Robbie Robertson - Shine Your Light - Non-Album Tracks (2000-2011)

Lots of great musicians seem to be dying lately, as I write this in August 2023. The latest is Robbie Robertson. He was the lead guitarist and main songwriter for the Band, writing classics like "The Weight " and "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down." He almost never sang lead vocals with the Band, but he had a fairly successful solo career after they broke up in the late 1970s. He was 80 years old when he died.

I thought I'd post some music by him to mark his passing. I had previously posted two stray tracks albums from his solo career that started in the early 1980s. I had hesitated to post another one, because I had enough material for one long album, but not quite enough for two short ones. I was waiting for some more songs from him to make two decent sized albums. But now that he's passed, there probably won't be any more new music. So I redid the two albums I'd already posted, since they were rather long. 

After some rearranging, I have enough material for four albums. But the downside is that you should redownload the first two, if you don't want to miss some songs and have duplicates. Note also that I added one song to the first one and two to the second one. Those two are unreleased studio tracks that definitely shouldn't be missed. So here are the links for those:

The Far Cry of Lonely Trains

https://albumsthatshouldexist.blogspot.com/2020/02/robbie-robertson-far-lonely-cry-of.html

Bad Intentions

https://albumsthatshouldexist.blogspot.com/2021/05/robbie-robertson-bad-intentions-various.html

Now, on to this album. Robertson only released six studio albums in his career, but he had enough extra material for four non-album track albums. I suppose that had to do with the fact that he was involved in many movie soundtracks. The first four songs here come from soundtracks, in fact. 

The unreleased song "World on Fire" is sung with Sarah MacLachlan. It's a studio outtake, so it sounds as good as the others. Another unreleased song, "Straight Down the Line," is from a TV show performance. That song was included on his studio album "How to Become Clairvoyant," but he performed live so very rarely that I figured it was worth including a live version here. "Who Do You Love" is a duet with Eric Clapton that was released on DVD only. "Going to the River" is from a Fats Domino tribute album. The last three songs are bonus tracks from various versions of "How to Become Clairvoyant."

This album is 44 minutes long.

01 Amazing Grace [Instrumental] (Robbie Robertson)
02 Carry Me (Robbie Robertson)
03 Out of the Blue [Instrumental Version] (Robbie Robertson)
04 Shine Your Light (Robbie Robertson)
05 World on Fire (Sarah McLachlan with Robbie Robertson)
06 Going to the River (Robbie Robertson with Galactic)
07 Who Do You Love (Eric Clapton & Robbie Robertson)
08 Straight Down the Line (Robbie Robertson)
09 Catwalk (Robbie Robertson)
10 Houdini (Robbie Robertson)
11 Madame X [Instrumental] [Demo] (Robbie Robertson & Eric Clapton)

https://www.upload.ee/files/15577817/RobbieR_2000-2011_ShneYourLght_atse.zip.html

The cover photo was taken at a Vanity Fair Oscar party in Los Angeles in 2005.