Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young - Denver Coliseum, Denver, CO, 5-12-1970

Here's something I'm very excited to post. I put many, many hours of work into this, but I think it paid off. This is an audience bootleg of a special Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young (CSNY) concert that sounded pretty rough. But now, after some editing, I believe it sounds almost as good as a soundboard from the era. However, be warned that sometimes the sound quality is still rough sometimes. But you should have heard what it sounded like before. It's vastly improved.

This also was on the most pivotal concerts in the history of CSNY. So let me give some background. In March 1970, the CSNY album "Deja Vu" was released. It was a massive hit right away. Rolling Stone magazine would later put it on their list of the top 500 albums of all time. It would eventually sell eight million copies in the U.S. alone.

CSNY had toured in late 1969 into January 1970, but then they took an extended break. This Denver concert was supposed to be the first one of a big nationwide tour after that break to promote "Deja Vu." However, there was trouble brewing behind the scenes. CSNY needed a bassist and drummer to play live. So far, those roles had been filled by Greg Reeves on bass and Dallas Taylor on drums. But mere days before this concert, Reeves was fired by Stephen Stills. Stills later claimed that this was "because [Reeves] suddenly decided he was an Apache witch doctor." That sounds like a weird excuse, but it seems there's some truth to it. For instance, Nils Lofgren later said that during one of the sessions for Neil Young's "After the Gold Rush" album in 1970, Reeves appeared covered head to toe in gold paint. Young explained the bassist was "doin' his Indian thing." And Reeves himself later said that members of CSNY "thought I was trying to put spells on them" due to his strong interest in Native American shamanism. He also dyed his hair red and did many other strange things.

But that wasn't the only reason he was fired. It seems there were some musical issues as well. Still later said that Reeves "freaked too much on the bass and no one could keep up because [he] did not play one rhythm the same. He could play bass imaginatively, but he has to be predictable as well." Furthermore, Reeves also wanted to sing some of his songs during CSNY concert. Stills thought that was "ludicrous, only because the songs weren't great. We'll sing any song if it's great, but not just because it happens to be written by our bass player."

Reeves was replaced by Calvin "Fuzzy" Samuel. Stills had just been using him as his bassist when he was recording his first solo album that year. But Reeves was fired late in rehearsals, so CSNY didn't have much time to rehearse songs with Samuel before their tour began. Furthermore, the band members were having other problems. Their massive success was leading to ego trips and lots of drug use. Also, David Crosby's girlfriend Christine Hinton died in September 1969, and it took him a long time to get over it. For instance, he was prone to just breaking into tears at random times during the recording of the "Deja Vu" album. On top of all that, eight days before this concert, four students were killed by the U.S. government's national guard at Kent State. It caused a nationwide uproar. It also led Neil Young to write the classic song "Ohio" in the days just prior to this concert.

So tensions were steadily rising for CSNY, and it all blew up around the time of this concert. The first half of the concert was all acoustic. That went pretty well, mostly. One issue was the sound system the band had paid to use for their entire tour was used for the first time, and it was terrible. If you listen to this recording, you can hear strange sounds in the background from time to time, much like fireworks going off. David Crosby even commented on those sounds and apologized for them before one of the songs in the acoustic set. But this continued occasionally for the rest of the concert. Furthermore, there were problems with the monitors, which means the band members had trouble hearing what the others were playing. You can hear Neil Young complain about that during the acoustic set as well.

But things got a lot worse during the electric set. The problems with the sound system and the monitors continued, and were magnified in the full band setting. Furthermore, Samuel was struggling to keep up with all the songs he had just learned days earlier. 

Drummer Dallas Taylor later explained: "The tour had been booked during all of this chaos. And it was a multi-million dollar tour. And so [Samuel] came out, but we didn't get a chance to rehearse with him. By then, the Charles Manson [murder trial] stuff was going on; it just went very dark, very quickly. I think with the cocaine coming into the world, it just went dark and evil. So [Samuel], God bless him, he didn't get a chance to learn the songs."

Samuel himself later said, "I'd never been on stage with monitors before. I didn't even know who I was on stage with. Dallas I knew a little bit from [working on Stills' solo album], so we just had to bluff our way through. Neil was very uncomfortable because Stephen and I had played together a lot more."

Neil Young was so frustrated that he walked off the stage before the end of the second to last song, "Everybody I Love You." If you listen to the banter after that song, you can hear the other band members asking each other what happened to Young. Probably, they cut the concert a little short when Young didn't return during their final song.

Things then got even worse after the concert was over. The rest of the tour was immediately cancelled. Young was so upset that he threatened to leave the group. Taylor later said, "After the show, I got this phone call from Neil. He asked would you consider continuing the tour without Stephen? I didn't think about it: no." 

The next day, the band flew to Los Angeles. A crisis meeting was held with all the band members, plus record company executives and managers, like David Geffen, Ahmed Ertugun, and Elliott Roberts. Only Taylor had to wait outside. At the end of the meeting, he was told that he was fired. Taylor later said, "By then, it was about Neil taking over as leader, controlling the band. He was mad that Stephen fired Greg Reeves, 'cos he loved Greg. It's like third grade stuff. ... Neil said, well, if I have to work with Stills, then Dallas has to go, 'cos he knew I was allied. I mean, it's crazy stuff."

Indeed, during the recording of the "Deja Vu" album, Stills was taking copious amounts of cocaine for the first time. This led to him working in the studio for many hours a day, sometimes even going 24 hours or more without stopping. The only other person who could keep up with him was Taylor, who was also taking lots of cocaine. Whereas Young felt a connection to Reeves, probably helped by their shared interest in Native American culture. For instance, the very moment Stills fired Reeves, Young was there in the same room, and immediately told Reeves that he still wanted him to play bass on his solo album, "After the Gold Rush." 

So, almost certainly, Young didn't want Stills fired, and/or knew that wasn't a realistic demand. The two of them would later say multiple times that they were close friends, and they've had many musical projects together over the years. But, by making that initial demand, it allowed Young to get the compromise of getting Taylor fired, which reduced Stills' influence over the whole band.

Johnny Barbata was hired to play drums instead. Additionally, the cancelled tour dates were rescheduled. After two weeks of more rehearsals, the tour resumed. At first, things went okay. But soon, personality conflicts came to a head again. Stills, in particular, got even more carried away with cocaine and alcohol abuse, which led to megalomania. After a concert in Chicago in early July, Crosby, Nash, and Young decided to fire Stills. The tour staggered on for two more concerts before mercifully coming to an end. 

Nash then helped put together a double live album, "Four Way Street," which was released in 1971 and was a big seller. But CSNY was effectively finished, excepting a couple of spontaneous reunion concerts, until a 1974 tour. (And that tour is a whole other story, with even more problems.)

Decades later, Stills had this to say: "I just wish we could have held it together a little longer. But there were petty ego jealousies going on. Nash and I weren't talking. Neil wanted to be on his own. I had my solo album to finish. But we still could have done that and kept CSNY going. But we threw it all away for very fallacious reasons, I can see now. I mean, we were standing on the verge. And all of the freedom we wanted for our own personal careers would have still been available to us. But we couldn't put [aside] the trivial going on between us. If a voice of reason could have cleared that fog, we could have realized our full potential and CSNY would be mentioned in the same breath with the Beatles and the Stones. We also could have become rich enough to be creative. But I was the biggest fool. I thought the managers would come up with some strength. They didn't. So we lost it all, right there, that day, to indulgence. We lost it all." 

Ironically, just one day after this concert, and the same day the band fired Taylor, CSNY was told that "Deja Vu" had just reached the Number One spot on the U.S. album chart. So Stills is right to lament what might have been if they could have stayed together. 

So that's the story, the context of this concert. But I also want to talk a little bit about the song list, because it was an extraordinary one for the band. The previous CSNY concert was in January 1970, and none of them had done solo concerts, except for Young doing a few concerts with Crazy Horse in February and March. All four of them wrote a lot of new songs and began working on solo albums. Plus, there were some songs from "Deja Vu" that none of them had ever performed in concert before. This meant that lots of songs were performed to the public for the very first time, including many that were still unreleased. I did some research using the setlist.fm website. Here are all the songs that got their world premiere at this concert. The ones with asterisks were still unreleased at the time:

Tell Me Why*
Man in the Mirror*
Only Love Can Break Your Heart* 
We Are Not Helpless* 
Love the One You're With*
Carry On
Chicago*
As I Come of Age*
Southern Man*
Everybody I Love You

That's pretty incredible, considering how many of those songs have gone on to be considered classics! 

Furthermore, this was the first time CSNY performed "Everybody's Been Burned," a Byrds song written by Crosby, as well as "Bluebird," a Buffalo Springfield song written by Stills. I don't count those as premieres though, since they were performed live previously by the Byrds and Buffalo Springfield. However, this was the sole time "Everybody's Been Burned" was performed in a CSNY concert, and one of only two times "Bluebird" was performed in a CSNY concert. (However, Stills wrote another song, "Bluebird Revisited," that was kind of an update of that song, and he did perform that in concert some.)

