LUCINDA WILLIAMS - BBC Radio 2 Session & Interview (13 July, 2023)

Award winning singer-songwriter Lucinda Williams is in session playing songs from her new album, Stories from a Rock n Roll Heart.

Thursday 27 July 2023
BBC Radio 2 FM / 9-10pm
The Country Show with Bob Harris

01. Jukebox (Radio 2 Session, 13 July 2023) 5:08

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Thursday 3 August 2023
BBC Radio 2 FM / 9-10pm
The Country Show with Bob Harris

02. New York Comeback (ft. Bruce Springsteen &  Patti Scialfa) | Stories from a Rock N Roll Heart
     Interview with Lucinda Williams
     Stolen Moments (Radio 2 Session, 13 July 2023)
     Where The Song Will Find Me (Radio 2 Session, 13 July 2023) 25:42

Lineage: Denon FM tuner TU-260L > Audacity > WAV 16bit 44kHz > TLH > Flac (8)

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Thursday 10 August 2023
BBC Radio 2 i-player (UK, 320k)
The Country Show with Bob Harris

03. Hum's Liquor (Radio 2 Session, 13 July 2023) 4:51 i-player dB

Lineage: i-Sound recorder for Windows 7/10 > BBC i-player > WAV 16bit 44kHz > TLH > Flac (8)

Running time: 35:41

Recordings by thebasement67: 27 July & 3/10 August 2023

These are the complete segments from each of the three shows that the session was broadcast over. I was unable to record the final session track from the FM broadcast and have used the UK BBC i-player, which plays at a higher bitrate (320k) in the UK, than the rest of the world.

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Bootlegs of the Year 2015-2022

7th & Final Edition including 2022

 

This document was first compiled in 2015 after receiving numerous emails, enquiring as to where bootlegs #1-100 posted on site, could be found. (many of the links were lost in 2016, see Downloads box on top right-hand side panel). 

 

This is the latest, the seventh and final edition of 'Bootlegs of the Year'. It incorporates a further fifty-eight boots downloaded during the last twenty-four months.

 

This seventh edition now includes 332 bootlegs, the best I have downloaded since 2015. The 178-page book will point you in the right direction, in finding the sites I have used and most importantly the web addresses where they can be located. 

Although it concentrates on the best bootlegs I have downloaded in the last eight years, the same websites and addresses noted in the book are where the majority of the bootlegs in the 100 Greatest listing, originated from. The posts #1 to #100 were mostly made from downloads prior to 2015. 

 

To sum up, it includes the best bootlegs I have downloaded in the preceding years, 2015 to 2022. Having discarded numerous titles, these are the best from that time frame.

I have not provided a sound quality rating as virtually all are of sufficient high quality to rate around 5 out of 5, some are worthy of 5+ like the best official releases.

As you can imagine, it took some time and effort to pull this all together. What to include and just as importantly what to leave out, has taken considerable thought and listening hours, enjoyable nonetheless. So if you are a fan of any of the artists featured, then I can confidently state that you will definitely enjoy the bootlegs that have been chosen.

 

If you would like a copy of this document, it's only £5 GBP via the donate button (see the top right-hand bar - above blog archive). You do not need a paypal account.

 

Included in the main body of the text of the document are details of the 332 bootlegs downloaded, and where to find them by the following artists:                 

 

8 years - 177 different artists

RYAN ADAMS
THE AFGHAN WHIGS
ARCADE FIRE (3)
ARCTIC MONKEYS

ASWAD

THE AVALANCHES
THE BAND
BEASTIE BOYS
BEATLES (2)
BECK (2)

CAPTAIN BEEFHEART & HIS MAGIC BAND

BELLE & SEBASTIAN
BIG AUDIO DYNAMITE (3)

BJORK
BLACK KEYS

BLONDIE

THE BLUE NILE

BLUR

JOE BONAMASSA (4)
DAVID BOWIE (6)
BROADCAST (3)

BUCKINGHAM NICKS

BYRDS
CALEXICO (4)
CALEXICO / IRON & WINE
CAN
JOHNNY CASH
CAT POWER (3)

NICK CAVE & THE BAD SEEDS (5)

