Labi Siffre - BBC Sessions, Volume 2: In Concert, Paris Theatre, London, Britain, 11-18-1972

Here's another BBC album by singer-songwriter Labi Siffre. This is a short concert from 1972. It's solo acoustic in format.

I mentioned in my write-up for "Volume 1" that Siffre is an unusually talented guitar player for singer-songwriters of that era. That really comes through here, with it just being him and his acoustic guitar. He has a lot of nice classical and/or jazzy touches. It's too bad though that he didn't play either of his British hits that had been released by the time of this concert, "It Must Be Love" and "Crying, Laughing, Loving, Lying."

This concert was pretty short, at only 26 minutes. So I looked around to see if there were any other live performances from this time. I only found one that wasn't lip-synced, from an appearance on the BBC TV show "The Harry Secombe Show" in December 1972. So that one song, "My Song," is added on at the end as kind of a quasi-bonus track. That song was later heavily sampled for the Kanye West song "I Wonder," including some of Siffre's vocals. 

Note that there appears to have been another BBC concert by Siffre in 1971. Unfortunately, I can't find all of it. His official YouTube account has been posting songs from it, very slowly. Over the past two years, they've posted six songs, with the latest one just from a couple of days ago. I hope they'll keep going until they've posted the whole thing. Although it's frustrating that all the banter and/or applause has been edited out. If and when I get all of that, I'll probably post that, and renumber the BBC albums that come after, like this one. If anyone does have all of that one, please let me know.

Everything here is officially unreleased. The sound quality is excellent. 

This album is 30 minutes long. 

01 talk (Labi Siffre)
02 Fool Me a Good Night (Labi Siffre)
03 Feeling I Got (Labi Siffre)
04 talk (Labi Siffre)
05 Love Song for Someone (Labi Siffre)
06 talk (Labi Siffre)
07 Down (Labi Siffre)
08 talk (Labi Siffre)
09 Children of Children (Labi Siffre)
10 talk (Labi Siffre)
11 Hotel Room Song (Labi Siffre)
12 talk (Labi Siffre)
13 Odds and Ends (Labi Siffre)
14 My Song (Labi Siffre)

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The cover photo shows Siffre on the "Harry Secombe Show" in December 1972. It was taken during the performance of the last song here.