Dionne Warwick - Dionne, Burt and Hal: The Definitive Songbook, Volume 7: 1987-2012 (A Mike Solof Guest Post)

I'm back from my two week vacation from Peru. It got off to a rough start due to the plane flight there, which I posted about. But everything else since then went great, with no more problems. :) I even had good weather the whole time, despite it being the rainy season there.

Here's the last album in a series that contains all the songs written by Hal David and/or Burt Bacharach and sung by Dionne Warwick. Though note that there's a bonus album of sorts still to come that will be explained later.

As I mentioned in Volume 6, the Bacharach-David songwriting partnership broke up around 1973, and they didn't collaborate for a long time after that. The second half of Volume 6 consisted entirely of songs written by Bacharach and another successful songwriter, Carole Bayer Sager. (In fact, Bacharach and Sager were married for a few years around this time). 

The Bacharach and Sager collaboration continued for a little while. The first songs are from a 1987, and are all co-written by those two. One song, "Love Power," was a hit. After that, there are a bunch of songs from 1989 to 2011, one song per year with many years skipped. "Sunny Weather Lover" from 1993 is a key song here, because it's the first song Bacharach and David wrote together since about 1972. However, that was a rare collaboration. Their songwriting partnership didn't reignite after that. (They also co-wrote two songs for the 2000 movie "Isn't She Great," but Warwick didn't sing them.) Furthermore, both of them were simply getting older and didn't write songs nearly as often as they used to. 

So the rest of the songs were written by Bacharach with others or David with others. For instance, "Arthur's Theme (Best That You Can Do)" was a Number One hit in the U.S. for Christopher Cross in 1981, and was written by Bacharach with Sager and two others. Track 101 is an unreleased live version by Warwick recorded in 2005.

The last four songs are from a 2012 album called "Now." It was billed as a celebration of Bacharach and David songs. However, it mostly consisted of rerecordings of old hits. The four new songs, presented here, were written by either Bacharach with others or David with others. For instance, "99 Miles from L.A." was written by David with Albert Hammond, and was a hit for Hammond in 1975. 

Hal David died in 2012, so that ended the chance for any more songs written by both of them. Bacharach died in 2023.

While I was on vacation, a commenter noted that a song, "(Theme From) The Valley of the Dolls" was included on Volume 4 of this series, despite neither Bacharach nor David being involved in writing it. Now that I'm back home, I was able to repost that album with that song removed. That also means that the numbering of all the songs after that has been fixed as well. So you might want to redownload Volumes 4, 5, and 6 if you're a stickler about such things. Also, since I had complaints about the cover art for Volume 1, I've posted an alternate version of the cover at the bottom of my write-up for that album that uses the original black and white photo, in case anyone wants that.

Thanks again to Mike Solof for putting this together.   

This album is one hour long. 

092 Take Good Care of You and Me (Dionne Warwick & Jeffrey Osborne)
093 Love Power (Dionne Warwick & Jeffrey Osborne)
094 In a World Such as This (Dionne Warwick)
095 Heartbreak of Love (Dionne Warwick & June Pointer)
096 On My Own (Dionne Warwick)
097 Sunny Weather Lover (Dionne Warwick)
098 Captives of the Heart (Dionne Warwick)
099 If I Want To (Dionne Warwick)
100 On My Way (Dionne Warwick)
101 Arthur's Theme [Best That You Can Do] (Dionne Warwick)
102 Keep Me in Mind (Dionne Warwick)
103 99 Miles from L.A. (Dionne Warwick)
104 Is There Anybody Out There (Dionne Warwick)
105 It Was Almost like a Song (Dionne Warwick)
106 Love Is Still the Answer (Dionne Warwick)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/ieF2gBUW

alternate: 

https://bestfile.io/en/DKTsSUgj9dgKC43/file

The cover photo shows her in concert in an unknown location, in February 1989.

Covered: Neil Young, Volume 2: 1990-1995

Phew! I had a hell of an adventure getting to Peru yesterday. Perhaps I’ll vent and explain what happened when I have some time. But I’m here and things are back on track, which is what matters. Anyway, here’s some more Neil Young. I’ll try to post another Dionne Warwick album next, when I have a chance.

The rest of the notes here are written by Fabio from Rio. Take it away Fabio:

By the early 1990s, Neil Young was experiencing a somewhat surprising cultural resurgence. After a creatively uneven decade in the eighties, he had his own creative revival starting at the end of that decade. Around the same time, a new generation of alternative rock musicians began openly citing him as a major influence. Bands associated with the emerging grunge and indie scenes embraced both the raw guitar power of albums like "Rust Never Sleeps" and the emotional directness of his acoustic work. Young himself responded by reconnecting with heavier sounds and younger audiences, eventually earning the affectionate nickname "the Godfather of Grunge." The covers collected in this volume reflect that moment of rediscovery, when artists from alternative rock, indie folk and roots music revisited Young's catalog and helped introduce it to a new generation of listeners.

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Note that Fabio wrote individual paragraphs about all the songs in this volume. To see that, please look at the Word file added to the download zip file. Thanks again to Fabio for his help putting these albums together. 

This album is an hour and five minutes long.  

01 Powderfinger (Cowboy Junkies)
02 Cortez the Killer (Matthew Sweet & the Indigo Girls)
03 Interstate (Sand Rubies)
04 Heart of Gold (Lawrence Gowan)
05 Don’t Let It Bring You Down (Amanda Marshall)
06 Tell Me Why (Hemingway Corner)
07 Harvest (Jeff Healey Band)
08 Pardon My Heart (Malcolm Burn)
09 Barefoot Floors (Nicolette Larson)
10 Fuckin' Up (Pearl Jam)
11 Nowadays Clancy Can't Even Sing (Breits)
12 Tired Eyes (Cowboy Junkies)
13 Down by the River (Indigo Girls)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/CP1Df3ec

alternate: 

https://bestfile.io/en/LOfGFvSDjqXA0te/file

The cover photo dates from 1967. I used the Krea AI program to improve some details. Note that when I first posted this album, I used a cover image that got some complaints. I decided I could do better, and found a different photo. I replaced it about two weeks later. 

U2 - BBC Sessions, Volume 7: In Concert, RDS Arena, Dublin, Ireland, 8-28-1993

I recently discovered that I'd missed a 1993 U2 BBC concert. This was annoying, because it meant I'd have to renumber the four U2 BBC albums that come after this one. But in this case it's very much worth it because U2 was at or near the peak of the creativity and popularity around this time.

In 1991, U2 changed their sound with the classic album "Achtung, Baby." They followed that up in 1993 with an album in a similar vein, "Zooropa." This concert took place on the tour to support that album, so many of the songs are from those two albums. There also are a smattering of cover versions: "Unchained Melody," "Satellite of Love," "Help!," and "Can't Help Falling in Love." Also, as U2 likes to do, there were little snippets of other songs. For instance, "Bad" includes snippets from "Candle in the Wind," "Fool to Cry," and "The First Time." 

