Various Artists - Playboy After Dark (CBS Television City, Los Angeles, CA), Volume 10: April 1970

Here's another volume of music I compiled from episodes of the "Playboy After Dark" TV show. This is the tenth. There's only one more after this.

There's a lot of variety on this album, with country, soul, jazz, and rock. Some highlights are B.B. King, Billy Preston, and Linda Ronstadt making her second appearance. 

A couple of songs have "[Edit]" in their titles. This is due to the usual problem with this series, of people talking over the music. (Especially the T.W.A. advertisements I keep mentioning.) So I fixed those in the usual way, with the help of the MVSEP program. 

By the way, Barbara McNair is a rare case of one of the performers for this show who also posed naked for Playboy Magazine. But it's not like she had to do that in order to get on the show. She'd had an established career starting in the late 1950s, as a singer and an actress for plays, T.V., and movies. She was signed to Motown Records from around 1966 to 1969. She even had her own T.V. show from 1969 to 1971, called "The Barbara McNair Show." 

Her career would take a hit in 1972, however, when she was arrested for heroin possession, because she signed for a package sent to her house containing heroin. However, charges against her were later dropped, and her husband was charged instead. It seems like her husband was a seriously bad dude. He was murdered in 1976. It was alleged he was involved in the Mafia, and was killed at the same time he was trying to put a hit out on someone else.

You can read her Wikipedia entry here:

Barbara McNair - Wikipedia 

The music is unreleased. The sound quality is excellent. 

This album is an hour and ten minutes long. 

01 Nobody Knows (Dillards)
02 Hey Boys (Dillards)
03 My Shining Hour (Carmen McRae)
04 I Love You More than You'll Ever Know (Carmen McRae)
05 Bending the Strings [Instrumental] [Edit] (Dillards)
06 Stand by Your Man (Lola Falana)
07 It Takes a Little Longer (Sonny Charles)
08 Friendship Train (Sonny Charles)
09 Walk a Mile in My Shoes [Edit] (Sonny Charles & Lola Falana)
10 Until It's Time for You to Go (Barbara McNair)
11 Son of a Preacher Man (Barbara McNair)
12 So Excited (B. B. King)
13 The Thrill Is Gone (B. B. King)
14 Lovesick Blues (Linda Ronstadt)
15 Long, Long Time (Linda Ronstadt)
16 Sing, Sing, Sing (Country Joe & the Fish)
17 The 'Fish' Cheer - I-Feel-Like-I'm-Fixin'-to-Die Rag (Country Joe & the Fish)
18 Everything's All Right (Billy Preston)
19 You've Made Me So Very Happy (Sammy Davis, Jr.)
20 God Bless the Child (Blinky)
21 Let's Get Together (Joanne Vent & Muscatel)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/UK1WoH6B

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https://bestfile.io/en/Ox0RbnXqeJIZP7N/file

The cover image of Linda Ronstadt is a screenshot I took from a video of one of these episodes. 

Country Joe McDonald with Barry Melton - BBC Sessions, Volume 4, In Concert, Paris Theatre, London, Britain, 1-28-1975

Here is the fourth, and last, album of Country Joe MacDonald performing for the BBC. This is a concert from 1975.

This album is a bit different from the others in the series and that it prominently features Barry Melton as well as McDonald. McDonald and Melton were the co-leaders of Country Joe and the Fish, with both of them, writing songs. Melton was generally known as "the Fish." Their band broke up in 1970, after band members lost enthusiasm for touring and recording. But both McDonald and Melton continued with their own solo careers. They remain friendly with each other, and sometimes performed together, such as in this concert. In this case, each of them perform songs solo near the beginning, but mostly did songs together.

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

This album is 55 minutes long.

