Nick Lowe - Party of One Demos (1988)

I really need to post more Nick Lowe albums. I have a bunch ready to go, but I'm so swamped I never get around to them. However, this is something I only discovered a few days ago (as I write this in May 2026), so it went to the top of my pile of stuff to post.

In 1990, Lowe released the album "Party of One." It was a good album - in my opinion, all of Lowe's albums are at least good - but it didn't sell that well. Somehow, an album's worth of demos from that album has been leaked to the public, with excellent sound quality. It contains all the songs from that album, plus seven more (tracks 6, 9, 11, 13, 14, 16, and 18). Two of those extras ended up as bonus tracks for the album (tracks 9 and 14). Another two (tracks 11 and 18) wound up on a 1992 album by a band he briefly joined, "Little Village." Another one, the great "I Live on a Battlefield," appeared on his next studio album in 1994, "The Impossible Bird." That leaves "I've Got Work to Do" and "Love's Been Gone Too Long" still unreleased.

On the "Party of One" album, all the songs were performed with a full band. Whereas this is just Lowe on vocals and guitar, though the songs are fairly fleshed out. He often added bass and backing vocals as well. Personally, I like this stripped down version better than the album version.

Everything here is unreleased except for two songs: "Rocky Road" and "Don't Think about Her When You're Trying to Drive." These exact versions of those have shown up on a "Party of One" EP.

This album is 58 minutes long. 

01 You Got the Look I Like (Nick Lowe)
02 Shting-Shtang (Nick Lowe)
03 I Don't Know Why You Keep Me On (Nick Lowe)
04 [I Want to Build A] Jumbo Ark (Nick Lowe)
05 What's Shakin' on the Hill (Nick Lowe)
06 Love's Been Gone Too Long (Nick Lowe)
07 All Men Are Liars (Nick Lowe)
08 Refrigerator White (Nick Lowe)
09 You Stabbed Me in the Front (Nick Lowe)
10 Honey Gun (Nick Lowe)
11 Fool Who Knows (Nick Lowe)
12 Who Was That Man (Nick Lowe)
13 Rocket Coast (Nick Lowe)
14 I've Got Work to Do (Nick Lowe)
15 Gai-Gin Man (Nick Lowe)
16 I Live on a Battlefield (Nick Lowe)
17 Rocky Road (Nick Lowe)
18 Don't Think about Her When You're Trying to Drive (Nick Lowe) 

https://pixeldrain.com/u/qgCNMcrb

alternate: 

https://bestfile.io/nNPgZSSrFS9rhf2/file

The cover image is supposed to have been taken in London in 1989. The original was in black and white. But, as I usually do, I used the Kolorize program to colorize it. For his hair, I checked with color images from around this time, and he'd already gone totally grey/white. 

Brewer & Shipley - Ebbets Field, Denver, CO, 3-28-1974

Here's another Ebbets Field radio broadcast concert. This one stars the singer-songwriter duo Brewer and Shipley.

Here's the intro to their Wikipedia entry: 

"Brewer & Shipley were an American folk rock duo who enjoyed their peak success in the late 1960s through the 1970s. The duo consisted of singer-songwriters Mike Brewer and Tom Shipley. They were known for their intricate guitar work, vocal harmonies, and socially conscious lyrics which reflected the concerns of their generation - especially the Vietnam War, and the struggles for personal and political freedom. Their greatest commercial success was the song 'One Toke Over the Line' from their 1970 album 'Tarkio.' They had two other singles on the Billboard charts: 'Tarkio Road' (1970) and 'Shake Off the Demon' (1971)."

Here's the link to the whole entry: 

Brewer & Shipley - Wikipedia 

This is an acoustic performance, with just Brewer and Shipley singing and playing guitars. 

The music here is unreleased. The sound quality is excellent. 

This album is an hour and one minute long.

01 talk (Brewer & Shipley)
02 See That My Grave Is Kept Clean (Brewer & Shipley)
03 talk (Brewer & Shipley)
04 Black Sky (Brewer & Shipley)
05 talk (Brewer & Shipley)
06 Oh, Mommy (Brewer & Shipley)
07 Tarkio Road (Brewer & Shipley)
08 talk (Brewer & Shipley)
09 How Are You (Brewer & Shipley)
10 Indian Summer - To Love Somebody (Brewer & Shipley)
11 Shake Off the Demon (Brewer & Shipley)
12 talk (Brewer & Shipley)
13 All Along the Watchtower (Brewer & Shipley)
14 Yankee Lady (Brewer & Shipley)
15 talk (Brewer & Shipley)
16 One Toke Over the Line (Brewer & Shipley)
17 talk (Brewer & Shipley)
18 Witchi-Tai-To (Brewer & Shipley)
19 talk (Brewer & Shipley)
20 Fifty States of Freedom (Brewer & Shipley)
21 talk by emcee (Brewer & Shipley) 

https://pixeldrain.com/u/ZHCkvfFS

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/kE35gB3qGsfpEOi/file 

The cover image is from the "Midnight Special" T.V. show, aired on June 29, 1973. Brewer is the one in a blue shirt, and Shipley is the one with a beard and a red shirt.

John Hartford, Joni Mitchell & Pete Seeger - Gentle on Your Mind, KCOP-TV Studios, Los Angeles, CA, 10-18-1970

Here's a really nice find I luckily stumbled across recently. It's the audio from a 1970 musical T.V. special that featured John Hartford, Joni Mitchell, and Pete Seeger in roughly equal amounts. (Technically, the special was called "John Hartford, Joni Mitchell & Pete Seeger - Gentle on Your Mind," but I cut it down to just "Gentle on Your Mind" because really long album titles can cause problems for PC users.)

I wish I knew more about this T.V. show, but I could find very little about it other than this audio recording, plus one photo. And even that photo, which I used for the cover art, was taken from a newspaper clipping. So apparently none of the film footage survives, at least not in the public domain. 

The official Joni Mitchell website is normally extremely comprehensive about anything relating to her. But even that site has very little about this show. However, if you go to this link, you cansee the one photo I'm talking about (before I colorized it and used Krea AI to fill in some detail):

Joni Mitchell - 1970.10.18 | Gentle On My Mind KCOP-TV | Los Angeles

There are some nice surprises in this special. One is having Mitchell sing two songs with Seeger and one song with Hartford. "The Water Is Wide" was mostly Seeger, with Mitchell generally singing wordless backing vocals. But "Both Sides Now" was a proper duet. Seeger even wrote some nice new lyrics and sang those. And it was also great to hear Mitchell sing "Mr. Tambourine Man" with Hartford, especially since it's a Bob Dylan song that she very rarely sang.

Another nice surprise is that Mitchell performed "A Case of You" from her 1971 classic album "Blue" nearly a year before that album was released. So this was an early version, and it turned out a lot of the lyrics were changed by the time the album version came out. I actually prefer some of these lyrics (though some other changes were clear improvements). I particularly like "I'm frightened by the devil, and I'm scared to death by saints." (It was later changed to "I'm frightened by the devil, and I'm drawn to those ones that ain't afraid.")

Hartford also sang an original song he didn't release at the time, "Sunshine Lady, You Really Know How to Slow a Man Down." It eventually came out on an archival release, "Radio John," in 2002. 

This recording sounds pretty good considering how long it's been since the broadcast, though I couldn't call it "excellent." But there was one big problem with the recording: the applause for many of the songs were cut off. Probably, that's how it was in the original broadcast, due to the usual practice of quickly cutting to commercial breaks. I fixed that by patching in extra cheering that I took from the ends of other songs. 

Also, there's no banter included whatsoever. I'm sure there was some in the original broadcast. In fact, there were a few words said by Seeger before one of the songs, but I cut that out because it was literally just a few words, a mere sentence fragment. It would have been great to hear Hartford, Mitchell, and Seeger all talking to each other. But hey, at least we have the music.

The music is unreleased.  

This album is 48 minutes long. 

