...wherein the live performances of a couple entire Beatles albums from the Louisville stage at Abbey Road on the River will be preserved for all posterity – or until the servers crash.

For more coverage of Abbey Road Louisville 2010, click me.

Savoy Truffle presents Abbey Road.

These guys are from Cincinnati, and they are - there's no better way to put it - astonishingly good. Learn more about them at their website.

They appeared on the ballroom stage Saturday night to play The Beatles' last-recorded album straight through, a performance I'd been looking forward to for months.

Then in the (humid) heat of the festivities, I lost track of time and missed recording the first two tracks, "Come Together" and "Something," though I heard them and they were All That.

(It's not like you'll miss hearing ANY Beatles song several times at this event, but that should not make us blasé.)

This band doesn't dress, and there's no drama, just consummate flowing musicality. They just flat nail it. In fact, I suspect they better than nail it – I can't imagine the Beatles themselves ever played this music live this well.

And not to single anyone out – everyone in this band brings it - but the singing drummer on "Oh Darlin"? Just you listen and tell me when you've heard better.

This was like being inside an album I've lived with for almost 40 years. It's better than I imagined.

Listen loud; I hope the music is half as enveloping for you as it was where I was sitting and holding the Edirol.

Abbey Road, live by Savoy Truffle
• Maxwell's Silver Hammer
• Oh Darlin'
• Octopus's Garden
• I Want You (She's So Heavy)
• Here Comes the Sun
• Because
• MEDLEY: You Never Give Me Your Money - Sun King - Mean Mr Mustard - Polythene Pam - She Came In Through the Bathroom Window - Golden Slumbers - Carry That Weight - The End

Video
Savoy Truffle: Abbey Road Side 2 Medley (partial)

That was great!

I thought so.

I downloaded MP3's, going to listen those tomorrow at work. Bed time here.

Video now posted beneath the audio, above.

Oh darlin' was great indeed.

This Abbey Road album sounds like a decent record, maybe I should buy one?

These guys did quite an impressively capable job of playing and singing these songs. (The singing is perhaps the hardest part. Just listen to the harmonies on Because and The End and you will immediately understand why an accurate live performance of this material is so difficult.)

The White Album was performed in its entirety Sunday night by All You Need is Love (and Friends).

I intended that performance to live in this thread, but wanted to draw more attention to it, so you can find audio, video, and pics of that here.