Freddie King - Ebbets Field, Denver, CO, 5-27-1974

The flood of posts from the Ebbets Field radio broadcasts continues. Here's a 1974 show starring Freddie King.

I posted one Freddie King concert so far. It also is from 1974, but I didn't know the date. This one is a little bit better, I think. It definitely is longer, well over double the length. I've done enough of these Ebbets Field shows that I'm pretty confident this had to be an early show and a late show, since that was the constant pattern for the venue. But I don't know where the break took place, if that's true. Also, no song was played twice.

These Ebbets Field concerts almost always sound excellent, with few problems, which is a big reason why I'm prioritizing posting them. But there were some flaws with this recording. One is that some songs had missing pieces. For "Come On, Part 1" and "Have You Ever Loved a Woman," I was able to make fixes. That's why those two have "[Edit]" in their titles. But for the song "That's Alright," I couldn't find any live versions of the same song from around the same time to use for a fix. So I had to leave that one incomplete.

The music here is unreleased. 

This album is an hour and 49 minutes long. 

01 talk by emcee (Freddie King)
02 I'm Ready (Freddie King)
03 Ain't No Sunshine (Freddie King)
04 Ghetto Woman (Freddie King)
05 Come On, Part 1 [Let the Good Times Roll] [Edit] (Freddie King)
06 Pack It Up (Freddie King)
07 Have You Ever Loved a Woman [Edit] (Freddie King)
08 Blues No. 4 [Instrumental] (Freddie King)
09 T.V. Mama (Freddie King)
10 Going Down (Freddie King)
11 Wee Baby Blues (Freddie King)
12 Going Down [Reprise] [Instrumental] (Freddie King)
13 talk by emcee (Freddie King)
14 talk (Freddie King)
15 That's Alright [Incomplete] (Freddie King)
16 Big Legged Woman (Freddie King)
17 Sweet Home Chicago (Freddie King)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/1Bmt1iK9 

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/nndTKyb50KJtSf5/file

The cover image is from Alex Cooley's Electric Ballroom on January 7, 1974, in Atlanta, Georgia.

Covered: Geoff Stephens: 1964-2002

I recently posted a couple of "Covered" albums dealing with British professional songwriters from the 1960s and 1970s (as I write this in May 2026). As I said elsewhere, there was a circle of a dozen or more who often collaborated with each other, and wrote lots of pop hits. Here's another one from that group, Geoff Stephens.

Many of the other songwriters in this group that I've been discussing came up with the British Invasion, the musical trend that started around 1963. But Stephens was slightly older - he was 29 years old in 1963- and his music career began before that. He served in the military for a couple of years and held a series of odd jobs before getting serious about songwriting. His first song was covered by a musical act in 1961. 

His first hit was "Tell Me When" in 1964, co-written by Les Reed, another songwriter in that group. I've already posted the hit version by the Applejacks in the "Covered" album for Barry Mason and Les Reed. So I went with a different version here. Later that same year, he had an even bigger hit with a song he wrote all by himself, "The Crying Game." The version by Dave Berry went all the way to the Top Five in Britain, although it wasn't a hit. (Boy George eventually had a hit in the U.S. with it in 1992.) It had an unusual melody, showing surprising musical sophistication for a pop hit 1964.

He had an even bigger hit in 1966 with "Winchester Cathedral," performed by the New Vaudeville Band. It actually was recorded by session musicians. The lead vocalist was John Carter, another songwriter I've profiled with a "Covered" album." Stephens had a fondness for vaudeville/ music hall music from the 1920s and earlier, and wrote the song in that vein. It was such a massive success - hitting Number One in the U.S. and some other countries, and selling three million copies worldwide - that it started a mini-vaudeville trend for the next couple of years. Few British artists could resist performing at least one or two songs in that style, for some reason.

Sometimes, Stephens was the sole songwriter, as was the case with "Winchester Cathedral." But more often, he wrote with other members of that unnamed British professional songwriter group. For instance, "There's a Kind of Hush" was written with Les Reed, "Sorry Suzanne" was written with Tony Macaulay, "My Sentimental Friend" was written with John Carter, "Daddy Don't You Walk So Fast" was written with Peter Callander, and so on. As you can see, Stephens didn't favor just one songwriting partner. In fact, he had many more, including Roger Greenaway, Barry Mason, Don Black, and Mitch Murray. All of those other people have their own "Covered" albums, or their albums are coming.

Stephens had many more hits through most of the 1970s, until about 1978. In fact, one of his biggest hits was one of his last, since "Silver Lady" by David Soul went to Number One in Britain in 1977. (That one was co-written with Tony Macaulay, by the way.) But musical styles changed drastically in the late 1970s, with the rise of disco, punk, and new wave. So his hits stopped at that time, as was the case with most of the other songwriters in that group he'd been working with since the mid-1960s. 

Starting in the early 1980s, he mostly switched to writing songs for musicals. In doing so, he still collaborated with people from that same group, writing different musicals with Don Black, Les Reed, and Peter Callander. He died in 2020 at the age of 86.

Here's his Wikipedia page:

Geoff Stephens - Wikipedia 

Because Stephens often wrote with other songwriters who have their own "Covered" albums, sometimes I've resorted to using non-hit versions, so the same versions don't appear on two different albums. So, for instance, I have "Sorry Suzanne" here by the Glass Bottle, instead of the hit version by the Hollies. "Smile a Little Smile for Me" is an outliner, because I chose a late cover for the same reason. The hit version was in 1970. Without that one, this album would end in 1980. 

This album is one hour long. 

