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

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

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

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

The music here is unreleased. 

This album is an hour and 49 minutes long. 

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

https://pixeldrain.com/u/1Bmt1iK9 

alternate:

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

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

Big Mama Thornton with Tommy Bolin - Ebbets Field, Denver, CO, 1973, Late Show

Yesterday, I posted the early show of Big Mama Thornton playing at Ebbets Field in Denver in 1973, with Tommy Bolin on lead guitar. Here's the late show.

Most of what I'd want to say about this was said in my write-up for the early show. So please read that. Just a quick recap: it would be plenty interesting to have a recording of blues legend Big Mama Thornton performing at a small club like this in 1973. But a nice bonus is having Bolin on guitar. He was living in the area at the time, shortly before joining the James Gang and then later joining Deep Purple, and he sometimes would back up blues artists when they were passing through town. This seems to be the only instance of that that luckily got recorded.

As with the early show, if you listen to this, it's pretty clear Thornton was winging it, singing whatever song came into her head at any moment. Bolin and the rest of the back-up band probably had no practice time with her, and did a good job trying to keep up with her. 

One nice thing is that the songs in the late show are almost entirely different than those of the early show, with only "Hound Dog" and "Swing It on Home" being the same. And apparently that was Thornton playing the short drum solo at the end of the last song.

If anyone knows the names of the instrumental second and third tracks, please let me know, so I can give them proper names. I did some Internet searching and found someone who had played with Bolin who knew the name of the first song, or I never would have been able to name that instrumental.

As with the early show, the music is unreleased and the sound quality is excellent. 

This album is 47 minutes long.

01 Swamp Carol [Instrumental] (Tommy Bolin)
02 Instrumental Jam (Tommy Bolin)
03 Blues Shuffle [Instrumental] (Big Mama Thornton with Tommy Bolin)
04 Pack Up My Troubles (Big Mama Thornton with Tommy Bolin)
05 Good Morning, Little Schoolboy [Good Morning, Little Schoolgirl] (Big Mama Thornton with Tommy Bolin)
06 talk (Big Mama Thornton with Tommy Bolin)
07 Oh Happy Day (Big Mama Thornton with Tommy Bolin)
08 Swing Low, Sweet Chariot (Big Mama Thornton with Tommy Bolin)
09 He's Got the Whole World in His Hands (Big Mama Thornton with Tommy Bolin)
10 Go Down Moses - He's Got the Whole World in His Hands [Reprise] (Big Mama Thornton with Tommy Bolin)
11 talk (Big Mama Thornton with Tommy Bolin)
12 Drink on the Table (Big Mama Thornton with Tommy Bolin)
13 talk (Big Mama Thornton with Tommy Bolin)
14 What'd I Say (Big Mama Thornton with Tommy Bolin)
15 Hound Dog (Big Mama Thornton with Tommy Bolin)
16 Swing It on Home - Drum Solo [Edit] (Big Mama Thornton with Tommy Bolin)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/WNLRoRCv

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/VLaXtYf8pAPGlJP/file

The cover image shows Big Mama Thornton on the "Dick Cavett Show" on July 22, 1971. That's the case for the early show cover image as well. I thought it would be nice to have her in the same clothes for the covers of the early and late shows. 

Big Mama Thornton with Tommy Bolin - Ebbets Field, Denver, CO, 1973, Early Show

The next installment of Ebbets Field radio broadcast concerts is something unexpected: blue legend Big Mama Thornton performing with Deep Purple lead guitarist Tommy Bolin! There are early and late shows, with the two of them quite different. Here's the early show.

Thorton is best known for the song "Hound Dog." She had a hit with it in 1952, before Elvis Presley's version. Her version sold half a million copies, which was a remarkable amount back at that time. She's also well known for a song she wrote, "Ball and Chain," after Janis Joplin did a great version of it in the late 1960s. Her time in the spotlight in the 1950s didn't last long, since she only had that one hit. But in the 1960s and into the 1970s she had a career revival playing in blues and/or folk clubs and festivals. At the time of this concert, she was about 46 years old.

Here's her Wikipedia page:

Big Mama Thornton - Wikipedia 

Tommy Bolin was born and raised in Iowa, but his family moved to Boulder, Colorado, in his late teens. He began playing in local bands. One of them, Zephyr, released a couple of albums, and toured nationally, though they didn't have any hits. After that band broke up around 1971, he joined a couple other short-lived bands, and wrote a lot of songs. In 1973, he joined the James Gang (after Joe Walsh left) and dominated it, writing nearly all the songs for two albums. By 1975, he'd left the James Gang and joined Deep Purple for about a year. He also released solo albums in 1975 and 1976. But he died of a drug overdose at the very end of 1976.

Tommy Bolin - Wikipedia

Anyway, the reason I mention all this about Bolin is because it's relevant in explaining how his involvement with Thornton came to be. In 1972 and 1973 especially, Bolin was at loose ends and living in Boulder, often without a band. During this time, he developed a good relationship with Chuck Morris, who owned the Ebbets Field venue (and a couple more in the area). Often, when blues musicians were passing through town and were lacking a backing band, Morris would get Bolin and/or some of Bolin's friends to provide the backing. (Bolin would make the drive from Boulder to Denver in less than an hour.) Or sometimes Bolin would just ask to sit in. In this way, he played with many musical greats, including Howlin' Wolf, Albert King, and Chuck Berry. Usually, these big names would be greatly impressed by Bolin, who was far from being just an inexperienced local musician. 