01 Frustrated Bird (John Hartford)
02 In Tall Buildings (John Hartford)
03 A Case of You (Joni Mitchell)
04 Bring Me Little Water (Pete Seeger)
05 Orange Blossom Special [Instrumental Version] (John Hartford)
06 Both Sides Now (Joni Mitchell & Pete Seeger)
07 Willy (Joni Mitchell)
08 [He Played Real Good] For Free (Joni Mitchell)
09 A Simple Thing as Love (John Hartford)
10 Sunshine Lady, You Really Know How to Slow a Man Down (John Hartford)
11 The Water Is Wide (Joni Mitchell with Pete Seeger)
12 Mr. Tambourine Man (Joni Mitchell & John Hartford)
13 Letter to Eve [Edit] (Pete Seeger) 

https://pixeldrain.com/u/jjUYyFhP

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/LImWqWn09DQyBVQ/file

As mentioned above, the image is the sole picture I could find that is actually from this exact performance. It's too bad Pete Seeger isn't shown as well. And, also as I mentioned above, I colorized it (using the Kolorize program) as well, and then increased the detail with the Krea AI program. 

Don McLean - Ebbets Field, Denver, CO, 4-14-1975

Here's another concert from the Ebbets Field radio broadcasts. This time, it's singer-songwriter Don McClean.

I've already posted a good amount of live music from McLean, thanks to various BBC recordings. This isn't much different in terms of the song selection from some of that around the same time period. However, the sound quality here is notable, maybe even a bit better than some of that BBC stuff. 

This is a solo acoustic performance. There's not much when it comes to banter between songs. 

This album is an hour and six minutes long. 

01 talk by emcee (Don McLean)
02 American Pie (Don McLean)
03 Dreidel (Don McLean)
04 La La Love You (Don McLean)
05 Wonderful Baby (Don McLean)
06 Birthday Song (Don McLean)
07 You Have Lived (Don McLean)
08 Magdalene Lane (Don McLean)
09 On the Amazon (Don McLean)
10 talk (Don McLean)
11 Old Joe Clark [Instrumental] (Don McLean)
12 East Virginia (Don McLean)
13 The Song of Wandering Aengus (Don McLean)
14 And I Love You So (Don McLean)
15 The Legend of Andrew McCrew (Don McLean)
16 Vincent (Don McLean)
17 talk by emcee (Don McLean)
18 talk (Don McLean)
19 I Guess It Doesn't Matter Anymore (Don McLean)
20 talk by emcee (Don McLean)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/AA2Pzz1m

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/347aUsJuHmyJZq0/file

The cover photo is from 1975. I don't know more details than that. 

Elton John - Great Amphitheatre, Ephesus, Turkey, 7-17-2001

Recently, guest poster Fabio from Rio posted a couple of albums of the Carpenters stripped down to just piano and lead vocals. That led to a commenter suggesting that a similar album or albums be made for Elton John. That, in turn, got me thinking about how much music is available that just features John and his piano. It turns out not much. But I did find this 2001 concert, with excellent sound quality.

The concert was originally done for a pay-per-view service back in 2001. Then, in 2020, during the pandemic, John briefly released it on YouTube as part of a series of concerts he posted there to make up for the fact that he couldn't go on tour that year. Here's some of the promotional description from that 2020 posting: 

"Elton walks on to the oldest stage he has ever played (built circa 200 B.C.) and invites the audience to join him in one of the most intimate performances he has ever given. Everything about this concert is the opposite of what most people think of when they bring Elton to mind: his wardrobe is sedate, his staging virtually non-existent, no wild spectacles or platform shoes... Nor, for that matter, a band – just the piano player and his instrument, revealing in sublime simplicity that it’s really all about the songs."

Apparently, the people behind the pay-per-view idea wanted a dramatic setting for the concert, similar to Pink Floyd playing in the ancient Pompeii amphitheater in 1972. The Ephesus amphitheatre was built by the ancient Greeks. At its peak, it held about 25,000 people. In recent decades, it has been used for some concerts again. Many stars have performed there, including Diana Ross, Joan Baez, Chris de Burgh, Bryan Adams, Sting, Julio Iglesias, and Luciano Pavarotti, as well as classical concerts. But parts of it were ruined. so these modern concerts only hold about 2,500 people. In 2018, it was closed for three years to repair damage from some of these concerts. 

As far as I can tell, John hasn't performed in a solo format very often, especially considering how often he has performed. He's given well over 4,000 concerts in his long career, more than nearly any other big star, except for Willie Nelson, and B.B. King. In all that time, he only did one solo tour, in 1999. He's also done occasional solo concerts, usually for special events, like charity benefits. This was the only solo concert he did in 2001.

At the time of this concert, his album "Songs from the West Coast" was going to be released in a few months. He played one song from it, "This Train Don't Stop There Anymore." But mostly he stuck to his best known songs.

This album is an hour and 58 minutes long. 

01 Your Song (Elton John)
02 talk (Elton John)
03 Someone Saved My Life Tonight (Elton John)
04 Daniel (Elton John)
05 talk (Elton John)
06 Mona Lisas and Mad Hatters (Elton John)
07 Honky Cat (Elton John)
08 Rocket Man [I Think It's Going to Be a Long, Long Time] (Elton John)
09 talk (Elton John)
10 Philadelphia Freedom (Elton John)
11 Nikita (Elton John)
12 talk (Elton John)
13 Sacrifice (Elton John)
14 talk (Elton John)
15 Sorry Seems to Be the Hardest Word (Elton John)
16 I Guess That's Why They Call It the Blues (Elton John)
17 talk (Elton John)
18 This Train Don't Stop There Anymore (Elton John)
19 talk (Elton John)
20 Burn Down the Mission (Elton John)
21 The One (Elton John)
22 Blue Eyes (Elton John)
23 I'm Still Standing (Elton John)
24 Crocodile Rock (Elton John)
25 Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me (Elton John)
26 talk (Elton John)
27 Circle of Life (Elton John)
28 talk (Elton John)
29 Candle in the Wind (Elton John)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/GDzBMzci

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/uUGfdE5hLOzPUXG/file

The cover image is from this exact concert. I wanted a wide view that showed some of the Roman ruins in the background.

The Great American Music Band with Eric Andersen - Ebbets Field, Denver, CO, 5-7-1974

Here's another concert from the Ebbets Field radio broadcasts. But this is a rather unusual one, because it's from a band that never officially released any music: the Great American Music Band. This band was a collaboration between David Grisman, Jerry Garcia, Taj Mahal, and others. It was a mostly instrumental and acoustic band that combined folk, bluegrass, and jazz. It was a loose association, with people coming and going, and unfortunately, Garcia didn't take part in this concert. However, singer-songwriter Eric Andersen did join in to sing two songs.

In my opinion, the main figure in this band was mandolin player David Grisman. After playing in some bands in New York City in the late 1960s, he moved to the San Francisco Bay Area. He made a key musical connection with Jerry Garcia. He played some mandolin on the classic Grateful Dead album "American Beauty" in 1970. He also played with Garcia for about 50 concerts and one album in 1973 as part of the bluegrass band Old and in the Way. 

That association apparently led to this different grouping a year later. The liner notes to the official David Grisman compilation album "DGQ20: A Twenty-Year Retrospective 1976-1996" explains what happened next:

"In 1974, mandolinist David Grisman and violinist Richard Greene, with Jerry Garcia, Taj Mahal, and others, formed a loose aggregation called the Great American Music Band.  The concept was simple: sophisticated folk and bluegrass instrumentalists creating a format to play and improvise without vocals.  The repertoire would draw on varied sources: traditional fiddle tunes, swing tunes from the Hot Club of France, and music from great American composers Bill Monroe, Fats Waller, and Duke Ellington. David Grisman had also been writing music, mostly bluegrass style mandolin tunes, patterned after those of his heroes Monroe, Frank Wakefield and others. Now, with this new vehicle, David started composing pieces with greater scope and a more personal stamp; 'dawg' music had come into being."

The band only played about 20 shows in the middle of 1974 before breaking up. Six of those were from this stand at Ebbets Field. By the end of the year, Grisman and Greene formed a new band with a similar style. That evolved into the David Grisman Quintet, which released its debut album in 1976. 

The quote above says the band was designed to be an instrumentals-only band. That was mostly true, but it wasn't entirely true. I find it curious that the band's bassist was Taj Mahal, who was a concert headliner of his own by this time, and generally played guitar, not bass. Maybe he just wanted to try something different for a while, and hone his bass playing skills. Anyway, he was a very capable vocalist, so although this concert was mostly instrumental, he did sing a couple of songs near the end ("Will the Circle Be Unbroken" and "Sweet Georgia Brown"). 

