Various Artists - P. F. Sloan & Steve Barri, Volume 2: 1967-2006

Here's the second and last volume celebrating the music of the songwriting team of P. F. Sloan and Steve Barri. However, as I discussed in my write-up for "Volume 1," it seemed a pretty lopsided partnership, with Sloan being the songwriting genius and Barri doing more of the arranging and production. So, in my write-up here, I'm going to mostly concentrate on the story of Sloan's life.

At the end of my write-up for "Volume 1," Sloan was facing an increasingly bad situation. He had been pressured by record company executives who behaved more like Mafia crime bosses - and the evidence suggests there actually was a connection there. By the end of 1967, he broke up his songwriting partnership with Barri, and fled his hometown of Los Angeles, fearing for his life.

Sloan settled in New York City. In 1968, he signed a record contract with a different label, and released his third solo album, "Measure of Pleasure." This was an interesting album that was keeping up with rapidly changing music trends. However, he didn't tour or otherwise promote it, so it attracted little notice. The problem was his life was coming apart. Falling into depression over losing his songwriting royalties (and even future royalties for the next ten years!) to his old record company, he discovered heroin and began using it. Also, he was beset by a series of medical troubles, both mental and physical. 

By 1969, his songwriting, and his music career in general, essentially came to a stop. He released another album in 1972, but his heart wasn't in it, and that one also quickly disappeared. Then, he simply disappeared for a long, long time, spending much of that in psychiatric hospitals. In a 2006 interview, he said, "I was ill I guess for a good 20, maybe 25 years. ... Catatonia for a long time." 

Even by 1968, practically all the people who had known him well in Los Angeles lost all contact with him. Once such person he'd known was another up-and-coming songwriter, Jimmy Webb, wrote a song about his mysterious disappearance, called "P. F. Sloan." It starts with these lyrics: 

"I have been seeking P. F. Sloan, but no one knows where he has gone
No one ever heard the song that boy set winging"

I haven't included it here, since neither Sloan nor Barri helped write it. But there are nice versions by Webb, the Association, Rumer, and others. Weirdly, for many years, Webb claimed it wasn't actually about Sloan, despite his name literally being the title! However, he eventually admitted that it was about him. 

Stranger still, Sloan totally disappeared for so many years, yet wasn't reported dead, that a person decided to falsely claim they were him. Eugene Landy was a very controversial psychologist who was in charge of the mental health of musical genius Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys. In the 1980s, Landy mysteriously began appearing as a co-writer of many new Wilson songs, despite apparently having no previously known songwriting or musical skills whatsoever. When people questioned him on this, Landy claimed that he actually was a talented songwriter because he used to be known as P. F. Sloan! In 1991, this caused the real Sloan to write a letter that debunked that outrageously false claim. (Shortly thereafter, in 1992, Landy lost his psychology license and was barred from further contact with Wilson.)

Anyway, in the late 1980s, Sloan went on a religious pilgrimage to India. This got him interested in Indian religion and philosophy, and started him on a path to getting his life back together. But still, it was a slow road to a full recovery. In 1993, he gave a well-received concert at the Troubadour in Los Angeles. The opening acts, Johnny Rivers, the Turtles, and Jan Berry of Jan and Dean, all benefited greatly from his songwriting. He released another album in 1994, but he was a relatively forgotten figure by this time, and it only came out in Japan. Then, he disappeared again, spending more time in psychiatric hospitals.

Finally, in 2006, he released an album that got at least some attention in the U.S. and Britain, "Sailover." It had some well known guest stars on it, like Lucinda Williams, Frank Black, Buddy Miller, and Felix Cavaliere. Here's an except from the AllMusic.com review: "P.F. Sloan is still writing worthwhile pop songs with smart, impressionistic, and somewhat off-kilter lyrics, and 'Sailover' confirms time has been quite kind to his muse since he last entered a recording studio." He finally did some touring to support it. Other stars like Susanna Hoffs and Rumer sang with him in concert. 

Then, in 2014, he released a well-received autobiography. He also released another new album, a concept album called "My Beethoven" about the life of the classical composer Beethoven. But he died of cancer in 2015, at the age of 70.

Meanwhile, what happened to Steve Barri? He went on to have a fairly successful career in music, but as a producer and then a record company executive. He produced many hits in the 1970s, including "Dizzy" by  Tommy Roe, "Don't Pull Your Love" by Hamilton, Joe Frank and Reynolds, "Theme from S.W.A.T." by Rhythm Heritage, and "Undercover Angel" by Alan O'Day. He also produced several albums for the Grass Roots, the Four Tops, and Bobby 'Blue' Bland. But as a songwriter, there's very little after he stopped writing with Sloan back around 1966. I've included three songs here that Barri co-wrote with others in the 1970s: "I Wouldn't Treat a Dog (The Way You Treated Me)" and "Who's Foolin' Who" by Bland and "Love Pains" by  the Pet Shop Boys & Liza Minnelli. If you look at his songwriting at secondhandsong.com, that's really about it for him without Sloan. That reaffirms the evidence that Sloan was the key partner in their songwriting partnership.

After that, Barri worked his way up the ranks in various record companies, eventually becoming a senior vice president for Gold Circle Entertainment/Samson Records. He is still alive and 84 years old as I write this in 2026. 

Now, fiiiiinally, let me discuss the music here. The first ten songs here were written by Sloan, probably around 1966 to 1969, and all released in those years. He continued to write some hits after ending his partnership with Barri in that era, though none of them were really big hits. "Turn on the Light" is from his 1972 album, and "Violence" is from his 2006, and both of those were performed by him. I would have liked to include more of his own recordings, to show his songwriting was still strong in his later years, but the point of these "Covered" albums is to collect covers. However, I couldn't resist bending my self-imposed rules to include at least those two.

As I mentioned in my write-up to "Volume 1," "Where Were You When I Needed You" is the only song here that's "out of order," meaning this came a lot later than when it was first released. The Grass Roots had a hit with it in 1966, but I prefer the version by the Bangles, which was done by them in 1984. 

One last thing. If you want to know more about Sloan's life, here's a good interview he did in 2014:

https://www.rebeatmag.com/whats-exactly-the-matter-with-p-f-sloan/ 

And here's another one from that same time period: 

https://www.goldminemag.com/articles/perception-reality-singer-songwriter-p-f-sloan/

This album is 53 minutes long.