It seems none of these shows pairing Bolin with these blues legends were recorded... except for this one with Thornton, somehow. I don't know if this was broadcast on the radio at the time, like other Ebbets Field shows, or if just got luckily recorded by the venue anyway. Bobby Berge and Stan Shelton rounded out the backing band. 

Chances are there was little to no practice between Thornton and the backing band beforehand. You can hear at times where Thornton starts a song and just expects the other musicians to figure out what's going on and join in. But it's also clear that she respected Bolin's lead guitar playing, as can be seen by the space he was given to solo, especially with the two instrumentals at the beginning. (If anyone knows the names of those songs, if they have names, please let me know. I also had to figure out the names of the other songs. Please let me know if I got any of them wrong.)

Surprisingly, not only was Thornton a great blues vocalist, she could also play drums pretty well. That's her playing a short drum solo near the end of this recording.

This album is 46 minutes long. 

01 Instrumental Jam (Tommy Bolin)
02 Blues Shuffle [Instrumental] (Tommy Bolin)
03 Blues with Intro (Big Mama Thornton with Tommy Bolin)
04 Little Red Rooster [Early One Morning] (Big Mama Thornton with Tommy Bolin)
05 Rock Me Baby (Big Mama Thornton with Tommy Bolin)
06 talk (Big Mama Thornton with Tommy Bolin)
07 Shake, Rattle and Roll - Hi Ho Silver (Big Mama Thornton with Tommy Bolin)
08 talk (Big Mama Thornton with Tommy Bolin)
09 Ball and Chain (Big Mama Thornton with Tommy Bolin)
10 Hound Dog (Big Mama Thornton with Tommy Bolin)
11 talk (Big Mama Thornton with Tommy Bolin)
12 Swing It on Home - Drum Solo (Big Mama Thornton with Tommy Bolin)
13 talk (Big Mama Thornton with Tommy Bolin)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/fnNa7zWg

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/XF5Bz0rmGxi8TR1/file 

The cover image shows Big Mama Thornton on the "Dick Cavett Show" on July 22, 1971. By the way, looking at the cover, you may wonder that she doesn't look like a "Big Mama." When she was younger, she was most definitely big - at one point, she weighed about 450 pounds. But years of heavy drinking gave her health problems that caused her to lose a lot of weight by the early 1970s. By the time she died in 1984, she only weighed about 95 pounds.

Commander Cody & His Lost Planet Airmen - Ebbets Field, Denver, CO, 8-11-1973

Here's another Ebbets Field radio broadcast. This one features Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen.

The Wikipedia entry intro is badly written, so I'll try to come up with my own summary. This band was led by pianist and vocalist George Frayne IV, a.k.a. Commander Cody. The band was formed in 1967, but they didn't release their debut album until 1971. Once they did, it contained a surprise hit with the song "Hot Rod Lincoln," which made it all the way to the Top Ten in the U.S. singles chart. It was a surprise hit because it was a cover of an obscure 1950s song, and the 1950s style was very much out of step with the musical trends of 1971. 

Unfortunately, it would prove to be their only hit. The band broke up in 1977. However, Frayne continued to make a lot more music using the "Commander Cody" name. He died in 2021.

Although Wikipedia didn't have a good intro for this band, it does have a good paragraph explaining the band's style. So I'll quote that here: "[the band's] style was built on the foundation of country music, which the band fused with boogie woogie, rock and roll, rhythm and blues, Western swing and jazz, which Classic Rock said resulted in 'a counter-cultural twist to the Nashville sound.' Relix said that the band 'tossed together rockabilly, blues, country, boogie-woogie, Western swing and whatever else came their way.' Tinnitist called the band 'one of the more interesting bands of the hippie era, fusing county, rockabilly, western swing, jump blues, and more into an infectious amalgam that set the table for outfits like NRBQ.'"

Here's the rest of the entry:

Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen - Wikipedia

The music is unreleased. The sound quality is excellent. 

This album is 58 minutes long. 

