Larkin Poe - Baloise Session, Event Halle, Basel, Switzerland, 11-6-2025

Here's a fairly recent concert by Larkin Poe. Well, a few months back as I write this in April 2026, at any rate. They're one of my favorite "newer" acts (by my "kids, get off my lawn" standards, hehehe), and I like to promote them by posting unreleased things from them. It's been a while since the last album I posted though. One reason is their "Tip O' the Hat" acoustic covers have slowed down to nearly nothing. Also, I haven't come across recent material with worthy sound quality. But then I came across this.

For this concert, the two Larkin Poe sisters (Rebecca Lovell and Megan Lovell) rocked out with a full band. I have to admit I prefer their acoustic style, since I like acoustic music in general. But this is a lot of fun. They certainly can do both styles very well.

This comes from the "Baloise Session" TV show. So far, I haven't really posted anything from this show. But it's been going since the 1980s, and broadcasts full concerts on various European TV stations. (As far as I can tell, it only gets to the U.S. via the Internet.) So even though this is unreleased, it's very well produced, and the sound quality is excellent. I found a video of this concert, converted it to audio, and broke it into mp3s.

I believe all the songs here are originals. In early 2025, Larkin Poe released their studio album "Bloom." A lot of the songs come from that. 

And by the way, congrats to them for winning a "Best Contemporary Blues Album" Grammy Award in 2024 for their album "Blood Harmony." They've never had a hit, and they don't fit the modern pop scene so they don't get much radio play, but they've been steadily growing in popularity by being really good and constantly promoting and performing. 

This album is an hour and ten minutes long. 

01 Nowhere Fast (Larkin Poe)
02 Mockingbird (Larkin Poe)
03 Easy Love, Part 1 (Larkin Poe)
04 Band Intros (Larkin Poe)
05 Bluephoria (Larkin Poe)
06 If God Is a Woman (Larkin Poe)
07 talk (Larkin Poe)
08 Southern Comfort (Larkin Poe)
09 talk (Larkin Poe)
10 Little Bit (Larkin Poe)
11 talk (Larkin Poe)
12 Devil Music (Larkin Poe)
13 AC-DC (Larkin Poe)
14 Bad Spell (Larkin Poe)
15 Pearls (Larkin Poe)
16 Wanted Woman (Larkin Poe)
17 Bolt Cutters and the Family Name (Larkin Poe) 

https://pixeldrain.com/u/c4Zws1Xj 

alternate: 

https://bestfile.io/pGG1GQvZEhyCBan/file

The cover image is from this exact concert. It's a screenshot I took from the video.

Covered: Neil Young, Volume 10: 2023-2026

Finally, here's the tenth and last volume for the Neil Young "Covered" series. A big thanks again to Fabio from Rio for doing most of the work to put these together.

Before I go to Fabio's notes about the songs, I want to mention something. My rule here was to include only one cover version of each song (and no versions performed by Young himself). We kept to that, except for two songs, "Heart of Gold" and "Cortez the Killer," where we had two versions. Now that I'm posting this last volume, you can look over all the volumes and see just what songs we included or didn't include. Let us know if you think there are any great Young songs that we didn't include a cover for.

Also, Fabio says he's going to make a kind of "extras" album or albums, consisting of cover versions that he liked that didn't make it here. That's a good opportunity to have second covers of some songs, instead of just one. So if you have ideas of covers that you don't see here, please post them in the comments. I'm sure Fabio will look those over and take that feedback into consideration for his "extras."

One more thing. Fabio wanted this to end on a strong song Young wrote in recent years, specifically "Green Is Blue." But we didn't have a good cover version for that one. So Fabio reached out to the Neil Young "Rust" community. A person named Jeff Winter stepped up and recorded a version of that song just for this collection. So thanks to Jeff as well.

Now, here's Fabio's comments about this time period. 

More than sixty years after Neil Young first emerged in the folk clubs of Toronto, Canada, and later with Buffalo Springfield in the mid-1960s, his songs continue to travel across generations, genres, and continents. The covers gathered throughout these ten volumes show how Young's catalog has become a kind of shared musical language: interpreted by classic rock veterans, indie artists, folk revivalists, Americana performers, and even bedroom musicians recording from home studios.

In recent years this process has only accelerated. Streaming platforms, Bandcamp releases, and fan communities have made it easier than ever for musicians to reinterpret songs from every era of Young's career - from the fragile acoustic ballads of the early seventies to the politically charged songs of his later decades. At the same time, Young himself has continued to release new music and expand his archival releases, ensuring that both longtime fans and new listeners keep rediscovering the depth of his songwriting.

This final volume works almost like an epilogue to the project: a reminder that Neil Young's songs remain very much alive, constantly finding new voices and new meanings. Even when he will no longer be with us - after all, we are all mortals - as long as musicians keep picking up guitars or sitting down at a piano, these songs will continue their journey.

As a final note, I'd like to add that putting together this collection has been both a challenge and a pleasure. Revisiting more than six decades of songwriting made it clear once again how remarkably durable Neil Young's music is: the same songs can survive countless reinterpretations while still retaining their emotional core.

My thanks go to Paul for the idea, the patience, and the many suggestions along the way - and also to the worldwide community of fans, collectors and musicians (the "Rusties") who keep discovering, performing and sharing these songs. Without that ongoing enthusiasm, projects like this would hardly be possible.

Most of all, this collection is simply a tribute to one of the most distinctive songwriters of the last sixty years. As long as people continue to listen to, perform and sing these songs, Young's music won't burn out nor will it rust. And his legacy will never fade away. 

--- 

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 six minutes long.