Since U2 was from Dublin, Ireland, this concert was a homecoming for them. It was the second of two nights of concerts there. It also was the end of their European tour. They did a short swing through Australia, New Zealand, and Japan later that year. 

Keep in mind the renumbering of the four albums after this this I mentioned above, which means new album covers and changed mp3 tags and so forth. It took me some extra work to find them - maybe "U2" is too short to work for this internal search engine. So here are the links to help you, if you want to redownload them:

Volume 8: 

https://albumsthatshouldexist.blogspot.com/2024/08/u2-bbc-sessions-volume-7-2000-2009.html

Volume 10: 

https://albumsthatshouldexist.blogspot.com/2025/01/u2-bbc-sessions-volume-8-in-concert.html

Volume 11: 

https://albumsthatshouldexist.blogspot.com/2025/01/u2-bbc-sessions-volume-8-acoustic.html

Volume 12: 

https://albumsthatshouldexist.blogspot.com/2025/02/u2-bbc-sessions-volume-10-u2-at-bbc.html

(Note that I later changed the numbering of the last three after discovering material for a Volume 9.) 

This album is an hour and 58 minutes long. 

01 Intro (U2)
02 Zoo Station (U2)
03 talk (U2)
04 The Fly (U2)
05 Even Better than the Real Thing (U2)
06 Mysterious Ways (U2)
07 talk (U2)
08 One - Unchained Melody (U2)
09 Until the End of the World (U2)
10 New Year's Day (U2)
11 Numb (U2)
12 Tryin' to Throw Your Arms Around the World (U2)
13 Angel of Harlem (U2)
14 When Love Comes to Town (U2)
15 talk (U2)
16 Stay [Faraway, So Close] (U2)
17 Satellite of Love (U2)
18 Bad (U2)
19 Bullet the Blue Sky (U2)
20 Running to Stand Still (U2)
21 Where the Streets Have No Name (U2)
22 Pride [In the Name of Love] (U2)
23 Desire (U2)
24 talk (U2)
25 Help (U2)
26 Ultra Violet [Light My Way] (U2)
27 With or Without You (U2)
28 Love Is Blindness (U2)
29 Can't Help Falling in Love (U2)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/XKB3WYMR

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/YGCRhMrsJHSDdUo/file

The cover photo is from this exact concert. The original was in black and white, but I colorized it with the use of the Kolorize program. 

Chris Rea - BBC Sessions, Volume 6: In Concert, Exhibition and Conference Centre, Aberdeen, Britain, 2-15-1993

The mini-flood of Chris Rea BBC albums continues. Here's one from 1993. Like all previous ones in this series so far, it's a BBC concert. But all the previous ones had been edited down to an hour or less. This one appears to be a full concert.

At the time of this concert, Rea's popularity was still peaking. In 1991, he released the album "Auberge," which reached Number One in the British album chart. Then in late 1992, he released the album "God's Great Banana Skin," which reached Number Four in Britain. The songs "Auberge" and "Nothing to Fear" were his best selling singles from those albums, and both of them were performed in this concert.

Unfortunately, he still refused to tour the U.S., so he remained little known there. He later said that he regretted that.

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

This album is an hour and 31 minutes long. 

01 Auberge (Chris Rea)
02 Daytona (Chris Rea)
03 Josephine (Chris Rea)
04 You Must Be Evil (Chris Rea)
05 Soft Top, Hard Shoulder (Chris Rea)
06 Nothing to Fear (Chris Rea)
07 Gone Fishing (Chris Rea)
08 The Road to Hell I and II (Chris Rea)
09 Looking for a Rainbow (Chris Rea)
10 On the Beach (Chris Rea)
11 God's Great Banana Skin (Chris Rea)
12 Working on It (Chris Rea)
13 Let's Dance (Chris Rea)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/jCNbSkho

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/1x4tTs7ZCrIZtbt/file

The cover photo isn't from this exact concert, but at least it's pretty close, from one less than a week later. It comes from a concert in Birmingham, on January 21, 1993.

Covered: Tom Waits, Volume 1: 1973-1994 (A Fabio from Rio Guest Post)

It's high time I post more for the "Covered" series, highlighting great singer-songwriters. This time, we're looking at the songs of Tom Waits. Enough material has been found for four volumes. Here's the first one. As with all albums in this series, the focus is on cover versions, instead of versions done by the songwriter.

First off, I've gotta say I wouldn't be posting this now had it not been for the help of musical friend Fabio from Rio. It was he who suggested making Covered albums for Waits. I would have wanted to tackle him eventually, but that probably would have been well into the future. I have an issue with Waits: I can't stand his voice. As a result, even though it's easy for me to see he's a very talented songwriter, I haven't been that familiar with his songs. But Fabio is a big fan. He sent me literally hundreds of Waits cover versions, with recommendations on the best ones. I went through that and narrowed it down quite a lot. Hopefully this will make a strong collection that can turn the curious on to Waits' music.

Fabio from Rio helped with all aspects of putting this together. He even wrote the write-ups for the four volumes for Waits. So first I'm posting the relevant Wikipedia page:

Tom Waits - Wikipedia 

And now, take it away, Fabio (and a big thanks to him for all his work on this!):

For the general public, Tom Waits is "that guy with the raspy wino voice and the weird songs. Wasn't he one of the convicted fellows in that offbeat Jim Jarmusch movie?" A few music aficionados may also know him as the writer of songs like Springsteen's "Jersey Girl" or Rod Stewart's "Downtown Train", but that is usually where the story ends.

What many are not aware of is that Waits is widely recognized by his peers and by musical experts as an exceptional and influential songwriter. He is praised for his unique voice, vivid storytelling, poetic lyrics, and innovative musical style that blends genres like blues, jazz, vaudeville, and experimental rock. Waits is also known for creating three-dimensional characters and detailed narratives, often exploring life on the fringes. His lyrics are celebrated for their specificity, humor, melancholy, and ability to evoke strong moods, often drawing comparisons to Beat poets and Mark Twain.

Waits is a "songwriters' songwriter," with songs covered by literally hundreds of artists, many of them great composers themselves. He has been subject to many tributes. While searching for tracks for that project, I collected about three dozen different albums fully dedicated to his songs, and around 400 assorted covers, adding up to almost 1,200 tracks and 80-plus hours of music!

I initially selected about 220 different tunes (an almost fully comprehensive "Tom Waits songbook" that would comprise about 15 hours) which Paul wisely helped reduce to around 60 tracks across four volumes. We could have another four or eight volumes with additional top-notch Tom Waits songs - there is enough quality material for that - but I feel this reduced version is just the right size for a first dive into Tom Waits vast catalog. I hope you enjoy it!

Some listeners may find Waits' music difficult to approach due to his peculiar tone (which, contrary to popular belief, was not destroyed by booze and cigarettes, but was conscientiously cultivated as a vocal persona, as he mentioned in some interviews). The fact that some of his more experimental work sounds like monkeys loose in a crystal store doesn't help either. For those, a "Covered" collection focusing on his more melodic output is a great starting point, where one may discover the essence of Waits' music (often through soothing, frequently female, voices).