01 Things I Should Have Said (Grass Roots)
02 On a Quiet Night (Association)
03 A Melody for You (Grass Roots)
04 Another Day, Another Heartache (5th Dimension)
05 Bella Linda (Grass Roots)
06 I Get Out of Breath (Turtles)
07 Look Out Girl (Tommy Roe)
08 Baby, You Do It Well (Grass Roots)
09 New Design (Kenny Rogers & the First Edition)
10 I Can't Help but Wonder, Elizabeth (Grass Roots)
11 Turn on the Light (P. F. Sloan)
12 Who's Foolin' Who (Bobby 'Blue' Bland)
13 Glory Bound (Grass Roots)
14 I Wouldn't Treat a Dog [The Way You Treated Me] (Bobby 'Blue' Bland)
15 Where Were You When I Needed You (Bangles)
16 Love Pains (Pet Shop Boys & Liza Minnelli)
17 Violence (P. F. Sloan)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/tDiLRAc3

alternate: 

https://bestfile.io/en/Abtx5RNkFo31Pri/file

The cover art was made from separate photos of Sloan and Barri. I don't know when either was taken, but I would guess (based on deleted backgrounds and such) the Sloan picture was taken in 1966 or 1967, while the Barri image was taken in the early 1970s. Both photos were originally in black and white. I colorized them, then put them together in Photoshop.

Jimmy Buffett - Changes in Latitudes, Changes in Attitudes Live (1978-2008) (A Mike Solof Guest Post)

Here is another guest post by Mike Solof. I am putting words into his mouth, but I think what happened is that he Felt he really enjoyed the 1977 album "Changes in Latitudes, Changes in Attitudes," by Jimmy Buffett. But after hearing it many many times, he wanted to hear it in a different way. So he collected live versions of all songs on the album and put them in the same order as the original. 

He managed to find live versions of all of the songs, with all of them in excellent sound quality. Most of them come from a year or two after the album was released, though a couple are from significantly later. None of the songs are extended, so don't expect drastically different versions. In fact, this album is a minute or two shorter than the studio version.

This was Buffett's breakthrough album that turned him into a big star, helped greatly by the conclusion of the hit song "Margaritaville." If you like the album a lot, you should enjoy this one.

This album is 39 minutes long.

01 Changes in Latitudes, Changes in Attitudes (Jimmy Buffett)
02 Wonder Why We Ever Go Home (Jimmy Buffett)
03 Banana Republics (Jimmy Buffett)
04 Tampico Tundra (Jimmy Buffett)
05 Lovely Cruise (Jimmy Buffett)
06 Margaritaville (Jimmy Buffett)
07 In the Shelter (Jimmy Buffett)
08 Miss You So Badly (Jimmy Buffett)
09 Biloxi (Jimmy Buffett)
10 Landfall (Jimmy Buffett)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/9UBFHbeV 

alternate: 

https://bestfile.io/z8ghyGoVXlXDmgg/file

The cover image is from a concert at the Omni Coliseum in Atlanta, Georgia, on September 4, 1976.

Covered: Brian Wilson, Volume 3: 2001-2009 (A Fabio from Rio Guest Post)

Volume 3 of "Covered: Brian Wilson" focuses on the first decade of the new millennium, a period during which Brian Wilson experienced something of a creative renaissance after spending decades being regarded as a "lost genius". He surprised the music world by returning to the long-abandoned "Smile" project, choosing to record and release an entirely new version with the Wondermints, and then touring extensively while performing the album in its entirety. This approach was particularly noteworthy because, contrary to popular myth, the original 1960s recordings had not been destroyed by Brian during some psychotic outburst; they had remained safely stored in Capitol Records’ vaults, awaiting the archival release that would eventually arrive a few years later.

Alongside Brian’s artistic rebirth came a fresh wave of tributes from both established and younger artists. Some approached his songs with a nostalgic or traditional sensibility, while others reimagined them through a more contemporary musical lens. Together, they demonstrated the remarkable adaptability of his compositions and their ability to resonate across generations and genres.

This volume contains many memorable performances, but one stands out as especially remarkable: Joss Stone’s rendition of "God Only Knows". It earned the distinction of becoming one of only two songs represented by more than a single performance in this collection.

The cover photograph comes from another period of renewal in Brian’s life: the late 1980s, around the release of his first solo album. At the time, "Doctor" Eugene Landy had assumed extraordinary control over both Brian’s personal and professional affairs, claiming to be guiding his recovery. As later documented in books, documentaries, and feature films, the results were far more complicated than they initially appeared.

This album is 57 minutes long.

01 You Need a Mess of Help to Stand Alone (Michael Carpenter)
02 A Day in the Life of a Tree (Matthew Sweet)
03 Add Some Music to Your Day (Kate Campbell)
04 God Only Knows (Joss Stone)
05 Heroes and Villains (Rubinoos)
06 I Just Wasn't Made for These Times (Sixpence None the Richer)
07 Lay Down Burden (Jane Kelly Williams)
08 Love and Mercy (Randy Stonehill)
09 Surf's Up (Rick Altizer)
10 This Whole World (Dolour)
11 Wild Honey (Robin Goldwasser)
12 Your Imagination (Amilia K. Spicer)
13 Surfin' U.S.A. (Jeffrey Foskett & Jeff Beck)
14 The Warmth of the Sun (Matthew Sweet & Susanna Hoffs)
15 Wake the World (Epicycle)
16 Surfin' Safari (Rockapella)
17 Catch a Wave (Ramouns)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/DTqSEwpg

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/STpOrAzZntMdQ4P/file

The cover image is from 1998.

Covered: George Harrison, Volume 4: 2004-2010

Here is the fourth out of six "Covered" volumes for George Harrison.

Unfortunately, before the start of the time period of this volume, Harrison had already died. (He died in 2001 all too young, at the age of 58.) That means he wasn't putting out any more new music. So for this volume and the next two, we're basically playing catch up, with covers from earlier parts of his music career, including going back to his years with the Beatles.

The first song here is a special treat. It comes from the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame ceremony in 2004, because Harrison was posthumously inducted that year. This version of "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" has a lot of stars peforming on it, including some I didn't include in the song title, due to wanting to keep it short, like Steve Winwood and Dhani Harrison. But what really makes this version stand out is the wild guitar soloing by Prince. A lot of people were impressed, as you can see by the fact the YouTube video is up to 140 million views when I'm writing this in May 2026. But this version remains unreleased. 

Generally speaking, I try hard to only include one version of each song in a Covered series like this. But every now and then, there are cases where I can't resist adding more than one. For this series, I have two versions of "Something" (on Volumes 1 and 2, by Shirley Bassey and James Brown). I also have two versions of "If I Needed Someone." I included the Hollies version of that song on Volume 1, because they had a hit with it back in 1965. It made the Top Twenty in Britain. That was Harrison's first hit song, actually. 

