Laughter, Love and Music, Bill Graham Memorial, Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, CA, 11-3-1991, Part 4: The Grateful Dead with John Fogerty

Here's the fourth and last out of four volumes of the 1991 Bill Graham memorial concert, called "Laughter, Love and Music." This one mainly features the Grateful Dead. However, there's a section in the middle where John Fogerty sang four songs while backed by the Dead. 

But there's more. Neil Young also showed up to sing lead vocals on a song, again backed by the Dead. He sang the Bob Dylan song "Forever Young." I believe the only other time he sang this song in concert was at the Bridge School Benefit that same year. Furthermore, John Popper of Blues Traveler played harmonica on one song. And for the concert finale, the Dead left the stage so Joan Baez could sing "Amazing Grace," with backing vocals by Graham Nash and Kris Kristofferson.

The Grateful Dead were extremely close to Bill Graham, from the very start of their career. He took control of the Fillmore in San Francisco in 1966, the first year of the band's existence. They would go on to play concerts managed and promoted by Graham probably hundreds of times.

In my write-up for Volume 1 of this concert, I mentioned a quote from Bob Weir of the Dead, who called Graham "the most important non-musician in music." Here also is a quote from band member Jerry Garcia: "Bill was our power guy, he's the guy that made rock and roll into an art-form. He loved dickering with agents and managers, that's what was fun for him. Bill himself was larger than life and an amazing guy. I've just missed the friend."

And here's a quote from band member Mickey Hart: "Bill always took great pride in everything he did. Whether it was The Fillmore or the Winterland, you could see him before the show, with his watches and his clipboard, making sure the chairs were right… He was a saloon keeper, he was a proprietor at the beginning – that's what his license said, 'saloon keeper.' He took great pride in bringing people into an environment, making them feel really great, then making sure they got safe. He was like a warrior promoter, and he really cared, he would sit up at night and dream this stuff. It wasn't like he just went to work and punched a clock; he was driven."

Typically, the Dead played whatever they wanted to play, without much thought about time limits or the specific circumstances of the concert. But for this concert, they came pretty close to playing an abbreviated "best of." They kept the overall length of their set short, compared to their usual standards of playing two or three hours, while skipping the usual long "Space" and "Drums" solos. And they played some of their best known songs. They even finished with "Touch of Grey," their sole Top Ten hit in the U.S. I'm not saying that was a good thing or a bad thing; I just think it's interesting.

The most memorable part about their set, however, had to be the songs sung by John Fogerty. In 1989, Fogerty sang a few songs backed by some members of the Dead, though it wasn't the full band. You can find that recording here:

https://albumsthatshouldexist.blogspot.com/2025/12/in-concert-against-aids-oakland_19.html

That collaboration probably led to this one two years later, where he was backed by all of the Dead. These two concerts turned out to be the only two times Fogerty and the Dead played on stage together. (There were no more opportunities after Jerry Garcia died four years later.) This was also only the fourth time he played any of his Creedence Clearwater Revival songs at a formal concert after a long hiatus. Due to a legal dispute with his record company, he didn't play them from 1972 until 1987. After this, he began playing them on a regular basis. 

This album is an hour and 27 minutes long.

61 talk (David Graham)
62 Hell in a Bucket (Grateful Dead)
63 China Cat Sunflower (Grateful Dead)
64 I Know You Rider (Grateful Dead)
65 Wang Dang Doodle (Grateful Dead with John Popper)
66 talk (Grateful Dead)
67 Born on the Bayou (John Fogerty & the Grateful Dead)
68 Green River (John Fogerty & the Grateful Dead)
69 Bad Moon Rising (John Fogerty & the Grateful Dead)
70 talk (John Fogerty & the Grateful Dead)
71 Proud Mary (John Fogerty & the Grateful Dead)
72 Truckin' (Grateful Dead)
73 That's It for the Other One (Grateful Dead)
74 Wharf Rat (Grateful Dead)
75 Sunshine Daydream (Grateful Dead)
76 talk (Neil Young & the Grateful Dead)
77 Forever Young (Neil Young & the Grateful Dead)
78 Touch of Grey (Grateful Dead)
79 talk (Joan Baez)
80 Amazing Grace (Joan Baez with Graham Nash & Kris Kristofferson)
81 talk (David Graham)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/G1KUGAmb 

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/S3aMhOemSjAIHE3/file 

The cover image is from this exact concert. It shows John Fogerty in front, with Jerry Garcia of the Grateful Dead in back, with glasses and a beard.

Joan Baez - Baez Sings Baez, Volume 5: 1987-1997 (A Fabio from Rio Guest Post)

Here's another Fabio from Rio guest post. This is the fifth and final album of "Baez Sings Baez," naturally featuring Joan Baez. It makes the argument that Baez has been a talented songwriter, by compiling together all the songs she wrote or co-wrote.

Baez's music career has been slowing down as she gets older, which is how things naturally go. Her songwriting has slowed down as well. Most of the songs here are from 1987 to 1992. Only track 12 is from 1997. Since then, Baez has only released three studio albums, and none of them have included any of her own songs.

Fabio wanted to end this with a recent (2025) duet between Baez and Jesse Welles. The odds are good the song was written by Welles. But still, Fabio wanted it to show how Baez is staying alive and lending her voice to political and social causes.

There's a lot more to say. But you'll need to read the notes Fabio wrote for that, which are included in the download zip. Thanks again to Fabio for putting these albums together.

This album is 57 minutes long. 

Oh, one last thing. If you think the cover looks familiar, that's because I used it for the cover of "Volume 4" when I posted that a couple of days ago. But Fabio and I realized that cover image was too far off chronologically. So we found a more appropriate cover for "Volume 4," from 1982, and moved that one to this volume. So you might want to redownload that earlier volume, if you care about covers.

01 Recently (Joan Baez)
02 James and the Gang (Joan Baez)
03 Blues Improv (Joan Baez & Odetta)
04 China (Joan Baez)
05 Warriors of the Sun (Joan Baez)
06 Speaking of Dreams (Joan Baez)
07 Play Me Backwards (Joan Baez)
08 Isaac and Abraham (Joan Baez)
09 I'm with You (Joan Baez)
10 The Dream Song (Joan Baez)
11 Edge of Glory (Joan Baez)
12 Lily (Joan Baez)
13 No Kings (Jesse Welles & Joan Baez)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/KXqi9dhf

alternate: 

https://bestfile.io/g3JwcWvelfTSjbD/file 

The cover image is from 2000. I don't know the details.

Joan Baez - Baez Sings Baez, Volume 4: 1977-1983 (A Fabio from Rio Guest Post)

Here's a guest post by Fabio from Rio. It's another volume in the "Baez Sings Baez" series. This is a collection of all the songs written by Joan Baez. Fabio wanted to make that point that although she has been primarily as someone who sings cover songs, she's written a lot of good songs herself.

The first six songs are from studio albums in 1977 and 1979. But after that, it seems she had trouble getting record companies interested in releasing more of her studio albums. New wave, punk, and disco came along and made her style of folk music seem out of fashion. She wouldn't release another studio album until 1987.

