Our first 96-proof bootleg of the new year features a 2010 performance from Tarrytown, N.Y., of "Do Something Good," the one new track recorded on Buckingham Solo.

Head to this website's downloads section to find this song and other favorites.

Tift performed our latest 96-proof selection during a New Year's Day show in her adopted hometown of New York City.

Head to this website's downloads section to find a solo performance of the new song "Worn Out World."

This week's 96-proof bootleg takes us back nearly a decade to the opening days of the Bramble Rose tour.

Head to this website's downloads section for your chance to enjoy Tift's take on Emmylou Harris' "Two More Bottles Of Wine."

We're skipping this week's 96-proof bootleg in honor of Tift's iTunes release today of a new recording, "Sweet Spot," along with two other trio performances with Jay Brown and Eric Heywood.

Please head to iTunes to find Tift's latest release. We'll be back with another bootleg selection one week from today.

This week's bootleg offers another take on the new track "Wasting Away." Few people have had an opportunity to hear Tift perform live with a lineup featuring Eric Heywood, Jay Brown, and John Convertino.

That quartet performed this tune last fall at the N.C. State Fair in Raleigh. Head to this website's downloads section to find this 96-proof selection.

This week's bootleg gives you another chance to hear a new song that's likely to appear on Tift's next album.

Head to this website's downloads section for a 96-proof take on "Traveling Alone" from an October performance in Hudson, N.Y.

This week's bootleg selection highlights Tift's 2006 appearance at the Cambridge Folk Festival.

Head to this website's downloads section to find Tift and James Walbourne performing "Stray Paper."

This week's bootleg highlights the partnership Tift has formed with classical pianist Simone Dinnerstein — a partnership that's expected to lead to a joint album later this year.

Head to this website's downloads section to find Tift and Simone's take on "Only In Songs/Night And Dreams" from a December 2011 WNYC broadcast.

This week we highlight Eric Heywood's pedal steel on a 2010 performance of one of Tift's classics.

Head to this website's downloads section to find a Buffalo, N.Y., take on "Bramble Rose."

This week's bootleg offers a second take on the new song "Southern Downtown."

We've featured a full-band version in the past. This week, Tift and her guitar carry the tune alone during a May 2011 performance in Indianapolis.

Do you think Virginia has a state law requiring Tift to play the song of the same name when she performs in the Old Dominion?

Regardless, Tift and her band rocked the Bramble Rose classic during a 2008 show in Norfolk. Head to this website's downloads section to find this 96-proof classic.

This week's selection takes us back to November 2007, when Tift was trying out songs that would appear on Another Country.

You'll hear unamplified voice, guitar, and harmonica (along with a little boot-stomp percussion) in a version of "Hopes Too High" from an in-store performance at Raleigh's Schoolkids Records.

Head to this website's downloads section to find this track and other 96-proof favorites.

Yep, Forrest, that's the show. And that's the boot that's stomping out the time.

The recording device was pretty close to Tift and her guitar.

This week we feature another new song from Tift's forthcoming album. Tift and Jay Brown performed "Still Not Home" during a midnight show at Raleigh's Lincoln Theatre over the weekend.

Head to this website's downloads section to find this 96-proof selection.

(And check out the forum thread on the Lincoln Theatre show to find a video of this performance.)

This week's selection is another brand-new track from the March 23 benefit performance in Raleigh. It's titled "Spring." North Carolinians will appreciate Tift's pollen joke during her introduction.

Head to this website's downloads section to find "Spring" and other 96-proof tracks.

Forrest, I don't have a setlist but made an educated guess that the six new tunes performed at this show would all appear on the new album. Tift had wrapped up work on the album about a week before the performance.

This week we return to Tift's March 23 benefit performance in Raleigh to feature another new song: "Drifted Apart."

Tift and Jay Brown tackle this new track that's likely to appear on the new album.

Head to this website's downloads section to find this 96-proof bootleg. Video will be posted soon to the thread for the benefit performance.

After three weeks of highlighting brand-new tunes, we return to the vaults this week for a 2002 performance of "I Know Him, Too" at Philly's North Star.

Head to this website's downloads section to find this track and other 96-proof selections.

We revisit a new song this week, as Tift and colleagues discuss "Small Talk Relations" during a fall performance in Charlottesville, Virginia.

Head to this website's downloads section to find this track and other 96-proof selections.