30 Days in the Hole," comes from a BBC concert in 1974. This was the band's biggest hit and best known song. Surprisingly, even though it was released in 1972, I couldn't find a BBC version until 1974. By that time, the success of the band was declining, so it seems they stopped being invited to the BBC. The band broke up in 1975, though there were a few reunions after that, so that's why this is the last volume in this series.

This album is 52 minutes long.

01 I Don't Need No Doctor (Humble Pie)
02 Four Day Creep (Humble Pie)
03 I'm Ready (Humble Pie)
04 Rolling Stone (Humble Pie)
05 The Light (Humble Pie)
06 Road Runner (Humble Pie)
07 Sweet Peace and Time (Humble Pie)
08 Say No More (Humble Pie)
09 Honky Tonk Women (Humble Pie)
10 Black Coffee (Humble Pie)
11 Twist and Shout (Humble Pie)
12 30 Days in the Hole (Humble Pie)

https://www.upload.ee/files/15292110/HumbleP_1971-1974_BBSessionsVolum3_atse.zip.html

I'm not sure when or where this photo is from exactly. But it's from the time Frampton was still in the band.

Roy Orbison Tribute Concert Update

Recently, I posted a Roy Orbison tribute concert that took place in 1990, after his death in late 1988. You can find a link to that here:

https://albumsthatshouldexist.blogspot.com/2023/02/various-artists-roy-orbison-tribute.html

It turns out that a musical associate of mine, Lilpanda, had a different high quality source of that concert. Most of it was the same, but he had five songs I didn't have. I put three of them at the start of the concert, since I don't know the song order. Those are by NRBQ, Joe Ely, and Syd Straw. But the most news-worthy aspect of the concert was that it ended with a reunion by three original members of the Byrds, Roger McGuinn, Chris Hillman, and David Crosby. I'd only had two of the songs they did, "Turn, Turn, Turn" and "Mr. Tambourine Man," the latter with Bob Dylan joining in. But Lilpanda's version also had the Byrds performing "Eight Miles High" and "He Was a Friend of Mine. So if you go to the updated link, you'll get about 20 extra minutes of music, including the two extra Byrds songs.

The Wild Honey Orchestra - Tribute to the Village Green Preservation Society, Alex Theatre, Glendale, CA, 2-23-2019

A couple of days ago, I posted a Wild Honey Orchestra (WHO) concert that was a tribute to Buffalo Springfield. That got some good responses, so here's another WHO concert. This one is a tribute to the Kinks, most especially their classic 1968 album "The Village Green Preservation Society." The first half consists of covers of the songs from that album, in order. The second consists of other Kinks covers, all of them from their golden era, roughly 1964 to 1971.

As I explain in the Buffalo Springfield tribute post, WHO are a loose grouping of professional musicians, mostly from the Los Angeles area, who get together for one tribute concert a year, with all the proceeds benefiting an autism charity. While the WHO generally doesn't include big stars, they do contain a lot of musicians who are beloved in their niches of the music business.

You can see the names of the singers in the song credits below (as well as some full bands, like Redd Kross and the Three O'Clock). But to help out, here are some of the bands some of singers have been associated with:

Peter Holsapple & Chris Stamey: the dBs
Darian Sahanaja: the Wondermints
Dennis Diken: the Smithereens
Jason Falkner: Jellyfish & the Grays
Thomas Walsh: Pugwash
Dan Wilson: Semisonic
Graham Coxon: Blur
Rachel Haden & Anna Waronker: That Dog
Carla Olson: Textones
Jody Stephens: Big Star
Mark Eitzel: American Music Club
Mike Mills: R.E.M.
Steve Wynn: Dream Syndicate
Scott McCaughey: the Filthy Friends & the Minus 5
Elliot Easton: the Cars
Clem Burke: Blondie
Bill Janovitz: Buffalo Tom
Ira Kaplan: Yo La Tengo
John Easdale: Dramarama

I'm sure I missed some associations (feel free to help), but you get the idea. 