However, I'm including a second version of that song here, even though it's not one of his most popular songs. That's because in 2004, Roger McGuinn did a version of it. McGuinn used to be the main singer for the Byrds, and Harrison wrote the song with a very obvious Byrds influence. It was one he openly acknowledged from the start. He even sent McGuinn an advanced copy of the song, along with a thank you note. So it's nice to finally hear what the Byrds might have done with this Byrdsy song.   

This album is an hour and one minute long.

01 While My Guitar Gently Weeps (Tom Petty, Jeff Lynne & Prince)
02 All Things Must Pass (Paul McCartney)
03 If I Needed Someone (Roger McGuinn)
04 Love Comes to Everyone (Eric Clapton)
05 Handle with Care (Jenny Lewis with the Watson Twins)
06 Stuck Inside a Cloud (Herb Eimerman)
07 Dark Sweet Lady (Nelson Bragg)
08 I Want to Tell You (Thea Gilmore)
09 Blue Jay Way (Secret Machines)
10 Within You, Without You (Patti Smith)
11 That's the Way It Goes (Joe Brown)
12 I Live for You (Tift Merritt)
13 Blow Away (Den Fiori)
14 Hear Me Lord (Chip Mergott)
15 Deep Blue (Carolina Lima)
16 Be Here Now (Robyn Hitchcock)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/61Dy14BG

alternate: 

https://bestfile.io/esiuW1bolSkXUjR/file

The cover image is from 1991.  

Covered: Neil Young: Alternates, Volume 2: 2001-2007 (A Fabio from Rio Guest Post)

Here's the second volume out of four, of alternates for Neil Young's "Covered" series. As I explained in my write-up for Volume 1, guest poster Fabio from Rio did most of the legwork finding cover versions for the original ten volumes, but I had most of the say in picking which ones were ultimately chosen. So these four alternate volumes are kind of Fabio's "revenge," because he did the picking. There were only one or two songs I pointed out I didn't think were that strong.

There's not much else to say. As with Volume 1, about half the songs are different versions of covers chosen in the original ten volumes, and about half the songs are ones that only show up in these alternates volumes. 

This album is an hour and three minutes long. 

01 Dreamin' Man (Freebo)
02 Pressure (Ned Whattakiller)
03 This Note's for You (Royal Cat Club)
04 Pocahontas (Johnny Cash)
05 On the Beach (Radiohead)
06 Let It Shine (Ad Vanderveen)
07 Falling from Above (Jamey Darnold)
08 Hawks and Doves (Scott Miller & the Commonwealth)
09 Red Sun (Charlie Macon)
10 Without Rings (Scott Sandi)
11 The Needle and the Damage Done (Jorane)
12 Families (Gil Michaels)
13 Helpless (Elk City)
14 Cortez the Killer (Carrie Rodriguez with Tim Easton)
15 Ohio - Find the Cost of Freedom (Dalia)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/ySf9gd4c

alternate: 

https://bestfile.io/en/BLbNlIQ1jzvddqu/file

The cover image is from 1991 or thereabouts.

Various Artists - Covered: Geoff Stephens: 1964-2002

I recently posted a couple of "Covered" albums dealing with British professional songwriters from the 1960s and 1970s (as I write this in May 2026). As I said elsewhere, there was a circle of a dozen or more who often collaborated with each other, and wrote lots of pop hits. Here's another one from that group, Geoff Stephens.

Many of the other songwriters in this group that I've been discussing came up with the British Invasion, the musical trend that started around 1963. But Stephens was slightly older - he was 29 years old in 1963- and his music career began before that. He served in the military for a couple of years and held a series of odd jobs before getting serious about songwriting. His first song was covered by a musical act in 1961. 

His first hit was "Tell Me When" in 1964, co-written by Les Reed, another songwriter in that group. I've already posted the hit version by the Applejacks in the "Covered" album for Barry Mason and Les Reed. So I went with a different version here. Later that same year, he had an even bigger hit with a song he wrote all by himself, "The Crying Game." The version by Dave Berry went all the way to the Top Five in Britain, although it wasn't a hit. (Boy George eventually had a hit in the U.S. with it in 1992.) It had an unusual melody, showing surprising musical sophistication for a pop hit 1964.

He had an even bigger hit in 1966 with "Winchester Cathedral," performed by the New Vaudeville Band. It actually was recorded by session musicians. The lead vocalist was John Carter, another songwriter I've profiled with a "Covered" album." Stephens had a fondness for vaudeville/ music hall music from the 1920s and earlier, and wrote the song in that vein. It was such a massive success - hitting Number One in the U.S. and some other countries, and selling three million copies worldwide - that it started a mini-vaudeville trend for the next couple of years. Few British artists could resist performing at least one or two songs in that style, for some reason.

Sometimes, Stephens was the sole songwriter, as was the case with "Winchester Cathedral." But more often, he wrote with other members of that unnamed British professional songwriter group. For instance, "There's a Kind of Hush" was written with Les Reed, "Sorry Suzanne" was written with Tony Macaulay, "My Sentimental Friend" was written with John Carter, "Daddy Don't You Walk So Fast" was written with Peter Callander, and so on. As you can see, Stephens didn't favor just one songwriting partner. In fact, he had many more, including Roger Greenaway, Barry Mason, Don Black, and Mitch Murray. All of those other people have their own "Covered" albums, or their albums are coming.

Stephens had many more hits through most of the 1970s, until about 1978. In fact, one of his biggest hits was one of his last, since "Silver Lady" by David Soul went to Number One in Britain in 1977. (That one was co-written with Tony Macaulay, by the way.) But musical styles changed drastically in the late 1970s, with the rise of disco, punk, and new wave. So his hits stopped at that time, as was the case with most of the other songwriters in that group he'd been working with since the mid-1960s. 

Starting in the early 1980s, he mostly switched to writing songs for musicals. In doing so, he still collaborated with people from that same group, writing different musicals with Don Black, Les Reed, and Peter Callander. He died in 2020 at the age of 86.

Here's his Wikipedia page:

Geoff Stephens - Wikipedia 

Because Stephens often wrote with other songwriters who have their own "Covered" albums, sometimes I've resorted to using non-hit versions, so the same versions don't appear on two different albums. So, for instance, I have "Sorry Suzanne" here by the Glass Bottle, instead of the hit version by the Hollies. "Smile a Little Smile for Me" is an outliner, because I chose a late cover for the same reason. The hit version was in 1970. Without that one, this album would end in 1980. 

This album is one hour long. 

