Paul Weller - BBC Sessions, Volume 13: Sold on Song, BBC Studios, London, Britain, 11-2-2006

Here we go with yet another BBC album performed by Paul Weller. This time, it's a short solo acoustic concert from 2006.

From about 2003 to 2007, the BBC had a TV show called "Sold on Song." The idea was, famous singer-songwriters would talk about the art of songwriting and demonstrate what they meant by performing some songs. This kind of thing is right up my alley, since I've enjoyed writing songs myself. Unfortunately, I can only find a few of the episodes, and I don't even know how many there are. I've already posted episodes by Ray Davies of the Kinks and Paul McCartney. I have episodes by Elvis Costello, Bruce Springsteen, and the Finn Brothers (Neil Finn and Tim Finn of Crowded House). I've heard of episodes by Gamble and Huff, Carly Simon, the Motown team of Holland-Dozier-Holland, George Michael, and Brian Wilson, but I can't find any of those. There probably are others I don't even know about. If you have some, please let me know so I can share them here.

Weller hadn't gone on an acoustic tour since 2001, so some of these songs were rarely or never done in this solo acoustic format. It's too bad though that when he played "Back in the Fire," he only played a snippet that lasted about half a minute.

Note that shortly after I posted this, a kind commenter sent me the full version, with lots of interviews between Weller and BBC DJ Mark Lamarr between every song. I decided to post that as a separate download, for all the people who want that much talking. And there's a lot of talking - that version is nearly double in length!

This album is 30 minutes long.

01 talk (Paul Weller)
02 Hung Up (Paul Weller)
03 Wild Wood (Paul Weller)
04 English Rose (Paul Weller)
05 talk (Paul Weller)
06 Roll Along Summer (Paul Weller)
07 Let It Be Me (Paul Weller)
08 talk (Paul Weller)
09 Back in the Fire [Snippet] (Paul Weller)
10 talk (Paul Weller)
11 Amongst Butterflies (Paul Weller)
12 talk (Paul Weller)
13 Frightened (Paul Weller)
14 To the Start of Forever (Paul Weller)
15 talk (Paul Weller)
16 That's Entertainment (Paul Weller)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/MVewMMgB

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/V3dGn2Qu8b6gm44/file

Here's the link for the full version, with all the interviews between songs. This version is 56 minutes long:

https://pixeldrain.com/u/ysbaKfs6

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/gi0DNNPhpLV7bOD/file

The cover photo is from the North Sea Jazz Festival in Rotterdam on July 16, 2006.