Pete Townshend - Who Demos, Volume 10: 1982-1995: It's Hard & Solo Albums

I recently posted the ninth volume in this series. Here's the tenth and final one, before I forget. Generally, the series is about the demos Pete Townshend made that later turned into songs for albums by the Who, as opposed to a separate series I've made of Townshend's non-album tracks, which are mostly demos. But for this final volume, it's dominated by songs that went to Townshend's 1980s solo albums.

The only album by the Who represented here is "It's Hard," from 1982. But for whatever reason, there aren't many demos from that one, just "Popular" (an early version of "It's Hard") and "Cry If You Want." Plus, there's a version of "Eminence Front," but it's stuck at the end because it's all the way from 1995. Apparently, Townshend made a new demo of the song before going on tour, and liked it enough to include it on his archival album "Scoop 3."

Track two through five are all demos of songs from Townshend's 1982 solo album "All the Best Cowboys Have Chinese Eyes." Those four songs are all unreleased, as is "Cry If You Want" mentioned above. I really like Townshend's 1985 album "White City," but there are only two demos of songs from that album, "Crashing by Design" and "I Am Secure." All the remaining songs relate to his 1989 album "Iron Man." Those are all officially released, mostly from his "Scoop 3" album, except for "I Eat Heavy Metal."

This album is an hour and five minutes long.

01 Popular [Early Version of It's Hard] (Pete Townshend)
02 Stop Hurting People (Pete Townshend)
03 Face Dances, Pt. 2 (Pete Townshend)
04 Uniforms [Corp d'Esprit] (Pete Townshend)
05 The Sea Refuses No River (Pete Townshend)
06 Cry If You Want (Pete Townshend)
07 Crashing by Design (Pete Townshend)
08 I Am Secure (Pete Townshend)
09 Man and Machines [Man Machines] (Pete Townshend)
10 Dig (Pete Townshend)
11 I Eat Heavy Metal (Pete Townshend)
12 I Am Afraid (Pete Townshend)
13 Outlive the Dinosaur (Pete Townshend)
14 Iron Man Recitative (Pete Townshend)
15 Eminence Front (Pete Townshend)

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The cover photo is from a 1985 photo shoot.

Squeeze - BBC Sessions, Volume 8: 1993-1998

It's time for another Squeeze BBC album. This one, "Volume 8," is meant to be a collection of studio sessions.

In 1993 and 1994, Squeeze had at least three BBC studio sessions to promote their 1993 studio album "Some Fantastic Place." Most of their performances were later included in their archival album "The Complete BBC Sessions." However, unfortunately, they played some of the same songs multiple times, with barely any difference between the versions. So I've only included one version of each. I believe the songs they played multiple times were "Third Rail," "Some Fantastic Place," and "Tempted."

They went on to release the albums "Ridiculous" in 1995 and "Domino" in 1998. Then they broke up for an extended time. Their next studio album of original material wouldn't come out until 2015. So I wanted material from those albums, but it seems they didn't do any more BBC studio sessions in that time, at least none that I could find. However, they did perform a BBC concert in Cambridge, Britain, in 1998. I thought about posting the whole concert, but these concerts mostly consist of them playing their biggest hits, and I've posted a bunch of concerts like that already. So instead I just took the relatively new songs they played in that concert ("Domino," "Donkey Talk," "Memory Motel," and "To Be a Dad"), plus one older hit that wasn't played in concert that much, "Goodbye Girl," and added it to this album. Since there's a mix of studio and live material, I removed the cheering noises from the live cuts with the use of the UVR5 audio editing program.

So that's why I said up above that this volume is "meant to be a collection of studio sessions," since about half of it actually comes from a concert. But now it plays like all studio sessions.

Tracks 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, and 7 have been officially released on the "Complete BBC Sessions" album. "It's Over" is from one of the exact same BBC sessions as some songs on that album, but it remained unreleased. The last five songs are from that 1998 BBC concert I mentioned above and are unreleased. 

This album is 53 minutes long.

01 Third Rail (Squeeze)
02 Cold Shoulder (Squeeze)
03 Loving You Tonight (Squeeze)
04 Some Fantastic Place (Squeeze)
05 It's Over (Squeeze)
06 Hourglass (Squeeze)
07 Tempted (Squeeze)
08 Domino (Squeeze)
09 Donkey Talk (Squeeze)
10 Melody Motel (Squeeze)
11 To Be a Dad (Squeeze)
12 Goodbye Girl (Squeeze)

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The cover photo only features Chris Difford and Glenn Tilbrook, who basically became Squeeze by this time, since they co-wrote all the songs and were the only two consistent members. It's from a photo shoot in New York City in 1996.

The Velvet Underground - The Playhouse, Edinburgh, Britain, 6-2-1993

The Velvet Underground is one of the most legendary and revered rock bands of all time. But it seems like their 1993 reunion tour has been mostly forgotten. Maybe that's because the only way most people have of judging it, the official live album that documents it, "Live MCMXCIII," was curiously lackluster. Perhaps this concert bootleg will change some minds. I like it a lot, and I much prefer it to the official album.

Velvet Underground member John Cale considered the official album a disappointment, mainly due to the way it was mixed. He later commented:

The trouble is that we had an opportunity here with the live album to really show what the band sounded like and it really doesn't give it to you. Some of the bootlegs that came out of the tour are almost a truer vision of what the band sounded like than the well recorded one, because the well recorded one really didn't take advantage of the ambiance of the room in the mix of the music. And that's what we were always pushing at. We wanted to fill the room up with this noise. Unfortunately it wasn't quite as present in the mix as I would have liked it to be or others would have liked it to be either.

I wonder what Cale would think about this particular bootleg. I didn't post anything from this reunion tour prior to this, because I thought there was nothing but rough audience bootlegs. But I recently discovered this. It's either a soundboard or an FM radio broadcast. Either way, I think the sound quality is as good or better than the official live album.

Now, let me say a little bit about the reunion tour in general. The two main singers and songwriters in the band, Lou Reed and John Cale, put out an album together in 1990, "Songs for Drella." While they toured together to support that album, they were joined on stage for a single song at a concert in France by the other two original members of the Velvet Underground, Maureen Tucker and Sterling Morrison. That set the stage for a reunion tour with all four of them.

The tour began in Edinburgh on June 1, 1993. This was the second night of the tour, also in Edinburgh. Creative juices must have been flowing, because the last song played here, "Coyote," was apparently written jointly by Reed and Cale mere hours before the concert began. That's according to some banter in the concert by Reed. But that also matches the information at setlist.fm, because it wasn't performed on the first night, and this was the first time it was played in public. 

The tour was a relatively short one, hitting different countries in Europe over six weeks. There was a plan to follow it up with a North American tour, a studio album, and more. But relations between band members quickly deteriorated, and all further reunion plans were canceled at the end of the six weeks. So we're very lucky to have this excellent recording from the second night of the tour, before the troubles began. By the way, the "Live MCMXCIII" was recorded over a couple of nights in Paris, France, about two weeks later. So maybe the band was already in decline by then compared to this night, who knows.