01 Tell Me When (Jaybirds)
02 The Crying Game (Dave Berry)
03 Semi-Detached Suburban Mr. James (Manfred Mann)
04 Winchester Cathedral (New Vaudeville Band)
05 My World Fell Down (Ivy League)
06 There's a Kind of Hush (Herman's Hermits)
07 Boy (Lulu)
08 Sunshine Girl (Herman's Hermits)
09 Lights of Cincinnati (Scott Walker)
10 My Sentimental Friend (Herman's Hermits)
11 Sorry Suzanne (Glass Bottle)
12 Knock, Knock, Who's There (Mary Hopkin)
13 Daughter of Darkness (Tom Jones)
14 Daddy Don't You Walk So Fast (Wayne Newton)
15 You Won't Find Another Fool like Me (New Seekers)
16 Doctor's Orders (Carol Douglas)
17 Silver Lady (David Soul)
18 It's Like We Never Said Goodbye (Crystal Gayle)
19 Like Sister and Brother (Frank Hooker & Positive People)
20 Smile a Little Smile for Me (Chris von Sneidern)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/bm3YSnFy

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/pEoVVFc3lzQ7Bfp/file

I don't know anything about the cover image except that it's "circa 1970." The original was in black and white. I colorized it with the use of the Kolorize program.

Martha Reeves - Don Kirshner’s Rock Concert, Hofstra Playhouse, Hempstead, NY, 3-23-1974

Here's something I stumbled across on YouTube yesterday. I liked it so much that I decided to post it right away. Martha Reeves was the lead singer of Martha and the Vandellas in the 1960s, which later changed its name to Martha Reeves and the Vandellas. They had a lot of big hits for Motown Records, including the all-time classics "Heat Wave," "Nowhere to Run," and "Dancing in the Street."

But as the 1960s turned into the 1970s, Reeves and the Vandellas weren't given the top songs written by Motown's songwriters. Motown basically self-destructed in the early 1970s anyway, especially due to the terrible decision to move the company from Detroit to Los Angeles to make movies (which generally didn't materialize). So Reeves managed to get out of her Motown contract in 1972, and broke up the Vandellas to pursue a solo career.

Unfortunately, her solo career never took off like it should have. She was signed by M.C.A. records, and they literally spared no expense with her debut album, the cleverly titled "Martha Reeves." I say they "spared no expense" because it cost $250,000 to record, which was one of the most expensive record productions ever up until that time. But the record didn't take advantage of her talents, being overproduced, and it didn't sell well. Her next couple of albums suffered the same fate. Then she became a born-again Christian in 1977. She also directed more of her energy to acting, letting her music career slide for several years.

Given all that, I didn't have high expectations when listening to this. But I was really impressed. It seems the songs from her debut album were given new life when performed live. It helped that she had a crack band. I was especially interested to find out that the bass player was none other than James Jamerson, one of the greatest bass players of all time. He was part of the Motown house band (nicknamed the Funk Brothers) in the 1960s and early 1970s, but he rarely performed live in a band like this. But, listening to his playing here, you can hear why he's so highly praised. 

Since the main performance from "Don Kirshner's Rock Concert" is rather short, at only 22 minutes, I searched to see if I could add a few more songs at the end. There wasn't much. This seems to be the only concert appearance from this era more than a song or two, and they were usually songs already included here. But I did find two songs performed on the "Saturday Night Live" T.V. show in 1975, and one song on the "Midnight Special" T.V. show in 1976. That one, by the way, featured Barry Manilow on piano, since he performed a song right before her, and another one right after.

The first song, "Wild Night," has "[Edit]" in its title because there was an emcee voice-over for about the first 15 seconds. I got rid of that in the usual way, using the MVSEP program. By the way, speaking of that song, how the heck was this not a hit?! It sure sounds like a winner to me. It only made it to Number 75 on the R&B singles chart, and didn't make the main U.S. singles chart at all. Van Morrison's original version in 1971 also had trouble. It was a minor hit, but not the big smash it deserved to be. It took John Mellancamp and Meshell Ndegeocello to finally give the song the success it deserved all along, making it to Number Three in the U.S. singles chart in 1994.

One final aside. I'm not actually sure of the location of this concert. Most episodes of the "Don Kirshner's Rock Concert" were filmed in this location in 1974, so that's why I went with it. But some episodes were filmed elsewhere. So this is a best guess, until I can hear something definitive. 

Everything here is unreleased. The sound quality is excellent. 

This album is 30 minutes long.  

01 Wild Night [Edit] (Martha Reeves)
02 [I've Got to Use] My Imagination (Martha Reeves)
03 There's a Storm in My Soul (Martha Reeves)
04 Ain't That Peculiar (Martha Reeves)
05 Love [Makes Me Do Foolish Things] (Martha Reeves)
06 Power of Love (Martha Reeves)
07 Silver Bells (Martha Reeves)
08 [Your Love Keeps Lifting Me] Higher and Higher (Martha Reeves)
09 Dancing in the Street (Martha Reeves)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/3k8Sb9Dj

alternate: 

https://bestfile.io/sCsDKFGyxtCi69F/file

The cover image is a screenshot I took from a YouTube video of this exact concert. 

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.

Van Morrison - Armadillo World Headquarters, Austin, TX, 1-12-1974

Here's something pretty awesome: a previously unknown Van Morrison bootleg from 1974, with pristine soundboard sound quality! It's pretty amazing these sorts of things keep popping up, even more than 50 years after the original performance. This one showed up at a prominent bootleg sharing site a couple of days ago (posted by BK for JEMS) as I write this in May 2026. I grabbed it there and made some edits to make it sound even better.