01 Ten Men Working (Enrico Di Bella)
02 Berlin (Jens Thomas)
03 There’s a World (Sufjan Stevens)
04 Hitchhiker (Minus 5)
05 Out of My Mind (Minus 5)
06 Crime in the City [Sixty to Zero Part 1] (Paul Besselle)
07 No More (Gil Michael)
08 One of These Days (Kassi Valazza)
09 Borrowed Tune (Chris Eckman)
10 Lookin' for a Love (Jeffrey Martin)
11 Philadelphia (Brandi Carlile)
12 White Line (Kurt Vile)
13 Cowgirl in the Sand (Anders Osborne)
14 Here We Are in the Years (Sharon Van Etten)
15 Sail Away (Tyler Ramsey & Carl Broemel)
16 Green Is Blue (Jeff Winter)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/HHUvHraJ

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/NxLoGxoSibb70Jq/file

The cover photo is from 2019. 

Robyn Hitchcock - Robyn Hitchcock Plays 1967, The Chapel, San Francisco, CA, 5-22-2025

Robyn Hitchcock has always been fascinated by the rock music of the 1960s, even though he was born too late to be part of the music scene then. (His first band was formed in 1976.) In 2024, he released a studio album consisting entirely of covers of songs from the year 1967, called "1967: Vacations in the Past." That was a companion to a book he wrote, called "1967: How I Got There and Why I Never Left." I just recently discovered that in May 2025, he performed a unique concert which consisted entirely of cover songs from 1967. So here it is.

I first discovered this concert about a week ago (as I write this in January 2026). When I gave it a listen, my initial thought was that it wasn't worthy of being posted here, due to sound quality issues. The recording I found was an audience bootleg with mere middling sound quality. But it's fortunate I discovered this when I did, and not earlier, because in recent weeks I've learned some audio editing techniques to improve problematic recordings like this one. 

The first thing I did was use MVSEP to separate the vocals from the instruments. Then I ran just the vocals through MVSEP's "reverb removal" feature. I've discovered that doesn't do much to the instruments, but it can really improve the vocals if they're separated out first. That got rid of a lot of echo and murkiness on the vocals. But the sound of his talking between songs was still problematic. So I additionally ran all of those tracks through Adobe's vocal enhancer. It only works on talking, not singing, but it does wonders it enhancing vocal clarity.

Doing all that took a lot of work. But I think it made a big difference. This recording still has some issues, but I think it sounds pretty close to a soundboard-level bootleg now. 

Note that the previous year, Hitchcock did a special concert at the same venue, which consisted entirely of covers of Syd Barrett songs. I've posted that here as well. He made a comment in this concert that he's already thinking about doing another theme type show in 2026. Let's hope this becomes a new yearly tradition for him.

Curiously, even though he played virtually all 1967 songs, there wasn't much overlap with the songs from his "1967: Vacations in the Past" album. The only songs from that one were "Waterloo Sunset," "See Emily Play," "No Face, No Name, No Number," and "A Day in the Life." And by the way, a couple of the songs were actually first released in 1966: "Sunshine Superman" and "Rain." And "Only a Northern Song" by the Beatles wasn't released until 1969. But I could see why he included it, because it actually was recorded by the Beatles in February 1967. It was considered for inclusion on their "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" album but didn't make the cut, so it didn't come out until the "Yellow Submarine" soundtrack.

Hitchcock was supported by a small band, with a few guests coming and going. The last song, "A Day in the Life," sounds a bit different because he got off the stage and performed it in the middle of the audience, with the crowd singing along.  

This album is an hour and 33 minutes long. 

01 Baby, You're a Rich Man (Robyn Hitchcock)
02 Only a Northern Song (Robyn Hitchcock)
03 talk (Robyn Hitchcock)
04 Astronomy Domine (Robyn Hitchcock)
05 Lucifer Sam (Robyn Hitchcock)
06 talk (Robyn Hitchcock)
07 See Emily Play (Robyn Hitchcock)
08 talk (Robyn Hitchcock)
09 Waterloo Sunset (Robyn Hitchcock)
10 talk (Robyn Hitchcock)
11 Soul Kitchen (Robyn Hitchcock)
15 talk (Robyn Hitchcock)
12 The Crystal Ship (Robyn Hitchcock)
13 No Face, No Name, No Number (Robyn Hitchcock)
14 Andmoreagain (Robyn Hitchcock)
19 talk (Robyn Hitchcock)
16 Not So Sweet Martha Lorraine - Sunshine Superman (Robyn Hitchcock)
17 talk (Robyn Hitchcock)
18 Electricity (Robyn Hitchcock)
20 Zig Zag Wanderer (Robyn Hitchcock)
21 talk (Robyn Hitchcock)
22 I'm Waiting for the Man (Robyn Hitchcock)
23 The End (Robyn Hitchcock)
24 talk (Robyn Hitchcock)
25 I Am the Walrus (Robyn Hitchcock)
26 talk (Robyn Hitchcock)
27 Rain (Robyn Hitchcock)
28 talk (Robyn Hitchcock)
29 A Day in the Life (Robyn Hitchcock)
30 talk (Robyn Hitchcock)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/uVBniauz

alternate: 

https://bestfile.io/en/Mvp8hiR5cwbcNHw/file

The cover is from promotional material for the concert. It's almost unchanged, except I widened it some to get it to fit into a square space. 

Bob Dylan - SEC Armadillo, Glasgow, Britain, 11-17-2025

Early this month, as I write this in December 2025, I posted a Bob Dylan concert that took place in August 2025. I was happy to post that, because the sound quality was exceptional for having taken place only a few months earlier. Now, here's another one with equally great sound quality, and a set list that's almost entirely different!

For many, many years, there were next to no Dylan new concert bootlegs with soundboard-level sound quality. The only exceptions since 2000 or so (and I've posted most of them at my blog already) are due to IEM technology. "IEM" stands for "in-ear monitor." Basically, instead of everything going through wires, these days many concerts broadcast the music wirelessly so the band members can hear what the others are playing. And every now and then, people manage to pick up that signal and record it, even though it has a very, very limited broadcast frequency. I'm pretty sure that's what happened here, although it's just generically described as a soundboard by the people who made the original liner notes.