John Cale was only in the Velvet Underground for their first two albums, "Velvet Underground and Nico" and "White Light/White Heat." So, not surprisingly, many of the songs in this concert came from those early albums. But it's interesting to see Cale take part in the songs that were recorded after he left, such as "Sweet Jane" and "Rock and Roll." This reunion tour was probably the only time he ever did that. 

Also, Cale didn't sing lead vocals much at all while he was a member of the Velvet Underground, but he did have a long, successful solo career as a lead vocalist afterwards. So I liked how he sang lead on a few of the songs here, taking vocals that had been done by Nico or even by Reed.

Although the bootleg was excellent in most respects, it did have some problems. The biggest problem was that all but the first minute and a half of the song "I Can't Stand It" was missing. So I used the "Live MCMXCIII" version to patch in the rest. That's why that song has "[Edit]" in its title. Also, in some cases (but not most cases), the applause at the ends of songs was cut off. So I patched in applause from the ends of other songs to give every song a normal sounding ending.

Sterling Morrison died of a degenerative disease (non-Hodgkin's lymphoma) just two years after this tour, so we're lucky it happened when it did. 

This album is an hour and 55 minutes long.

01 Real Good Time Together (Velvet Underground)
02 talk (Velvet Underground)
03 Venus in Furs (Velvet Underground)
04 talk (Velvet Underground)
05 Guess I'm Falling in Love (Velvet Underground)
06 After Hours (Velvet Underground)
07 All Tomorrow's Parties (Velvet Underground)
08 Some Kinda Love (Velvet Underground)
09 I'll Be Your Mirror (Velvet Underground)
10 Beginning to See the Light (Velvet Underground)
11 The Gift (Velvet Underground)
12 I Heard Her Call My Name (Velvet Underground)
13 Femme Fatale (Velvet Underground)
14 talk (Velvet Underground)
15 Hey Mr. Rain (Velvet Underground)
16 talk (Velvet Underground)
17 Sweet Jane (Velvet Underground)
18 Velvet Nursery Rhyme (Velvet Underground)
19 talk (Velvet Underground)
20 White Light-White Heat (Velvet Underground)
21 I'm Sticking with You (Velvet Underground)
22 The Black Angel's Death Song (Velvet Underground)
23 Rock and Roll (Velvet Underground)
24 talk (Velvet Underground)
25 I Can't Stand It [Edit] (Velvet Underground)
26 I'm Waiting for the Man (Velvet Underground)
27 Heroin (Velvet Underground)
28 talk (Velvet Underground)
29 Coyote (Velvet Underground)

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The cover photo isn't from this concert, but it's close. It was taken three days later at the Forum in London. From left to right, that's Cale, Reed, Tucker, and Morrison. For the band name at the top, I used the art from the official live album.

Joan Baez - BBC Sessions, Volume 3: In Concert, Dominion Theatre, London, Britain, 5-22-1993

When I posted a "BBC Sessions, Volume 2" album by Joan Baez a few weeks ago, I noted that I probably was missing some other BBC concerts she did. That's still true, but at least I found this one since then. It took place in 1993. 

When I've thought about Baez, I've generally considered her a folk singer in her 1960s and 1970s heyday. But after listening to this, plus another BBC concert I've found from the 1990s, I'm more impressed with her later material. She didn't start out a songwriter, but she eventually grew into being a pretty good one. For instance, her big 1975 hit "Diamonds and Rust" was written by her. And she had good taste in cover versions. So although I wasn't familiar with most of these songs, I thought they were pretty good.

This remains officially unreleased. The sound quality is solid, although this was sourced from relatively low quality mp3s. I edited them a bit, but I couldn't improve things much.

This album is 53 minutes long.

01 Love Is Just a Four-Letter Word (Joan Baez)
02 talk (Joan Baez)
03 Isaac and Abraham (Joan Baez)
04 talk (Joan Baez)
05 Amsterdam (Joan Baez)
06 talk (Joan Baez)
07 Play Me Backwards (Joan Baez)
08 talk (Joan Baez)
09 Strange Rivers (Joan Baez)
10 talk (Joan Baez)
11 Welcome Me (Joan Baez)
12 There but for Fortune (Joan Baez)
13 talk (Joan Baez)
14 Edge of Glory (Joan Baez)
15 Diamonds and Rust (Joan Baez)
16 talk (Joan Baez)
17 I'm with You (Joan Baez)
18 talk (Joan Baez)
19 Forever Young (Joan Baez)

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The cover photo is from the Central Park Summerstage concert in New York City in August 1993.

Midnight Oil - BBC Sessions, Volume 2: In Concert, Glastonbury Festival, Worthy Farm, Pilton, Britain, 6-25-1993

I had come across this Midnight Oil concert years ago and I considered posting it here, but I ultimately decided against it because I deemed it too short. However, I recently found a different version that had two extra songs on it, plus some additional banter. It added about 13 minutes, and I believe makes it the complete performance.

I had previously posted a 1990 Midnight Oil concert as their only BBC album. Since I've found this, I renamed that to "Volume 1," making this "Volume 2." So you may want to redownload that other one, with changed title and cover art and mp3 tags. Here's the link:

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This concert took place a couple of months after the release of the band's popular "Earth and Sun and Moon" album. It was only three years from the other BBC concert I've posted. But the main difference is the inclusion of songs from that album, like "My Country," "Truganini," "Outbreak of Love," and "Tell Me the Truth."

This album is 51 minutes long.

01 The Dead Heart (Midnight Oil)
02 talk (Midnight Oil)
03 My Country (Midnight Oil)
04 Blue Sky Mine (Midnight Oil)
05 Warakurna (Midnight Oil)
06 Outbreak of Love (Midnight Oil)
07 Tell Me the Truth (Midnight Oil)
08 Truganini (Midnight Oil)
09 Forgotten Years (Midnight Oil)
10 talk (Midnight Oil)
11 Beds Are Burning (Midnight Oil)
12 talk (Midnight Oil)
13 Hercules (Midnight Oil)

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The cover photo of the band's lead singer Peter Garrett is from a concert in San Francisco, California, on September 29, 1993.

Jackson Browne - BBC Sessions, Volume 4: In Concert, Cambridge Theatre, London, Britain, 10-24-1993

Yesterday, I posted a poll asking about which big name artists I should target as part of my big BBC project. But before I get to those, I want to make a concerted effort to finish off the BBC albums of some other big name artists in the next little while. Here's an example. I recently found two more Jackson Browne BBC concerts, with this one and one that comes after.

At the time of this concert, Browne's 1993 album "I'm Alive" was coming out. In fact, it would be released just two days later. The album was well received critically, and Browne naturally played a bunch of songs from it here. (Though note that this concert was almost certainly edited down from a longer concert to fit in an hour-long time slot.)

Listening this, what struck me is how rocking it is, overall. It's pretty different from his typical folky 1970s mode, but I like it.

Everything here is officially unreleased.

This album is 59 minutes long.