Sometimes, a soundboard recording captures the music on stage so very well that little audience noise is recorded. That was the case here. It almost sounded like Van and his band was performing to an empty room. I used the MVSEP program to separate the crowd noise from everything else, for every song. I found there was some crowd noise there, just very quiet. Because the sound quality is so excellent, I was able to drastically boost the volume of just the cheering at the ends of songs without having a lot of hiss too. Now, this sounds much better with the cheering at the usual expected volume, in my opinion.

There were a couple of sonic flaws. The first song (which is called "4 O'Clock in the Morning" on an official live album and "Try for Sleep" on an official studio album) is missing a bit of the very beginning. There was nothing I could do to fix this, since this song was performed extremely rarely until the 1990s and after. In "Don't Look Back," there was a burst of static that lasted a couple of seconds in the middle of the song. I was able to get rid of most of it, though not all of it, by using an MVSEP filter that reduces unwanted noise. Finally, the first minute or so of "Cyprus Avenue" was missing. So I found a similar version from the same era (specifically, a concert at the Troubadour in Los Angeles, on May 26, 1973), and used that to patch in the missing section. That's why two of the songs have "[Edit]" in their titles.

Most of the songs were pretty standard in Morrison's concerts at the time. But the first song was rarely performed, as mentioned above. Ditto with "Don't Look Back," a John Lee Hooker song he originally did with Them in the 1960s. He'd only performed it once in concert prior to this. That's the same with "The Wild Side of Life." But while Morrison occasionally performed "Don't Look Back" in later years, this seems to be the second and last time he ever did it in concert. He probably played it because this was his first concert in Texas, and Hank Thompson, who had the original hit with that song, was from rural Texas.

This album is an hour and 26 minutes long. 

01 4 O'Clock in the Morning [Try for Sleep] (Van Morrison)
02 Come Running (Van Morrison)
03 Moondance (Van Morrison)
04 Don't Look Back [Edit] (Van Morrison)
05 Ain't Nothin' You Can Do (Van Morrison)
06 Into the Mystic (Van Morrison)
07 I Just Want to Make Love to You (Van Morrison)
08 Warm Love (Van Morrison)
09 Listen to the Lion (Van Morrison)
10 I've Been Working (Van Morrison)
11 Domino (Van Morrison)
12 Caravan (Van Morrison)
13 Cyprus Avenue [Edit] (Van Morrison)
14 talk by emcee (Van Morrison)
15 Gloria (Van Morrison)
16 The Wild Side of Life (Van Morrison) 

https://pixeldrain.com/u/M9bbLqBp

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/bFfUnxrS1U0Gb4e/file

I could have used a photo of Van Morrison in concert at this time, but I found a concert poster for him from 1974, and I decided to use that instead. I removed some text, and added other text, but I kept the same font type, color, and sizes. I also used an AI feature inside Photoshop to widen the image on both sides to help make it fit into a square space. 

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. 

Covered: Randy Newman, Volume 2: 1973-1999

Here's the second out of three "Covered" albums for singer-songwriter Randy Newman.

As I mentioned in "Volume 1," in the early 1970s, Newman was considered a cult albums, very critically acclaimed, but with not much commercial success for his own career. Even the many covers of his songs were rarely hits, though there were exceptions, especially "Mama Told Me (Not to Come)," which was a Number One hit in the U.S. for Three Dog Night in 1970.

But things changed drastically for him in 1977, with the song "Short People." To pretty much everyone's surprise, his version was an massive novelty hit. It made it all the way to Number Two in the U.S., kept out of the top spot only by the all-time classic "Stayin' Alive" by the Bee Gees. It was wildly misunderstood, to say the least. A great many of his songs are sarcastic. For instance, his great song "Political Science" sarcastically advocates for blowing up the world with nuclear weapons. Many people who heard "Short People" didn't realize it was a sarcastic attack on prejudice by pointing out how silly it would be to hate short people for no reason, including ignoring the lyrics of the bridge, which explicitly run counter to the rest of the song. 

But in any case, the song made him a household name, even though his overall sales still didn't increase much. His only two really big hits on the singles charts remain "Short People" and "Mama Told Me (Not to Come)." Since Newman's version of "Short People" is so well known, it's the only song in this series I've included that's performed by him.

I also want to give a special mention to "Sail Away." I think it's an incredible song. But it also shows how unique his songwriting is, and how easy it can be for people to misunderstand his songs if they don't pay attention. It's basically an advertisement for a slave trader prior to the Civil War, attempting to coax Black Africans to come to the U.S. for a better life, when in fact the trader is tricking them into slavery. Yet somehow this sarcastic premise becomes a powerful song about the evils of slavery. It's been widely covered, including by the likes of Bobby Darin, Etta James, Linda Ronstadt, Ray Charles, Gladys Knight, Joe Cocker, and Kirsty MacColl. It was hard for me to pick just one cover, but I thought the version by Etta James is extra powerful.

From the start of Newman's songwriting career, he'd had a sideline writing instrumental music for T.V. shows, which then led to movie soundtrack work. That began way back in 1962, as I mentioned in the previous volume. His first movie soundtrack was in 1971. He did a few more movies here and there over the next couple decades. But his career took a turn in 1995, when he did the soundtrack for the hit movie "Toy Story." One song he did for that, "You've Got a Friend in Me," wasn't a hit per se, barely reaching the singles chart. But it became widely known, and widely beloved by children, and it's gone on to sell over three million copies! Surely that makes it one of the best selling non-hits ever. 