Actually, the people who recorded this also recorded the concert the day before, held in the same Glasgow venue. I decided to post only one, since the set lists were basically identical. (Dylan pretty much played the same songs for the entire short European tour this was a part of. But, as I mentioned above, it's a drastically different set from what he was playing earlier in the year.) So I read some reviews. Both shows were rated highly. Generally, most people think Dylan has been "on" during this tour, singing well and clearly, and generally being engaged. But I read slightly better things about the November 17th concert, so I decided to process that one.

And it turns out it needed a lot of processing. The main problem is that there was virtually NO audience noise whatsoever. Furthermore, the people who turned it into a bootleg cut out everything but the music, probably since they figured it would sound strange to hear dead silence between songs. But the downside is that made it sound like one long song. I think having clear breaks between songs really helps.

So I wanted to fix things, but there was no audience noise to work with at all. I decided on a drastic approach I've never used before. I downloaded an audience bootleg of a Dylan concert from Dublin, which took place a few days after this one. Then, using the MVSEP program, I split the crowd noise from the music for all those songs. Then I took the crowd noise from the beginnings and ends of each of the songs and pasted them into the same songs in this concert. It helped greatly that the set lists were almost exactly the same, with one extra song played in Dublin. Thus, what you're getting here is the real audience reaction to each song, song by song. It's just that the reaction is from a different concert that took place a few days later.

Anyway, I don't know how confusing that sounds. But the bottom line is that the appropriate sounding audience noise has been added, when there had been no audience noise at all. So I think that makes this a big improvement from the version I took it from. I've left in the original notes, so you can see who to thank, and what they did.

I made some other changes as well. The main one is that, occasionally, I noticed some brief dropouts, lasting a second or less. That's not long, but it's long enough for my ear to notice something was off. Every time I heard one of those dropouts, I tracked down the exact spot and did some audio editing to fill in the silence. Since they were very short dropouts, I usually fixed it just by stretching the music on either side a little bit to fill in the gap. That happened in a bunch of songs. I've included "[Edit]" in the titles of two songs where I found two or three such gaps. But there were some others where I found one, and fixed those as well. 

Oh, by the way, track 17, where the other band members are introduced, comes entirely from the Dublin show. Dylan makes those introductions in every concert. But it seems the people who made this bootleg cut everything but the songs so thoroughly that they cut that too. Since that comes from a middling sounding boot, I ran that track through the Adobe Enhance Speech program to make his banter more intelligible. 

If you want to know more about the concert, here's a good review of it:

Bob Dylan Live In Glasgow Review: Rough, rowdy, and ever-changing 

This album is an hour and 48 minutes long. 

01 I'll Be Your Baby Tonight (Bob Dylan)
02 It Ain't Me, Babe [Edit] (Bob Dylan)
03 I Contain Multitudes (Bob Dylan)
04 False Prophet (Bob Dylan)
05 When I Paint My Masterpiece (Bob Dylan)
06 Black Rider (Bob Dylan)
07 My Own Version of You (Bob Dylan)
08 To Be Alone with You (Bob Dylan)
09 Crossing the Rubicon (Bob Dylan)
10 Desolation Row (Bob Dylan)
11 Key West [Philosopher Pirate] (Bob Dylan)
12 Watching the River Flow (Bob Dylan)
13 It's All Over Now, Baby Blue (Bob Dylan)
14 I've Made Up My Mind to Give Myself to You [Edit] (Bob Dylan)
15 Mother of Muses (Bob Dylan)
16 Goodbye Jimmy Reed (Bob Dylan)
17 talk (Bob Dylan)
18 Every Grain of Sand (Bob Dylan)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/nnA8vaZG

alternate: 

https://bestfile.io/OdEnGzeqscl9PFJ/file

I don't know where or when the cover image is from. I just know it's from 2025. I could have found a better photo probably, but I thought this was fitting with his face partially obscured, since he's taken to practically hiding on stage. Apparently, if you go see him in concert in recent years, you're lucky to get to see even this much of his face.

Madness - BBC Sessions, Volume 7: In Concert, New Broadcasting House, London, Britain, 12-11-2025

Here's a concert from a mere week ago (as I post this in mid-December 2025). It's the British band Madness performing a concert for the BBC. 

True, they're getting pretty long in the tooth by this time, and I wasn't sure at first if I wanted to post this or not. But they've done pretty well in their later years, both commercially and critically. In fact, their most recent album, "Theatre of the Absurd Presents C'est la Vie," released in 2023, actually reached Number One in the British album charts. Surprisingly, that was their first number one album (though it should be noted that doesn't mean nearly as much as it used to, since album sales have plummeted in general). 

Most importantly, I listened to the album and though it was a strong performance, so I decided to post it. This could easily be mistaken for a recording from decades earlier. That's true of the song list as well. They were promoting a new greatest hits album, released the month before, so they concentrated on their best known songs and didn't play anything from their latest album. The only surprise is they finished with the cover song "I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday," a hit for Wizzard in 1973, to mark the Christmas season.

I found a high-quality video file of this concert at a bootleg site. I converted it into audio format and chopped it into mp3s. The music here is unreleased, but the sound quality is excellent. 

This album is an hour and 12 minutes long.

01 talk by Jo Whiley (Madness)
02 One Step Beyond (Madness)
03 Embarrassment (Madness)
04 talk (Madness)
05 The Prince (Madness)
06 talk (Madness)
07 NW5 (Madness)
08 talk (Madness)
09 My Girl (Madness)
10 talk (Madness)
11 The Sun and the Rain (Madness)
12 talk (Madness)
13 Return of the Los Palmas 7 [Instrumental] (Madness)
14 talk (Madness)
15 Wings of a Dove (Madness)
16 talk (Madness)
17 Lovestruck (Madness)
18 talk (Madness)
19 Bed and Breakfast Man (Madness)
20 talk (Madness)
21 Shut Up (Madness)
22 talk (Madness)
23 Mr. Apples (Madness)
24 talk (Madness)
25 House of Fun (Madness)
26 talk (Madness)
27 Baggy Trousers (Madness)
28 Our House (Madness)
29 talk (Madness)
30 It Must Be Love (Madness)
31 talk (Madness)
32 Madness (Madness)
33 Night Boat to Cairo (Madness)
34 talk (Madness)
35 I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday (Madness) 

https://pixeldrain.com/u/oEs7aFLZ

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/5kL2wdH1y2g9QUH/file

The cover image of the band's lead singer Suggs is a screenshot I took of a video of this exact concert. 