Oh, and another exceptional thing about this concert is that this was the one and only time "Everybody I Love You" was performed live by CSNY. Perhaps later there were bad feelings about that song, since it was the one where Young walked off the stage? I don't know. But also note that the lyrics of the song are actually quite different from the version on the "Deja Vu" album. Additionally, this was the only time "We Are Not Helpless" was performed in a CSNY. The song was written by Stills, but he also only performed it three more times in solo concerts all the rest of his long music career. 

Okay, this is turning out to be a long write-up, sorry. But now I have to address the sound quality issue. When I first heard this the bootleg of this concert, I noticed a lot of big problems. For instance, there was a tremendous amount of hiss. But I also sensed that most of them were fixable problems, and it was a better audience recording than most. (I've included a text file with the download zip that explains some about the origins of the recording.) I also was impressed that this was a complete recording, including all the cheering and banter between songs. For some reason, there are a lot of partial recordings of CSNY concerts from 1969 and 1970, and/or recordings where the banter wasn't recorded. (Tapers often did that in that era to save tape.)

The first thing I did was run all the songs through the MVSEP program to get rid of hiss. And boy, was there a lot of hiss! I've rarely ever seen that much hiss get cleaned up. So that was a big improvement right there. The next problem was there was a lot of reverb/ echo, especially on the vocals. So I ran all the songs through MVSEP again, first separating out the vocals and then running a dereverb filter on them. That helped a lot too.

But then I decided to go further, and really clean up the vocals. Since this was an audience recording, there was a lot of talking from people near the taper. In fact, at one point, one could hear a conversation where someone asked the taper if they were taping the concert, and then, finding out they were, asking if they could get a copy. So there was a lot of crud like that. I listened to each song carefully, and erased any vocals that came from comments in the audience instead of band members. I was able to get rid of most of it. However, sometimes people were talking at the exact same time band members were talking. I tried running songs with that problem through yet more filters which are supposed to separate talking from singing. Sometimes they worked, sometimes they didn't. 

In the end, some talking remains, for instance on the song "On the Way Home." But most of that is fairly low in the mix. For the more egregious remaining cases of audience members talking during singing, I used vocals from the CSNY concerts that year and patched them in. Typically, that was just for a line or two. For instance, in "Teach Your Children," someone in the audience had a coughing fit for about ten seconds while Nash was singing. So I got rid of that with the patching method. Really, every song here deserves to have "[Edit]" in their titles, due to all the line by line editing I did. But I've only marked the ones where I patched in bits from other songs. Oh, and I also got rid of some dead air between songs, especially guitar tuning. I also cut out some talking from audience members during quiet times between songs, if that was the only way to get rid of it.

In conclusion, this was a pretty disastrous concert. Nash even publicly said this after the concert, to explain the tour date cancellations: "The music was rubbish and we knew it. We had to cool ourselves out before we could get back again." But, in my opinion, most of the trouble happened in private, before and after the concert. The actual music was pretty good. That's especially true for the acoustic set, before the problems with playing with a full band with an unprepared bass player and bad monitors and sound system happened. 

And it certainly is a historic concert, with so many classics being heard in public for the very first time, and rare songs, as well as all the band drama. If you're a CSNY fan, I would consider this a "must have," even though some sound quality problems remain.

I can't resist ending with one more quote, this time by Young, summing up how the band broke apart in 1970: "[It was] because we had no idea what we were doing. It's not because there was anything wrong with anybody in the band. It was just, what we were confronted with made us be... it changed us. It changed us. The crowd. The adulation. The roaring sound. It changed us." 

And ooooooone more quote... this one from British music critic Barney Hoskyns: "I don't think it would have been possible for CSNY in 1970, 1971, to go on much beyond that. A break-up was inevitable. You've got four young guys, two of whom are certainly out of their heads on cocaine [Crosby and Stills]. It's petty stuff. These are guys who were not very grown up. And they're not very good at talking to each other. And resolving stuff."

This album is an hour and 50 minutes long. 

01 Suite- Judy Blue Eyes [Edit] (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
02 talk (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
03 Teach Your Children [Edit] (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
04 talk (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
05 On the Way Home (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
06 Helpless (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
07 talk (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
08 Everybody's Been Burned (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
09 talk (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
10 Tell Me Why [Edit] (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
11 talk (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
12 Man in the Mirror (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
13 talk (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
14 Only Love Can Break Your Heart (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
15 talk (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
16 Black Queen (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
17 Bluebird [Edit] (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
18 We Are Not Helpless - America's Children (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
19 talk (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
20 Love the One You're With (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
21 talk (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
22 talk (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
23 Pre-Road Downs (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
24 talk (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
25 Carry On (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
26 talk (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
27 So Begins the Task (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
28 talk (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
29 Chicago (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
30 talk (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
31 Wooden Ships (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
32 talk (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
33 As I Come of Age (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
34 talk (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
35 Southern Man (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
36 talk (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
37 Everybody I Love You (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
38 talk (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
39 Long Time Gone (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)

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alternate:

https://bestfile.io/T9pNrz1WmydF5Tc/file

The cover image is from a concert at the Olympia Stadium in Detroit, Michigan, on June 12, 1970. The original version was black and white, but I colorized it with the help of the Kolorize program.

Laughter, Love and Music, Bill Graham Memorial, Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, CA, 11-3-1991, Part 4: The Grateful Dead with John Fogerty

Here's the fourth and last out of four volumes of the 1991 Bill Graham memorial concert, called "Laughter, Love and Music." This one mainly features the Grateful Dead. However, there's a section in the middle where John Fogerty sang four songs while backed by the Dead. 

But there's more. Neil Young also showed up to sing lead vocals on a song, again backed by the Dead. He sang the Bob Dylan song "Forever Young." I believe the only other time he sang this song in concert was at the Bridge School Benefit that same year. Furthermore, John Popper of Blues Traveler played harmonica on one song. And for the concert finale, the Dead left the stage so Joan Baez could sing "Amazing Grace," with backing vocals by Graham Nash and Kris Kristofferson.

The Grateful Dead were extremely close to Bill Graham, from the very start of their career. He took control of the Fillmore in San Francisco in 1966, the first year of the band's existence. They would go on to play concerts managed and promoted by Graham probably hundreds of times.

In my write-up for Volume 1 of this concert, I mentioned a quote from Bob Weir of the Dead, who called Graham "the most important non-musician in music." Here also is a quote from band member Jerry Garcia: "Bill was our power guy, he's the guy that made rock and roll into an art-form. He loved dickering with agents and managers, that's what was fun for him. Bill himself was larger than life and an amazing guy. I've just missed the friend."

And here's a quote from band member Mickey Hart: "Bill always took great pride in everything he did. Whether it was The Fillmore or the Winterland, you could see him before the show, with his watches and his clipboard, making sure the chairs were right… He was a saloon keeper, he was a proprietor at the beginning – that's what his license said, 'saloon keeper.' He took great pride in bringing people into an environment, making them feel really great, then making sure they got safe. He was like a warrior promoter, and he really cared, he would sit up at night and dream this stuff. It wasn't like he just went to work and punched a clock; he was driven."

Typically, the Dead played whatever they wanted to play, without much thought about time limits or the specific circumstances of the concert. But for this concert, they came pretty close to playing an abbreviated "best of." They kept the overall length of their set short, compared to their usual standards of playing two or three hours, while skipping the usual long "Space" and "Drums" solos. And they played some of their best known songs. They even finished with "Touch of Grey," their sole Top Ten hit in the U.S. I'm not saying that was a good thing or a bad thing; I just think it's interesting.

The most memorable part about their set, however, had to be the songs sung by John Fogerty. In 1989, Fogerty sang a few songs backed by some members of the Dead, though it wasn't the full band. You can find that recording here:

https://albumsthatshouldexist.blogspot.com/2025/12/in-concert-against-aids-oakland_19.html

That collaboration probably led to this one two years later, where he was backed by all of the Dead. These two concerts turned out to be the only two times Fogerty and the Dead played on stage together. (There were no more opportunities after Jerry Garcia died four years later.) This was also only the fourth time he played any of his Creedence Clearwater Revival songs at a formal concert after a long hiatus. Due to a legal dispute with his record company, he didn't play them from 1972 until 1987. After this, he began playing them on a regular basis. 

This album is an hour and 27 minutes long.