Also, singer-songwriter Eric Andersen was a surprise guest lead singer on two other songs. It seems like he just happened to be in town, and otherwise didn't have any involvement with this band.

By the way, this band was such a loose, low-key thing that even its name wasn't certain. Apparently, for most of the 20 or so concerts the band played, they were introduced as the "Great American String Band." But sometimes they were introduced as the "Great American Music Band." I went with the second name, since that's the name used for the band in the liner notes to an official David Grisman album years later. 

I was rather disappointed to find out that Jerry Garcia wasn't a part of this concert. So I looked around, and found that there is a excellent recording of a different 1974 concert that did involve Garcia, as well as Maria Muldaur. I plan on posting that here soon as well.

This album is an hour and two minutes long. 

01 talk by emcee (Great American Music Band)
02 Instrumental (Great American Music Band)
03 talk (Great American Music Band)
04 Dawg's Rag [Instrumental] (Great American Music Band)
05 talk (Great American Music Band)
06 Bud's Bounce [Instrumental] (Great American Music Band)
07 talk (Great American Music Band with Eric Andersen)
08 Beautiful Brown Eyes (Great American Music Band with Eric Andersen)
09 talk (Great American Music Band with Eric Andersen)
10 Why Don't You Love Me (Great American Music Band with Eric Andersen)
11 talk (Great American Music Band)
12 Swing '42 [Instrumental] (Great American Music Band)
13 talk (Great American Music Band)
14 Will the Circle Be Unbroken (Great American Music Band)
15 talk (Great American Music Band)
16 My Plastic Banana Is Not Stupid [Instrumental] (Great American Music Band)
17 talk (Great American Music Band)
18 It's Cold Outside [Instrumental] (Great American Music Band)
19 Back on the Porch [Instrumental] (Great American Music Band)
20 talk (Great American Music Band)
21 Sweet Georgia Brown (Great American Music Band)

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

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/I2VyZUac9aJWYOp/file

The cover photo shows Taj Mahal. It features him playing upright bass in a 1974 Great American Music Band concert, but a different one than the one presented here.

Emmylou Harris & Rodney Crowell - City Winery, Nashville, TN, 11-29-2021

Yesterday, I posted an acoustic concert of Emmylou Harris performing with Steve Earle at a small club in Nashville in 2021. They traded songs and shared stories for the entire concert. Today, I'm posting the exact same thing, except Harris did it with Rodney Crowell. 

It seems Harris did about six of these concerts in 2021, as people were starting to return to concerts as the Covid pandemic was easing up. All of these concerts went to benefit local charities. I could only find these two, but it seems they got a lot a bit more because they featured the best known guests. I know one more is with Harris and Buddy Miller. If anyone has that one, please let me know and I'll post it too.

Most or all of these concerts Harris did at this venue in 2021 were webcasts. So that means the sound quality is excellent, despite the fact that the music is unreleased.

Harris and Crowell have been musical collaborators and friends going back to the early 1970s, at the start of their respective musical careers. But it's very unique to have them share a full concert like this together, with just the two of them. For all I know, this may have been the only time this has happened. 

This album is an hour and 47 minutes long. 

01 talk (Emmylou Harris & Rodney Crowell)
02 Even Cowgirls Get the Blues (Emmylou Harris & Rodney Crowell)
03 talk (Emmylou Harris & Rodney Crowell)
04 Still Learning How to Fly (Emmylou Harris & Rodney Crowell)
05 talk (Emmylou Harris & Rodney Crowell)
06 Red Dirt Girl (Emmylou Harris & Rodney Crowell)
07 talk (Emmylou Harris & Rodney Crowell)
08 Bluebird Wine (Emmylou Harris & Rodney Crowell)
09 talk (Emmylou Harris & Rodney Crowell)
10 You Can't Say We Didn't Try (Emmylou Harris & Rodney Crowell)
11 talk (Emmylou Harris & Rodney Crowell)
12 Evangelina (Emmylou Harris & Rodney Crowell)
13 talk (Emmylou Harris & Rodney Crowell)
14 I'll Be Your San Antone Rose (Emmylou Harris & Rodney Crowell)
15 talk (Emmylou Harris & Rodney Crowell)
16 It Ain't Over Yet (Emmylou Harris & Rodney Crowell)
17 talk (Emmylou Harris & Rodney Crowell)
18 If I Could Only Win Your Love (Emmylou Harris & Rodney Crowell)
19 talk (Emmylou Harris & Rodney Crowell)
20 Just Pleasing You (Emmylou Harris & Rodney Crowell)
21 talk (Emmylou Harris & Rodney Crowell)
22 Invitation to the Blues (Emmylou Harris & Rodney Crowell)
23 talk (Emmylou Harris & Rodney Crowell)
24 Dreaming My Dreams with You (Emmylou Harris & Rodney Crowell)
25 'Till I Gain Control Again (Emmylou Harris & Rodney Crowell)
26 talk (Emmylou Harris & Rodney Crowell)
27 Pancho and Lefty (Emmylou Harris & Rodney Crowell)
28 talk (Emmylou Harris & Rodney Crowell)
29 Return of the Grievous Angel (Emmylou Harris & Rodney Crowell)
30 talk (Emmylou Harris & Rodney Crowell)
31 Tulsa Queen (Emmylou Harris & Rodney Crowell)
32 talk (Emmylou Harris & Rodney Crowell)
33 Old Yellow Moon (Emmylou Harris & Rodney Crowell)
34 Leaving Louisiana in the Broad Daylight (Emmylou Harris & Rodney Crowell)
35 talk (Emmylou Harris & Rodney Crowell)
36 talk (Emmylou Harris & Rodney Crowell)
37 Boulder to Birmingham (Emmylou Harris & Rodney Crowell)
38 talk (Emmylou Harris & Rodney Crowell)  

https://pixeldrain.com/u/7vqNgSLJ

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/Km3fPRfWjrHjJrd/file

The cover is a screenshot I took from a video of this exact concert. However, I used Photoshop to move the two people closer together.

Emmylou Harris & Steve Earle - City Winery, Nashville, TN, 4-3-2021

I recently discovered that Emmylou Harris performed about six concerts at the City Winery in Nashville in 2021, as people were just starting to attend concerts again due to the Covid pandemic. The concerts were done to benefit local charities helping with animal welfare, and each was different than typical Harris concerts in some way. I was able to find two of them on YouTube. This one is special because it was a joint acoustic concert with Steve Earle. The two of them took turns singing songs and telling stories in front of a very small audience, with excellent sound quality.

If you want, you can find the video of this on YouTube and watch the concert instead of just listening to it. I converted the video to audio, then chopped it into mp3 files.

The sound quality is excellent because the concert was a webcast. I missed it at the time, but better late than never. I plan on posting the other concert I found soon. 

This album is an hour and 36 minutes long. 

01 talk (Emmylou Harris & Steve Earle)
02 Raise the Dead (Emmylou Harris & Steve Earle)
03 talk (Emmylou Harris & Steve Earle)
04 Copperhead Road (Emmylou Harris & Steve Earle)
05 talk (Emmylou Harris & Steve Earle)
06 Big Black Dog (Emmylou Harris & Steve Earle)
07 talk (Emmylou Harris & Steve Earle)
08 Devil Put the Coal in the Ground (Emmylou Harris & Steve Earle)
09 talk (Emmylou Harris & Steve Earle)
10 My Antonia (Emmylou Harris & Steve Earle)
11 talk (Emmylou Harris & Steve Earle)
12 Hometown Blues (Emmylou Harris & Steve Earle)
13 talk (Emmylou Harris & Steve Earle)
14 All I Left Behind (Emmylou Harris & Steve Earle)
15 talk (Emmylou Harris & Steve Earle)
16 You're the Best Lover that I Ever Had (Emmylou Harris & Steve Earle)
17 talk (Emmylou Harris & Steve Earle)
18 My Name Is Emmett Till (Emmylou Harris & Steve Earle)
19 talk (Emmylou Harris & Steve Earle)
20 Goodbye (Emmylou Harris & Steve Earle)
21 talk (Emmylou Harris & Steve Earle)
22 Blackhawk (Emmylou Harris & Steve Earle)
23 talk (Emmylou Harris & Steve Earle)
24 Harlem River Blues (Emmylou Harris & Steve Earle)
25 talk (Emmylou Harris & Steve Earle)
26 If I Needed You (Emmylou Harris & Steve Earle)
27 talk (Emmylou Harris & Steve Earle)
28 City of Immigrants (Emmylou Harris & Steve Earle)
29 talk (Emmylou Harris & Steve Earle)
30 Pilgrim (Emmylou Harris & Steve Earle)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/m2paqekc 

alternate: 

https://bestfile.io/Tp4XhQjIm89w1un/file

The cover image is a screenshot I took from a YouTube video of this exact concert. I used Photoshop to move the two of them a lot closer to each other.

