Friday, January 30th, 2009

Bootleg City: Patty Griffin, Pt. 3

by Robert Cass

As I mentioned last week, an anonymous donor sent me disc two of Patty Griffin’s “Love From My Lips” bootleg after I whined on January 16 about not having a glitch-free copy to share here. Many, many thanks, John Doe. If I whine some more about the economy, will you send me a glitch-free copy of that too?

Another donor sent me a soundboard recording of Griffin’s “Ruby’s Arms” from a performance at Oberlin College in 2002; a rougher version can be found on disc three of “Love From My Lips.” According to him, “The first three beats of the third bar have been copied over the first three beats of the first bar” to remove some applause at the beginning of the track. This will surely cause controversy among the audio purists who hang out at Popdose, but I have a feeling my decision to replace Griffin’s vocals with excerpts from Rod Blagojevich’s most hilarious prank calls will cause even more. Unfortunately for you, I’m the ruler of Bootleg City — if you don’t like it, move to Greenland. (It’s icy there, but the economy’s not on thin ice the way it is in the confusingly green country of Iceland. Not yet, anyway.)

Made of Clay
Truth
Unnecessary
A Place to Stand
Heart of the Wound
Holy Water
Buck Naked Heart
No More Illusions
Boxes on the Lawn
Nail in the Coffin
Waterslide
Long Ride Home
Falling Down
Calling Me Home
So Long
Vertigo
Night
Nobody’s Crying
Cain

Ruby’s Arms [Live in Oberlin, Ohio: 5/11/02]

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  • EightE1
    Robert, awesome post, but check the links -- the song under "Long Ride Home" is actually "Nobody's Crying."

    I'm actually going to see her next week, with Emmylou Harris, Shawn Colvin, and Buddy Miller. Can't wait. Hope she does "Nobody's Crying."

    Rob
    EightE1
  • Thanks, Rob, for catching that. I'm not a Patty Griffin fan, so even if I'd listened to all these songs before I posted them, I wouldn't have known which one was "Nobody's Crying." Unfortunately, it's not a direct switcheroo -- the song that was originally labeled "Nobody's Crying" isn't "The Long Ride Home," at least not according to the lyrics I found online. Does anyone know what the song I've now marked as "?????" is?
  • EightE1
    ????? is "Vertigo." The track currently listed as "Vertigo" is called "Truth #1."
  • For God's sake ...

    Would you mind telling me what should go where, since you know the songs? I'll then have to go back in and re-upload them with the correct names.

    I now officially hate "Love From My Lips."
  • You don't have to re-upload them, you doofus. You just need to rename the files on the server and edit the post to reflect the new filenames.
  • I got in touch with the anonymous donor, who apologized for not checking the files before he sent them to me, which were sent to him with all the titles in the wrong places. I'll fix this tonight when I get home. All the tracks from disc two are there -- they're just titled incorrectly. Thanks for the advice, Jeff, because otherwise I would've uploaded everything again.
  • Ruby's Arms, which is in fact Ruby's Arms, is sublime.
  • Everything should be fixed now. Sorry for the delay -- I wasn't really home this weekend for more than a few hours until about 9:00 tonight.

    Thanks to the anonymous donor for clearing up which title belonged to which track.
  • sunflower
    Just tried to listen, the lonks don't work :-(.
    VERY SAD PLEASE REFRESH.
    Thank you
  • davytrain2000
    any possibility of reposting these at some point?
  • Paul Michell
    can you please put ruby's arms back up?!
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