Cyndi Lauper - A Grammy Salute to Cyndi Lauper, Hollywood Bowl, Los Angeles, CA, 8-29-2025

In recent years, the people behind the annual Grammy Awards have gotten in the habit of having a "Grammy Salute" concert each year that typically stars one musical act, but also has some guest stars. In 2025, the main star was Cyndi Lauper. So here's her concert.

At the time of this concert, Lauper was 72 years old. She had most of her commercial success in the 1980s. So she's not a spring chicken anymore. In fact, she announced that her 2025 tour would be her last tour. (However, she's not done performing: she plans on having a residency in Las Vegas in 2026 instead.) But despite her age, she still sounds great here. She had a voice that had a remarkable four-octave range, so even if she lost some notes, she has a lot of notes to lose.

The thing that makes this concert stand out from her other concerts are the many guest stars she sings duets with, especially Joni Mitchell, John Legend, SZA, and Cher. (It seems John Legend goes to every single tribute concert there is.) At the same time, she presented a kind of "greatest hits" from her career, while also throwing in some cover versions, like "Iko Iko" and "Carey." 

This show was broadcast as a special on CBS. A few days ago, a massive video file emerged of the show. I converted that to audio and chopped it into mp3s. Along the way, I cut out some unnecessary bits. For instance, an announcer often gave teasers of the musical acts still to come later in the special. I got rid of all that. And there were some spoken tributes to Lauper, including one by Brandi Carlile, that I cut out because they weren't part of the actual concert.

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

This album is an hour and 21 minutes long. 

01 She Bop (Cyndi Lauper)
02 talk (Cyndi Lauper)
03 The Goonies 'R' Good Enough (Cyndi Lauper)
04 I Drove All Night (Cyndi Lauper)
05 talk (Cyndi Lauper)
06 Who Let in the Rain (Cyndi Lauper & Mickey Guyton)
07 talk (Cyndi Lauper)
08 Time After Time (Cyndi Lauper & John Legend)
09 Iko Iko (Cyndi Lauper with Trombone Shorty & Angelique Kidjo)
10 talk (Cyndi Lauper)
11 Sally's Pigeons (Cyndi Lauper)
12 talk (Cyndi Lauper)
13 I'm Gonna Be Strong (Cyndi Lauper)
14 Change of Heart (Cyndi Lauper)
15 talk (Cyndi Lauper)
16 Carey (Cyndi Lauper & Joni Mitchell)
17 Money Changes Everything (Cyndi Lauper & Jake Wesley Rogers)
18 Shine (Cyndi Lauper)
19 True Colors (Cyndi Lauper & SZA)
20 Girls Just Want to Have Fun (Cyndi Lauper & Cher)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/Xn6edwLm

alternate: 

https://bestfile.io/en/GSo657YakBN1MrO/file

The cover image is from this exact concert. I also used some promotional material for this show for the text at the top, including the colors, though I rearranged it a bit. Then I made some new text to match that style at the bottom.

Bob Dylan - Outlaw Music Festival, Jones Beach Theater, Wantagh, New York, 8-1-2025

Here's a Bob Dylan concert from only a few months ago (as I write this in December 2025). It's rare that I post a concert from this recent, often because of sound quality issues. But this is a special case. Someone managed to record the IEM (in ear monitor) version of this concert. This is a wireless feed of the music the band members were listening to, so they could easily hear each other. That means the sound quality is fantastic, like an excellent soundboard bootleg.

There was only one downside to this IEM recording. In this case, almost nothing of the audience was heard. Furthermore, often the tracks ended immediately after the song ended, because otherwise one would have just heard eerie silence. So I fixed this in two ways. One, I used the MVSEP program to split the songs into crowd noise and everything else. Then, if there was sufficient crowd noise to work with, I greatly, greatly boosted the volume of the crowd noise. Unfortunately, there were only a handful of songs with enough crowd noise to use this method. So that took me to the second method. For all the songs where I had no other option, I copied and pasted crowd noise in, from the ends of other songs. 

So now one can hear the crowd reactions you'd expect at the ends of all the songs. With this change made, this is probably the best sounding Dylan concert bootleg of the last ten years or more. That's my guess, at any rate. The previous one that had similar quality is from 2009, and I've posted that here.

Actually, there are three Dylan concerts from 2025 where someone captured the IEM feed. The other two have more issues though. In my opinion, this one sounded the best, so that's why I put in a lot of work to get the crowd noise problem fixed. 

This album is an hour and 17 minutes long.

01 Gotta Serve Somebody (Bob Dylan)
02 I Can Tell (Bob Dylan)
03 Forgetful Heart (Bob Dylan)
04 Axe and the Wind (Bob Dylan)
05 To Ramona (Bob Dylan)
06 Early Roman Kings (Bob Dylan)
07 Under the Red Sky (Bob Dylan)
08 I'll Make It All Up to You (Bob Dylan)
09 All Along the Watchtower (Bob Dylan)
10 'Til I Fell in Love with You (Bob Dylan)
11 Desolation Row (Bob Dylan)
12 Love Sick (Bob Dylan)
13 Share Your Love with Me (Bob Dylan)
14 Blind Willie McTell (Bob Dylan)
15 Highway 61 Revisited (Bob Dylan)
16 talk (Bob Dylan)
17 Searching for a Soldier's Grave (Bob Dylan)
18 Don't Think Twice, It's All Right (Bob Dylan) 

https://pixeldrain.com/u/RX9e1xVK

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/ZMCc1aifpWeJfVQ/file

The cover image is from this exact concert.