Gillian Welch & David Rawlings - Acoustic Reckoning, Capitol Theatre, Port Chester, NY, 4-11-2026

Here's something for Grateful Dead fans as well as fans of Gillian Welch and David Rawlings: it's acoustic versions of most of the songs on the 1981 Grateful Dead album "Reckoning," plus many other Grateful Dead covers. There's a lot of music to love here as well, since the concert was almost three hours long. And it took place less than a month ago, as I write this in May 2026.

Lately, I've been doing a lot of searching for concerts that have taken place in the Capitol Theatre in Port Chester, New York, due to the leak of dozens of concerts from there a couple of weeks ago. The sound quality of these concerts is excellent, but most of them need work being split into individual song files and such, so I've been checking to see if other people are doing that. These searches have turned up a few things that don't actually come from that big leak, and this is one of them. This is from a webcast instead. So, while the sourcing is different, the sound quality is equally excellent.

Welch and Rawlings have become stars of roots music, blending country, bluegrass, and folk. But while they've released many albums mostly consisting of songs they've written, it turns out they've also been Deadheads all along. In fact, while gathering information for this album, I came across an article talking about how Welch followed the Dead for some concerts in the late 1980s, as Deadheads did. So, apparently just for fun, they decided to perform an entire tour of the U.S. consisting of nothing but covers of Dead songs, as well as cover songs closely associated with the Dead. The tour started in April 2026 with this concert, and will continue through August. So if you're reading this, you might want to go see them live. I checked their setlists at setlist.fm. It turns out they've been varying up their set lists a lot on the tour. They played 24 songs here. But they've done over 40 different ones on the tour so far, and all the songs are those that were performed by the Dead.

The tour was inspired by the Dead's "Reckoning" album, which was semi-acoustic. It's hard to call it fully acoustic, since the band had two drummers. But Welch and Rawlings went even more stripped down, being accompanied by just a bassist (as you can see on the cover image). A majority of the songs performed did appear on "Reckoning," but it's a loose tribute. They skipped some songs from that album, and played quite a few others. I was especially impressed by "St. Stephen," as I didn't know it could sound good with such minimal instrumentation.  

This album is two hours and 52 minutes long. 

01 talk (Gillian Welch & David Rawlings)
02 Bertha (Gillian Welch & David Rawlings)
03 Jack Straw (Gillian Welch & David Rawlings)
04 Oh Babe It Ain't No Lie (Gillian Welch & David Rawlings)
05 Dire Wolf (Gillian Welch & David Rawlings)
06 Dark Hollow (Gillian Welch & David Rawlings)
07 talk (Gillian Welch & David Rawlings)
08 It Must Have Been the Roses (Gillian Welch & David Rawlings)
09 Loser (Gillian Welch & David Rawlings)
10 Friend of the Devil (Gillian Welch & David Rawlings)
11 Cassidy (Gillian Welch & David Rawlings)
12 talk (Gillian Welch & David Rawlings)
13 Cumberland Blues (Gillian Welch & David Rawlings)
14 Brown-Eyed Women (Gillian Welch & David Rawlings)
15 I've Been All Around This World (Gillian Welch & David Rawlings)
16 Deep Elm Blues (Gillian Welch & David Rawlings)
17 Brokedown Palace (Gillian Welch & David Rawlings)
18 talk (Gillian Welch & David Rawlings)
19 He's Gone (Gillian Welch & David Rawlings)
20 Cold Rain and Snow (Gillian Welch & David Rawlings)
21 Bird Song (Gillian Welch & David Rawlings)
22 Ripple (Gillian Welch & David Rawlings)
23 talk (Gillian Welch & David Rawlings)
24 Althea (Gillian Welch & David Rawlings)
25 To Lay Me Down (Gillian Welch & David Rawlings)
26 St. Stephen (Gillian Welch & David Rawlings)
27 Not Fade Away - St. Stephen [Reprise] (Gillian Welch & David Rawlings)
28 Morning Dew (Gillian Welch & David Rawlings)
29 talk (Gillian Welch & David Rawlings) 

https://pixeldrain.com/u/eZTJVaSo

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/o5bi397bmPxuc35/file 

The cover image, from right to left: David Rawlings, Gillian Welch and Paul Kowert. This image was taken at the Fox Theater, in Oakland, California, on April 17th, 2026, less than a week after the concert presented here. The text at the top and the bottom come from a promotional image associated with the webcast. I just resized the words and moved them around.

Shawn Colvin & Steve Earle - Capitol Theatre, Port Chester, NY, 9-26-2014

I'm dealing with two "floods" right now - posting a flood of concerts from the Ebbets Field venue in the 1970s and posting a flood of recently leaked concerts from the Capitol Theatre venue in Port Chester in the 2010s. Here's another from that second flood. This one stars singer-songwriters Shawn Colvin and Steve Earle, with both of them in acoustic mode.

By the time of this concert, both Colvin and Earle had long music careers, with their first albums being released in the 1980s. They began performing together in 2014. At first, it seems they only did a handful of concerts in 2014 and 2015. But in 2016 they released an album together, "Colvin and Earle," and toured a lot more. Their collaboration petered out after that. 

I've posted a concert they did in 2016. Many of the songs are different, since this one is from two years earlier, well before their 2016 album was made. Here's the link to that one:

https://albumsthatshouldexist.blogspot.com/2024/02/shawn-colvin-steve-earle-hardly.html

As far as I know, that 2016 concert I posted was the only one featuring the two of them together with excellent sound quality, until this one recently was made public (as I write this in May 2026). This is a soundboard boot, like the others coming from the same Port Chester leak. 

A person named Frenfri made some improvements to this before I got my hands on it. That person broke the single file into songs, and make some sonic improvements as well. Also, the singers were identified for the songs as well as the banter. So I kept that information. But I believe both of them were on the stage the whole time. So even when only one of their names is mentioned, the other one could have been stumming along with guitar and/or doing some backing vocals.

The music is unreleased. The sound quality is excellent. 

This album is an hour and 54 minutes long. 

01 talk (Shawn Colvin & Steve Earle)
02 Wake Up, Little Susie (Shawn Colvin & Steve Earle)
03 talk (Steve Earle)
04 Devil's Right Hand (Steve Earle)
05 talk (Shawn Colvin)
06 Another Long One (Shawn Colvin)
07 talk (Steve Earle)
08 Goodbye (Steve Earle)
09 talk (Shawn Colvin)
10 A Matter of Minutes (Shawn Colvin)
11 Crazy (Shawn Colvin)
12 talk (Steve Earle)
13 Pancho and Lefty (Steve Earle)
14 talk (Shawn Colvin)
15 That Don't Worry Me Now (Shawn Colvin)
16 talk (Steve Earle)
17 Someday (Shawn Colvin & Steve Earle)
18 talk (Shawn Colvin)
19 Fearless Heart (Shawn Colvin & Steve Earle)
20 Diamond in the Rough (Shawn Colvin)
21 talk (Steve Earle)
22 City of Immigrants (Steve Earle)
23 talk (Steve Earle)
24 Burnin' It Down (Steve Earle)
25 talk (Shawn Colvin)
26 Sunny Came Home (Shawn Colvin)
27 talk (Shawn Colvin & Steve Earle)
28 The Galway Girl (Steve Earle)
29 talk (Steve Earle)
30 You're Still Standin' There (Shawn Colvin & Steve Earle)
31 talk (Shawn Colvin & Steve Earle)
32 Baby's in Black (Shawn Colvin & Steve Earle)
33 talk (Shawn Colvin & Steve Earle)
34 Copperhead Road (Steve Earle)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/giAUUYZ5

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/77Fo4va1vBTzYPB/file

The cover image is from a concert at the Chautauqua Auditorium in Boulder, Colorado on August 30, 2016.