This first volume includes performances from a long range of years (1973 to 1994), but most of the songs here were composed during Waits' early and middle phases (the seventies and early eighties). His first albums feature piano-led ballads, romantic melancholy, and a relatively smooth, crooning voice. The character is that of a late-night drifter, nostalgic and tender. As his career progressed, Waits' voice grew tougher (both literally and figuratively) and his narratives darker and more cinematic. His late seventies and early eighties albums introduced sardonic humor, social misfits, and a sharper sense of irony, while still rooted in jazz, blues, and cabaret traditions.

Waits started as a folk singer/songwriter in the early seventies, with heavy jazz influences, when his voice was still not so rough. You can hear this in the first selection of this collection, "Rosie," from his 1973 first album. It's the only song in these four volumes that is the composer's own interpretation. He also first caught the ear of the public with an early cover of "Ol' 55" by The Eagles (which we skipped in favor of Sarah McLachlan's 1993 version, which both Paul and myself prefer). Other famous interpreters at the first volume are Johnny Cash and Marianne Faithfull (with songs Tom composed specifically for them), and also 10,000 Maniacs, Elvis Costello, Crystal Gayle and Canned Heat, which showcases the full range of styles and performers reached by Waits' compositions.

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Thanks again, Fabio. I'll just add that there were only a few cases where Waits wrote hit songs, so we weren't tied down much by that factor. ("Downtown Train" is probably his biggest hit, thanks to the 1989 Rod Stewart version, included here.) And often, his songs didn't get a lot of covers until many years after they were written. So if you don't see some of his songs you really like from this era, wait before you judge. There's a good chance those songs could show up on one of the later volumes.

This album is 54 minutes long. 

01 Rosie (Tom Waits)
02 Foreign Affair (Manhattan Transfer)
03 Jersey Girl (Bruce Springsteen)
04 Is There Any Way Out of This Dream (Crystal Gayle)
05 I Hope that I Don't Fall in Love with You (10,000 Maniacs)
06 Strange Weather (Marianne Faithfull)
07 Downtown Train (Rod Stewart)
08 Gun Street Girl (Canned Heat)
09 San Diego Serenade (Nanci Griffith)
10 Tom Traubert's Blues [Waltzing Matilda] (Rod Stewart)
11 More than Rain (Elvis Costello & Brodsky Quartet)
12 Ol' 55 (Sarah McLachlan)
13 Down There by the Train (Johnny Cash)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/FBZaqvMS

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/IJ5fbwJ3YDrAHXl/file

The cover photo was taken in Chicago, Illinois, on May 30, 1986.

Dan Fogelberg - Best of Live: 1974-1995 (A Mike Solof Guest Post)

I just posted a "best of" album guest poster Mike Solof made of his favorite studio tracks by singer-songwriter Dan Fogelberg. He wanted to divide his music up into a studio best of and a live best of, so here's the companion live best of.

Mike is a really big fan of Fogelberg's music and is making these to help me, and others like you, better enjoy his music. As he usually does, Mike made a PDF with more information and pictures, which is included in the download zip. I encourage you to give that a look. It's the exact same one as for the studio best of.

For the studio best of, all the songs are officially released, and usually from his studio albums. For this one, most of the songs come from official live albums as well. But four of the songs here come from bootlegs. Specifically, tracks 10, 11, 13, and 16. But they're excellent sounding ones, just as good as the live albums.

By the way, Fogelberg's last concert was for the "PBS Soundstage" concert in 2003. (He died of cancer in 2007 at the age of 56.) I would really like to post that here, but I've only found a few songs from it on YouTube. If anyone has all of it, please let me know. Thanks. 

This album is an hour and 13 minutes long. 

01 Songbird (Dan Fogelberg)
02 The Power of Gold (Dan Fogelberg)
03 Blow Wind Blow (Dan Fogelberg)
04 Hard to Say (Dan Fogelberg)
05 Innocent Age (Dan Fogelberg)
06 Looking for a Lady (Dan Fogelberg)
07 Once upon a Time (Dan Fogelberg)
08 Make Love Stay (Dan Fogelberg)
09 The Chauvinist Song (Dan Fogelberg)
10 Morning Sky (Dan Fogelberg)
11 Someone's Been Telling You Stories (Dan Fogelberg)
12 Part of the Plan (Dan Fogelberg)
13 talk (Dan Fogelberg)
14 Song from Half Mountain (Dan Fogelberg)
15 Souvenir (Dan Fogelberg)
16 To the Morning (Dan Fogelberg)
17 Here Comes the Sun (Dan Fogelberg)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/9q7tK9se

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/QZQOzX6EPddIoQh/file

As with the cover to the studio album, Mike picked this one. I don't know exactly where or when it comes from. 

Gerry Rafferty - BBC Sessions, Volume 3: In Concert, Edinburgh Playhouse, Edinburgh, Britain, 2-25-1993

Here is the third and presumably final BBC album from singer-songwriter Gerry Rafferty. The first two were studio sessions collections, but this one is a full concert.

Rafferty was pretty reclusive, and rarely went on tour. I'm only aware of three times he toured as a solo artist, in 1978, 1980, and 1993. I've already posted a concert from him that's very similar to this one. It took place in Hamburg, Germany, earlier the same month as this one. However, while the set lists are almost the same, there are differences. Most importantly, this has one more cover version at the end, of the classic soul song "Stand by Me."

This concert has been widely bootlegged. However, every version I've seen is only 55 minutes long. But this one has an additional 43 minutes! That's thanks to Progsprog, who gave me his version. Somehow, he keeps coming out with extra long versions of BBC concerts, so all thanks to him. Even better, the sound quality is excellent all the way through, and there were no problems to fix. 

This album is an hour and 38 minutes long. 

01 Waiting for the Day (Gerry Rafferty)
02 talk (Gerry Rafferty)
03 Your Heart's Desire (Gerry Rafferty)
04 talk (Gerry Rafferty)
05 Get Out of My Life Woman (Gerry Rafferty)
06 talk (Gerry Rafferty)
07 Right Down the Line (Gerry Rafferty)
08 talk (Gerry Rafferty)
09 Does He Know What He's Taken On (Gerry Rafferty)
10 talk (Gerry Rafferty)
11 Moonlight and Gold (Gerry Rafferty)
12 talk (Gerry Rafferty)
13 Don't Give Up on Me (Gerry Rafferty)
14 talk (Gerry Rafferty)
15 Stuck in the Middle with You (Gerry Rafferty)
16 talk (Gerry Rafferty)
17 It's Easy to Talk (Gerry Rafferty)
18 The Right Moment (Gerry Rafferty)
19 talk (Gerry Rafferty)
20 Baker Street (Gerry Rafferty)
21 talk (Gerry Rafferty)
22 Late Again (Gerry Rafferty)
23 Get It Right Next Time (Gerry Rafferty)
24 talk (Gerry Rafferty)
25 It Makes No Difference (Gerry Rafferty)
26 talk (Gerry Rafferty)
27 A Mess of Blues (Gerry Rafferty)
28 talk (Gerry Rafferty)
29 Stand by Me (Gerry Rafferty)
30 talk (Gerry Rafferty)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/svRZdWLj

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/j94QBKNsawN1Ijk/file

The cover photo is from a concert in Utrecht, Netherlands on February 17, 1993.

