Emmylou Harris & Steve Earle - City Winery, Nashville, TN, 4-3-2021

I recently discovered that Emmylou Harris performed about six concerts at the City Winery in Nashville in 2021, as people were just starting to attend concerts again due to the Covid pandemic. The concerts were done to benefit local charities helping with animal welfare, and each was different than typical Harris concerts in some way. I was able to find two of them on YouTube. This one is special because it was a joint acoustic concert with Steve Earle. The two of them took turns singing songs and telling stories in front of a very small audience, with excellent sound quality.

If you want, you can find the video of this on YouTube and watch the concert instead of just listening to it. I converted the video to audio, then chopped it into mp3 files.

The sound quality is excellent because the concert was a webcast. I missed it at the time, but better late than never. I plan on posting the other concert I found soon. 

This album is an hour and 36 minutes long. 

01 talk (Emmylou Harris & Steve Earle)
02 Raise the Dead (Emmylou Harris & Steve Earle)
03 talk (Emmylou Harris & Steve Earle)
04 Copperhead Road (Emmylou Harris & Steve Earle)
05 talk (Emmylou Harris & Steve Earle)
06 Big Black Dog (Emmylou Harris & Steve Earle)
07 talk (Emmylou Harris & Steve Earle)
08 Devil Put the Coal in the Ground (Emmylou Harris & Steve Earle)
09 talk (Emmylou Harris & Steve Earle)
10 My Antonia (Emmylou Harris & Steve Earle)
11 talk (Emmylou Harris & Steve Earle)
12 Hometown Blues (Emmylou Harris & Steve Earle)
13 talk (Emmylou Harris & Steve Earle)
14 All I Left Behind (Emmylou Harris & Steve Earle)
15 talk (Emmylou Harris & Steve Earle)
16 You're the Best Lover that I Ever Had (Emmylou Harris & Steve Earle)
17 talk (Emmylou Harris & Steve Earle)
18 My Name Is Emmett Till (Emmylou Harris & Steve Earle)
19 talk (Emmylou Harris & Steve Earle)
20 Goodbye (Emmylou Harris & Steve Earle)
21 talk (Emmylou Harris & Steve Earle)
22 Blackhawk (Emmylou Harris & Steve Earle)
23 talk (Emmylou Harris & Steve Earle)
24 Harlem River Blues (Emmylou Harris & Steve Earle)
25 talk (Emmylou Harris & Steve Earle)
26 If I Needed You (Emmylou Harris & Steve Earle)
27 talk (Emmylou Harris & Steve Earle)
28 City of Immigrants (Emmylou Harris & Steve Earle)
29 talk (Emmylou Harris & Steve Earle)
30 Pilgrim (Emmylou Harris & Steve Earle)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/m2paqekc 

alternate: 

https://bestfile.io/Tp4XhQjIm89w1un/file

The cover image is a screenshot I took from a YouTube video of this exact concert. I used Photoshop to move the two of them a lot closer to each other.

Rodney Crowell, Rosanne Cash, Emmylou Harris & Albert Lee - In Session (CHCH-TV Studios, Hamilton, Canada, 12-12-1983)

So far, I've posted three episodes of the "In Session" TV show. It was a special show, because it combined different musical acts together and had them perform for an entire studio session instead of just a duet or two. Here's the fourth one I've found, starring Rodney Crowell, Rosanne Cash, Emmylou Harris and Albert Lee. 

This one is different from the other episodes I've found so far. Those others are the episodes broadcast on T.V. This one consisted of three hours of raw footage that was later edited down to an hour or so for the final broadcast. I haven't been able to find the final version, actually. That means there are no interview segments between songs, which must have been recorded at a different time. But instead, one gets the actual banter of them talking to each other. Also, there's well over an hour over music here. I don't know what made the final version, but I presume there are some extra songs that didn't make it into the show. Two songs at the end are second versions of songs performed earlier. But that still means an hour and 10 minutes of music, after one takes out all the banter and the two second takes.

It's nice to have not just two or three music stars performing together, but four. I think the glue between them mainly was Rodney Crowell. At the time, he was married to Rosanne Cash, so that was an obvious link. (They stayed married from 1979 to 1992.) Also, both he and Albert Lee were members of Emmylou Harris's band in the 1970s. Furthermore, Harris and Cash covered songs written by Crowell. But no doubt all four of these people had crossed paths many times prior to this session. 

In this recording, they performed in various combinations. In the song list below, I generally only mentioned the lead vocalist or vocalists, and sometimes also mentioning prominent backing vocalists. But they collaborated more than that. For instance, most of the guitar solos were played by either Albert Lee or Rodney Crowell, although the video shows there was another unnamed lead guitarist in the backing band that also took the occasional solo. And I didn't credit all the backing vocals, especially when most of them sang together.

I cut out of heck of a lot of dead air. Just consider that this was cut by about an hour total. In the beginning especially, there were long stretches of dead air between songs. But by the end, there was a lot more chatter, as it seemed everyone got more relaxed and friendly with each other. I tried to keep the vast majority of that, though I cut out some boring bits. One song, "Old Pipeliner," has "[Edit]" in the title. That's because the YouTube video I took this from was split in two, and the split was right in the middle of that song. But there was a little bit of overlap, so I was able to splice that together without any loss of music.

By the way, I converted that YouTube video to audio, and chopped it into mp3s. As I did so, I had to figure out the song titles. I think I got them all right, but if I made mistakes, please let me know. 

This album is an hour and 28 minutes long. 

01 Tulsa Queen (Emmylou Harris)
02 So Sad [To Watch Good Love Go Bad] (Albert Lee & Emmylou Harris)
03 An American Dream (Rodney Crowell & Emmylou Harris)
04 Seven Year Ache (Rosanne Cash)
05 Setting Me Up (Albert Lee)
06 If I Could Only Win Your Love (Emmylou Harris with Rodney Crowell)
07 talk (Emmylou Harris)
08 Country Boy (Albert Lee)
09 talk (Emmylou Harris)
10 talk (Rodney Crowell)
11 Ashes by Now (Rodney Crowell)
12 talk (Emmylou Harris)
13 Even Cowgirls Get the Blues (Emmylou Harris)
14 talk (Rosanne Cash)
15 Looking for a Corner (Rosanne Cash)
16 Never Alone (Rosanne Cash with Rodney Crowell)
17 talk (Everyone)
18 Tear It Up (Albert Lee)
19 Song for the Life (Rodney Crowell)
20 talk (Emmylou Harris)
21 Old Pipeliner [Edit] (Rodney Crowell & Everyone)
22 talk (Emmylou Harris & Rosanne Cash)
23 No Memories Hangin' Round (Rodney Crowell & Rosanne Cash)
24 talk (Emmylou Harris & Rodney Crowell)
25 Till I Gain Control Again (Emmylou Harris)
26 talk (Emmylou Harris)
27 Man Smart, Woman Smarter (Rosanne Cash with Emmylou Harris)
28 talk (Everyone)
29 Shame on the Moon (Rodney Crowell)
30 talk (Everyone)
31 Sweet Little Lisa (Albert Lee)
32 Old Pipeliner [Version 2] (Rodney Crowell & Everyone)
33 talk (Everyone)
34 Sweet Little Lisa [Version 2] (Albert Lee)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/1b8fSUw6

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/gmSAH9zVqLvcTP5/file

Making the cover of this album was tough, because I wanted to get all four of the main performers in the image, and they typically were spread out in the studio. I found one point where the four of them were all singing, and the camera panned across them. So I took multiple screenshots. Then I used Photoshop to squeeze them together. Their faces also were blurry because the video was low-res. So I took additional screenshots of just their heads, and pasted those in, for better clarity in those areas.

