This is the full album before it was "mixed" for release.  It is raw. It is pure. The poetry of Chris' lyrics are more legible.  The tones are what we were listening to in the studio. The actual release mystified people. It never represented the recording.  It never represented the genius of where Chris could, and did, take the blues and rock paradigms. The album is one of rock's Greatest Misses.  

There are some alternate versions, and a different sequence.  Mostly I am posting this because of the decades of conversation with Whitley fans who don't enjoy the album.  How can you convince someone that "really, it's a milestone and a classic" when the only thing they have heard is a watered down commercial release that has little to do with the actual work that was done?  I hope this spurs conversation about this classic!

Chris Whitley-Din Of Ecstasy

01 - As Flat As The Earth.2

MICHI ミチ

chris whitley presumably live at De Karmeliet, Ghent, Belgium, 1986

Witness

Over the years Jon Ben Berger would send me things he'd be working on in his studio. Around the time we were making the Life Is Beautiful album together he played for me an arrangement he just excitedly worked out for this classic tune...
Here's his beautiful, heartfelt solo version...
He claimed this song as an autobiographical footnote at this time in his life in 2014.
To hear this now, It feels very fitting of Jon's timeless wisdom fused with recreating an old, classic song done his own way.

Photo; Magnus Wegler

OLD MAN RIVER Jon Ben Berger Demo (solo)

HAPPINESS / ELY GUERRA

Christmas All Over The Place

Esta es una meditación guiada para permitirse quietud de la mente en medio de la celebración por este nuevo año; voltear nuestra mirada a la renovación desde el espíritu es comprenderse en paz. Esta meditación está enfocada en la gratitud.
¡FELIZ 2019!
ELY
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MEDITACION GUIADA NUEVO TIEMPO 2019

A little rare ditty of Izzy Young singing what he says is one of his favorite old songs...
I recorded this at his Folklore Centrum in Stockholm after a live show I performed there.

Ultraglide / Chris Whitley 1998

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