Southern Pacific
Westwood One Presents L 89-21
For broadcast the week of May15, 1989
Recorded at:
Chuck Landis' Country Club
Reseda, CA
August 23, 1988
01 Intro - Jim Duncan
02 Wheels on the Line
03 A Thing About You
04 A Girl Like Emmylou
05 Westwood One Presents 89-21 Break - Jim Duncan
06 Commercial - Motel 6 Tom Bodett
07 Commercial - American Express Karl Malden
08 Midnight Highway
09 New Shade of Blue
10 I Go To Pieces
11 Westwood One Presents 89-21 Break - Jim Duncan
12 Commercial - Phillips 66
13 Commercial - Teledisc Lynn Anderson
14 Honey, I Dare You
15 Don’t Let Go Of My Heart
16 Westwood One Presents 89-21 Break - Jim Duncan
17 Commercial - Manwich
18 Commercial - American Express Karl Malden
19 Commercial - Nestea
20 Dream On
21 Reno Bound
22 Westwood One Presents 89-21 Break - Jim Duncan
23 Commercial - American Express Karl Malden
24 Commercial - Motel 6 Tom Bodett
25 Pink Cadillac
26 Westwood One Presents 89-21 Outro - Jim Duncan
Run out grooves
Side One: LG·89-21-1 MDC KM(stamp)
Side Two: LG·89-21-2 MDC KM(stamp)
Southern Pacific was a country rock band working from 1983 to 1991, based in California, with drummer Keith Knudsen and guitarist John McFee as the core members playing on all of their four albums. Knudsen had been in the Doobie Brothers (1974-1982), while McFee played with Van Morrison, Steve Miller, and Elvis Costello, and was a member of Clover with Huey Lewis. They were named after the railroad company (which later evolved into Sprint, the telecommunications company).
They never issued a live album, but recorded two live recordings for Westwood One, and another for DIR Broadcasting's Silver Eagle Cross Country Music Show. The DIR show is up (as of Nov. 2021) in streaming audio for members at wolfgangs.com.
The first and second Westwood One show was recorded at the San Diego Wild Animal Park, San Diego, CA in August of 1986 (they played three shows opening for Doug Kershaw Aug. 15, 16, and 17, 1986)
This was released for syndication as LG 87-11 and also L 88-16. Both shows are identical set lists as follows:
Reno Bound
Perfect Stranger
I Go To Pieces
A Girl Like Emmylou
Don’t Let Go Of My Heart
Road Song
Lodi
Pink Cadillac
Blueberry Wine
A Thing About You
Tulsa Time
The second was this show, at the Country Club, Reseda, August 23, 1988:
L 89-21
Wheels on the Line
A Thing About You
A Girl Like Emmylou
Midnight Highway
New Shade of Blue
I Go To Pieces
Honey, I Dare You
Don’t Let Go Of My Heart
Dream On
Reno Bound
Pink Cadillac
As usual, there was a bit of a mystery as there was no recording date mentioned for the show.
At the start of "New Shade of Blue" the singer says "This is the current single off the Zuma album." "New Shade of Blue" was released in July 1988 as the second single from the album Zuma. That gave me a probable year...and a search on newspapers.com came up with listings for a Southern Pacific show on August 23, 1988. There were no results for 1989.
As part of the search for the date of this show, I ran across an L.A. Times article from earlier in the year (Feb. 1988) where the Country Club had been "stripped of permits needed for its mix of concerts, boxing matches, and other events" by a Los Angeles city zoning officer.
The Country Club was at 18415 Sherman Way, Reseda, CA. While the club itself faced on a retail strip, the back end of their parking lot was next to single family homes. The description of the club says, "three full bars, no age limit".
What could go wrong, eh?
I've included the article for reference, but they clearly got their permit back in time for this show.
The upcoming shows on their ad have great diversity that week, with bands like Roxanne, singer Stan Bush (rock), Persian singer Shahrokh, Southern Pacific (country rock).
This version digitized November 2021 from the original syndicated radio disc. I cleaned up the tracks in Audacity. Flac files of wavs. You can 300 dpi scans of the cue sheet, both disc labels, and the aforementioned articles and ads.