Sandy Denny - Ebbets Field, Denver, CO, 4-29-1973

The flood of Ebbets Field radio broadcasts continues. You may have noticed I'm trying to post one of these each day. Here's one from folk singer Sandy Denny.

Denny was a member of Fairport Convention from 1968 to 1969. She left to pursue a solo career. She rejoined Fairport Convention from 1974 to 1975. I have two albums of that band performing at Ebbets Field in 1974 when she was a member. That will be coming soon. 

She was pretty popular in Britain. She even won "Best British Female Singer" in a readers' poll for Melody Maker magazine in 1970 and 1971. But she was far less well known in the U.S., which helps explain why she was performing in this small club that seated 250 people at most. Her most recent album at the time of this concert was "Sandy," in 1972.  

So far, I believe all the concerts I've posted from this venue have been officially unreleased. But this one came out as part of the 2012 deluxe edition of the "Sandy" album. That said, the recording was still pretty raw, with some sonic imbalances. So I made some changes with the MVSEP program.

This album is 32 minutes long. 

01 Late November (Sandy Denny)
02 talk (Sandy Denny)
03 The Music Weaver (Sandy Denny)
04 talk (Sandy Denny)
05 It Suits Me Well (Sandy Denny)
06 talk (Sandy Denny)
07 Bushes and Briars (Sandy Denny)
08 talk (Sandy Denny)
09 The Quiet Joys of Brotherhood (Sandy Denny)
10 talk (Sandy Denny)
11 The Sea Captain (Sandy Denny)
12 talk (Sandy Denny)
13 At the End of the Day (Sandy Denny)
14 talk (Sandy Denny)
15 John the Gun (Sandy Denny)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/NRSGaEk8

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/3SIvyMcViAiWgn0/file

The cover image is from the Ngaruawahia Music Festival in New Zealand in 1973. The sky was blue behind her, so I changed that to grey to better fit with this album, since the Ebbets Field club was indoors.

Tom Waits - Ebbets Field, Denver, CO, 10-8-1974

The flood of Ebbets Field radio broadcasts continues. Here's a solo acoustic one from singer-songwriter Tom Waits.

I've found over 60 different concert recordings that come from the Ebbets Field venue. Out of all of those, I think only one where I have two performances by the same musical act from different dates is Tom Waits. I found this one, from 1974, and another one from 1975 that I'll be posting later.

The debut album by Waits, "Closing Time," was released in 1973. His second album, "The Heart of Saturday Night," came out on October 15, 1974. That's one week after this concert. So if someone attending this concert was only familiar with the "Closing Time" album, they wouldn't have known most of the songs. Only four songs performed where from that album (tracks 1, 7, 16, and 19). The rest would be included on his second album, or other later albums. One song, "Good Night Loving Trail," is a cover written by Utah Phillips, which Waits has never officially released.

There's a bootleg called "The Dime Store Novels, Vol. 1" that consists of this concert. It's packaged like an official release, and it seems it's widely available. However, it is still just a bootleg. (And there doesn't seem to be any "Vol. 2.")

The music here is unreleased. The sound quality is excellent.  

This album is 48 minutes long.

01 I Hope that I Don't Fall in Love with You (Tom Waits)
02 talk (Tom Waits)
03 San Diego Serenade (Tom Waits)
04 Good Night Loving Trail (Tom Waits)
05 talk (Tom Waits)
06 Diamonds on My Windshield (Tom Waits)
07 Ice Cream Man (Tom Waits)
08 Please Call Me Baby (Tom Waits)
09 talk (Tom Waits)
10 Better Off without a Wife (Tom Waits)
11 The Ghosts of Saturday Night [After Hours at Napoleone's Pizza House] (Tom Waits)
12 Big Joe and Phantom 309 [Phantom 309] (Tom Waits)
13 talk (Tom Waits)
14 Semi Suite (Tom Waits)
15 talk (Tom Waits)
16 Ol' 55 (Tom Waits)
17 On a Foggy Night (Tom Waits)
18 talk (Tom Waits)
19 Martha (Tom Waits)
20 talk by emcee (Tom Waits) 

https://pixeldrain.com/u/12bMyFNx

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/P7SQOo94iYaX8Z2/file

The cover image is a promo photo from 1973. The original was in black and white, but I colorized it with the use of the Kolorize program.

Flight of the Conchords - Capitol Theatre, Port Chester, NY, 6-9-2016

Normally, I don't post comedy at this blog, since it's a music blog. But I'll make an occasional exception for comedic songs. I've posted music from Allen Sherman and Spinal Tap in the past, for instance. Here's another one: Flight of the Conchords. If you haven't seen their TV show, you're missing out. I really enjoyed that. It's about a fictional musical duo, starring Bret McKenzie and Jemaine Clement, who are New Zealanders struggling to make it as musicians in New York City. One vital part of that show was that each episode featured a couple of original songs, which were consistently both funny and just well written songs. It's not easy to do both.

This is part of the leak of dozens of concerts from Port Chester, New York. Another person split the single audio file into songs. I further split out the talking parts.

The "Flight of the Conchords" T.V. show ran from 2007 to 2009, on H.B.O. They also put out albums in 2007, 2008, and 2009, plus a live one in 2019. They toured off and on from 2001 to 2018. This concert was the start of their 2016 tour. I just looked up their info, and I'm pleased that they resumed touring just last month, April 2026, for the first time since 2018. So let's hope the Conchords are starting a new chapter. They don't really need to reunite, because both Bret McKenzie and Jemaine Clement have been successful as actors in T.V. and movies.

Note that the first half hour of this recording is the opening act, a stand-up comedy routine by Arj Barker. There's a good connection to the main act, because in addition to being a stand-up comedian, Barker played a recurring minor role in the Flight of the Conchords T.V. show. I've made his stand-up act track "00." That way, if you just want to listen to the main act, that starts with track 01.

The music here is unreleased. The sound quality is excellent, although there's some echo/reverb marring the sound a bit. 

This album is two hours long exactly. It is an hour and 26 minutes long if you don't include Arj Barker's opening act. 

00 Arj Barker Stand-Up Routine (Arj Barker)
01 talk by Arj Barker (Flight of the Conchords)
02 talk (Flight of the Conchords)
03 Chips and Dips (Flight of the Conchords)
04 talk (Flight of the Conchords)
05 Father and Son (Flight of the Conchords)
06 talk (Flight of the Conchords)
07 Foux du Fafa (Flight of the Conchords)
08 talk (Flight of the Conchords)
09 Stana (Flight of the Conchords)
10 talk (Flight of the Conchords)
11 The Most Beautiful Girl [In the Room] (Flight of the Conchords)
12 talk (Flight of the Conchords)
13 Shady Rachel (Flight of the Conchords)
14 Mutha'uckas (Flight of the Conchords)
15 talk (Flight of the Conchords)
16 Seagull (Flight of the Conchords)
17 talk (Flight of the Conchords)
18 Iain and Deanna (Flight of the Conchords)
19 talk (Flight of the Conchords)
20 Summer of 1353 (Flight of the Conchords)
21 talk (Flight of the Conchords)
22 Bowie (Flight of the Conchords)
23 talk (Flight of the Conchords)
24 Business Time (Flight of the Conchords)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/QBF1PR7M

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/9PggXRFxVjjJ8N5/file

The cover image comes from this exact concert.

Roger McGuinn - Ebbets Field, Denver, CO, 2-20-1974

Here's another radio broadcast concert from the small Ebbets Field venue in Denver, Colorado. This one is a solo acoustic performance by Roger McGuinn, former lead singer of the Byrds.

I'm very impressed by the roster of musical acts that performed at this club in the years of its existence, from 1973 to 1977. You can see a list of the performers in 1973 here:

https://queencityjamz.blogspot.com/2019/12/ebbets-field-denver-1973-listings.html

And the performers from 1974 to 1977 here: 

https://kimsloans.wordpress.com/tag/ebetts-field-denver-music-venue-1974/

In my opinion, there's a high rate of quality, with lots of concerts I wish I could hear, and not so many that I've never heard about or don't care for. I suspect that's because the owner of the venue, Chuck Morris, had good musical taste, and booked the artists he liked. To support that, I heard an anecdote that he was a very big fan of the Byrds, so much so that when he was hiring employees for his venue, one question he would ask was who were the five original members of the Byrds.