Alison Moyet - Plenary Hall, Melbourne, Australia, 6-1-2025

Here's a concert recording from just five months ago as I post this in November 2025, starring Alison Moyet.

I don't post music from the recent past like this very often. One of the main reasons for that is sound quality. One can find a steady steam of audience recordings of concerts that happened mere days ago, but I try to avoid audience boots due to the sound quality issue. However, this one is different. It's a rare IEM (in ear monitor) recording. That's a broadcast within the concert venue so the band members can hear what the others are doing. Somehow, someone made a bootleg out of that here. The sound quality is like an excellent soundboard or FM radio broadcast, which is rare for a concert only a few months old.

Moyet was touring to support her new album "Key." This was her first album in seven years. It mostly consists of rerecordings of songs from earlier in her career, but given different arrangements, and most of the songs are deep cuts.

While the sound quality is great overall, there was one problem: for her banter between songs, there was a lot of reverb or echo on her voice. So I ran all the banter tracks through the Adobe voice enhancement program, which brings clarity to voices. 

This album is an hour and 35 minutes long. 

01 Fire (Alison Moyet)
02 talk (Alison Moyet)
03 More (Alison Moyet)
04 talk (Alison Moyet)
05 Such Small Ale (Alison Moyet)
06 talk (Alison Moyet)
07 Nobody's Diary (Alison Moyet)
08 talk (Alison Moyet)
09 The Impervious Me (Alison Moyet)
10 So Am I (Alison Moyet)
11 Can't Say It like I Mean It (Alison Moyet)
12 This House (Alison Moyet)
13 Changeling (Alison Moyet)
14 Beautiful Gun (Alison Moyet)
15 Only You (Alison Moyet)
16 talk (Alison Moyet)
17 Ordinary Girl (Alison Moyet)
18 It Won't Be Long (Alison Moyet)
19 Is This Love (Alison Moyet)
20 talk (Alison Moyet)
21 All Signs of Life (Alison Moyet)
22 Footsteps (Alison Moyet)
23 Whispering Your Name (Alison Moyet)
24 talk (Alison Moyet)
25 All Cried Out (Alison Moyet)
26 talk (Alison Moyet)
27 Situation (Alison Moyet)
28 Love Resurrection (Alison Moyet)
29 Don't Go (Alison Moyet)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/siFYhMye 

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/LRi2HgKFXLC669M/file

The cover photo is from the Latitude Festival at Henham Park in Southwold, Britain, on July 27, 2025.

Brandi Carlile - Returning to the Campfire, Maple Valley, WA, 10-21-2025

A commenter named nytvf recently mentioned that Brandi Carlile was having a free Internet livestream of a campfire concert. Carlile and her usual musical collaborators, the twins Phil and Tim Hanseroth, sat around an actual campfire in the woods and sang songs and played acoustic guitars. (There was no audience except for some of their children who joined them for the last couple of songs.) Here's the result from just a few days after the event.

This concert had one big sonic flaw: since they were performing in front of a real fire, there was frequent crackling sounds from the fire. It sounded like the pops and scratches of a worn out vinyl record, only worse. I decided not to post this album unless I could get rid of the crackling noises. Thankfully, audio editing technology has come a long way in recent years. First, I ran the entire recording through the Izotope 10 program. It has a de-pop feature. Then I ran the whole thing through the MVSEP program. I split the "drums" from the rest of the music. There were no actual drums, but what showed up on the drum track was the crackling from the fire. I didn't get rid of all of it, but I'd estimate I got rid of 95 percent of it. You'll still here the occasional sound, but nothing like how it was.

This free concert was timed to promote Carlile's new album "Returning to Myself," which was released just three days later. Note the name of this concert given in the promotion, "Returning to the Campfire," is a reference to the name of the album. The album has gotten very good reviews, some of the best of her career. Only three songs were performed from that album, however: "A War with Time," "Church and State," and "Returning to Myself." The rest are originals from earlier albums, plus two cover songs: "High and Dry" by Radiohead and "The Sound of Silence" by Simon and Garfunkel.

The music here is unreleased. The sound quality is excellent (not counting the occasional crackle).

This album is two hours and 11 minutes long. 

01 talk (Brandi Carlile)
02 Mama Werewolf (Brandi Carlile)
03 talk (Brandi Carlile)
04 Fall Apart Again (Brandi Carlile)
05 talk (Brandi Carlile)
06 Every Time I Hear That Song (Brandi Carlile)
07 talk (Brandi Carlile)
08 Dying Day (Brandi Carlile)
09 talk (Brandi Carlile)
10 Returning to Myself (Brandi Carlile)
11 talk (Brandi Carlile)
12 Right on Time (Brandi Carlile)
13 talk (Brandi Carlile)
14 High and Dry (Brandi Carlile)
15 talk (Brandi Carlile)
16 The Story (Brandi Carlile)
17 talk (Brandi Carlile)
18 A War with Time (Brandi Carlile)
19 talk (Brandi Carlile)
20 Church and State (Brandi Carlile)
21 talk (Brandi Carlile)
22 The Sound of Silence (Brandi Carlile)
23 talk (Brandi Carlile)
24 I'll Always Know I Do (Brandi Carlile)
25 talk (Brandi Carlile)
26 You without Me - The Mother (Brandi Carlile)
27 talk (Brandi Carlile)
28 Broken Horses (Brandi Carlile)
29 talk (Brandi Carlile)
30 Downpour (Brandi Carlile)
31 talk (Brandi Carlile)
32 Someday Never Comes (Brandi Carlile)
33 talk (Brandi Carlile)
34 Hiding My Heart (Brandi Carlile)
35 talk (Brandi Carlile)
36 Hold Out Your Hand (Brandi Carlile)
37 talk (Brandi Carlile)
38 This Time Tomorrow (Brandi Carlile)
39 talk (Brandi Carlile)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/Dv81h86e

alternate: 

https://bestfile.io/en/JjtUSjyvcP5v0Yu/file

The cover image is a screenshot I took from the livestream broadcast. 