01 Karma (Barry Melton)
02 talk (Barry Melton)
03 Marshmallow Road (Barry Melton)
04 talk (Country Joe McDonald & Barry Melton)
05 The Man from Athabaska (Country Joe McDonald & Barry Melton)
06 talk (Country Joe McDonald)
07 Holy Roller (Country Joe McDonald)
08 talk (Country Joe McDonald)
09 Living in the Future in a Plastic Dome (Country Joe McDonald)
10 Fly So High (Country Joe McDonald)
11 On the Road Again (Country Joe McDonald)
12 talk (Country Joe McDonald & Barry Melton)
13 Entertainment Is My Business (Country Joe McDonald & Barry Melton)
14 I-Feel-Like-I'm-Fixin'-to-Die Rag (Country Joe McDonald & Barry Melton)
15 talk (Country Joe McDonald & Barry Melton)
16 The Hot Dog and Hamburger (Country Joe McDonald & Barry Melton)
17 talk (Country Joe McDonald & Barry Melton)
18 Happiness Is a Porpoise Mouth (Country Joe McDonald & Barry Melton)
19 Here I Go Again (Country Joe McDonald & Barry Melton)
20 Sing Sing Sing (Country Joe McDonald & Barry Melton)
21 It's Finally Over (Country Joe McDonald & Barry Melton)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/ywihexA5

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https://bestfile.io/en/fIOFXZZEO0RaRDz/file

The cover photo is from an appearance on the Old Grey Whistle Test BBC TV show in 1976. 

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

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

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

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

This album is 46 minutes long. 

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

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

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https://bestfile.io/fMMtxoNDznV1Swm/file

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

Country Joe McDonald - BBC Sessions, Volume 2: In Concert, London, Britain, 5-4-1972

Just yesterday, I posted "BBC Sessions, Volume 1" by Country Joe McDonald. But I already made a drastic change to it. After posting it, a commenter named SamApplePie sent me a bunch of BBC material by McDonald. I had most of it, but there was some studio session material from 1977 that I didn't have yet. So I split that album in two. I've just reposted "Volume 1," and it's a lot shorter than before. Don't worry, the rest of that material, and then some, will appear in a later volume. So if you downloaded that one already, I highly recommend you re-download it.

By the way, thanks to SamApplePie for that material. 

Now, let's get to this album. This is a short acoustic concert recorded for the BBC radio show "In Concert." It was an hour-long show, and McDonald shared the show with the band Brinsley Schwarz. I edited the first track, because the BBC DJ Alan Black mixed comments about McDonald with comments about Brinsley Schwarz. I just kept the McDonald bits. I also removed some audience noise in the background. So that's what that one track has "[Edit]" in its title.

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

This album is 35 minutes long. 

01 talk by Alan Black [Edit] (Country Joe McDonald)
02 The Limit (Country Joe McDonald)
03 talk (Country Joe McDonald)
04 Memories (Country Joe McDonald)
05 talk (Country Joe McDonald)
06 Colorado Town (Country Joe McDonald)
07 talk (Country Joe McDonald)
08 The Man from Athabasca (Country Joe McDonald)
09 I'll Survive (Country Joe McDonald)
10 I'm on the Road Again (Country Joe McDonald)
11 Only Love Is Worth This Pain (Country Joe McDonald)
12 Here I Go Again (Country Joe McDonald)
13 talk by Alan Black (Country Joe McDonald)
14 I-Feel-Like-I'm-Fixin'-to-Die Rag (Country Joe McDonald)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/hqUMHqKQ

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https://bestfile.io/en/IwNbicSVRt8DcID/file

The cover photo is from an appearance on the "Old Grey Whistle Test" BBC TV show in 1972.

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

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

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

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

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

This album is 40 minutes long. 

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

https://pixeldrain.com/u/N124GwUt

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/LXstnTF0Kdc6Uyi/file

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

Northern California Folk-Rock Festival, Santa Clara County Fairgrounds, San Jose, CA, 5-19-1968, Part 2 - Country Joe and the Fish

This is the seventh and last album out of seven albums I'm posting from the 1968 Northern California Folk-Rock Festival. This set features Country Joe and the Fish.

The first five of the albums I've posted from this festival took place on May 18, 1968. But this one, and the previous one, the Electric Flag set, took place on May 19th. That's why I'm calling this "Part 2" in the title, instead of "Part 7," because it's Part 2 of May 19th. 

I said quite a lot in my write-up for the first album I posted from this festival, the Youngbloods set. I recommend you read that, because most of that applies to this set too. Most importantly, note that this is sourced from an audience bootleg, so the sound quality isn't up to my usual standards. I had to do a lot of work to fix all sorts of flaws. The final results sounds pretty decent for a 1968 concert, in my opinion, but you need to be tolerant about the flaws that still remain.