THE CHURCH
THE CLASH (2)
COCTEAU TWINS (2)
LEONARD COHEN (2)
LLOYD COLE / THE COMMOTIONS (2)
RY COODER
ELVIS COSTELLO & THE ATTRACTIONS (3)
CRAMPS (2)
CRANBERRIES
CREAM 

THE CURE (3)

DEAD CAN DANCE (2)

DELTA 5

DEPECHE MODE
DEREK & THE DOMINOS
DEXYS MIDNIGHT RUNNERS
DJ DANGERMOUSE
BOB DYLAN (4)
EAGLES
STEVE EARLE & THE DUKES (3)
ECHO & THE BUNNYMEN (2)

ELECTRAFIXION

EURYTHMICS
EVERYTHING BUT THE GIRL

THE FALL
ALI FARKA TOURE & RY COODER
FEEDER

FELT

THE FLAMING LIPS
FLEET FOXES
FLEETWOOD MAC (5)
FONTAINES DC

RORY GALLAGHER (4)
GANG OF FOUR (2)

GENESIS (2)
BETH GIBBONS & RUSTIN MAN
RHIANNON GIDDENS
DAVID GILMOUR (2)
GRATEFUL DEAD (2)

GUNS 'N' ROSES
PJ HARVEY (2)
INXS
JANE'S ADDICTION
JIMI HENDRIX (3)
THE JAM
JAPAN (2)
THE JESUS & MARY CHAIN (2)
RICKIE LEE JONES
JONI MITCHELL (2)
THE KILLS
KRAFTWERK (5)
LAMBCHOP (2)
LED ZEPPELIN (8)

THE LEMONHEADS

LENNY KRAVITZ
LINTON KWESI JOHNSON (2)
LONE JUSTICE
MANIC STREET PREACHERS
BOB MARLEY & THE WAILERS (4)
LAURA MARLING
MASSIVE ATTACK
CURTIS MAYFIELD (2)
MAZZY STAR (2)
JOHN MELLENCAMP
MISTY IN ROOTS (3)
JONI MITCHELL
MOGWAI 

THE NATIONAL (3)

NEW BOHEMIANS (WITH EDIE BRICKELL)
NEW ORDER (12)
STEVIE NICKS

NINE INCH NAILS
NIRVANA (3)

GARY NUMAN

OASIS

THE OFFSPRING
ORBITAL

OUTCASTS
PAVEMENT

PEARL JAM (4)

PENTANGLE
LEE PERRY & V/A
TOM PETTY & THE HEARTBREAKERS (5)
PIL (2)
PINK FLOYD (2)
PIXIES (2)
RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS

ROBERT PLANT (4)
POGUES
THE POLICE (3)

IGGY POP

PRIMAL SCREAM (2)
QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE (2)
RADIOHEAD (7)
BONNIE RAITT

LOU REED
REM (4)
DAVID RODIGAN'S REGGAE SHOW: PRINCE BUSTER
ROLLING STONES (2)

RUSH

SADE
SANTANA

SCIENTIST

SEBADOH

THE SHINS (2)

SIMPLE MINDS (2)
SIOUXSIE & THE BANSHEES

THE SLITS
SMASHING PUMPKINS
ELLIOTT SMITH
PATTI SMITH (2)
SONIC YOUTH (3)
SPARKLEHORSE
SPARKS

SPECIALS
SPIRITUALIZED (2)
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN
STEELY DAN

STING (2)
THE STRANGLERS 
THE STROKES (2)
JOE STRUMMER & THE MESCALEROS
SUICIDE
DAVID SYLVIAN & ROBERT FRIPP
TALKING HEADS
TEARDROP EXPLODES (2)
TELEVISION (4)
THIN LIZZY
GEORGE THOROGOOD & THE DESTROYERS (2)
TINARIWEN      
TRIFFIDS

UNDERWORLD (2)
VARIOUS ARTISTS (3)
LAURA VEIRS
TOM VERLAINE (4)
THE VERVE (2)
WAH! HEAT
TOM WAITS 

THE WATERBOYS (2)

JACK WHITE
THE WHO
LUCINDA WILLIAMS (2)
X
THE YARDBIRDS

YOUNG MARBLE GIANTS (2)
NEIL YOUNG (11)  

The PDF document comprises:

• 178 pages A4
• Word count 108,343
• 332 bootleg images

Full details have been included for each bootleg such as:

• Venue
• Date of performance
• Type of recording - soundboard, FM, from the audience, etc.
• Lineage
• Running time
• Website address
• Complete track listings
• Track timings
• Informative comments about each bootleg
• Index

If you would like a copy of this document, it's only £5 GBP via the donate button, you do not require a paypal account.

