VH1 Storytellers is a live album

Live album

A live album is a recording consisting of material recorded during stage performances using remote recording techniques, commonly contrasted with a studio album...

 by David Bowie

David Bowie

David Bowie is an English musician, actor, record producer and arranger. A major figure for over four decades in the world of popular music, Bowie is widely regarded as an innovator, particularly for his work in the 1970s...

. It was released on 6 July 2009 and features a 23 August 1999 performance on Storytellers

VH1 Storytellers

Storytellers is a television music series produced by the VH1 network.In each episode artists perform in front of a live audience, and tell stories about their music, writing experiences and memories, somewhat similar to MTV Unplugged...

, a VH1

VH1

VH1 or Vh1 is an American cable television network based in New York City. Launched on January 1, 1985 in the old space of Turner Broadcasting's short-lived Cable Music Channel, the original purpose of the channel was to build on the success of MTV by playing music videos, but targeting a slightly...

 program. The package contains an audio CD and a DVD of footage. The set list contains songs that spanned Bowie's career up until that point, from the 1960s until his then-newest album 'hours...'

'hours...'

'Hours...' is a 1999 album by British musician David Bowie. It was released on Virgin Records. This was Bowie's final album for the EMI sub-label....

(1999).

CD

1. "Life on Mars?
   Life on Mars?
   "Life on Mars?" is a song by David Bowie first released in 1971 on the album Hunky Dory. The song—which BBC Radio 2 later called "a cross between a Broadway musical and a Salvador Dalí painting"—featured guest piano work by keyboardist Rick Wakeman. When released as a single in 1973,...
   
   " – 4:22
2. "Rebel Rebel
   Rebel Rebel
   "Rebel Rebel" is a song by David Bowie, released in 1974 as a single and on the album Diamond Dogs. Cited as his most-covered track, it was effectively Bowie's farewell to the glam movement that had made him a star.-Music and lyrics:...
   
   " (truncated) – 3:15
3. "Thursday's Child" (Bowie, Reeves Gabrels
   Reeves Gabrels
   Reeves Gabrels is an American guitarist, known for virtuosity, versatility, and originality. His compositions and improvisations defy genre and "explore sonic extremes with a great, adaptive intuition for what each song needs most."...
   
   ) – 6:43
4. "Can't Help Thinking About Me
   Can't Help Thinking About Me
   "Can't Help Thinking About Me" is a song written by David Bowie in 1965 and released as a single under the name David Bowie & the Lower Third. This was the first single released after he changed his name from David Jones to David Bowie...
   
   " – 6:31
5. "China Girl
   China Girl (song)
   "China Girl" is a song co-written by David Bowie and Iggy Pop during their years in Berlin, first appearing on Pop's album The Idiot...
   
   " (Bowie, Iggy Pop
   Iggy Pop
   Iggy Pop is an American singer, songwriter, musician, and actor. Though considered an innovator of punk rock, Pop's music has encompassed a number of styles over the years, including pop, metal, jazz and blues...
   
   ) – 6:48
6. "Seven" (Bowie, Gabrels) – 5:01
7. "Drive-In Saturday
   Drive-In Saturday
   "Drive-In Saturday" is a song by David Bowie from his 1973 album Aladdin Sane. It was released as a single a week before the album and, like its predecessor "The Jean Genie", became a Top 3 UK hit.-Music and lyrics:...
   
   " – 5:22
8. "Word on a Wing
   Word on a Wing
   "Word on a Wing" is a song written by David Bowie in 1976 for the Station to Station album.Bowie admits that the song was written out of a coke-addled spiritual despair that he experienced while filming the movie The Man Who Fell To Earth...
   
   " – 6:35

DVD

1. "Life On Mars?"
2. "Rebel Rebel" (truncated)
3. "Thursday's Child"
4. "Can't Help Thinking About Me"
5. "China Girl"
6. "Seven"
7. "Drive-In Saturday"
8. "Word On A Wing"

DVD bonus performances

1. "Survive
   Survive (David Bowie song)
   "Survive" is a song and single written by David Bowie and Reeves Gabrels for the album hours... in 1999.-UK CD version 1:# "Survive " - 4:18# "Survive " - 4:11...
   
   " (Bowie, Gabrels)
2. "I Can't Read
   I Can't Read
   "I Can't Read" is a song written by David Bowie and Reeves Gabrels for Tin Machine on their debut album in 1989.Bowie recorded a new version of the song in 1997 for the film The Ice Storm. This version was released as a single in Germany and Scandinavia by Velvel Records in December 1997...
   
   " (Bowie, Gabrels)
3. "Always Crashing in the Same Car
   Always Crashing in the Same Car
   "Always Crashing in the Same Car" is a song by David Bowie for his album Low from 1977.The song's lyrics express the frustration of making the same mistake over and over. The narrator of the song recounts driving at high speed in circles around a hotel garage, cautiously checking for danger, yet...
   
   "
4. "If I'm Dreaming My Life" (Bowie, Gabrels)

Personnel

• David Bowie: vocals, guitar
• Gail Ann Dorsey
  Gail Ann Dorsey
  Gail Ann Dorsey is an American musician considered one of the premier bass guitarists and vocalists within the alternative rock scene. With a distinguished career as a session musician, it has been most notably her long association performing in David Bowie's band, from 1995 to the present day,...
  
  : vocals, bass instrument
• Reeves Gabrels
  Reeves Gabrels
  Reeves Gabrels is an American guitarist, known for virtuosity, versatility, and originality. His compositions and improvisations defy genre and "explore sonic extremes with a great, adaptive intuition for what each song needs most."...
  
  : guitar
• Mark Plati
  Mark Plati
  Mark Plati is a New York-based musician, record producer, and songwriter, widely acclaimed for his work in the 1990s with David Bowie. An in-demand producer, Plati also has worked with Spookey Ruben, The Cure, Duncan Sheik, Hooverphonic, Robbie Williams, Joe McIntyre, and Natalie Imbruglia...
  
  : guitars
• Mike Garson
  Mike Garson
  Mike Garson is an American pianist, most notable for his work with David Bowie, Nine Inch Nails, Billy Corgan, Free Flight, and The Smashing Pumpkins.- Early career :...
  
  : piano, keyboards
• Sterling Campbell
  Sterling Campbell
  Sterling Campbell in New York City, New York, is an American rock drummer who has worked with numerous high-profile acts. He rose to attention in 1986, touring with Cyndi Lauper on her her True Colors World Tour, in 1986, and in 1987, joined Duran Duran...
  
  : drums, percussion
• Holly Palmer
  Holly Palmer
  Holly Palmer is an American singer-songwriter based in Los Angeles, California. She has released four albums as a solo artist, and has toured extensively as a vocalist with acts including David Bowie and Gnarls Barkley. She is also the "Cheesecake" partner in Bubbles & Cheesecake, an...
  
   and Lani Groves: background vocals
• Audio remixer: Mark Plati
• Audio mixer: Thom Cadley

Charts

Chart (2009)	Peak position
UK Albums Chart	114