But that leads us to some of the more interesting songs here, because around 1980, she recorded material for an album that never got released, and she was backed by the Grateful Dead for all the songs! So there are five songs here with the Dead (tracks 8 through 12), all of them still unreleased.

There's a lot more to say about this Dead connection and other matters. But I'll leave that to Fabio, who wrote more extensive notes that are included in the download zip. 

This album is an hour long. 

01 Luba the Baroness (Joan Baez)
02 The Altar Boy and the Thief (Joan Baez)
03 Honest Lullaby (Joan Baez)
04 Michael (Joan Baez)
05 For Sasha (Joan Baez)
06 Free at Last (Joan Baez)
07 Cambodia (Joan Baez)
08 Don't Blame My Mother (Joan Baez & the Grateful Dead)
09 Happy Birthday Leonid Brejnev (Joan Baez & the Grateful Dead)
10 Lady Di and I (Joan Baez & the Grateful Dead)
11 Marriot U.S.A. (Joan Baez & the Grateful Dead)
12 Lucifer's Eyes (Joan Baez & the Grateful Dead)
13 Children of the Eighties (Joan Baez)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/GjgtvAKU

alternate: 

https://bestfile.io/TACY7VBfYSTtFMj/file

The cover photo is from 1982. Fabio found the picture, so I don't know the details. 

Joan Baez - Baez Sings Baez, Volume 3: 1976-1977 (A Fabio from Rio Guest Post)

Here's another guest post by Fabio from Rio. This is Volume 3 out of a five-volume series that collects all the songs Baez wrote or co-wrote. Fabio wanted to make the case that even though she is best known for covering songs by others, she has been a talented songwriter herself as well.

This album represents the peak of her songwriting activity. The first part consists entirely of her 1976 album "Gulf Winds," the only album that she wrote all the songs for.

By the way, I appreciate how Baez was expanding her musical horizons by this point in her career. Check out "Time Rag," for instance. It sounds nothing like what you'd expect from her. It's almost proto-rap, but in a good way. 

Fabio has a lot more to say about the music here. He's put his comments in a file of liner notes included in the download zip. So please read that. And thanks again to Fabio for putting these albums together.

This album is 59 minutes long. 

01 Sweeter for Me (Joan Baez)
02 Seabirds (Joan Baez)
03 Caruso (Joan Baez)
04 Still Waters at Night (Joan Baez)
05 Kingdom of Childhood (Joan Baez)
06 O Brother (Joan Baez)
07 Time Is Passing Us By (Joan Baez)
08 Stephanie's Room (Joan Baez)
09 Gulf Winds (Joan Baez)
10 Miracles (Joan Baez)
11 Time Rag (Joan Baez)
12 A Heartfelt Line or Two (Joan Baez) 

https://pixeldrain.com/u/1UkBEJC8

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/I2ofR4Ha5Bm2EP4/file

The cover image is from 1982. I don't know additional details. 

Joan Baez - Baez Sings Baez, Volume 2: 1972-1975 (A Fabio from Rio Guest Post)

Here's another guest post by Fabio from Rio. Joan Baez is mostly known as a singer of songs written by others. But Fabio has put together five volumes of songs written or co-written by Baez, showing that she's actually a pretty talented songwriter. Here's the second volume.

I don't have much to say, because Fabio has written extensive notes, which are included in the download file. But I'll just point out that Baez proved herself to be a talented songwriter by writing the classic "Diamonds and Rust," which was a hit in 1975. And that song is included here.  

All the songs here come from official releases. So naturally the sound quality is excellent. 

This album is an hour and 19 minutes long.

01 Prison Trilogy [Billy Rose] (Joan Baez)
02 Love Song to a Stranger (Joan Baez)
03 Myths (Joan Baez)
04 Weary Mothers [People Union 1] (Joan Baez)
05 To Bobby (Joan Baez)
06 Song of Bangladesh (Joan Baez)
07 Only Heaven Knows [Ah, the Sad Wind Blows] (Joan Baez)
08 A Young Gypsy (Joan Baez)
09 Rider, Pass By (Joan Baez)
10 Windrose (Joan Baez)
11 Where Are You Now, My Son (Joan Baez)
12 Where's My Apple Pie (Joan Baez)
13 Diamonds and Rust (Joan Baez)
14 Children and All That Jazz (Joan Baez)
15 Winds of the Old Days (Joan Baez)
16 Dida (Joan Baez with Joni Mitchell)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/2RefJk56

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/d26OuaQsQb5loJ8/file

I don't know any details about the cover photo, except that it's from 1973. Fabio picked it.

Various Artists - Playboy After Dark (CBS Television City, Los Angeles, CA), Volume 3: October to November 1968

Here's the third volume compiling episodes of the "Playboy After Dark" TV show. 

I said most of what I wanted to say about this weird TV show in general in my write-ups for the first and second volumes. So this time I'll concentrate more on the music.

I'm especially psyched that this has Jackie DeShannon performing two songs. I've been looking for a concert recording from her for ages. I found one she did in 1963, and I've posted that at this music blog, but that's about all I've found. (There are a few YouTube videos of her performing, but most of them are from decades later.) So this is a real find, in my opinion.

As I keep posting these volumes, you'll probably notice a mix of famous musical acts and total obscurities. MC Squared is an example of an obscurity. They were a band many compared to Jefferson Airplane. But they only ever managed to release four singles, none of which dented the charts. 

However, I noticed that many of the obscurities "just happened" to be very attractive women. Cathy Carlson and Lynn Kellogg are examples of that on this volume. Both of them only had one single released under their own names at the time of this show, and neither of them went on to release even a single album. (Although Kellogg did have some minor success later in movie and Broadway play roles.) I surmise that Playboy head Hugh Hefner figured many people would watch his show as much for the many beautiful women shown in the crowd scenes as for the music, comedy, and other performances, so he probably preferred musical acts featuring beautiful women as well. Even MC Squared fits this pattern, since that band had an attractive female lead singer.

Also, unfortunately, as I mentioned in more detail in the write-up for Volume 2, Hefner was an expert in sexual manipulation and grooming. It's highly likely that he often tried to tempt women to have sex with him by dangling the prospect of them performing on this show (or even just being an extra in the party crowds), though it's impossible to say if he was successful with that in any specific instance. In some later episodes, there are cases of female singers on the show who posed nude for Playboy Magazine as well. Though I'll mention again that I didn't include all the musical performances in these compilations. There were the occasional few who just weren't very good, in my opinion, or I had other issues with them, so they were left out.

Something else just came to my mind about Hefner. One reason he got away with his sexual exploitation for so long was because people assumed he was an enlightened person due to his progressive social and political views. For instance, he was ahead of the curve promoting minorities and women in his business empire, as well as giving them opportunities in his magazines and T.V. shows and such. We can see examples of that enlightened reputation in this volume. Not only does it include liberal folk singers Pete Seeger and Joan Baez, but he gave them ample time to talk about their progressive causes, in addition to just singing songs. For instance, before singing, Baez led a discussion that lasted several minutes, arguing there was a moral imperative to oppose the Vietnam War. I highly doubt there were other T.V. shows in that era with a national audience that allowed that sort of discussion. But we now know Hefner could have both been progressive in some of his attitudes in public while also sexually exploiting many women in private. 