Given that, Morris must have been excited for this concert. The Byrds broke up in early 1973, right around the time the Ebbets Field venue opened up, so they never performed there. But McGuinn immediately started a solo career, releasing his first solo album, the cleverly titled, "Roger McGuinn," later in 1973. He was still promoting that album at the time of this concert.

The music is unreleased and the sound quality is excellent. However, I made a lot of adjustments, because this recording was in a pretty raw state. So parts of songs were too loud, others too quiet, the banter was especially quiet, and so on. But all of it was fixable.

This album is 58 minutes long. 

01 I'm So Restless (Roger McGuinn)
02 talk (Roger McGuinn)
03 Lost My Drivin' Wheel (Roger McGuinn)
04 Bag Full of Money (Roger McGuinn)
05 talk (Roger McGuinn)
06 Wasn't Born to Follow (Roger McGuinn)
07 The Ballad of Easy Rider (Roger McGuinn)
08 talk (Roger McGuinn)
09 Take a Whiff (Roger McGuinn)
10 talk (Roger McGuinn)
11 Wayfaring Stranger (Roger McGuinn)
12 Old Blue Story-Song (Roger McGuinn)
13 talk (Roger McGuinn)
14 Old Blue (Roger McGuinn)
15 talk (Roger McGuinn)
16 Mr. Spaceman (Roger McGuinn)
17 talk (Roger McGuinn)
18 Eight Miles High (Roger McGuinn)
19 talk (Roger McGuinn)
20 Lover of the Bayou (Roger McGuinn)
21 talk (Roger McGuinn)
22 Keep My Skillet Good and Greasy (Roger McGuinn)
23 talk (Roger McGuinn)
24 The Bells of Rhymney (Roger McGuinn)
25 So You Want to Be a Rock 'n' Roll Star (Roger McGuinn)
26 The Lady (Roger McGuinn)
27 Chestnut Mare (Roger McGuinn)
28 talk by emcee (Roger McGuinn)
29 Turn, Turn, Turn [To Everything There Is a Season] (Roger McGuinn)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/U4gbACq5 

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/XQrHNO2vRRX4oMy/file

The cover image shows McGuinn in Malibu, California, in July 1974. 

Lightnin' Hopkins - Ebbets Field, Denver, CO, 4-24-1974

The range of musical acts who performed at the Ebbets Field venue, which held about 250 people, was impressive. For instance, I wouldn't have imagined a recording like this from Lightnin' Hopkins in 1974. But here it is.

I tend to think of Hopkins as someone from decades earlier. But he was still very musically active in 1974. He was about 61 years old, which isn't really old for a blues musician. For instance, B.B. King lived to be 89 years old, and was still performing right up until the end. 

Here's the Wikipedia entry intro about him: "[Hopkins] was an American country blues singer, songwriter, guitarist, and occasional pianist from Centerville, Texas. In 2010, Rolling Stone magazine ranked him No. 71 on its list of the 100 greatest guitarists of all time. The musicologist Robert 'Mack' McCormick opined that Hopkins is 'the embodiment of the jazz-and-poetry spirit, representing its ancient form in the single creator whose words and music are one act.' He influenced Townes Van Zandt, Hank Williams, Jr., and a generation of blues musicians such as Stevie Ray Vaughan... In his own lifetime, Hopkins was one of the initial inductees in 1980 to the Blues Hall of Fame." 

Here's the rest of the entry:

Lightnin' Hopkins - Wikipedia

I'll add a bit more to that. His recording career began in the 1940s, when he was already in his 30s. He grew popular with Black audiences in the 1940s and 50s. In the 1960s, his career got a boost when his music was discovered by the folk revival, mostly made up of White audiences. That started in 1960, when he performed at the prestigious Carnegie Hall in New York City with Joan Baez and Pete Seeger. From that point on, he often played at folk festivals and colleges, and even toured internationally. He died of cancer in 1982, at the age of 69.

This is a solo acoustic concert, with a lot of banter between songs. The music is unreleased, and the sound quality is excellent.

This album is 55 minutes long.

01 talk (Lightnin' Hopkins)
02 Nothing I Can Do (Lightnin' Hopkins)
03 talk (Lightnin' Hopkins)
04 Lord Have Mercy (Lightnin' Hopkins)
05 talk (Lightnin' Hopkins)
06 Lazy Woman Do (Lightnin' Hopkins)
07 talk (Lightnin' Hopkins)
08 I Got My Hook in Your Water (Lightnin' Hopkins)
09 talk (Lightnin' Hopkins)
10 Can You Tell Who's Coming In (Lightnin' Hopkins)
11 talk (Lightnin' Hopkins)
12 Cook My Breakfast (Lightnin' Hopkins)
13 talk (Lightnin' Hopkins)
14 Key to the Highway (Lightnin' Hopkins)
15 talk (Lightnin' Hopkins)
16 It's Time for You to Change Your Way (Lightnin' Hopkins)
17 talk (Lightnin' Hopkins)
18 Instrumental (Lightnin' Hopkins)
19 talk (Lightnin' Hopkins)
20 Rock Me Baby (Lightnin' Hopkins)
21 talk (Lightnin' Hopkins)
22 Ain't It Crazy [The Rub] (Lightnin' Hopkins)
23 talk (Lightnin' Hopkins)
24 70 Miles from Nowhere (Lightnin' Hopkins)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/JNuN8nge

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/Af025pQZxD1XMB6/file

The cover image is from the Great Southeast Music Hall in Atlanta, Georgia, on October 10, 1974.

Denver, Boise & Johnson - The Bistro Inn, Columbus, OH, 6-1968

One can find such interesting music on YouTube these days. I was searching for more concerts from the Ebbets Field venue in Denver, Colorado, and the use of the search term "Denver" helped me find this concert. I checked, and it wasn't available anywhere else. It's nearly two hours of the folk trio Denver, Boise and Johnson, with excellent sound quality. If you're a fan of John Denver then you'll want this, because he was the "Denver" in "Denver, Boise and Johnson."

I should start by explaining who this trio were. I've actually posted half an album of their music on this blog before. I say half, because I posted an album that contained a John Denver solo set he did at the Philadelphia Folk Festival as well as a Denver, Boise and Johnson set from that same festival. The latter set lasted about 25 minutes. Here's the link to that one, in case you're curious:

https://albumsthatshouldexist.blogspot.com/2026/01/john-denver-plus-denver-boise-johnson.html

Anyway, when I posted that, I explained the background of the trio. Here's that same explanation:

The group was originally a popular folk group called the "Chad Mitchell Trio." But in 1965, Chad Mitchell left for a solo career, and was replaced by John Denver. It was his first big break into the music industry. The group changed its name to just the "Mitchell Trio." Then, by 1968, the last original member had left, so they were legally required to change their name again, to "Denver, Boise and Johnson." At this point, they consisted of John Denver, David Boise, and Michael Johnson. This version didn't last long, breaking up in 1969 without releasing any albums. 

Now, let me get back to how I found this concert on YouTube. It turns out that Michael Johnson posted it there in 2022. I mention that name, because this was the Michael Johnson who was a member of Denver, Boise and Johnson. Actually, it must be a family member who posted that, because Johnson died in 2017. But whoever posted it posted a handful of concert bootlegs from this trio, so if you're interested in more, go check out that person's YouTube page. I picked this one because it was the longest and most coherent, coming from a single concert.

Here's Johnson's website, if you want to see more pictures and other information about this trio: https://www.mjblue.com/mjdbj.html

At the time of this concert, this trio mostly performed cover songs. But occasionally they played John Denver originals. You can find a few sprinkled in here, like "Take Me to Tomorrow," "Like to Deal with the Ladies," "For Baby (For Bobbie)," "Leaving on a Jet Plane," "Catch Another Butterfly," and "Sticky Summer Weather." I think those are all of his originals, but I might have missed one or two. A year after this concert, Peter, Paul and Mary would have a big hit single with "Leaving on a Jet Plane," turning it into a folk classic.