For that song, I've included a duet version between Newman and Lyle Lovett, since it's an interesting one that's also much less well known than the version just featuring Newman.

This album is 50 minutes long. 

01 Have You Seen My Baby [Hold On] (Ringo Starr)
02 Sail Away (Etta James)
03 Last Night I Had a Dream (Fanny)
04 Let's Burn Down the Cornfield (Etta James)
05 Naked Man (Grass Roots)
06 Lucinda (Joe Cocker)
07 Short People (Randy Newman)
08 Baltimore (Nina Simone)
09 Mr. President (Marshall Tucker Band)
10 You Can Leave Your Hat On (Joe Cocker)
11 Louisiana 1927 (Aaron Neville)
12 Political Science (Everything but the Girl)
13 You've Got a Friend in Me (Randy Newman & Lyle Lovett)
14 Feels like Home (Emmylou Harris, Linda Ronstadt & Dolly Parton)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/6SB3U9ZA

alternate: 

https://bestfile.io/en/f6YT8V3gAvHLIQ3/file 

The cover image is from 1978.

Caravan - Ebbets Field, Denver, CO, 11-11-1974

The flood of concerts from the Ebbets Field radio broadcasts continues. This time, it's the British prog rock band Caravan.

I've only posted one other Caravan album at this blog so far. By a remarkable chance, it's from a concert that took place ONE DAY before this one! They performed for another radio show, "Live at the Record Plant," in California. Here's the link to that one:

https://albumsthatshouldexist.blogspot.com/2026/01/caravan-live-at-record-plant-record.html

It's unfortunate that the two are so similar. But luckily there are a couple of songs performed here not performed on that one, and vice versa.

Three of the songs here were released on the massive 37 CD box set "Who Do You Think We Are." Those three are tracks 3, 4, and 7. I got everything else from a bootleg. The officially released tracks generally didn't have applause at their ends, so I filled those in by bringing in some cheering from the other songs.

The sound quality is excellent. 

This album is 50 minutes long. 

01 Be All Right - Chance of a Lifetime (Caravan)
02 Memory Lain, Hugh - Headloss (Caravan)
03 L'Auberge du Sanglier - A Hunting We Shall Go - Pengola - Backwards [Instrumental] (Caravan)
04 For Richard (Caravan)
05 talk by emcee (Caravan)
06 talk (Caravan)
07 Hoedown (Caravan)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/eamaMpvi

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/IQCGb81aB5MijY9/file

The cover photo shows band members Geoffrey Richardson (on violin) and David Sinclair (on keyboards). In the original, the two of them were farther away. But I used Photoshop to move them closer, so I could have them be larger in the image. It's from a concert in Berkeley, California, in the same month of November 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.

Roy Buchanan - Ebbets Field, Denver, CO, 9-13-1974

The posting of concerts from Ebbets Field in Denver continues. This time, it's from Roy Buchanan in 1974.

Wikipedia has this to say about him: "[he was] an American guitarist and blues rock musician. A pioneer of the "Telecaster sound," Buchanan worked as a sideman and as a solo artist, with two gold albums early in his career and two later solo albums that made it to the Billboard chart. He never achieved stardom, but is considered a highly influential guitar player." He died in mysterious circumstances while in police custody in 1988, at the age of 48.

You can read his entire Wikipedia entry here:

Roy Buchanan - Wikipedia 

The music is unreleased. The sound quality is excellent. 

This album is 44 minutes long.

01 talk by emcee (Roy Buchanan)
02 Too Many Drivers (Roy Buchanan)
03 You Got Me Reeling and Rocking (Roy Buchanan)
04 My Soul Died Last Friday (Roy Buchanan)
05 talk (Roy Buchanan)
06 Get Out of My Life, Woman (Roy Buchanan)
07 C.C. Rider (Roy Buchanan)
08 I Hear You Knocking (Roy Buchanan)
09 Honky Tonk (Roy Buchanan)
10 The Messiah Will Come Again (Roy Buchanan)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/VRQSjgXR

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/eNvkAyYmmyAPZu1/file

The cover photo is from a concert in New York City in August, 1974.

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.

Joan Baez - Baez Sings Baez, Volume 2: 1972-1975 (A Fabio from Rio Guest Post)

Here's another guest post by Fabio from Rio. Joan Baez is mostly known as a singer of songs written by others. But Fabio has put together five volumes of songs written or co-written by Baez, showing that she's actually a pretty talented songwriter. Here's the second volume.

I don't have much to say, because Fabio has written extensive notes, which are included in the download file. But I'll just point out that Baez proved herself to be a talented songwriter by writing the classic "Diamonds and Rust," which was a hit in 1975. And that song is included here.  

All the songs here come from official releases. So naturally the sound quality is excellent. 

This album is an hour and 19 minutes long.

01 Prison Trilogy [Billy Rose] (Joan Baez)
02 Love Song to a Stranger (Joan Baez)
03 Myths (Joan Baez)
04 Weary Mothers [People Union 1] (Joan Baez)
05 To Bobby (Joan Baez)
06 Song of Bangladesh (Joan Baez)
07 Only Heaven Knows [Ah, the Sad Wind Blows] (Joan Baez)
08 A Young Gypsy (Joan Baez)
09 Rider, Pass By (Joan Baez)
10 Windrose (Joan Baez)
11 Where Are You Now, My Son (Joan Baez)
12 Where's My Apple Pie (Joan Baez)
13 Diamonds and Rust (Joan Baez)
14 Children and All That Jazz (Joan Baez)
15 Winds of the Old Days (Joan Baez)
16 Dida (Joan Baez with Joni Mitchell)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/2RefJk56

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/d26OuaQsQb5loJ8/file

I don't know any details about the cover photo, except that it's from 1973. Fabio picked it.