This album is an hour and one minute long. 

01 I Know You [Your Nature Is like Mine] (MC Squared)
02 Everybody's Talkin' (MC Squared)
03 The Pill (Pete Seeger)
04 I Got It Bad [And That Ain't Good] (Carmen McRae)
05 Come Live with Me (Carmen McRae)
06 I Got the Reason (Jackie DeShannon)
07 Holly Would (Jackie DeShannon)
08 Everybody's Got to Change Sometime (Taj Mahal)
09 E Z Rider (Taj Mahal)
10 You Could End the World (Cathy Carlson)
11 Hurt So Bad (Cathy Carlson)
12 And the Address [Instrumental] [Edit] (Deep Purple)
13 Hush (Deep Purple)
14 Ol' Man River (Lynn Kellogg)
15 It's Just a Game Love (Brenton Wood)
16 Gimme Little Sign (Brenton Wood)
17 California Earthquake (John Hartford)
18 Natural to Be Gone (John Hartford)
19 Hickory Wind (Joan Baez)
20 Tears of Rage (Joan Baez)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/n4say7Ry

alternate: 

https://bestfile.io/en/rOgqrK3kEfKZ9SF/file

The cover image is a screenshot I took from one of the videos of these episodes of Jackie DeShannon. Do you see the mostly bald-headed man standing right behind her? That's Barry White, who would become a big soul music star in the 1970s. At this time, he was a relative unknown, working mostly as a producer and backing vocalist. He was heavily involved in DeShannon's career around 1968. In fact, the first song she sang here, "I Got the Reason," was written by White.

Joan Baez - Baez Sings Baez, Volume 1: 1967-1971 (A Fabio from Rio Guest Post)

Here's an album that was entirely made by guest poster Fabio from Rio. I just helped it along here and there, for instance making the cover art. Recently, Fabio really got into the music of Joan Baez, and devoured all 40 or so of her albums. He thought she was almost entirely about singing cover songs. But as he listened to those albums, he discovered many good songs that were written by her. So he came up with the idea of compiling all of her original songs, to show that she's had a lot of songwriting talent, as well as singing talent. He found about 70 songs, enough for five albums. This is the first one.

A well known Joan Baez compilation album has the title "Baez Sings Dylan," and consists just of her covers of Bob Dylan songs. Fabio came up with the idea of riffing on that, and calling this series "Baez Sings Baez." So that's what we're calling it. And the font type, color, size, and so on is a close match to the "Baez Sings Dylan" cover.

Fabio has a lot more to say about this. But, like guest poster Mike Solof does, he prefers to put his comments in a file that's included in the download zip. So please give that a read to learn a lot more. 

Everything here comes from officially released studio albums, so the sound quality is excellent. 

This album is 57 minutes long. 

01 North (Joan Baez)
02 Saigon Bride (Joan Baez)
03 A Song for David [David's Song] (Joan Baez)
04 Sweet Sir Galahad (Joan Baez)
05 Here's to You (Joan Baez)
06 Blessed Are... (Joan Baez)
07 Three Horses (Joan Baez)
08 Last, Lonely and Wretched (Joan Baez)
09 Outside the Nashville City Limits (Joan Baez)
10 When Time Is Stolen (Joan Baez)
11 Gabriel and Me (Joan Baez)
12 Milanese Waltz - Marie Flore (Joan Baez)
13 The Hitchhiker's Song (Joan Baez)
14 Fifteen Months (Joan Baez)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/PMuEKXwc

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/gZhw4tt48XqFdZv/file

I mentioned above how I made the cover art as an homage to the cover of the official album "Baez Sings Dylan." Fabio selected the photograph. All I know about it is that it dates to 1965.

Various Artists - The Big TNT Show, Moulin Rouge, Los Angeles, CA, 11-30-1965

A few days ago (writing this in February 2026), I posted the audio to the "TAMI Show" concert. As I mentioned in my write-up, that's one of the all time great 1960s concerts, which was made into a movie in 1964. The people who made that movie basically repeated the formula in 1965 with this one, "The Big T.N.T. Show." Although this concert isn't as famous as the TAMI Show, I'd argue the star power and performances here are even better.

Just like the TAMI Show, what sets this apart from other musical shows on TV and the like is that there was no lip-syncing. Everything was done live in front of an audience. Actually, each act performed their set three times, and then the film footage from the best versions were used for the movie. 

By the way, technically "T.N.T." was an acronym for "Tune n' Talent," but clearly they just wanted to call it "T.N.T." for the "explosive" connotation, and then made up an acronym for it.

The idea was to use the most popular music acts popular with kids at the time. Musical trends had changed a lot in the year since the TAMI Show. One big change was that folk-rock was suddenly all the rage. So this concert had some folk music acts that had been lacking in the TAMI Show. In addition to folk rock like the Lovin' Spoonful and the Byrds, Joan Baez and Donovan performed in solo acoustic mode. One curiosity is that Baez sang "You Lost that Lovin' Feeling," which didn't seem like her type of song at all. But the music in the show was directed by legendary producer Phil Spector, and that's a song he actually co-wrote, so my guess is he got her to sing it.

Additional, some classic soul acts were included, like Ray Charles, Bo Diddley, Ike and Tina Turner. Country was represented by Roger Miller, and pop by Petula Clark. It was a very diverse line-up, with no repeats from the TAMI Show. 

It seems like this movie was commercially successful, as was the TAMI Show. So it's a shame no similar film was made in 1966 or after. However, I read one mention that the movie wasn't as successful as the TAMI Show. This was blamed on the fact that it was edited and released so quickly that there wasn't time for proper production. Remarkably, the movie was in the theaters by the end of 1965, less than a month after the concert!

Also, perhaps, with musical trends changing so fast, it grew too difficult to bring these many big stars together for one concert. These sorts of variety concerts with lots of acts performing short sets were rapidly fading away at the time, replaced by having just a couple of acts performing much longer sets.

Just as I did with the TAMI Show, I converted the video to audio format, then chopped it into mp3s. The sound quality was a little bit better with this one, so I didn't have to make any adjustments. 

Here's the Wikipedia article:

The Big T.N.T. Show - Wikipedia 

Here's an interesting article that discusses both this movie and the TAMI Show:

https://cavehollywood.com/the-t-a-m-i-show-and-the-big-t-n-t-show-out-on-blu-ray-dvd/

This album is an hour and 30 minutes long. 