01 Instrumental Intro (Commander Cody & His Lost Planet Airmen)
02 Good Rockin' Tonight (Commander Cody & His Lost Planet Airmen)
03 talk (Commander Cody & His Lost Planet Airmen)
04 What's the Matter Now (Commander Cody & His Lost Planet Airmen)
05 talk (Commander Cody & His Lost Planet Airmen)
06 Truck Driving Man (Commander Cody & His Lost Planet Airmen)
07 talk (Commander Cody & His Lost Planet Airmen)
08 Four or Five Times (Commander Cody & His Lost Planet Airmen)
09 talk (Commander Cody & His Lost Planet Airmen)
10 Down and Out (Commander Cody & His Lost Planet Airmen)
11 talk (Commander Cody & His Lost Planet Airmen)
12 Mama Hated Diesels (Commander Cody & His Lost Planet Airmen)
13 talk (Commander Cody & His Lost Planet Airmen)
14 Little Sally Walker (Commander Cody & His Lost Planet Airmen)
15 talk (Commander Cody & His Lost Planet Airmen)
16 Ain't Nothin' Shakin' (Commander Cody & His Lost Planet Airmen)
17 talk (Commander Cody & His Lost Planet Airmen)
18 Daddy's Drinkin' Up Our Christmas (Commander Cody & His Lost Planet Airmen)
19 talk (Commander Cody & His Lost Planet Airmen)
20 Beat Me Daddy Eight to the Bar (Commander Cody & His Lost Planet Airmen)
21 talk (Commander Cody & His Lost Planet Airmen)
22 Hot Rod Lincoln (Commander Cody & His Lost Planet Airmen)
23 talk (Commander Cody & His Lost Planet Airmen)
24 Rave On (Commander Cody & His Lost Planet Airmen)
25 talk (Commander Cody & His Lost Planet Airmen)
26 Rock That Boogie (Commander Cody & His Lost Planet Airmen)
27 talk (Commander Cody & His Lost Planet Airmen)
28 Jailhouse Rock (Commander Cody & His Lost Planet Airmen)
29 talk by emcee (Commander Cody & His Lost Planet Airmen)
30 talk (Commander Cody & His Lost Planet Airmen)
31 Mean Woman Blues (Commander Cody & His Lost Planet Airmen)
32 Lost in the Ozone Again (Commander Cody & His Lost Planet Airmen)
33 talk by emcee (Commander Cody & His Lost Planet Airmen)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/5C8xtSek 

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/49LEVP2T5KtIvTS/file

The cover image comes from an appearance on the "Midnight Special" T.V. show in Burbank, California, on July 6, 1973.

Sandy Denny - Ebbets Field, Denver, CO, 4-29-1973

The flood of Ebbets Field radio broadcasts continues. You may have noticed I'm trying to post one of these each day. Here's one from folk singer Sandy Denny.

Denny was a member of Fairport Convention from 1968 to 1969. She left to pursue a solo career. She rejoined Fairport Convention from 1974 to 1975. I have two albums of that band performing at Ebbets Field in 1974 when she was a member. That will be coming soon. 

She was pretty popular in Britain. She even won "Best British Female Singer" in a readers' poll for Melody Maker magazine in 1970 and 1971. But she was far less well known in the U.S., which helps explain why she was performing in this small club that seated 250 people at most. Her most recent album at the time of this concert was "Sandy," in 1972.  

So far, I believe all the concerts I've posted from this venue have been officially unreleased. But this one came out as part of the 2012 deluxe edition of the "Sandy" album. That said, the recording was still pretty raw, with some sonic imbalances. So I made some changes with the MVSEP program.

This album is 32 minutes long. 

01 Late November (Sandy Denny)
02 talk (Sandy Denny)
03 The Music Weaver (Sandy Denny)
04 talk (Sandy Denny)
05 It Suits Me Well (Sandy Denny)
06 talk (Sandy Denny)
07 Bushes and Briars (Sandy Denny)
08 talk (Sandy Denny)
09 The Quiet Joys of Brotherhood (Sandy Denny)
10 talk (Sandy Denny)
11 The Sea Captain (Sandy Denny)
12 talk (Sandy Denny)
13 At the End of the Day (Sandy Denny)
14 talk (Sandy Denny)
15 John the Gun (Sandy Denny)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/NRSGaEk8

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/3SIvyMcViAiWgn0/file

The cover image is from the Ngaruawahia Music Festival in New Zealand in 1973. The sky was blue behind her, so I changed that to grey to better fit with this album, since the Ebbets Field club was indoors.

Tom Waits - Ebbets Field, Denver, CO, 10-8-1974

The flood of Ebbets Field radio broadcasts continues. Here's a solo acoustic one from singer-songwriter Tom Waits.

I've found over 60 different concert recordings that come from the Ebbets Field venue. Out of all of those, I think only one where I have two performances by the same musical act from different dates is Tom Waits. I found this one, from 1974, and another one from 1975 that I'll be posting later.

The debut album by Waits, "Closing Time," was released in 1973. His second album, "The Heart of Saturday Night," came out on October 15, 1974. That's one week after this concert. So if someone attending this concert was only familiar with the "Closing Time" album, they wouldn't have known most of the songs. Only four songs performed where from that album (tracks 1, 7, 16, and 19). The rest would be included on his second album, or other later albums. One song, "Good Night Loving Trail," is a cover written by Utah Phillips, which Waits has never officially released.

There's a bootleg called "The Dime Store Novels, Vol. 1" that consists of this concert. It's packaged like an official release, and it seems it's widely available. However, it is still just a bootleg. (And there doesn't seem to be any "Vol. 2.")

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

This album is 48 minutes long.