By the way, before posting this, I just read an article about it. That mentioned that while no actual member of the Kinks took part, that was due to health and/or travel issues. Lead guitarist Dave Davies did take part in a 1995 WHO show, so I was surprised these yearly concerts go back that far. I only have bootlegs going back to 2015, so it anyone has any older ones with good sound quality, please let me know.

Speaking of sound quality, much of this sounds excellent. About the first twenty songs all come from a professionally recorded source. That sounds great. The rest come from an audience bootleg. Normally, I don't post that kind of thing, but this was an unusually good sounding one. Also, I used the audio editing program Spleeter to improve the sound quality some. Still, you may notice a difference between the two source.

Unfortunately, the good source only had the songs, no banter between the songs. So I stuck with that all the way through, for consistency's sake. It may be better this way: all killer, no filler.

As I said with the Buffalo Springfield WHO post, "Orchestra" fits in the group name, because they are a big bunch. As many as two dozen musicians played on stage at any given time. That meant they were able really go deep in creating the ideal backing for each song. For instance, if a certain song had a prominent oboe in it, you can bet an oboe was played here too. If you're a Kinks fan, like I am, this is great stuff.

This concert is two hours and six minutes long.

01 Village Green Preservation Society (Peter Holsapple & Chris Stamey with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
02 Do You Remember Walter (Darian Sahanaja with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
03 Picture Book (Dennis Diken with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
04 Johnny Thunder (Mike Viola with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
05 The Last of the Steam Powered Trains (Terry Reid with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
06 Big Sky (Jason Falkner with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
07 Sitting by the Riverside (Ira Kaplan with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
08 Animal Farm (Thomas Walsh with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
09 Village Green (Andrew Sandoval with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
10 Starstruck (Dan Wilson with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
11 Phenomenal Cat (Chris Stamey & Debbie Shair with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
12 All of My Friends Were There (Chris Price with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
13 Wicked Annabella (Steve McDonald with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
14 Monica (Peter Holsapple & Millie McGuire with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
15 People Take Pictures of Each Other (Kristian Hoffman with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
16 Drivin' (Bebopalula with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
17 Stop Your Sobbing (Bill Janovitz with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
18 Top of the Pops (Carla Olson with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
19 Victoria (Jackshit with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
20 She's Got Everything (Three O'Clock & Jason Falkner with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
21 This Time Tomorrow (All Day Sucker with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
22 Fancy (Redd Kross with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
23 I'm Not Like Everybody Else (Terry Reid with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
24 You Shouldn't Be Sad (Ira Kaplan with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
25 Strangers (Syd Straw with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
26 This Is Where I Belong (Freedy Johnston with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
27 Afternoon Tea (Steve Stanley with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
28 Dedicated Follower of Fashion (Graham Coxon with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
29 Autumn Almanac (Probyn Gregory with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
30 A Well Respected Man (Nick Guzman with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
31 Too Much on My Mind (Dan Wilson with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
32 Two Sisters (Rachel Haden & Anna Waronker with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
33 God's Children (Jody Stephens & Luther Wright with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
34 Waterloo Sunset (Rob Laufer with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
35 Shangri-La (John Easdale with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
36 Days (Mark Eitzel with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
37 Where Have All the Good Times Gone (Steve Wynn with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
38 Get Back in Line (Scott McCaughey with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
39 Lola (Mike Mills with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
40 You Really Got Me (Everyone with the Wild Honey Orchestra) 

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The cover art consists of three parts. The very top part comes from promotional material for the show. Below that is a photo of the marquee for the theater. And at the bottom is a photo of the WHO on stage. As you can see, lots of musicians!

The Byrds - Love that Never Dies - Non-Album Tracks (1989-1998)

The Byrds disbanded in 1973. There were some reunions and collaborations between various key members in the late 1970s and early 1980s, but those faded out. Then, in 1989, the Byrds had a brief renaissance, culminating in all five original members appearing on stage to accept being inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1991, and even playing a few songs together. 

