The 25 Best Paste Live Videos of 2011

#22. Robert Ellis – “What’s In It For Me?”
You can’t help but wonder how the folk and country greats sounded in their early adulthood. I’d like to think that with Robert Ellis, we’re getting to watch a storytelling master blossom into a future legend. His songs command our attention through the everyday stories and shared sentiments they convey. Watch Ellis performs “What’s In It For Me?” along Lake Michigan’s shores in Chicago.

#24. Old 97’s – “I’m A Trainwreck”
It’d make sense to assume that The Grand Theatre Vol. 2 from the Old 97’s would come out as a sort of leftovers collection from last year’s The Grand Theatre Volume One. While much of the music did come from the same chunk of material, the band threw in three newly written tracks and dug way back into their history to produce an album looser and rougher than its predecessor but far more than an odds and ends set. Watch Rhett Miller and Murray Hammond perform backstage at Chicago’s Lincoln Hall.—Justin Cober-Lake

Read the full article and watch the videos at Paste Magazine.