01 Doctor My Eyes (Jackson Browne)
02 talk (Jackson Browne)
03 World in Motion (Jackson Browne)
04 talk (Jackson Browne)
05 My Problem Is You (Jackson Browne)
06 talk (Jackson Browne)
07 Two of Me, Two of You (Jackson Browne)
08 Miles Away (Jackson Browne)
09 Too Many Angels (Jackson Browne)
10 For Everyman (Jackson Browne)
11 Sky Blue and Black (Jackson Browne)
12 talk (Jackson Browne)
13 The Pretender (Jackson Browne)
14 talk (Jackson Browne)
15 Before the Deluge (Jackson Browne)

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The cover photo comes from a concert at the Shoreline Amphitheatre, in Mountain View, California, on October 11, 1992.

Covered: Sam Cooke: 1957-2009

It's time for more of my Covered series highlighting great songwriters. I generally want to look at songwriters who didn't have successful careers as performers, but sometimes I make exceptions, and this is one of those times. Sam Cooke is generally known as a great soul singer. For instance, in 2023, Rolling Stone Magazine listed him as number three in their list of the 200 best singers of all time. But I think his talent as a songwriter is far less known and appreciated.

To give the basics about him, I'll quote from his Wikipedia entry:

"Considered one of the most influential soul artists of all time, Cooke is commonly referred to as the 'King of Soul' for his distinctive vocals, pioneering contributions to the genre, and significance in popular music. During his eight-year career, Cooke released 29 singles that charted in the Top 40 of the Billboard Hot 100 chart, as well as 20 singles in the Top Ten of Billboard's Black Singles chart. In 1964, he was shot and killed by Bertha Franklin, a motel owner in Los Angeles with a prior criminal record."

I would add to that the fact that Cooke wrote most of his own hits. That was quite unusual back in the 1950s and early 1960s, before the likes of Bob Dylan and the Beatles changed the expectation that performers should write their own material. And particularly for soul music singers writing their own material continued to be rare for quite some time after that.

What hurts most of all is that it seemed Cooke still had a long career as a singer and songwriter ahead of him when he died in 1964 at the age of 33. In my opinion, he wrote his greatest song, "A Change Is Gonna Come," shortly before his death (it was released one month after he died), after being inspired by "Blowin' in the Wind" by Bob Dylan. It would have been great to see how someone as talented as him would have been influenced by all the musical changes that happened after 1964, but sadly, we'll never know. 

And what makes it worse is that his death seems very suspicious and unnecessary. Law enforcement never seriously investigated it. The woman mentioned above who supposedly shot and killed him, Bertha Franklin, was later convicted of murdering someone else in similar circumstances. The whole thing is really bizarre. I'm guessing he was lured into having sex with a young woman in order to rob him, and that woman who was in cahoots with Franklin, the motel owner. But something went wrong and he got murdered.

Here's the Wikipedia article about him, if you want to know more, including more details about his mysterious death:

Sam Cooke - Wikipedia

Anyway, since the focus here is on Sam Cooke the songwriter, I haven't included any songs performed by him. By the way, note that three songs he wrote, "Wonderful World," "Cupid," and "A Change Is Gonna Come," made it to Rolling Stone Magazine's list of the top 500 songs of all time.

Two songs here need a little explanation. "Sweet Soul Music" wasn't exactly written by Cooke. It was written by Otis Redding and Arthur Conley in 1967, and was a big hit. However, it drew so heavily from a Cooke song called "Yeah Man" that he was included in the songwriting credits (after a lawsuit forced the issue). Also, I generally keep to a rule of only including one version of each song. But I consider "A Change Is Gonna Come" such an incredible song that I couldn't resist including two versions of it.

This album is an hour and 12 minutes long.

01 You Send Me (Teresa Brewer)
02 Rome [Wasn't Built in a Day] (Johnnie Taylor)
03 Shake (Otis Redding)
04 [Ain't That] Good News (Supremes)
05 A Change Is Gonna Come (Aretha Franklin)
06 Soothe Me (Sam & Dave)
07 Sweet Soul Music (Arthur Conley)
08 Cupid (Johnny Nash)
09 Win Your Love (Lou Rawls)
10 Laughin' and Clownin' (Ray Charles)
11 Chain Gang (Persuasions)
12 Twistin' the Night Away (Rod Stewart)
13 Love You Most of All (Persuasions)
14 Bring It on Home to Me (Van Morrison)
15 You Were Made for Me (Luther Ingram)
16 Another Saturday Night (Cat Stevens)
17 Only Sixteen (Dr. Hook)
18 [What A] Wonderful World (Art Garfunkel with Paul Simon & James Taylor)
19 Good Times (Dan Seals)
20 Somebody Have Mercy (Otis Rush)
21 Having a Party (Rod Stewart)
22 That's It, I Quit, I'm Moving On (Adele)
23 A Change Is Gonna Come (Bettye LaVette)

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I'm not sure when or where the cover photo is from, but it's a rare case of an actual color photo from his short life, before color became the standard.

Various Artists - TV’s Jazziest Theme Songs, 1957-1993 (A MIKE SOLOF GUEST POST)

It's time for another Mike Solof guest post. This one has a rather unusual theme. It turns out Mike is a big fan of TV show theme songs, especially jazzy instrumental ones from decades ago. So he put together a collection of about 30 of his favorites.

As usual, Mike has written his own notes, which is included as a PDF file. It comes with lots of photos as well. So I recommend you read that to learn more.

This album is an hour and 15 minutes long.

01 Midnight Caller Theme (Rick Braun)
02 Banacek (John Gregory & His Orchestra)
03 Lou Grant Theme (Patrick Williams)
04 Hill Street Blues - Blues in the Day - Hill Street Blues [Edit] (Mike Post)
05 L.A. Law (Mike Post)
06 The Streets of San Fransisco (John Gregory & His Orchestra)
07 Mission- Impossible (Lalo Schifrin)
08 Mannix (John Gregory & His Orchestra)
09 Theme from The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (Hugo Montenegro & His Orchestra)
10 Hawaii Five-O (Ventures)
11 Mod Squad (Al Caiola)
12 Jonny Quest (Hoyt Curtin)
13 I Spy (Earle Hagan)
14 Police Squad Theme Song (Ira Newborn)
15 Get Smart Original Theme (Irving Szathmary)
16 The Pink Panther Theme (Henry Mancini)
17 Peter Gunn Theme (Blues Brothers)
18 The Magician (Patrick Williams)
19 Policewoman (John Gregory & His Orchestra)
20 Harry-O (John Gregory & His Orchestra)
21 McMillan and Wife (John Gregory & His Orchestra)
22 Mike Hammer (Earle Hagen)
23 Spenser- For Hire Theme (Larry Herbstritt & Steve Dorff)
24 Perry Mason (Fred Steiner)
25 Night Court (Jack Elliott)
26 Barney Miller (Jack Elliott)
27 Frasier (Bruce Miller)
28 The Bob Newhart Show [The Home to Emily] (L.&H. Music)
29 The Cosby Show Theme [Kiss Me] [Alternate Version] (Stu Gardner & Bill Cosby)
30 Angela [Theme to Taxi] [Edit] (Bob James)

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At first, I didn't know what to depict for the cover of this album. But I noticed that Mike had put in a couple dozen pictures of different images for these sorts of TV shows. So I picked out 16 of them and made a collage.