61 talk (David Graham)
62 Hell in a Bucket (Grateful Dead)
63 China Cat Sunflower (Grateful Dead)
64 I Know You Rider (Grateful Dead)
65 Wang Dang Doodle (Grateful Dead with John Popper)
66 talk (Grateful Dead)
67 Born on the Bayou (John Fogerty & the Grateful Dead)
68 Green River (John Fogerty & the Grateful Dead)
69 Bad Moon Rising (John Fogerty & the Grateful Dead)
70 talk (John Fogerty & the Grateful Dead)
71 Proud Mary (John Fogerty & the Grateful Dead)
72 Truckin' (Grateful Dead)
73 That's It for the Other One (Grateful Dead)
74 Wharf Rat (Grateful Dead)
75 Sunshine Daydream (Grateful Dead)
76 talk (Neil Young & the Grateful Dead)
77 Forever Young (Neil Young & the Grateful Dead)
78 Touch of Grey (Grateful Dead)
79 talk (Joan Baez)
80 Amazing Grace (Joan Baez with Graham Nash & Kris Kristofferson)
81 talk (David Graham)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/G1KUGAmb 

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/S3aMhOemSjAIHE3/file 

The cover image is from this exact concert. It shows John Fogerty in front, with Jerry Garcia of the Grateful Dead in back, with glasses and a beard.

Laughter, Love and Music, Bill Graham Memorial, Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, CA, 11-3-1991, Part 3: Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young

Here's the third out of four volumes of the 1991 Bill Graham memorial concert, called "Laughter, Love and Music." This one features Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young (CSNY).

Bill Graham was pivotal to the career of CSNY, so it was fitting they were one of the headlining music acts for his memorial concerts. He was involved in most of the really key concerts for the band, from Woodstock to Live Aid. In 1970, when CSNY was just starting out, he called them "America's Beatles." That quote got a lot of mileage and really helped them. But probably his most important role was in 1974, when he organized their big reunion tour. 

Graham Nash told a interesting story relating to Graham in his autobiography "Wild Tales: A Rock & Roll Life." It relates to an episode at one of their Fillmore East shows in New York City in 1970. After a three-hour show and two encores, the band was in their dressing room, refusing to come out while the crowd was cheering for more. Nash wrote, "Bill Graham slipped a note under our door. It said: 'Your audience awaits you.' 'We’re not coming out, no matter how much you pay us,' Neil told Bill. The next thing we knew, a hundred-dollar bill came sliding under the door. As soon as Neil saw that, he shouted, 'Not enough!' Seven more hundred-dollar bills came sliding through at regular intervals. We were all laughing our asses off about it. Neil scooped those bills up and we went out to do another encore." 

That showed the lengths Bill Graham would go to in order to make sure the audience went away fully satisfied. I would guess that any other concert promoter would have figured two encores was plenty after a long concert, and kept all the money.

CSNY got together for a reunion album in 1988, "American Dream." But they only played about five concerts together from 1988 to 1990, all of them benefit concerts. Graham's death caused them to reunite again, after over a year of not performing together. It would be their last concert as a foursome until they went on tour in 2000. In this concert, they skipped the songs from their reunion album and stuck to their classics.

This album is 43 minutes long.

46 talk by emcee (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
47 talk (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
48 Teach Your Children (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
49 talk (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
50 Love the One You're With (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
51 Long May You Run (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
52 Long Time Gone (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
53 talk (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
54 Southern Cross (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
55 talk (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
56 Only Love Can Break Your Heart (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
57 Wooden Ships (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
58 talk (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
59 Ohio (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
60 talk by emcee (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)

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alternate: 

https://bestfile.io/en/KA7dtrXCoVKLj0i/file

I have to admit I cheated with the cover. I couldn't find any good photos of CSNY together at this concert, and even only a couple of bad ones. They were spread too far apart on the stage. But I did find a good one of Neil Young and David Crosby on stage at this exact concert, so I used that one. I also found a good one of just Stephen Stills, also at this exact concert. So I cheated by using Photoshop to paste Stills into the image between Young and Crosby. Sorry if that bothers anyone, but I liked it better that way.

The Allman Brothers Band and Friends - Tune In to Hep C Benefit, Beacon Theatre, New York City, 6-27-2011

When it comes to the Allman Brothers Band, I like all their music up to about the year 2000. That's when Dickey Betts was kicked out of the band. It very well could be the band has good reasons to kick him out, but in my opinion it just wasn't the same without him. However, this concert is an exception. I really like this one, even though it's from 2011, which was close to the end. (The band folded in 2014.) The reason is this had interesting guest stars for a majority of the concert, resulting in the band playing different songs than usual.

When I found this bootleg, it came with a file that contains the text of an article from Rolling Stone Magazine describing the concert in detail. I've left that in the download zip. I recommend you give it a read.

The short version is the band's main singer-songwriter at this point, Gregg Allman, got hepatitis C when he was younger. It gave him health problems, and in 2010, he had to get a liver transplant. So when a non-profit charity called Hep C asked him to perform a benefit concert to help them out, he readily agreed, and he brought some special guests. The guests weren't chosen by accident, since most of them also had hepatitis C. Phil Lesh, bassist for the Grateful Dead, had to get a liver transplant. So did David Crosby, of Crosby, Stills and Nash. Natalie Cole also had the disease. I'm guessing Graham Nash didn't, but was there to assist Crosby, his longtime musical partner.

The concert started out as a typical Allman Brothers Band performance for its era, though even here the band did some nice covers of classic songs, like "I Want on Guilded Splinters," "Into the Mystic," and "Blind Willie McTell." Even one of their old originals, "Black Hearted Woman," ended with an instrumental jam based on "That's It for the Other One" by the Grateful Dead. 

Then came the guest vocalists, starting with Natalie Cole (who also came back later). The five songs with Crosby and Nash were all songs written by Crosby or Nash (with one song, "Find the Cost of Freedom," written by their longtime bandmate Stephen Stills). Phil Lesh joined them for the last two. Then three Grateful Dead classics followed, with Lesh still anchoring things with his bass playing. There were other guests too, including Bill Evans playing saxophone on a few songs, and Billy Gibbons of ZZ Top playing some lead guitar on the last song. 

The music here is unreleased. This concert was broadcast on the radio, which is why the sound quality is excellent. For some of the songs, like the Grateful Dead covers, the lead vocals were low in the mix. So I fixed that with the help of the MVSEP program.

This album is two hours and 56 minutes long. 

UPDATE: On April 16, 2026, I updated the mp3 download file. The songs are exactly the same. But, a commenter named Bob said all the songs were a bit slow, and sent me a corrected version. So the update is that version.  

01 Don't Want You No More [Instrumental] (Allman Brothers Band)
02 It's Not My Cross to Bear (Allman Brothers Band)
03 I Walk on Guilded Splinters (Allman Brothers Band)
04 One Way Out (Allman Brothers Band)
05 Into the Mystic (Allman Brothers Band)
06 Statesboro Blues (Allman Brothers Band)
07 Blind Willie McTell (Allman Brothers Band)
08 Black Hearted Woman - That's It for the Other One (Allman Brothers Band)
09 talk (Allman Brothers Band)
10 A Change Is Gonna Come (Allman Brothers Band with Natalie Cole)
11 The Weight (Allman Brothers Band with Natalie Cole)
12 In Memory of Elizabeth Reed [Instrumental] (Allman Brothers Band with Bill Evans)
13 talk (Allman Brothers Band)
14 talk (Allman Brothers Band with Crosby & Nash)
15 Teach Your Children (Allman Brothers Band with Crosby & Nash)
16 talk (Allman Brothers Band with Crosby & Nash)
17 Guinnevere (Allman Brothers Band with Crosby & Nash)
18 talk (Allman Brothers Band with Crosby & Nash)
19 Find the Cost of Freedom (Allman Brothers Band with Crosby & Nash)
20 talk (Allman Brothers Band with Crosby & Nash)
21 Cowboy Movie (Allman Brothers Band with Crosby & Nash, & Phil Lesh)
22 talk (Allman Brothers Band with Crosby & Nash, & Phil Lesh)
23 Almost Cut My Hair (Allman Brothers Band with Crosby & Nash, & Phil Lesh)
24 talk (Allman Brothers Band with Crosby & Nash, & Phil Lesh)
25 Shakedown Street (Allman Brothers Band with Phil Lesh)
26 Sugaree (Allman Brothers Band with Phil Lesh)
27 Franklin's Tower (Allman Brothers Band with Phil Lesh & Bill Evans)
28 Whipping Post (Allman Brothers Band with Natalie Cole)
29 talk (Allman Brothers Band with Crosby & Nash, & Natalie Cole)
30 Midnight Rider (Allman Brothers Band with Crosby & Nash, & Natalie Cole)
31 talk (Allman Brothers Band with Crosby & Nash, & Natalie Cole)
32 Will the Circle Be Unbroken (Allman Brothers Band with Crosby & Nash, Natalie Cole, & Billy Gibbons)

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alternate:

https://bestfile.io/W639upo80TT7BiV/file

The cover photo is from this exact concert. In the front row, from right to left, that's Warren Haynes of the Allman Brothers Band, Graham Nash, David Crosby, and Phil Lesh. I darkened the large video screen shown at the top of the image, so the writing on it wouldn't conflict with the writing of the band name I added in that area.

Various Artists - Peace Sunday, Rose Bowl, Pasadena, CA, 6-6-1982, Part 4: Dan Fogelberg and Stevie Nicks

Here's the fourth out of five albums that make up the "Peace Sunday" concert in 1982. 

