Tuesday, November 14, 2023

Elton John - BBC Sessions, Volume 14: In Concert, Tabernacle, Atlanta, GA, 11-4-2004

I've already posted a ton of BBC albums from Elton John, and I'm still not done. Since the 1970s, John has mainly performed full concerts broadcast on the BBC, and that's the case again here.

In 2004, he released the studio album "Peachtree Road." The album was named after a street in Atlanta, Georgia, where he has owned a house for many years. That no doubt explains why he started his concert tour to support the album at this venue in Atlanta. The album got good critical reviews, but lackluster sales compared to most of his recent previous albums. 

However, he must have been very proud of the album, because he took the unusual step of starting the concert with nine songs in a row taken from the album (out of 12 on the album). After those nine, the rest of the concert was devoted to playing his biggest hits. Those first nine songs from this exact concert were later put on a release of the album, but only in DVD form. (This concert otherwise remains unreleased.)

The sound quality is excellent, like you'd expect from a BBC production. However, there were occasional bits between songs when a BBC DJ would speak up to remind the listener that they were hearing this on the BBC. Thankfully, these were very brief, and I edited them out.

The album is an hour and 34 minutes long.

01 talk (Elton John)
02 Weight of the World (Elton John)
03 talk (Elton John)
04 Porch Swing in Tupelo (Elton John)
05 Answer in the Sky (Elton John)
06 talk (Elton John)
07 Turn the Lights Out When You Leave (Elton John)
08 My Elusive Drug (Elton John)
09 talk (Elton John)
10 They Call Her the Cat (Elton John)
11 Freaks in Love (Elton John)
12 talk (Elton John)
13 All That I'm Allowed [I'm Thankful] (Elton John)
14 talk (Elton John)
15 I Can't Keep This from You (Elton John)
16 talk (Elton John)
17 Your Song (Elton John)
18 Philadelphia Freedom (Elton John)
19 The Bitch is Back (Elton John)
20 Border Song [Holy Moses] (Elton John)
21 Levon (Elton John)
22 Don't the Sun Go Down on Me (Elton John)
23 Burn Down the Mission (Elton John)
24 talk (Elton John)
25 Bite Your Lip [Get Up and Dance] (Elton John)
26 I'm Still Standing (Elton John)
27 talk (Elton John)
28 Saturday Night's Alright for Fighting (Elton John)

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The cover photo comes from this exact concert.

1 comment:

  1. Thank you for this one. It's nice to have such a different setlist from the always best of setlists. Will listen to this more seriously, as I never listened to this album. Interesting and thanks again,
    Greetings from Paris,

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