Daryl Hall - BBC In Concert, The Forum, London, Britain, 12-6-1993

Here's a BBC concert starring Daryl Hall, from Hall and Oates.

Daryl Hall was the dominant force in Hall and Oates, doing most of the lead vocals and songwriting. (That said, Oates' role was far from insignificant, as he was involved in writing many of the duo's songs.) 

After a 1990 album, Hall and Oates took a prolonged break. They wouldn't release another album until 1997. So in 1993, Hall had time to release a solo album, "Soul Alone." It emphasized soul and jazz more than his music with Oates. This concert is from the tour supporting that album. 

Apparently wanting to differentiate his solo career from his Hall and Oates career, this concert mostly consists of songs from his solo album, plus a lot of soul music covers, and relatively few Hall and Oates hits. 

This BBC concert has been widely available as a bootleg. However, that was only an hour long version. Thanks to Progsprog sharing his music with me, this is the full concert, with 45 extra minutes. Yet the sound quality is excellent for all of it. 

This album is an hour and 45 minutes long.

 01 Money Changes Everything (Daryl Hall)
02 Help Me Find a Way (Daryl Hall)
03 talk (Daryl Hall)
04 Borderline (Daryl Hall)
05 Stop Loving Me, Stop Loving You (Daryl Hall)
06 talk (Daryl Hall)
07 Everytime You Go Away (Daryl Hall)
08 Send Me (Daryl Hall)
09 Love T.K.O. (Daryl Hall)
10 I Can't Go for That [No Can Do] (Daryl Hall)
11 I'm in a Philly Mood (Daryl Hall)
12 talk (Daryl Hall)
13 Love Revelation (Daryl Hall)
14 talk (Daryl Hall)
15 Maneater (Daryl Hall)
16 talk (Daryl Hall)
17 What's Going On (Daryl Hall)
18 talk (Daryl Hall)
19 Work to Do (Daryl Hall with Alan Gorrie)
20 talk (Daryl Hall)
21 For the Love of Money (Daryl Hall)
22 Hot Fun in the Summertime (Daryl Hall)
23 talk (Daryl Hall)
24 Wildfire (Daryl Hall)
25 talk (Daryl Hall)
26 Me and Mrs. Jones (Daryl Hall)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/Mn5tnuuU 

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/3sExbNFUhPpSG5C/file

The cover photo is from a 1993 concert, but I don't know the details.

Chris Isaak - BBC Sessions, Volume 2: In Concert, Manchester Apollo, Manchester, Britain, 6-28-1993

Here's another BBC concert by Chris Isaak, from 1993.

I previously thought there was just one BBC concert, in 1991. So when I posted that one, I just called it "BBC In Concert." Now, I've changed that to "BBC Sessions, Volume 1," and changed the cover art and mp3 tags accordingly. If you want to get the updated version, here's the link:

https://albumsthatshouldexist.blogspot.com/2022/12/chris-isaak-bbc-in-concert-town-and.html

Isaak was at the peak of his popularity in the early to mid-1990s, thanks mostly to his classic song "Wicked Game." But the above "Volume 1" album took place around the time that song was a hit. This concert took place two years later, when he was supporting his 1993 album "San Francisco Days." So the songs here are fairly different, though it's not surprising he played "Wicked Game" again.

Note that I've gotten some conflicting information about the venue. At the end of concert, the BBC DJ voiceover stated it took place at the Manchester Apollo. But the BBC website from the date the concert was broadcast stated it took place at the Palace Theatre in Manchester. However, a commenter noted that a local newspaper article review of the concert stated it took place at the Manchester Apollo, so it seems clear the BBC website made a mistake.

The main concert is just 28 minutes long. I thought that was a bit too short, so I went looking for some extra songs to add. I found a version of "Can't Do a Thing (To Stop Me)" from a BBC TV show in 1993, so I added that. Then I found three more songs from another BBC TV show in 1995, when he was promoting his next album, "Forever Blue."

This album is 41 minutes long.

01 Dancin' (Chris Isaak)
02 San Francisco Days (Chris Isaak)
03 talk (Chris Isaak)
04 Gone Ridin' (Chris Isaak)
05 Blue Spanish Sky (Chris Isaak)
06 I Want Your Love (Chris Isaak)
07 Wicked Game (Chris Isaak)
08 Blue Hotel (Chris Isaak)
09 Can't Do a Thing [To Stop Me] (Chris Isaak)
10 Goin' Nowhere (Chris Isaak)
11 Graduation Day (Chris Isaak)
12 I Believe (Chris Isaak)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/caC3Kmkt

alternate: 

https://bestfile.io/KnrhlZYE9E1R4ZR/file

The cover photo is from 1993. I don't know any additional details.

Aerosmith - BBC Sessions, Volume 3: In Concert, Forest National Theatre, Brussels, Belgium, 10-31-1993

A few days ago (writing this in November 2025), I posted an earlier Aerosmith album. I said I had a "Volume 3" as well, so here it is. This one is extra nice because BBC concerts often are edited down to an hour or less, but this is the full concert, nearly two hours long.

Aerosmith's career got a second wind starting in the late 1980s. That continued in the early 1990s. Their 1993 album, "Get a Grip" sold seven million copies in the U.S. alone. This concert was part of a world tour to support the album. The band leaned heavily on playing songs from that album, as well as their late 1980s ones. So there were relatively few songs from their 1970s albums.

There's a 1994 BBC concert as well (at the Monsters of Rock festival in England), but it isn't that different from this one, so I don't think I'll post that one. So these three volumes in this series are probably all the BBC albums I'll be posting from this band, unless something else pops up.

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

This album is an hour and 51 minutes long. 

01 Eat the Rich (Aerosmith)
02 Young Lust (Aerosmith)
03 F.I.N.E (Aerosmith)
04 Love in an Elevator (Aerosmith)
05 Fever (Aerosmith)
06 talk (Aerosmith)
07 Draw the Line (Aerosmith)
08 What It Takes (Aerosmith)
09 Last Child (Aerosmith)
10 talk (Aerosmith)
11 The Other Side (Aerosmith)
12 Cryin' (Aerosmith)
13 Boogie Man (Aerosmith)
14 Shut Up and Dance (Aerosmith)
15 talk (Aerosmith)
16 Stop Messin' Around (Aerosmith)
17 Rag Doll (Aerosmith)
18 talk (Aerosmith)
19 Janie's Got a Gun (Aerosmith)
20 Dude [Looks like a Lady] (Aerosmith)
21 Dream On (Aerosmith)
22 Walk This Way (Aerosmith)
23 talk (Aerosmith)
24 Livin' on the Edge (Aerosmith)
25 Sweet Emotion (Aerosmith)
26 Peter Gunn Theme [Instrumental] (Aerosmith)
27 Train Kept A-Rollin' (Aerosmith)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/7BjHGAga 

alternate: 

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

This is one of those times I got lucky and found a photo from the exact concert presented here.