I'll just paste in a paragraph I wrote in my post for Part 2, since it still applies here:

If you want a full explanation of what the concert was about, please read my write-up for Part 1. In that, I also explained about the sound quality issue. In short, the only known source for the whole concert is an audience bootleg. It didn't sound very good, so this concert recording hasn't been shared that much. But I could tell there was potential there, if I could get rid of most of the much. As I explained in detail in my write-up, I think I did get rid of most of it. It still doesn't have excellent sound, but it's pretty good, and worthy of being posted at my blog, where I have pretty high sound quality standards. 

This part is split in two. The first half features Dan Fogelberg, and the second half features Stevie Nicks. Graham Nash helped Fogelberg with harmony vocals on one song.

Both Fogelberg and Nicks were at or near the peak of their popularity. His most recent album at the time, "The Innocent Age," was released in 1981. It sold over two million copies, and had three songs in the Top Ten of the U.S. singles chart. Meanwhile, Nicks was having both a very successful solo career while still remaining a member of Fleetwood Mac. A new Fleetwood Mac album, "Mirage," would be released a month after this concert. Nicks didn't perform any songs from it.

This album is an hour and one minute long. 

Note that, for all the parts, the track numbers continue from the numbers in the previous part. That way, you can put all the songs together and listen to the whole thing at once if you want.  

50 Part of the Plan (Dan Fogelberg)
51 Empty Cages (Dan Fogelberg)
52 Tell Me to My Face (Dan Fogelberg)
53 Face the Fire (Dan Fogelberg)
54 talk (Dan Fogelberg)
55 There's a Place in the World for a Gambler (Dan Fogelberg with Graham Nash)
56 Edge of Seventeen (Stevie Nicks)
57 talk (Stevie Nicks)
58 Sara (Stevie Nicks)
59 I Need to Know (Stevie Nicks)
60 Rhiannon (Stevie Nicks)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/DGXo684q

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/0sOekxVb3WtKsKr/file

The cover photo of Stevie Nicks is from this exact concert.

Various Artists - Peace Sunday, Rose Bowl, Pasadena, CA, 6-6-1982, Part 1: Gil Scott-Heron, Jesse Colin Young, Graham Nash, Bonnie Raitt, and Donovan

I really like posting big rock festivals. I feel these often get forgotten. This was a very interesting one. Just look at some of the musical acts that took part: Gil Scott Heron, Jesse Colin Young, Bonnie Raitt, Donovan, Crosby, Stills and Nash, Stevie Wonder, Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, Dan Fogelberg, Stevie Nicks, Linda Ronstadt, Jackson Browne, and Tom Petty. However, the problem with this one is that only known recording is a problematic audience bootleg. However, I have spent many, many hours getting this into listenable shape. It's still far from ideal sound quality, but I think it's definitely worth listening to, after all the audio edits I've made. I've split this long concert into five albums. This is the first one.

First, let me explain what this concert was about. In the early 1980s, the Cold War between the U.S. and Russia (then the Soviet Union) heated up. Ronald Reagan was president of the U.S., and struck a more militaristic posture, such as calling Russia "the evil empire." The U.S. decided to base intermediate nuclear weapons in Western Europe for the first time. This led to a growing anti-nuclear war movement, which was related to an anti-nuclear power movement triggered by the Three Mile Island nuclear accident in 1979. 

This concert in 1982, which was attended by about 85,000 people, was meant to draw attention to the nuclear war issue, and put pressure on the U.S. to reduce it's aggressive policies. It was just one of many around that time. For instance, one week later, there was a protest march and concert in New York City attended by about a million people that was the biggest protest in history up until that time. In 1983, there were 50 simultaneous protests across the U.S. Also in 1983, the TV movie "The Day After" depicted the results of a nuclear war on a family. It was one of the top ten most watched TV shows of all time, showing how concern was spiking over the issue. In Europe, there were even more opposition and protests. Eventually, there were peace talks, and in 1987, the U.S. and Russia signed the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty, which led to the destruction of all intermediate range nuclear weapons. That, and other peace treaties, helped lower the tensions and fear.

It turns out the protesters had good reason to be concerned. In 1983, the world actually came very close to being destroyed in a nuclear war, entirely by accident. A Russian early warning system mistakenly showed five nuclear missiles heading towards Russia. A Russian engineer on duty was supposed to pass the warning up the chain of command. But he had a feeling it was a false alarm, and didn't pass the warning on. It turned out he was right, and the early warning system had malfunctioned.

You can read all about it in this Wikipedia article:

1983 Soviet nuclear false alarm incident - Wikipedia 

The common perception is that the trend of musicians staging benefit concerts for altruistic reasons began with Live Aid in 1985. But this concert was in 1982. And there were others like it in those years, such as the No Nukes concerts in 1979, and the 1982 New York City concert I mentioned above, which starred Jackson Browne, Linda Ronstadt, Bruce Springsteen, James Taylor, Carly Simon, Bonnie Raitt, and many more. (I've only found some of that one, but I'm looking for more.)

Okay, so that explains what this concert was all about. Now, let me address the sound quality issue. As I mentioned above, the only source I could find for this concert is a merely decent audience bootleg. It suffered from the usual problems audience boots have, some one which I could fix, and some I couldn't. It's clear the person who recorded it turned their tape recorder off between songs a lot, so we miss many introductions and other banter. There was nothing I could do about that. 

But the main problem, of crowd noise, was one I could fix, although it turned out to be a very big pain in the ass. For starters, I ran all the songs through the MVSEP program, specifically separating the crowd noise from everything else. Then I wiped out most of the crowd noise, except where it was appropriate to keep, for instance at the ends of songs and during sing-alongs. That alone made a BIG difference. There had been a constant level of backround noise, and I got rid of nearly all of it. 

However, there was more crowd noise that was harder to fix. Often during songs, people near the taper would shout "WOOHOO!" and the like. Sometimes there would be entire conversations. I ran all the songs through MVSEP again, splitting the vocals from everything else. Then I carefully went through the vocals and got rid of anything that didn't belong. Occasionally, the bits I wanted to remove overlapped with singing, and I couldn't remove it. But that was relatively rare. Most of the time, people saved their "woohoos" and such for the instrumental parts.

The result is still not great. But it's way better than before, in my opinion, and sometimes it could be mistaken for soundboard quality. Luckily, the audience bootleg was fundamentally good. If that hadn't been the case, I wouldn't have taken on this time-consuming task.

Luckily, as far as I can tell, the taper did record all the songs by all the musical acts, even if some of the banter is gone. For instance, not only is there no introduction of the first artist, Gil Scott-Heron, the recording began in the middle of some comments he made. And while we have an introduction for Donovan, we don't have one for Jesse Colin Young. Lots of little missing bits like that. But the main thing is the music.

Oh, speaking of the banter, that often was muffled and hard to understand. So I ran all the "talk" tracks through the Adobe voice enhancer program. That only works for talking, not singing, but it really helps with the clarity.

This album is 52 minutes long.  

01 talk (Gil Scott-Heron)
02 Alien (Gil Scott-Heron)
03 talk (Gil Scott-Heron)
04 Please Save the Children (Gil Scott-Heron)
05 talk (Gil Scott-Heron)
06 Shut 'Em Down (Gil Scott-Heron)
07 Imagine (Jesse Colin Young)
08 Let's Get Together with Susie Young, Graham Nash & Jerry Corbitt (Jesse Colin Young)
09 talk (Graham Nash)
10 Military Madness (Graham Nash)
11 talk (Bonnie Raitt & Graham Nash)
12 Love Has No Pride (Bonnie Raitt with Graham Nash)
13 talk (Graham Nash)
14 Sunshine Superman (Donovan)
15 Season of the Witch (Donovan)
16 Mellow Yellow (Donovan)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/JPtfeBmR

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/Drcen3BFlcbmwxj/file

I found photos of musical acts performing for all the albums I've made out of this festival, except for this first part. However, I did find this cover of the official program for the festival, and I thought the image of a nuclear bomb blast morphing into a tree was interesting, so I used it. I had to crop it a bit, and clean it up some in Photoshop. Other than that, the only change I made was adding the text at the bottom. All the text at the top was on the original image.

Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young - VH-1 Storytellers, MTV-VH-1 Studios, Santa Monica, CA, 2-18-2000

The flood of VH-1 Storytellers albums continues. This time, it's a episode of Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young (CSNY).

In 1999, CSNY had one of their occasional reunions, putting out the studio album "Looking Forward." Like most later CSN and CSNY studio albums, it had overproduction issues and song selection issues, so it wasn't nearly as good as it should have been. But all four of them remained talented songwriters just the same. That can be seen by the two songs here from that album, "Dream for Him" and "Seen Enough."

Other than those two, all the songs were classics from the late 1960s and early 1970s. There was a mix of acoustic and full-band performances. This was one of the first concerts for the band's 2000 tour, their first big tour as CSNY since 1974.

