Elton John - VH-1 Storytellers, House of Blues, New Orleans, LA, 9-19-1997

Next for the "VH-1 Storytellers" series is the musical legend Elton John.

There are two particularly notable aspects about this episode, in my opinion. One is that the entire show was performed just by John at a piano. It isn't very often when he plays solo like that. The second is that this is effectively a double show, since it was twice as long as a typical episode.

Just three days after this concert, he released the studio album "The Big Picture." The songs played from that album here "Something about the Way You Look Tonight," which was a big hit, and " Long Way from Happiness." Otherwise, he generally played classic hits from previous albums.

As was usually the case, most of the first song was cut off. That's especially a shame since it was the all-time classic "Your Song." I found another version from the same year with similar sound quality and merged the versions together. That's what that song has "[Edit]" in the title. There also was a problem in the middle of "I Guess That's Why They Call It the Blues," but I was able to patch in some music to cover it up. So that's why that one also has "[Edit]" in the title.

This album is an hour and 15 minutes long.

01 Your Song [Edit] (Elton John)
02 talk (Elton John)
03 Talking Old Soldiers (Elton John)
04 talk (Elton John)
05 I Don't Wanna Go On with You like That (Elton John)
06 talk (Elton John)
07 I Guess That's Why They Call It the Blues [Edit] (Elton John)
08 talk (Elton John)
09 Daniel (Elton John)
10 talk (Elton John)
11 Levon (Elton John)
12 talk (Elton John)
13 Something about the Way You Look Tonight (Elton John)
14 talk (Elton John)
15 Long Way from Happiness (Elton John)
16 talk (Elton John)
17 Bennie and the Jets (Elton John)
18 talk (Elton John)
19 Sorry Seems to Be the Hardest Word (Elton John)
20 talk (Elton John)
21 Take Me to the Pilot (Elton John)
22 talk (Elton John)
23 Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me (Elton John)

https://www.upload.ee/files/17180168/ELTONJHN1997StrytllrsHuseofBlusNwOrlensLA__9-19-1997_atse.zip.html

alternate link:

https://pixeldrain.com/u/NnLzFMzv

I couldn't find a good photo from this exact concert. So instead I used one from "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno" that took place only three days later, September 22, 1997.