Out of all the sets, this one has the most issues. The main reason is because it almost certainly is incomplete. According the schedule listed before the festival began, the bigger names of the musical acts were given 45 minutes to perform. That was true of Country Joe and the Fish. To be specific, they were to perform from 3:45 P.M. to 4:30, after the Electric Flag and before the Doors. All the other acts stuck to their time allotments, give or take five minutes. But this recording is only 24 minutes long. Furthermore, the last song here is cut off. 

My theory is whoever was taping this festival had to stop recording in the middle of this set. They could have run out of batteries or run out of tapes to record on. Such problems were common in those early days of bootleg taping, especially when the costs of tapes were much higher relatively speaking than they would be later. That would also explain why there's no recording of the Doors, even though they were one of the two headlining acts for the festival. 

In fact, a majority of the last song here, "Superbird," was missing. So I filled it out with another version taken from another bootleg that same year. And a chunk of "Masked Marauder" was missing too, causing me to make a similar fix. That's why those two songs have "[Edit]" in their titles. 

In conclusion, the recordings from this festival were borderline unlistenable to my ears, especially due to the high buzzing noise I previously mentioned a few times. But thanks to recent audio editing technology advances, and a lot of grunt work on my part, I hope this festival now can be enjoyed. It still has issues, and probably always will, because audio editing can only go so far. For instance, missing sets, banter, and parts of songs can't be restored. But, in my opinion, the more time passes, the more the music of the late 1960s is seen as historically important and special, so I thought it was worth it to make what music survives from this festival accessible once again.

This album is 24 minutes long. 

01 Rock and Soul Music (Country Joe & the Fish)
02 Love (Country Joe & the Fish)
03 Masked Marauder [Instrumental] [Edit] (Country Joe & the Fish)
04 Flying High (Country Joe & the Fish)
05 Superbird [Edit] (Country Joe & the Fish)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/u9xRtcGV

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/86uy6hqxylL3AOD/file

The cover photo of Country Joe McDonald is from this exact concert. The original was in black and white, but I colorized it with the help of the Kolorize program. It's strange to me that he was wearing a suit and tie, given he was a major countercultural "hippie" figure, but maybe he was trying to be ironic or something, I don't know.

Various Artists - Monterey International Pop Festival, Monterey County Fairgrounds, Monterey, CA, 6-17-1967, Afternoon Show

Here's the second out of five albums I'm posting that make up the 1967 Monterey International Pop Festival. As I mentioned in the first album, the festival was broken up into five parts, and one had to buy tickets for each part. This part consisted of the afternoon show on June 17th, the second day of the festival.

Generally speaking, the different parts didn't really have musical themes, except for this one, because most of the musical acts in this part were heavily influenced by the blues.

As I mentioned in the write-up for the first part, I'm mostly just posting what a person named Simon put together in 2022, with some additions based on material made available since then. As with all the parts, I'm including a PDF Simon made that explains the different sourcing for each of the songs.

Also in my write-up for the first part, I mentioned a Wikipedia link that lists the known songs from the festival, including the ones where there's no publicly available recording. It's worth mentioning that link again:

Monterey Pop Festival set list - Wikipedia 

Let's review what's still missing. Canned Heat is known to have played the three songs included here, but also an unknown number of additional songs. The Big Brother and the Holding Company set is complete. This was the concert that turned that band's main lead singer, Janis Joplin, into a big star. In fact, they're the only band to play two sets in the festival. That's because their set here was one of the highlights, but a documentary film crew headed by D.A. Pennebaker failed to record any good footage of the band. So they were brought back to play a few songs on the third and final day.

Al Kooper had been a keyboardist for the Blues Project since 1965, but he quit that band shortly before this festival. The Blues Project got their own spot later in the festival, but Kooper got a solo spot too. (He would go on to form Blood, Sweat and Tears a year later.) According to the Wikipedia set list above, he only played two songs, and one of them is here. But according to a Newsweek article I linked to in the first part, Kooper's set lasted about half an hour, so he probably played more.

