As I mentioned previously, I'm not numbering these per se. But I'm posting them in order of the first date mentioned in the title. The two previously posted ones contained music from September 19, 1979 (and sometimes after). This one is from September 20th, and after. Specifically, tracks one to five are from the September 19th concert in Madison Square Garden. Tracks six through ten are from the September 23rd concert at Battery Park. (That was a free concert with a much larger crowd.) Tracks 11 and 12 are from the September 23rd concert in Madison Square Garden.
Bonnie Raitt was one of the main movers and shakers behind the No Nukes concerts. She co-founded the non-profit for the concerts, MUSE (Musicians United for Safe Energy) along with Jackson Browne, John Hall, and Graham Nash. She actually has been very politically active for her entire music career, performing at countless benefit concerts. But she's not well known as some others for being an activist because she almost never puts political songs on her studio albums. However, she made a partial exception here. She rewrote a generic blues song with anti-nuclear power lyrics for the song "No Nuke Blues." Unfortunately though, she never officially released it.
At the time of these concerts, Raitt had only had one hit, "Runaway," in 1977. So it's fitting that's the last song here. The same month as these concerts, Raitt released a studio album, "The Glow." Two of the songs she performed were from that: "Standin' by the Same Old Love" and "I Thank You."
I've already posted a No Nukes album by John Hall. In addition to singing and writing songs for his band Orleans, he's written songs for others. "Good Enough" here was written by him and his wife Johanna Hall. Raitt did a version of it for her 1975 album "Home Plate." So it was nice they did a version here as a duet.
One song Raitt did, "Runaway," was included on the official "No Nukes" album. But she played multiple concerts and probably did that one each time, so I don't know if this version is the same as the released one. Everything else here is unreleased.
This album is 40 minutes long.
01 talk (Bonnie Raitt)
02 Good Enough (Bonnie Raitt & John Hall)
03 talk (Bonnie Raitt)
04 Standin' by the Same Old Love (Bonnie Raitt)
05 Under the Falling Sky (Bonnie Raitt)
06 No Nuke Blues (Bonnie Raitt)
07 I Thank You (Bonnie Raitt)
08 Angel from Montgomery (Bonnie Raitt)
09 talk (Bonnie Raitt)
10 Give It Up or Let Me Go (Bonnie Raitt)
11 About to Make Me Leave Home (Bonnie Raitt)
12 Runaway (Bonnie Raitt)
The cover photo comes from one of the No Nukes concerts. I don't know which one. Also, I found this as a black and white photo. I used the program Palette to help me colorize it.
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