Various Artists - Concert for a Landmine Free World, Point Theatre, Dublin, Ireland, 1-14-2002

I just found this the other day, and I liked it so much that I'm posting it straight away. I've posted a bunch of "Songwriter's Circle" BBC TV shows. This isn't from that show, but it follows the same format: several singer-songwriters sitting next to each other and taking turns singing their songs. In this case, there were four: Emmylou Harris, Steve Earle, Elvis Costello, and John Prine.

The concert was one of six concerts in Europe in 2002, all called "Concert for a Landmine Free World." This, in turn, was just one of several concert tours for that cause, which took place from at least 1997 to 2017. Most of them have been helmed by Emmylou Harris. However, I can't find much information about these tours. There was one official album containing some highlights from a 1999 tour, but it's very hard to find. Other than that, there are only a small number of bootlegs, and they generally are audience boots with sound quality too poor for my standards. 

This one concert is an exception though. This recording has been called a soundboard boot. I doubt that though, because one often hears clapping between songs from what sounds like people extremely close to the recording spot. I think it's more likely that it's just a very, very, very well recorded audience boot. Not all audience boots are the same. Every now and then, you can find one that sounds as good or better than a typical soundboard, if superior recording equipment was used, and the location was ideal, and the people nearby were quiet, and so forth. But whatever the case, this sounds good enough to be an official live album, so don't worry about the quality.

Of the six concerts in 2002, five of them also had Nanci Griffith in it. For some reason, in seems she couldn't attend this one. That's a bummer, but on the plus side it means we got even more songs from the remaining four stars, who in my opinion are all major musical talents. For the most part, each of them just sang and played guitar on their own songs. But later in the show, Emmylou Harris, who is kind of the queen of harmony vocalizing in the music world, sang backing vocals on some songs. And everyone joined in on two songs ("God's Comic" and "Paradise").    

This album is two hours long exactly. 

01 talk (Emmylou Harris)
02 Red Dirt Girl (Emmylou Harris)
03 talk (Steve Earle)
04 Now She's Gone (Steve Earle)
05 talk (Elvis Costello)
06 Our Little Angel (Elvis Costello)
07 talk (John Prine)
08 Souvenirs (John Prine)
09 talk (Emmylou Harris)
10 Bang the Drum Slowly (Emmylou Harris)
11 talk (Steve Earle)
12 Hometown Blues (Steve Earle)
13 talk (Elvis Costello)
14 Please (Elvis Costello)
15 That's the Way that the World Goes Round (John Prine)
16 talk (Emmylou Harris)
17 Michelangelo (Emmylou Harris)
18 talk (Elvis Costello)
19 God's Comic (Elvis Costello with Everyone)
20 Goodbye (Steve Earle & Emmylou Harris)
21 talk (Elvis Costello)
22 Shipbuilding (Elvis Costello)
23 talk (John Prine)
24 talk (John Prine)
25 The Other Side of Town (John Prine)
26 talk (Emmylou Harris)
27 Hour of Gold (Emmylou Harris)
28 talk (Steve Earle)
29 Tom Ames' Prayer (Steve Earle)
30 talk (Elvis Costello)
31 Alibi (Elvis Costello)
32 Sam Stone (John Prine with Emmylou Harris)
33 talk (Emmylou Harris & Elvis Costello)
34 Sleepless Nights (Emmylou Harris & Elvis Costello)
35 talk (Steve Earle)
36 Galway Girl (Steve Earle)
37 talk (John Prine)
38 Speed of the Sound of Loneliness (John Prine with Emmylou Harris)
39 talk (Emmylou Harris)
40 talk (Steve Earle)
41 Fort Worth Blues (Steve Earle with Emmylou Harris)
42 talk (Emmylou Harris)
43 Paradise (John Prine with Everyone)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/v18WJsJZ

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/xWxX8iu7hB5JDuJ/file

I couldn't find a photo from this exact concert. However, I found one from a concert in Belfast the day before. It had two other people in it, including Nanci Griffith. So I carefully zoomed in and cropped them out. The quality is a bit rough, and Krea AI didn't help much in this case.

Little Feat & Friends - The Midnight Special, NBC Studios, Burbank, CA, 6-10-1977

Here's a very interesting episode of the "Midnight Special" TV show. The main host of the episode was the band Little Feat. But Emmylou Harris, Bonnie Raitt, and Jesse Winchester were on the show too, and all four of these musical acts performed together in various combinations. 

If you've been paying attention at all to this blog in the last week or so (as I write this in late October 2025), you'll notice I've been posting a lot of albums based on Midnight Special episodes lately. So far, only the shows from 1973 to 1975 have been posted in high quality on YouTube, with a chronological rollout slowly continuing. But occasional shows from later years were already bootlegged. There aren't many cases of that, and most of them are incomplete and/or have lesser sound quality. But I found this one in full with excellent quality, so I've decided to post it already. No doubt it's survived as a bootleg when most other episodes didn't because of the special collaborations.

The musical acts mentioned above were not the only ones on the show. In addition, Neil Young appeared for one song, and Weather Report performed three songs. I didn't include the Young song, because it wasn't really from the episode, but it was a video of him performing "Like a Hurricane" at some unknown concert. Had he actually been there, I would have included it, and I'll bet he would have interacted with some of the others too. (Most likely Emmylou Harris, since she sang backing vocals on some of his songs right around this time.) As for Weather Report, I didn't include them because they didn't fit in musically with the others, and there was no collaboration between them and the others. This is another case where I feel less is more, by having musical cohesion to the album.

I took the music from a bootleg. But I patched in more applause at the ends of some songs to help smooth the transitions between songs. And there were edits to two songs. I edited Wolfman Jack's introduction to get rid of the mentions of Neil Young and Weather Report. "Rock and Roll Doctor" by Little Feat was more difficult. This was another case of the show ending in the middle of song. So I found a soundboard bootleg of a Little Feat from Kansas City in 1977, and used that version of "Rock and Roll Doctor" to finish off the last three minute or so.

This album is 48 minutes long. 

01 talk [Edit] (Wolfman Jack)
02 Queen of the Silver Dollar (Emmylou Harris with Little Feat)
03 Dixie Chicken (Little Feat with Emmylou Harris, Bonnie Raitt & Jesse Winchester)
04 talk (Little Feat)
05 Runaway (Bonnie Raitt)
06 talk (Emmylou Harris)
07 Rhumba Man (Jesse Winchester)
08 Old Folks Boogie (Little Feat)
09 talk (Little Feat & Jesse Winchester)
10 I Can't Stand Up Alone (Jesse Winchester with Emmylou Harris & Bonnie Raitt)
11 talk (Jesse Winchester)
12 Home (Bonnie Raitt)
13 talk (Little Feat)
14 Nothing but a Breeze (Jesse Winchester with Emmylou Harris)
15 Rocket in My Pocket (Little Feat)
16 My Songbird (Emmylou Harris)
17 Sugar Mama (Bonnie Raitt)
18 talk (Little Feat)
19 Rock and Roll Doctor [Edit] (Little Feat)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/fDdTEYhP

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/B1Dw5Vdo0jkhFj3/file

The cover image is from this exact concert. It's actually a combination of two different screenshots. At one point in the YouTube video, the camera panned from Lowell George to Emmylou Harris, then to Bonnie Raitt. The three of them were never in the frame at the same time. But I was able to take the two screenshots and stitch them together to get all three of them together.

Various Artists - MusiCares Tribute to Dolly Parton, Los Angeles Convention Center, Los Angeles, CA, 2-8-2019

Here's another MusiCares tribute concert. This one honors Dolly Parton.