An audio sampler is available on a preceding post: Bootleg Promo. The selected tracks are from bootlegs that never made the cut for the final document, but they will give you an idea of the sound quality I look for.

page samples above

 

 

SINEAD O'CONNOR - PINK POP FESTIVAL 1988 (Flac)

Sinead O'Connor
Pinkpop Festival
Landgraaf
The Netherlands

May 23, 1988

01. Jackie
02. Mandinka
03. Never get old
04. Just like U said it would B
05. Jerusalem
06. The value of ignorance
07. The hand that rocks the cradle (Smiths cover)
08. Just call me Joe
09. Jump in the river
10. I want your (hands on me)
11. Troy
12. I am stretched on your grave

I don't often post music by artists that have recently passed. It happens so frequently nowadays, that the blog would resemble the audio version of a continuous obituary. Rarely does a few weeks go by without a great artist succumbing to the grim reaper. In some situations it lessons the grip fans have of a special recording that has not been shared. A bittersweet pill, that has provoked the release of this pre-FM. 

It is an excellent performance and superb recording, featuring many tracks from Sinead's debut album, The Lion & The Cobra. 

The set also includes live versions of the three singles that were taken from the album. The most successful was Mandinka the only one to make the UK top twenty. 

A couple of tracks, Jump In The River and set closer, I Am Stretched On Your Grave appeared on Sinead's massive breakthrough album 'I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got'  

Add in a cover of the Smiths, The Hand That Rocks The Cradle and it becomes a must listen. The best I have downloaded this year. 

So sad, it has taken such tragic circumstances to make it available. R.I.P. Sinead. 

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Original notes:

Complete, unedited pre-FM recording of Sinead's performance at the massive Pinkpop festival in the Netherlands. Allegedly leaked from the radio station, my copy is a second generation copy of the master. I traded it shortly after the performance and was asked not to spread it further. Twenty-five years onwards, I think it's time to liberate it...

The show was only partially broadcast on Dutch radio (unsure which songs) and TV (Troy only, you can find it on YouTube). I believe this is the first time it'll be in circulation in its entirety.

Acts on the bill that day, in order of appearance: Rainbirds, The Godfathers, Aswad, Herman Brood & His Wild Romance, Red Hot Chili Peppers, The Pogues, The Christians, Sinéad O’Connor, Joe Cocker.

Lineage: Pre-FM (2nd gen) > Audacity (wav, track splitting) > xACT (flac) > you

I'm digitizing my tape collection, mostly recorded from Dutch radio in the 80s and early 90s. The original tapes will be binned and after seeding I will not keep the original flac sets, so unfortunately I will not be able to reseed them in the future.

Enjoy, frankvink

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FOR ONE NIGHT ILLEGALLY - the History of the Bootleg (Flac)

The first post in some three months. Only nine boots have been downloaded this year so far. An attempt to scale back and only keep the best. Two have been upgrades of boots that I already have. 

A lean time but we press on with this radio documentary about the history of bootlegs. Coming soon this month a pre-FM recording previously unavailable, from the Pink Pop festival. 

Writer and broadcaster David Hepworth charts the story of secret recordings, artist out-takes and demo tapes that make up the world of bootleg recordings, from Bob Dylan's Great White Wonder in 1969 to the file sharing internet sites of the 21st century, via the Beatles, the Stones, Bruce Springsteen, Sex Pistols and Led Zeppelin.

David also talks to contemporary artists including Ryan Adams who have come to embrace the bootleggers, and hears from bootleggers of the 1960s and 70s who pitted their wits against security guards, the Feds and the record companies to get their unofficial releases out to the public. A Bite Yer Legs production for BBC Radio 4.