As I've done with most of these, I had to do a lot of editing to fix the flow from song to song. For instance, oftentimes, the applause cut off abruptly, so I'd have to patch in more applause from somewhere else. I made an especially big edit for the song "Helplessly Hoping," which is why that one has "[Edit]" in its title. As this series usually did, it started part way through the first song. So I found a soundboard version from the band's 2000 tour, and used that to fill in the missing part.

This album is 45 minutes long.

01 Helplessly Hoping [Edit] (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
02 talk (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
03 Our House (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
04 talk (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
05 Only Love Can Break Your Heart (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
06 talk (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
07 Guinnevere (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
08 talk (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
09 Long May You Run (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
10 talk (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
11 Dream for Him (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
12 talk (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
13 After the Goldrush (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
14 talk (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
15 Seen Enough (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
16 talk (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
17 Teach Your Children (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)

https://www.upload.ee/files/17102811/CROSBSTLLSNSHYNG2000Strytllrs_MTVH1StdosSntaMncaCA__2-18-2000_atse.zip.html

alternate link:

https://pixeldrain.com/u/vnAmSyFi

I could have used a screenshot from this exact concert, but it would have been poor quality, based on a low-res video file. Instead, I used one from a concert in San Jose, California, on February 4, 2000, just two weeks prior to this concert.

Woodstock '94, Winston Farm, Saugerties, NY, 8-12-1994 to 8-14-1994 - Day 2, Part 11: Crosby, Stills & Nash

The eleventh album from Day Two of the Woodstock '94 Festival is a set by Crosby, Stills and Nash (CSN).

CSN were one of the stars of the 1969 Woodstock Festival, playing then with Neil Young as Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young. It was reported that the promoters of this festival offered Young a large amount of money to reunite with CSN and play this festival. CSNY had last played a concert together in 1991, and wouldn't do so again until 2000. However, Young objected to the commercialization of the festival, for instance there were corporate sponsorships by the likes of Pepsi and Apple. He also felt it besmirched the reputation of the original Woodstock. So he refused to participate.

CSN was promoting their 1994 album "After the Storm," which by coincidence was released on August 16th, just a couple of days after this concert. That album was not well received. In my opinion, it was too slick and overproduced. They played five songs from that album (tracks 8, 12, 14, 16, and 20). In my opinion, the songs sound a lot better here, where the overproduction was largely avoided.

John Sebastian, the main singer-songwriter from the 1960s band Lovin' Spoonful, introduced CSN. He also played harmonica on the song "Deja Vu," just as he did on the original recording. He would have his own set at the festival a day later. An interesting fact is that Sebastian was strongly considered as a potential addition to CSN in 1969, but ultimately Neil Young was chosen instead.

This album is an hour and 24 minutes long.

01 talk by John Sebastian (Crosby, Stills & Nash)
02 Love the One You're With (Crosby, Stills & Nash)
03 Military Madness (Crosby, Stills & Nash)
04 talk (Crosby, Stills & Nash)
05 Helplessly Hoping (Crosby, Stills & Nash)
06 talk (Crosby, Stills & Nash)
07 Deja Vu (Crosby, Stills & Nash with John Sebastian)
08 Only Waiting for You (Crosby, Stills & Nash)
09 talk (Crosby, Stills & Nash)
10 Marrakesh Express (Crosby, Stills & Nash)
11 talk (Crosby, Stills & Nash)
12 It Won't Go Away (Crosby, Stills & Nash)
13 talk (Crosby, Stills & Nash)
14 Unequal Love (Crosby, Stills & Nash)
15 talk (Crosby, Stills & Nash)
16 In My Life (Crosby, Stills & Nash)
17 talk (Crosby, Stills & Nash)
18 Long Time Gone (Crosby, Stills & Nash)
19 talk (Crosby, Stills & Nash)
20 Street to Lean On (Crosby, Stills & Nash)
21 For What It's Worth (Crosby, Stills & Nash)
22 Pre-Road Downs (Crosby, Stills & Nash)
23 Southern Cross (Crosby, Stills & Nash)
24 talk (Crosby, Stills & Nash)
25 Wooden Ships (Crosby, Stills & Nash)
26 Carry On (Crosby, Stills & Nash)
27 Woodstock (Crosby, Stills & Nash)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/vuukR4Bk

alternate: 

https://bestfile.io/en/IyFqGSzgD6QmsJ0/file

The cover photo shows Crosby, Nash, and Stills, from left to right. I moved Stills closer to the other two in Photoshop.

Various Artists - Children of the Americas Radiothon, United Nations Building, New York City, and Palace Theatre, Los Angeles, CA, 11-12-1988

Here's another big benefit concert with a bunch of different famous musical acts. But this one was unusual in a couple of ways. For one, it was held in two locations simultaneously and broadcast live over the radio. And for the other, it's quite an odd selection of acts. I like all of them, but it seems pretty random to me to have, say, Pat Benatar followed by Al Stewart, then followed by Midnight Oil, and so on, which is what happened here. But hey, it's all good music, with excellent sound quality.

This benefit concert certainly had a good cause, which was to fund non-profits helping poor children in Latin America. This was the second annual concert for this cause. I don't know anything about the first concert or subsequent ones. But we know about this one because it was broadcast live on the radio, and a bootleg recording of it survives.

I made many, many edits to make this listenable. The concert took the form of a radiothon, which is just like a telethon, except for the radio instead of TV. And if you're familiar with telethons at all, you know they're notorious for constantly asking for donations. That's what happened here. Between acts, and even during acts, there were emcees giving pleas to donate, with the donation phone number in particular repeated endlessly. Even the musical artists would sometimes mention the phone number between songs. I got rid of all that because it's all moot now, with the number obviously no longer working. I stripped this down to just the music and the banter relevant to the music.

I also did some edits to make this flow better. Oftentimes, as soon as a song wound end, the emcee's voice would come on with more pleas for donations. So I would patch in some more applause to give the songs a decent sounding ending. I didn't bother marking those edits with "[Edit]" in the song titles, 'cos I did it so much.

Some of the acts performed at the Palace Theatre in Los Angeles. Those were Jackson Browne, Midnight Oil, and Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young (CSNY), plus earlier appearances by Graham Nash and David Crosby. All the other acts performed at the United Nations Building in New York City. Note that the crowd in Los Angeles sounds much larger than the one in New York City. I'm guessing only a few dozen were allowed into the United Nations Building for this, based on the clapping one can hear.  

The star attraction here was CSNY. They put out a new album in 1988, "American Dream," but Neil Young decided not to take part in a tour to support it. However, he did take part in a very limited number of concerts with CSN around this time. There was the Bridge Benefit in 1988 (which I have also posted here), the Bridge Benefit in 1989, and this. (There also were a couple more in 1987 and 1990 and 1991, if you want to go that far.)

It's quite possible that there was more to these two concerts that what was heard here. For instance, there was no introduction to the CSNY set, and I doubt they started with the new song "This Old House." It also seems odd that Midnight Oil would have been recruited but only played less than ten minutes of music. I'm guessing this is just the stuff that made it to the radio broadcast, and while music was broadcast from one location, we were probably missing the music taking place at the other location. If anyone has any more of it, please let me know.  

This album is two hours and 25 minutes long.

01 Teach Your Children (Graham Nash)
02 talk (Emcee)
03 I Love L.A. (Randy Newman)
04 Dixie Flyer (Randy Newman)
05 Sail Away (Randy Newman)
06 talk (Randy Newman)
07 Political Science (Randy Newman)
08 Short People (Randy Newman)
09 talk (Randy Newman)
10 I Want You to Hurt like I Do (Randy Newman)
11 talk (David Crosby)
12 Crow on the Cradle (Jackson Browne & Graham Nash)
13 talk (David Crosby)
14 talk (Jackson Browne)
15 Lives in the Balance (Jackson Browne with David Crosby & Graham Nash)
16 talk (Jackson Browne)
17 My Personal Revenge (Jackson Browne with Sangre Machuwa)
18 talk (Jackson Browne)
19 Fruita Almarga [Bitter Fruit] (Jackson Browne)
20 talk (Jackson Browne)
21 Lene Verde [Instrumental] (Jackson Browne with Sangre Machuwa)
22 talk (Graham Nash)
23 Rock Me on the Water (Jackson Browne with David Crosby & Graham Nash)
24 Powerful Stuff (Fabulous Thunderbirds)
25 talk (Fabulous Thunderbirds)
26 Look at That, Look at That (Fabulous Thunderbirds)
27 talk (Fabulous Thunderbirds)
28 She's Tough (Fabulous Thunderbirds)
29 talk (Fabulous Thunderbirds)
30 Wrap It Up (Fabulous Thunderbirds)
31 talk (Pat Benatar)
32 All Fired Up (Pat Benatar)
33 Run Between the Raindrops (Pat Benatar)
34 talk (Pat Benatar)
35 Let's Stay Together (Pat Benatar)
36 talk (Emcee)
37 Antarctica (Al Stewart)
38 talk (Al Stewart)
39 Princess Olivia (Al Stewart)
40 The Year of the Cat (Al Stewart)
41 talk (Graham Nash)
42 Wealth Is Virtue (Midnight Oil)
43 The Dead Heart (Midnight Oil)
44 This Old House (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
45 Love the One You're With (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
46 talk (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
47 Name of Love (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
48 talk (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
49 Tracks in the Dust (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
50 talk (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
51 Don't Say Goodbye (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
52 talk (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
53 Southern Cross (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
54 talk (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
55 Long Time Gone (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
56 talk (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
57 My Country 'Tis of Thee (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young with J. D. Souther)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/DQZ2b6A2

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/z8t3Ajl7bhZ3NZF/file

I found the cover image from some promotional art related to this concert. It's a drawing of all the major stars that took part. In the top row, from left to right: Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young. In the bottom row, from left to right: Jackson Browne, Pat Benatar, Peter Garrett of Midnight Oil, and Randy Newman. The banner at the top was in the original, but I changed the text there, and added more text at the bottom. 

