Nicole Atkins - Radio Sessions 2017 + 2018

WFUV Live Session

Electric Lady Studios 

New York, N.Y.

Sept. 6, 2017

webstream (sound quality: Ex-; extraordinary sound for a webstream source)

SAMPLE: "Brokedown Luck" (live NYC 2017)

01 A Little Crazy

02 Darkness Falls So Quiet

03 Brokedown Luck

04 Colors

05 A Night of Serious Drinking 

06 Goodnight Rhonda Lee

07 Listen Up

08 thanks + intro last song

09 A Dream Without Pain

10 N.A. interview with 
      WFUV DJ Carmel Holt

WFMU Live Session

Jersey City, N.J.

January 2018 

(broadcast Feb. 2, 2018)

webstream (sound 
quality: VG+) 

01 Darkness Falls So Quiet

02 Goodnight Rhonda Lee

03 A Little Crazy

04 A Night of Serious Drinking

05 A Dream Without Pain

06 N.A. interview with 
      Sheila B of WFMU

ROB SEZ: Last Friday's post didn't do justice to this extraordinary artist. Pardon me for the caps lock, but YOU JUST HAVE TO LISTEN TO THE SAMPLE RIGHT NOW ... if not sooner. Go ahead; I'll wait. [...this is me, waiting...] OK, see what I mean? NICOLE ATKINS DESERVES TO BE A STAR. Her latest album, Goodnight Rhonda Lee is already a classic in my book (AllMusic's rating = 4 & 1/2 stars). I'm challenging all open-minded music fans to go stream it right now. I promise you'll thank me. So what's her sound? Take some Chris Isaac, Roy Orbison, Peggy

Fab photos of Nicole Atkins courtesy of WFUV, NYC

Lee, Nancy Sinatra, Patsy Cline and throw it in a blender. Add judicious quantities of the Muscle Shoals R & B sound, classic country and some rock, pour it over ice, and you have a musical cocktail that tastes amazing and will knock you out in the best possible way. Haven't heard a rant from me like this in a while, have you?!? There's a reason for that: no one's knocked my socks off like Nicole Atkins in a very long time. MEGA THANKS to WFUV & WFMU for sharing the good stuff. Enjoy photos and video from the WFUV live session here.

 

MP3@320 (interviews = 224kbps)

 

Learn more about Nicole Atkins' music at her 

official site, FB page, and at AllMusic

Nicole Atkins - Freehold, N.J. 2011 + NYC 2014

Concerts In the Studio 
Freehold, NJ
April 2, 2011
 
audience recording (sound quality: VG+; recorded with mics at the back of the room — away from excessive crowd noise; a lovely recording)

01 intro
02 Heavy Boots
03 Call Me the Witch
04 My Baby Don't Lie 
05 Maybe Tonight
06 banter 1
07 Hotel Plaster
08 Monterrey Honey
09 Cry Cry Cry
10 The Way It Is
11 Awaiting the Flood
12 War Torn
13 banter 2
14 Neptune City
15 banter 3
16 The Tower

Madison Sq. Park

NICOLE ATKINS: can't resist an artist who loves The Who

New York, NY
June 18, 2014

soundboard-audience matrix
(sound quality: Ex-)

01  Who Killed the Moonlight?
02  What Do You Know
03  Cool People
04  Gasoline Bride
05  The Way It Is
06  Maybe Tonight
07  Girl You Look Amazing 
08  We Wait Too Long
09  Vultures
10  Red Ropes
11  The Worst Hangover
12  Party's Over
13  Cool Enough
14  banter
15  Its Only Chemistry
16  thanks, etc.
17  The Tower

Recorded & Produced by NYCTaper (where you'll find additional Nicole Atkins shows in great quality)

ROB SEZ: No time this week for anything lengthy about Nicole Atkins. Suffice it to say she wouldn't be appearing here if I didn't think she was worth considerably more attention than she seems to have garnered over the years. An amazing voice, great songwriting chops, and a charismatic performer. Repercussion "camp followers" might recognize her name from a few collaborations with Cotton Mather, which is how I found out about her. BIG THANKS to Jerry C., who recorded & shared the 2011 show and to NYCTaper, who did their usual amazing job with the 2014 show. You'll find other live recordings by Nicole at NYCTaper.

Nicole's latest LP is Goodnight Rhonda Lee — go get it!

FLAC

MP3@320