[2025-06-20] VA "Sweet Relief: We Can Help" 2CD charity album w/ Richard Thompson, Lucinda Williams and more (Flatiron)

Linda · **Posted:** Tue Jun 17, 2025 12:27 am

Amazon USA
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DYK9LM3C/?tag=imwan-20

Amazon Canada
Available for pre-order soon:
https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B0DYK9LM3C/?tag=imwanca-20

Amazon UK
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0DYK9LM3C/?tag=imwan-21

Description
Flatiron Recordings has announced the release of Sweet Relief - We Can Help! An 18 track compilation featuring many previously unreleased recordings from legendary artists including Michael Penn and Aimee Mann, Laura Veirs, Ben Harper and Peter Case, Lucinda Williams, Richard Thompson, Sixpence None The Richer, Peter Holsapple, + many more, benefiting the Sweet Relief Musicians Fund.. Sweet Relief Musicians Fund provides financial assistance to all types of career musicians and music industry workers who are struggling to make ends meet while facing physical or mental health issues, disability, or age-related problems. In this new double CD, Sweet Relief, the organization that provides financial assistance to all types of career musicians and music industry workers who are struggling to make ends meet while facing physical or mental health issues, disability, or age-related problems has come up with a gem, "We Can Help."

Tracklist
[CD1]
1. Hallelujah, I'm A Bum - Michael Penn
2. Please Let Me Get What I Want - Laura Veirs
3. Help Me - Peter Case
4. I Think It's Gunna Rain - Angela McCluskey
5. The Object Of My Affection - Watkins Family Hour
6. I Can Help - Peter Holsapple
7. Humpy Back Man - Richard Thompson
8. Help - Ben Harper And Peter Case
9. Always Lift Him Up - Willie Watson

[CD2]
1. Somebody Loan Me A Dime - Lucinda Williams
2. That's How I Got To Memphis - Dennis Witcher
3. The Needle And The Damage Done - Sixpence None The Richer
4. A Heart Needs A Home - Haroula Rose
5. Sunny Side Of The Street - Victoria Williams
6. Paper Moon - Chris Pierce
7. Brother Can You Spare A Dime - Michael Penn
8. Sixteen Tons - Jonah Tolchin
9. While My Heart Keeps Beating Time - Blake Mills

Linda · **Posted:** Tue Jun 17, 2025 12:41 am

This was first available on coloured vinyl for Record Store Day, and now it's going into general release as a 2CD set. Here's the official unboxing video:

Tricky Kid · **Joined:** 23 Sep 2007 **Posts:** 8297

I may pick this up for the Michael Penn tracks, but I miss the days when the Sweet Relief compilations had more commercial firepower...

Jason Michael · 30 May 2012

I really like Peter Holsapple's cover of Billy Swan's I Can Help!

[2025-06-20] VA "Sweet Relief: We Can Help" 2CD charity album w/ Richard Thompson, Lucinda Williams and more (Flatiron)

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