01 Tell Me When (Jaybirds)
02 The Crying Game (Dave Berry)
03 Semi-Detached Suburban Mr. James (Manfred Mann)
04 Winchester Cathedral (New Vaudeville Band)
05 My World Fell Down (Ivy League)
06 There's a Kind of Hush (Herman's Hermits)
07 Boy (Lulu)
08 Sunshine Girl (Herman's Hermits)
09 Lights of Cincinnati (Scott Walker)
10 My Sentimental Friend (Herman's Hermits)
11 Sorry Suzanne (Glass Bottle)
12 Knock, Knock, Who's There (Mary Hopkin)
13 Daughter of Darkness (Tom Jones)
14 Daddy Don't You Walk So Fast (Wayne Newton)
15 You Won't Find Another Fool like Me (New Seekers)
16 Doctor's Orders (Carol Douglas)
17 Silver Lady (David Soul)
18 It's Like We Never Said Goodbye (Crystal Gayle)
19 Like Sister and Brother (Frank Hooker & Positive People)
20 Smile a Little Smile for Me (Chris von Sneidern)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/GVD6cdXe

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/6MIhB6jKMNGt8K9/file

I don't know anything about the cover image except that it's "circa 1970." The original was in black and white. I colorized it with the use of the Kolorize program.

Various Artists - Covered: Randy Newman, Volume 3: 1999-2025

Here's the third and final volume of the "Covered" series for Randy Newman.

Newman's usual solo albums have been released less frequently as he gets older, which is usually the case for songwriters. By now, 2026, he averages about one album a decade. But unlike a lot of aging songwriters, he's kept his standards high. Pretty much every album he's made has been critically praised. 

But he's been much busier and prolific with his other career, composing soundtracks for Hollywood movies. I mentioned in the write-up for "Volume 2" that his career got a big boost starting in 1995, when he composed the soundtrack for the first "Toy Story" movie. That led him to a new line of work making soundtracks for blockbuster movies for kids, such as the other "Toy Story" movies (including "Toy Story 6," released in 2026), "Cars," "A Bug's Life," "Monsters, Inc.," and more. Most of those are a mix of songs with lyrics and background music. I didn't find a lot of songs from these movies sung by others that fit this collection, but there are a few in this volume. 

Some others are from earlier in his career. For instance, "Burn On," a 1972 song based on a true incident of the Cuyahoga River, which runs through Cleveland, Ohio, catching fire in 1969 due to excessive pollution. 

All the songs in all three volumes were officially released, except for the last two on this volume. "I'm Dead (But I Don't Know It)" is from Randy Newman's Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony in 2013. It's sung by Newman and Don Henley. The album ends with "I Love L.A.," one of Newman's better known songs. I had trouble finding a worthy version, until I found this one. It comes from the 2025 Grammy Awards ceremony, and features a bunch of stars singing together.

This album is 49 minutes long. 

01 When She Loved Me (Sarah McLachlan)
02 If I Didn't Have You (Billy Crystal & John Goodman)
03 Every Time It Rains (Joe Cocker)
04 Rider in the Rain (Reckless Kelly & Joe Ely)
05 Texas Girl at the Funeral of Her Father (Kim Richey)
06 Marie (Allison Moorer)
07 Our Town (James Taylor)
08 Burn On (Mason Williams)
09 I Will Go Sailing No More (Los Lobos)
10 Almost There (Anika Noni Rose)
11 Down in New Orleans (Dr. John)
12 Losing You (Mavis Staples)
13 It's Lonely at the Top (Big Bad Voodoo Daddy)
14 I'm Dead [But I Don't Know It] (Don Henley & Randy Newman)
15 I Love L.A. (Dawes, John Legend, St. Vincent, Brittany Howard, Brad Paisley & Sheryl Crow)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/vH9ypqsb

alternate: 

https://bestfile.io/en/Gi9hqAgXVCPPnVG/file

The cover image is from 1995.

The New York Dolls - PBS Soundstage, WTTW Studios, Chicago, IL, 8-16-2006

Here is another album from the "PBS Soundstage" T.V. show. This one stars the New York Dolls.

The New York Dolls are most famous for the music they did in the early 1970s. They only released two albums in that time period, “New York Dolls” in 1973 and “Too Much Too Soon” in 1974, and neither album sold that well. But they were extremely influential on punk rock, heavy metal, hard rock, glam rock, glam, metal, and other musical genres. 

They broke up in 1976. Lead singer David Johansen had a successful second career with the persona "Buster Poindexter," playing a very different style of music. The band had a surprise reunion in 2004, however, although by that time only three of the five original band members were alive and participating in the reunion. One would have thought that they were long past their prime by that point. But they surprised with a very well receive album in 2006, "One Day It Will Please Us to Remember Even This." Many critics put it on their best albums of the year list. This concert is a mix of songs from the new album and older classics.

The band would break up again in 2011. Since then, all of the bands original members have died.

Here's the band's Wikipedia page for more information:

New York Dolls - Wikipedia 

The music is unreleased, and the sound quality is excellent.

This album is 53 minutes long. 

01 talk (New York Dolls)
02 Looking for a Kiss (New York Dolls)
03 We're All in Love (New York Dolls)
04 talk (New York Dolls)
05 Puss 'N Boots (New York Dolls)
06 Gotta Get Away from Tommy (New York Dolls)
07 Take a Good Look at My Good Looks (New York Dolls)
08 Gimmie Love and Turn on the Lights (New York Dolls)
09 talk (New York Dolls)
10 Private World (New York Dolls)
11 talk (New York Dolls)
12 Dance like a Monkey (New York Dolls)
13 Punishing World (New York Dolls)
14 talk (New York Dolls)
15 Trash (New York Dolls)
16 Jet Boy (New York Dolls)
17 talk (New York Dolls)
18 Personality Crisis (New York Dolls)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/cCea1JGZ

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/I2yOtNFV4cA5odX/file

The cover of singer David Johansen is a screenshot I took from a video of this exact concert. 

Various Artists - Covered: Neil Young, Volume 5: 2005-2007

Here’s another “Covered “ Neil Young. Since I’m on vacation, I’ll keep this short. Once again, Fabio from Rio wrote some notes, so here they are:

 By the mid-2000s, Neil Young had fully achieved something rare in popular music: he was simultaneously a living legend and an active creative force. His catalog had by then become a kind of common language shared across genres. Indie rock bands, folk revivalists, alternative country singers, and even pop performers were freely exploring different corners of his songwriting. Meanwhile, Young himself continued releasing ambitious work, from the politically charged "Living with War" to the reflective "Prairie Wind."

The covers gathered in this volume illustrate how widely his influence had spread. Younger artists approached the songs with fresh sensibilities, sometimes transforming well-known classics into intimate acoustic performances, while others revived deeper cuts that had long been favorites among the devoted "Rusties." In several cases, the reinterpretations reveal how remarkably adaptable Young's compositions are: sometimes, the same song can thrive equally well as a folk lament, a rock anthem, or a stripped-down indie confession.

