WHISKEYTOWN: Alternate Discography (1995-2001)

1. Midway Park
2. Drank Like A River
3. Too Drunk To Dream
4. Tennessee Square (Re-Issue Version)
5. What May Seem Like Love
6. Faithless Street
7. Mining Town
8. If He Can't Have You
9. Black Arrow, Bleeding Heart
10. Matrimony
11. Excuse Me While I Break My Own Heart Tonight (Country Version)
12. Desperate Ain't Lonely
13. Hard Luck Story
14. Top Dollar
15. Lo-Fi Tennessee Mountain Angel
16. Revenge

LISTEN HEAR AT THIS SITE (**Not mine**)

1. My Heart Is Broken

2. Kiss and Make Up

3. Further Down the Road

4. Ten Seconds Til the End of the World

5. Here's to the Rest of the World

6. Empty Baseball Park

7. San Antonio

8. Factory Girl

9. All You Can Feel

10. New York Angel

11. Only to Lose

1. INN TOWN
2. YESTERDAY'S NEWS
3. 16 DAYS
4. EVERYTHING I DO (Miss You)
5. HOUSES ON THE HILL
6. WITHER, I'M A FLOWER+
7. DANCING WITH THE WOMEN AT THE BAR
8. WAITING TO DERAIL
9. AVENUES
10. STREET OF SIRENS+
11. TURN AROUND
12. ME AND MY TICKET*
13. BREATHE*
14. SOMEBODY REMEMBERS THE ROSE
15. TICKET TIME+
16. LOSERING
17. NOT HOME ANYMORE

CHECK IT OUT HEAR AT: 

dbs-repercussion.blogspot.com

01 Anyone But Me 

02 Don’t Wanna Know Why

03 Easy Hearts

04 Sittin’ Around

05 Rays of Burning Light 

06 Ghost Without Memory

07 Runnin’ Out of Road

08 Can’t Take a Lover 

09 Think About Me 

10 Crazy Lonesome 

11 Caroline

HAPPY GO BYE-BYE  

(1999)

1. Don't Wanna Know Why
2. Jacksonville Skyline
3. Tilt-A-Whirl
4. Mirror, Mirror 
5. The Ballad of Carol Lynn
6. What the Devil Wanted

7. 

   Don't Be Sad
8. Crazy About You
9. My Hometown
10. Reason to Lie
11. Paper Moon
12. Under Your Breath
13. Bar Lights
14. Choked Up
15. Tell Me What Else I Can Do Wrong Tonight
16. Listen to the Radio
17. The Battle

 

1. Today
2. Clearly Destroyed
3. Breathe
4. Fool
5. All I Wanted
6. Out of Time
7. Sit and Listen to the Rain
8. Leave the Lights Off
9. Probably Bound to Happen
10. West NY Serenade
11. Lil' Girls (Hurts Sometimes)
12. Medicine
13. Silver Wings

RYAN ADAMS AND THE CARDINALS, "Color Bars" [imagined LP]

 

According to reddit: '[YouTube user] Future posted "Heartbreaker", "Anything But No" and "Juliette" but then removed it after Ryan's management requested that it and the (amazing) Rat Classics 2 tracks be removed.' These are leftovers from 'The Complete Easy Tiger Sessions (2006-07); a few appeared in some form on Easy Tiger; most belatedly included on the 2010 release of III/IV (the band had four different albums at one point). "The Rat Classics 2 tracks are, I think, from August 06 or later in the Easy Tiger sessions," quote from reddit user Disink. Thank you to the OP, Adamamericana (no relation, lol) and graciousfew for the info! 

Ryan Adams & The Cardinals

COLOR BARS  (2006)

Contains early mixes of songs
from Easy Tiger and III/IV.

1. Anything But No
2. Heartbreaker
3. Gracie+   [III / IV]
4. Roach Heaven
5. These Girls
6. Juliet (aka "Color Bars")
   
7. Typecast  (with Norah Jones)
8. The Crystal Skull 
9. Stop Playin’ with My Heart+    [III / IV]
10. Halloween Head+    (edited for Easy Tiger)    
11. Turns It Up to Ten (a.k.a. "Judy Garland")
12. Ultraviolet Lights    
13. Pussy Cat, Funny Face
14. The Sewers at the Bottom of the Wishing Well  
15. Oh My God, Whatever, Etc. (acoustic)  

Have you heard me?
In the fall of 2022, a since deleted YouTube account leaked several tracks from various unreleased sessions; including "HEAVEN", "A Wish", "Rollin' with the Punches", "Party Clown", "24/7", "Temples of God"  and "Oh My God Whatever, Etc. (alt. take)" from RATT CLASSICS, VOL. II.

A snippet of "Kim" from the HAYWIRE (rumored title to Glyn Johns's second record with DRA that was shelved in 2013) LP sessions also leaked; "Two Hearts" (acoustic demo for EASY TIGER)" and a Sad Dracula version of "Two"; plus CARDINOLOGY era demos, BLACKHOLE demos, etc. Most of them have been wiped but some of us grabbed it up, haha. There's an album worth of songs leftover (not including the ones re-recorded for III/IV with the Cardinals) from the sessions for 'WAR & PEACE' (Ryan's post-'Darkbreaker' sober 2xLP that was shelved by Lost Highway in 2006). Improved versions of "Maps" and "Who Were We?" are a highlight.