I'm running out of MusiCares concerts to post. (I only have one more after this.) The problem is, these annual concerts have small audiences who have to pay big donations to get in, plus there are metal detectors. So audience bootlegs are almost unheard of. The reason we have a worthy recording of this one is that it was broadcast as a one-hour special on Netflix. I streamed the audio from that, and cut it into mp3s. Let's hope this isn't a one-off and other MusiCares will come out in similar ways.

This concert followed the usual format: guest stars singing covers of songs by the person being honored, then that person giving an acceptance speech, then that person playing a couple of songs. In this case though, it seems Parton only sang one song at the end.

Unfortunately, this album is quite short for such concerts at less than an hour. That's because some songs were not included in the Netflix special, and I couldn't find them elsewhere. I know at least Garth Brooks and Trisha Yearwood sang a duet version of  "Old Flames Can't Hold a Candle to You." I'm not sure if there are others. (As usual, if anyone has any of the missing songs, please let me know so I can include them.)

I also found it a bit surprising that Emmylou Harris didn't sing a song, since she was there. She and Linda Ronstadt gave a short introduction speech for Parton. Perhaps she did sing, and that's another missing song. Or it could be she didn't sing out of respect for Linda Ronstadt, who gave the introduction speech with her, but can no longer sing due to troubles with her vocal chords. Since Parton, Harris, and Ronstadt recorded two "Trio" albums together, it might have been rough on Ronstadt seeing the other two sing but not her. I don't know, that's just a guess. 

At least what we have here has excellent sound quality.

UPDATE: On February 19, 2026, I updated the mp3 download file. When I first posted this, it was missing "Jolene," performed by Pink. In my original notes, I commented that this was a shame, because that's one of Parton's signature songs, along with "I Will Always Love You." But a kind person sent me this missing song. Unfortunately, the sound quality is rougher than the rest. Also, it got cut off at the end. The person who sent me the song said it was taped off the TV, and that's when the broadcast ended, so maybe that's all that's available. As a result, I put it at the end. I did my best to improve the sound quality. I used the MVSEP program to split the vocals from the rest and then I ran the vocal through a Reverb Removal filter. That helped a lot, but still, there was only so much I could do.  

This album is 50 minutes long. 

01 talk (emcee)
02 Islands in the Stream (Miley Cyrus & Shawn Mendes)
03 talk (Little Big Town)
04 Everything's Beautiful in Its Own Way (Brandi Carlile & Willie Nelson)
05 Here You Come Again (Katy Perry & Kacey Musgraves)
06 The Grass Is Blue (Norah Jones with Puss n Boots)
07 talk (Little Big Town)
08 9 to 5 (Chris Stapleton)
09 Not Enough (Mavis Staples & Leon Bridges)
10 Do I Ever Cross Your Mind (Cam, Jennifer Nettles & Margo Price)
11 The Seeker (Lauren Daigle)
12 talk (emcee)
13 I Will Always Love You (Yolanda Adams)
14 talk (emcee)
15 talk (Linda Ronstadt & Emmylou Harris)
16 talk (emcee)
17 talk (Dolly Parton)
18 talk (Miley Cyrus)
19 talk (Dolly Parton)
20 Coat of Many Colors (Dolly Parton with Linda Perry)
21 Jolene [Edit] (Pink)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/SnahZw7a

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/Fty1I7Lp5donyob/file

The cover photo is from this exact concert. From right to left: Emmylou Harris, Linda Ronstadt, and Dolly Parton. 

Various Artists - A Celebration of Townes Van Zandt, University of Texas at Austin, Austin City Limits, Austin, TX, 12-7-1997

Here's something I only recently discovered, so it went to the top of my pile of albums to post, while it was still fresh in my mind. It's a tribute to singer-songwriter Townes Van Zandt, from 1997.

Van Zandt died on January 1, 1997 from heart failure. That wasn't that surprising, since he fit the profile of a "live hard and die young" kind of person. He had addictions with alcohol and heroin pretty much is entire adult life, and was manic depressive as well. But he was a much beloved figure in the Texas country music community. So most of his musical friends took part in this concert, put on by the "Austin City Limits" TV show, to honor his legacy.

As you can see from the cover photo, all the various singers were arranged in a large semi-circle facing the audience. There was a largely unseen band in the background supporting them. Each performer generally got one song, though Guy Clark got two, and sometimes there were duets or backing vocals.

If you're not familiar with the songwriting of Van Zandt, this is a good way to learn his best known songs. He didn't write many hit songs (with "Pancho and Lefty" being a big exception), but his songs were often covered by other country artists due to their quality.

As far as I know, everything here is unreleased. I found this on YouTube, converted it to audio, and broke it into mp3s. The sound quality is very good.  

This album is 51 minutes long. 

01 To Live Is to Fly (Guy Clark)
02 talk (Guy Clark)
03 talk (Peter Roman)
04 No Lonesome Tune (Peter Roman with Nanci Griffith)
05 talk (Steve Earle)
06 Ft. Worth Blues (Steve Earle)
07 talk (Steve Earle)
08 talk (Nanci Griffith)
09 Tecumseh Valley (Nanci Griffith)
10 talk (John T. Van Zandt)
11 Highway Kind (John T. Van Zandt)
12 talk (John T. Van Zandt)
13 talk (Willie Nelson)
14 Pancho and Lefty [Edit] (Willie Nelson & Emmylou Harris)
15 talk (Emmylou Harris)
16 If I Needed You [Edit] (Emmylou Harris with Steve Earle)
17 talk (Rodney Crowell)
18 Heavenly Houseboat (Rodney Crowell with Emmylou Harris)
19 talk (Lyle Lovett)
20 Lungs (Lyle Lovett with Steve Earle)
21 talk (Lyle Lovett)
22 talk (Jack Clement)
23 For the Sake of the Song (Jack Clement)
24 talk (Guy Clark)
25 Don't Take It Too Bad (Guy Clark)
26 talk (Guy Clark & Susanna Clark)
27 White Freightliner (Everybody)
28 talk (Guy Clark)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/peaMv6Ki 

alternate: 

https://bestfile.io/en/fAfL3f83E5vmOhc/file

The cover photo is from this exact concert. From right to left: Emmylou Harris, Willie Nelson, Guy Clark, John T. Van Zandt, Nanci Griffith, Steve Earle, and Peter Rowan. The others were part of the circle (on the other side of Harris). But I chose not to fit them in, because if I did, everyone would have looked significantly smaller.

Various Artists - MusiCares Tribute to Bruce Springsteen, Los Angeles Convention Center, Los Angeles, CA, 2-8-2013

A few days ago, I got a request to post the MusiCares tribute concert to Bruce Springsteen. I'm happy to do so, because I've been meaning to post more of these MusiCares concerts soon anyway. So here you are.

MusiCares has been holding annual tribute concerts since 1991. They cleverly have these concerts in Los Angeles, where the Grammy Awards take place, and hold them only a couple of days apart from the Grammies. That way, many musical stars are in town and able to participate. I've only posted one such album so far, the tribute to Brian Wilson in 2005. But I have seven more to post after this. Thus, today I've created a MusiCares Tribute label to help you find them all.

Bruce Springsteen is a very big name in music, and lots of other big names paid tribute to him here, including Elton John, Neil Young, and Sting. This was a particularly long concert as far as these MusiCares tributes go. It's easily the longest of all the ones I've found so far, which is fitting since Springsteen concerts are known for their length. Springsteen himself played five songs at the end, which again is more than usual. 

