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

If you recognize this as an album I've posted here already, you are absolutely correct. But I'm deleting that version and reposting it because it's been significantly expanded, and I don't want people to miss it. The previous version (posted in August 2025) was 52 minutes long, and this version is an hour and 37 minutes long, so it's almost doubled in size.

This expansion is due to the fact that I randomly came across another bootleg of this concert with a mostly different bunch of songs. Happily, that version has soundboard quality, just like the previous version. In fact, some of the existing songs sounded better, so I've upgraded them.

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 it.

I found a 1979 New York Times article about this 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 article, 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.

Generally speaking, Little Feat was the backing band for most of the concert. 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 one song mentioned has been officially released, "All That You Dream," on the Little Feat album "Hoy Hoy." I've read on social media that it is believed the rest of the film footage has been lost. 

I'm posting this album almost entirely due to the efforts of musical friend Lil Panda. 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 it 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 four of the songs have "[Edit]" in their titles. "For a Dancer" also was merged from two versions.

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. 

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

All of the above applies to the songs sources from the video. But in October 2026, I found many more songs from some unknown soundboard source. These generally sound better so I didn't have to do as much editing work on them. 

I have yet to find a definitive list of all the songs that were played in this concert. However, a person named Steve Combs did a lot of research on this concert, trying to find mentions from newspaper articles and other sources about which songs were performed and who played on each. I used his research to put together the song order. Even his research is incomplete. But, from that, I was able to find yet more songs that were played and we still don't have any recordings for. 

So here is a special song list of the songs here, plus ones still missing. The unnumbered songs with dashes in front of them are the ones that are still missing. Note that some of the ones on the bootleg I found weren't included on the list made by Steve Combs, suggesting there probably are still more songs we don't even know about.

But from what we do know, it seems Emmylou Harris and Little Feat were particularly unlucky. We only have recordings of one of three songs from Harris's set, and one out of five songs from Little Feat's set, although the concert did end with three more Little Feat songs, which we do have.

01 Tears, Tears and More Tears (Nicolette Larson with the Tower of Power)
- Lotta Love (Nicolette Larson with the Tower of Power)
- Trouble (Nicolette Larson with the Tower of Power)
02 Rhumba Girl [Rhumba Man] (Nicolette Larson & Linda Ronstadt with the Tower of Power)
- Don't Break My Heart (Nicolette Larson with, Michael McDonald, Pat Simmons & the Tower of Power)
- Two More Bottles (Emmylou Harris)
03 Here, There and Everywhere (Emmylou Harris)
- Love Hurts (Emmylou Harris & Linda Ronstadt)
- Time Loves a Hero (Little Feat)
- Tripe Face Boogie (Little Feat)
- Old Folks Boogie (Little Feat with Bonnie Raitt, Linda Ronstadt & Nicolette Larson)
04 Oh Atlanta [Edit] (Little Feat with Bonnie Raitt, Linda Ronstadt & Nicolette Larson)
- Rock and Roll Doctor  (Little Feat)
- I Thank You (Bonnie Raitt)
- Standing by the Same Old Love (Bonnie Raitt)
05 Angel from Montgomery (Bonnie Raitt)
06 talk (Bonnie Raitt)
07 About to Make Me Leave Home (Bonnie Raitt)
08 Runaway (Bonnie Raitt with Michael McDonald)
09 talk (Bonnie Raitt)
10 Under the Falling Sky (Bonnie Raitt with Jackson Browne, Michael McDonald & Rosemary Butler)
11 talk (Bonnie Raitt)
12 Running on Empty (Jackson Browne with Rosemary Butler & Doug Haywood)
13 For a Dancer [Edit] (Jackson Browne)
14 talk (Jackson Browne)
15 Walking Slow [Edit] (Jackson Browne with the Tower of Power)
16 talk (Jackson Browne)
17 Your Bright Baby Blues (Jackson Browne)
18 talk (Jackson Browne)
19 Here Come Those Tears Again (Jackson Browne with Rosemary Butler)
20 talk (Jackson Browne)
21 Love Needs a Heart (Jackson Browne)
22 talk (Jackson Browne)
23 Peace Divine (Jackson Browne, J.D. Souther & Linda Ronstadt)
24 talk (Linda Ronstadt)
25 The Shoop Shoop Song [It's in His Kiss] (Linda Ronstadt & Nicolette Larson)
26 talk (Linda Ronstadt)
27 Rescue Me [Edit] (Linda Ronstadt)
- Just One Look (Linda Ronstadt)
28 Poor, Poor Pitiful Me (Linda Ronstadt with Nicolette Larson)
29 Blowin' Away (Linda Ronstadt & Bonnie Raitt)
30 All That You Dream (Linda Ronstadt with Nicolette Larson & Rosemary Butler)
31 Willin' (Linda Ronstadt with Emmylou Harris, Rosemary Butler & Nicolette Larson)
32 Dixie Chicken (Little Feat & Everyone)