01 I Hope that I Don't Fall in Love with You (Tom Waits)
02 talk (Tom Waits)
03 San Diego Serenade (Tom Waits)
04 Good Night Loving Trail (Tom Waits)
05 talk (Tom Waits)
06 Diamonds on My Windshield (Tom Waits)
07 Ice Cream Man (Tom Waits)
08 Please Call Me Baby (Tom Waits)
09 talk (Tom Waits)
10 Better Off without a Wife (Tom Waits)
11 The Ghosts of Saturday Night [After Hours at Napoleone's Pizza House] (Tom Waits)
12 Big Joe and Phantom 309 [Phantom 309] (Tom Waits)
13 talk (Tom Waits)
14 Semi Suite (Tom Waits)
15 talk (Tom Waits)
16 Ol' 55 (Tom Waits)
17 On a Foggy Night (Tom Waits)
18 talk (Tom Waits)
19 Martha (Tom Waits)
20 talk by emcee (Tom Waits) 

https://pixeldrain.com/u/12bMyFNx

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/P7SQOo94iYaX8Z2/file

The cover image is a promo photo from 1973. The original was in black and white, but I colorized it with the use of the Kolorize program.

Robin Trower - Ebbets Field, Denver, CO, 8-6-1973

Here's another one of the many Ebbets Field radio broadcasts. This one stars lead guitarist Robin Trower.

Here's the Wikipedia entry intro about him:

"[Trower] is an English rock guitarist and producer who achieved success with Procol Harum from 1967 until 1971 and as the bandleader of his own power trio known as the Robin Trower Band. Although Procol Harum was primarily known as a progressive rock band, Trower himself is known for his blues-infused guitar playing, which critics have frequently compared to that of Jimi Hendrix, whom he has cited as an influence. As a solo artist, Trower released four consecutive gold-certified albums from 1974 to 1977 that charted well in the U.S. and Canada, but in the 1980s his career faltered. He briefly returned to Procol Harum for their 1991 reunion album, The Prodigal Stranger, but left again to resume his solo career. His most recent solo album, Come and Find Me, was released in 2025."

Here's the full entry:

Robin Trower - Wikipedia

This concert took place about six months after the release of Tower's debut album, "Twice Removed from Yesterday." At the time, it didn't do that well. It just missed making the Top 100 album chart. But his next album, "Bridge of Sighs," would do much better, making the Top Ten.

A key member of Trower's band at this time was James Dewar. He not only was the bass player, he was the lead vocalist. He essentially was the "voice" for Trower until they parted ways in 1983. Trower and Dewar co-wrote most of the songs on the debut album. On later albums, Trower would dominate the songwriting a lot more.

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

This album is 48 minutes long.

01 The Fool and Me (Robin Trower)
02 talk (Robin Trower)
03 Twice Removed from Yesterday (Robin Trower)
04 talk (Robin Trower)
05 Lady Love (Robin Trower)
06 talk (Robin Trower)
07 Daydream (Robin Trower)
08 talk (Robin Trower)
09 Day of the Eagle (Robin Trower)
10 talk (Robin Trower)
11 I Can't Wait Much Longer (Robin Trower)
12 talk (Robin Trower)
13 Man of the World (Robin Trower)
14 talk (Robin Trower)
15 Sinner's Song (Robin Trower)
16 talk (Robin Trower)
17 Little Bit of Sympathy (Robin Trower)
18 talk (Robin Trower)
19 I Can't Stand It (Robin Trower)
20 talk by emcee (Robin Trower)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/5aTe9eMj

alternate:

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

All I know about the cover is it was taken in March 1973. The original was in black and white, but I colorized it with the use of the Kolorize program. 

Roger McGuinn - Ebbets Field, Denver, CO, 2-20-1974

Here's another radio broadcast concert from the small Ebbets Field venue in Denver, Colorado. This one is a solo acoustic performance by Roger McGuinn, former lead singer of the Byrds.

I'm very impressed by the roster of musical acts that performed at this club in the years of its existence, from 1973 to 1977. You can see a list of the performers in 1973 here:

https://queencityjamz.blogspot.com/2019/12/ebbets-field-denver-1973-listings.html

And the performers from 1974 to 1977 here: 

https://kimsloans.wordpress.com/tag/ebetts-field-denver-music-venue-1974/

In my opinion, there's a high rate of quality, with lots of concerts I wish I could hear, and not so many that I've never heard about or don't care for. I suspect that's because the owner of the venue, Chuck Morris, had good musical taste, and booked the artists he liked. To support that, I heard an anecdote that he was a very big fan of the Byrds, so much so that when he was hiring employees for his venue, one question he would ask was who were the five original members of the Byrds.

Given that, Morris must have been excited for this concert. The Byrds broke up in early 1973, right around the time the Ebbets Field venue opened up, so they never performed there. But McGuinn immediately started a solo career, releasing his first solo album, the cleverly titled, "Roger McGuinn," later in 1973. He was still promoting that album at the time of this concert.

The music is unreleased and the sound quality is excellent. However, I made a lot of adjustments, because this recording was in a pretty raw state. So parts of songs were too loud, others too quiet, the banter was especially quiet, and so on. But all of it was fixable.

This album is 58 minutes long. 