This comes from a DVD. It hasn't been released on any audio format. The sound quality is excellent. 

This album is two hours and 16 minutes long. 

01 talk (Jon Stewart)
02 Adam Raised a Cain (Alabama Shakes)
03 Because the Night (Patti Smith)
04 Atlantic City (Natalie Maines, Ben Harper & Charlie Musselwhite)
05 American Land (Ken Casey)
06 talk (Jon Stewart)
07 My City of Ruins (Mavis Staples & Zac Brown)
08 talk (Jon Stewart)
09 I'm on Fire (Mumford & Sons)
10 American Skin [41 Shots] (Jackson Browne & Tom Morello)
11 My Hometown (Emmylou Harris)
12 One Step Up (Kenny Chesney)
13 talk (Jon Stewart)
14 Streets of Philadelphia (Elton John & Raphael Saadiq)
15 Hungry Heart (Juanes)
16 Tougher than the Rest (Tim McGraw & Faith Hill)
17 The Ghost of Tom Joad (Tom Morello & Jim James)
18 talk (Jon Stewart)
19 Dancing in the Dark (John Legend)
20 Lonesome Day (Sting)
21 Born in the U.S.A. (Neil Young)
22 talk (Jon Stewart & Bruce Springsteen)
23 We Take Care of Our Own (Bruce Springsteen)
24 Death to My Hometown (Bruce Springsteen)
25 Thunder Road (Bruce Springsteen)
26 Born to Run (Bruce Springsteen)
27 Glory Days (Bruce Springsteen)
28 talk (Bruce Springsteen)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/fXM5GV8j

alternate: 

https://bestfile.io/en/B96M5E8MDQxu5O4/file

For the cover, I wanted a photo of Springsteen from this exact concert. But of the photos I saw, he was generally alone or with just one other person nearby, so I went with a group photo from this concert instead. From right to left: Zac Brown, Emmylou Harris, Ben Harper, Jackson Browne and Patti Scialfa. There were some distracting things in the background, so I used Photoshop to remove them.

Various Artists - Gershwin Prize for Popular Song Honoring Paul McCartney, White House, Washington, DC, 6-2-2010

I've recently discovered the annual "Gershwin Prize for Popular Song" tribute concerts. Here's probably the best known one, because it honors arguably the most successful songwriter of all time, Paul McCartney.

This concert happened to take place during the presidency of Barack Obama. That was lucky, because he took more of a hands-on approach to concerts like this. He hosted this at the White House and gave McCartney's induction speech. I've seen from other Gershwin Prize concerts that I've found that Obama was the only president to get directly involved in them.

The concert started with a song by McCartney. Then a bunch of musical stars played his songs, with a brief stand-up routine by Jerry Seinfeld included in there. Then McCartney took the stage again. He performed "Ebony and Ivory" with Stevie Wonder, just as they did on the original version in 1981. Apparently, that was the first time McCartney had played that song since 1991. After an induction speech by Obama, McCartney finished the concert with a short set of songs.

This album remains unreleased. The sound quality is excellent. I only had one problem. This concert was broadcast on TV. Near the end of "Hey Jude," there was a voiceover near the end of song, briefly mentioning the next TV show. In order to get rid of it, I had to edit out one round of "na na's," which is why that song has "[Edit]" in its title.

By the way, I stumbled across a Time Magazine article about this concern from way back then. It concluded with the line, "The White House has never hosted a cooler evening." Here's the link if you want to read the whole thing: 

Sir Paul McCartney Performs for Barack Obama | TIME.com 

This album is an hour and 19 minutes long. 

01 talk (Paul McCartney)
02 Got to Get You into My Life (Paul McCartney)
03 We Can Work It Out (Stevie Wonder)
04 Drive My Car (Jonas Brothers)
05 talk (Jerry Seinfeld)
06 Mother Nature's Son - That Would Be Something (Jack White)
07 The Long and Winding Road (Faith Hill)
08 Blackbird (Herbie Hancock & Corrine Bailey Rae)
09 talk (Elvis Costello)
10 Penny Lane (Elvis Costello)
11 For No One (Emmylou Harris)
12 Celebrations [Instrumental] (Lang Lang)
13 talk (Dave Grohl)
14 Band on the Run (Dave Grohl)
15 talk (Paul McCartney & Stevie Wonder)
16 Ebony and Ivory (Paul McCartney & Stevie Wonder)
17 talk (Barack Obama)
18 talk (Paul McCartney)
19 Michelle (Paul McCartney)
20 talk (Paul McCartney)
21 Eleanor Rigby (Paul McCartney)
22 talk (Paul McCartney)
23 Let It Be (Paul McCartney)
24 talk (Paul McCartney)
25 Hey Jude [Edit] (Paul McCartney & Everyone)
26 talk (Paul McCartney)
27 Yesterday (Paul McCartney)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/awLAgw3Z

alternate: 

https://bestfile.io/en/hwjtq0xoqe98Z4K/file

The cover photo of McCartney and Obama is from this exact concert.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

This album is an hour and 24 minutes long. 

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

https://pixeldrain.com/u/Eosyj9Qd

alternate:

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

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

Various Artists - Lowell George Tribute Concert, The Forum, Los Angeles, CA, 8-4-1979

Lowell George was the lead guitarist and a key songwriter for the band Little Feat throughout the 1970s. In 1979, the band split up due to creative differences, and George released a solo album. He announced plans to restart the band with a slightly different line-up. But on June 29, 1979, while on tour to support his solo album, he died of a heart attack related to an accidental heroin overdose. He was only 34 years old. Only a couple of months after his death, a tribute concert was held in Los Angeles to celebrate his life and his music. Here is what remains available from that concert.

I'm posting this album almost entirely due to the efforts of musical friend Lil Panda. A couple of days ago (as I write this in August 2025), he sent me this concert out of the blue. He'd found a video from the concert on YouTube. The sound quality was fundamentally good, but had issues. I asked him what he did to fix it, and this was his reply: "Phase correction, azimuth adjustment, de-clicking, music rebalance (different for almost every song... trial and error), the repair assistant (vocal work), and spectral repair." So, thanks to his work, this should sound much better than ever before.

Furthermore, I made some additional changes, since I'm more willing to make changes to bootlegs if I think it improves the overall recording. I noticed some minor drop-outs here and there, usually only a second or less of silence. I patched those up when I found them. That's why three of the songs have "[Edit]" in their titles. 

In addition, the video did something strange with the songs "Running on Empty" and "All That You Dream." If you watch the video, they're edited to seem complete, but in fact both of them were edited way down, to less than two minutes long each. By sheer luck, the only officially released performance from this concert is "All That You Dream," from the Little Feat album "Hoy Hoy," and it's the entire song. So I used that instead. For "Running on Empty," most of the song except for the first verse and some of the end was missing. I used a different live version of this song, from the 1979 No Nukes concerts that I've posted elsewhere on this blog, to fill in the missing part of the song. But there are some differences between the versions, so you might notice the edits. Still, I prefer that over having a weirdly short version. That's why that song has "[Edit]" in its title too.

In addition, I made another edit to all the songs. That's because the video usually cut the cheering at the ends of the songs short, to just a couple of seconds. It didn't sound right to me. So I did some copying and pasting of cheering from one song to another until all the songs had a decent amount of applause. 