Alison Moyet - BBC Sessions, Volume 3: In Concert, Glastonbury Festival, Worthy Farm, Pilton, Britain, 6-26-1993

Here's a third BBC album from British singer-songwriter Alison Moyet. It's a set from the annual, massive Glastonbury Festival.

I didn't even know this recording existed. I have it thanks to musical friend Progsprog. So a big thanks to him.

I was pleasantly surprised to discover this was an acoustic performance. She was supported a little bit, but just light touches, such as hand drums instead of a full drum set. That's pretty impressive, considering she played songs like "Situation," basically a disco song, and ended the concert with the hard rocking classic "Rock and Roll" by Led Zeppelin.

At the time of the concert, Moyet hadn't released a new album since 1991. She would release the album "Essex" in 1994. She played a few songs that would appear on that album: "Whispering Your Name," "And I Know," and "Falling." She also sang the classic country song, "Will the Circle Be Unbroken," which she's never released.

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

This album is 55 minutes long. 

01 It Won't Be Long (Alison Moyet)
02 Rise (Alison Moyet)
03 talk (Alison Moyet)
04 Perfect Day (Alison Moyet)
05 Love Resurrection (Alison Moyet)
06 Whispering Your Name (Alison Moyet)
07 talk (Alison Moyet)
08 And I Know (Alison Moyet)
09 talk (Alison Moyet)
10 Ne Me Quitte Pas (Alison Moyet)
11 The First Time I Ever Saw Your Face - Only You (Alison Moyet)
12 talk (Alison Moyet)
13 Ode to Boy (Alison Moyet)
14 talk (Alison Moyet)
15 Falling (Alison Moyet)
16 Will the Circle Be Unbroken (Alison Moyet)
17 talk (Alison Moyet)
18 Wishing You Were Here (Alison Moyet)
19 I Love My Label (Alison Moyet)
20 talk (Alison Moyet)
21 Situation (Alison Moyet)
22 Rock and Roll (Alison Moyet)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/8ox2727m

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/KdwtBTd05hwPCrz/file

The cover photo is from the 1990s. I don't have any details more specific than that.

Gloria Estefan - PBS Soundstage, WTTW Studios, Chicago, IL, 8-16-1993

Here's an episode of Gloria Estefan performing for the great "PBS Soundstage" TV show.

Gloria Estefan's music isn't my cup of tea. But her record sales exceed over 100 million, making her one of the best selling musical acts of all time. And she's even won a Gershwin Prize. So I figure I should post her episode for the people who want it.

(By the way, note that this episode took place in the one year the show was called "Center Stage." But I'm just calling it "Soundstage" for consistency with all the other episodes I'm posting.) 

This was one of those episodes where, unfortunately, the producers tried to spice things up with more than just music from the concert, for instance interviews. I cut that extra stuff one. In a few cases, there was some overdubbed talking related to that extra stuff that went over the actual music. So I used the UVR5 audio editing program to get rid of the talking. That's why three songs have "[Edit]" in their titles.

This concert took place a couple of months after the release of her studio album "Mi Tierra," which was one of her best selling albums. It also was her first all-Spanish-language album. However, all but a couple of songs here are sung in English.

This unreleased album is 54 minutes long.

01 Rhythm Is Gonna Get You (Gloria Estefan)
02 talk (Gloria Estefan)
03 Words Get in the Way (Gloria Estefan)
04 talk (Gloria Estefan)
05 Here We Are [Toda Pra Voce] [Edit] (Gloria Estefan)
06 Live for Loving You (Gloria Estefan)
07 Can't Stay Away from You (Gloria Estefan)
08 Don't Wanna Lose You (Gloria Estefan)
09 talk (Gloria Estefan)
10 Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me (Gloria Estefan)
11 Oye Mi Canto (Gloria Estefan)
12 talk (Gloria Estefan)
13 Anything for You [Edit] (Gloria Estefan)
14 Coming Out of the Dark [Edit] (Gloria Estefan)
15 Conga (Gloria Estefan)
16 talk (Gloria Estefan)
17 Always Tomorrow (Gloria Estefan)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/P1MvNm58

alternate: 

https://bestfile.io/en/xAEwvI5LAKRWXBr/file

The cover image is from an appearance on the "Tonight Show with Jay Leno," on June 21, 1993.

Lenny Kravitz - BBC Sessions, Volume 2: In Concert, Wembley Arena, London, Britain, 11-27-1993

Here's a BBC concert by Lenny Kravitz that took place in 1993.

In 1993, Kravitz released his third album, "Are You Gonna Go My Way." It sold over two million copies in the U.S. alone. It established him as a big star all over the world. 

The source for this actually was a pretty obscure bootleg, due to a sound quality issue. The lead vocals were buried way down in the mix, making it a difficult listen. But that's something that can be fixed with audio editing technology these days. So I used the UVR5 program to fix it. It sounds way better now.

When I first posted this in October 2025, I had six songs. But two months later, a commenter named Keskydee helped me by providing three more songs to it. So a big thanks for the help.

There is one bonus track, "Believe." It comes from the 1993 Pinkpop Festival in the Netherlands.

The music here is unreleased. The sound quality is very good.  

This album is an hour and eight minutes long, not including the bonus track.

01 Is There Any Love in Your Heart (Lenny Kravitz)
02 Freedom Train (Lenny Kravitz)
03 Always on the Run (Lenny Kravitz)
04 My Precious Love (Lenny Kravitz)
05 Sister (Lenny Kravitz)
06 Flower Child (Lenny Kravitz)
07 Are You Gonna Go My Way (Lenny Kravitz)
08 It Ain't Over 'Til It's Over (Lenny Kravitz)
09 Let Love Rule (Lenny Kravitz)

Believe (Lenny Kravitz)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/RRejUCGS

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/dGymIvmoD8Vojsj/file

The cover photo is from this exact concert... almost. It's actually from the same location, but one day later. 

Wynonna Judd - PBS Soundstage, WTTW Studios, Chicago, IL, 5-12-1993

Here's Wynonna Judd appearing on the "PBS Soundstage" TV show in 1993.

(Note that this was the one year the show was called "Center Stage," but I'm calling it "Soundstage" for consistency with all the other years of the show.)

Wynonna Judd rose to fame in the 1980s as part of the Judds with her mother Naomi Judd. But the duo ended in 1991 when Naomi retired due to health issues (specifically, chronic hepatitis C). Wynonna then started a very successful solo career. She released the album "Wynonna" in 1992, which sold millions of copies, and then "Tell Me Why" in 1993, which also sold over a million. This concert took place one day after the release of that album. Not surprisingly, most of the songs here are from those two albums.