01 [I Can't Get No] Satisfaction [Instrumental Version] (David McCallum)
02 What'd I Say (Ray Charles)
03 Downtown (Petula Clark)
04 Do You Believe in Magic (Lovin' Spoonful)
05 You Didn't Have to Be So Nice (Lovin' Spoonful)
06 Hey Bo Diddley (Bo Diddley)
07 Bo Diddley (Bo Diddley)
08 500 Miles (Joan Baez)
09 There but for Fortune (Joan Baez)
10 Georgia on My Mind (Ray Charles)
11 Let the Good Times Roll (Ray Charles)
12 talk (Donovan)
13 You've Lost that Lovin' Feeling (Joan Baez)
14 Be My Baby (Ronettes)
15 Shout (Ronettes)
16 Dang Me (Roger Miller)
17 talk (Roger Miller)
18 Engine Engine No. 9 (Roger Miller)
19 King of the Road (Roger Miller)
20 talk (Roger Miller)
21 England Swings (Roger Miller)
22 talk (David McCallum)
23 Turn, Turn, Turn [To Everything There Is a Season] (Byrds)
24 The Bells of Rhymney (Byrds)
25 Mr. Tambourine Man (Byrds)
26 You're the One (Petula Clark)
27 My Love (Petula Clark)
28 talk (David McCallum)
29 Universal Soldier (Donovan)
30 Summer Day Reflection Song (Donovan)
31 Bert's Blues (Donovan)
32 Sweet Joy (Donovan)
33 Shake (Ike & Tina Turner)
34 A Fool in Love (Ike & Tina Turner)
35 It's Gonna Work Out Fine (Ike & Tina Turner)
36 Please, Please, Please (Ike & Tina Turner)
37 Goodbye, So Long (Ike & Tina Turner)
38 Tell the Truth (Ike & Tina Turner)
39 1-2-3 [Instrumental Version] (David McCallum)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/dTkPhgcn

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/Kjs0z43hqpeffYb/file

The main picture in the cover art shows Tina Turner in this exact concert. The original was in black and white, but I colorized it with the help of the Kolorize program. The text and design at the top and sides are taken from a concert poster. I did some repositioning and cleaning up for those areas.

Joan Baez with Hoyt Axton - The Midnight Special, NBC Studios, Burbank, CA, 5-30-1975

Here's another episode of that excellent TV show, "Midnight Special." I previously posted a 1973 episode hosted by Joan Baez. She was back to host it again in this 1975 episode. I also included Hoyt Axton as a guest, since they sang a song together.

One couldn't be a host of this show unless one had a certain amount of commercial success. Earlier in 1975, Baez released "Diamonds and Rust," a song she wrote herself, as a single. It was a Top Forty hit in the U.S., and helped the album it came from, also called "Diamonds and Rust," go Gold. (That means sales of half a million in the U.S.)

Hoyt Axton didn't have big success as a performer (although he did have a couple of hits on the country charts in the 1970s). However, he had a lot more success as a songwriter. In fact, I've created a "Covered" album for him, which you can find here:

https://albumsthatshouldexist.blogspot.com/2025/12/covered-hoyt-axton-1963-1977.html

Baez and Axton sang a duet on the song "Lion in the Winter." It was a song written by Axton. He did a duet version with Linda Ronstadt that came out in 1975 and was a minor country hit. Baez essentially sang Ronstadt's part. Axton also sang two songs on his own.

Baez had another musical collaboration in this episode. Hampton Hawes was a well known jazz pianist since the late 1940s. On Baez's "Diamonds and Rust" album, she wrote a jazzy song called "Children and All that Jazz," which featured a prominent piano part by Hawes. So the two of them performed it on this show, with Baez singing and Hawes playing the piano. Hawes died not long after that, in 1977. Hawes performed two other songs on his own in this episode, but I chose not to include them.

In case you're curious, the only other performer in this episode was Kool and the Gang. They played three songs.

Oftentimes, when I put these Midnight Special albums together, I bring in other songs from other episodes. But in this case, everything here is from this one episode. Baez would appear some more on the show in 1976 and 1977. She wasn't a host again, but she performed on enough songs that I'll probably be able to put together another album for her when those episodes are released on YouTube. 

This album is 40 minutes long. 

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

01 talk (Wolfman Jack)
02 Fountain of Sorrow (Joan Baez)
03 talk (Joan Baez)
04 Diamonds and Rust (Joan Baez)
05 talk (Joan Baez)
06 Jesse (Joan Baez)
07 talk (Joan Baez)
08 Children and All that Jazz (Joan Baez & Hampton Hawes)
09 talk (Joan Baez)
10 Will the Circle Be Unbroken (Hoyt Axton)
11 When the Morning Comes (Hoyt Axton)
12 talk (Joan Baez)
13 Lion in the Winter (Joan Baez & Hoyt Axton)
14 talk (Joan Baez)
15 Never Dreamed You'd Leave in Summer (Joan Baez)
16 talk (Joan Baez)
17 Winds of the Old Days (Joan Baez)
18 talk (Joan Baez)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/Ju6hshd4

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/pGv3nDcqZ5tmgjb/file 

The cover image is a screenshot I took from this exact concert. It shows Baez with Axton.

Joan Baez - Philadelphia Folk Festival, Old Pool Farm, Schwenksville, PA, 8-25-1968

Here's the sixth and last album I'm posting from the 1968 Philadelphia Folk Festival. I'd like to post more, but this is everything that I've found. This is a set by Joan Baez.

In 1968, Baez hadn't really had any big hits yet. But she was one of the biggest names in folk music, and probably the biggest star of this festival. On two songs, she was joined on stage by the Charles River Valley Boys. Their most recent album at the time of this performance was "Beatle Country," and consisted of bluegrass versions of Beatles songs. That explains why one of the two songs they did with her was a Beatles song. Otherwise, Baez was in solo acoustic mode, as one can see from the cover image.

I'm pretty sure this is only part of her performance. The last song faded out, suggesting there was more. Plus, it seems uncharacteristic for her to end with a cover of "I've Just Seen a Face" by the Beatles, a song she never even put on record. And on the handbill for the show, she was the headliner act for the final day. She was allotted an hour of music in the schedule, a lot more that what's here. But this is what we have. If more of her set ever emerges, I'll be sure to add it in.

And speaking of lost music I'd like to add in, I definitely would like to post more albums of music from this festival, if that music can be found. According to a handbill from the festival I found at the jonimitchell.com website, there were over 30 musical acts who performed at the festival. Most of those were little known at the time, and even less well known now, so I don't think they would be interesting to many people. But there are some others I wound like to find, such as sets by Janis Ian, Dave Van Ronk, Odetta, Son House, Oscar Brand, and Jerry Jeff Walker. If anyone has any other music from the festival, please let me know so I can post that too.

This album is 36 minutes long. Like the rest of the music from this festival, the sound quality is excellent but it remains unreleased.

01 Carry It On (Joan Baez)
02 talk (Joan Baez)
03 Turquoise (Joan Baez)
04 Gentle on My Mind (Joan Baez)
05 talk (Joan Baez)
06 C'era un Ragazzo Che Come Me Amava i Beatles e i Rolling Stones (Joan Baez)
07 talk (Joan Baez)
08 What Have They Done to the Rain (Joan Baez)
09 talk (Joan Baez)
10 Suzanne (Joan Baez)
11 talk (Joan Baez)
12 Kumbaya (Joan Baez)
13 talk (Joan Baez)
14 Green, Green Grass of Home (Joan Baez with the Charles River Valley Boys)
15 talk (Joan Baez with the Charles River Valley Boys)
16 I've Just Seen a Face (Joan Baez with the Charles River Valley Boys)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/AZrgZx8D

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/ZCy2XdPOjVDQbHh/file

The cover photo is from this exact concert.