Farm Aid, Huntington Bank Stadium, Minneapolis, MN, 9-20-2025, Part 12: Willie Nelson and Family

Here's the 12th and final album I'm posting from the 2025 Farm Aid benefit concert. This is a set by country legend Willie Nelson. 

I credited it to "Willie Nelson and Family" in part because that's how he was actually billed as, but also because it fits. Not only did family members like his songs Micah and Lukas Nelson play on all the songs, but Micah Nelson sang lead on one of the songs ("Everything Is Bullshit") and band member Waylon Payne sang lead on another ("Help Me Make It through the Night"). 

At the time of this concert, Nelson was a remarkable 92 years old! It's pretty amazing to be that damn old and still be headlining a concert with lots of big names like this one. Unfortunately, I have to say that age has been affecting his voice. He largely dodged this issue by singing songs that didn't challenge his vocal range, but still, sometimes it was hard not to notice as I listened to this.

This set was the longest one from the concert by about ten minutes. For the last three songs, Nelson was joined on stage by most of the other stars from the concert (other than the elusive Bob Dylan), though it isn't that obvious on the song performances.

For some reason, the YouTube feed that I recorded of the entire concert went silent about 2/3rds into Nelson's set. That delayed my posting of the entire concert. Just when I was starting to worry that I'd have to only post part of this set, the whole set finally showed up on bootleg sites. So all's well that ends well. 

This was a particularly impressive Farm Aid, in my opinion, in terms of the quality of the musical acts that performed in it. Let's hope they raised a lot of money to help farmers, and that next year's concert will be as good, or better. 

This album is 53 minutes long. 

01 Whiskey River (Willie Nelson & Family)
02 talk (Willie Nelson & Family)
03 I Never Cared for You (Willie Nelson & Family)
04 Angel Flying Too Close to the Ground (Willie Nelson & Family)
05 talk (Willie Nelson & Family)
06 Will You Remember Mine (Willie Nelson & Family & Lily Meola)
07 On the Road Again (Willie Nelson & Family)
08 talk (Willie Nelson & Family)
09 Just Breathe (Willie Nelson & Family)
10 Mammas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys (Willie Nelson & Family)
11 Georgia on My Mind (Willie Nelson & Family)
12 Help Me Make It through the Night (Willie Nelson & Family)
13 talk (Willie Nelson & Family)
14 Everything Is Bullshit (Willie Nelson & Family)
15 Last Leaf (Willie Nelson & Family)
16 Roll Me Up and Smoke Me When I Die (Willie Nelson & Family)
17 Will the Circle Be Unbroken - I'll Fly Away (Willie Nelson & Family)
18 It's Hard to Be Humble (Willie Nelson & Family)
19 talk (Willie Nelson & Family)
20 I Saw the Light (Willie Nelson & Family)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/v6T9ow9c

alternate:

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

The cover image is from this exact concert.

Farm Aid, Huntington Bank Stadium, Minneapolis, MN, 9-20-2025, Part 11: Neil Young

We're getting near the end of the albums I'm posting from the 2025 Farm Aid benefit concert. This is the 11th out of 12 albums I'm posting from it. This one is a set by Neil Young, backed by his latest band, the Chrome Hearts.

Young was 79 years old at the time of this concert, and frankly he was looking it, but he was still singing and playing lead guitar very capably. Most of the songs were older classics. However, he played one new song, "Big Crime," which was released in a live version earlier in September 2025. It is a scathing criticism of President Trump's many illegal actions.

This album is 38 minutes long. 

01 talk by emcee (Neil Young)
02 Big Crime (Neil Young)
03 Rockin' in the Free World (Neil Young)
04 Long Walk Home (Neil Young)
05 talk (Neil Young)
06 Be the Rain (Neil Young)
07 talk (Neil Young)
08 Southern Man (Neil Young)
09 Hey Hey, My My [Into the Black] (Neil Young)
10 Old Man (Neil Young)
11 talk (Neil Young)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/aHFCtB3s

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/xqiq9XCMK5KsHct/file 

The cover photo is from this exact concert. 

Farm Aid, Huntington Bank Stadium, Minneapolis, MN, 9-20-2025, Part 10: Bob Dylan

This is the tenth album I'm posting from the 2025 Farm Aid benefit concert. This is a set by Bob Dylan, with his band.

It seems Dylan has become increasingly reclusive as he gets older, for instance wearing hoodies at all his concerts. He's gotten particularly annoyed at people taking pictures with their cell phones, and generally being so focused on their phones that they don't pay much attention to the actual concert. In his own concerts, he has security carefully enforce a policy of not using cell phones. In an appearance at the Outlaw Music Festival earlier in the year, where he couldn't control cell phone use, he all but made himself invisible, hiding behind a piano and other equipment, and shining lights in a way so that he basically couldn't be seen.

Here's an article about his appearance at the Farm Aid concert by Rolling Stone Magazine: 

Watch Pro-Shot Footage of Bob Dylan's Masterful Farm Aid Set 

The article says: "He wound up wearing the hoodie, though not pulled as tightly around his face as it has been at recent shows, and he agreed to both the projection screens and the livestream. There weren’t closeups, the stage was pretty dark, and much of the stadium audience had a hard time seeing him clearly, but these were major concessions given his history. Very few Never Ending Tour shows have been professionally filmed like this, let alone broadcast on the Internet."

