Listening to One Nite Alone… in 2020, it’s impossible not to compare it to Piano & a Microphone 1983, exhumed from Prince’s fabled vault of unreleased material in 2018. Now, One Nite Alone… is finally seeing a wide release, both as its own slab of vinyl and with One Nite Alone… Live! as a part of the new Up All Nite With Prince: The One Nite Alone Collection CD box set.
For a long time, the only way to hear these songs was via file-sharing site or bootlegs. He released this album in the middle of his One Nite Alone… Tour, but only to members of the NPG Music Club, who received it in the mail in May 2002 or were gifted it when they purchased the One Nite Alone… Live! box set that December. While recording The Rainbow Children (2001)-a peculiar work in his discography that embraced a jazzier sound and more spiritual lyrics-Prince started and finished work on One Nite Alone…, which that featured little more than the artist singing and playing piano.
But it wasn’t until the beginning of 2003 that he released his first live album.
Even as the quality of Prince’s studio recordings ebbed, the man always brought the thunder live. You could spend hours watching clips of Prince in concert on YouTube: singing “ Purple Rain” in a downpour at the Super Bowl XLI Halftime Show, re-imagining Radiohead’s “ Creep” as an eight-minute power ballad while headlining Coachella, crashing George Harrison’s Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction to play the climactic guitar solo on “ While My Guitar Gently Weeps” with such purple-hot intensity as to wipe the stupid white-boy-blues look off of Marc Mann’s face.
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