Joan Baez with Mimi Farina and Steve Goodman - The Midnight Special, NBC Studios, Burbank, CA, 7-20-1973

Here we go again, with another episode of the "Midnight Special" TV show. This one stars folk singer Joan Baez. It also has two guests, Mimi Farina and Steve Goodman.

Baez had been one of the most famous folk singers since the mid-1960s. But she didn't have a big hit until 1971. That year, her version of "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down" went all the way to Number Three in the U.S. singles chart. So that's probably what gave her enough commercial appeal to be given the host slot for this show.

Baez had two sisters, and one of them was Mimi Farina. So it's not too surprising that their music careers have often intersected. That including Baez asking her to be part of this episode, and then singing a duet with her on the song "Best of Friends." Farina is probably best known as part of the mid-1960s duo of Richard and Mimi Farina, which sadly ended when Richard Farina died in 1966. Here's a Wikipedia entry if you want to know more about her:

Mimi Fariña - Wikipedia

Steve Goodman was an excellent singer-songwriter. He was near the start of his musical career at the time of this concert, as his first album was released in 1971. The best known song he wrote, by far, was "The City of New Orleans." Arlo Guthrie had a big hit with it in 1972, and it has gone on to become a classic, covered by many. So I'm a bit surprised Goodman didn't perform his own version in this episode.

Baez and Goodman didn't perform a duet here, like Baez and Farina did. But Baez mentioned in her banter between songs that she was the one that got Goodman on the show because she was such a big fan of his songs. So I included him here, especially because his musical style fits in well with the songs by Baez and/or Farina. Also, it turns out this was the only appearance Goodman ever made on the show, so I didn't have nearly enough songs to give him his own album. (This also was Farina's only appearance, but Baez would be a host again in 1975, and she would make other appearances too.)

Here's his Wikipedia entry:

Steve Goodman - Wikipedia  

In case you're curious, the other musical acts on the show were Wilson Pickett, Black Oak Arkansas, Bloodstone, and the Pointer Sisters. I've already put the Pickett and Pointer Sisters songs on other albums I've made.

Two songs have "[Edit]" in their titles. For the first track, I got rid of the show's theme song playing in the background, and replaced that with audience applause. For the third track, I stitched together two chunks of banter that were separated by one or more songs.

This album is 33 minutes long. 

01 talk [Edit] (Wolfman Jack)
02 The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down (Joan Baez)
03 talk [Edit] (Joan Baez)
04 Someone Else's Troubles (Steve Goodman)
05 talk (Wolfman Jack)
06 talk (Joan Baez)
07 Joe Hill (Joan Baez)
08 talk (Joan Baez)
09 In the Quiet Morning (Mimi Farina)
10 talk (Joan Baez & Mimi Farina)
11 Best of Friends (Joan Baez & Mimi Farina)
12 Love Song to a Stranger (Joan Baez)
13 Prison Trilogy (Joan Baez)
14 Would You Like to Learn to Dance (Steve Goodman)
15 talk (Joan Baez)
16 Rider Pass By (Joan Baez)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/n1N9WdEs

alternate: 

https://bestfile.io/en/kz1AXtVnbvi6IHH/file

The cover image is a screenshot I took from a video of this exact concert. Mimi Farina is the one closer and higher up in the image.

Various Artists - Rally for Nuclear Disarmament, Central Park, New York City, 6-12-1982

A few days ago (as I write this in December 2025), I posted five hours of a concert called "Peace Sunday," which was a big benefit concert for the anti-nuclear war movement in 1992, held in Los Angeles. As I was researching that one, I discovered there was another concert for the same cause that took place a week later in New York City. I did a little more digging, and found part of it that got broadcast on radio station WNEW at the time. So I'm presenting that here. 

There's a lot about this concert that I don't know, apparently lost in the mists of time. I do know there was an absolutely enormous protest rally in Central Park on June 12, 1982. News reports say about a million people attended, making it the largest protest rally in the history of the U.S., at least up until that time. Part of that all day event was a concert. Some of it was broadcast on the radio, and that's what I have here. But I can't find any information about how much more there was that is now missing. 

However, I do have some clues. Rita Marley actually performed four songs, which I found on YouTube. But the sound quality, apparently from homemade video footage was poor. I managed to salvage one song to at least represent her, but I had to do a LOT of work on it (using the MVSEP program) to make it at least listenable. Note the sound quality gets better after that, so don't be discouraged because it's the first song. I also know Jackson Browne played the song "For Everyman," which is not here. The radio broadcast cut in part way through the song, and there were technical problems, so only the last minute was salvageable. That was so little that I decided to just cut it out entirely. I also know performed a duet of the song "I Think It's Gonna Work Out Fine." One can find a video of that on YouTube, but the quality was so bad that I had no hope of salvaging that one. They also did the song together in the studio for Ronstadt's 1982 album "Get Closer," by the way.

Furthermore, at the end of the concert, there were appearances by Jesse Colin Young, Bonnie Raitt, Carly Simon, and Graham Nash. I suspect one or more of them probably had songs of their own earlier in the concert. I also saw a mention that Holly Near sang something at some point. The problem is, the radio broadcast only showed highlights of some of the big names, and even then it seems they took commercial breaks from time to time, skipping songs. If anyone knows more (for instance if you attended and remember what happened), please let us know.

To make matters more complicated, two days earlier, there was a related concert with a very similar name, the "Concert for Nuclear Disarmament," held at Nassau Coliseum on Long Island, just outside New York City. That holds about 15,000 people. I found a review of that concert. There were only three acts: James Taylor, Linda Ronstadt, and Jackson Browne. But because there were fewer acts, each of them performed almost full sets. I found one audience bootleg of part of that, but the sound quality was pretty terrible, so I won't be posting it. 

Anyway, having something (in worthy sound quality) is better than having nothing. What we have here is pretty nice, even though many of the performers are the same ones who played in the "Peace Sunday" concert a week earlier in Los Angeles. Linda Ronstadt even played "The Shoop Shoop Song (It's in His Kiss)" with the same two well-known backing singers, Rosemary Butler and Nicolette Larson.

It was notable that Bruce Springsteen performed. However, I consulted the "Brucebase" website, which is very thorough, and that confirms that he only performed on two songs, while a guest during Jackson Browne's set. He sang his own song, "Badlands," with Browne on backing vocals, then Browne sang his own "Running on Empty" with Springsteen on backing vocals. 

Another interesting tidbit is that James Taylor and John Hall jointly performed the song "Children's Cry." Taylor mentioned before the song started that they had written it together specifically for this concert. I did a little searching. It seems the only time this song was ever played was at this concert and at the "Concert for Nuclear Disarmament" two days earlier. And it apparently was never officially released in any form.