For One Night Illegally - the History of the Bootleg
Presented by Dave Hepworth

BBC Radio 4 First Broadcast: Saturday 18 April, 2009 / 8pm (Running time: 56 minutes)

Lineage: Unknown > Downloaded file > CDr > Rip to WAV 16bit 44.1kHz > Flac

01. The earliest bootleg recording. Jazz and Charlie Parker (4:09)
02. The Great White Wonder and bootlegs in the pop and rock era (6:08)
03. Dylan's publisher demo (The Basement Tapes) (6:14)
04. The people behind the bootleg recordings and their release, including Rubber Dubber, TMQ & TAKRL (10:27)
05. Creative differences in the studio! (7:32)
06. Electrif Lycanthrope, Fire On The Fingertips, Static In The Attic etc. Peter Grant attempts to stop the bootleggers (5:06)
07. Artists endorse bootlegs, sometimes! BBC sessions & live shows indirectly encouraged bootlegs, promos and official releases (6:18)
08. Stock seizure and arrests (5:39)
09. Beatles, Beach Boys, Sam Cooke, Elvis, Dylan, The Troggs and the bootleggers legacy of preserving audio history (5:22)

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THE CURE - JOHN PEEL SESSIONS (1979-85) Flac

For a time in the 80's and 90's, spring would coincide with a new Cure album, their latest work would often be released in mid-April or early May. A John Peel session, would often precede the album release with early versions different from the finalised studio tracks.

The band recorded six sessions for the BBC Radio 1 John Peel show. As you will have noted this upload does not included the word 'Complete'. The very first session that the Cure recorded for the Peel show was officially released on the Strange Fruit label in 1988 on vinyl and CD.

This post includes the five unreleased sessions that the band recorded between 1979 and 1985. Two of these have been upgraded and if you already have the BBC sessions by the Cure you will need this post as it includes the superior upgraded sources.

Session #2
Captured the spirit far more than the subsequent album versions. Michael Dempsey declared the first two sessions for Peel "as the defining sound of the early Cure." Desperate Journalist... is Robert Smith's interpretation of a disparaging review of the debut album by NME journalist, Ian Penman and is set to the rhythm of 'Grinding Halt'. The other tracks remain crucial, 'Subway Song' is especially chilling and 'Plastic Passion' is slightly faster but less angrier!

Session #3
Is slower and set to a darker pace than the final album versions, no mean feat when you consider 'Seventeen Seconds' as being the first of a doom laden trilogy, along with 'Faith' (1981) and 'Pornography' (1982). Little of the Cure's previous sound remained.

Session #4
A session that ranks among the greatest of the Cure's BBC performances. 'Cold Colours' is radically different from it's final version 'Primary'. 'Forever' never made it onto a studio album but did appear as a 1984 live cut on the album 'Curiosity'. 'The Holy Hour' and 'All Cats Are Grey' are more familiar but lyrical changes and passionate performance mark them out from the album tracks.

Session #5
Only three tracks this time as the fourth 'The Hanging Garden' was incomplete because of time constraints and subsequently not broadcast. Spectacular and aggressive, only 'Siamese Twins' with its desolate, sparse and jangly guitars would temper the raging anger of this haunting session.

Session #6
This remarkable session was their first in over four and a half years for Peel. Offering a more thoughtful side to the band than the public image of the Cure as successful charting pop band. The sound has echoes of the earlier 1980-81 sessions.

01. Grinding Halt
02. Desperate Journalist In Ongoing Meaningful Review Situation
03. Accuracy
04. Subway Song
05. Plastic Passion
John Peel Session #2 BBC Studio Maida Vale 4, London. Recorded 9 May 1979

06. A Forest
07. Seventeen Seconds
08. Play For Today
09. M
John Peel Session #3 Maida Vale Recording Studios, London. Recorded 3 March 1980

10. The Holy Hour
11. Forever
12. Primary (aka Cold Colours)
13. All Cats Are Grey
John Peel Session #4 BBC Langham Studio 1, London. Recorded 7 January 1981.   