If you're wondering why Denver, Boise and Johnson didn't have a hit with "Leaving on a Jet Plane" before Peter, Paul and Mary did, it's because they basically couldn't get a record contract. By 1968, folk music was considered passe, especially if it was still acoustic and not folk-rock. The trio released a couple of singles that didn't make the charts. They broke up in 1969, having never released a studio album in the year or so that these three people made up the trio. John Denver, of course, went on to superstardom only a couple of years after that. Michael Johnson also went on to have a successful, long music career, including having a couple of Number One hits on the U.S. country singles chart in the 1980s.

This appears to be a soundboard recording. There were a few problems, mostly where songs got cut off. That happened three times. For "Let's Get Together," only the very end of the song was missing, literally the last sung note, plus the applause. So that was an easy fix. For "Coal Tattoo," nearly the entire song was missing. But Michael Johnson's YouTube page has some other Denver, Boise and Johnson live recordings, as I mentioned above, so I used one of those to fill in most of the song. It was a similar situation with "Both Sides Now" near the end of the concert. That was missing about the first minute, so I also filled that in with a different live version taken from that YouTube page.

It appears the band played three sets in this concert. I think this includes all of the first and second sets. But there may have been additional songs before "Coal Tattoo" at the start of the third set. There are very few repeats. Only the last three songs were played earlier. 

Oh, one last thing. I don't know the exact date of this concert, and I'm not even sure of the month. Michael Johnson's YouTube page merely says it took place in the summer of 1968. But I found another reference that said June 1968, so I'm going with that unless I hear something different. 

This album is an hour and 56 minutes long.

01 That's the Way It's Gonna Be (Denver, Boise & Johnson)
02 What This Country Really Needs Is Another Movie Star (Denver, Boise & Johnson)
03 We Didn't Know (Denver, Boise & Johnson)
04 talk (Denver, Boise & Johnson)
05 Take Me to Tomorrow (Denver, Boise & Johnson)
06 talk (Denver, Boise & Johnson)
07 Saturday Night in Toledo, Ohio (Denver, Boise & Johnson)
08 talk (Denver, Boise & Johnson)
09 Red Velvet (Denver, Boise & Johnson)
10 talk (Denver, Boise & Johnson)
11 Like to Deal with the Ladies (Denver, Boise & Johnson)
12 talk (Denver, Boise & Johnson)
13 Bending the Strings [Instrumental] (Denver, Boise & Johnson)
14 Everybody's Talkin' (Denver, Boise & Johnson)
15 talk (Denver, Boise & Johnson)
16 Draft Dodger Rag (Denver, Boise & Johnson)
17 talk (Denver, Boise & Johnson)
18 Both Sides Now (Denver, Boise & Johnson)
19 Love of the Common People (Denver, Boise & Johnson)
20 talk (Denver, Boise & Johnson)
21 I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel to Be Free (Denver, Boise & Johnson)
22 If You Had Me in Shackles (Denver, Boise & Johnson)
23 The John Birch Society (Denver, Boise & Johnson)
24 talk (Denver, Boise & Johnson)
25 For Baby [For Bobbie] (Denver, Boise & Johnson)
26 You Certainly Have Got a Pretty Fantastic Bod (Denver, Boise & Johnson)
27 talk (Denver, Boise & Johnson)
28 Victoria Dines Alone (Denver, Boise & Johnson)
29 Your Friendly, Liberal, Neighborhood Ku Klux Klan (Denver, Boise & Johnson)
30 talk (Denver, Boise & Johnson)
31 Leaving on a Jet Plane (Denver, Boise & Johnson)
32 Yellow Cat (Denver, Boise & Johnson)
33 talk (Denver, Boise & Johnson)
34 The '68 Nixon [This Year's Model] (Denver, Boise & Johnson)
35 talk (Denver, Boise & Johnson)
36 Turning Point (Denver, Boise & Johnson)
37 Blowin' in the Wind (Denver, Boise & Johnson)
38 Let's Get Together [Edit] (Denver, Boise & Johnson)
39 Coal Tattoo [Edit] (Denver, Boise & Johnson)
40 talk (Denver, Boise & Johnson)
41 Asturias [Leyenda] [Instrumental] (Denver, Boise & Johnson)
42 talk (Denver, Boise & Johnson)
43 Business Goes On as Usual (Denver, Boise & Johnson)
44 Catch Another Butterfly (Denver, Boise & Johnson)
45 talk (Denver, Boise & Johnson)
46 Foggy Mountain Breakdown [Instrumental] (Denver, Boise & Johnson)
47 talk (Denver, Boise & Johnson)
48 Cripple Creek [Instrumental] (Denver, Boise & Johnson)
49 talk (Denver, Boise & Johnson)
50 Sticky Summer Weather (Denver, Boise & Johnson)
51 Love of the Common People (Denver, Boise & Johnson)
52 talk (Denver, Boise & Johnson)
53 Both Sides Now [Edit] (Denver, Boise & Johnson)
54 talk (Denver, Boise & Johnson)
55 I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel to Be Free (Denver, Boise & Johnson)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/uGr1HA5x

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/a75hEoNov5OCOmm/file

I found the photo of this trio at Michael Johnson's website. From left to right: Michael Johnson, David Boise, and John Denver.

Jackson Browne - Jabberwocky, Syracuse, NY, 3-27-1971

Here is a really great concert bootleg from Jackson Browne. It may well be the most interesting concert recording out of his long career, because it's from very early, about a year prior to the release of his debut album. The most interesting aspect is that there's no less than nine songs here that weren't officially released at the time (and only a couple of have come out in different versions much later). So it's basically like there's an entire album of songs prior to his debut included here.

I've known about this concert for a long time, but I hadn't posted it yet because it had a number of sound quality issues, and I'd never gotten around to fixing them. But yesterday, I saw a person named "twrona" posted a version on a popular bootleg sharing site that fixed most of those issues. (I left that person's notes so you can read what they fixed.) So I grabbed that and made some fixes of my own. Mostly, that had to do with volume adjustments. I also ran all the talking tracks through the Adobe vocal enhancer to help get rid of hiss and other background noise, which were much more noticeable during those bits.

This is a solo acoustic concert. (There's some talk at the beginning about Browne having a backing musician, referred to as "the Famous Flame" or "Tom Jones," but that's just jokey references to his guitar.) This very possibly is the earliest concert recording available for him. Note that it took place the same night as a Bonnie Raitt concert in the same venue. You can find that one here:

https://albumsthatshouldexist.blogspot.com/2018/04/bonnie-raitt-jabberwocky-club-syracuse.html

(I just updated the cover art for that one. Taking a look at it again after a long time, I didn't like it. So I changed the font colors and style to match this Browne one.) 

This appears to be a combination of early and late shows. (I'm not sure where the break is, but "Jamaica Say You Will" is probably the last song of the early show.) Perhaps Raitt also did early and late shows, and her recording is a combination of those as well. At one point, Browne noted that Raitt was backstage during his set, and he also noted a written set list she'd left on stage. It's a shame the two of them didn't perform any songs together, but they probably were just starting to get to know each other. They would go on to become good friends, and perform together on stage many, many times.

I cut out some dead air and guitar tuning between songs. I also cut out about three minutes of crowd interaction in the middle of the show. Basically, someone in the audience was very aggressive, and all but demanded to be allowed to sing a song. Browne obliged, and the person sang... and was absolutely terrible. Trust me, you don't want to hear it. By the way, this same person asked for Raitt at one point. I think it's the same person who basically was an annoying heckler during Raitt's concert that same evening.

Here are all the songs performed in this concert that remain unreleased by Browne: 

Together Again (performed twice, the first version being much shorter)
Mae Jean Goes to Hollywood
Last Time I Was Home
Jesus in 3-4 Time (a J.D. Souther cover)
Take It Underground
When You Lose Your Money
Someday Morning
World to Gain
Shadow Dream Song

Most of the rest of the songs would appear on Browne's 1972 debut album "Jackson Browne," also known as "Saturate Before Using." But two, "Our Lady of the Well" and "These Days," would appear on his 1973 album "For Everyman."

Everything here is unreleased. The sound quality is excellent. That's because it was broadcast live on the WNEW radio station, as was Raitt's performance. 