Eric Clapton - Acoustic Versions: 1989-1999

This is kind of a supplement to the Eric Clapton stray tracks albums from the 1990s that I've been posting. These are all stray tracks too, in the sense that none of them appeared on his studio albums in this era, at least not in these arrangements. And, as you can guess from the album title, they're all acoustic versions.

Note that "at least not in these arrangements" comment I just made. A few of these songs do appear on other stray tracks albums I've made, such as "Tears in Heaven" and "Change the World." But not many, and generally they are done quite differently here. For instance, "Tears in Heaven" is stripped way back from the studio version, with just Clapton's voice and acoustic guitar.

All but three of the performances here are unreleased. The three released ones are "Mississippi Blues" (which comes from an album by another musician), "(I) Get Lost" (from a movie soundtrack) and "Danny Boy" (from a B-side).

There are 12 unreleased songs. Seven of them come from concert bootlegs. For all of those, I used the MVSEP audio editing program to get rid of the crowd noise, so they'd fit in with all the studio tracks. The remaining five didn't come with crowd noise in the first place. They're generally from concert rehearsals, although one, "'The Van' Title Theme," is from a movie or TV show that never had a soundtrack.

I think this makes for a nice listen. Clapton's acoustic performances are underrated, in my opinion.

01 Standing Around Crying (Eric Clapton with Pete Townshend)
02 Tears in Heaven (Eric Clapton)
03 Circus (Eric Clapton)
04 Ain't Nobody's Bizness If I Do (Eric Clapton)
05 Come On in My Kitchen (Eric Clapton)
06 Malted Milk (Eric Clapton)
07 Motherless Child (Eric Clapton)
08 Mississippi Blues [Instrumental] (Eric Clapton & Timothy Duffy)
09 How Long (Eric Clapton with Dr. John)
10 'The Van' Title Theme [Instrumental] (Eric Clapton)
11 Broken Hearted (Eric Clapton)
12 Change the World (Eric Clapton)
13 Driftin' Blues (Eric Clapton)
14 [I] Get Lost (Eric Clapton)
15 Danny Boy [Instrumental] (Eric Clapton) 

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The cover photo was taken at the Royal Albert Hall in London some time in 1998.

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Natalie Merchant - Cover Songs, Volume 1: 1993-1997

I have previously posted two albums of cover versions by the band 10,000 Maniacs. That band's lead vocalist and main songwriter Natalie Merchant left in 1993 to pursue a solo career. Here's a series that picks up right where the 10,000 Maniacs one left off. I have three albums of cover songs by Merchant. Here's the first one.

This album roughly deals with the time period of her first solo album, "Tigerlily." Released in 1995, it sold five million copies in the U.S. alone. There are no songs here from that album proper, but "Take a Look" and "The Work Song" are bonus tracks from it. Furthermore, "Baby I Love You," "All I Want," and "Sympathy for the Devil" are B-sides from songs taken from the album.

Four other songs have been officially released: "I Know How to Do It," "One Fine Day," "Come Take a Trip in My Air Ship," and "Children Go Where I Send Thee." They're from movie soundtracks and various artists compilations. Note that a version of "Children Go Where I Send Thee" also appeared on one of the 10,000 Maniacs covers albums I made, but that was done in a different style.

The remaining seven songs are from concert bootlegs. I stuck with soundboard recordings, so they all sound excellent. I also used the MVSEP program to remove the crowd noise on all the live recordings, which included a couple of the released songs too.

Some of the songs are classics from well known artists such as Joni Mitchell and the Rolling Stones. But other songs are often obscure and go waaaay back. For instance, "Come Take a Trip in My Air Ship" was first recorded in 1904, a couple of years after airplanes first flew. "Will the Circle Be Unbroken" is actually not a traditional, as often assumed, and was composed in 1907. "When They Ring the Golden Bells" was first recorded in 1915.

This album is an hour and two minutes long.

Here's a list of the original artists for each song:

01 Baby I Love You - Ronettes
02 All I Want - Joni Mitchell
03 Santa Fe Thief - Jimmy Dale Gilmore
04 I Know How to Do It - Dinah Washington
05 Take a Look - Irma Thomas
06 The Work Song - Nat Adderley
07 One Fine Day - Chiffons
08 Sympathy for the Devil - Rolling Stones
09 Come Take a Trip in My Air Ship - Billy Murray
10 Ode to Billy Joe - Bobbie Gentry
11 Fever - Little Willie John / Peggy lee
12 Long Black Veil - Lefty Frizzell
13 Will the Circle Be Unbroken - Ada R. Habershon & Charles H. Gabriel / Carter Family
14 [What's So Funny 'Bout] Peace, Love and Understanding - Brinsley Schwarz
15 When They Ring the Golden Bells - Imperial Quartet
16 Children Go Where I Send Thee - traditional

Here's the usual song list:

01 Baby I Love You (Natalie Merchant)
02 All I Want (Natalie Merchant)
03 Santa Fe Thief (Jimmie Dale Gilmore & Natalie Merchant)
04 I Know How to Do It (Natalie Merchant with Dr. John & Booker T. Jones)
05 Take a Look (Natalie Merchant)
06 The Work Song (Natalie Merchant)
07 One Fine Day (Natalie Merchant)
08 Sympathy for the Devil (Natalie Merchant)
09 Come Take a Trip in My Air Ship (Natalie Merchant)
10 Ode to Billy Joe (Natalie Merchant)
11 Fever (Natalie Merchant)
12 Long Black Veil (Natalie Merchant)
13 Will the Circle Be Unbroken (Natalie Merchant)
14 [What's So Funny 'Bout] Peace, Love and Understanding (Natalie Merchant)
15 When They Ring the Golden Bells (Natalie Merchant with Susan McKeown)
16 Children Go Where I Send Thee (Natalie Merchant)

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The cover photo was taken in Paris in 1993.

10,000 Maniacs - Cover Songs, Volume 2: 1993

This is the second and last volume of cover versions by the band 10,000 Maniacs. 

The undisputed star of 10,000 Maniacs was Natalie Merchant, who was the lead singer and wrote the lyrics of all their songs, and most of the music too. She left in 1993 to start a solo career, which was very successful. 10,000 Maniacs found a new female singer and continued without her, but other than one hit, they didn't have much success. My interest in the band ends when Merchant left.

All the songs here are from the last year Merchant was in the band. This album is about the same length as Volume 1, which deals with nine years of the band's career. Perhaps they wanted to go out with a bang, doing lots of covers of their favorite songs. Most of them are classic hits, although there are a few oddball selections. Perhaps the most surprising is "He's 1-A in the Army and He's A-1 in My Heart," which is from 1941, during World War II and have a military theme to the lyrics.