This concert recording sounded pretty decent, but there were issues. Some time back, musical friend Lil Panda did some audio editing to improve just the Linda Ronstadt songs. So I used his version for those. I also tried some editing of my own. I ran all the songs through MVSEP, and got rid of most of the crowd noise during songs while keeping it at the ends of songs. I then ran all the songs through MVSEP again, and adjusted the balance between the lead vocals and the instruments. For maybe half the songs, the lead vocals were too low.

It anyone has more of this concert (or the related Concert for Nuclear Disarmament), please share it. 

This album is an hour and 33 minutes long. 

01 One Love (Rita Marley)
02 The Pretender (Jackson Browne & Gary U.S. Bonds)
03 talk (Joan Baez)
04 Imagine (Joan Baez)
05 Promised Land (Bruce Springsteen with Jackson Browne)
06 talk (Jackson Browne)
07 Running on Empty (Jackson Browne with Bruce Springsteen)
08 talk (Jackson Browne)
09 Tumbling Dice (Linda Ronstadt)
10 Blue Bayou (Linda Ronstadt)
11 talk (Linda Ronstadt)
12 The Shoop Shoop Song [It's in His Kiss] (Linda Ronstadt with Rosemary Butler & Nicolette Larson)
13 Desperado (Linda Ronstadt)
14 Heat Wave (Linda Ronstadt)
15 Living in the U.S.A. (Linda Ronstadt)
16 That Lonesome Road (James Taylor)
17 You've Got a Friend (James Taylor)
18 talk (James Taylor)
19 Up on the Roof (James Taylor)
20 Stand and Fight (James Taylor)
21 talk (James Taylor & Chaka Khan)
22 It's Growing (James Taylor & Chaka Khan)
23 talk (James Taylor)
24 Children's Cry (James Taylor & John Hall)
25 talk (Joy Ryder & Avis Davis)
26 No More Nukes (Joy Ryder & Avis Davis)
27 talk (John Hall)
28 Plutonium Is Forever (John Hall)
29 talk (John Hall)
30 talk (Jackson Browne & Graham Nash)
31 Power (John Hall, Jackson Browne, Bonnie Raitt, Graham Nash & Carly Simon)
32 talk (John Hall)
33 Let's Get Together (Jesse Colin Young & Everyone)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/hjST8tt6

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/NVjT1WCkPe1RhvJ/file

The cover photo shows Linda Ronstadt and James Taylor. I would bet this was taken during the duet they did, "I Think It's Gonna Work Out Fine," which unfortunately is not included here. The original was in black and white. But I used the "Kolorize" program to colorize it.

Various Artists - Peace Sunday, Rose Bowl, Pasadena, CA, 6-6-1982, Part 3: Stevie Wonder and Joan Baez & Bob Dylan

Here's the third out of five albums that make up the "Peace Sunday" concert in 1982. Musically, this concert is best known for the songs Bob Dylan sang with Joan Baez, and you'll find them in this part.

I'll just paste in a paragraph I wrote in my post for Part 2, since it still applies here:

If you want a full explanation of what the concert was about, please read my write-up for Part 1. In that, I also explained about the sound quality issue. In short, the only known source for the whole concert is an audience bootleg. It didn't sound very good, so this concert recording hasn't been shared that much. But I could tell there was potential there, if I could get rid of most of the much. As I explained in detail in my write-up, I think I did get rid of most of it. It still doesn't have excellent sound, but it's pretty good, and worthy of being posted at my blog, where I have pretty high sound quality standards.

Now, let's get to the music. This part of the concert started with some songs by Stevie Wonder. Just one month before this concert, he released a best of album called "Stevie Wonder's Original Musiquarium I." It contained four new songs, and he performed two of them here, "Front Line" and "Do I Do." He also had a new songs written for the occasion, but it seems he and his band couldn't practice the song enough in time to his satisfaction, so he simply spoke the lyrics instead. I don't know the actual name of the song/poem, but I made an educated guess of "Throw Down in the Name of Love." If anyone knows a better title, please let me know.

The rest of this part of the concert consists of a set by Joan Baez, capped by three songs where she was joined by Bob Dylan. The two of them had a long personal history together, especially since they were romantically linked for a couple of years in the 1960s. The two of them toured together in 1975 and 1976. But after that, they didn't appear on stage together again until this concert. Then they were stage some more in 1984. As far as I know, they have been on stage together again in the many years since then.

Dylan wasn't one of the scheduled performers, so his appearance here was a pleasant surprise. That was especially the case because he basically took all of 1982 off. He didn't release or record any music, and this was his one and only concert appearance. They dueted on two classic Dylan anti-war songs, which were ideal for the occasion. The third song they sang was a real surprise though: "A Pirate Looks at Forty," by Jimmy Buffett. I'm pretty sure that's the only time Dylan ever sang a Jimmy Buffett song in concert.

Unfortunately, Dylan's performance wasn't the best. If you listen, it's pretty clear he did little to no practice with Baez. He even got the lyrics to "Blowin' in the Wind" wrong, singing the same verse twice. But still, it was great to have his involved with this concert. Since the mid-1960s, he's rarely been overtly politically active, but he was making his voice heard on the issue of nuclear disarmament by singing these particular songs at this particular concert.

I mentioned in my write-up to Part 1 that I spent a long time fixing the sound quality issues with this concert. I could have put "[Edit]" on all the songs, since I edited every single one of them a lot. But since I did the same treatment to all of them, I've saved that for the most extreme edits. There's one case here, with "Do Right Woman, Do Right Man." On top of all the other problems I was fixing, the beginning of the song was missing. Probably, the taper was saving tape by stopping during long pauses between songs, and then was a little slow it hitting "record" again in this case. But luckily, the lyrics at the start of the song were repeated later in the song, so I was able to fill in the missing section. 

This album is an hour and nine minutes long.

Note that, for all the parts, the track numbers continue from the numbers in the previous part. That way, you can put all the songs together and listen to the whole thing at once if you want. 

33 talk (Stevie Wonder)
34 Front Line (Stevie Wonder)
35 talk (Stevie Wonder)
36 Throw Down in the Name of Love [Spoken Lyrics] (Stevie Wonder)
37 Master Blaster [Jammin'] (Stevie Wonder)
38 Do I Do (Stevie Wonder)
39 We Demand World Peace Today (Stevie Wonder)
40 Do Right Woman, Do Right Man [Edit] (Joan Baez)
41 talk (Joan Baez)
42 Warriors of the Sun (Joan Baez)
43 Imagine (Joan Baez)
44 Diamonds and Rust (Joan Baez)
45 talk (Joan Baez)
46 With God on Our Side (Joan Baez & Bob Dylan)
47 A Pirate Looks at Forty (Joan Baez & Bob Dylan)
48 Blowin' in the Wind (Joan Baez & Bob Dylan)
49 talk (emcee)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/rZFaw6jr

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/XxOyn7vxXc2PzU7/file

The cover image of Joan Baez and Bob Dylan is from this exact concert.

