Single Serving: My Brightest Diamond – Various Rarities & Covers Collection

Welcome to the Musical Pairings’ My Brightest Diamond rarities collection.  It consists of a few of my MP3s I recorded from some of the live sets I’ve seen of Shara Worden & Co., a few rare singles she has released over the Internet, and all of the live covers I’d managed to unearth.  I’ll let the tracks speak for themselves.

My Brightest Diamond – Use Me (Bill Withers Cover)(Live in Berkeley, CA)
My Brightest Diamond – Dragonfly (Live in Berkeley, CA)

My Brightest Diamond – Feelin’ Good (Nina Simone cover)(Live in San Francisco, CA)
My Brightest Diamond – Magic Rabbit (Live in San Francisco, CA)
My Brightest Diamond – Freak Out (Live in San Francisco, CA)

My Brightest Diamond – It’s Over (Roy Orbison Cover)
My Brightest Diamond – Youkali (Kurt Weill Cover)(Live)
My Brightest Diamond – Tainted Love (Soft Cell Cover)
My Brightest Diamond – No Quarter (Led Zepplin Cover)(Live)
My Brightest Diamond – Rock N’ Roll Will Never Die
My Brightest Diamond – Hymne L’Amour (Edith Piaf Cover)(Live)
My Brightest Diamond – Lucky (Radiohead Cover)
My Brightest Diamond – Joy in Repetition (Prince Cover)(Live)
My Brightest Diamond – Hi, Remember Me
My Brightest Diamond – If I Could Say One Thing
My Brightest Diamond – Everybody’s Got Something To Hide (John Lennon Cover)
My Brightest Diamond – Be My Husband (Nina Simone Cover)(Live)
My Brightest Diamond & Clare and the Reasons – Moon River (Johnny Mercer Cover)
My Brightest Diamond & Clare and the Reasons – Ice Ice Baby (Vanilla Ice Cover)

And here is a video of Shara performing with the Decemberists at Fox Theater in Oakland on May 21, 2009:

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*credit to JoshC for the pic.