There are eight songs here performed by the Butterfield Blues Band, led by Paul Butterfield. Apparently there did more songs. But each act was allowed to up to 40 minutes, and their set already totaled 33 minutes, so there's probably just one or two missing songs. There are just two songs here by the Quicksilver Messenger Service, and they played five. One of the missing ones is a cover of "Who Do You Love," which they usually ended with a long jam.  There are two Steve Miller Band songs here, but they played at least one more, "Living in the U.S.A." 

The last act for this part of the festival was the Electric Flag. This band was formed in the spring of 1967 by guitarist Mike Bloomfield, and it was led by him, Barry Goldberg, and Buddy Miles. This actually was their very first concert. They would put out a studio album in early 1968 called "A Long Time Comin'," but by then the band's sound had already changed, with founder Bloomfield having less of a role. In fact, he left the band just a couple of months after the album was released. This concert is truer to the original vision he had for the band. There are six songs by them here, which actually is two more than the ones on the Wikipedia set list, so I don't know if there are still more missing ones.

I could say a lot more about all the different performances, but I think the music is all good and generally speaks for itself. The sound quality is excellent throughout, especially considering the time period. A lot of that quality is due to the unusually good sound system. Here's what the Wikipedia article on the festival has to say about that:

"Also notable was the festival's innovative sound system, designed and built by audio engineer Abe Jacob, who started his career doing live sound for San Francisco bands and went on to become a leading sound designer for the American theater. Jacob's groundbreaking Monterey sound system was the progenitor of all the large-scale PAs that followed. It was a key factor in the festival's success and it was greatly appreciated by the artists. For instance, in the 'Monterey Pop' film, David Crosby can clearly be seen saying 'Great sound system!' to band mate Chris Hillman at the start of the Byrds' soundcheck."

Note that that, like all the parts from this festival, this sounds even better than what Simon put together, because I boosted the vocals for the songs that needed that, using the UVR5 audio editing program. About half of the songs needed the boost, though there didn't seem to be much rhyme or reason to it. Some musical acts had low vocals across the board, or not, but often that was only the case for certain songs. Perhaps that's because this is a patchwork, put together from many different sources, both released and unreleased. 

By the way, here's a quote about the festival by Steve Miller: "I remember being really happy to be at Monterey, really excited. It was the first event I attended that was organized in such a really first-class way from top to bottom." 

And here are some quotes about the Big Brother and the Holding Company set, since that was the clear highlight of this part of the festival. Rock critic Keith Altham: "Janis Joplin was the staggering thing I saw on the whole show to me. Because I had never heard a woman sing like that. 'I told her afterwards, "you're the best female rock singer I've ever heard in my life.' She looked me up and down, smiled, and said, 'You get out much, honey?' I thought it was funny. She was very friendly. I liked her."

Record company executive Clive Davis: "When Janis (Joplin) took the stage, it was an unknown group to me totally, Big Brother and the Holding Company, and right from the outset it was something you could never forget. She took the stage, dominated, and was absolutely breathtaking, hypnotic, compelling, and soul shaking. You saw someone who was not only the goods but was doing something that no one else was doing. With that fervor, that intensity, and impact. So yes, that in effect, coupled with everything around me, the way people were dressing, what was going on in Haight Ashbury [the hippie district in San Francisco], the spirit in the air, and the feeling... I just said, 'You know, I am here at a very unique time. I'm feeling it. I'm feeling it in my spine. I'm feeling it in my sense of excitement. I'm feeling it in the impact. It's not only musical changes, but in societal changes.'" 

Davis immediately had the record company he was working for, Columbia Records, sign the band to a record contract, even though they had to buy out the band's existing contract with another company to do so.  

This album is two hours and 27 minutes long. 