Four of the songs here have been officially released on record, with another three being released only on DVD. The first three are B-sides. "Because the Night" appeared on the band's album "MTV Unplugged." The three songs after that, tracks 6, 7, and 8, appeared on a DVD of the band's MTV show only, and feature David Byrne from the Talking Heads in a supporting role.

The other songs all come from concert bootlegs. Luckily, the band was popular enough by this time for me to be able to find soundboard recordings of all of them.

Although this is the end of covers by 10,000 Maniacs, I like Merchant's voice and her choice of cover songs. So I'll be carrying on with more cover albums dealing with her solo career. There actually are dozens more interesting covers done by 10,000 Maniacs, but I couldn't find recordings of them with soundboard-level quality, or even any recordings at all. But if anyone has more that sound as good as these do, let me know and I'll add them in.

This album is 41 minutes long. 

This is a list of the original artists for each song:

01 Everyday Is like Sunday - Morrissey
02 [Don’t Go Back To] Rockville - R.E.M.
03 To Sir with Love - Lulu
04 Son of a Preacher Man - Dusty Springfield
05 Because the Night - Patti Smith / Bruce Springsteen
06 Dallas - Jimmy Dale Gilmore
07 Let the Mystery Be - Iris DeMent
08 Jolene - Dolly Parton
09 He's 1-A in the Army and He's A-1 in My Heart - Harry James
10 I Know How to Do It - Dinah Washington
11 Drift Away - John Henry Kurtz / Dobie Grey
12 Band of Gold - Freda Payne
13 The Art of Love - Eartha Kitt
14 Long Black Veil - Lefty Frizzell

Here's the usual song list:

01 Everyday Is like Sunday (10,000 Maniacs)
02 [Don’t Go Back To] Rockville (10,000 Maniacs)
03 To Sir with Love (10,000 Maniacs)
04 Son of a Preacher Man (10,000 Maniacs)
05 Because the Night (10,000 Maniacs)
06 Dallas (10,000 Maniacs & David Byrne)
07 Let the Mystery Be (10,000 Maniacs & David Byrne)
08 Jolene (10,000 Maniacs & David Byrne)
09 He's 1-A in the Army and He's A-1 in My Heart (10,000 Maniacs)
10 I Know How to Do It (10,000 Maniacs)
11 Drift Away (10,000 Maniacs)
12 Band of Gold (10,000 Maniacs)
13 The Art of Love (10,000 Maniacs)
14 Long Black Veil (10,000 Maniacs)

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The cover photo is from a concert in Houston on June 6, 1993.

Concert for Walden Woods, Foxboro Stadium, Foxborough, MA, 9-6-1993, Part 5: Don Henley with Jimmy Buffett

This is the fifth and last part of the 1993 Concert for Walden Woods. Don Henley, the most famous lead singer of the Eagles, founded the charity organization behind the concert, and this has been the charity cause he's most involved with over the years. Plus, he was massively popular at the time. So it made sense that he would be the headline, final act. However, he also got a significant assist from Jimmy Buffett on two songs.

I've explained more about the cause for this concert in my Part 1 write-up. So please refer to that to learn more. Henley also talked about it some in his lengthy banter before the song "Hotel California." But note that I edit the banter in that spot down considerably, probably cutting it in half. That's why it has "[Edit]" in the title. I cut off stuff I wouldn't want to hear every time I played this album. Most of it was a list of thanks, including a bunch of corporate sponsors supporting the concert.

Generally speaking, this concert was much like a typical full Don Henley concert from that era, including versions of many songs he'd done with the Eagles. However, one interesting twist is that Jimmy Buffett joined the stage about halfway through the set, and sang lead on two of his songs, including his classic "Margaritaville." The other song he chose, "Volcano," was less well known, but it had an environmental theme that fit with the charity cause of the concert. Furthermore, Henley sang lead on part of that song, and it seems some of the lyrics were tailored just for this concert. After that, Buffett left the stage and it continued like a typical Henley solo concert.

This album is an hour and 21 minutes long.

01 The Boys of Summer (Don Henley)
02 The End of the Innocence (Don Henley)
03 One of These Nights (Don Henley)
04 talk (Don Henley)
05 The Last Resort (Don Henley)
06 talk (Don Henley)
07 Well (Don Henley)
08 talk (Jimmy Buffett & Don Henley)
09 Margaritaville (Jimmy Buffett & Don Henley)
10 talk (Jimmy Buffett & Don Henley)
11 Volcano (Jimmy Buffett & Don Henley)
12 talk [Edit] (Don Henley)
13 Hotel California (Don Henley)
14 Life in the Fast Lane (Don Henley)
15 The Heart of the Matter (Don Henley)
16 Sunset Grill (Don Henley)
17 Dirty Laundry (Don Henley)
18 All She Wants to Do Is Dance (Don Henley)
19 Desperado (Don Henley)

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The cover is just like the cover for Part 1 of this concert, with only some of the text changed. Read my Part 1 write-up for more of an explanation.

Concert for Walden Woods, Foxboro Stadium, Foxborough, MA, 9-6-1993, Part 4: Aerosmith

Here's the fourth part of the 1993 Concert for Walden Woods. This time around, it's the band Aerosmith. For more about the concert and the cause it was for, check out my Part 1 write-up.

At first glance, it seems unexpected that Aerosmith would perform for free for a charity to preserve the nature around a pond made famous by the 1800s author Henry David Thoreau. They're not known for their activism, like other acts in this concert, such as Sting and Don Henley. But it makes more sense who you consider that Aerosmith is very much a Boston band, and the Walden Woods (and pond) are located on the outskirts of Boston. 

Anyway, this is a rather short set, considering that Aerosmith was hugely popular at the time. This was the shortest set of the concert (although I don't have the recording of the full Sting set). But a short set is better than no set at all, and all of the songs they played were hits and/or classics.

This album is 34 minutes long.

01 Toys in the Attic (Aerosmith)
02 Sweet Emotion (Aerosmith)
03 talk (Aerosmith)
04 Cryin' (Aerosmith)
05 Dude [Looks like a Lady] (Aerosmith)
06 Livin' on the Edge (Aerosmith)
07 Walk This Way (Aerosmith)

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The cover is just like the cover for Part 1 of this concert, with only some of the text changed. Read my Part 1 write-up for more of an explanation.

Concert for Walden Woods, Foxboro Stadium, Foxborough, MA, 9-6-1993, Part 3: Sting

Here's the third part of the 1993 Concert for Walden Woods. This time, it's a set by Sting. If you want to know more about the concert as a whole, please read my write-up to the first part.

Unfortunately, this is a very short album. There are only four songs by Sting here. According to the database at setlist.fm, Sting actually played a much longer set. This album only contains the first four songs. Here are all the songs he played after that, in order:

Synchronicity II
Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic
Roxanne
King of Pain
Bring on the Night
When the World Is Running Down, You Make the Best of What's Still Around
Nothing 'bout Me
Every Breath You Take

It was a surprisingly Police heavy set for that stage in Sting's solo career. Note that all but one of them ("Nothing 'bout Me") are Police songs.