--- 

Note that Fabio wrote individual paragraphs about all the songs in this volume. To see that, please look at the Word file added to the download zip file. Thanks again to Fabio for his help putting these albums together. 

This album is an hour and one minute long.

01 Shots (Constantines)
02 The Needle and the Damage Done (Pretenders)
03 Deep Forbidden Lake (Bentonio)
04 For the Turnstiles (Be Good Tanyas)
05 Little Wing (Elizabeth Mitchell)
06 Rockin’ in the Free World (Ann Vriend)
07 Burned (Veruca Salt)
08 Cinnamon Girl (Melissa McClelland)
09 Hey Hey, My My [Into the Black] (Hard Lessons)
10 I Am a Child (Britta Phillips)
11 Ordinary People (Steve Dahl)
12 Come On Baby Let's Go Downtown (Trews)
13 Natural Beauty (Tara MacLean)
14 Bad Fog of Loneliness (Justin Nozuka)
15 A Man Needs a Maid (Dala)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/1NAGbFYv

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/MNwLg7EujqM3NBd/file

The cover photo is from 1982. Boy, does he look different from the cover of Volume 4! He's almost unrecognizable in this one, in my opinion. This is an actual untouched photo, no AI help this time. You can find similar ones if you look for other photos from 1982, the only year he looked like this.

Elton John - Cover Versions, Volume 5: 2002-2007

In 2023 and 2024, I posted four volumes collecting all the cover versions performed by Elton John that I could find. However, I stopped this series before finishing it because I ran into copyright issues with the fourth volume. But I've had way less of those issues in recent months, so I'd going to try to post the fifth volume. If that works out, the sixth and final volume will follow. But you might want to grab this quickly, just in case.

Tracks 1, 2, 3, 6, 7, and 8 are all unreleased, and from concerts. Out of those, tracks 2 and 3 are from a CMT Crossroads episode with Ryan Adams. Track 9 was also performed live, but it's from a tribute album to Luther Vandross. For all these live songs, I used the MVSEP program to wipe the cheering, so those songs would fit with the studio tracks.

That leaves the studio tracks, all of which are released. Those are from a mix of movie soundtracks, tribute albums, and duets done on albums by other musical acts. If you want more details, please look at the mp3 tags for the individual songs. Like always, I include the source info for each song on every album I post. 

By the way, some of the links in the previous volumes in this series weren't working, but I just replaced them with new links. 

This album is 48 minutes long.

01 Oh My Sweet Carolina (Elton John)
02 Firecracker (Elton John & Ryan Adams)
03 La Cienega Just Smiled (Elton John & Ryan Adams)
04 Makin' Whoopee (Elton John)
05 Moon River (Elton John)
06 Nighttime Is the Right Time (Elton John & Mary J. Blige)
07 Born to Lose (Elton John)
08 Rock This House (B. B. King & Elton John)
09 Anyone Who Had a Heart (Elton John & Luther Vandross)
10 Dreamland (Bruce Hornsby & Elton John)
11 Where We Both Say Goodbye (Catherine Britt & Elton John)
12 Rags to Riches (Tony Bennett & Elton John)
13 Blueberry Hill (Elton John) 

https://pixeldrain.com/u/PWY7tZVF

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/Tk5ynn7dYAJmOmv/file

The cover photo is from a concert at Wembley Arena, in London, on December 5, 2003. 

Chris Rea - BBC Sessions, Volume 10: Saturday Programme, Maida Vale Studios, London, Britain, 10-13-2006

Here's another album in a mini-flood of Chris Rea BBC albums. Like all the previous ones, this is a concert.

In 2005, Rea released his 25th studio album, "Blue Guitars." This was no ordinary studio album. In fact, I would bet it's the longest studio album by a major musical act. It consisted of ten albums containing 137 songs in total, all of them originals. That added up to over ten hours of music! This mega-album explored virtually all genres of blues music, with each of the ten albums having a different theme.

Since Rea didn't release a new album in 2006, half of the songs in this concert come from his "Blue Guitars" album - specifically, tracks 1, 2, 4, and 6. The rest are hits from earlier in his career.

This is the last BBC concert I could find by Rea. But I did find some BBC studio sessions after 2006, enough for an album. (Which is a bit strange, since I didn't find studio sessions from before 2006, but so it goes.) So that will be the final BBC album I plan to post from him.

This album is 44 minutes long.

The music here is unreleased. The sound quality is excellent. 

UPDATE: On February 13, 2026, I updated the mp3 download file. The music is exactly the same, but I changed the name after finding material for a "Volume 9" starting before the year of this one. 

01 Jazzy Blue (Chris Rea)
02 Where the Blues Come From (Chris Rea)
03 Josephine (Chris Rea)
04 Work Gang (Chris Rea)
05 Easy Rider (Chris Rea)
06 'Til the Morning Sun Shines on My Love and Me (Chris Rea)
07 Stainsby Girls (Chris Rea)
08 The Road to Hell I and II (Chris Rea)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/9cMQCpMB

alternate: 

https://bestfile.io/en/sDrhEsGtchCZy3j/file

The cover photo was taken at the Heineken Music Hall, in Amsterdam, Netherlands, on March 22, 2006. I thought it was interesting to show him playing the harmonica instead of the guitar, for once. Note the glass slide on one of his fingers.

Various Artists - Covered: Tom Waits, Volume 3: 2004-2012 (A Fabio from Rio Guest Post)

Here's "Volume 3" out of four volumes made for the "Covered" series, showcasing the songs of Tom Waits.

Like the other volumes in this series, this was mostly put together by Fabio from Rio. He did all the heavy lifting in finding the source material, and I only helped to winnow down the songs to a reasonable number. Fabio also wrote the notes for each volume, so here's his notes for this one:

In the nineties and early 2000s, Waits fused experimental sounds with stark American roots music—blues, gospel, field hollers, and folk. Themes of death, sin, redemption, and rural myth dominate. This allows for covers that, while highlighting their folk or country origins (sometimes deeply buried at the original recordings, but more perceptible when reinterpreted by performers from diverse backgrounds), still keep their darker spirits through melancholic or nihilistic lyrics.

In this volume, the country side of Waits' music is quite perceptible via covers by Elvis Costello, Norah Jones, and Claudia Bettinaglio. One may also feel the sexiness and smoky-room cabaret ambiance at Diana Krall's "Temptation", Monique Maion's "Walking Spanish," and Clara Bellino's "Swordfishtrombone." 