RYAN ADAMS, Destroyer [imagined LP]

 

Credits for the cover art I guess are by this guy.

Ryan Adams 

DESTROYER  (2000)

You didn't think I forgot about this one, did you?  I played Heartbreaker; Love is Hell; Suicide Handbook, 48 Hours, all the leaked 2000-01 sessions and Pinkhearts (THANK YOU, LOST HIGHWAY...but also..NO 20/20. WHAT A CATCH 22?! I hate numbers. There's too many of them); Cold Roses, JCN and 29; Gold, Demolition and RNR---and yes, even Easy Tiger--I mean played them front to back the FUCK out. Whiskeytown, too. OF COURSE. I got a little weary of Cardinology and his post-2010 output; that's WHY I started this blog in the first place, lol. Well that and lack of anything else to do, constructively or creative wise. I personally didn't care for much of Destroyer; too slow...weird versions of Heartbreaker tunes, etc. THIS is just MY own personal tastes. I found Heartbreaker a little inconsistent for the 'big breakup record' it is. I think my reconstructed version of THAT one flows better. The remaining songs were far from shite. I just didn't have anywhere to put them; then it hit me. So I combined and re-sequenced them to fit between Heartbreaker and Suicide Handbook. 

Maybe Bloodshot could've put this out as a second album? I think Ryan decided to scrap the Destroyer demos and start over; good decision. The excuse then was "Geffen/Interscope wants to claim the recordings" (though I'm pretty sure Interscope would've kept him if THEY wanted to)---he had previously almost signed with A&M after the band broke-up the first time (he and Phil W. were the first two members to sign with Outpost...then, Caitlin came back---Skillet got 'demoted', lol). The alt-country 'fad' didn't become the big cheese the industry thought grunge was; Outpost Recordings folded. Whiskeytown's last album was shelved (the 20 song double LP that later was remixed by RA and Ethan Johns--Pneumonia). 

THE FELLAS, "Loving You Has Been So Wonderful" [imagined LP]

THE FELLAS

Loving You Has Been So Wonderful   (1972)

Make My Water Boil (Loving You Has Been So Wonderful)     [The Motown Solo Albums, vol. 2]
I Feel Like I'm Falling in Love Again     [Motown Unreleased 1967]
Once You Had a Heart     [One by One: The Best of Their Solo Years]
Lullaby of Love    [Anthology: The Best of The Temptations]

I'll Turn to Stone     [Motown Rarities 1965-1968]
Mountain of Memories      [The Unreleased Album]
Feel Like Giving Up      [One by One: The Best of Their Solo Years]
Didn't I (Blow Your Mind This Time)     [I Am My Brother's Keeper]
I'd Rather Forget*
Heaven Help Us All       [The Unreleased Album]
Give it Up      [Gettin' Ready CD re-issue]
Since I Don't Have You      [Motown Unreleased 1967]
What's So Good About Goodbye     [Motown Rarities 1965-1968]

I Need You More Than Ever     [A Cellarful of Motown Vol 4.]
------

In 1968, David Ruffin was fired by The Temptations and replaced with ex-Contours frontman Dennis Edwards. Ruffin sought to be released from his contract with Motown but the company would not let him go. Instead, Motown would retain Ruffin's original contract he signed as a solo artist (along with his brother Jimmy Ruffin years before) and release his 1969 debut LP 'My Whole World Ended'. This arrangement would prove detrimental to Ruffin's career; his would-be smash 1971 LP  'David' was shelved for seemingly no reason. Ruffin also teamed up with Stevie Wonder for what could've been a big hit single. "Make My Water Boil (Loving You Has Been So Wonderful)" was written, produced and recorded by Wonder himself with Ruffin delivering the vocal only he could. Despite its completion in 1972, Motown once again sat on it and David Ruffin's solo career was cooled considerably.

As early as 1970, Ruffin had expressed his desire to put together a new group called The Fellas with his brother Jimmy, Dennis Edwards and the other two soon-to-be ex-Temptations, Eddie Kendricks and Paul Williams. Though this move would have ended Kendricks's solo career before it started and probably The Temptations, as well. Paul Williams would retire from the Tempts due to health issues. He would team up with Kendricks again to record "Feel Like Giving Up" b/w "Once You Had a Heart". The 45 was shelved due to Williams's untimely death in 1973. Other recordings made by Williams exist ("I Need You More Than Ever" closes out this collection) and I found this along with other Motown outtakes like "I'd Rather Forget" and "Lullaby of Love" (sung by Kendricks and the Tempts left over from album sessions) and covers of  "What's So Good About Goodbye" and "I'll Turn to Stone" recorded by Dennis Edwards prior to joining the Tempts. I fill the rest out with songs from Ruffin's David LP ("Heaven Help Us All" and the demo "Mountain of Memories"), some cuts from the Motown Unreleased 1967 CD compilation ("Since I Don't Have You" by Ruffin with the Tempts; a Jimmy Ruffin 45 of "Feel Like I'm Falling in Love Again") and the Ruffin brothers covering the Delfonics (taken from their own LP, I Am My Brother's Keeper).