I don't know why so much of his set is missing from the bootleg that I found. (According to setlist.fm, the sets from all the other performers are complete.) My guess is the whole thing was broadcast live on local radio, and someone didn't want his entire set broadcast. Let's hope that someday the rest of the recording is made public. 

Anyway, what's here is fine music. It's particularly interesting that included a cover of the Beatles classic "A Day in the Life." Sting never released this on any of his studio albums, but he did include a live version on an obscure 1994 EP called "Demolition Man."

This album is 21 minutes long.

01 If I Ever Lose My Faith in You (Sting)
02 Love Is Stronger than Justice [The Munificent Seven] (Sting)
03 talk (Sting)
04 A Day in the Life (Sting)
05 Fields of Gold (Sting)

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The cover is just like the cover for Part 1 of this concert, with only some of the text changed. Read my Part 1 write-up for more of an explanation.

Concert for Walden Woods, Foxboro Stadium, Foxborough, MA, 9-6-1993, Part 2: Melissa Etheridge

Here's the second act in the 1993 Concert for Walden Woods. For more about the concert and the cause it was for, check out my Part 1 write-up.

The parts I'm posting are in chronological order of who played when in this concert. So next up after Elton John was Melissa Etheridge.

In 1993, Etheridge was probably at the peak of her popularity. In late September 1993, she released the studio album "Yes I Am." It went on to sell six million copies in the US, the best selling album of her career.

This concert took place two weeks before the release of that album. So that's probably why it's light on songs from that album. The only song from it was "I'm the Only One," which was released as the first single, one day after this concert. Otherwise, she played songs from her previous albums. However, "Let's Get It On" is a cover of the classic Marvin Gaye song.

This album is 43 minutes long.

01 Ain't It Heavy (Melissa Etheridge)
02 talk (Melissa Etheridge)
03 Must Be Crazy for Me (Melissa Etheridge)
04 talk (Melissa Etheridge)
05 I'm the Only One (Melissa Etheridge)
06 Chrome Plated Heart (Melissa Etheridge)
07 talk (Melissa Etheridge)
08 Bring Me Some Water (Melissa Etheridge)
09 Let's Get It On (Melissa Etheridge)
10 Like the Way I Do (Melissa Etheridge)

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The cover is just like the cover for Part 1 of this concert, with only some of the text changed. Read my Part 1 write-up for more of an explanation.

Concert for Walden Woods, Foxboro Stadium, Foxborough, MA, 9-6-1993, Part 1: Elton John

Henry David Thoreau was an American author, poet, and philosopher. His 1854 book "Walden," about living a simple life in natural surroundings near Walden Pond, close to Concord, Massachusetts, has been highly influential. By the 1980s, a part of the forest around Walden Pond was protected as parkland, but a part of it was not, and housing developments were encroaching into the area.

Don Henley, the main leader singer for the Eagles, had been influenced by Thoreau's writings in college. He made it his cause to protect the Walden Pond area. In 1990, he founded the Walden Woods Project. Through a series of benefit concerts, this project was able to raise millions of dollars, which went to buying more of the land around the pond and converting it into more protected parkland.

If you want to know more, I suggest this Wikipedia page:

Walden Woods Project - Wikipedia

This is part of one of those series of concerts. I don't know much about the other ones, because I haven't found any quality recordings of them. But for whatever reason, an excellent bootleg exists of nearly this entire concert, which consisted of sets by Elton John, Melissa Etheridge, Sting, Aerosmith, and Don Henley. Probably, the concert was broadcast on a local radio station at the time.

Concord is not far from Boston, so this concert took place in Foxboro Stadium near Boston, a huge stadium where football and baseball games are played. I'm guessing there probably were 50 to 60,000 people at the concert.

The year prior to this concert, Elton John released the studio album "The One." So he played a few songs from that: "Simple Life," "The One," and "The Last Song." But mostly, he did his biggest hits.

This album is 52 minutes long.

01 The Bitch Is Back (Elton John)
02 Philadelphia Freedom (Elton John)
03 Levon (Elton John)
04 Simple Life (Elton John)
05 The One (Elton John)
06 The Last Song (Elton John)
07 Take Me to the Pilot (Elton John)
08 I Don't Wanna Go On with You like That (Elton John)
09 Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me (Elton John)
10 talk (Elton John)
11 Pinball Wizard (Elton John)

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For the life of me, I couldn't find ANY photos from this entire concert, other than one poor black and white one of Don Henley. However, I did find some artwork from a T-shirt sold at the concert to help raise more money. So I used that as the basis for the covers of all five albums of this concert, with only some text changes between them. I had to widen the design to get a better fit with the square album cover space. As a result, the trees in the design are a lot wider than they were on the T-shirt.

Depeche Mode - BBC Sessions, Volume 3: In Concert, Crystal Palace Sports Ground, London, Britain, 7-31-1993

Here is another full-length Depeche Mode concert done for the BBC. It apparently is also the last one, since I don't know of any others.

I previously posted concerts from the band's early years, with concerts from 1983 and 1984. There's a big leap from that time to this concert about ten years later, in 1993. In the meantime, the band had their most commercially successful years, with lots of big hits. So this is a good companion to those earlier concerts, with almost no songs from 1984 or before. (I think the only one is the finale, "Everything Counts.")

As far as the recording of this unreleased concert goes, kudos to Depeche Mode Live Wiki, at https://dmlive.wiki. They did all the grunt work to fix the flaws in this concert that I often have to do on my own. No single recording was complete, so this is seamlessly put together from no less than four different sources. And some minor flaws were fixed, so everything sounds great.

This album is an hour and 18 minutes long.

01 Higher Love (Depeche Mode)
02 Policy of Truth (Depeche Mode)
03 Walking in My Shoes (Depeche Mode)
04 Halo (Depeche Mode)
05 Stripped (Depeche Mode)
06 Condemnation (Depeche Mode)
07 Judas (Depeche Mode)
08 I Feel You (Depeche Mode)
09 Never Let Me Down Again (Depeche Mode)
10 Rush (Depeche Mode)
11 In Your Room (Depeche Mode)
12 Personal Jesus (Depeche Mode)
13 Enjoy the Silence (Depeche Mode)
14 Everything Counts (Depeche Mode) 

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The cover just shows the band's lead singer, Dave Gahan. It's from a concert in Brussels, Belgium, on May 25, 1993.

Leonard Cohen - Columbia Records Radio Hour, The Complex, Los Angeles, CA, 4-18-1993

I have some interesting Leonard Cohen rarities I'll be posting in the very near future. But first, I'm posting this because I recently posted a Rosanne Cash concert recorded for the Columbia Records Radio Hour, and that reminded me that I also have this one. It definitely needs posting, because he was supporting one of his best albums, 1993's "The Future," and the sound quality is fantastic.

The reason this sounds so good is because it was professionally recorded and released... but only to radio stations. This was his first concert of his 1993 tour (and his first concert since 1988). So the idea was that radio stations could play select songs from it to drum up interest in the tour. The whole thing was also broadcast to over 100 radio stations, but having a record of it meant the sound quality was a little better than just recording it off the radio.