01 I'm So Restless (Roger McGuinn)
02 talk (Roger McGuinn)
03 Lost My Drivin' Wheel (Roger McGuinn)
04 Bag Full of Money (Roger McGuinn)
05 talk (Roger McGuinn)
06 Wasn't Born to Follow (Roger McGuinn)
07 The Ballad of Easy Rider (Roger McGuinn)
08 talk (Roger McGuinn)
09 Take a Whiff (Roger McGuinn)
10 talk (Roger McGuinn)
11 Wayfaring Stranger (Roger McGuinn)
12 Old Blue Story-Song (Roger McGuinn)
13 talk (Roger McGuinn)
14 Old Blue (Roger McGuinn)
15 talk (Roger McGuinn)
16 Mr. Spaceman (Roger McGuinn)
17 talk (Roger McGuinn)
18 Eight Miles High (Roger McGuinn)
19 talk (Roger McGuinn)
20 Lover of the Bayou (Roger McGuinn)
21 talk (Roger McGuinn)
22 Keep My Skillet Good and Greasy (Roger McGuinn)
23 talk (Roger McGuinn)
24 The Bells of Rhymney (Roger McGuinn)
25 So You Want to Be a Rock 'n' Roll Star (Roger McGuinn)
26 The Lady (Roger McGuinn)
27 Chestnut Mare (Roger McGuinn)
28 talk by emcee (Roger McGuinn)
29 Turn, Turn, Turn [To Everything There Is a Season] (Roger McGuinn)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/U4gbACq5 

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/XQrHNO2vRRX4oMy/file

The cover image shows McGuinn in Malibu, California, in July 1974. 

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

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

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

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

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

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

The sound quality is excellent. 

This album is 50 minutes long. 

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

https://pixeldrain.com/u/eamaMpvi

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/IQCGb81aB5MijY9/file

The cover photo shows band members Geoffrey Richardson (on violin) and David Sinclair (on keyboards). In the original, the two of them were farther away. But I used Photoshop to move them closer, so I could have them be larger in the image. It's from a concert in Berkeley, California, in the same month of November 1974.

Lightnin' Hopkins - Ebbets Field, Denver, CO, 4-24-1974

The range of musical acts who performed at the Ebbets Field venue, which held about 250 people, was impressive. For instance, I wouldn't have imagined a recording like this from Lightnin' Hopkins in 1974. But here it is.

I tend to think of Hopkins as someone from decades earlier. But he was still very musically active in 1974. He was about 61 years old, which isn't really old for a blues musician. For instance, B.B. King lived to be 89 years old, and was still performing right up until the end. 

Here's the Wikipedia entry intro about him: "[Hopkins] was an American country blues singer, songwriter, guitarist, and occasional pianist from Centerville, Texas. In 2010, Rolling Stone magazine ranked him No. 71 on its list of the 100 greatest guitarists of all time. The musicologist Robert 'Mack' McCormick opined that Hopkins is 'the embodiment of the jazz-and-poetry spirit, representing its ancient form in the single creator whose words and music are one act.' He influenced Townes Van Zandt, Hank Williams, Jr., and a generation of blues musicians such as Stevie Ray Vaughan... In his own lifetime, Hopkins was one of the initial inductees in 1980 to the Blues Hall of Fame." 

Here's the rest of the entry:

Lightnin' Hopkins - Wikipedia

I'll add a bit more to that. His recording career began in the 1940s, when he was already in his 30s. He grew popular with Black audiences in the 1940s and 50s. In the 1960s, his career got a boost when his music was discovered by the folk revival, mostly made up of White audiences. That started in 1960, when he performed at the prestigious Carnegie Hall in New York City with Joan Baez and Pete Seeger. From that point on, he often played at folk festivals and colleges, and even toured internationally. He died of cancer in 1982, at the age of 69.

This is a solo acoustic concert, with a lot of banter between songs. The music is unreleased, and the sound quality is excellent.

This album is 55 minutes long.

01 talk (Lightnin' Hopkins)
02 Nothing I Can Do (Lightnin' Hopkins)
03 talk (Lightnin' Hopkins)
04 Lord Have Mercy (Lightnin' Hopkins)
05 talk (Lightnin' Hopkins)
06 Lazy Woman Do (Lightnin' Hopkins)
07 talk (Lightnin' Hopkins)
08 I Got My Hook in Your Water (Lightnin' Hopkins)
09 talk (Lightnin' Hopkins)
10 Can You Tell Who's Coming In (Lightnin' Hopkins)
11 talk (Lightnin' Hopkins)
12 Cook My Breakfast (Lightnin' Hopkins)
13 talk (Lightnin' Hopkins)
14 Key to the Highway (Lightnin' Hopkins)
15 talk (Lightnin' Hopkins)
16 It's Time for You to Change Your Way (Lightnin' Hopkins)
17 talk (Lightnin' Hopkins)
18 Instrumental (Lightnin' Hopkins)
19 talk (Lightnin' Hopkins)
20 Rock Me Baby (Lightnin' Hopkins)
21 talk (Lightnin' Hopkins)
22 Ain't It Crazy [The Rub] (Lightnin' Hopkins)
23 talk (Lightnin' Hopkins)
24 70 Miles from Nowhere (Lightnin' Hopkins)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/JNuN8nge

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/Af025pQZxD1XMB6/file

The cover image is from the Great Southeast Music Hall in Atlanta, Georgia, on October 10, 1974.