01 talk (John Phillips)
02 talk (Canned Heat)
03 Rollin' and Tumblin' (Canned Heat)
04 talk (Canned Heat)
05 Dust My Broom (Canned Heat)
06 talk (Canned Heat)
07 Bullfrog Blues (Canned Heat)
08 talk (Chet Helms)
09 Down on Me (Big Brother & the Holding Company)
10 Combination of the Two (Big Brother & the Holding Company)
11 Harry (Big Brother & the Holding Company)
12 Roadblock (Big Brother & the Holding Company)
13 Ball and Chain (Big Brother & the Holding Company)
14 talk (Country Joe & the Fish)
15 Not So Sweet Martha Lorraine (Country Joe & the Fish)
16 talk (Country Joe & the Fish)
17 I-Feel-like-I'm-Fixin'-to Die Rag (Country Joe & the Fish)
18 talk (Country Joe & the Fish)
19 The Bomb Song (Country Joe & the Fish)
20 Section 43 [Instrumental] (Country Joe & the Fish)
21 Wake Me, Shake Me (Al Kooper)
22 Look Over Yonders Wall (Butterfield Blues Band)
23 Mystery Train (Butterfield Blues Band)
24 Born in Chicago (Butterfield Blues Band)
25 Double Trouble (Butterfield Blues Band)
26 Mary Ann (Butterfield Blues Band)
27 Driftin' Blues (Butterfield Blues Band)
28 One More Heartache (Butterfield Blues Band)
29 Droppin' Out (Butterfield Blues Band)
30 Dino's Song [All I Ever Wanted to Do] (Quicksilver Messenger Service)
31 If You Live (Quicksilver Messenger Service)
32 Mercury Blues (Steve Miller Band)
33 Super Shuffle [Instrumental] (Steve Miller Band)
34 talk (David Crosby)
35 Groovin' Is Easy (Electric Flag)
36 I'm Sick Y'All (Electric Flag)
37 Texas (Electric Flag)
38 talk (Electric Flag)
39 Over-Lovin' You (Electric Flag)
40 Night Time Is the Right Time (Electric Flag)
41 Wine [Drinkin' Wine, Spo-Dee-O-Dee] (Electric Flag)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/1mXxvn3Y

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https://bestfile.io/en/hpdZuZUHcB1hh9t/file

Like most of the cover art I've made for this festival, I had too many good options to choose from, so I broke the image into four smaller ones. From top left clockwise: Janis Joplin of Big Brother and the Holding Company, Country Joe McDonald of Country Joe and the Fish, Mike Bloomfield of the Electric Flag, and Paul Butterfield of the Butterfield Blues Band.

Various Artists - Woody Guthrie All-Star Tribute Concert, Hollywood Bowl, Los Angeles, CA, 9-12-1970

In 1967, legendary folk singer Woody Guthrie died after being bedridden with health problems for many years. In early 1968, there was a tribute concert for him in New York City. Then, in 1970, there was a second tribute concert for him in Los Angeles, which is presented here. I'm not sure why it was thought a second concert was needed, but perhaps it was for people on the West Coast. Highlights of both concerts were combined onto one album, which was released in 1972. 

Like the 1968 show, this one had spoken word recitations between many of the songs. In my opinion, the music bears many repeat listenings, but I get bored with the spoken word parts. So this is a version of just the music, exactly the same as I did with my earlier post of the 1968 concert. Decades later, both concerts were officially released in full, so this recording comes from that.

Many of the musical acts in this concert were the same as the one in the 1968. Arlo Guthrie, Richie Havens, Pete Seeger, and Odetta took part in both. However, the undoubted biggest name of the 1968 concert was Bob Dylan, and he wasn't present here. But another big star in the folk music world, Joan Baez, was only present here. That was also the case for Ramblin' Jack Elliott, Country Joe McDonald, and Earl Robinson. This concert also was half an hour longer.

If you prefer always listening to this with the spoken word recitations, you have the official album version for that. I'm just giving you a different option.

This album is an hour and 30 minutes long.