Paul Simon - Bread and Roses Festival, Greek Theatre, Berkeley, CA, 10-3-1981

Here's something I just randomly came across on YouTube the other day. For ages, I've been looking for a good solo acoustic Paul Simon concert. The only solo acoustic tour he did was in 1984, but all the bootlegs I've heard from that tour don't sound that good. I've finally found something worthy, though it's from 1981 instead.

This was a one-off, apparently the only solo concert he did in 1981. That was the year he did the famous concert in Central Park as part of Simon and Garfunkel, which was attended by over half a million people and released as a live album. That took place on September 19, just a couple of weeks prior to this concert. You can hear a passing reference to it in some of the banter near the end of the concert.

The Break and Roses Festival is an annual folk festival. I've posted albums from the festival before: Joni Mitchell in 1978, Stephen Stills in 1978, and Neil Young in 1980. Apparently, the other main acts at the 1981 version of the festival were Joan Baez, Emmylou Harris, Al Di Meola, Ann and Nancy Wilson of Heart, and Mimi Farina. I'm not aware of any recordings of those. But I'm sure the fact that Joan Baez was there performing her own set made it convenient for her to join Simon on one song ("The Boxer") for his set.

I have to warn you this album is not up to my usual sound quality standards. It comes from an audience bootleg, when I almost always use soundboard or FM radio bootlegs as sources. But I'm making an exception because this sounds pretty good as far as audience bootlegs go. As I mentioned above, it sounds better than several bootlegs I heard from his 1984, which are all audience boots too. It helps greatly that it's a solo acoustic performance, since that musical simplicity makes more forgiving for recordings.

There are some flaws with this recording. One is that the taper obviously stopped the recording at the end of every song, in order to save tape. As a result, most of the cheering was lost, and no doubt a lot of the banter between songs too. For instance, there's no introduction of Joan Baez, though that surely must have happened before "The Boxer." She's just there on stage all of a sudden, without any cheering or anything. I managed to fix the applause problem by taking little bits of what applause there was, putting together several songs of it, and then patching that into the ends of all the songs. But there was nothing I could do to bring back the missing banter. 

A curiosity is that he led the crowd through a short rendition of "Happy Birthday" for some girl in the audience that he didn't know. We can tell he didn't know her because he asked her what her name was. Chances are there was more banter leading up to why he was even interacting with the girl in the first place, but we'll probably never know since it wasn't included in this recording.

Simon's most recent studio album was "One Trick Pony," released in 1980. Curiously, he didn't play any songs from it. Perhaps he thought most of the songs from it really needed to be performed with a full band. Or, it's possible this isn't the full concert and he did play some of those, I don't know. But more interestingly, he played two songs he hadn't released yet: "Song about the Moon" and "The Late Great Johnny Ace." Both of them would be released on his next studio album, "Hearts and Bones," in 1983.

If anyone has what they think is a worthy recording from Simon's 1984 solo acoustic tour, please let me know. I've found mention of a couple, like from Pine Knob, Illinois, and Vancouver, that are supposed to some pretty decent, but I can't find those anywhere. 

This album is 37 minutes long. 

01 Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard (Paul Simon)
02 Duncan (Paul Simon)
03 America (Paul Simon)
04 Song about the Moon (Paul Simon)
05 talk (Paul Simon)
06 The Late Great Johnny Ace (Paul Simon)
07 Mrs. Robinson (Paul Simon)
08 Slip Slidin' Away (Paul Simon)
09 American Tune (Paul Simon)
10 Happy Birthday (Paul Simon)
11 talk (Paul Simon)
12 The Boxer (Paul Simon & Joan Baez)
13 Something So Right (Paul Simon)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/PPad69ov

alternate:

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

The cover photo is from this exact concert. I found several, and I thought this one that also included Joan Baez was the most interesting. I used Photoshop to bring them closer together.

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

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

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

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

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

This album is an hour and 30 minutes long.

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

https://pixeldrain.com/u/NPeRiSD5

alternate:

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

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

Joan Baez - 1999 BBC Sessions, Volume 4: In Concert, Lyric Hammersmith Theatre, London, Britain, 11-4-1999

Here's the fourth, and for now last, album of Joan Baez performing for the BBC. I say "for now," because I'm pretty sure there are one or two more BBC concerts I can't find. So don't be surprised if this gets renumbered eventually. This is another BBC concert.

For Volume 3, I posted a 1993 concert. As I said in my write-up for that, I mostly knew her for her 1960s and 1970s music. I was pleasantly surprised with her mostly different later material. That's the case here, with a set list that's largely different from the 1993 show, and only a couple of well-known songs from much earlier in her career.

This concert is officially unreleased.

This album is 54 minutes long.

01 No Mermaid (Joan Baez)
02 The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down (Joan Baez)
03 Crack in the Mirror (Joan Baez)
04 talk (Joan Baez)
05 Long Bed from Kenya (Joan Baez)
06 talk (Joan Baez)
07 Joe Hill (Joan Baez)
08 Jesse (Joan Baez)
09 talk (Joan Baez)
10 Lily (Joan Baez)
11 talk (Joan Baez)
12 Money for Floods (Joan Baez)
13 talk (Joan Baez)
14 Lily of the West [Edit] (Joan Baez)
15 talk (Joan Baez)
16 Welcome Me (Joan Baez)
17 talk (Joan Baez)
18 Gracias a La Vida (Joan Baez)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/CJsS86BN

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/Hl5u5W6T2HZlUYD/file

The cover photo is from a concert in Portsmouth, Britain, in October 1999.

Joan Baez - BBC Sessions, Volume 3: In Concert, Dominion Theatre, London, Britain, 5-22-1993

When I posted a "BBC Sessions, Volume 2" album by Joan Baez a few weeks ago, I noted that I probably was missing some other BBC concerts she did. That's still true, but at least I found this one since then. It took place in 1993. 

When I've thought about Baez, I've generally considered her a folk singer in her 1960s and 1970s heyday. But after listening to this, plus another BBC concert I've found from the 1990s, I'm more impressed with her later material. She didn't start out a songwriter, but she eventually grew into being a pretty good one. For instance, her big 1975 hit "Diamonds and Rust" was written by her. And she had good taste in cover versions. So although I wasn't familiar with most of these songs, I thought they were pretty good.

This remains officially unreleased. The sound quality is solid, although this was sourced from relatively low quality mp3s. I edited them a bit, but I couldn't improve things much.

This album is 53 minutes long.

01 Love Is Just a Four-Letter Word (Joan Baez)
02 talk (Joan Baez)
03 Isaac and Abraham (Joan Baez)
04 talk (Joan Baez)
05 Amsterdam (Joan Baez)
06 talk (Joan Baez)
07 Play Me Backwards (Joan Baez)
08 talk (Joan Baez)
09 Strange Rivers (Joan Baez)
10 talk (Joan Baez)
11 Welcome Me (Joan Baez)
12 There but for Fortune (Joan Baez)
13 talk (Joan Baez)
14 Edge of Glory (Joan Baez)
15 Diamonds and Rust (Joan Baez)
16 talk (Joan Baez)
17 I'm with You (Joan Baez)
18 talk (Joan Baez)
19 Forever Young (Joan Baez)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/hVYyh7Nj

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/40ohxEKXgAYFDJ0/file

The cover photo is from the Central Park Summerstage concert in New York City in August 1993.