Dan Hicks - Ebbets Field, Denver, CO, 9-1973, Late Show

I just posted Dan Hicks performing the early show on this date as part of the Ebbets Field radio broadcasts. Here's the late show. 

Unfortunately, it seems we only have part of the late show. This one is 23 minutes shorter than the early show, and it doesn't end with anything sounding like an encore. But it's better to have some of the show than none at all.

Luckily, there is only a moderate amount of overlap between the early and late shows. Just three songs were played in both (at least in the parts we have recordings for): "Who Are You," "I'll Tell You Why that Is," and "Out on the Western Plain."

The music is unreleased. The sound quality is excellent. I had to do a lot of volume adjustment on the version I found, especially boosting the volume of the banter between songs. But that was the only tinkering necessary.

This album is 34 minutes long.

01 Peach Pickin' Time (Dan Hicks)
02 talk (Dan Hicks)
03 He Don't Care - Sweet Lorraine (Dan Hicks)
04 Who Are You (Dan Hicks)
05 talk (Dan Hicks)
06 I'll Tell You Why that Is (Dan Hicks)
07 How Can I Miss You When You Won't Go Away (Dan Hicks)
08 Out on the Western Plain (Dan Hicks)
09 talk (Dan Hicks)
10 The Same Thing (Dan Hicks)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/AtY6UufQ

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/P8JAlFyPSAhAiJR/file

The cover image was taken on May 8, 1973, for the "In Concert" ABC TV show. That's the same source for the cover image used for the early show. I wanted to have similar photos because Hicks probably would have been wearing the same clothes for the early and late shows. 

Dan Hicks - Ebbets Field, Denver, CO, 9-1973, Early Show

Here's another album sourced from the Ebbets Field radio broadcasts. This time, it's Dan Hicks. He performed an early show and last show. That seemed to be standard procedure at that venue, but most of the time we only have the recording of one show. But this time, we have both. So here's the early show first.

I've already posted a little bit about Hicks, when he was a guest for an episode of the Midnight Special TV show, hosted by the Pointed Sisters. But here's some more on him. This is how his Wikipedia entry begins:

"[Hicks] was an American singer-songwriter and musician, and the leader of Dan Hicks and His Hot Licks. His idiosyncratic style combined elements of cowboy folk, jazz, country, swing, bluegrass, pop, and gypsy music. He is perhaps best known for the songs 'I Scare Myself' and 'Canned Music.' His songs are frequently infused with humor, as evidenced by the title of his tune 'How Can I Miss You When You Won't Go Away?'"

Here's the rest of his Wikipedia entry:

Dan Hicks (singer) - Wikipedia

Hicks led the band "Dan Hicks and His Hot Licks" from 1967 to 1973. Their best selling album was released in 1973, "Last Train to Hicksville... the Home of Happy Feet." It seems likely he'd already broken that band up by the time of this concert, because he was billed as the "Dan Hicks Trio" here. 

As an aside, I haven't been familiar with his music until posting these albums. But I'm very familiar with the Thomas Dolby version of "I Scare Myself." I was pleasantly surprised to find out that it was originally written and released by Hicks. 

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

This album is 57 minutes long. 

01 Who Are You (Dan Hicks)
02 Humming to Myself (Dan Hicks)
03 talk (Dan Hicks)
04 Three Wishes (Dan Hicks)
05 I Got Mine (Dan Hicks)
06 talk (Dan Hicks)
07 We're Not on the Same Trip - Out on the Western Plain (Dan Hicks)
08 talk (Dan Hicks)
09 I Scare Myself (Dan Hicks)
10 Cowboys Dream No. 19 (Dan Hicks)
11 talk (Dan Hicks)
12 I'll Tell You Why that Is (Dan Hicks)
13 Evening Breeze (Dan Hicks)
14 talk (Dan Hicks)
15 Long Come a Viper (Dan Hicks) 

https://pixeldrain.com/u/K5BB8i9d

alternate:

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

The cover image was taken on May 8, 1973, for the "In Concert" ABC TV show. 

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

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

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

You can read his entire Wikipedia entry here:

Roy Buchanan - Wikipedia 

The music is unreleased. The sound quality is excellent. 

This album is 44 minutes long.

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

https://pixeldrain.com/u/VRQSjgXR

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/eNvkAyYmmyAPZu1/file

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

John Prine - Ebbets Field, Denver, CO, 2-4-1974

Here's a concert by singer-songwriter John Prine. It's one of many concerts I'm posting from the Ebbets Field radio broadcasts.

I'm enjoying (and thus prioritizing) posting these Ebbets Field concerts for several reasons. 1) Most albums I post have issues, requiring a lot of tinkering to get things fixed to my satisfaction. That's much less the case with these broadcasts. That's probably a reflection of how well they were recorded in the first place. 2) Most of these are very rare and hard to find, with the exception of a small number. So I'm pleased to reveal these to a wider audience. 3) When I look at the concerts that took place in this venue, I'm really impressed. I find myself wishing I could have attended the vast majority of them.  I've long felt the late 1960s and early 1970s were a peak of musical creativity in general, so that's part of it. But I also think the people who booked the music acts for this venue must have had very good musical taste.