Traces of rockabilly and R&B can be found with Mark Lemhouse's "No One Can Forgive Me" and English seventies folk with Plant and Krauss' "Trampled Rose", along with blues and rock tracks like Hart and Bonamassa's "Chocolate Jesus" and Goldheart Assembly's "Clap Hands." Overall, this makes for an eclectic selection, much like the average Tom Waits album. An acoustic, home-demo-like version of "In the Neighborhood" by Peter Gabriel, recorded in 2012 for a benefit album for war-torn regions, closes the volume on a poignant note.

--- 

This album is 57 minutes long. 

01 Innocent When You Dream (Elvis Costello)
02 Temptation (Diana Krall)
03 Long Way Home (Norah Jones)
04 Big in Japan (Shane Nicholson)
05 Swordfishtrombone (Clara Bellino)
06 Eyeball Kid (Michael Stanley)
07 Cold Cold Ground (Claudia Bettinaglio)
08 Trampled Rose (Robert Plant & Alison Krauss)
09 All the Time in the World (Southside Johnny)
10 No One Can Forgive Me (Mark Lemhouse)
11 Walking Spanish (Monique Maion)
12 Chocolate Jesus (Beth Hart & Joe Bonamassa)
13 Clap Hands (Goldheart Assembly)
14 In the Neighborhood (Peter Gabriel)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/wvcKwhGU

alternate: 

https://bestfile.io/en/7tUs0XZxiJ6YplA/file

The cover photo shows Waits at a movie premiere in Leicester Square, in London, on October 6, 2009. (As usual with this series of course, I replaced the background with blank light blue).

KT Tunstall - PBS Soundstage, WTTW Studios, Chicago, IL, 5-6-2006

Here's another episode of the excellent "PBS Soundstage" TV show. This one stars singer-songwriter KT Tunstall.

Tunstall had a massive debut album in 2004. "Eye to the Telescope" sold nearly five million copies worldwide. So her popularity was still soaring at the time of this concert in 2006. Her next album wouldn't be released until 2007, so this mostly consists of songs from that debut album. 

Unfortunately, the popularity of her debut wasn't sustained. But I think she's put out quality music all along.

The music here is unreleased. The sound quality is excellent. 

This album is 54 minutes long. 

01 talk (KT Tunstall)
02 Other Side of the World (KT Tunstall)
03 talk (KT Tunstall)
04 Miniature Disasters (KT Tunstall)
05 Under the Weather (KT Tunstall)
06 Another Place to Fall (KT Tunstall)
07 Universe and U (KT Tunstall)
08 talk (KT Tunstall)
09 Black Horse and the Cherry Tree (KT Tunstall)
10 talk (KT Tunstall)
11 Hollywood Hills (KT Tunstall)
12 Heal Over (KT Tunstall)
13 talk (KT Tunstall)
14 Suddenly I See (KT Tunstall)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/eV9ZqTNt

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/JeBGNkeZ9qqw5ST/file

The cover photo is from this exact concert. 

Various Artists - Covered: Antonio Carlos Jobim, Volume 2: 1998-2011 (A Fabio from Rio Guest Post)

Here's the second out of three albums celebrating the music of songwriter Antonio Carlos Jobim. Like the others in this series, Fabio from Rio was more responsible for putting this together than I was. So a very big thanks to him. Due to the fact that he's a Brazilian with deep knowledge of Brazilian music, he knew Jobim covers way better than I did.

Jobim wrote most of his classic songs from the 1950s to the 1970s. He actually died in 1994, of heart and cancer problems at the age of 67. So all the covers here are from after his death, of songs that often were written decades earlier. That's a sign that his songs keep getting covered, long after their first appearances on records. 

Fabio and I selected these choices together. We rarely went for the big hit versions, because his songs rarely turned into big hits. But he's had dozens of songs with literally hundreds of cover versions. Typically, Fabio selected a bunch of versions of a given song, then I would listen to them and pick my favorite. If you want to hear more versions, go to the write-up for Volume 1, because Fabio has made six more albums of Jobim covers that you can find there.

Also note that I kept this to versions in English, despite the fact that Jobim wrote nearly all of the original versions of his songs in Portuguese. And I kept my selections to versions with vocals, since there are countless hundreds of instrumental versions of his songs as well. I figured English versions would have more popular appeal for people who aren't that familiar with his music. 

This album is 46 minutes long. 

01 For All of My Life [Por Toda a Minha Vida] (Eliane Elias)
02 Modinha [Broken Heart] (Paquito D'Rivera & New York Voices)
03 Ela e Carioca [She's a Carioca] (Celso Fonseca)
04 Someone to Light Up My Life [Se Todos Fossem Iguais a Voce] (Ann Hampton Callaway)
05 No More Blues [Chega de Saudade] (Idea of North)
06 Porpoise [Boto] (Beijbom Kroner Big Band)
07 Song of the Jet [Samba do Aviao] (BR6)
08 Quiet Nights of Quiet Stars [Corcovado] (Diana Krall)
09 I Was Just One More for You [Esperanca Perdida] (Dawn Clement)
10 That Look You Wear [Este Seu Olhar] (Elly Hoyt)
11 Zingaro [Retrato em Branco e Preto] [Portrait in Black and White] (Nina Ripe)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/gSWRErwx

alternate: 

https://bestfile.io/en/N9ABCsEsu77SMaL/file

I don't know the details about the cover photo. But based on his appearance and the other photos I saw of him putting this together, I'd guess the picture was taken in the 1980s. 

Various Artists - MusiCares Tribute to James Taylor, Los Angeles Convention Center, Los Angeles, CA, 2-6-2006

Here's another MusiCares tribute concert. I only have a couple more of these after this one, and I want to post them in the next days. This one honors James Taylor.

This concert followed the usual format for these kinds of things: a bonus of famous musical acts sang covers of his songs, then he accepted an award and gave a speech, and finally he played a couple of his songs. If you look at the song lists, a lot of big names showed up to perform his songs, including Bruce Springsteen. 

Another big name also played one of his songs at the concert: Paul Simon sung "Sweet Baby James." But unfortunately, this is sourced from a DVD, but that song wasn't included, and I couldn't find any version of it anywhere. If anyone has it, please let me know so I can add it in.

I know Simon played that song in this concert, because it's mentioned in this article, which is a good summary of the concert in general:

MusiCares Honors Singer James Taylor - CBS News 

Also, while trying to find a good photo for the cover art, I went through a stash of hundreds of photos from the concert, and noticed that other big names like Neil Young and Brian Wilson attended. But I doubt they performed, or they probably would have been mentioned in that news article I just linked to. 

As mentioned above, this is sourced from an official DVD, so the sound quality is excellent. No version is any audio format has been released. As I sometimes do, I converted the video to audio, then broke it into mp3s.