I found a 1979 New York Times article about the concert, so I know a little bit about it. Here's the article link (though it may not work for you if you don't have a subscription):

https://www.nytimes.com/1979/08/06/archives/pop-coast-tribute-to-lowell-george.html 

According to the concert, the proceeds from the concert were given to George's family. The concert lasted almost three hours. In addition to the big names included in this album, some others also took part, like Michael McDonald of the Doobie Brothers, Eric Kaz, Craig Fuller, J. D. Souther, Ted Tempelman, and the Tower of Power. But the video here is less than an hour long, and a lot got cut out. Either their roles were cut entirely or they only had minor roles. For instance, Michael McDonald sang back up on one song here, and the Tower of Power horns played on a few of the songs. Generally speaking, Little Feat was the backing band. But I didn't include them in most of the song credits because that would have made the song names longer and I didn't know for sure who played on which song.

The article states that some big musical stars, like Bob Dylan and the Eagles, wanted to perform at the concert as well. However, the surviving Little Feat band members who organized the concert decided to keep it to just the other musicians who knew George well. There also was pressure to have more than one concert, since interest was extremely high, but they decided not to go that route either.

The concert was filmed and recorded with the idea of later releasing an album or film of it. But so far, only that one song mentioned above has been officially released, on a Little Feat album. I've read on social media that it is believed the rest of the film footage has been lost. So this is probably all we're ever going to get. I couldn't even find any information about what other songs were performed, though there must have been many since this is only about one-third of the entire concert.

Thanks again to Lil Panda for digging this up, improving it, and sending it to me. 

This album is 53 minutes long.

01 Tears, Tears and More Tears (Nicolette Larson)
02 Rhumba Girl (Nicolette Larson & Linda Ronstadt)
03 Oh Atlanta [Edit] (Little Feat with Bonnie Raitt, Linda Ronstadt & Nicolette Larson)
04 Runaway [Edit] (Bonnie Raitt with Michael McDonald)
05 Here, There and Everywhere (Emmylou Harris)
06 For a Dancer [Edit] (Jackson Browne)
07 Running on Empty [Edit] (Jackson Browne)
08 talk (Jackson Browne)
09 Your Bright Baby Blues (Jackson Browne)
10 Poor, Poor Pitiful Me (Linda Ronstadt with Nicolette Larson)
11 Blowin' Away (Linda Ronstadt & Bonnie Raitt)
12 All That You Dream (Linda Ronstadt with Nicolette Larson & Rosemary Butler)
13 Willin' (Linda Ronstadt with Emmylou Harris, Rosemary Butler & Nicolette Larson)
14 Dixie Chicken (Little Feat & Everyone)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/bLDhuADx

alternate: 

https://bestfile.io/dwuvGZGMKED7Jiy/file

I had difficulty finding any decent photographs from this concert. There's an entire video of it on YouTube, as mentioned above, but the image quality is very low-res. I eventually found one image I was okay with, which I used as the cover. From right to left, it shows Nicolette Larson, Jackson Browne, J.D. Souther, and Linda Ronstadt. Souther's prominent role is a bit ironic, since he doesn't feature in the actual music here, due to whatever songs he was in not making it to the video. It kind of looks like I edited the photo to squish everyone close together, but in fact that's how it was in the original.

The image was still in pretty poor shape, so I tried to use the Krea AI program to improve it. But I could only do so much, so it's still rough. I also couldn't change the lighting that turned most everything orange, though I tried to make it more colorful.

Emmylou Harris - PBS Soundstage, WTTW Studios, Chicago, IL, 10-19-1978

Here's another episode of the great TV show "PBS Soundstage." This time, it features Emmylou Harris in 1978. 

Normally, these albums a little bit shy of an hour long, since the concerts were edited down to fit an hour-long time slot. But this time we get about an hour and twenty minutes, probably the full show. It's been a couple of months since I made this, but I remember I put it together from two sources: a recording of the TV show and a slightly lower quality bootleg of the full show. So this is probably the best sounding and fullest version of this available up until now.

Note that at this time in her career, Harris was all country. (Whereas later in her career she branched out into other musical styles.) So if you don't like country music, this might not be for you. But if you do, this is an excellent show that's still fully unreleased.

This album is an hour and 19 minutes long.

01 Two More Bottles of Wine (Emmylou Harris)
02 talk (Emmylou Harris)
03 Easy from Now On (Emmylou Harris)
04 To Daddy (Emmylou Harris)
05 Luxury Liner (Emmylou Harris)
06 Even Cowgirls Get the Blues (Emmylou Harris)
07 My Songbird (Emmylou Harris)
08 My Window Faces the South (Emmylou Harris)
09 talk (Emmylou Harris)
10 Tumbling Tumbleweeds (Emmylou Harris)
11 talk (Emmylou Harris)
12 Home (Emmylou Harris)
13 talk (Emmylou Harris)
14 Swing Low, Sweet Chariot (Emmylou Harris)
15 I Ain't Living Long like This (Emmylou Harris)
16 The Angels Rejoiced Last Night (Emmylou Harris)
17 Leavin' Louisiana in the Broad Daylight (Emmylou Harris)
18 Hallelujah I'm Ready to Go (Emmylou Harris)
19 talk (Emmylou Harris)
20 Could You Love Me (Emmylou Harris)
21 talk (Emmylou Harris)
22 The Green Rolling Hills (Emmylou Harris)
23 talk (Emmylou Harris)
24 I Believe Jesus Loves Me (Emmylou Harris)
25 talk (Emmylou Harris)
26 If I Needed You (Emmylou Harris)
27 Satan's Jewel Crown (Emmylou Harris)
28 talk (Emmylou Harris)
29 Keep on the Sunny Side (Emmylou Harris)
30 talk (Emmylou Harris)
31 Under the Weepin' Willow (Emmylou Harris)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/aCAoF7VH

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/YZXbz1r8XV4ApOq/file

The cover image is a screenshot taken from this exact concert.

Emmylou Harris, Patty Griffin, Shawn Colvin & Buddy Miller - PBS Soundstage, WTTW Studios, Chicago, IL, 10-29-2009

Here's an unusual episode of the "PBS Soundstage" TV show. It's the only episode I've found that follows the same format as the "Songwriters' Circle" BBC TV show episodes I've been posting: four singer-songwriters took turns presenting their songs. In this case: Emmylou Harris, Patty Griffin, Shawn Colvin & Buddy Miller.

However, the BBC TV show put together different artists for a single concert. In this case, the four singer-songwriters had joined forces on their own, calling themselves "Three Girls and Their Buddy." They never released any music that I know of, but they toured together for most of 2009.

The four of them had previous ties. Buddy Miller led the Buddy Miller Band back in the early 1980s. Shawn Colvin, just starting her music career, was a member of that band. Miller was the lead guitarist in Emmylou Harris's band in the late 1990s. Then, in 2004, a similar group to this one was formed, called the Sweet Harmony Traveling Revue. It starred Harris, Miller, Patty Griffin, and the duo of Gillian Welch and David Rawlings. But that group, like this group, never officially released any music.

Generally speaking, each of the singer-songwriters performed acoustically on their own. But sometimes they were assisted by others, especially by Miller on guitar. They came together to sing on the last song.

I was very familiar with the careers of Harris and Colvin, but I'd missed Griffin and Miller. I was pleasantly surprised. I thought all four of them impressed with their singing and songwriting, and they worked well as a group. I liked them so much that I found another concert by the same foursome and I plan on posting that here eventually. It's too bad they only toured together in 2009.

This album is 52 minutes long.

