Jim Capaldi - The Outside Years - 1 - 28 - 24

Description
• A new remastered 4CD clamshell box set featuring the studio albums ‘Living On The Outside’ & ‘Poor Boy Blue’ along with a further 35 bonus tracks, mostly unreleased, drawn from live concert performances, previous unreleased out- takes & demos.

• Featuring guest musicians George Harrison, Steve Winwood, Paul Weller, Ian Paice & Gary Moore.

• Includes an illustrated booklet with essay.

Spanning the years 1993 – 2004 this collection features remastered versions of the albums ‘Living On The Outside’ and ‘Poor Boy Blue’, and also includes a further 35 additional tracks drawn from demos, studio out-takes and previously unreleased live recordings from Jim’s personal archive.

The album ‘Living On The Outside’ was first released in 2001 and featured guest appearances by such notable musicians as George Harrison, Steve Winwood, Paul Weller, Ian Paice and Gary Moore. ‘Poor Boy Blue’ would be Jim’s final album and was issued in 2004.

Featured in this new boxed set are highlights of a solo acoustic performance in Philadelphia USA in June 1999, a wonderful concert recorded at the Music Hall, Cologne, Germany in 2002 and a selection of other live recordings. Among the demos is a recording of ‘Love’s Got A Hold On Me’ featuring George Harrison.

‘The Outside Years’ is a fine collection of the later music of Jim Capaldi and is a tribute to a much loved, much respected and greatly missed musician.

Tracklist
[CD1: Living On The Outside]
1. Living On The Outside
2. Standing In My Light
3. Anna Julia
4. Time Passes
5. Riding The Storm
6. We’re Not Alone
7. Heart Of Stone
8. Love You ‘Til The Day I Die
9. One Man Mission
10. Good Lovin’
Bonus Tracks:
11. Bathed In Love
12. Good Lovin’ (alternate version)
13. State Of Grace (demo)
14. How Do I Get To Heaven (demo)
15. Love’s Got A Hold On Me (featuring George Harrison)

[CD2: Poor Boy Blue]
1. Poor Boy Blue
2. Edge Of Love
3. Into The Void
4. Breathless
5. Getting Stronger
6. Secrets In The Dark
7. Long Legs
8. Scream It To The Dark
9. California Sunset
10. Bright Fighter
11. I’ve Been Changing
12. Now Is The Time
Bonus Tracks:
13. My Love Will Always Be With You
14. Strange Bird
15. Tallulah (demo)
16. Don’t Say Goodbye
17. 40,000 Headmen
18. Hidden Treasure (reinvented)

[CD3: Live Recordings 1993 – 2001]
Live At Bullet Sound Studios:
1. Child In The Storm
2. The Low Spark Of High Heeled Boys
3. Man With No Country
4. Old Photographs
5. Tales Of Power
Harald Schmidt Show – January 1997:
6. Glad / Tales Of Power
Solo Acoustic Performance, Philadelphia – 19 June 1999:
7. Man With No Country
8. Love Will Keep Us Alive
9. The Low Spark Of High Heeled Boys
10. Favella Music
11. Elixir Of Life
Konzerthaus, Stuttgart – 30 November 2001:
12. Something So Strong

[CD4: Live At The Music Hall, Cologne – 14 May 2002]
1. Living On The Outside
2. Tales Of Power
3. Heart Of Stone
4. Love Will Keep Us Alive
5. The Low Spark Of High Heeled Boys
6. 40,000 Headmen
7. Evil Love
8. Gifts Of Unknown Things
9. Rock N’ Roll Stew
10. Love’s Got A Hold On Me
11. Elixir Of Life
12. Light Up Or Leave Me Alone

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Looks great, I guess it will be released in Jan 2024?

 

Hi , I’m the person who compiled this collection, and wrote the liner notes. Much of the live material has never seen the light of day in any format.

Hi I was the person who compiled the tracks and wrote the liner notes for this collection. Release date 26/1/24. Many of the live tracks have never been released. The 1999 show is rare treat featuring Jim solo on acoustic guitar, lots of banter, a true live recording, warts’n’ all , no overdubs. Rescued from a cassette tape in Jim’s personal collection. Mark Powell at Esoteric Recordings tells me that the remastered sound quality is impressive.
The German show from 2002 is straight from the mixing desk to DAT and features Jim’s excellent band ‘The Contenders’.
The unreleased studio recordings are a real mixed bag from Jim’ s later years, including a very contemporary re-working of Traffic’s ‘Hidden Treasure’. I was very blessed to have the opportunity of interviewing Jon Taylor , Jim’s manager for many years, and his enlightening comments are included in the liner notes.
Hope you enjoy the music.

Regards
Paul Minkkinen

 

thanks for this!

 

yes on the 28...seems interesting!

 

thanks! glad to have you here on the thread...I'm sure the discussion will be great!

 

thanks for the heads up!

 

This looks pretty cool? I love Traffic, I love Jim Capaldi.

 

Mine finally arrived. Had to cancel from Amazon as they weren't providing a shipping date (even after the release).
But got it quickly from get_importscd on ebay.

nice set. Haven't listened to the live cd's yet.
I was hoping for a different version of Love's got a hold on me (with GH) in the bonus tracks
but its the same one as on the box. Nevertheless great track, almost more George than Jim!

 

This is my first JC album. I started with the 3rd disc. Great songs, performances and sound! Thanks for doing this!