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Chris Whitley - Serve You (Bimbo's 365 Club, San Francisco, CA, 10/5/'00)

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

Chris Whitley with Yuval Gabay and Sebastian Steinberg live at Bimbo's 365 Club in SF 10.5.00

Chris Whitley - Dead Cowboy Song live

Say Goodbye (Acoustic Version) - Chris Whitley

do you know what i mean? (Chris Whitley)

Perfect Day (Chris Whitley)

Weightless (Chris Whitley)

Know What-Chris Whitley (rare)

Chris Whitley - Guns and Dolls (Demo, Rare)

Ultraglide / Chris Whitley 1998

Chris & Trixie Whitley: Serve You, AB club, Brussels, Belgium, 3/4/'00

Chris & Trixie Whitley: Chain, AB club, Brussels, Belgium, 3/4/'00

Chris Whitley - Stones In My Passway (Tin Angel, Philadelphia, PA, 2/21/'02)

Chris Whitley - Solid Iron Heart (Bill's Bar, Boston, MA, 11/3/'01)

Ultraglide / Chris Whitley 1998

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