Joan Baez - BBC Sessions, Volume 2: In Concert, Hammersmith Odeon, London, Britain, 12-20-1977

Since I've posted one Joan Baez BBC concert already, she's on my list of artists to finish off before I get to posting BBC stuff of other artists. Here's a nice unreleased BBC concert from 1977.

Baez was one of the most popular folk singers of the 1960s, and kept her high popularity going well into the 1970s. She had her second biggest hit of her career in 1975 with the song "Diamonds and Rust." I must say I'm rather surprised that isn't included here. But she did play her biggest hit, a cover of the Band's classic "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down." Generally, she kept a good acoustic vibe going, and even sang acappella some.

It's so common for lead vocals to be low in the mix, I've noticed, even on BBC recordings sometimes. That was the case again here. So I fixed that in the usual way, using the UVR5 audio editing program.

By the way, I only have one more BBC concert from Baez after this that I've found, from 1999. But I'm pretty sure there are some other BBC concerts by her that I can't find. For instance, I've found mentions of them from 1973 and 1993. If you have any that I don't and want to share, please let me know.

This album is an hour and ten minutes long.

01 Help Me Make It through the Night (Joan Baez)
02 Farewell, Angelina (Joan Baez)
03 talk (Joan Baez)
04 Honey Love (Joan Baez)
05 talk (Joan Baez)
06 Scarlet Ribbons (Joan Baez)
07 talk (Joan Baez)
08 Virgin Mary (Joan Baez)
09 talk (Joan Baez)
10 Michael (Joan Baez)
11 talk (Joan Baez)
12 Honest Lullaby (Joan Baez)
13 talk (Joan Baez)
14 Gracias a la Vida (Joan Baez)
15 talk (Joan Baez)
16 Natalia (Joan Baez)
17 talk (Joan Baez)
18 Swing Low, Sweet Chariot (Joan Baez)
19 Blowin' in the Wind (Joan Baez)
20 Love Is Just a Four-Letter Word (Joan Baez)
21 talk (Joan Baez)
22 The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down (Joan Baez)
23 Sweet Sir Galahad (Joan Baez)
24 Kumbaya (Joan Baez)
25 Imagine (Joan Baez)
26 Let It Be (Joan Baez)
27 Joe Hill (Joan Baez)
28 talk (Joan Baez)
29 Amazing Grace (Joan Baez)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/BDkdP4fx

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/MCGup30nw9lsKSv/file

The cover photo shows Baez at a concert in Santa Barbara in 1977.

Joan Baez - BBC Sessions, Volume 1: In Concert, BBC Television Theatre Shepherd's Bush, London, Britain, 6-5-1965

The BBC didn't typically air full concerts until about 1970, so we're lucky to have this decently long concert by Joan Baez all the way back in 1965. This is officially unreleased, but the sound quality is excellent.

I'm not sure what this is from exactly. The BBC did air a folk music TV show around this time called "Tonight In Person," but I believe the Baez show for that took place in Scotland and has a different set list. (If anyone has the audio, please pass it along.) It sounds like a complete concert to me, including banter between songs, but perhaps some songs were cut out, I don't know. 

Baez put out live albums in 1962 and 1963, but then not another until 1969. So this fills a gap. It also is a good time for a concert, since she was hitting a peak of popularity, aided by her well known romance with Bob Dylan at the time.

I found this on YouTube. I converted it into audio and broke it into mp3s. So this has probably never been shared in audio format before.

This album is an hour and two minutes long.

01 Rambler Gambler (Joan Baez)
02 There but for Fortune (Joan Baez)
03 talk (Joan Baez)
04 Copper Kettle (Joan Baez)
05 talk (Joan Baez)
06 Mary Hamilton (Joan Baez)
07 Don't Think Twice, It's All Right (Joan Baez)
08 talk (Joan Baez)
09 Troubled and I Don't Know Why (Joan Baez)
10 talk (Joan Baez)
11 We Shall Overcome (Joan Baez)
12 talk (Joan Baez)
13 With God on Our Side (Joan Baez)
14 Silver Dagger (Joan Baez)
15 Oh Freedom (Joan Baez)
16 talk (Joan Baez)
17 She's a Trouble Maker (Joan Baez)
18 talk (Joan Baez)
19 The Unquiet Grave (Joan Baez)
20 talk (Joan Baez)
21 It Ain't Me, Babe (Joan Baez)
22 talk (Joan Baez)
23 Isn't It Grand Boys (Joan Baez)
24 talk (Joan Baez)
25 500 miles (Joan Baez)
26 talk (Joan Baez)
27 Te Ador (Joan Baez)
28 Ate Amanha (Joan Baez)
29 talk (Joan Baez)
30 Plaisir d'Amour (Joan Baez)

https://www.upload.ee/files/16651234/JOANBZ1965BBSessonsVolum1InCncrtBBTvThetrShphrdsBshLndnBrtin__6-5-1965_atse.zip.html

The cover photo is from a BBC TV show "circa 1965," so maybe it's this very one. It might be from something else though.

SNACK Benefit, Kezar Stadium, San Francisco, CA, 3-23-1975, Part 7: Joan Baez

The seventh major act to perform at the 1975 SNACK benefit concert was folk singer Joan Baez.

Between the previous Jefferson Starship set and Joan Baez's set, famous actor Marlon Brando gave a speech about the importance of education to the vast stadium audience that went over very well.

Rolling Stone Magazine pointed out that Baez was given a difficult task of following that speech with her mellow solo acoustic folk music. But that's what she did, and the audience seemed to enjoy it.

Baez played some of the best songs from her career up until that point. Note though that one of her best known songs and biggest hits, "Diamonds and Rust," was released as a single in April 1975, a few weeks after this concert. So she didn't play that one.

This album is 31 minutes long.

60 talk by Bill Graham (Joan Baez)
61 I Shall Be Released (Joan Baez)
62 talk (Joan Baez)
63 Help Me Make It through the Night (Joan Baez)
64 We Want Our Freedom Now (Joan Baez)
65 Joe Hill (Joan Baez)
66 talk (Joan Baez)
67 All My Trials (Joan Baez)
68 talk (Joan Baez)
69 The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down (Joan Baez)
70 A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall (Joan Baez)
71 talk (Joan Baez)
72 Amazing Grace (Joan Baez)

https://www.upload.ee/files/17209135/VA-SNCKBnefitKzarStdumSnFrncscoCA197507JanBez_atse.zip.html

alternate:

https://pixeldrain.com/u/owSkqqK8

The cover is another case of an exact photo from this concert. In this case, I actually found a decent color one, but I liked this black and white one more. So I had it colorized using the Palette program. But I also looked at that other actual color photo to make sure I got the colors of her clothes and guitar just right.

UPDATE: On October 7, 2024, I upgraded the photo with the use of the Krea AI program.