I couldn't find any actual photos from this concert, so I'm lucky to have found this.

No Nukes Concerts, Madison Square Garden, New York City, 9-23-1979: Crosby, Stills and Nash

The fourteenth album I'm posting of the 1979 No Nukes concerts is a set by Crosby, Stills and Nash (CSN). I believe this is the longest of all the albums I'm posting for these concerts.

I previously posted a set by Graham Nash, from September 19, 1979. I'm not entirely sure, but I think what happened was that Nash performed solo sets for the first three nights, but then on the last night, he played as part of the CSN "supergroup" instead. This concert comes entirely from the Madison Square Garden show in New York City. CSN also played the Battery Park concert in New York City that day. But they seem to have only played four songs, and all of them were performed here as well, so I didn't see any reason to include them.

As a big CSN fan, I have long looked for a worthy concert recording from the 1977 tour, done in support of their 1977 album "CSN." However, I've only come across (very) partial soundboards. So this is probably the next best thing. Yes, it took place two years later, so the set list would have been pretty similar. Unfortunately though, they only played two songs from their "CSN" album ("Just a Song Before I Go" and "Cathedral"), leaning on earlier classics instead.

I ran into a problem with the song "Wooden Ships." By now, I must sound like a broken record, because the soundboard recording was missing a section. Something similar happened to probably a majority of the No Nukes albums I've posted. Anyway, like I usually did with these concerts, I patched in the missing bit with some of the audience bootleg. Luckily, in this case, the missing bit was just the first two minutes out of an eleven minute song, and all of that was before the lead vocals came in. The sound quality isn't terrible this time, probably helped by the fact that there were no vocals on that bit.

I'm pretty sure CSN's set was the last one of the night, based on the length as well as the fact that it ended with a cover of the John Hall song "Power." Like other final encores of this song in the concerts, they were joined by other stars who took turns singing some of the verses. 

This album is an hour and 21 minutes long.

01 talk (Crosby, Stills & Nash)
02 Helplessly Hoping (Crosby, Stills & Nash)
03 Change Partners (Crosby, Stills & Nash)
04 You Don't Have to Cry (Crosby, Stills & Nash)
05 4 + 20 (Crosby, Stills & Nash)
06 Suite- Judy Blue Eyes (Crosby, Stills & Nash)
07 Our House (Crosby, Stills & Nash)
08 Pre-Road Downs (Crosby, Stills & Nash)
09 talk (Crosby, Stills & Nash)
10 Love the One You're With (Crosby, Stills & Nash)
11 talk (Crosby, Stills & Nash)
12 Just a Song Before I Go (Crosby, Stills & Nash)
13 Long Time Gone (Crosby, Stills & Nash)
14 Cathedral (Crosby, Stills & Nash)
14 Wooden Ships [Edit] (Crosby, Stills & Nash)
16 Carry On (Crosby, Stills & Nash)
17 Chicago (Crosby, Stills & Nash)
18 talk (Crosby, Stills & Nash)
19 Teach Your Children (Crosby, Stills & Nash)
20 talk (Crosby, Stills & Nash)
21 Power (Crosby, Stills & Nash with John Hall. Michael McDonald, James Taylor & Jackson Browne)
22 talk (Crosby, Stills & Nash)

https://www.upload.ee/files/17318127/VA-NONUKS1979MdisnSqurGrdnNwYrkC__9-23-1979_CrsbyStllsnNshatse.zip.html

alternate:

https://pixeldrain.com/u/T16yqGh8

The cover photo comes from this exact concert. From right to left, that's David Crosby, Stephen Stills, and Graham Nash. I improved it some with the Krea AI program.

No Nukes Concerts, Madison Square Garden, New York City, 9-19-1979: Graham Nash

Here's another album from the 1979 No Nukes concerts. This one features Graham Nash, of the group Crosby, Stills and Nash (CSN).

Note that although this is the second album I'm posting from the concerts, I'm not calling this "Part 2" or anything like that. That's because A) I don't know the order of performers each night from the four nights of concerts, and B) the albums are often compiled from sets that took place on different nights. So order them however you like. This, though, is a rare case of having the entire set from just one night, on September 19, 1979.

This concert is special in my opinion, because although Nash performed in zillions of concerts as part of CSN, he very rarely performed solo concerts until 2013. CSN was starting to break apart then, and he's become a solo performer after CSN broke up for good in 2015. But prior to that, he only did short tours in 1979-1980, 1986, and 2002. I suppose that, even though he wrote most of CSN's chart hits, he wasn't considered as "serious" or "heavy" as Crosby or Stills, so he wasn't considered as much of a concert draw. I could be wrong, but I think this is the only full set of him as a solo performer from the 1970s with soundboard-level sound quality.

At the time of this concert, Nash was working on a solo album called "Earth and Sky." However, it wouldn't be released until early 1980. Even so, the songs "Out on the Island," "Barrel of Pain," and "In the 80's" were from that future album. The other songs were generally CSN hits he wrote, although "Wild Tales" is from a 1973 solo album.

There's only one sonic flaw here, but it's a very noticeable. For whatever reason, the bootleg I found only had the first minute of the song "Chicago." But I did find an audience bootleg of this same set. That allowed me to fill in the rest of the song. It also confirmed that there were no entirely missing songs. But unfortunately, the sound quality of the audience boot is much worse. You will definitely hear the difference. If it bothers you too much, then just delete it. There's a CSN set coming later in this No Nukes series, and it includes a CSN version of "Chicago," so you won't be missing much. But still, I thought I should include it for the completist types out there.

The song "Cathedral" was released on the official "No Nukes" album. I don't know if Nash did other solo sets or not, so I don't know if that version is exactly the same as this one. Otherwise, everything else here is unreleased.

This album is 37 minutes long.

01 Wild Tales (Graham Nash)
02 talk (Graham Nash)
03 Pre-Road Downs (Graham Nash)
04 talk (Graham Nash)
05 Out on the Island (Graham Nash)
06 Cathedral (Graham Nash)
07 talk (Graham Nash)
08 Our House (Graham Nash)
09 talk (Graham Nash)
10 Barrel of Pain (Graham Nash)
11 talk (Graham Nash)
12 Chicago [Edit] (Graham Nash)
13 talk (Graham Nash)
14 In the 80's (Graham Nash)

https://www.upload.ee/files/17318138/VA-NONUKS1979MdisnSqurGrdnNwYrkC__9-19-1979_GrhmNshatse.zip.html

alternate:

https://pixeldrain.com/u/rzWjf1ba

The cover photo is taken from one of the No Nukes concerts. However, I had a hard time finding many photos from any of these concerts, and I didn't find any from his solo set (or sets). This photo was taken from one of those big finales where he was on stage with other stars, but he happened to be standing apart from the others.

Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young (with Joni Mitchell) - Roosevelt Raceway, Westbury, NY, 9-8-1974

If you want just one full-length Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young (CSNY) concert recording, I would suggest this one. Although there was a lot of drug and ego trouble between band members backstage on their 1974 tour, the four of them were peaking in terms of songwriting and performance. And as a bonus, Joni Mitchell sang backing vocals on no less than nine of the songs.

This was the last night in the U.S. of CSNY's ill-fated 1974 concert tour. They only did one concert in 1974 after this, in London, Britain (which was their only appearance in Europe). Due to the troubles mentioned above, the four of them nicknamed this the "Doom Tour" amongst themselves, and they ran wild with 1970s superstar lifestyle excess. But despite all that, they had many good nights on stage, and this clearly was one such night. They played in front of 80,000 people as part of an all-day concert with Jesse Colin Young, the Beach Boys, and Joni Mitchell as opening acts.

The fact that Mitchell was an opening act helps explain why she joined in singing on a bunch of songs. I believe she did the same for the Wembley show, where she also was an opening act, but I don't think she did that on the other dates in the tour. By the way, the day of this concert, American stuntman Evel Knievel attempted to jump across Snake River Canyon in Idaho on a rocket-powered motorcycle. That happened to be broadcast on pay-per-view TV during Mitchell's set, and she actually took a break from her set to watch it for a few minutes, telling the audience that she was going to go watch some idiot commit suicide. (Knievel survived, but landed at the bottom of the canyon short of crossing the river.) Neil Young made a comment about the Knievel jump before one of the songs he played.

