Robbie Robertson - Bad Intentions - Various Songs (1994-2007)

A couple days ago, a kind commenter named RKMiller sent me a couple of Robbie Robertson songs that had been on my wish list for many months. I'd also posted a stray tracks album of his music. Getting these two songs has finally has freed me to post the other two stray tracks albums that I've made. Here's the next one, the second of three.

I get the impression that Robertson has been in musical semi-retirement ever since he broke up the Band around 1976. He's never gone on tour, and I only know of one full-length concert he did in his decades as a solo artist, which I've posted at this blog. He takes his sweet time between albums, and doesn't promote them much. Probably he's made a ton of money from writing band classics like "The Weight" and "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down," so he can treat his music career more like a hobby than a way to earn a living.

Be that as it may, he's actually released a lot of songs that haven't come out on his studio albums. He's only put out six studio albums since his solo career began in the 1980s until now, but I've found enough material for three stray tracks albums. He's been involved in many music soundtracks, often for director Martin Scorsese, so a lot of songs have come out on soundtrack albums instead. For this album, six of the songs are from three different movie soundtracks. In addition, there are a couple of live cover versions ("I Shall Be Released" and "Who Do You Love"), a tribute album cover ("Going to the River"), a B-side ("Deneta"), two album bonus tracks ("Holy Hell" and "Pray"), and one unreleased song. The unreleased song, "World on Fire," is sung with Sarah MacLachlan, and sounds as good as the others.

This album is fairly long, at 54 minutes. You could remove the two live covers and still have enough songs for a solid album that's nearly all originals. So if you're a fan of Roberton's music, definitely give this a listen.

By the way, there still are a few items on my wish list. Here's the list again:

https://albumsthatshouldexist.blogspot.com/2021/03/my-wish-list-updated.html?showComment=1622334236738#c2460545618107535968

01 Bad Intentions (Robbie Robertson)
02 Let the Good Times Roll (Robbie Robertson & Cassandra Wilson)
03 Deneta (Robbie Robertson)
04 I Shall Be Released (Robbie Robertson, Elvis Costello & Rita Coolidge)
05 Holy Hell (Robbie Robertson)
06 Pray (Robbie Robertson)
07 Amazing Grace [Instrumental] (Robbie Robertson)
08 Carry Me (Robbie Robertson)
09 Out of the Blue [Instrumental Version] (Robbie Robertson)
10 Shine Your Light (Robbie Robertson)
11 World on Fire (Sarah McLachlan with Robbie Robertson)
12 Going to the River (Robbie Robertson with Galactic)
13 Who Do You Love (Eric Clapton & Robbie Robertson)

https://www48.zippyshare.com/v/wZOyaWHz/file.html

The cover photo features Robertson at the National Museum of the American Indian in New York in 1994.