01 Oklahoma Hills (Arlo Guthrie)
02 So Long, It's Been Good to Know Yuh [Dusty Old Dust] (Pete Seeger & Joan Baez)
03 Goin' Down the Road Feelin' Bad (Ramblin' Jack Elliott, Country Joe McDonald, Pete Seeger & Arlo Guthrie)
04 Hobo's Lullaby (Joan Baez)
05 Ramblin' Round (Odetta)
06 I Ain't Got No Home (Pete Seeger & Arlo Guthrie)
07 Pretty Boy Floyd (Country Joe McDonald)
08 Nine Hundred Miles (Richie Havens)
09 Plane Wreck at Los Gatos [Deportee] (Joan Baez)
10 John Hardy (Odetta)
11 Hard Travelin' (Ramblin' Jack Elliott, Country Joe McDonald, Earl Robinson, Pete Seeger, Arlo Guthrie & Joan Baez)
12 Vigilante Man (Richie Havens)
13 1913 Massacre (Ramblin' Jack Elliott)
14 Do Re Mi (Arlo Guthrie)
15 Pastures of Plenty (Joan Baez)
16 Roll On Columbia (Earl Robinson & Pete Seeger)
17 Mail Myself to You (Earl Robinson)
18 Howdido (Ramblin' Jack Elliott)
19 Woman at Home (Country Joe McDonald)
20 The Sinking of the Reuben James (Pete Seeger)
21 Jesus Christ (Arlo Guthrie)
22 I've Got to Know (Arlo Guthrie & Joan Baez)
23 This Train Is Bound for Glory (Country Joe McDonald, Pete Seeger, Arlo Guthrie, Joan Baez & Odetta)
24 This Land Is Your Land - So Long, It's Been Good to Know Yuh [Dusty Old Dust] (Everybody)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/NPeRiSD5

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https://bestfile.io/en/eVOGzmZgFPw3LgA/file 

The cover image is from this exact concert. From right to left, that's Richie Havens, Joan Baez, Odetta, Pete Seeger, and Arlo Guthrie. It's from the final encore. However, I had to do some Photoshop editing to get everyone to fit in with a decent size. The singers were standing with some big gaps of empty space between the microphones, so I moved them much closer together.

Woodstock '94, Winston Farm, Saugerties, NY, 8-12-1994 to 8-14-1994 - Day 2, Part 1: Cyprus Hill, Salt-N-Pepa, & the Sisters of Glory

The last album I posted from the Woodstock '94 Festival was a kind of leftovers album of all the musical acts from Day One where I only had a small number of songs. That's the case here as well, but for Days Two and Three combined. (I call this "Day 2, Part 1" in the title for organizational reasons.)

In the case of that Day One leftovers album, that was pretty much everything I could find that had worthy sound quality. But for this album, I have to admit I found the full sets for three of the four acts here, but I just don't like them that much, so this is all I included. I'm not really into rap or hip hop, and that's the style for the first two acts here, Cypress Hill and Salt-N-Pepa. Both of them performed on Day Two. I only included their best known songs. Cyprus Hill played a 47 minute long set. I included seven minutes. Salt-N-Pepa did a 44 minute long set, and I included 23 minutes. 

It's a bit different with the third act here, Country Joe McDonald. He was one of the stars of the original Woodstock Festival in 1969. I'm sure that's why he was invited to play Woodstock '94. But he was given only a short slot, as the first act on the morning of the third day. I think he played three songs, but I could only find the audio for one of them.

The fourth and final act here, the Sisters of Glory, were kind of a Traveling Wilburys of female gospel singers. Meaning a bunch of famous musicians got together and put out a studio album, but they didn't stay together long after that. The group was made up of Thelma Houston, CeCe Peniston, Phoebe Snow, Mavis Staples, and Lois Walden. All of them except for Lois Walden had big secular hits, and if they would have performed that kind of music, I would have happily included their full set. But instead they did almost entirely gospel songs. As a non-religious person, I can only handle that in very limited doses. So while they did a hour and five minute long set, I've only included 17 minutes. I picked the songs that I liked best, which also happen to be well known beyond the gospel genre. It so happened that most of these were sung by Mavis Staples of the Staples Singers, including the one secular song, "I'll Take You There," a number one hit in 1972. So I put Mavis Staples in the artist name, since she's pretty much the star here.

The Sisters of Glory came together for a short tour in April 1994. They only planned to stay together for that long. But they got together just for this concert, plus a concert for the Pope later in the year. Then they released a studio album called "Good News in Hard Times" in 1995 that was most of the same songs from their Woodstock set list. They really did disband after that.