01 talk (Emmylou Harris, Patty Griffin, Shawn Colvin & Buddy Miller)
02 Blackhawk (Emmylou Harris, Patty Griffin, Shawn Colvin & Buddy Miller)
03 Love Throws a Line (Emmylou Harris, Patty Griffin, Shawn Colvin & Buddy Miller)
04 Poloroids (Emmylou Harris, Patty Griffin, Shawn Colvin & Buddy Miller)
05 Shelter Me (Emmylou Harris, Patty Griffin, Shawn Colvin & Buddy Miller)
06 talk (Emmylou Harris, Patty Griffin, Shawn Colvin & Buddy Miller)
07 Michelangelo (Emmylou Harris, Patty Griffin, Shawn Colvin & Buddy Miller)
08 Heavenly Day (Emmylou Harris, Patty Griffin, Shawn Colvin & Buddy Miller)
09 talk (Emmylou Harris, Patty Griffin, Shawn Colvin & Buddy Miller)
10 Summer Dress (Emmylou Harris, Patty Griffin, Shawn Colvin & Buddy Miller)
11 talk (Emmylou Harris, Patty Griffin, Shawn Colvin & Buddy Miller)
12 Poison Love (Emmylou Harris, Patty Griffin, Shawn Colvin & Buddy Miller)
13 talk (Emmylou Harris, Patty Griffin, Shawn Colvin & Buddy Miller)
14 Love and Happiness (Emmylou Harris, Patty Griffin, Shawn Colvin & Buddy Miller)
15 talk (Emmylou Harris, Patty Griffin, Shawn Colvin & Buddy Miller)
16 Get Ready Marie (Emmylou Harris, Patty Griffin, Shawn Colvin & Buddy Miller)
17 talk (Emmylou Harris, Patty Griffin, Shawn Colvin & Buddy Miller)
18 Hold On (Emmylou Harris, Patty Griffin, Shawn Colvin & Buddy Miller)
19 talk (Emmylou Harris, Patty Griffin, Shawn Colvin & Buddy Miller)
20 Gasoline and Matches (Emmylou Harris, Patty Griffin, Shawn Colvin & Buddy Miller)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/M9ryEscs

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/AwB6wr9loL6ttAz/file

I found the cover photo by Googling the names of all four of these musicians together. I don't know exactly where or when it's from, but it must be from their 2009 tour. It was a small and low-res picture though, so I enlarged it then used the Krea AI program to improve the picture quality. It worked pretty well, but I thought Harris's face didn't look like her. So I found a different face at the same angle and pasted it in.

Emmylou Harris - Tramps, New York City, 8-10-1996

I have to admit that some portions of Emmylou Harris's music career has more of a country sound than I like. But in 1995, her career took a turn with her album "Wrecking Ball." The Wikipedia page about the album comments: "The album received nearly universal acclaim, making many critics' year-end 'best of' lists, and pointed Harris' career in a somewhat different direction where she would incorporate a harder edge. As a career-redefining album, 'Wrecking Ball' was compared to Marianne Faithfull's 1979 'Broken English' album and Johnny Cash's 'American Recordings.'" This is a great sounding bootleg from the tour to promote that album.

Harris promoted the "Wrecking Ball" album a long time. She didn't release another studio album until 2000. But in 1998, she released the live album "Spyboy." That album has a lot of similarities to this one. However, this one is nearly twice as long, as I think it's a much better document from that tour.

The recording is flawless, so I didn't have to fix anything. There's surprisingly little banter, other than one story she told about watching a movie in a foreign country.

This is a good introduction to Harris' impressive music career even if you're not a big country music fan. It shows many of her older songs with her new sound she introduced with the "Wrecking Ball" album.

This album is an hour and 53 minutes long.

01 Where Will I Be (Emmylou Harris)
02 Orphan Girl (Emmylou Harris)
03 Wrecking Ball (Emmylou Harris)
04 Pancho and Lefty (Emmylou Harris)
05 Two More Bottles of Wine (Emmylou Harris)
06 I Ain't Living Long like This (Emmylou Harris)
07 Love Hurts (Emmylou Harris)
08 Goodbye (Emmylou Harris)
09 Green Pastures (Emmylou Harris)
10 Goin' Back to Harlan (Emmylou Harris)
11 Deeper Well (Emmylou Harris)
12 talk (Emmylou Harris)
13 Prayer in Open D (Emmylou Harris)
14 Calling My Children Home (Emmylou Harris)
15 Abraham, Martin and John (Emmylou Harris)
16 Wheels (Emmylou Harris)
17 Born to Run (Emmylou Harris)
18 Sweet Old World (Emmylou Harris)
19 Every Grain of Sand (Emmylou Harris)
20 All My Tears [Be Washed Away] (Emmylou Harris)
21 talk (Emmylou Harris)
22 Get Up John (Emmylou Harris)
23 The Maker (Emmylou Harris)
24 Boulder to Birmingham (Emmylou Harris)
25 Indian Red (Emmylou Harris)
26 Making Believe (Emmylou Harris)
27 Save the Last Dance for Me (Emmylou Harris)

https://www.imagenetz.de/ht3aJ

alternate:

https://pixeldrain.com/u/dNiewDQ8

second alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/2npXWEN6oKWT9Xc/file

The cover photo comes from an appearance on the TV show "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno" in January 1996.

Various Artists - Roy Orbison Tribute Concert to Benefit the Homeless, Universal Amphitheater, Los Angeles, CA, 2-24-1990

I recently stumbled across this Roy Orbison concert. As far as I can tell, it's never really appeared as a bootleg, other than as a single file with no song titles or artists given. So I had to some research just to figure out what this was exactly. But I think it was worth it because it's a very interesting show, with lots of big names. Despite it being ostensibly about Roy Orbison, probably the biggest musical event of the concert was the reunion of three key members of the Byrds - Roger McGuinn, David Crosby, and Chris Hillman - who were then joined by Bob Dylan for the song "Mr. Tambourine Man." Dylan wrote it in 1964, and the Byrds had a Number One hit with it in 1965, but they'd never done the song on stage together.

Roy Orbison died of a heart attack at the end of 1988, when he was only 52 years old. The timing of his death was especially unfortunate because he hadn't had much commercial success in the 1970s and 1980s, but that drastically changed right as he died, with him being a member of the Traveling Wilburys supergroup. He even had his first Top Ten hit in over 25 years with "You Got It." 

Regardless, Orbison was a much admired musical legend. So when he died, his wife Barbara Orbison put together a tribute concert that also doubled as a benefit concert to help the homeless. It's an odd concert as these things go, because most of the acts paid tribute to Orbison by covering his songs, but some other acts went in a different direction and played songs that seemed to have no link to Orbison whatsoever. For instance Iggy Pop played "Home," a song from his then-current album. Speaking of Iggy Pop, another odd aspect to the concert was the musical acts involved. Some made lots of sense, because they'd been heavily influenced by Orbison, such as John Fogerty or Chris Isaak. 

Others were more mystifying musically. For instance, you may well wonder what Patrick Swayze is doing here, dueting on the Everly Brothers song "Love Hurts" with Larry Gatlin. Yes, that Patrick Swayze, the famous actor. He released a few songs here and there, but never put out an album. Apparently, some acts mainly got involved because they liked the charitable cause.

Aside from Iggy Pop, the Patrick Swayze and Larry Gatlin duet, and the Byrds songs, plus a duet version of "I'm in the Mood" by John Lee Hooker & Bonnie Raitt, and "The Thrill Is Gone" by B. B. King, I believe all the rest of the songs have some Orbison connection. For instance, "In the Real World," "Rock House," "Chicken Hearted," and "That Lovin' You Feelin' Again" are fairly obscure songs, but they were all written and/or sung by Orbison. (He also did "Love Hurts," although the Everly Brothers did it first.)