But things faded out again soon after that. One factor was that, only a few months after the Hall of Fame induction, key member Gene Clark died of cancer, exacerbated by various addictions, But also, Roger McGuinn was always central to the Byrds sound, with both his distinctive voice and guitar playing. He put out his first solo album in many years in 1991 with "Back to Rio," and even had a minor hit, "King of the Hill." However, shortly thereafter it seems he decided he wasn't interested in a conventional rock music career, and switched to mostly performing solo acoustic versions of traditional folk songs. Since 1991, he's only put out one conventional rock album of new songs, "Limited Edition," in 2004, with none of the other former Byrds on it. He rebuffed many requests by David Crosby for a Byrds reunion, saying he didn't need the money and preferred to keep the Byrds as a fond memory from long ago. Now, as I write this in 2023, Crosby has died as well, so no further Byrds reunions are possible.

This collects the best of what I could find from that early 1990s reunion time period. I've included songs actually done by the Byrds, which is defined here as original members McGuinn, Crosby, and Chris Hillman. Those three were on the outs with the other original members, Clark and Michael Clarke, due to legal battles over the use of the band name (other than their reunion for the Hall of Fame). Additionally, I've included a couple of songs with at least two members, McGuinn and Hillman or Hillman and Crosby. Finally, I've included songs just by McGuinn that had that Byrdsy sound to it. Putting all that together is just enough material for what I think is a very solid album.

McGuinn, Crosby, and Hillman played a few concerts as a threesome in 1989, as part of their legal battle to argue that they were the real Byrds, and different bands led by either Clark or Clarke were not. I'm not including any songs from those concerts since the sound quality is rougher than everything else here. But if people are interested, I could post the best sounding bootleg from those shows. However, those concerts led to McGuinn, Crosby, and Hillman recording four songs together in the studio, which came out on the 1990 box set simply titled "The Byrds." Three of those were covers, but the fourth, "Love that Never Dies," is a very nice McGuinn original. 

Tracks six through ten are what I consider the best songs from McGuinn's 1991 album "Back from Rio." However, one of those, "Without Your Love," is labelled as a Byrds song, because Crosby and Hillman also played and song on it. In 1996, McGuinn released a live acoustic album called "Live from Mars." But it had two new, original extra studio songs on it, "Fireworks" and "May the Road Rise," that were done with a full band. So I've included those here. The final song come from a Hillman solo album.

I didn't include any songs from the 1991 Hall of Fame induction. The performance was pretty rough, obviously with no practice, and Clarke totally drunk. (He would die of liver failure due to years of heavy alcohol consumption in 1993.) You can find videos of a couple of songs from that on YouTube. Far better were two songs done for a Roy Orbison tribute concert in 1990. I've posted that full concert here recently. But I'm including the two Byrds songs from that as bonus tracks, for those who don't want the whole show.

This album is 48 minutes long, not including the bonus tracks.

01 You Ain't Goin' Nowhere (Nitty Gritty Dirt Band with Roger McGuinn & Chris Hillman)
02 He Was a Friend of Mine (Byrds)
03 Paths of Victory (Byrds)
04 From a Distance (Byrds)
05 Love that Never Dies (Byrds)
06 Someone to Love (Roger McGuinn)
07 Suddenly Blue (Roger McGuinn)
08 King of the Hill (Roger McGuinn with Tom Petty)
09 Without Your Love (Byrds)
10 If We Never Meet Again (Roger McGuinn)
11 Fireworks (Roger McGuinn)
12 May the Road Rise (Roger McGuinn)
13 I'm Still Alive (Chris Hillman with David Crosby)

Mr. Tambourine Man (Byrds with Bob Dylan)
Turn, Turn, Turn [To Everything There Is a Season] (Byrds)

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The cover photo was taken backstage at the Roy Orbison tribute concert in 1990. From right to left, that's Hillman, Crosby, and McGuinn. I used Photoshop to darken the background, because there were some distracting balloons and other things there.

The Wild Honey Orchestra - Tribute to Buffalo Springfield, Alex Theatre, Glendale, CA, 2-17-2018

Here's something a little different, but if you're a fan of the band Buffalo Springfield, I'm sure you'll like it.