Other than these, I've included all of the full sets from Days Two and Three of the festival, with six exceptions. One is that a Croatian musician named Nened Bach was the opening act for Day Three, but I haven't found any recordings of that set. Bach is not a well-known musical act compared to the others on Days Two and Three, so I'm guessing this set probably wasn't included in the pay-per-view broadcast. The second is a jazz percussionist and singer named Vinx. Similarly, I couldn't find any recordings of that set, probably for the same reason.

The third exception is that I did find the full set for the Rollins Band on Day Two. But I disliked it so much that I couldn't stand to even include one song from it. The Rollins Band, led by Henry Rollins, is described as "hard rock" by Wikipedia. I like a lot of hard rock, but this just seemed like angry screaming to me. I make these albums mainly for myself, and I couldn't stand to have any of that set in my music collection, sorry.

The fourth exception is Todd Rundgren. He did something very strange for this festival. Instead of giving a set on one of the two big stages like everyone else, he did no less than five sets a day every day of the festival! But he did it in a special section of the festival called the Philips Multimedia Village, and his performances were "multimedia" somehow. A couple of these sets have shown up on YouTube, but the sound quality is so poor I couldn't include them. If anyone has any of Rundgren's performances with good sound quality, please let me know. 

The fifth and sixth exceptions are the Justin Trio and Xalam from the WOMAD (world music) portion of the festival. I only found portions of their sets, and they are pretty obscure musical acts. I wasn't that impressed, so I left them out. (I did include two other WOMAD acts though.)

This album is a really weird mixture of rap, hip hop, folk, and gospel. It doesn't exactly flow well, but at least it's available here.

This album is 55 minutes long.

01 How I Could Just Kill a Man (Cypress Hill)
02 Insane in the Membrane (Cypress Hill)
03 Push It (Salt-N-Pepa)
04 Whatta Man (Salt-N-Pepa)
05 Let's Talk about Sex (Salt-N-Pepa)
06 Shoop (Salt-N-Pepa)
07 talk (Country Joe McDonald)
08 Save the Whales (Country Joe McDonald)
09 Will the Circle Be Unbroken (Mavis Staples & the Sisters of Glory)
10 Glory, Glory (Mavis Staples & the Sisters of Glory)
11 I'll Take You There (Mavis Staples & the Sisters of Glory)
12 Oh Happy Day (Mavis Staples & the Sisters of Glory)

https://www.upload.ee/files/16750837/VA-WODSTCK94_8-13-1994_01CyprsHillSltNPpathSstrsofGlry_atse.zip.html

Here's an alternate download link I'm experimenting with:

https://pixeldrain.com/u/4ojTzz2T

The cover photo is of Salt-N-Pepa. It's from this exact concert.

Thank You and Farewell - The Closing of the Fillmore East, Fillmore East, New York City, 6-27-1971, Part 6: Country Joe McDonald

This sixth album of the closing of the Fillmore East in New York City in 1971 is a very short one. But I figure since all the other sets are their own albums, this one should be its own album too. This features singer-songwriter Country Joe McDonald.

McDonald had been the leader of the rock band Country Joe and the Fish from 1965 until the band's break-up in 1970. He then pursued a solo career in more of a singer-songwriter mode.

He performed this concert solo, just vocals and guitar. He'd just released his most recent album, "Hold On It's Coming" a couple of months prior to this concert. But the only song he played from it was the title song.

This album is 16 minutes long. This just might be the shortest album I've posted at this blog so far.

As short as this album is, it was even shorter before I started editing it. I cut out a couple of minutes of guitar tuning. It seems he took a extra long time because he broke a string.

56 talk by Bill Graham (Country Joe McDonald)
57 Kiss My Ass (Country Joe McDonald)
58 Entertainment Is My Business (Country Joe McDonald)
59 I-Feel-Like-I'm-Fixin'-to-Die Rag (Country Joe McDonald)
60 talk (Country Joe McDonald)
61 Rockin' All Around the World (Country Joe McDonald)
62 Hold On It's Coming (Country Joe McDonald)

https://www.upload.ee/files/16376038/VA-ThnkYounFrwll197106CntryJoMcDnld.zip.html

The cover photo comes from this exact concert. However, the photo was black and white. I colorized with the help of the Palette program.