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)
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The dB’s play Le Poisson Rouge in NYC, June 2012
photo by hulaedwyn via Flickr
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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)
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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
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Lossless WAV files
NEW LINKS FORTHCOMING
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
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The dB's play The Hideout in Chicago, Nov. 2012
photo by Max Herman / Time Out Chicago
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