The Wild Honey Orchestra is a loose grouping of musicians, mostly based in Los Angeles, who have been putting on a yearly concert to benefit an autism charity since about 2015. Each year, they pick a different musical theme, and they have retro tastes very similar to mine. For instance, they did cover versions of the entire Beatles albums "Revolver" and "Abbey Road" in 2014, then the Beatles' "White Album" in 2015, then Beach Boys music in 2016, Band music in 2017, this one is 2018, Kinks music in 2019, Lovin' Spoonful music in 2020, and Big Star music in 2022. The songs are done by those who generally have had successful careers in music but aren't big stars. The singers are backed by many musicians, often dozens on stage. So calling them an "orchestra" is fitting, even though it's sometimes more like a really big band than an orchestra in the classical music sense.

The big draw in this particular show was the presence of Richie Furay, one of the three key singer-songwriters in Buffalo Springfield. He generally was only on stage for the songs he sang, but he sang about eight of them. Other notables include Mickey Dolenz of the Monkees, Iain Matthews of Fairport Convention, Terry Reid, Syd Straw, Martha Davis of the Motels, Elliot Easton of the Cars, Susan Cowsill of the Cowsills, Carla Olson, Brent Rademaker of Beachwood Sparks, Darian Sahanaja of the Wondermints, the bands Dream Syndicate and the Three O'Clock, and many, many more.

These concerts aren't just thrown together. Each song was carefully rehearsed, with all the different parts well thought out. As a result, even the most complicated songs can sound well done. Give the short and turbulent history of Buffalo Springfield, that means their songs were often done is a style much closer to the studio versions than the guys of Buffalo Springfield ever managed. "Broken Arrow" is a case in point. Even the many sound effects of the studio version were faithfully duplicated here. But the performances are much better than just slavish reproductions. The lead vocalists in particular tended to put their individual styles on each song.

So, if you're a Buffalo Springfield fan, this is kind of a dream concert, with even deep cuts done well. 

I had been aware of these Wild Honey Orchestra concerts for a few years, but I hadn't paid them much attention, because I only came across audience bootlegs that merely sounded decent. I'm posting this because I finally found excellent, professionally recorded versions of each song. The snag is that there's only the music. Other than one story told by Richie Furay before one of the songs, there's virtually no banter here, and even the applause tended to fade out quickly. That's all I've got (in worthy sound quality), so it's all I can post. But in a way perhaps it's for the best, because there's just one solid song after another with little pause.

I've come across recordings of some of the other Wild Honey Orchestra concerts in similar quality, but not all, so I plan on posting those soon as well. If anyone has good versions of the Revolver/Abbey Road show, or the Big Star show, please let me know.

This concert is two hours and three minutes long.

01 Out of My Mind (Bebopalula with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
02 Hung Upside Down (David Goodstein with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
03 Down to the Wire (Syd Straw with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
04 Burned (Stephen McCarthy & Carla Olson with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
05 We'll See (All Day Sucker with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
06 Pay the Price (Brent Rademaker with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
07 Sit Down, I Think I Love You (Darian Sahanaja & Susan Cowsill with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
08 Merry-Go-Round (Chris Price with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
09 Pretty Girl Why (Luther Russell with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
10 Everydays (Cindy Lee Berryhill with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
11 Four Days Gone (Terry Reid with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
12 I Am a Child (Nick Guzman with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
13 Carefree Country Day (Steve Stanley with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
14 talk (Richie Furay with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
15 A Child's Claim to Fame (Richie Furay with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
16 Go and Say Goodbye (Richie Furay with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
17 Kind Woman (Richie Furay with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
18 Expecting to Fly (Claudia Lennear & Rob Laufer with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
19 In the Hour of Not Quite Rain (Our Truth with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
20 Broken Arrow (Iain Matthews & Chris Price with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
21 It's So Hard to Wait (Micky Dolenz with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
22 Sad Memory (Richie Furay with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
23 On the Way Home (Richie Furay with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
24 Rock and Roll Woman (Three O'Clock with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
25 Everybody's Wrong (Martha Davis with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
26 Mr. Soul (Dream Syndicate with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
27 Bluebird (Willie Aron with Elliot Easton & the Wild Honey Orchestra)
28 Uno Mundo (Carla Olson with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
29 Special Care (Claudia Lennear with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
30 Questions (Gary Myrick with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
31 Flying on the Ground Is Wrong (Richie Furay with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
32 Do I Have to Come Right Out and Say It (Richie Furay with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
33 Nowadays Even Clancy Can't Sing (Richie Furay with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
34 For What It's Worth (Richie Furay with the Wild Honey Orchestra) 

