November 24, 2002: One Nite Alone... The Aftershow: It Ain’t Over

Escape
Nov 24, 2002
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Updated: Apr 26

First shipments are sent to NPG Music Club members

One Nite Alone... The Aftershow: It Ain’t Over is Prince's second live album, but it is only available for purchase as part of a 3CD box set that also includes his first live album, One Nite Alone... Live! (both albums are credited to Prince and the New Power Generation; the first to receive that credit since 1992). On May 29, 2020, The Prince Estate re-released the album with Sony’s Legacy Recordings on vinyl (individually) and as part of a 4CD+DVD box set titled Up All Nite With Prince - The One Nite Alone Collection. The Rainbow Children and One Nite Alone... and One Nite Alone... Live! were also re-released individually on vinyl on the same day.

The CD marks the first official audio release of Prince's legendary aftershow concerts, although a video of an aftershow had been previously released on The Sacrifice Of Victor VHS. It features tracks from three different aftershows following performances on the One Nite Alone... Tour.

Six out of the nine tracks are live versions of songs originally from Prince's studio albums released between 1986 and 1994. The Everlasting Now (Vamp) is a brief reprise of the track from 2001’s The Rainbow Children, with a full version available on the companion album One Nite Alone... Live! We Do This and the medley of Just Friends (Sunny) / If You Want Me To Stay are previously unreleased in any form by Prince and include guest vocalists (George Clinton on We Do This, and Musiq Soulchild on Just Friends (Sunny) / If You Want Me To Stay).

The audio was captured directly from the mix console of Prince's longtime sound engineer, Scottie Baldwin.