14. Siamese Twins
15. One Hundred Years
16. The Figurehead
John Peel Session #5 Maida Vale Recording Studios, London. Recorded 21 December 1981

17. The Exploding Boy
18. Six Different Ways
19. Screw
20. Sinking
John Peel Session #6 BBC Maida Vale Studio 5, London. Recorded 30 July 1985 

Link 1 (session #2-4) 

Link 2 (session #5-6) 

The Band: Robert Smith, Simon Gallup & Lol Tolhurst (session 3 only Matthieu Hartley, session 6 only Boris Williams) 

N.B. The dates on this post are correct and are dated from the actual session recording and not the over-the-air broadcast.

RADIOHEAD - Grosser Sendesaal des SFB, Berlin 2000 (Flac)

"Radiohead's 2nd concert in Berlin, on July 4, 2000 at a venue that held about 1,000 people, is the acknowledged high point of the tour.

More than that, it's one of the all time great Radiohead shows, in which the band was still drawing on the anxious energy of playing scores of new songs to a mostly unprepared audience. And yet, by this point in the tour, they also had an obvious confidence in their material and didn't feel as obligated to couch unfamiliar songs with reliable greatest hits.

Eleven out of the twenty-two songs played that night were new, including four out of the first five songs. The version of "In Limbo" is especially transcendent. 

And then there's the staggering take on "Kid A" that absolutely destroys the version on the album. The studio take is a low-key hum, like a robot voice sending a distress signal from the deepest reaches of inner space. Live, however, Radiohead made "Kid A" sound like an excursion into outer space, a positively huge and demented sonic explosion puctuated with a wholly unexpected harmonica breakdown, like Bruce Springsteen discovering "Another Green World.""   

(Extract from the book 'This Isn't Happening Radiohead's Kid A And The Beginning Of The 21st Century' by Steven Hyden. It's an essential purchase and will give you a new perspective on 'Kid A' and the music released around Y2k)

Großer Sendesaal des SFB
Berlin, Germany
4 July, 2000

Disc 1
01 Optimistic
02 Morning Bell
03 Karma Police
04 The National Anthem
05 In Limbo
06 No Surprises
07 My Iron Lung
08 Dollars And Cents
09 Bishop's Robes
10 Talk Show Host
11 Kid A

Disc 2
01 You And Whose Army?
02 Airbag
03 Lucky
04 How To Disappear Completely
05 Paranoid Android
06 Everything In Its Right Place
07 Pyramid Song
08 Exit Music (For A Film)
08 Knives Out
10 Nude (Tease)
11 (Nice Dream)

 

Uploader Notes (Fixed Version)

Audio patching and artwork by ridleybradout

"This is quite possibly the best Radiohead bootleg ever. Rumoured to be professionally mixed by none other than Nigel Godrich himself, it sounds as good if not better than the 'I Might Be Wrong' EP, but with a much more comprehensive tracklist. It features many expertly played versions of then unreleased Kid A/Amnesiac songs and rarities such as Bishop's Robes and Nice Dream.

It always frustrated me that such a pristine recording had micro-glitches between tracks, not to mention several annoying fade-in/outs. I took it upon myself to manually fix these and patch over the fades so that it now plays as a continuous listen.

I've also  put together some artwork that sits nicely next to that done for Nijmegen 2000-09-16 by Ben Z: http://www.angelfire.com/nb/cykwan/radioheadboota.html

I used the .shn archived 'Satellite (pre-FM)' source for this (which checked out as 100% CDDA in auCDtect) rather than the 'Revolves Around' source."

SOURCE: Satellite (PRE-FM) > DAT > CD-R > SHN > WAV > Nero Wave Editor/Soundtrax for patching > FLAC

With thanks to Ridley Bradout, believe the well deserved hype. This is a cracker.

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LINK 2 

TOM VERLAINE (December 13, 1949 – January 28, 2023)

TELEVISION
02 ABC, Glasgow, Scotland
8 June 2016

PERSIA (20:56)

This show was the only time I managed to see Television. I had been hoping to see their support slot with Billy Idol last year but it was unfortunately cancelled.

The show consisted of just ten songs but three of them were epics in length and stature, Little Johnny Jewel, Persia & Marquee Moon.
There are numerous performances of Little Johnny Jewel and Marquee Moon and they can be found on many of the sites listed in the Bootlegs of the Year document.

It is to 'Persia' we return. This near 21-minute performance of an unreleased song. If Television had got round to recording a fourth studio album, then surely this would have take up one side of the vinyl release.