Anyway, this contains all of the music performed at the concert that I could find. However, I cut out some of the talking between songs. There were some pitches for people to donate to the charitable cause, which is no longer relevant since the phone number mentioned has long gone dead, I'd assume. But I suspect there was more banter between songs, and maybe even more songs, that didn't get bootlegged. The show was broadcast on TV, but I think it's a safe bet a lot of edits were made to get it to fit within the allowed screen time. There were some acts involved that didn't get any songs featured at all, such as Michelle Shocked and the duet of Wendy and Lisa. They did help out along with some others on the all-female version of "Oh, Pretty Woman," but I wouldn't be surprised if they did songs that got cut from the TV show, and thus this bootleg, because they weren't so famous.

Also, near the end of this concert, the Byrds did four songs: "Turn, Turn, Turn," "Mr. Tambourine Man," "Eight Miles High," and "He Was a Friend of Mine." Dylan took part with "Mr. Tambourine Man," as I previously mentioned. " He also took part in "He Was a Friend of Mine," but just barely, because he merely strummed along on guitar and didn't sing at all, so I didn't add his name to the credits for that song. I know this because I found a video of it on YouTube.

The Byrds performances of "Turn, Turn, Turn" and "Mr. Tambourine Man" have been officially released on a Byrds box set. But the other two remain unreleased, as far as I know.

This album is an hour and 39 minutes long. If anyone knows the correct order of the songs, please let me know.

UPDATE: On February 12, 2023, I updated the mp3 download file. Musical associate Lilpanda had a different source for this concert, with the same high quality sound. Most of it was the same, but there were five songs I didn't have. So I added those. I don't know the correct song order, so I put three of the newly discovered ones at the start (the ones by NRBO, Joe Ely, and Syd Straw). That also included two songs by the Byrds, "Eight Miles High" and "He Was a Friend of Mine," so I put those with the rest of the Byrds' set. That added about 20 minutes of music to the album.

01 Chicken Hearted (NRBQ)
02 Working for the Man (Joe Ely)
03 She's a Mystery to Me (Syd Straw)
04 talk (John Fogerty)
05 Ooby Dooby (John Fogerty)
06 Mean Woman Blues (Levon Helm)
07 I'm in the Mood (John Lee Hooker & Bonnie Raitt)
08 talk (Chris Isaak)
09 Leah (Chris Isaak)
10 Dream Baby [How Long Must I Dream] (Shrunken Heads [Tom Tom Club & Jerry Harrison])
11 Crying (k. d. lang)
12 The Thrill Is Gone (B. B. King with Al Kooper & Don Was)
13 You Got It (John Hiatt with Don Was)
14 It's Over (Was [Not Was])
15 In the Real World (Booker T. Jones)
16 Home (Iggy Pop)
17 Oh, Pretty Woman (k.d. lang, Bonnie Raitt & Emmylou Harris)
18 That Lovin' You Feelin' Again (Emmylou Harris & Michael McDonald)
19 Claudette (Dwight Yoakam)
20 talk (Bernie Taupin)
21 Running Scared (Benny Mardones)
22 Love Hurts (Larry Gatlin & Patrick Swayze)
23 talk (Stray Cats)
24 Rock House (Stray Cats)
25 talk (Barbara Orbison)
26 talk (Bonnie Raitt)
27 Candy Man (Bonnie Raitt with Chris Isaak)
28 Turn, Turn, Turn [To Everything There Is a Season] (Byrds)
29 Eight Miles High (Byrds)
30 talk (Roger McGuinn)
31 Mr. Tambourine Man (Byrds & Bob Dylan)
32 He Was a Friend of Mine (Byrds)
33 Only the Lonely (Everyone)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/3by8k2RW

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/FNC3nsZwXP8dae0/file

alternate:

https://www.imagenetz.de/m7zft

For the cover, I used a photo of Dylan with the three former Byrds from this exact concert. The section at the top with the title comes from some promotional artwork for this concert, but I cropped and stretched it to fit.

Various Artists - Big Night at the Museum, Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum, Nashville, TN, 10-28-2020

The other day, I was looking for something Lucinda Williams did, and luckily stumbled upon this interesting concert from a couple of weeks ago (as I write this in November 2020). It's kind of an odd duck, but I really like it. Basically, the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum in Nashville, Tennessee put on a concert to help raise funds for them to keep going during the coronavirus pandemic. It's not exactly a home concert, because they got a bunch of famous country musicians to come to their museum and play music inside it. But there was no audience at all. Instead, the musicians went to various exhibits and played on the actual musical instruments played by country music greats like Jimmy Rodgers and Johnny Cash.

The key, for me, since I really like acoustic music, is that all the performances are solo acoustic. That's very rare for country music these days, but very much needed, since IMHO country music has suffered from bad production for a long time now. Stripping these songs way back, you get the raw essence of the music.

The show this came from was an hour and a half long. More than half of it was filled with talking. A lot of that was promoting the museum and asking for donations. A bit of it was more interesting, with the musicians sometimes talking about their influences and their feelings about playing the instruments once played by their musical heroes. But I cut all that out, since I think this has much greater replay value if it's all music and no talking. As a result, it's only 42 minutes long. That's not much for a show that was an hour and an half, but it's a good length for a typical album.

Even if you're not much of a country music fan, I highly recommend you check it out. Due to its all acoustic nature, it's more like a bunch of singer songwriters who all happen to work in the country genre. And by the way, if you want to catch all the talking parts between songs, I recommend you watch the full show, which is available on YouTube.

01 Buckaroo [Instrumental] (Brad Paisley & Dan Tyminski)
02 That's the Way the World Goes 'Round (Miranda Lambert)
03 Lovin' Arms (Keb Mo)
04 Don't Close Your Eyes (Tim McGraw)
05 Love Hurts (Emmylou Harris & Rodnew Crowell)
06 Heavy Traffic Ahead (Ricky Scaggs with Marty Stuart & Alison Brown)
07 Sweet Dreams (Reba McEntire)
08 I Still Miss Someone (Lucinda Williams)
09 Three Wooden Crosses (Kane Brown)
10 She Ain't Goin' Nowhere (Rodney Crowell)
11 You're Lookin' at Country (Ashley McBryde)
12 I Can't Stop Loving You (War and Treaty)
13 Will the Circle Be Unbroken (Carlene Carter & Marty Stuart)

https://www.upload.ee/files/15832939/BigNghtatMseumCountryMsicHallFmeMuseumNshvilleTN__10-28-2020_atse.zip.html

For the album cover, I took a screenshot at the start of the YouTube video that showed the name of the concert.

Emmylou Harris, Vince Gill & Rodney Crowell - Opry Livestream, Grand Ole Opry House, Nashville, TN, 8-1-2020

Here's a home concert that took place just a few days ago. This is somewhat different than the usual home concert in that three stars got together on the same stage and played a bunch of songs as an acoustic trio (with one more musician joining them to add flourishes on mandolin and other instruments). All three are long-time country stars: Emmylou Harris, Vince Gill, and Rodney Crowell.

I must admit that I'm not a really big fan of most country music, so I don't know much about Gill or Crowell. I'm mainly interested in this for Harris. As far as I can tell, she hasn't done any home concert appearances during the coronavirus pandemic, until this show. This is part of a weekly series called "Opry Livestream" that has been put on by the Grand Ole Opry in lieu of their usual regular concerts in Nashville, Tennessee. If you're a country music fan, search YouTube for "Opry Livestream" and you'll find a bunch of their other 2020 home concerts, which generally feature two or more country stars playing together.

This concert is 47 minutes long. For the entire duration, all three stars stayed on stage and strummed their guitars. Each one took turns singing, but the others often joined in, especially Harris, who is reknowned for her harmony vocals. They also talked with each other quite a lot between songs. If you listen to that, it's clear that that all three have been close friends for a long time, dating all the way back to the 1970s. Harris and Crowell did two albums together in recent years as well.