This album is and hour and 37 minutes long. 

Here's the usual song list, consisting of just the ones actually included here: 

01 Tears, Tears and More Tears (Nicolette Larson with the Tower of Power)
02 Rhumba Girl [Rhumba Man] (Nicolette Larson & Linda Ronstadt with the Tower of Power)
03 Here, There and Everywhere (Emmylou Harris)
04 Oh Atlanta [Edit] (Little Feat with Bonnie Raitt, Linda Ronstadt & Nicolette Larson)
05 Angel from Montgomery (Bonnie Raitt)
06 talk (Bonnie Raitt)
07 About to Make Me Leave Home (Bonnie Raitt)
08 Runaway (Bonnie Raitt with Michael McDonald)
09 talk (Bonnie Raitt)
10 Under the Falling Sky (Bonnie Raitt with Jackson Browne, Michael McDonald & Rosemary Butler)
11 talk (Bonnie Raitt)
12 Running on Empty (Jackson Browne with Rosemary Butler & Doug Haywood)
13 For a Dancer [Edit] (Jackson Browne)
14 talk (Jackson Browne)
15 Walking Slow [Edit] (Jackson Browne with the Tower of Power)
16 talk (Jackson Browne)
17 Your Bright Baby Blues (Jackson Browne)
18 talk (Jackson Browne)
19 Here Come Those Tears Again (Jackson Browne with Rosemary Butler)
20 talk (Jackson Browne)
21 Love Needs a Heart (Jackson Browne)
22 talk (Jackson Browne)
23 Peace Divine (Jackson Browne, J.D. Souther & Linda Ronstadt)
24 talk (Linda Ronstadt)
25 The Shoop Shoop Song [It's in His Kiss] (Linda Ronstadt & Nicolette Larson)
26 talk (Linda Ronstadt)
27 Rescue Me [Edit] (Linda Ronstadt)
28 Poor, Poor Pitiful Me (Linda Ronstadt with Nicolette Larson)
29 Blowin' Away (Linda Ronstadt & Bonnie Raitt)
30 All That You Dream (Linda Ronstadt with Nicolette Larson & Rosemary Butler)
31 Willin' (Linda Ronstadt with Emmylou Harris, Rosemary Butler & Nicolette Larson)
32 Dixie Chicken (Little Feat & Everyone)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/roHWDUv2

alternate: 

https://bestfile.io/BHOkn5WVi26Ilw3/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.

Little Feat - Ebbets Field, Denver, CO, 7-19-1973, Late Show

Yesterday, I posted Little Feat's early show at the Ebbets Field venue in Denver, in 1973. This is the late show.

As I mentioned in my write-up for the early show, it seems this one was the one that was actually broadcast live on a local radio station at the time. The emcee at the end of the early show told the people leaving they could hear the late show with their car radios as they drove home. But this show lacks the usual expected encore because the band was opening for Zephyr, and had run out of time. (Zephyr broke up around 1970, but did a few reunion shows in the Denver area around this time.)