Standing watching this performance live I was rooted to the spot, the audience had quietened down from a boisterous beginning, an altercation near the centre front of the stage. There was a guy dressed like Jimmy Rip with accompanying hat being jostled by some younger guy, who was trying to show off his dance moves to a woman he was trying to impress. (Dance moves at a Television show! see also the Mogwai post.)

It's interesting that the person recording this show moved position to the left as I did to get peace to concentrate and enjoy the show without any distractions, he must have been close to where I was standing. The sound quality in the venue was stunning as was the performance. 

It's a great shame that one of Glasgow's newer iconic music venues suffered such a fate of having to be knocked down, after damage because of the fire to the nearby Charles Rennie Mackintosh-designed Glasgow School of Art in 2018. The O2 ABC had the largest mirror ball suspended from the ceiling that I've ever seen, not one you would have felt comfortable standing underneath.  

Lineage:
CA14 Cards-CA 9200-Sony PCM-M10-Sandisk Ultra Class 10 Micro SDHC 16gb sd card-Audacity,amplify 4db,Compresser,CD Wave-Traders Little Helper level 6 to flac (Recorded at first 30ft center till 3rd song, then 30ft left hand PA speaker.)

Band:
Tom Verlaine-Vocals & Guitar / Jimmy Rip-Guitars / Fred Smith-Bass / Billy Ficca-Drums

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                                  R.I.P. Tom

EVERYTHING BUT THE GIRL - Black Sessions 1993

Black Session no. 29
Recorded live at Studio 105, Paris, France.
June 1, 1993

French FM Radio broadcast

A quantity of high quality recordings of the John Peel show were made available for the first time last summer on the John Peel Wiki. These range from 1979 through 1983 with the majority of them from 1980. 

Included were 25 Peel shows from 1983, most of these included the complete shows plus the ten o'clock news. I've listened to a few of these this year on the exact date but forty years on. It's a strange experience listening to radio shows again that I first heard on their original broadcast as a young man. 1983 would be my last year as a regular weekly listener of the Peel show. I would return now and again throughout the years but my most regular listening took place in the seven year period between 1977 and 1983. 

The rapid change in the music scene was incredible and is documented extremely well in Jon Savage's book 'England's Dreaming' and Simon Reynolds book 'Rip It Up And Start Again.' There are many high quality shows from this era available on the Peel Wiki site and I will feature one of the best on a future post.

I coincidentally downloaded this show on the same day that I listened to the 5 January 1983 Peel show recording. The second track Peel played was by Tracey Thorn, 'Plain Sailing' included on her solo debut album in 1982 and later re-recorded for release as a single. By the time Tracey Thorn had formed Everything But The Girl with Ben Watt and released their debut album 'Eden' in 1984, she had already been through two bands and a short solo career.

Everything But The Girl released their eighth album in 1994, 'Amplified Heart' which took them into mainstream success via the remixed single 'Missing.' The follow up in 1996, 'Walking Wounded' was also highly successful and the 90's closed with their tenth album, 'Temperamental.' Tracey had twin daughters with Ben in 1998 and this led to the dissolution of the band in 2000.
 

They will return in spring with a new album, 'Fuse' their first in twenty-four years, scheduled for release on April 21st. A new single 'Nothing Left To Lose' is out now and this post may hopefully nudge you into exploring their back catalogue.

There is little lineage information with the download notes but it's a superb sounding recording and has been made using high quality audio equipment. Those who have a copy of the 'Bootlegs of the Year' pdf document will know how great the best Black sessions recordings sound. This is another to add to your collection and is the equal of those listed in the pdf above. 

Tracklist:

1.  Love is Strange (Mickey & Sylvia)
2.  Lonesome for a Place I Know
3.  Each & Every                 
4.  My Hometown (Bruce Springsteen cover)
5.  I Didn't Know I Was Looking for Love    
6.  Sugar Finney
7.  I Don't Want to Talk About It (Danny Whitten, Crazy Horse cover)
8.  Me and Bobby D
9.  The Road
10. Another Bridge
11. Only Living Boy in New York (Simon & Garfunkel cover)

Lineage: Unknown CDr > EAC > You

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                    scheduled release date: 21 April 2023