In putting this album together, I cut out a bunch of interruptions by various Opry announcers, which were basically commercials. I suspect those were added in later in any case. The sound quality is just fine. The only disappointment I have is that the last song ends abruptly. In the YouTube recording, it came to a sudden halt to make room for another one of those announcements/commercials. I faded it out instead to make the ending less jarring.

01 If I Could Only Win Your Love (Emmylou Harris, Vince Gill & Rodney Crowell)
02 talk (Emmylou Harris, Vince Gill & Rodney Crowell)
03 Oklahoma Borderline (Emmylou Harris, Vince Gill & Rodney Crowell)
04 talk (Emmylou Harris, Vince Gill & Rodney Crowell)
05 Still Learning How to Fly (Emmylou Harris, Vince Gill & Rodney Crowell)
06 talk (Emmylou Harris, Vince Gill & Rodney Crowell)
07 Old Yellow Moon (Emmylou Harris, Vince Gill & Rodney Crowell)
08 talk (Emmylou Harris, Vince Gill & Rodney Crowell)
09 Song for the Life (Emmylou Harris, Vince Gill & Rodney Crowell)
10 talk (Emmylou Harris, Vince Gill & Rodney Crowell)
11 Bluebird Wine (Emmylou Harris, Vince Gill & Rodney Crowell)
12 talk (Emmylou Harris, Vince Gill & Rodney Crowell)
13 Even Cowgirls Get the Blues (Emmylou Harris, Vince Gill & Rodney Crowell)
14 talk (Emmylou Harris, Vince Gill & Rodney Crowell)
15 'Til I Gain Control Again (Emmylou Harris, Vince Gill & Rodney Crowell)
16 talk (Emmylou Harris, Vince Gill & Rodney Crowell)
17 You Can't Say We Didn't Try (Emmylou Harris, Vince Gill & Rodney Crowell)
18 talk (Emmylou Harris, Vince Gill & Rodney Crowell)
19 Leaving Louisiana in the Broad Daylight (Emmylou Harris, Vince Gill & Rodney Crowell)

https://www.upload.ee/files/15291741/EmmylouH_2020_OpyLvestreamGrandOleOpyHouseNshvilleTN__8-1-2020_atse.zip.html

For the cover art, I took a screenshot from the video.

Linda Ronstadt & Emmylou Harris - Warfield Theatre, San Francisco, CA, 9-10-1999

I imagine you'd heard of Linda Ronstadt and Emmylou Harris, two great singers with long careers. The two of them joined up with Dolly Parton and put out a couple of albums as a trio, including one in early 1999. Then, later in 1999, Ronstadt and Harris put out their only album as a duo, called "Western Wall: The Tuscon Sessions." After the album came out, the two of them went on tour, but it seems they only did a small number or shows. Unfortunately, Ronstadt's voice began deteriorating around 2000, and she ended her music career around 2009. That means there won't be any other Ronstadt and Harris concerts other than the few ones in late 1999.

So we're lucky that we have a bootleg of their concert collaboration at all. But we're even luckier that this bootleg recording sound absolutely fantastic! I'm guessing the show might have been professionally recorded for a possible live album, because it sounds that good. The only snag with it is that the soundboard is so excellent that one could barely hear the audience at all. To compensate for that, I've boosted the cheering after each song, to make it sound like a typical live album.

In terms of musical content, the two singers stayed on stage for the entire concert and generally sang harmonies on each other's songs. They were backed up by a top-notch band. They leaned heavily on their new album "Western Wall," playing pretty much every song from it. They also did songs from the most recent trio album, "Trio II," as well as songs from earlier in their careers. Overall, the song list is pretty different from typical song lists of when they did concerts on their own, even from that general era.

The concert is fairly long, at two hours and ten minutes. If you're a fan of either singer, you should check this out. But I think they sound even better together than they do on their own. Too bad their collaboration didn't last longer, probably due to Ronstadt's vocals problems.

01 Loving the Highwayman (Linda Ronstadt & Emmyou Harris)
02 For a Dancer (Linda Ronstadt & Emmyou Harris)
03 Raise the Dead (Linda Ronstadt & Emmyou Harris)
04 talk (Linda Ronstadt & Emmyou Harris)
05 Icy Blue Heart (Linda Ronstadt & Emmyou Harris)
06 The Blue Train (Linda Ronstadt & Emmyou Harris)
07 Valerie (Linda Ronstadt & Emmyou Harris)
08 talk (Linda Ronstadt & Emmyou Harris)
09 It Doesn't Matter Anymore (Linda Ronstadt & Emmyou Harris)
10 talk (Linda Ronstadt & Emmyou Harris)
11 Blue Bayou (Linda Ronstadt & Emmyou Harris)
12 talk (Linda Ronstadt & Emmyou Harris)
13 1917 (Linda Ronstadt & Emmyou Harris)
14 Green Pastures (Linda Ronstadt & Emmyou Harris)
15 talk (Linda Ronstadt & Emmyou Harris)
16 Orphan Girl (Linda Ronstadt & Emmyou Harris)
17 talk (Linda Ronstadt & Emmyou Harris)
18 Telling Me Lies (Linda Ronstadt & Emmyou Harris)
19 talk (Linda Ronstadt & Emmyou Harris)
20 All I Left Behind (Linda Ronstadt & Emmyou Harris)
21 talk (Linda Ronstadt & Emmyou Harris)
22 Get Up John (Linda Ronstadt & Emmyou Harris)
23 talk (Linda Ronstadt & Emmyou Harris)
24 Hello Stranger (Linda Ronstadt & Emmyou Harris)
25 talk (Linda Ronstadt & Emmyou Harris)
26 Sweet Spot (Linda Ronstadt & Emmyou Harris)
27 He Was Mine (Linda Ronstadt & Emmyou Harris)
28 talk (Linda Ronstadt & Emmyou Harris)
29 Sisters of Mercy (Linda Ronstadt & Emmyou Harris)
30 talk (Linda Ronstadt & Emmyou Harris)
31 This Is to Mother You (Linda Ronstadt & Emmyou Harris)
32 talk (Linda Ronstadt & Emmyou Harris)
33 Falling Down (Linda Ronstadt & Emmyou Harris)
34 Goin' Back to Harlan (Linda Ronstadt & Emmyou Harris)
35 talk (Linda Ronstadt & Emmyou Harris)
36 [Talk to Me Of] Mendocino (Linda Ronstadt & Emmyou Harris)
37 Heart like a Wheel (Linda Ronstadt & Emmyou Harris)
38 talk (Linda Ronstadt & Emmyou Harris)
39 Wheels (Linda Ronstadt & Emmyou Harris)
40 Born to Run (Linda Ronstadt & Emmyou Harris)
41 talk (Linda Ronstadt & Emmyou Harris)
42 Feels like Home (Linda Ronstadt & Emmyou Harris)
43 Rose of Cimarron (Linda Ronstadt & Emmyou Harris)
44 talk (Linda Ronstadt & Emmyou Harris)
45 Pancho and Lefty (Linda Ronstadt & Emmyou Harris)
46 talk (Linda Ronstadt & Emmyou Harris)
47 High Sierra (Linda Ronstadt & Emmyou Harris)
48 talk (Linda Ronstadt & Emmyou Harris)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/6fCN4fjB

alternate:

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

The cover art photo isn't the best photo of Ronstadt and Harris together. I found better. But I'm using it because it comes from the exact concert in question, which I consider a nice lucky break. Ronstadt has the dark hair. I used the Krea AI program to improve it, at least.