Jerry Jeff Walker - Ebbets Field, Denver, CO, 2-20-1974

Here's another concert from the Ebbets Field radio broadcasts. This one stars Jerry Jeff Walker with his band.

Walker had a long music career. (He died in 2020 at the age of 78.) He's best known as the songwriter behind "Mr. Bojangles," "Desperados Waiting for a Train," and "L.A. Freeway." All of those were hits for others. I've posted a set by Walker already, because he took part in the 1982 US Festival. 

Here's his Wikipedia entry:

Jerry Jeff Walker - Wikipedia 

Unfortunately, this concert doesn't contain "Mr. Bojangles," "Desperados Waiting for a Train," though it does include "L.A. Freeway." (The version I found listed "Desperados" as one of the songs, but when I listened to it, it was a different song. But perhaps it still is out there in some other versions.) I looked him up on rateyourmusic.com. Out of all of his dozens of albums, his 1973 album "Viva Terlingua!" gets the highest average ratings. That's lucky, since this concert took place only three months after the release of that album and contains some songs from it.

The sound quality of this concert is excellent now. But I ran into some problems at first. The song list was off, with most of the song order being off by one, and some of the titles just wrong. So I fixed that. The balance was often off, with some songs way too loud and others way too quiet, and the banter very quiet. But I was able to fix all that as well. 

This album is an hour and two minutes long. The music here is unreleased.

01 talk (Jerry Jeff Walker)
02 Gettin' By (Jerry Jeff Walker)
03 I Like to Sleep Late in the Morning (Jerry Jeff Walker)
04 talk (Jerry Jeff Walker)
05 All She Left Me Holdin' (Jerry Jeff Walker)
06 talk (Jerry Jeff Walker)
07 The Continuing Saga of the Classic Bummer [Or Is This My One-Way Bus Ticket to Cleveland] (Jerry Jeff Walker)
08 Get It Out (Jerry Jeff Walker)
09 talk (Jerry Jeff Walker)
10 More Often than Not (Jerry Jeff Walker)
11 The First Showboat (Jerry Jeff Walker)
12 L.A. Freeway (Jerry Jeff Walker)
13 talk (Jerry Jeff Walker)
14 One Too Many Mornings (Jerry Jeff Walker)
15 talk (Jerry Jeff Walker)
16 Northeast Texas Woman (Jerry Jeff Walker)
17 talk (Jerry Jeff Walker)
18 My Old Man (Jerry Jeff Walker)
19 Hill Country Rain (Jerry Jeff Walker)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/DBDjmrTQ

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/4pSsKEHcU4GKKEn/file

The cover photo comes from the  Great Southeast Music Hall, in Atlanta, Georgia, on December 4, 1973. The original was in black and white, but I colorized it with the use of the Kolorize program.

Maria Muldaur - Ebbets Field, Denver, CO, 1-30-1974

Here's another concert from the Ebbets Field radio broadcasts. This one stars Maria Muldaur.

Muldaur is best known for the song "Midnight at the Oasis," which was written by David Nichtern, a member of her band. It reached Number Six on the U.S. singles chart in 1974. But actually, in terms of sales it should have been a Number One, because it was the 13th biggest single of the year. It was a slow grower, and stayed on the chart a long time. It was released as a single in November 1973, but didn't reach its peak chart position until June 1974. The reason I mention all that is because this concert took place right when that song was starting to climb the charts. So, while it was performed in this concert, probably neither she nor anyone in the audience realized yet what a massive hit it would be.

This concert came a few months after the release of her debut solo album, the cleverly titled "Maria Muldaur." But she'd had two albums prior to that as a duet with her husband at the title Geoff Muldaur.

 

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

This album is an hour long.

01 talk (Maria Muldaur)
02 Chauffeur Blues (Maria Muldaur)
03 talk (Maria Muldaur)
04 Any Old Time (Maria Muldaur)
05 talk (Maria Muldaur)
06 Midnight at the Oasis (Maria Muldaur)
07 talk (Maria Muldaur)
08 In My Tennessee Mountain Home (Maria Muldaur)
09 talk (Maria Muldaur)
10 Sweet Potato (Maria Muldaur)
11 talk (Maria Muldaur)
12 Three Dollar Bill (Maria Muldaur)
13 talk (Maria Muldaur)
14 I Never Did Sing You a Love Song (Maria Muldaur)
15 talk (Maria Muldaur)
16 Walkin' One and Only (Maria Muldaur)
17 talk (Maria Muldaur)
18 The Work Song (Maria Muldaur)
19 talk (Maria Muldaur)
20 Earl's Crab Shack (Maria Muldaur)
21 talk (Maria Muldaur)
22 Georgia on My Mind (Maria Muldaur)
23 talk (Maria Muldaur)
24 I'm a Woman (Maria Muldaur)
25 talk by emcee (Maria Muldaur) 

https://pixeldrain.com/u/Yt4QwXuG

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/KGJjNvv5Rt9fZ0r/file

The cover photo is from a 1974 concert at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium.

Tom Rush and Orphan - Ebbets Field, Denver, CO, 10-22-1974

Here's a 1974 concert by singer-songwriter Tom Rush. For the first fifteen minutes the band Orphan played some of their own songs without him. Then for the remainder of the show, he performed with Orphan backing him up.