In terms of his performance, I was a bit disappointed that it was rather short, shorter than all the other major acts. And his song selection was pretty conservative, all 1960s classics plus "I Can Tell," a cover of a Bo Diddley song. Still, some Dylan is better than no Dylan, and the sound quality is excellent. 

This album is 23 minutes long. 

01 talk by John Mellencamp (Bob Dylan)
02 All Along the Watchtower (Bob Dylan)
03 I Can Tell (Bob Dylan)
04 To Ramona (Bob Dylan)
05 Highway 61 Revisited (Bob Dylan)
06 Don't Think Twice, It's All Right (Bob Dylan)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/CDHup6V1

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/G3rSkqbJ1kYm6UH/file

The cover photo is from this exact concert. Note how Dylan is wearing a hoodie and generally shrouded in darkness. It took me a while before I could even find a decent photo showing this much of him.

Farm Aid, Huntington Bank Stadium, Minneapolis, MN, 9-20-2025, Part 9: John Mellencamp

Here's the ninth album from the 2025 Farm Aid benefit concert. It's a set by John Mellencamp.

I'm getting close to the end posting all the sets from the concert that got enough votes in the poll I made. The later the festival, the bigger the names of the stars, and sometimes the longer the sets.

Like Dave Matthews, who was the star of the set just before this one, Mellencamp hadn't released an album for the two years prior to the concert. He mostly stuck to older hits, with the most recent song being "Lawless Times," released in 2014 on the album  "Plain Spoken."

This album is 38 minutes long. 

01 talk by Dave Matthews (John Mellencamp)
02 Lawless Times (John Mellencamp)
03 Small Town (John Mellencamp)
04 Paper in Fire (John Mellencamp)
05 talk (John Mellencamp)
06 Longest Days (John Mellencamp)
07 Jack and Diane (John Mellencamp)
08 Rain on the Scarecrow (John Mellencamp)
09 Pink Houses (John Mellencamp)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/yNFYvjtu

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/7hkPw3vVmDYXsrM/file

The cover photo is from this exact concert. 

Farm Aid, Huntington Bank Stadium, Minneapolis, MN, 9-20-2025, Part 8: Dave Matthews

This is the eighth album from the 2025 Farm Aid benefit concert. This is a set by Dave Matthews.

At the time of this concert, Matthews hadn't released a new studio album since 2023. However, he did play one new, unreleased song, "Peace on Earth." He was backed by Tim Reynolds for the whole set. The last three songs also featured Jake Renick Simpson on fiddle.

This album is 45 minutes long.

01 talk by Margo Price (Dave Matthews)
02 talk (Dave Matthews)
03 Oh (Dave Matthews)
04 talk (Dave Matthews)
05 Grey Street (Dave Matthews)
06 talk (Dave Matthews)
07 Peace on Earth (Dave Matthews)
08 talk (Dave Matthews)
09 Don't Drink the Water - This Land Is Your Land (Dave Matthews)
10 talk (Dave Matthews)
11 Crush (Dave Matthews)
12 talk (Dave Matthews)
13 Warehouse (Dave Matthews)
14 Ants Marching (Dave Matthews) 

https://pixeldrain.com/u/fPy1fLjv

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/94EfrRULzARPQ0o/file

The cover photo is from this exact concert. 

Farm Aid, Huntington Bank Stadium, Minneapolis, MN, 9-20-2025, Part 7: Margo Price

Here's the seventh album I'm posting from the 2025 Farm Aid benefix concert. This one is a set by country singer-songwriter Margo Price.

Price released her fifth album, "Hard Headed Woman," just one month prior to this concert. Although she's American, she's been especially popular in Britain, where three of her albums have reached Number One in the country album chart there.

Here's her Wikipedia entry if you want to know more. 

Margo Price - Wikipedia 

The sound quality is excellent. The only edit I made was to the first track, an introduction by Democratic Senator Amy Klobuchar. I'm politically liberal and I like Klobuchar, but I cut out some political speech and kept her comments to just introducing Price. The other stuff isn't something I would want to hear multiple times.

Note that Billy Stringers, the guitarist who was the star of the set prior to this, helped out on the last song, a cover of Bob Dylan's "Maggie's Farm." 

This album is 41 minutes long. 

01 talk by Amy Klobuchar [Edit] (Margo Price)
02 Don't Let the Bastards Get You Down (Margo Price)
03 Red Eye Flight (Margo Price)
04 Wild at Heart (Margo Price)
05 talk (Margo Price)
06 Nowhere Is Where (Margo Price)
07 talk (Margo Price)
08 Kissing You Goodbye (Margo Price)
09 talk (Margo Price)
10 Deportee [Plane Wreck at Los Gatos] (Margo Price)
11 Don't Wake Me Up (Margo Price)
12 Love Me Like You Used to Do (Margo Price)
13 talk (Margo Price)
14 Maggie's Farm (Margo Price with Billy Strings) 

https://pixeldrain.com/u/673L1PDV

alternate: 

https://bestfile.io/HwJMvsJLPRlUBGW/file

The cover photo is from this exact concert.

Farm Aid, Huntington Bank Stadium, Minneapolis, MN, 9-20-2025, Part 6: Billy Strings

Here's the sixth album I'm posting from the 2025 Farm Aid benefit concert. This one features Billy Strings.

Strings has developed quite a reputation for his guitar playing. He is also an accomplished singer and songwriter. He specializes in bluegrass music, but has also made a name for himself in "jam band" circles.

Here's his Wikipedia entry: 

Billy Strings - Wikipedia

This album is 31 minutes long. 

01 talk by emcee (Billy Strings)
02 talk (Billy Strings)
03 Dust in a Baggie (Billy Strings)
04 Hellbender (Billy Strings)
05 talk (Billy Strings)
06 Away from the Mire (Billy Strings)
07 New Country Blues (Billy Strings)
08 talk (Billy Strings)
09 Gild the Lily (Billy Strings)
10 talk (Billy Strings)
11 Doin' My Time (Billy Strings)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/ePPeCutT

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/7tPv5HJnG8JKBYk/file

The cover photo is from this exact concert.