This album is an hour and 18 minutes long. 

01 talk (Bill Clinton)
02 talk (emcee)
03 talk (Dixie Chicks)
04 Shower the People (Dixie Chicks)
05 talk (emcee)
06 talk (Bonnie Raitt)
07 Rainy Day Man (Bonnie Raitt)
08 talk (emcee)
09 talk (India.Arie)
10 Secret o' Life (India.Arie)
11 talk (emcee)
12 talk (Jackson Browne, David Crosby & Sheryl Crow)
13 Mexico (Jackson Browne, David Crosby & Sheryl Crow)
14 talk (emcee)
15 talk (Sting)
16 You Can Close Your Eyes (Sting)
17 talk (Dr. John & Taj Mahal)
18 Everybody Has the Blues (Dr. John & Taj Mahal)
19 talk (Alison Krauss & Jerry Douglas)
20 Carolina in My Mind (Alison Krauss & Jerry Douglas)
21 talk (emcee)
22 talk (Keith Urban)
23 Country Road (Keith Urban)
24 talk (emcee)
25 talk (Bruce Springsteen)
26 Millworker (Bruce Springsteen)
27 talk (Carole King)
28 You've Got a Friend (Carole King with James Taylor)
29 talk (Neil Portnow)
30 talk (James Taylor)
31 Shed a Little Light (James Taylor)
32 talk (James Taylor)
33 How Sweet It Is [To Be Loved by You] (James Taylor)
34 Fire and Rain (James Taylor)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/T6dgDM1s

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/5ezYaz8DOi7Zc9L/file

The cover photo is from this exact concert. It shows Taylor receiving the award from Neil Portnow, the head of MusiCares at the time. 

Tom P*tty & the Heartbreakers with Stevie Nicks - PBS Soundstage, Stephan C. O'Connell Center, Gainesville, FL, 9-21-2006

Here's an episode of the great TV show "PBS Soundstage" staring Tom P. and the Heartbreakers, from 2006.

(Note that I'm not using the full name of this artist due to concerns about copyright issues.)  

The star of the show was born and raised in Gainesville, Florida, and in fact most of his band was from there as well. So this concert was a rare homecoming, giving it extra emotional appeal. For the band's entire 2006 summer tour, they were assisted by Stevie Nicks, despite the fact that she was a big star in her own right. She has publicly stated more than once that she wishes she could have been a member of the Heartbreakers, so this tour was probably the closest she came to fulfilling that wish. She didn't sing any of her own songs, but sang back up on some of songs by the main act (including duet in which she sang on the original). 

This album is a lot longer than the typical hour-long episode of this TV show. That's because this is the full concert, from the DVD. It hasn't been released in any audio format, however. 

Note that this musical act did another episode of "PBS Soundstage," back in 2003. I've posted that one as well.

This album is an hour and 54 minutes long.

I'm not including the track list due to copyright issues. But you can find it in the mp3 download file. 

https://pixeldrain.com/u/SrVC27H8

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/wtiqNcLva2nDKFG/file

The cover is from this exact concert.

Various Artists - Covered: Lee Hazlewood, Volume 2: 1968-2023

Here's Volume Two of my "Covered" series albums highlighting the songs written by Lee Hazlewood.

A large percentage of the songs in Volume One were hits. That's much less the case here, since most of this deals with a far less portion of his career, basically from about 1970 onwards until his death (due to cancer) at the age of 78 in 2007.

The first song here, "Some Velvet Morning," was a hit, and is one of his best known songs. What a fascinating song it is. In 2003, the British newspaper The Daily Telegraph placed the single at the Number 1 spot on their 50 Best Duets Ever list. Here's a portion from the article about that list: "These two weirdly complementary sides of Hazlewood's persona unite on 'Some Velvet Morning,' a standout track from Nancy and Lee. On that track, Hazlewood and Sinatra sound like they don't inhabit the same universe, let alone the same song. ... 'Some Velvet Morning' sounds like two songs spliced together by a madman, or an avant-garde short film in song form." 

In the late 1960s, Hazlewood and Sinatra were keeping their successful hit formula going. "Lady Bird" was another big hit song as a duet sung by them, although just to vary things up a bit I've included a version by Virgil Warner & Suzi Jane Hokom instead. (Hokom was Hazlewood's girlfriend in the late 1960s and into the early 1970s.) However, his fortunes changed drastically around 1970, when he decided to move to the Sweden. He ended up living there for ten years. He later claimed that he went there for several reasons, including so his son could avoid getting drafted to fight in the Vietnam War, tax trouble, and bailing out on a failing record company he had tried to run for a few years. One song here, "No Train to Stockholm," details some of his feelings about making that move.

Unfortunately, back in that era, the world was less connected, and going to Sweden was almost suicide for his music career. For instance, his highly successful collaboration with Nancy Sinatra mostly had to come to an end. However, they did reunite occasionally, for instance with an album called "Nancy and Lee Again" in 1972. That contained a Number Two hit in Britain, "Did You Ever." But I didn't included that song here because Hazlewood wasn't involved in writing it.

For much of the 1970s and 80s, he was semi-retired from the music business, although he did release his own albums from time to time. But as more time passed, his music was discovered by younger generations, and his music increasingly achieved a kind of cult status. That led to tribute albums, collaborations, and so on. He also revived his own performing career, including another album with Sinatra in 2004, and a well-regarded final album "Cake or Death," released in 2006, just one year before he died. The song "Baghdad Knights" is from that album.

A lot of the choices here are highly idiosyncratic, meaning someone else putting this together almost certainly would have made many different selections. I tried including at least a little bit of some of his different styles, including three songs he released in his own name, since I couldn't find good cover versions for those. 

This album is 48 minutes long.

01 Some Velvet Morning (Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazlewood)
02 You Turned My Head Around (Ann-Margret)
03 Sweet Ride (Dusty Springfield)
04 Lady Bird (Virgil Warner & Suzi Jane Hokom)
05 No Train to Stockholm (Lee Hazlewood)
06 For a Day like Today (Suzi Jane Hokom)
07 She Comes Running (Waylon Jennings)
08 Paris Summer (Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazlewood)
09 Las Vegas (Lee Hazlewood)
10 Easy and Me (Kathryn Williams)
11 The Cheat (Jarvis Cocker & Richard Hawley)
12 It's Sunday Morning (Kid Loco with Tim Keegan)
13 Baghdad Knights (Lee Hazlewood)
14 The Night Before (Kristoffer & the Harbour Heads)
15 Your Sweet Love (Sungaze)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/SAQ7zpc1

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/QINx1SqGmpYprzk/file

I don't know what year the cover photo is from. But I think it's from a little later than the cover photo for Volume 1, due to a little more grey in his hair.