Speaking of how rare these Ebbets Field broadcast bootlegs are, I was only able to find this one on YouTube. So I converted it to audio and chopped it into mp3s. 

At this time of this concert, Prine had released three albums. He was touring to promote the third one, "Sweet Revenge." According to the crowd-sourced ratings at rateyourmusic.com, that album gets the highest ratings of all his albums other than he debut. So this is a good point to hear a concert from him.

The music is unreleased. The sound quality is excellent. 

This album is 53 minutes long.

01 Spanish Pipedream (John Prine)
02 talk (John Prine)
03 The Accident [Things Could Be Worse] (John Prine)
04 talk (John Prine)
05 Sweet Revenge (John Prine)
06 talk (John Prine)
07 Illegal Smile (John Prine)
08 talk (John Prine)
09 Illegal Smile [Reprise] (John Prine)
10 talk (John Prine)
11 Donald and Lydia (John Prine)
12 Sam Stone (John Prine)
13 talk (John Prine)
14 Dear Abby (John Prine)
15 Rocky Mountain Time (John Prine)
16 Pretty Good (John Prine)
17 Hello in There (John Prine)
18 talk (John Prine)
19 Grandpa Was a Carpenter (John Prine)
20 talk (John Prine)
21 Christmas in Prison (John Prine)
22 Paradise (John Prine)
23 talk (John Prine)
24 My Mexican Home (John Prine)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/p8njoCMR

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/tzZABPasBonY6JS/file

The cover image comes from a concert at the Symphony Hall in Atlanta, Georgia, on April 26, 1974.

Taj Mahal - Ebbets Field, Denver, CO, 5-16-1973, Late Show

The album I just posted is Taj Mahal performing at Ebbets Field in Denver on May 16, 1973, for the early show. This is the same, except it's the late show. The two shows have very similar set lists. (And both were broadcast on the radio, which is why they have such excellent sound quality.) Normally, I wouldn't post two concerts that are this similar. But I figure these are quite obscure. I had a difficult time finding them. So I want to post both, to bring them back into wider circulation.

The main difference between this show and the early show is the last two songs, which were only performed in this show. Plus, the last four songs in the early show weren't performed here. So if you want everything without multiple versions of songs, I suggest you save the early show, then add the last two songs from this late show to the end.

By the way, in case you didn't notice, I recently changed the font type and color for the Ebbets Field concerts I've been posting. The first seven or so had a yellow color. But there were some troublesome issues with that font. So when I found another sixty (!) or so concerts from this venue, I decided to use an easier one. I also found a little logo from the venue showing the baseball stadium in New York City that the venue was named after. I decided to stick that on all the albums from that venue. Since that logo was mainly in green, I changed the font color to green. In recent days, I went back and reposted all the yellow ones to the new color scheme, so they'll all be consistent. 

This album is 54 minutes long.

01 talk (Taj Mahal)
02 Kalimba [Instrumental] (Taj Mahal)
03 talk (Taj Mahal)
04 Banjo Rag [Instrumental] (Taj Mahal)
05 Cakewalk into Town (Taj Mahal)
06 Going Up to the Country, Paint My Mailbox Blue (Taj Mahal)
07 Ain't Nobody's Business but My Own (Taj Mahal)
08 talk (Taj Mahal)
09 Big Legged Mammas Are Back in Style (Taj Mahal)
10 Fishin' Blues (Taj Mahal)
11 Sweet Home Chicago (Taj Mahal)
12 Linin' Track Blues (Taj Mahal)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/ZtaaiayH

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/zRL9jT3pDSQnOT8/file

The cover image is from Great Southeast Music in Atlanta, Georgia, on November 26, 1973. The original was in black and white, but I colorized it with the use of the Kolorize program. Note that I took the picture from the early show from the same show. I like the similarity, since I figure he would have worn the same clothes in the two shows performed on this date.

Taj Mahal - Ebbets Field, Denver, CO, 5-16-1973, Early Show

The recent flood of posts from the Ebbets Field radio broadcasts continues. Here's Taj Mahal. I'll be posting both the early and late shows he did the same night.

This concert was in solo acoustic mode. Mostly, he played guitar. But he also played a little banjo, as well as an African instrument known as the kalimba (also known as the mbira). On the cover image, he can be seen playing a banjo.

His most recent album at the time was "Recycling the Blues and Other Related Stuff," released in 1972. He has an instrumental on that album simply called "Kalimba," which is how I know the name of that song. (I had to figure out most of the song titles, since the bootleg I took the music from was bad with titles.) "Cakewalk into Town" and "Corrina" are the only other songs he played from that album. 

The music here is unreleased. The sound quality is excellent. But I did do a fair amount of audio editing in the Audacity program to improve things. Some parts were too loud, sometimes the vocals were too low, and so on.