Here's her Wikipedia page:

Wynonna Judd - Wikipedia 

I edited out some parts of the show. This was one of those episodes where interview segments were sometimes inserted between songs. I cut all those out. Two of the songs have "[Edit]" in their titles because some of the interviews overlapped some of the music. I got rid of the talking with the help of the UVR5 audio editing program.

All the music here is unreleased, and the sound quality is excellent. 

This album is 53 minutes long. 

01 Tell Me Why (Wynonna Judd)
02 talk (Wynonna Judd)
03 Girls with Guitars (Wynonna Judd)
04 I Saw the Light (Wynonna Judd)
05 My Strongest Weakness (Wynonna Judd)
06 Let's Make a Baby King (Wynonna Judd)
07 Only Love (Wynonna Judd)
08 Why Not Me (Wynonna Judd)
09 That Was Yesterday [Edit] (Wynonna Judd)
10 A Little Bit of Love [Goes a Long, Long Way] (Wynonna Judd)
11 She Is His Only Need (Wynonna Judd)
12 Is It Over Yet [Edit] (Wynonna Judd)
13 No One Else on Earth (Wynonna Judd) 

https://pixeldrain.com/u/ztZ9KEev

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/BypjRuk9eVwb6ta/file

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

The Kinks - Royal Albert Hall, London, Britain, 7-11-1993

I've posted a lot of live concerts from the Kinks, but none from the 1990s until now. (The Kinks put out their last studio album in 1993, and kept touring until 1993.) This is a great sounding concert that only became available this year (2025).

Most of this was officially released earlier in 2025 as part of an archival release called "The Journey, Part 3." A double disc album, the first concert is a greatest hits of sorts from the late 1970s and early 1980s, and the second disc is this concert. If all of the concert had been released there, I wouldn't have posted this. But it turns out only about two-thirds of the concert was included. Furthermore, the song order was moved around. So this is an attempt to present the full concert, in the correct song order.

I ran into a problem though, because this concert has never been bootlegged, meaning I couldn't find the rest of it. My solution was to use another soundboard bootleg from the same year for five of the missing songs (from Saratoga Springs, New York). Then I found two more from a soundboard bootleg from 1994 (from Stuttgart, Germany). 

Between those two sources, I was able to find all of the missing songs except for one, "Waterloo Sunset." This is frustrating, because that's one of the greatest songs of all time, in my opinion. But there are only a couple of soundboard bootlegs from the 1993 or 1994 time frame, and none of them have that song. I could have used an audience bootleg from those years for that one song, but it would have meant a big drop in sound quality. If anyone knows of a live version of that song from that era with worthy sound quality, please let me know.

In order to make this concert flow in a pleasing way, I did some editing of the transitions between songs. For instance, I might have one song ending with a wildly cheering crowd and then the next song starting with no crowd noise. In a case like that, I would patch in more crowd noise from elsewhere in the concert to have the cheering die out before the quiet at the start of the next song began. I fixed a lot of those transitions, even in the songs actually from the Royal Albert Hall source when the song order of those was changed.  

At the time, the Kinks had just released their last studio album, "Phobia." Five of the songs here are from that. Otherwise, the concert consisted of the band's biggest hits, plus a cover of "Twist and Shout" at the end. I would argue this now is the best sounding, best performed concert recording of the band from the 1990s, even though it is stitched together from three different sources.

This album is one hour and 25 minutes long.

01 Intro [Instrumental] (Kinks)
02 Till the End of the Day (Kinks)
03 Where Have All the Good Times Gone (Kinks)
04 Low Budget (Kinks)
05 talk (Kinks)
06 Phobia (Kinks)
07 talk (Kinks)
08 Only a Dream (Kinks)
09 talk (Kinks)
10 Scattered (Kinks)
11 Apeman (Kinks)
12 Celluloid Heroes (Kinks)
13 talk (Kinks)
14 Drift Away (Kinks)
15 I'm Not like Everybody Else (Kinks)
16 Dedicated Follower of Fashion (Kinks)
17 The Informer (Kinks)
18 Death of a Clown (Kinks)
19 Dead End Street (Kinks)
20 Come Dancing (Kinks)
21 Welcome to Sleazy Town (Kinks)
22 Sunny Afternoon (Kinks)
23 All Day and All of the Night (Kinks)
24 Lola (Kinks)
25 Days (Kinks)
26 talk (Kinks)
27 You Really Got Me (Kinks)
28 talk (Kinks)
29 Twist and Shout (Kinks)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/vyqQVkML

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/SRLvvzXPkAgnjO0/file

The cover photo is from this exact concert. 

Covered: Don Covay: 1961-1994

Here's another lesser known songwriter celebrated in my Covered series. This time, it's Don Covay.

Covay was born in South Carolina in 1936, but spent the latter half of his childhood in Washington, D.C. In 1957, he started out as a chauffeur and opening act for Little Richard. He had dreams of being a famous soul singer, but for years he drifted from record label to record label with poor sales.

His first success came into 1961, writing the song "Pony Time." He own version only reached the lower part of the singles charts. But then Chubby Checker covered it later that year and it went all the way to Number One. That established a pattern: while he kept his own solo career going for decades, other singers usually had much more success with his songs. 

In the mid-1965, he was signed to Atlantic Records and associated labels. Atlantic had a relationship with Stax Records, so Covay was able to co-write songs with Steve Cropper and other soul music greats there, like David Porter and Booker T. Jones. For instance, "See-Saw" and "Sookie Sookie" were co-written with Cropper. (I have different versions of both of those songs in my Covered albums for Cropper.) 

Probably Covay's most celebrated song is "Chain of Fools." Aretha Franklin had a big hit with it in 1967, but he'd actually written it about 15 years earlier after seeing a chain gang of prisoners working by the side of a road. Rolling Stone Magazine put it on their list of the top 500 songs of all time. 

He was the instigator being the brief soul supergroup "Soul Clan," consisting of himself, Solomon Burke, Joe Tex, Ben E. King & Arthur Conley. He wrote the band's one hit single. However, that was just a one-off. After that, his career declined for a few years. But he had a minor revival with a few hits in the early 1970s. I've included one of those as the only song here credited just to him, "I Was Checkin' Out, She Was Checkin' In."

But musical tastes were quickly changing in the late 1970s, with the rise of disco, punk, and new wave. After a few years of declining sales, Covay quit the music business altogether. But he had some later revivals. For instance, in 2000, he put out his first new album in over 20 years, "Adlib," filled with famous guest star appearances. He died of a stroke in 2015 at the age of 78.

I tried when I could to use the original hit versions. But some of these were never hits, just songs that I thought were worthy of inclusion. And I did occasionally avoid the hit versions for various reasons. For instance, I only wanted one song mainly sung by Covay, so I used the Rolling Stones version of "Mercy, Mercy" when in fact Covay had a hit with it in 1964.  

Here's his Wikipedia entry:

Don Covay - Wikipedia 

This album is an hour and 16 minutes long. 