Unfortunately, I looked for the opening sets, but could only find this bootleg with worthy sound quality (or, in most cases, any versions at all).

This is a soundboard recording, and the sound quality is excellent. There were only a couple of snags. For one, a tiny section in the middle of "Deja Vu" was missing, but it seems it was only a few seconds long. It was during an instrumental passage, and I edited it so the missing bit won't be noticed. Also, the last part of "Black Queen" was missing, probably a minute or two. This was more difficult. But I used the version on the album "CSNY 1974" to bring it to a conclusion. That's why those two songs have "[Edit]" in their titles.

Speaking of the album "CSNY 1974," that's an official album released in 2014 that features highlights from this tour. It was a big triple album drawn from ten different concerts, but none of those concerts happen to be this one, so I'm pretty sure everything here is still officially unreleased. Personally, I usually prefer listening to entire concert recordings instead of live albums drawn from lots of different shows. If you feel the same, I'm pretty sure this is the best show from the tour, as the few other soundboards are incomplete or have other flaws. (For instance, there's a soundboard recording of the Wembley show too, but it was considered a disappointing performance.)

As with all the shows on this tour, the concert was broken into three sections. CSNY was backed by a full band for the first part and the last part, while there was a big acoustic section in the middle. The acoustic section is roughly from track 16 to 36. Each member got to do their own solo spot. Weirdly though, Crosby only did one song, while Nash, Stills, and Young each did three songs. But the solo songs weren't always really solo, others often joined vocals, including Mitchell on a few.

By the way, Mitchell's participation is a bit odd in that I didn't hear any banter between songs thanking her or even mentioning her. It's very possible that banter like that got cut out. (This also was the day that it was announced that President Ford pardoned former President Nixon for his Watergate crimes. Crosby told that to the crowd during the concert, and the crowd booed. But that's not on this recording, so at least some banter got cut.) But what also is a bit unusual is that she came and went from the stage at least seven different times. I figure that she only sang on the songs that she knew well and had something to contribute on vocal harmonies, and those were randomly scattered throughout the long concert. I find it particularly interesting that she helped sing "Our House," since that song was written by Nash about her when they had a romance around 1970.

This is quite a long concert. This album is three hours and nine minutes long.

01 Love the One You're With (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
02 Wooden Ships (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
03 talk (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
04 Immigration Man (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
05 talk (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
06 Helpless (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young with Joni Mitchell)
07 Military Madness (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
08 Johnny's Garden (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
09 talk (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
10 Walk On (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
11 Almost Cut My Hair (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
12 talk (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
13 Teach Your Children (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
14 Only Love Can Break Your Heart (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young with Joni Mitchell)
15 The Lee Shore (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
16 talk (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
17 Time After Time (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
18 talk (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
19 Southbound Train (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
20 talk (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
21 Another Sleep Song (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young with Joni Mitchell)
22 talk (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
23 Our House (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young with Joni Mitchell)
24 talk (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
25 Hawaiian Sunrise (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
26 talk (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
27 Long May You Run (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young with Joni Mitchell)
28 talk (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
29 Ambulance Blues (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
30 talk (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
31 Old Man (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young with Joni Mitchell)
32 talk (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
33 Change Partners (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young with Joni Mitchell)
34 talk (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
35 Myth of Sisyphus (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
36 Word Game (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
37 talk (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
38 Suite- Judy Blue Eyes (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young with Joni Mitchell)
39 talk (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
40 Deja Vu [Edit] (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
41 talk (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
42 First Things First (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
43 talk (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
44 Don't Be Denied (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
45 talk (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
46 Black Queen [Edit] (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
47 talk (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
48 Revolution Blues (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
49 talk (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
50 Pushed It Over the End (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
51 Pre-Road Downs (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
52 talk (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
53 Carry On (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
54 talk (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
55 Sugar Mountain (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young with Joni Mitchell)
56 talk (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
57 Ohio (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)

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https://pixeldrain.com/u/6rMMex7V

second alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/f9nB9iMAMIHIH8U/file 

The photo used on the cover is from the CSNY Wembley concert a few days later (September 14, 1974). I couldn't find any good color ones from this exact one. I used this particular photo because it has Mitchell there with CSNY, and I thought it was particularly neat to see all five of them together. Neil Young's face was blocked by two microphones, but I did some tweaking in Photoshop so one can now see his eyes.

Also note that I found a concert poster for this exact concert. I based some of the cover art on the poster. However, I inverted the bright and dark bits to better match with the black background of the photo. I'm including the poster here, in case you want to see it. Note that the sketch in the middle was drawn by Mitchell, and was also used for the cover of the band's best of collection "So Far."

Graham Nash - Club Quatro, Tokyo, Japan, 11-21-1990

Last week, I posted a solo album by Graham Nash of Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young (CSNY). I pointed out then that he tends to get overlooked when compared to the other musical heavyweights in CSNY, but he's definitely been a worthy member of that group. So here's another solo album by him. 

This time, it's a full concert. For many years, he didn't do solo concerts very often, because he was usually paired with David Crosby in Crosby-Nash when he wasn't part of CSN or CSNY. He did do a couple of brief tours in 1973 and 1986, but it wasn't until 2013 when he started to tour on his own more often. This appears to have been his only concert in the year 1990. Judging from his comments between songs in this concert, he was in Japan mainly to show off some of his photographs at a gallery (since he also has a passion about photography), and this concert was a bit of an afterthought. 

But it's a lucky thing it happened, because it's one of very few Nash solo concert bootlegs with excellent sound quality. This must be a soundboard. 

Of course, it's always nice to hear Nash's songs in the context of CN, CSN, or CSNY, with vocal harmonies and often a full band. But it's also nice to hear them like this, stripped way back to just one voice and one acoustic guitar.

The only flaw came in the song "America" (a cover of the Simon and Garfunkel classic). It wasn't a flaw with the recording. Instead, it seems Nash broke a guitar string during the song. He had to stop briefly to deal with it. I edited the song to remove the interruption. That's why there's "[Edit]" in the name for that one. Also, I did a little cutting of dead air between songs, such as guitar tuning. And I boosted the vocals of his banter.

Note that the last song, "Try to Find Me," isn't actually from this concert. It was performed during a Nash solo spot in a CSN concert in 1991. But I've had this bootleg in my music collection for ages with that song added at the end, so I'm keeping it that way. I think it's a very overlooked tune. Even Nash overlooked it and didn't put it on any album for many years after he wrote it.

This album is an hour and five minutes long, including the extra song at the end.

01 Wind on the Water (Graham Nash)
02 talk (Graham Nash)
03 Just a Song Before I Go (Graham Nash)
04 talk (Graham Nash)
05 Don't Say Goodbye (Graham Nash)
06 talk (Graham Nash)
07 Marrakesh Express (Graham Nash)
08 talk (Graham Nash)
09 Simple Man (Graham Nash)
10 talk (Graham Nash)
11 Lady on the Island (Graham Nash)
12 talk (Graham Nash)
13 Wasted on the Way (Graham Nash)
14 America [Edit] (Graham Nash)
15 talk (Graham Nash)
16 Cowboy of Dreams (Graham Nash)
17 talk (Graham Nash)
18 House of Broken Dreams (Graham Nash)
19 I Used to Be a King (Graham Nash)
20 talk (Graham Nash)
21 Military Madness (Graham Nash)
22 Cathedral (Graham Nash)
23 talk (Graham Nash)
24 Our House (Graham Nash)
25 talk (Graham Nash)
26 Teach Your Children (Graham Nash)
27 Try to Find Me (Graham Nash)

NOTE: I've removed the download link due to a copyright issue. Sorry about that.

The cover photo comes from a CSN concert in St. Paul, Minnesota, in June 1990. I couldn't resist using a Japanese styled font, since the concert took place in Japan.

Graham Nash - Live Acoustic, 2010-2016

Graham Nash of Crosby, Stills, Nash and (sometimes) Young (CSNY) released a new solo album, "Now," in May 2023. It was such a low-key release that I didn't notice until now, two months later. To celebrate that, here's an album from him.

Nash tends to get knocked as the most lightweight and poppy of the four singer-songwriters in CSNY. And while that is probably true, he is still very worthy as a solo artist. I've fallen in that trap by posting solo albums by Crosby, Stills, and Young but not Nash, but I'll try to rectify that with this post and others.

Nash's last solo album came out in 2016 and was called "This Path Tonight." I think it's a particularly strong album, so you might want to check it out if you've missed it. This album largely focuses on that. The first five songs are from 2010 to 2015, and are generally acoustic versions of CSNY classics, with the exception of a cover of the Buddy Holly song "Peggy Sue." There's also an interesting version of the Neil Young song "Ohio," except sung by Nash. But the other nine songs were done in support of his "This Path Tonight" album, and mostly consist of songs from that album, though there are versions of "Bus Stop," which Nash did with the Hollies, and "Just a Song Before I Go" and "Military Madness" from the 1970s.

