Suzanne Vega: BBC Sessions, Volume 5: In Concert Shepherd's Bush Empire, London, UK 1997

Suzanne Vega: BBC Sessions, Volume 5: In Concert, Shepherd's Bush Empire, London, Britain, 2-11-1997

Paul he say: Here's another album of singer-songwriter Suzanne Vega performing for the BBC. This time, it's a concert from 1997.

In late 1996, Vega released the studio album "Nine Objects of Desire." This concert was from the tour supporting that album. Naturally, many of the songs performed are from that album.

Overall, the sound quality is very good. However, there were some concerning gaps. A chunk of the middle of the song "Caramel," was missing, about a minute. The second half of the last song, "Gypsy," was also missing. Furthermore, the start of "Marlene on the Wall" was missing. I generally filled these gaps by using portions of versions recorded at the "Sessions at West 54th" TV show that same year. That's why those three songs have "[Edit]" in their titles. Additionally, some of the audience cheering between songs didn't seem to line up, meaning the cheering of the end of one song didn't match with the start of the next one. I tried to fix that by adding more cheering. But I suspect some songs could be missing, plus there could be missing banter. So if anyone has more of this concert, let me know, so I can add it in. But at least what is here should sound fine, after my fixes.

This unreleased album is 54 minutes long.

01 Stockings 
02 Rock in This Pocket [Song of David]
03 talk
04 Caramel [Edit] 
05 Small Blue Thing
06 Marlene on the Wall [Edit] 
07 Fatman and Dancing Girl
08 The Queen and the Soldier 
09 Room Off the Street 
10 Blood Makes Noise 
11 talk 
12 Luka 
13 Tom's Diner 
14 talk 
15 Men in a War (Suzanne Vega)
16 Gypsy [Edit] (Suzanne Vega