In recent days, I've been really getting into the recordings of concerts from the Ebbets Field venue in Denver, Colorado. One reason I like it is because it was a small venue, holding only about 250 people, so they got some lesser known musical acts there. Yet they had excellent taste, and lots of their concerts were professionally recorded and broadcast on a local radio station. Thus, we get recordings from the likes of Tom Rush, when there are very, very few concert recordings of him from this era, due to him not being a big name. So expect a lot more along these lines with future Ebbets Field posts.

Tom Rush was one of the first of the singer-songwriters that came out of the 1960s folk movement. His first album was released in 1962. In addition to writing many of his own songs, he was one of the first to record versions of songs by other emerging singer-songwriters like Joni Mitchell, Jackson Browne, and James Taylor, helping them establish their careers. His most famous original song is "No Regrets," which he wrote in 1968. The Walker Brothers had a big hit with it in 1975.

Here's his Wikipedia entry. He's 85 years old as I write this in 2026.

Tom Rush - Wikipedia 

Rush's music career proceeded in the normal way until 1974, with him releasing a new album every year or two. But his 1974 album "Ladies Love Outlaws," which he was touring to promote when this concert happened, would be his last album for a while. He got burned out on his music career, especially touring, and retired to a farm in New Hampshire. He didn't resume his music career until 1981. So this concert is a good time for a concert, marking the end of the first phase of his career.

I don't know much about the band Orphan. They're so little known that they don't even have a Wikipedia page, which is pretty unusual. However, I was able to learn from elsewhere that they released studio albums in 1972, 1973, and 1974. They seem to have broken up or faded away after that. But this concert isn't the only time they appear in my music collection. I also have a 1972 bootleg concert of singer-songwriter Jonathan Edwards where they backed him, just like they backed Rush here. Perhaps I'll post that one sometime soon, because it's a good one. They mentioned their previous connection Edwards in some of their banter between songs, and played one of his songs, "Train of Glory."

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

This album is an hour and 15 minutes long. Just the Tom Rush set is exactly an hour long.

01 talk by Larry Bruce (Orphan)
02 It's a Good Day (Orphan)
03 talk (Orphan)
04 Everyone Lives to Sing (Orphan)
05 It's So Hard (Orphan)
06 Be My Woman Tonight (Orphan)
07 talk (Orphan)
08 Train of Glory (Orphan)
09 talk by Larry Bruce (Tom Rush with Orphan)
10 Jenny Lynn (Tom Rush with Orphan)
11 talk (Tom Rush with Orphan)
12 Desperados Waiting for a Train (Tom Rush with Orphan)
13 talk (Tom Rush with Orphan)
14 Mother Earth (Tom Rush with Orphan)
15 talk (Tom Rush with Orphan)
16 Hobo's Mandolin (Tom Rush with Orphan)
17 talk (Tom Rush with Orphan)
18 The Panama Limited (Tom Rush with Orphan)
19 talk (Tom Rush with Orphan)
20 Child's Song (Tom Rush with Orphan)
21 Who Do You Love (Tom Rush with Orphan)
22 talk (Tom Rush with Orphan)
23 No Regrets (Tom Rush with Orphan)
24 talk (Tom Rush with Orphan)
25 Ladies Love Outlaws (Tom Rush with Orphan)
26 talk (Tom Rush with Orphan)
27 Glory Road (Tom Rush with Orphan)
28 talk by Larry Bruce (Tom Rush with Orphan)
29 Lost My Driving Wheel (Tom Rush with Orphan)
30 Rotunda (Tom Rush with Orphan)
31 talk by Larry Bruce (Tom Rush with Orphan)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/iASCHZt6

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/2N85SGayuGPjGJ2/file

The cover image is from a concert at the Great Southeast Music Hall in Atlanta, Georgia, on October 7, 1974. The original was in black and white, but I colorized it with the help of the Kolorize program.

Peter Frampton - Ebbets Field, Denver, CO, 3-6-1974

Here's a concert by Peter Frampton. This took place about two years before he briefly became a rock superstar with the 1976 live album "Frampton Comes Alive!"

Frampton became a rock star even before he turned 18 as the lead singer and lead guitarist of the band the Herd. Then, from 1969 to 1971, he was one of the co-leaders of the popular band Humble Pie. He quit to start a solo career. For much of the 1970s, he struggled to gain fame. For instance, this concert took place the same month he released "Somethin's Happening," his third solo album. It would only reach Number 125 on the U.S. album chart. 

But his lack of popularity would later lead to the massive success of "Frampton Comes Alive!" because he was gradually putting out lots of quality songs that not many people knew about. So when that live album came out, it was like a "greatest hits"-level collection of songs that most people had never heard before. For instance, consider, "Do You Feel like We Do," performed in this concert. It came out on a 1973 album, but wasn't released as a single, so few people knew about it. But it was released as a single off "Frampton Comes Alive!" in 1976, and would hit the Top Ten in the U.S. singles chart and become one of his most famous songs.

So, for this album, one gets to hear Frampton was he was still playing small clubs. In fact, we know this venue, Ebbets Field, only held about 250 at the most. But for a few years in the mid-1970s, many shows from this location were broadcast on a local radio station. That's why we have recordings like this that sound as good as official live albums.

Actually, this is the fifth album I'm posting that was recorded at Ebbets Field. More will be coming soon. So I just started a new "Ebbets Field Concerts" label to help you find the other ones.