Also, since this concert predated all the others on the tour by about a week, Cohen was still rehearsing for the tour, so some of these songs have different arrangements than on the other dates from this tour. And while he didn't have any banter per se between songs, for multiple songs, he spoke some of the songs' lyrics before the music kicked in.

The recording from this concert is only 49 minutes long. But I found three more songs he did in Paris on that tour that have nearly as good sound quality, so I added them in as quasi-bonus tracks for the last three songs. I also patched in some applause after each of those songs from earlier songs so the applause better matched.

This album is an hour and seven minutes long. But, as mentioned above, the main concert in Los Angeles is only 49 minutes long.

01 talk (Leonard Cohen)
02 First We Take Manhattan (Leonard Cohen)
03 Ain't No Cure for Love (Leonard Cohen)
04 Coming Back to You (Leonard Cohen)
05 Dance Me to the End of Love (Leonard Cohen)
06 Democracy (Leonard Cohen)
07 Waiting for the Miracle (Leonard Cohen)
08 The Future (Leonard Cohen)
09 I'm You Man (Leonard Cohen)
10 Closing Time (Leonard Cohen)
11 I Can't Forget (Leonard Cohen)
12 Hallelujah (Leonard Cohen)

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The cover photo is most likely from the exact concert. I say "most likely" because the caption said it was recorded in Los Angeles in April 1993, and I believe this was the only concert he did in that city in that month.

Luka Bloom, David Byrne, Rosanne Cash & Lou Reed - In Their Own Words, The Bottom Line, New York City, 2-19-1993, Late Show

Happy new year, everyone. At first glance, this may look exactly like the last album I posted, but don't be deceived. Yes, the cover is almost exactly the same, but the photo is slightly different. And the title is almost exactly the same, but this is the late show and the other post is the early show. 

What's important is that the performance is totally different. Although the format and the artists are the same, the vast majority of the songs performed are different from the early show. Plus, there's a considerable amount of talking between songs, and all of that is different as well. 

I believe these are the songs that were played in both the early and late shows: "Tentative Decisions," "Ready for This World," "Busload of Faith," "The Wheel," and "I Need Love."

Like the early show, this is an unreleased concert. Also like the early show, it's either a soundboard or an audience boot that sounds better than most soundboards. I'm guessing it's an audience boot due to the fact that the audience noise was much louder than the music or talking on stage, which is typical of audience boots. But seriously, it sounds fantastic. And I fixed all the songs so the music and talking is much louder and the cheering is much quieter. 

Also, there were a few snags with the recording of the early show, such as sections that were missing and had to be filled in from a different source. But there were no such problems with the late show.  The recording was basically flawless.

The one slight disappointment with this concert is that it's shorter than the early show. This is two hours and 14 minutes long. By contrast, the early show is two hours and 47 minutes long. But a lot of that time difference is due to more talking in the early show. The music only is an hour and 16 minutes here, just ten minutes less than the early show.

Like I did with the early show, since there's so much talking - about an hour - I've made two versions of this album, one with the talking and one without. I think the interview sections are quite good and worth listening to at least once. But the music only version has more repeat listening value.

Here's the version with the music and the talking:

01 talk (Vin Scelsa)
02 talk - Luka Bloom Introduction (Vin Scelsa)
03 Mary Watches Everything (Luka Bloom)
04 talk - David Byrne Introduction (Vin Scelsa)
05 Tentative Decisions (David Byrne)
06 talk - Rosanne Cash Introduction (Vin Scelsa)
07 Seven Year Ache (Rosanne Cash)
08 talk - Lou Reed Introduction (Vin Scelsa)
09 I'm Waiting for the Man (Lou Reed)
10 talk - Luka Bloom Q and A (Vin Scelsa & Luka Bloom)
11 The Man Is Alive (Luka Bloom)
12 talk - David Byrne Q and A (Vin Scelsa & David Byrne)
13 Ready for This World (David Byrne)
14 talk - Rosanne Cash Q and A (Vin Scelsa & Rosanne Cash)
15 The Wheel (Rosanne Cash)
16 talk - Lou Reed Q and A (Vin Scelsa & Lou Reed)
17 Smalltown (Lou Reed)
18 talk - Lou Reed Q and A (Vin Scelsa & Lou Reed)
19 Images (Lou Reed)
20 talk - Luka Bloom Q and A (Vin Scelsa & Luka Bloom)
21 Fertile Rock (Luka Bloom)
22 talk - David Byrne Q and A (Vin Scelsa & David Byrne)
23 Something Ain’t Right (David Byrne)
24 talk - Rosanne Cash Q and A (Vin Scelsa & Rosanne Cash)
25 This World (Rosanne Cash)
26 talk - Lou Reed Q and A (Vin Scelsa & Lou Reed)
27 Dirty Boulevard (Lou Reed)
28 talk - Luka Bloom Q and A (Vin Scelsa & Luka Bloom)
29 Bridge of Sorrow (Luka Bloom)
30 talk - David Byrne Q and A (Vin Scelsa & David Byrne)
31 [Nothing But] Flowers (David Byrne)
32 talk - Rosanne Cash Q and A (Vin Scelsa & Rosanne Cash)
33 Roses in the Fire (Rosanne Cash)
34 talk - Lou Reed Q and A (Vin Scelsa & Lou Reed)
35 Busload of Faith (Lou Reed)
36 talk (Vin Scelsa & Lou Reed)
37 I’ll Be Your Mirror (Lou Reed)
38 talk (Vin Scelsa & Luka Bloom)
39 I Need Love (Luka Bloom)
40 talk (Vin Scelsa & David Byrne)
41 Gypsy Woman [She’s Homeless] (David Byrne)
42 talk (Vin Scelsa & Rosanne Cash)
43 Wouldn't It Be Loverly (Rosanne Cash)
44 talk (Vin Scelsa & Lou Reed)
45 The Tracks of My Tears (Lou Reed)
46 talk (Vin Scelsa)

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And here's the version with just the music:

01 Mary Watches Everything (Luka Bloom)
02 Tentative Decisions (David Byrne)
03 Seven Year Ache (Rosanne Cash)
04 I'm Waiting for the Man (Lou Reed)
05 The Man Is Alive (Luka Bloom)
06 Ready for This World (David Byrne)
07 The Wheel (Rosanne Cash)
08 Smalltown (Lou Reed)
09 Images (Lou Reed)
10 Fertile Rock (Luka Bloom)
11 Something Ain’t Right (David Byrne)
12 This World (Rosanne Cash)
13 Dirty Boulevard (Lou Reed)
14 Bridge of Sorrow (Luka Bloom)
15 [Nothing But] Flowers (David Byrne)
16 Roses in the Fire (Rosanne Cash)
17 Busload of Faith (Lou Reed)
18 I’ll Be Your Mirror (Lou Reed)
19 I Need Love (Luka Bloom)
20 Gypsy Woman [She’s Homeless] (David Byrne)
21 Wouldn't It Be Loverly (Rosanne Cash)
22 The Tracks of My Tears (Lou Reed)
23 talk (Vin Scelsa)

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As I mentioned above, the cover photo is almost the same, but different. Clearly, it was taken at almost the exact same time as the other photo. However, there are some differences, such as the way Luka Bloom's head is turned on the far right, or how David Byrne's head is turned on the far left. The other one is in color and this one was only in black and white. But I used the Palette program to colorize it. Then I did some further work in Photoshop to make sure the colors matched those of the other photo.