This album is 51 minutes long. 

01 Banjo Rag [Instrumental] (Taj Mahal)
02 talk (Taj Mahal)
03 Kalimba [Instrumental] (Taj Mahal)
04 Cakewalk into Town (Taj Mahal)
05 Big Legged Mammas Are Back in Style (Taj Mahal)
06 Going Up to the Country, Paint My Mailbox Blue (Taj Mahal)
07 Ain't Nobody's Business but My Own (Taj Mahal)
08 Fishin' Blues (Taj Mahal)
09 Straight Shootin' Blues (Taj Mahal)
10 Ain't Gwine Whistle Dixie [Any Mo'] (Taj Mahal)
11 Done Changed My Way of Living (Taj Mahal)
12 Corrina [Corinna] (Taj Mahal)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/UEQAJ8sk

alternate:

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

The cover image is from Great Southeast Music in Atlanta, Georgia, on November 26, 1973. The original was in black and white, but I colorized it with the use of the Kolorize program.

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

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

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

Here's his Wikipedia entry:

Jerry Jeff Walker - Wikipedia 

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

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

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

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

https://pixeldrain.com/u/DBDjmrTQ

alternate:

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

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

Chris Hillman - Ebbets Field, Denver, CO, 5-8-1975

Here's another concert from the radio broadcasts out of the tiny Ebbets Field venue in Denver, Colorado. This one stars Chris Hillman.

This concert found Hillman at an interesting point in his career, just starting a true solo career. Up until then, he had been in a surprising number of bands. He was a founding member of the Byrds in the 1960s. Then he was one of the leaders of the Flying Burrito Bros. from 1969 to 1972. After that, he joined Manassas, led by Stephen Stills, from 1972 to 1973. In 1973, he took part in a Byrds reunion that resulted in one album. Then in 1974, he became part of the Souther-Hillman-Furay Band, a trio consisting of J.D. Souther, himself, and Richie Furay. They put out two albums, but broke up in 1975. 

I checked, and it looks like the Souther-Hillman-Furay Band didn't break up until 1976. However, it also looks like they barely toured at all in 1975 and 1976. I only saw evidence of two concerts. Their second album, released in 1975, was badly received. So it looks like the members were already going their own way. Hillman would release his first true solo album, "Slippin' Away," in 1976. I checked setlist.com, a concert database. It says he performed 16 concerts in 1975, and this one was the very first. If that's true, this concert may have been the very start of his solo career. 

However, that meant he hadn't much time to write songs for his own album. Only two songs here, "Down in the Churchyard" and "Blue Morning," would appear on the "Slippin' Away" album. The rest are from his time with the Byrds (tracks 7 and 24), the Flying Burrito Bros. (tracks 4, 5, 7, and 21), Manassas (track 13), and the Souther-Hillman-Furay Band (tracks 1, 8, and 11). It seems there actually were one or more songs at the end that didn't make the recording. There was a little bit of banter and tuning up right before the recording cut off. I got rid of that little bit. Having audience cheering fade out is a more satisfying way to end an album, in my opinion.

As I've mentioned elsewhere, I love these Ebbets Field bootleg radio broadcasts due to the sound quality. A local company called Tuning Up recorded all of them, and did a better job than typical radio broadcasts from that era. But unfortunately, this concert doesn't sound good as most of them. Probably it's a copy of a copy, and so on, or something like that. However, I ran all the songs through a UVR5 program denoise filter, so at least the sound is better than it was before. I'm not saying this sounds bad; it's just it doesn't sound as good as most of the others I'm posting from this venue.  

This album is 45 minutes long. 

01 talk by emcee (Chris Hillman)
02 talk (Chris Hillman)
03 Safe at Home (Chris Hillman)
04 talk (Chris Hillman)
05 Down in the Churchyard (Chris Hillman)
06 talk (Chris Hillman)
07 Time Between (Chris Hillman)
08 talk (Chris Hillman)
09 High Fashion Queen (Chris Hillman)
10 talk (Chris Hillman)
11 Colorado (Chris Hillman)
12 talk (Chris Hillman)
13 Fallen Eagle (Chris Hillman)
14 talk (Chris Hillman)
15 Christine's Tune (Chris Hillman)
16 talk (Chris Hillman)
17 Follow Me Through (Chris Hillman)
18 talk (Chris Hillman)
19 Blue Morning (Chris Hillman)
20 talk (Chris Hillman)
21 Six Days on the Road (Chris Hillman)
22 Move Me Real Slow (Chris Hillman)
23 talk (Chris Hillman)
24 So You Want to Be a Rock 'N' Roll Star (Chris Hillman)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/Ef1f6W4Y

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/4l4Vwr75AByzZWV/file

The cover photo was apparently taken in 1976. It actually showed Hillman in a room that clearly wasn't a concert stage. So I turned the background to black to disguise that fact.

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

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

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

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

 

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

This album is an hour long.

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

https://pixeldrain.com/u/Yt4QwXuG

alternate:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Tom Rush - Wikipedia 

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

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

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

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

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

https://pixeldrain.com/u/iASCHZt6

alternate:

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

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