Jewel - PBS Soundstage, Meyerson Symphony Center, Dallas, TX, 8-31-2006

Here is a "PBS Soundstage" concert by Jewel, also known as Jewel Kilcher.

In 2003, Jewel released the studio album "0304." In it, her style shifted to dance pop. This was not well received by most fans and critics. In 2006, around this time of this concert, she released her next album, "Goodbye Alice in Wonderland." It brought her back to her previous folk and rock styles. It was much better received, although sales weren't great.

For this concert, we luckily get full concert instead of the usual edit down to an hour. Many of the songs are from her latest album, or from previous albums. Just one song, "Intuition," is from her "0304," so if you don't like that album it doesn't really have an impact on this concert. She didn't break to talk much in this recording, but when she does, she usually told long stories.

This album is an hour and 37 minutes long. The music here has been released on video form on DVD, but not as an audio album.

01 1000 Miles Away (Jewel)
02 Near You Always (Jewel)
03 talk (Jewel)
04 Stephenville, TX (Jewel)
05 Morning Song (Jewel)
06 talk (Jewel)
07 Cowboy's Lament [Fly to Me Angel] (Jewel)
08 Foolish Games (Jewel)
09 You Were Meant for Me (Jewel)
10 Long Slow Slide (Jewel)
11 Hands (Jewel)
12 talk (Jewel)
13 Good Day (Jewel)
14 Satellite (Jewel)
15 Everybody Needs Someone Sometime (Jewel)
16 talk (Jewel)
17 Love Me, Just Leave Me Alone (Jewel)
18 Break Me (Jewel)
19 Where You Are (Jewel)
20 Standing Still (Jewel)
21 Intuition (Jewel)
22 Who Will Save Your Soul (Jewel)
23 talk (Jewel)
24 Goodbye Alice in Wonderland (Jewel)
25 Chime Bells (Jewel)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/fgB2jKxa

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/kXlsUIalh9ZSEGO/file

The cover image is a screenshot taken from this exact concert. I used the Krea AI program to sharpen it up a bit.

Paul Weller - BBC Sessions, Volume 12: 2005-2008

Here's yet another in a long line of albums of Paul Weller performing for the BBC. This time, it consists of studio sessions.

As I've mentioned previously, Weller released a box set of his BBC recordings from the start of his solo career in 1990 until 2008, but it certainly didn't include everything he performed for the BBC. This album is a case in point. In fact, two songs here, "All on a Misty Morning" and "111," are unreleased and come from the exact same BBC studio session as the four tracks before it (tracks 8 to 11), which did make the box set. "Love," "I Don't Need No Doctor," "Black River," and "Invisible" are other unreleased songs from BBC sessions. Everything else here is from the box set. Check the mp3 tags for all the exact details.

A definite highlight here are two songs where Weller dueted with Amy Winehouse, "Don't Go to Strangers" and "I Heard It through the Grapevine." These went unreleased for a long time, and were another thing that didn't make it onto the Weller BBC box set, but they finally got released on a Winehouse BBC album.

This album is 52 minutes long.

01 Come On-Let's Go (Paul Weller)
02 Love (Paul Weller)
03 Roll Along Summer (Paul Weller)
04 I Wanna Make It Alright [Edit] (Paul Weller)
05 I Don't Need No Doctor (Paul Weller)
06 Don't Go to Strangers (Amy Winehouse & Paul Weller)
07 I Heard It through the Grapevine (Amy Winehouse & Paul Weller)
08 All I Wanna Do [Is Be with You] (Paul Weller)
09 Cold Moments (Paul Weller)
10 Push It Along (Paul Weller)
11 Pretty Flamingo (Paul Weller)
12 All on a Misty Morning (Paul Weller)
13 111 [Instrumental] (Paul Weller)
14 Black River (Paul Weller & Graham Coxon)
15 Invisible [Orchestral Version] (Paul Weller)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/Dv87M7x3

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/FzteuxGnu7sWxtg/file

The cover photo was taken at the Mojo Honours List Awards Ceremony, in London, on June 16, 2005. I used Photoshop to remove some writing on the wall behind him.

Chris Isaak - Acoustic, Volume 3: 1998-2016

Recently, a commenter pointed out to me that I had posted two volumes of Chris Isaak performing a third, yet I hadn't posted the third one. That was a very good point. I sometimes have albums all ready to go but then get distracted and fail to post them for some reason or another. So here's Volume 3.

As I mentioned with Volume 2 in this series, I really like how Isaak isn't afraid to perform songs just with an acoustic guitar or two. Typically, he's done this during short appearances, like in-person radio station promotions, where it probably isn't worth it for him to bring his entire band along. So this is mostly a compilation of unreleased performances from TV shows and radio shows. As usual, check the mp3 tags for all the details.

The only exceptions to that are tracks 7, 8, and 9. Track 7, "Forever Blue," is an acoustic version released on the album "Best of Chris Isaak." Tracks 8 and 9, "Don't Leave Me On My Own" and "Waiting," are also acoustic versions from the "Best of Chris Isaak" album, but only as bonus tracks on the iTunes version of that album.

Isaak's music career has been slowing down as he gets older, so this probably is the last album in this series. But never say never, I suppose.

This album is 50 minutes long.

01 Don't Get So Down on Yourself (Chris Isaak)
02 Sweet Leilani (Chris Isaak)
03 Blue Darlin' (Chris Isaak)
04 Speak of the Devil (Chris Isaak)
05 One Day (Chris Isaak)
06 Let Me Down Easy (Chris Isaak)
07 Forever Blue [Acoustic Version] (Chris Isaak)
08 Don't Leave Me On My Own [Acoustic Version] (Chris Isaak)
09 Waiting [Acoustic Version] (Chris Isaak)
10 Only the Lonely (Chris Isaak)
11 Somebody's Crying (Chris Isaak)
12 Wicked Game (Chris Isaak)
13 I Want You to Want Me (Chris Isaak)
14 Baby Did a Bad Bad Thing (Chris Isaak)
15 It Hurt Me So (Chris Isaak)
16 Great Balls of Fire (Chris Isaak)
17 Ring of Fire (Chris Isaak)
18 Oh, Pretty Woman (Chris Isaak)
19 My Happiness (Chris Isaak)
20 Live It Up (Chris Isaak)
21 Blue Christmas (Chris Isaak)
22 Perfect Lover (Chris Isaak)
23 Please Don't Call (Chris Isaak) 

https://pixeldrain.com/u/gpUPv5Xj

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/BpKi5r1ZG4I4Sh2/file

The cover photo shows Chris Isaak performing on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno in November 2004.