Farm Aid, Huntington Bank Stadium, Minneapolis, MN, 9-20-2025, Part 5: Lukas Nelson with Sierra Ferrell

Here's the fifth album from the 2025 Farm Aid benefit concert. This one stars Lukas Nelson. I've included Sierra Ferrell in a supporting role in the title as well. She wasn't officially named as part of this musical act, but she had a prominent role in five out of the six songs, and that seems pretty significant to me. Note also that the one song without Ferrell is a duet with Dave Matthews.

Lukas Nelson is one of the children of country music legend Willie Nelson who has pursued a career in music. He has had success leading the Promise of the Real as the backing band for both Neil Young and Willie Nelson for many years. He also had a prominent role writing and producing songs for the 2018 movie "A Star Is Born."

Here's his Wikipedia entry:

Lukas Nelson - Wikipedia 

Here's a music bigger entry about him and the Promise of the Real: 

Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real - Wikipedia 

And here's the entry for Sierra Ferrell:

Sierra Ferrell - Wikipedia 

This album is 30 minutes long. 

01 talk by emcee (Lukas Nelson)
02 talk (Lukas Nelson)
03 Ain't Done (Lukas Nelson with Dave Matthews)
04 talk (Lukas Nelson with Sierra Ferrell)
05 The Maker (Lukas Nelson with Sierra Ferrell)
06 talk (Lukas Nelson with Sierra Ferrell)
07 Friend in the End (Lukas Nelson with Sierra Ferrell)
08 talk (Lukas Nelson with Sierra Ferrell)
09 [Forget About] Georgia (Lukas Nelson with Sierra Ferrell)
10 talk (Lukas Nelson with Sierra Ferrell)
11 Unknown Legend (Lukas Nelson with Sierra Ferrell)
12 Find Yourself (Lukas Nelson with Sierra Ferrell)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/mXLaVS7m

alternate: 

https://bestfile.io/9qc6H0vYJIJKtFr/file

The cover photo of Nelson and Ferrell is from this exact concert.

Farm Aid, Huntington Bank Stadium, Minneapolis, MN, 9-20-2025, Part 4: Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats

Here's the fourth album I've prepared from the 2025 Farm Aid benefit concert. This one is set by  Nathaniel Rateliff and the Night Sweats. (In reality, a couple of the Steve Earle songs from the previous set were performed after this set ended, but I put all the Earle songs together in one album.)

Nathaniel Rateliff's biggest success so far is probably the song "S.O.B.," which was a surprise hit in some countries in 2015 after he performed it on "The Tonight Show" with Jimmy Kimmel. His style is a kind of upbeat mix of soul and country. Here's his Wikipedia entry:

Nathaniel Rateliff - Wikipedia

This album is 29 minutes long.

01 talk (Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats)
02 I'm on Your Side (Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats)
03 Heartless (Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats)
04 Look It Here (Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats)
05 Intro (Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats)
06 I Need Never Get Old (Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats)
07 S.O.B. (Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats)
08 Love Don't (Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats)
09 talk (Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/CbyAgqV5

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/XiMOWTdry17qiY3/file

The cover photo is from this exact concert.

Farm Aid, Huntington Bank Stadium, Minneapolis, MN, 9-20-2025, Part 3: Steve Earle

Here's the third album I've made from the 2025 Farm Aid benefit concert. This one features singer-songwriter Steve Earle. Note that it's quite short, only 16 minutes long.

This is probably the strangest of all the sets from the Farm Aid concert. First, it's strange in that it's easily the shortest of all the sets that day. But also, it was split in two. He performed two songs, then Nathaniel Rateliff came on and played a set. Then Earle came back and played two more songs.

My strong suspicion is that this was a kind of impromptu bonus appearance. Meaning he was attending the concert and decided to just get up on stage and play a few songs while he was there. The fact that it was a solo acoustic set is further evidence, since having a band would have meant a bunch of preparation. But anyway, some Steve Earle is better than no Steve Earle.

I decided to take the two short sets he did and merge them into one. That's why there's an "[Edit]" in the title of "The Rain Came Down." Near the end of the song, between saying "thank you" twice, he mentioned that Nathaniel Rateliff was going to come on for a set and then he'd come back. I used the MVSEP audio editing program to edit those comments out, since they don't fit when these songs are presented together.

As mentioned above, this album is 16 minutes long. 

01 talk by emcee (Steve Earle)
02 talk (Steve Earle)
03 Guitar Town (Steve Earle)
04 talk (Steve Earle)
05 The Rain Came Down [Edit] (Steve Earle)
06 The Galway Girl - Copperhead Road (Steve Earle)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/Nzk4mhSa

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/uqlWz4ymz3Xccu2/file

The cover image is from this exact concert. 

Farm Aid, Huntington Bank Stadium, Minneapolis, MN, 9-20-2025, Part 2: Wynonna Judd

The second album from the 2025 Farm Aid concert is a set by Wynonna Judd.

Judd is a big country star who has sold millions of albums, first as part of the duo the Judds with her mother Naomi, and then as a solo act. The famous actress Ashley Judd is also her half-sister.

Here's her Wikipedia entry:

Wynonna Judd - Wikipedia 

This album is 30 minutes long. 

01 talk by Angie Craig (Wynonna Judd)
02 I Saw the Light (Wynonna Judd)
03 Rockin' with the Rhythm of the Rain (Wynonna Judd)
04 Rock Bottom (Wynonna Judd)
05 talk (Wynonna Judd)
06 She Is His Only Need (Wynonna Judd)
07 talk (Wynonna Judd)
08 Why Not Me (Wynonna Judd)
09 talk (Wynonna Judd)
10 No One Else on Earth (Wynonna Judd)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/zbfdAkCk

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/2fGQTuSvWKJPn1h/file

The cover photo is from this exact concert.