The vast majority of the songs here were performed by Nash for in-person radio station appearances. ("Peggy Sue" was done for a small audience at a museum, and "Mississippi Burning" is a "This Path Tonight" bonus track, and the only song officially released here.) As a result, the sound quality is excellent, usually on par with studio recordings. There's a little bit of clapping at the end of a few songs, but not much. I deliberately avoided any actual concert recordings to keep the focus on acoustic versions and to keep the sound quality high.

Nash wrote all the songs for his 2016 album with lead guitarist Shayne Fontayne. On the vast majority of the songs here, it's just Nash and Fontayne on guitars, with Fontayne sometimes singing backing vocals. Note that although "Mississippi Burning" is a bonus track, it sounds like it was recorded live as an acoustic duo in front of a small audience, so it fits in with the others.

This album is 48 minutes long.

01 Peggy Sue (Graham Nash)
02 Chicago (Graham Nash)
03 Ohio [Nash Vocals Version] (Graham Nash)
04 Our House [Guitar Version] (Graham Nash)
05 Teach Your Children (Graham Nash)
06 Mississippi Burning (Graham Nash)
07 Golden Days (Graham Nash)
08 Bus Stop (Graham Nash)
09 Myself at Last (Graham Nash)
10 This Path Tonight (Graham Nash)
11 Just a Song Before I Go (Graham Nash)
12 Encore (Graham Nash)
13 Another Broken Heart (Graham Nash)
14 Military Madness (Graham Nash)

https://www.upload.ee/files/15429728/GrahmN_2010-2016_LveAcoustc_atse.zip.html

The cover photo was taken at the Grammy Museum in Los Angeles on November 16, 2016.

Crosby, Nash & Young - United Farm Workers Benefit, Civic Auditorium, Santa Cruz, CA, 8-12-1977

Note that this is an unreleased acoustic concert of David Crosby, Graham Nash, and Neil Young of Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young (CSNY), but Stephen Stills was not there.

In 1977, Neil Young was not on particularly good terms with Crosby, Stills, and Nash. There had been an attempt to record a CSNY studio album in 1976, but it had ended acrimoniously when Stills and Young wiped the harmony vocals of Crosby and Nash and released their songs as the Stills and Young album "Long May You Run." Stills then reunited with Crosby and Nash and put out the very commercially successful Crosby, Stills and Nash album "CSN" in 1977. Young went to the studio with CSN and listened to an early copy of the album, and complimented the album and generally had a good time with them, according to an article I once read. But around the same time, he wrote the song "Thrasher" in which he harshly criticized CSN saying, "So I got bored and left them there, they were just dead weight to me." (Although he didn't mention CSN by name in the song, in a later interview, he said, "'Thrasher' was pretty much me writing about my experiences with Crosby, Stills and Nash in the mid-1970s.")

So yeah, it was complicated. Clearly, there was a love/hate thing going on. A big factor that hurt Young's relationship with the others was their excessive drug use, especially Crosby's cocaine addition, which would later turn into a crack addition before he cleaned up later in the 1980s. That too was referenced in "Thrasher" where he complained they were "lost in crystal canyons." Young would barely perform with the others until after Crosby got clean around 1986.

But this show is a rare exception. It was originally billed as a benefit show headlined by David Crosby only, co-headlined with the David Grisman Quartet. The first six songs do feature only Crosby. But Graham Nash publicly promised to be there, and he did show up. The show turned into a de facto Crosby-Nash concert for the next five songs.  But for all of the summer of 1977, Young lived in Santa Cruz and played many unannounced concerts at small clubs with his short-lived band the Ducks. So he was on good enough terms to join the concert for the last eight songs, including doing four written by him.

By the way, I found a mention that Stills also wanted to join the show, but he was playing a concert overseas. He tried to get back in time, but didn't make it.

Regarding this recording, it's only an audience bootleg. However, it's an unusually good one, which is why I'm posting it. It almost rises to soundboard quality level, but you do get some more crowd noise. It helps that it was an acoustic concert - a good recording becomes increasingly important with more instruments involved.

This is an excellent show in my opinion. It helps that it was a bit longer than typical concerts at the time, at an hour and 45 minutes long. It's heavier on Crosby material since he played the whole show, and lighter on Young's material in particular since he only was there for the final third. But it's great they patched things up enough to play together. I could be wrong, but I think the next time Young appeared on stage with them was at Live Aid in 1985.

01 The Lee Shore (David Crosby)
02 Page 43 (David Crosby)
03 talk (David Crosby)
04 Triad (David Crosby)
05 talk (David Crosby)
06 Homeward through the Haze (David Crosby)
07 talk (David Crosby)
08 Naked in the Rain (David Crosby)
09 talk (David Crosby)
10 Laughing (David Crosby)
11 talk (Crosby & Nash)
12 Southbound Train (Crosby & Nash)
13 talk (Crosby & Nash)
14 Guinnevere (Crosby & Nash)
15 talk (Crosby & Nash)
16 Cathedral (Crosby & Nash)
17 talk (Crosby & Nash)
18 Carry Me (Crosby & Nash)
19 talk (Crosby & Nash)
20 Low Down Payment (Crosby & Nash)
21 talk (Crosby, Nash & Young)
22 Human Highway (Crosby, Nash & Young)
23 talk (Crosby, Nash & Young)
24 New Mama (Crosby, Nash & Young)
25 talk (Crosby, Nash & Young)
26 Deja Vu (Crosby, Nash & Young)
27 talk (Crosby, Nash & Young)
28 Only Love Can Break Your Heart (Crosby, Nash & Young)
29 talk (Crosby, Nash & Young)
30 Our House (Crosby, Nash & Young)
31 talk (Crosby, Nash & Young)
32 Wooden Ships (Crosby, Nash & Young)
33 talk (Crosby, Nash & Young)
34 Teach Your Children (Crosby, Nash & Young)
35 talk (Crosby, Nash & Young)
36 Sugar Mountain (Crosby, Nash & Young)
37 talk (Crosby, Nash & Young)

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https://pixeldrain.com/u/UByb694s

second alternate:

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I'm very happy to say the cover photo was taken at this exact concert.

Various Artists - Gershwin Prize for Popular Song Honors Joni Mitchell, D.A.R. Constitution Hall, Washington DC, 3-1-2023

Last month as I write this, in March 2023, Canadian singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell was awarded the Gershwin Prize for Popular Song. A TV show of this event was filmed and broadcast a few days ago. That's why there now is an audio recording of it in excellent quality.

Mitchell is 79 years old as I write this, and she isn't in the best of health. In 2013, she had a brain aneurysm and nearly died. She had to relearn how to sing and play guitar from scratch. The good news is that she had made a remarkable recovery. She played a set at the Newport Folk Festival in 2022, and she's scheduled to perform a full concert in June 2023. However, for this show, she only sang for two songs at the end. The rest features other musical artists performing some of her best known songs.

I edited this down a bit. I kept all the music, but I cut out some extraneous material between songs. For instance, there were some extra testimonials about Mitchell by people who didn't actually perform any songs. Garth Brooks was one of them. As another example, there was a brief interview with Mitchell filmed at another time in which she was asked her opinion of jazz musician Wayne Shorter, who had died recently. There also were speeches and introductions by various people, including a bunch of US senators and other politicians. I cut all that out, and only kept comments by artists that were relevant to the songs they were about to play. I also included Mitchell's acceptance speech, which appears to be surprisingly brief, less than a minute long.

This album is an hour and three minutes long.

UPDATE: On August 24, 2025, I updated the mp3 download file. The music is the same. However, I changed the title slightly and used a new cover image. This is so the album look could fit in with other albums in the Gershwin Prize series.

01 talk (Marcus Mumford)
02 Carey (Marcus Mumford with Brandi Carlile & Lucius)
03 talk (Brandi Carlile)
04 Both Sides Now (Annie Lennox with Brandi Carlile & Lucius)
05 Help Me (Angelique Kidjo)
06 talk (James Taylor)
07 California (James Taylor)
08 talk (Brandi Carlile)
09 Shine (Brandi Carlile with Lucius & Celisse)
10 talk (Ledisi)
11 Big Yellow Taxi (Brandi Carlile, Angelique Kidjo, Cyndi Lauper, Annie Lennox, Ledisi & Lucius)
12 talk (Cyndi Lauper)
13 Blue (Cyndi Lauper)
14 A Case of You (Graham Nash)
15 talk (Herbie Hancock)
16 River (Herbie Hancock & Ledisi)
17 talk (Diana Krall)
18 For the Roses (Diana Krall)
19 talk (Joni Mitchell)
20 Summertime (Joni Mitchell with Brandi Carlile, Lucius & Celisse)
21 The Circle Game (Joni Mitchell & Everyone)

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The cover is a photo from the TV show.