Prince & The NPG – One Nite Alone… The Aftershow: It Ain’t Over!

As I’ve said, I liked Prince, but I was hardly a fanatic. The last album of his I bought was “Lovesexy” in 1988, and I didn’t follow him through his independent “artist formerly known as” period. It was only in the last several years that I became aware of his legendary after shows – and given that Prince was a performer who absolutely gave everything out there on the stage, it’s hard to imagine how he could go on to perform even more in these after shows.

But he did. This incredible release is just the third part of a live album box set originally released on CD. It’s a wild combination of tight and loose, of incredibly experienced musicians just having a good time and playing for themselves. It’s got Larry Graham, Maceo Parker, George Clinton and more, and it’s just a wild jam. The concert was from 2002; thise release came out in 2020, which is about when I added it to my collection.

This is like the great blues jams of the ’60s – but way funkier.