Normally, these Ebbets Field broadcasts sound unusually good for their era. However, there were some problems with this one. I used a version where someone else already made some fixes. I left in a note file about that. I made some more fixes. Namely, the volume sometimes surged loud or quiet on the first couple of songs. But I was able to adjust that using the Audacity program. If you listen now, I don't think you'll hear any remaining problems. 

The music is unreleased. The sound quality is excellent. 

This album is 53 minutes long.

01 It's a Plain Shame (Peter Frampton)
02 Doobie Wah (Peter Frampton)
03 talk (Peter Frampton)
04 Lines on My Face (Peter Frampton)
05 I Wanna to Go to the Sun (Peter Frampton)
06 talk (Peter Frampton)
07 Do You Feel like We Do (Peter Frampton)
08 talk (Peter Frampton)
09 Jumpin' Jack Flash (Peter Frampton)
10 talk (Peter Frampton)
11 White Sugar (Peter Frampton)
12 talk by emcee (Peter Frampton)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/P9cVKFGS

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/LZSqdUmKOQ6qASV/file

The cover photo was taken in London in 1974. I don't know any more details. I used the AI features inside Photoshop to add most of his left arm (the one on the opposite side of the microphone) because that was missing in the original.

Country Joe McDonald - BBC Sessions, Volume 3: 1974-1977

Here is another album of Country Joe McDonald performing for the BBC. This album consists of a series of BBC studio sessions.

This album consists of three different sessions. The first two songs are from an appearance on the “Old Gray Whistle Test” BBC TV show in 1974. Tracks four through seven are from the same show, but an episode in 1976. The remaining songs are from an appearance on John Peel’s BBC radio show in 1977. I couldn’t find any BBC performances after that year. However, I did find a 1975 concert. So that will be the subject of the fourth and final volume, unless some other material emerges.

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

This album is 46 minutes long. 

01 Holy Roller (Country Joe McDonald)
02 talk (Country Joe McDonald)
03 Living in the Country (Country Joe McDonald)
04 Save the Whales (Country Joe McDonald)
05 talk (Country Joe McDonald)
06 Our Wedding Day (Country Joe McDonald)
07 Breakfast for Two (Country Joe McDonald)
08 The Man from Athabaska (Country Joe McDonald)
09 Get It Together (Country Joe McDonald)
10 La Di Da (Country Joe McDonald)
11 Tricky Dicky (Country Joe McDonald)
12 Save the Whales (Country Joe McDonald)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/1gKCFuu6

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/fMMtxoNDznV1Swm/file

The cover photo is from the Bread and Roses Festival at the Greek Theatre, in Berkeley, California, on October 9, 1977.

Country Joe McDonald - BBC Sessions, Volume 1: 1970-1972

I left for a two-week vacation about two weeks ago. (I'm writing this in late March 2026.) Around the time I left, I heard that singer-songwriter Country Joe McDonald had died. Specifically, he died on March 7, 2026, at the age of 84, of complications from Parkinson's Disease. 

To be honest, I can't say I'm that familiar with his discography. But since he died, I wanted to see if there were any worthy albums I could post of his music. To my surprise, I found not one, not two, not three, but four albums of unreleased material he performed for the BBC, all of it from the 1970s. Here's the first one. It consists of BBC studio sessions. 

The first seven tracks come from an appearance on John Peel's radio show, "Top Gear," in 1970. Tracks 8 and 9 are from the "One in Ten" radio show "One in Ten" in 1971. The rest of the songs are from the "Old Grey Whistle Test" TV show. Tracks 10 through 14 are from a 1972 episode. Most of the songs were performed in solo acoustic mode.

All the music here is unreleased. The sound quality is generally excellent, especially since there was no audience noise. 

This album is 40 minutes long. 

01 Hold On, It's Coming (Country Joe McDonald)
02 Balancing on the Edge of Time (Country Joe McDonald)
03 talk (Country Joe McDonald)
04 It's So Nice to Have Love (Country Joe McDonald)
05 Maria (Country Joe McDonald)
06 talk (Country Joe McDonald)
07 Tell Me Where You're Bound (Country Joe McDonald)
08 talk (Country Joe McDonald)
09 Jean Desprez (Country Joe McDonald)
10 Tricky Dick (Country Joe McDonald)
11 talk (Country Joe McDonald)
12 Trapped Inside a Fantasy (Country Joe McDonald)
13 talk (Country Joe McDonald)
14 Coulene Anne (Country Joe McDonald)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/N124GwUt

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/LXstnTF0Kdc6Uyi/file

The cover image is from an appearance on an unnamed British TV show some time in 1972. 

The Carpenters - Full Acappella, Volume 1: 1966-1976 (A Fabio from Rio Guest Post)

Back in 2018, I posted an album by the Carpenters called "Near Acappella." It featured versions of their best songs done with very minimal instrumental backing, usually just vocals, bass, and drums. Lately, I've been collaborating with Fabio from Rio on some albums. He shares my appreciation for the vocals of Karen Carpenter. I don't know what it is, but there was something very special and unique about her singing. So Fabio wanted to make a "Full Acappella" album, and he did most of the heavy lifting to make it happen. It turns out we had enough material for two albums. Here's the first one.

The rest of this write-up here was written by Fabio:

Inspired by Paul's "Near Acappella" Carpenters collection from some years ago, I decided to check if there were "full acappella" versions of Carpenters songs available, since in recent years audio tools (with or without AI) have gotten better separating vocals from instrumentals. It turns out there are indeed a lot of acappella versions of Carpenters songs out there, so I selected the best ones I could find. At first, the album I made from the acappella versions I found made for a relatively short album. So Paul suggested "two or three more tracks." But I got excited with my "new toy" (the MVSEP online tool that makes it possible to segregate all kinds of tracks from a multitrack source) and ended up creating an additional dozen tracks myself, while also finding some more. That ended up being too much for a single disc. So, as per another suggestion by Paul, this became a "twofer", or two volume collection. These albums may be considered twin siblings of the earlier "Near Acappella" collection.