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For the cover art, I found a photo of the sign out in front of the theater. I put that at the top. I also found some promotional art listing all the musicians who performed, and I put that at the bottom.

Various Artists - Covered: Fats Domino & Dave Bartholomew, Volume 2: 1990-2012

Yesterday, I posted Volume 1 of my Covered Series focus on the songwriting team of Fats Domino and Dave Bartholomew. Here's both the second and the last volume.

I already said most of what I wanted to say in my notes for Volume One. Refer to that if you want to know more about the artists here and some of their history together.

However, I do have comments about a couple of songs. One is that between the two volumes, I believe I have included all of the big hits written by Domino and/or Bartholomew. However, Domino did have a few hits that neither of them had a role in writing. The biggest of these by far is "Blueberry Hill." It's considered one of Domino's best known hits, maybe even his signature song. But it actually was first done in 1940, and was a hit for Glenn Miller and then again for Louis Armstrong. Domino merely revamped it into a rock and roll song.

I think the song "The Monkey" is an especially fascinating one. It was written just by Bartholomew. It  was released as a single performed by him in 1957, but it wasn't a hit. However, the lyrics are remarkable for its era. Remember, this was the time of McCarthyist witch hunts, when too much criticism could get a person blacklisted. By using the conceit of a monkey criticizing the human race, he was able to make some stinging social criticism. For instance, here's one of the verses that implicitly knocks the whole capitalist system:

And another thing you will never see
A monkey build a fence around a coconut tree
And let all the coconuts go to waste
Forbidding other monkeys to come and taste
Why, if I put a fence around this tree
Starvation would force you to steal from me

The whole song even subtly mocks racism, as well as creationism, since the monkey in the song knocks the idea that monkeys and humans are related, because monkeys don't see humans as being worthy of them. That cleverly turned the idea of humans thinking they couldn't be related to monkeys on its head. That's especially meaningful given that Bartholomew was a black man, just like Domino. Kudos to Elvis Costello for covering this obscurity decades later and giving it some more attention. I noticed on YouTube that he even played the song in concert with Bartholomew, which is nice.

One rule I had in putting these two volumes together is I didn't want to include two songs by the same artist. But I'll admit I bent that rule a bit, because Robert Plant sings lead on two of the songs here, even though he does it with two different bands.

This album is 44 minutes long.

01 Goin' Home (James Brown)
02 Be My Guest (Yellowman)
03 I'm Gonna Be a Wheel Someday (Sheryl Crow)
04 It Keeps Raining (Bitty McLean)
05 Real Gone Lover (Van Morrison & Linda Gail Lewis)
06 The Monkey (Elvis Costello)
07 Walking to New Orleans (Neil Young)
08 Valley of Tears (Robert Plant & the Soweto Gospel Choir)
09 Honey Chile (Lucinda Williams)
10 I Want to Walk You Home (Paul McCartney with Allen Toussaint)
11 Whole Lotta Loving (Lenny Kravitz with Rebirth Brass Band)
12 My Girl Josephine (Super Cat with Jack Radics)
13 I've Been Around (Lil' Band O' Gold with Robert Plant)

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For once, I didn't have to make a lot of edits to get a color photo of two songwriters together. The cover photo here is exactly as it originally appeared, with the two of them leaning against each other. However, I did make one edit, and that was to change the black background to a light blue one.

UPDATE: On September 29, 2024, I upgraded the photo with the use of the Krea AI program.