01 Letter Full of Tears (Gladys Knight & the Pips)
02 There's a Party Goin' On (Wanda Jackson)
03 Pony Time (Chubby Checker)
04 Long Tall Shorty (Kinks)
05 Mercy, Mercy (Rolling Stones)
06 Don't Drive Me Away (Ben E. King)
07 Tonight's the Night (Solomon Burke)
08 I Don't Know What You've Got but It's Got Me (Little Richard)
09 Three Time Loser (Wilson Pickett)
10 Love Bug (Lena Horne)
11 Chain of Fools (Aretha Franklin)
12 See Saw (Cliff Bennett & the Rebel Rousers)
13 Soul Meeting (Soul Clan [Don Covay, Solomon Burke, Joe Tex, Ben E. King & Arthur Conley])
14 I'm Gonna Take What He's Got (Etta James)
15 Demonstration (Otis Redding)
16 Sookie Sookie (Tina Britt)
17 She Said Yeah (Joe Tex)
18 This Old Town [People in This Town] (Staple Singers)
19 The Usual Place (J. Geils Band)
20 I Was Checkin' Out, She Was Checkin' In (Don Covay)
21 Watch the One Who Brings You the News (Millie Jackson)
22 Thunder (Jimmy Witherspoon)
23 Back to the Streets (Soul Summit)
24 It's Better to Have [And Not Need] (Huey Lewis & the News)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/Bte4uSCp

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/PiuCVec2exVUilI/file

I don't know any details about the cover image, but it looks to date from the early 1960s. The original was in black and white, but I colorized it using the Kolorize program. 

Tom P*tty & the Heartbreakers - Drivin' Down to Georgia - Non-Album Tracks (1993-1994)

Note that I'm experimenting with reviving the links for some Tom P. albums I'd had to hide due to concerns about copyright issues. For some reason, this one pops up as a new album, even though I made it years ago. But there are about ten others I revived today, all of the non-album tracks compilations. Do a search for "Heartbreakers" or use the side labels to find the other ones. If these manage to stay posted, I'll will revive the rest of his hidden albums soon.

Here's another stray tracks album for Tom P. and the Heartbreakers.

(Note that I'm not using the full name of this artist due to concerns about copyright issues.) 

The first song here comes from "Finding Wildflowers." Tracks 2, 3, and 10 are unreleased, and come from a radio show of outtakes called "Behind the Glass." Tracks 4, 5, and 8 are from the "Playback" box set. Track 6 is from the "An American Treasure" box set. Track 7 is from "Live Anthology," and track 9 was released as a B-side.

A long-promised album consisting of outtakes from P.'s 1994 album "Wildflowers" was finally released in 2020, called "Wildflowers and All the Rest." In fact, so much material was released that there even was a "super deluxe" box set version. Note that NONE of the songs here come from "All the Rest." There were so many good previously unreleased songs on that that it makes for a nice single album all on its own. But P. was so prolific in the early 1990s that there's enough material for that, plus this, plus the another stray tracks album I've made,"Mary Jane's Last Dance."

This album is 39 minutes long. 

I'm not including the track list due to copyright issues. But you can find it in the mp3 download file.

https://pixeldrain.com/u/bb4UPyEt

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/hnRrbl3P4nW11JO/file

The cover photo was taken in Hollywood in 1993.

Various Artists - A Country Music Celebration, Grand Ole Opry House, Nashville, TN, 1-13-1993

There are so many interesting tribute concerts that have taken place over the years but then were largely forgotten because they didn't get an official release. Here's another one I happened to find recently. 

There have been many country music themed TV specials over the years. I'm not familiar with most of them. But in terms of sheer star power, I couldn't overlook this one. The vast majority of the biggest names in country music at the time performed, back before country music went downhill with "bro country," rap, Autotune, and so forth. I don't know how often the Country Music Association has put on shows like this. I did find their 25th anniversary concert on YouTube, but it's less than an hour long and not as impressive a line-up.

This concert crammed in a surprising number of songs in the amount of time it had. That's because it often only allowed for truncated versions of songs, meaning two minutes or less. In the worst case, Glen Campbell's version of "I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry" was under a minute long. But the plus side is the show kept moving, so if there's a song you don't like, it wasn't long until the next one started.

I pretty much kept the show intact, until near the end. Very late in the show, around track 45, there was an extended tribute to Dolly Parton. I cut the vast majority of it out, because it was a video presentation, with short snippets of the recorded versions of her most famous songs. I cut all that because it was meant to be seen more than heard, with no live musical performances in it. However, immediately following that was a speech by Parton, and I kept all that.

The sound quality is excellent, even though this all remains unreleased. The only problem I had was with the last song, "I Will Always Love You" by Dolly Parton (with Kenny Rogers assisting). Clearly, the time allotted for the TV show came to an end, because the song was cut short, at only about a minute long, and then faded out. But at least it seems the performers knew the version was going to be a short one, because they only sang the chorus over and over. However, even that short version was marred by an announcer speaking over part of it to hype up the next shows coming up on that TV channel. I managed to cut that out by largely repeating one of the choruses. That's why that one song has "[Edit]" in its title. 

Oh, by the way, this website has a couple dozen nice photos from the event:

Nashville Then: A Country Music Celebration to honor CMA in 1993 

This album is an hour and 24 minutes long. 

01 talk (emcee)
02 This Nightlife (Clint Black with Ricky Skaggs, Glen Campbell & Mark O'Connor)
03 talk (Clint Black)
04 Road Scholar (Lee Roy Parnell & Delbert McClinton)
05 talk (Clint Black)
06 Here I Am (Lyle Lovett)
07 talk (Clint Black)
08 Heartland (Bob Dylan & Willie Nelson)
09 One More Last Chance (Vince Gill)
10 talk (Vince Gill & Travis Tritt)
11 What Would Elvis Do (Pam Tillis)
12 Wear My Ring Around Your Neck (Rodney Crowell)
13 T-R-O-U-B-L-E (Travis Tritt)
14 Devil in Disguise (Trisha Yearwood)
15 That's All Right, Mama (Vince Gill)
16 talk (Reba McEntire)
17 A Little Bit of Love (Wynonna Judd)
18 talk (Reba McEntire)
19 Goodbye Again (Mary Chapin Carpenter)
20 talk (Mary Chapin Carpenter)
21 Take It Back (Reba McEntire)
22 talk (Randy Owen)
23 Old Time Rock and Roll (Little Texas)
24 talk (Randy Owen)
25 It's a Heartache (Lorrie Morgan)
26 talk (Randy Owen)
27 Hard Working Man (Brooks & Dunn)
28 Drive South (Suzy Bogguss)
29 I'm in a Hurry (Alabama)
30 talk (Vince Gill)
31 The Heart Won't Lie (Reba McEntire & Vince Gill)
32 The Whiskey Ain't Working Anymore (Travis Tritt & Marty Stuart)
33 Love Certified (Ronnie Milsap & Patti LaBelle)
34 Silver Bells [Instrumental] (Charlie Daniels, Mark O'Connor & Sam Bush)
35 talk (Charlie Daniels & Emmylou Harris)
36 Too Far Gone (Emmylou Harris, Rodney Crowell, Vince Gill & Ricky Skaggs)
37 Two More Bottles of Wine (Emmylou Harris, Rodney Crowell, Vince Gill & Ricky Skaggs)
38 I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry (Glen Campbell)
39 talk (Glen Campbell)
40 The Ride (John Anderson)
41 Talking to Hank (Mark Chesnutt & Joe Diffie)
42 talk (Glen Campbell)
43 Midnight in Montgomery (Alan Jackson)
44 You Decorated My Life (Kenny Rogers)
45 talk (Kenny Rogers)
46 talk (Dolly Parton)
47 Full Circle (Dolly Parton, Emmylou Harris, Willie Nelson, Kenny Rogers & Glen Campbell)
48 talk (Kenny Rogers & Dolly Parton)
49 I Will Always Love You [Edit] (Dolly Parton & Kenny Rogers)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/Eosyj9Qd

