Best of 2012 - Live

The dB's

The Best of 2012 Live

various venues & dates

FM & web stream (sound quality Ex-; all these recordings sound great).

BIG THANKS to the stations & other media outlets that broadcast these (plus TheBynumite for the video of “Write Back”)!

My holiday gift to you, dear blog followers, is a collection of the best-sounding and best-performed live songs played and sung by The dB’s in 2012. I wanted to post something to commemorate this amazing year for the guys, releasing an album of new songs as well as playing dozens of live shows. I think you’re gonna really like this one... (Please leave a comment to let me know what you think)  

The dB’s play Le Poisson Rouge in NYC, June 2012

photo by hulaedwyn via Flickr

ABOUT THIS COLLECTION: Even though there wasn’t enough material for a concert-length set, I decided to sequence this as if it were a live performance — with the end of one song flowing as smoothly as possible into the next. The collection begins and ends with recordings from my favorite dB’s show of 2012, the band’s triumphant “World Café Live” appearance for WXPN in Philadelphia on the Friday of Labor Day Weekend. (I slightly prefer the audience recording I posted HERE; it’s 2 songs longer and you get a better feel for the atmospherics than with the web stream). The sound quality on these and all the others in the collection is pretty much pristine. 

Oh yeah, as a special this-time-only bonus, I’m posting this in lossless as well as MP3.

As always … ENJOY!  

SAMPLE: "Far Away & Log Ago (Best of 2012 Live)"

01 That Time Is Gone

02 Before We Were Born

03 Happenstance 
04 I Didn't Meant to Say That

05 Send Me Something Real

06 Far Away & Long Ago

07 World to Cry

08 The Adventures of Albatross and Doggerel

09 Write Back (first time ever live!)

10 Love Is for Lovers

11 (I Thought) You Wanted to Know

12 Living a Lie

13 The Wonder of Love

TT: 51:23

SOURCES

01 WXPN-FM, “World Café Live,” Philadelphia, PA 2012-08-31 
02 (same as #1) 
03 Threadgill's, Austin, TX (SXSW “Music Fog” show) 2012-03-17
04 Mountain Stage, Charleston, WV 2012-06-24
05 WXPN-FM, “World Café Live,” Philadelphia, PA 2012-08-31 
06 Mountain Stage, Charleston, WV 2012-06-24 
07 KDHX-FM, St. Louis, MO 2012-11-17 
08 SXSW, Austin, TX (Paste Magazine tent) 2012-03-15 
09 Motorco, Durham, NC (album release party) 2012-06-09 
10 SXSW, Austin, TX (Paste Magazine tent) 2012-03-15 
11 KDHX-FM, St. Louis, MO 2012-11-17 
12 WXPN-FM, “World Café Live,” Philadelphia, 2012-08-31 
13 (same as #12)

Two songs in this collection come from the band’s performance on “Mountain Stage” in Charleston, WV this past June.

photo by Amos Perrine via No Depression

MP3@320

Alt. Link (MF)

Lossless WAV files

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P.S. - If anyone uploads these files & lists them on a torrent tracker, please credit "Rob-In-Brevard" with creating the compilation and please provide a link to this blog.  

The dB's:

Peter Holsapple: guitar, vocals

Chris Stamey: guitar, vocals 
*Gene Holder: bass

**Will Rigby: drums, backing vocals 
Brett Harris - keyboards & additional guitar
  
*Mitch Easter filled in for Gene for the SXSW performances 
**Chris Stephenson filled in for Will for the Mountain Stage performance
  

The dB's play The Hideout in Chicago, Nov. 2012
photo by Max Herman / Time Out Chicago