This LP would not have been allowed to be. It's fun to make believe, though. 

R.I.P. Paul Williams, David Ruffin, Eddie Kendricks, Melvin Franklin, and Dennis Edwards.

GENE CLARK, 'Yesterday Am I Right' [LP imagined]

GENE CLARK 

Yesterday Am I Right  (1967)

Back Street Mirror*       

Don't Let It Fall Through*

Yesterday, Am I Right*

The French Girl      [Gene Clark with The Gosdin Brothers]

Only Colombe  (stereo)    [Echoes]

She Told Me*

-------

Echoes       [Echoes]

Doctor Doctor

Past Tense

One Way Road

Down on the Pier

7:30 Mode

*Taken from Back Street Mirror vinyl E.P. 

All other tracks taken from Gene Clark Sings For You  (2018).

CROSBY, STILLS & NASH, 'As I Come of Age' [LP imagined]

CROSBY, STILLS & NASH

As I Come of Age   (1986)

1. As I Come of Age     [CSN Box Set]
2. Drive My Car+     [alternate mix available on Voyage ,Crosby box set]
3. Raise a Voice    [Reflections, Nash box set]
4. Feel Your Love (a.k.a. You Might Be Loved)        [Daylight Again - deluxe edition]
5. Distances*    [Might As Well Have a Good Time, Crosby bootleg]
6. Try to Find Me+    [Reflections, Nash box set]
7. Tomorrow is Another Day     [Daylight Again - deluxe edition]
8. Clear Blue Skies   [Reflections, Nash box set]
9. Melody*     [Might As Well Have a Good Time, Crosby bootleg]
10. Dear Mr. Fantasy     [Carry On, Stills box set]
11. Lonely Man (live, 1985)*     [CSN Rarities - bootleg / studio version on Reflection s box set]

The original artwork (that I changed the title only on) comes from The Albums That Should Exist blogspot. Awesome projects he does (as Yoda'd say). Thanks, 

for the artwork cos I couldn't do it better mah self!

"Believe it or not, there was to be a CSN album in early 1986 to be titled As I Come Of Age, and of course it included that song. The album was a grab bag of mostly leftovers going back to 1978 and a few new tunes. It was going to have "Distances" (Crosby), "Drive My Car" (Crosby), "Feed The People"(Stills), "Lonely Man" (Nash - played live in 1985), "You Might Be Loved" (Stills), "Dear Mr. Fantasy" (arr. Stills), "Melody" (Crosby), and "Clear Blue Skies" (Nash, played live in 1985)." 

(This blurb of info I found on the Hoffman forum discussion boards RE: CSN album thread)

Keep that link handy (to Albums That Should Exist--right below the tracklist) and you can probably build this yourself (wink).

NEIL YOUNG, "A Country Store Plays Old Changes" [imagined live 2xLP]

Neil Young 

A COUNTRY STORE PLAYS OLD CHANGES   (1971)

I Am A Child    [Live at The Cellar Door]

Expecting To Fly   [Live at The Cellar Door]

Flying On The Ground Is Wrong   [Live at The Cellar Door]

Nowadays Clancy Can't Even Sing  (aborted)   [Live at Carnegie Hall 1970 - bootleg*]

Cowgirl In The Sand   [Live at Massey Hall 1971]

Ohio   [Live at Massey Hall 1971]

Old Man   [Live at Massey Hall 1971]

Dance Dance Dance   [Live at Massey Hall 1971]

Sugar Mountain   [Live at Carnegie Hall 1970 --bootleg*]

See The Sky About To Rain    [Live at the Cellar Door]

The Needle and The Damage Done    [Live at Massey Hall 1971]

Bad Fog Of Loneliness    [Live at Massey Hall 1971]

Down By The River   [Live at The Fillmore East 1970] Wonderin'     [Live at The Fillmore East 1970] Everybody Knows This is Nowhere  [Live at The Fillmore East 1970]

A double live album based on a 12/4/70 solo performance from Carnegie Hall in New York, three shows at the Cellar Door in Washington D.C. on Nov. 30 and Dec. 1 and 2 1970, and four shows with Crazy Horse at the Fillmore East on March 6 and 7, 1970. This album was announced on January 27th, 1971 and was scheduled for a March 1971 release; supposedly, all left to be completed for the album was some of the mixing. Nothing was ever heard of the album again. Jef Piehler writes: I've read more than once that the album was put together by Reprise to capitalize on the success of After The Gold Rush AND the fact that with Neil's slipped disk problems, the company did not expect much from him in the next 12 months. As it turned out, Neil recorded many songs during 1971, and would deliver the Harvest album to Reprise in late 1971, cancelling the release of the live album.