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/2l2znKTYkfdFKDm/file 

The cover photo is from the finale of this exact concert. From left to right: Emmylou Harris, Kenny Rogers, Dolly Parton, and Willie Nelson.

k.d. lang - PBS Soundstage, WTTW Studios, Chicago, IL, 8-16-1993

Here's another episode of the great TV show "PBS Soundstage." This time, it's singer-songwriter k.d. lang from 1993. 

(By the way, note that for one year, the program used the name "Center Stage" instead of "Soundstage." This is one of the shows from that year. But I'm calling it "Soundstage" to be consistent with all of the other many years of the show.) 

This concert took place around the time of lang's peak popularity. The year before, she released the studio album "Ingenue." It sold over two million copies in the U.S., mainly due to the hit single "Constant Craving." At the time of this concert, she was still touring to support that album, even though it took place over a year later. 

1992 was also an eventful year for lang, because that year she came out as openly lesbian. The reason I mention that is due to the banter in track 5, where she teases she's about to announce her lesbian status for the first time. That was a joke, because surely the vast majority of fans in the audience knew that already, since it made news headlines at the time (and caused some country radio stations to stop playing her songs). And she did the same joke in all her concerts that year. I think she drew the joke out way, way too long (over two minutes), but whatever.

This concert has some song edits, because this was one of those episodes where some non-musical segments were included, and sometimes narrative talk ran over parts of songs. Also, more than the first half of the song "Crying" was missing. I found another soundboard bootleg from 1993 and used that to fill in the missing section, but it wasn't an ideal fit. You can probably still hear the transition. But those are the reasons some songs have "[Edit]" in the titles.

This album is 54 minutes long.

01 Luck in My Eyes (k.d. lang)
02 Don't Let the Stars Get in Your Eyes (k.d. lang)
03 Save Me [Edit] (k.d. lang)
04 Still Thrives This Love (k.d. lang)
05 talk (k.d. lang)
06 Miss Chatelaine (k.d. lang)
07 The Mind of Love (k.d. lang)
08 Wash Me Clean (k.d. lang)
09 Ridin' the Rails (k.d. lang)
10 Trail of Broken Hearts (k.d. lang)
11 Big, Big Love (k.d. lang)
12 Constant Craving [Edit] (k.d. lang)
13 Crying [Edit] (k.d. lang)
14 Barefoot (k.d. lang)
15 Big Boned Gal (k.d. lang)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/vSHoRMRh

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/LnGhJUNp7eLFaFX/file

The cover photo is from this exact concert. 

Various Artists - Songs in the Key of Brian - Remembering Brian Wilson (1975-2021) (A Fabio from Rio Guest Post)

One of the all-time great musical geniuses, Brian Wilson, died a few days ago, on June 11, 2025. He was 82 years old. I wanted to post something to mark his passing. Luckily, I've recently been collaborating with a new musical friend, who goes by the name Fabio from Rio. He's a big fan of Brian Wilson and the Beach Boys, and came up with the idea of creating an album consisting entirely of songs about Brian Wilson. So that's what this is. I gave him free reign, and only helped him some with suggestions on song selection.

I would have never come up with the idea for this album, because I had no idea that there would be enough songs about Brian Wilson to make up an entire album. I knew of the song "Brian Wilson" by Barenaked Ladies, since that was a hit back in the 1990s, but that was about it. But Fabio must be a really big fan, because he found so many songs that we had to cut some out to keep the album from getting too long.

The album starts with a rare demo written and sung by Wilson himself. It also ends with two more written and sung by him, including a rare live version of "Love and Mercy." Fabio explained the reasoning for this in an email, which I liked. I'll just paste in his explanation here:

"The Wilson tunes are bookends, as they serve to introduce and close the 'main event' (all the tracks written to him or about him) while bringing a personal Brian touch to the collection. The first song, a 1975, demo works as a prelude (acknowledging Brian's fragility and strength both simultaneously contained in his voice), 'The Last Song' is the epilogue, and 'Love and Mercy' is a coda." 

Regarding the rest of the songs, what Fabio calls the "main event," tracks 2 through 13, are basically divided into two parts. Tracks 2 through 8 are direct tributes to Brian. That's obvious by their titles, but it's not just that: the lyrics and musical style ooze reference and admiration for the man. That's followed by tracks 9 through 13, which are indirect tributes to Brian, or direct tributes to things related to him (the Beach Boys, his health shop, girls, his genius, family), all mentioning him either in the title or lyrics.

So, a big thanks to Fabio from Rio for coming up with the idea for this album and then finding and selecting the songs. As you could guess from the name, he's Brazilian, and hopefully in the future he'll be able to assist in sharing more music from Brazil. I like a lot of music from Brazil, despite not speaking Portuguese at all. I haven't really shared any music from Brazil until now, because I don't have worthy rarities. But he does, so look forward to that in the future. He also has some other plans, including creating one or more albums as a further tribute to Wilson that will consist of songs in a Beach Boys style composed by other musical acts. 

Fabio has also taped a great number of concerts in Brazil. You can find some of them on his YouTube page, here: 

https://www.youtube.com/@musicadequalidade2020/videos

This album is 58 minutes long.

01 In the Back of My Mind [Demo] (Brian Wilson)
02 The Love Songs of B. Douglas Wilson (Splitsville)
03 Mr. Wilson (Hormones)
04 Dear Brian (Chris Rainbow)
05 Brian Wilson Said (Tears for Fears)
06 Brian Wilson (Barenaked Ladies)
07 Mr. Wilson (John Cale)
08 Brian Wilson (Queers)
09 Crazy = Genius (Panic at the Disco)
10 Radiant Radish (Pearl & the Oysters)
11 Brian Wilson Is My Dad (Breakup Shoes)
12 Minnesota Girls (Shackletons)
13 Since God Invented Girls (Elton John)
14 The Last Song (Brian Wilson)
15 Love and Mercy (Brian Wilson)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/Kn42WH9u

alternate: 

https://bestfile.io/en/EMCkcQ343EW7g0m/file

The cover photo shows Wilson in 2007. I added the font colors and type to match those used on the cover of the Beach Boys' "Pet Sounds" album.