Luka Bloom, David Byrne, Rosanne Cash & Lou Reed - In Their Own Words, The Bottom Line, New York City, 2-19-1993, Early Show

This is a very rare, unique, and interesting unreleased concert. It's also quite long, at nearly three hours, and the sound quality is great. Furthermore, it's just the early show, and I'll be posting the late show - with the same performers but mostly different songs - soon.

The key figure behind this concert appears to be radio DJ Vin Scelsa. In the early 1990s, he hosted many concerts in New York City that brought together combinations of singer-songwriters. (I previously posted a concert he hosted with Rosanne Cash, David Byrne, and Lucinda Williams.) This concert appears to be part of a series he hosted called "In Their Own Words." For this one, I read that he first got Lou Reed to participate, then had Reed pick the other artists. Reed picked Talking Heads leader David Byrne and Rosanne Cash, one of Johnny Cash's daughters and at the time still mainly seen as a country music star. The surprise choice was Irish singer-songwriter Luka Bloom. At this point, Bloom was relatively unknown, having only released three solo albums. But Reed and Bloom had crossed paths due to performing at some of the same festivals in Europe the year before, and Reed liked Bloom's music.

This concert just featured the four artists performing solo acoustic. The format was "in the round," meaning each artist would sing a song in turn until everyone was done, and then the process would repeat, going around and around. (There was only one exception, when Reed played two songs in a row.) But this concert is also unusual in that these was extensive talking between songs, mostly in interview format between DJ Scelsa and whoever was singing the next song. The theme of the evening was songwriting, so most of the questions had to do with that. There's so much talking, in fact, that it took up nearly half of the concert. That has less replay value than the songs, so I've created two versions, one with all the talking and one with just the music.

The sound quality is excellent. I suspect the source is an audience bootleg, because originally the clapping was way louder than the music or talking. But if that's the case, it's one of the best audience boots I've ever heard, and actually sounds better than most soundboards! I had to adjust every track to boost the volume of the music and especially the talking while lowering the volume of the applause, but now it all sounds great. 

There were a few missing parts of the recording. Luckily though, there's a second bootleg of the same concert. The sound quality is worse, but it was mostly just for talking parts, so it didn't matter much. Additionally, I ran those bits through Adobe's "Enhanced Speech" program, and that helped them sound nearly as good as the rest. Two tracks were I had to splice different versions together have "[Edit]" in their names.

This album (the talking and music version) is two hours and 47 minutes long.

01 talk - Luka Bloom Introduction (Vin Scelsa)
02 Dreams in America (Luka Bloom)
03 talk - David Byrne Introduction (Vin Scelsa)
04 Tentative Decisions (David Byrne)
05 talk - Rosanne Cash Introduction (Vin Scelsa)
06 What We Really Want (Rosanne Cash)
07 talk - Lou Reed Introduction (Vin Scelsa)
08 Busload of Faith (Lou Reed)
09 talk - Luka Bloom Q and A (Vin Scelsa & Luka Bloom)
10 Wave Up to the Shore (Luka Bloom)
11 talk - David Byrne Q and A (Vin Scelsa & David Byrne)
12 Mind (David Byrne)
13 talk - Rosanne Cash Q and A (Vin Scelsa & Rosanne Cash)
14 The Wheel (Rosanne Cash)
15 talk - Lou Reed Q and A (Vin Scelsa & Lou Reed)
16 Heroin (Lou Reed)
17 talk - Luka Bloom Q and A (Vin Scelsa & Luka Bloom)
18 Gone to Pablo (Luka Bloom)
19 talk - David Byrne Q and A (Vin Scelsa & David Byrne)
20 Sax and Violins (David Byrne)
21 talk - Rosanne Cash Q and A (Vin Scelsa & Rosanne Cash)
22 Sleeping in Paris (Rosanne Cash)
23 talk - Lou Reed Q and A (Vin Scelsa & Lou Reed)
24 Cremation [Ashes to Ashes] (Lou Reed)
25 talk - Lou Reed Q and A (Vin Scelsa & Lou Reed)
26 What's Good (Lou Reed)
27 talk - Luka Bloom Q and A (Vin Scelsa & Luka Bloom)
28 Exploring the Blue (Luka Bloom)
29 talk - David Byrne Q and A [Edit] (Vin Scelsa & David Byrne)
30 Ready for This World [Edit] (David Byrne)
31 talk - Rosanne Cash Q and A (Vin Scelsa & Rosanne Cash)
32 Dance with the Tiger (Rosanne Cash)
33 talk - Lou Reed Q and A (Vin Scelsa & Lou Reed)
34 Romeo Had Juliette (Lou Reed)
35 talk (Vin Scelsa & Luka Bloom)
36 I Need Love (Luka Bloom)
37 talk (Vin Scelsa & David Byrne)
38 Sweet Old World (David Byrne)
39 talk (Vin Scelsa & Rosanne Cash)
40 Crescent City (Rosanne Cash)
41 talk (Vin Scelsa & Lou Reed)
42 Foot of Pride (Lou Reed)
43 talk (Vin Scelsa)

This is the link for the talking and music:

https://www.imagenetz.de/cox6C

Here's the song list for the "music only" version. This album is an hour and 26 minutes long.

01 Dreams in America (Luka Bloom)
02 Tentative Decisions (David Byrne)
03 What We Really Want (Rosanne Cash)
04 Busload of Faith (Lou Reed)
05 Wave Up to the Shore (Luka Bloom)
06 Mind (David Byrne)
07 The Wheel (Rosanne Cash)
08 Heroin (Lou Reed)
09 Gone to Pablo (Luka Bloom)
10 Sax and Violins (David Byrne)
11 Sleeping in Paris (Rosanne Cash)
12 Cremation [Ashes to Ashes] (Lou Reed)
13 What's Good (Lou Reed)
14 Exploring the Blue (Luka Bloom)
15 Ready for This World [Edit] (David Byrne)
16 Dance with the Tiger (Rosanne Cash)
17 Romeo Had Juliette (Lou Reed)
18 I Need Love (Luka Bloom)
19 Sweet Old World (David Byrne)
20 Crescent City (Rosanne Cash)
21 Foot of Pride (Lou Reed)
22 talk (Vin Scelsa)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/19rsZWnJ

alternate:

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alternate:

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I got really lucky with the photo on the cover here. The photo shows all the participants backstage either before or after the show. From left to right: David Byrne, Vin Scelsa, Lou Reed, Rosanne Cash, and Luka Bloom.