I got about half of the tracks from YouTube channels or Facebook fan groups, and the remaining were done with MVSEP. I used Audacity software to exclude instrumental breaks, intros, and outros, as well as cleaning up the occasional odd instrument (a drum roll, a sax riff), in order to keep this new collection truly "full acappella." All those that have "[Edit]" in their titles had some additional cleaning done by Paul or me (other than what was already done by whoever shared the acappella tracks originally).

We (myself and Paul) discussed a bit about pros and cons of including harmony vocals (by Richard and/or backing singers, or even occasionally a full choir, like in "Sing" and "Goodnight"). Paul was inclined to keep only Karen's leading vocals. But I argued that a full album with just Karen's voice, regardless of how beautiful it is, could sound a bit monotonous, while the harmony vocals help to provide additional color and variety. So, in the end, we decided to keep them.

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There's more to Fabio's comments, including explanations of the sources of all the songs. Check out the Word file included in the download zip for that. However, here's one final comment from him, about the bonus track: 

While mining for tracks, I found two already done acappella versions of "We've Only Just Begun": one with only Karen's lead vocal track, and another with lead vocals and harmony vocals. Both are good - the "lead singing only" is more intimate and a bit melancholic, while the "lead vocals with harmonies" is quite exquisite. So, I suggested to Paul that we could keep them both, one at the official track list and another as a bonus track for Volume 1.

This album is 46 minutes long. 

01 I'll Be Yours [Edit] (Karen Carpenter)
02 Goodnight (Carpenters)
03 We've Only Just Begun (Carpenters)
04 Maybe It's You [Edit] (Carpenters)
05 [They Long to Be] Close to You [Edit] (Carpenters)
06 Baby It's You (Carpenters)
07 Rainy Days and Mondays [Edit] (Carpenters)
08 [A Place to] Hideaway (Carpenters)
09 Sometimes (Carpenters)
10 A Song for You (Carpenters)
11 Goodbye to Love [Edit] (Carpenters)
12 Sing [Edit] (Carpenters)
13 From the Heart Comes the Soul (Carpenters)
14 Aurora (Carpenters)
15 Only Yesterday [Edit] (Carpenters)
16 Solitaire [Edit] (Carpenters)
17 Love Me for What I Am [Edit] (Carpenters)
18 Eventide (Carpenters)
19 Good Friends Are for Keeps (Carpenters)
20 Ordinary Fool [Edit] (Carpenters)

We've Only Just Begun [Harmony Vocals Version] [Edit] (Carpenters)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/En3Makbp

alternate: 

https://bestfile.io/en/2L3B4h5poc7r7wm/file

I don't know anything about the cover image except it's Karen Carpenter "circa 1970." The original was in black and white, but I colorized it with the use of the Kolorize program. 

Bob Seger - Ebbets Field, Denver, CO, 7-8-1974

Here's a Bob Seger concert from 1974. In terms of sound quality, this may be the earliest live record of Seger that sounds this good.

Seger achieved massive success in 1976. In that year, he sold millions with his live album "Live Bullet," and then later in year sold millions more with his studio album "Night Moves." Prior to that, he'd been in the music business for many years, but usually at the level of playing at clubs. He'd had just one song in the U.S. Top Forty, "Ramblin' Gamblin' Man" in 1968. The venue he was performing in here, Ebbets Field, only held a couple of hundred people. Whereas a few years later, he would be filling enormous arenas and even stadiums.

So it's interesting to hear Seger before he hit the big time. About half of the songs here would appear on his "Live Bullet" album two years later. But the other half are songs that would soon be permanently dropped from his concert set lists.

The reason we have this bootleg recording with outstanding sound quality is because many concerts at this Ebbets Field venue at the time were broadcast on a local radio station. So they were professionally recorded. I've already posted a few others of those, and I plan to post a lot more in the future.

This album is an hour and eight minutes long.

01 talk by emcee (Bob Seger)
02 Don't Burn Down the Bridge (Bob Seger)
03 talk (Bob Seger)
04 I've Been Working (Bob Seger)
05 talk (Bob Seger)
06 U.M.C. [Upper Middle Class] (Bob Seger)
07 talk (Bob Seger)
08 Sail On (Bob Seger)
09 Someday (Bob Seger)
10 Nutbush City Limits (Bob Seger)
11 Heavy Music - Ain't Nothing You Can Do (Bob Seger)
12 Ramblin' Gamblin' Man (Bob Seger)
13 talk (Bob Seger)
14 Gang Bang (Bob Seger)
15 All Your Love (Bob Seger)
16 Let It Rock - Little Queenie (Bob Seger)
17 talk by emcee (Bob Seger)
18 talk (Bob Seger)
19 Get Out of Denver (Bob Seger)
20 talk by emcee (Bob Seger)
21 talk (Bob Seger)
22 Rosalie (Bob Seger)
23 talk (Bob Seger)
24 Song to Rufus (Bob Seger)
25 talk by emcee (Bob Seger)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/kF3AgzeT

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/bfKAQ38k9fUTvL0/file

The cover photo is from a concert at the Highway Drive-in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, on October 19, 1974. The original was in color, but the colors were off. So, I think for the first time for this blog, I actually colorized a color picture. I like the new colors a lot better.