This album is an hour and 24 minutes long.

01 talk (Jackson Browne)
02 Under the Falling Sky (Jackson Browne)
03 World to Gain (Jackson Browne)
04 talk (Jackson Browne)
05 Together Again [Short Version] (Jackson Browne)
06 talk (Jackson Browne)
07 Mae Jean Goes to Hollywood (Jackson Browne)
08 Last Time I Was Home (Jackson Browne)
09 talk (Jackson Browne)
10 Jesus in 3-4 Time (Jackson Browne)
11 talk (Jackson Browne)
12 My Opening Farewell (Jackson Browne)
13 talk (Jackson Browne)
14 From Silver Lake (Jackson Browne)
15 talk (Jackson Browne)
16 Rock Me on the Water (Jackson Browne)
17 talk (Jackson Browne)
18 Jamaica Say You Will (Jackson Browne)
19 Together Again (Jackson Browne)
20 talk (Jackson Browne)
21 Take It Underground (Jackson Browne)
22 talk (Jackson Browne)
23 When You Lose Your Money (Jackson Browne)
24 talk (Jackson Browne)
25 Our Lady of the Well (Jackson Browne)
26 talk (Jackson Browne)
27 These Days (Jackson Browne)
28 Someday Morning (Jackson Browne)
29 Shadow Dream Song (Jackson Browne)
30 talk (Jackson Browne)
31 Song for Adam (Jackson Browne)
32 talk (Jackson Browne)
33 Looking into You (Jackson Browne)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/Hh5vD1WT 

alternate: 

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

The cover image is supposed to be "circa 1971" at the Troubadour club in Los Angeles. The original was in black and white, but I colorized it with the help of the Kolorize program. 

John Prine - Ebbets Field, Denver, CO, 2-4-1974

Here's a concert by singer-songwriter John Prine. It's one of many concerts I'm posting from the Ebbets Field radio broadcasts.

I'm enjoying (and thus prioritizing) posting these Ebbets Field concerts for several reasons. 1) Most albums I post have issues, requiring a lot of tinkering to get things fixed to my satisfaction. That's much less the case with these broadcasts. That's probably a reflection of how well they were recorded in the first place. 2) Most of these are very rare and hard to find, with the exception of a small number. So I'm pleased to reveal these to a wider audience. 3) When I look at the concerts that took place in this venue, I'm really impressed. I find myself wishing I could have attended the vast majority of them.  I've long felt the late 1960s and early 1970s were a peak of musical creativity in general, so that's part of it. But I also think the people who booked the music acts for this venue must have had very good musical taste.

Speaking of how rare these Ebbets Field broadcast bootlegs are, I was only able to find this one on YouTube. So I converted it to audio and chopped it into mp3s. 

At this time of this concert, Prine had released three albums. He was touring to promote the third one, "Sweet Revenge." According to the crowd-sourced ratings at rateyourmusic.com, that album gets the highest ratings of all his albums other than he debut. So this is a good point to hear a concert from him.

The music is unreleased. The sound quality is excellent. 

This album is 53 minutes long.

01 Spanish Pipedream (John Prine)
02 talk (John Prine)
03 The Accident [Things Could Be Worse] (John Prine)
04 talk (John Prine)
05 Sweet Revenge (John Prine)
06 talk (John Prine)
07 Illegal Smile (John Prine)
08 talk (John Prine)
09 Illegal Smile [Reprise] (John Prine)
10 talk (John Prine)
11 Donald and Lydia (John Prine)
12 Sam Stone (John Prine)
13 talk (John Prine)
14 Dear Abby (John Prine)
15 Rocky Mountain Time (John Prine)
16 Pretty Good (John Prine)
17 Hello in There (John Prine)
18 talk (John Prine)
19 Grandpa Was a Carpenter (John Prine)
20 talk (John Prine)
21 Christmas in Prison (John Prine)
22 Paradise (John Prine)
23 talk (John Prine)
24 My Mexican Home (John Prine)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/p8njoCMR

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/tzZABPasBonY6JS/file

The cover image comes from a concert at the Symphony Hall in Atlanta, Georgia, on April 26, 1974.

Taj Mahal - Ebbets Field, Denver, CO, 5-16-1973, Late Show

The album I just posted is Taj Mahal performing at Ebbets Field in Denver on May 16, 1973, for the early show. This is the same, except it's the late show. The two shows have very similar set lists. (And both were broadcast on the radio, which is why they have such excellent sound quality.) Normally, I wouldn't post two concerts that are this similar. But I figure these are quite obscure. I had a difficult time finding them. So I want to post both, to bring them back into wider circulation.

The main difference between this show and the early show is the last two songs, which were only performed in this show. Plus, the last four songs in the early show weren't performed here. So if you want everything without multiple versions of songs, I suggest you save the early show, then add the last two songs from this late show to the end.

By the way, in case you didn't notice, I recently changed the font type and color for the Ebbets Field concerts I've been posting. The first seven or so had a yellow color. But there were some troublesome issues with that font. So when I found another sixty (!) or so concerts from this venue, I decided to use an easier one. I also found a little logo from the venue showing the baseball stadium in New York City that the venue was named after. I decided to stick that on all the albums from that venue. Since that logo was mainly in green, I changed the font color to green. In recent days, I went back and reposted all the yellow ones to the new color scheme, so they'll all be consistent. 

This album is 54 minutes long.

01 talk (Taj Mahal)
02 Kalimba [Instrumental] (Taj Mahal)
03 talk (Taj Mahal)
04 Banjo Rag [Instrumental] (Taj Mahal)
05 Cakewalk into Town (Taj Mahal)
06 Going Up to the Country, Paint My Mailbox Blue (Taj Mahal)
07 Ain't Nobody's Business but My Own (Taj Mahal)
08 talk (Taj Mahal)
09 Big Legged Mammas Are Back in Style (Taj Mahal)
10 Fishin' Blues (Taj Mahal)
11 Sweet Home Chicago (Taj Mahal)
12 Linin' Track Blues (Taj Mahal)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/ZtaaiayH

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/zRL9jT3pDSQnOT8/file

The cover image is from Great Southeast Music in Atlanta, Georgia, on November 26, 1973. The original was in black and white, but I colorized it with the use of the Kolorize program. Note that I took the picture from the early show from the same show. I like the similarity, since I figure he would have worn the same clothes in the two shows performed on this date.

Taj Mahal - Ebbets Field, Denver, CO, 5-16-1973, Early Show

The recent flood of posts from the Ebbets Field radio broadcasts continues. Here's Taj Mahal. I'll be posting both the early and late shows he did the same night.

This concert was in solo acoustic mode. Mostly, he played guitar. But he also played a little banjo, as well as an African instrument known as the kalimba (also known as the mbira). On the cover image, he can be seen playing a banjo.

His most recent album at the time was "Recycling the Blues and Other Related Stuff," released in 1972. He has an instrumental on that album simply called "Kalimba," which is how I know the name of that song. (I had to figure out most of the song titles, since the bootleg I took the music from was bad with titles.) "Cakewalk into Town" and "Corrina" are the only other songs he played from that album. 

The music here is unreleased. The sound quality is excellent. But I did do a fair amount of audio editing in the Audacity program to improve things. Some parts were too loud, sometimes the vocals were too low, and so on.

This album is 51 minutes long. 

01 Banjo Rag [Instrumental] (Taj Mahal)
02 talk (Taj Mahal)
03 Kalimba [Instrumental] (Taj Mahal)
04 Cakewalk into Town (Taj Mahal)
05 Big Legged Mammas Are Back in Style (Taj Mahal)
06 Going Up to the Country, Paint My Mailbox Blue (Taj Mahal)
07 Ain't Nobody's Business but My Own (Taj Mahal)
08 Fishin' Blues (Taj Mahal)
09 Straight Shootin' Blues (Taj Mahal)
10 Ain't Gwine Whistle Dixie [Any Mo'] (Taj Mahal)
11 Done Changed My Way of Living (Taj Mahal)
12 Corrina [Corinna] (Taj Mahal)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/UEQAJ8sk

alternate:

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

The cover image is from Great Southeast Music in Atlanta, Georgia, on November 26, 1973. The original was in black and white, but I colorized it with the use of the Kolorize program.