There's some overlap in song selection between the early shows and late shows, with five songs being played in both. But five songs were only played in the early show: "Hamburger Midnight," "On Your Way Down," "Willin'," "Cold, Cold, Cold," and "Fat Man in the Bathtub." Meanwhile, six songs were only played in the late show: "A Apolitical Blues," "The Fan," "Texas Rose Cafe," "Snakes on Everything," "Cat Fever," and "Sailin' Shoes."

This album is an hour long.

01 talk (Little Feat)
02 A Apolitical Blues (Little Feat)
03 Two Trains (Little Feat)
04 Got No Shadow (Little Feat)
05 The Fan (Little Feat)
06 talk (Little Feat)
07 Texas Rose Cafe (Little Feat)
08 talk (Little Feat)
09 Snakes on Everything (Little Feat)
10 talk (Little Feat)
11 Cat Fever (Little Feat)
12 talk (Little Feat)
13 Walkin' All Night (Little Feat)
14 talk (Little Feat)
15 Sailin' Shoes (Little Feat)
16 Dixie Chicken (Little Feat)
17 Tripe Face Boogie (Little Feat)
18 talk (Little Feat)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/4Ca8kMnq

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/Cor6zSPJrrheyHK/file

The cover image focusing on band member Lowell George is from an episode of the "Midnight Special" TV show, broadcast on August 9, 1974. I wanted to have a picture of the band in 1973, but there were surprisingly few of those, and none that were very good. I used the same source for the early show.

Little Feat - Ebbets Field, Denver, CO, 7-19-1973, Early Show

Next up from the Ebbets Fields radio broadcasts is Little Feat. They did an early show and a late show, so naturally I'm starting with the early show.

I've already posted a couple of Little Feat albums, so I won't say much more about them here. But note that this was from relatively early in the band's history, before they became very famous. Near the start of 1973, they released their third album, "Dixie Chicken." It was their first album to go Gold in the U.S., which means sales of half a million. But I'm guessing most of those sales didn't happen until later, when the band's growing popularity caused some people to discover their earlier albums, because the album didn't make the charts at all.

Interestingly, you can hear by the emcee speaking at the end of this recording that the band was actually the opening act for Zephyr. (They probably were much less well know nationwide, but they were based in Denver and played there a lot, so they were local favorites.) Also, it seems only the late show sets of both Little Feat and Zephyr were actually broadcast on the radio. But somehow this recording survived too, probably due to Little Feat's later fame. 

In fact, I'd say these early and late shows by Little Feat are some of the most popular of all the Ebbets Fields recordings. There are very few concert recordings of this sound quality from this early in the band's career. But the recordings, going under names like "American Cutie" and "Late Night Truck Stop," are grey market releases. That means they exploit a loophole in European copyright law allowing for their legal sale in Europe, but the musical act doesn't get any of the profits. 

This album is 54 minutes long. 

01 Hamburger Midnight (Little Feat)
02 Got No Shadow (Little Feat)
03 talk (Little Feat)
04 On Your Way Down (Little Feat)
05 talk (Little Feat)
06 Walkin' All Night (Little Feat)
07 talk (Little Feat)
08 Two Trains (Little Feat)
09 talk (Little Feat)
10 Willin' (Little Feat)
11 talk (Little Feat)
12 Cold, Cold, Cold (Little Feat)
13 Dixie Chicken (Little Feat)
14 Tripe Face Boogie (Little Feat)
15 talk (Little Feat)
16 Fat Man in the Bathtub (Little Feat)
17 talk (Little Feat)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/rRobHZAk 

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/hPVtW7HbErXX0zn/file

The cover image focusing on band member Lowell George is from an episode of the "Midnight Special" TV show, broadcast on August 9, 1974. I wanted to have a picture of the band in 1973, but there were surprisingly few of those, and none that were very good.

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.

Bonnie Raitt & John Hammond Jr. with Lowell George - WLIR Ultrasonic Concert Series, Ultrasonic Recording Studios, Hempstead, NY, 10-17-1972

Here's a very good acoustic concert split between sets performed by Bonnie Raitt and John Hammond Jr., in 1972. But also, Lowell George, the lead guitarist for Little Feat, played on most of Raitt's songs and a couple of those by Hammond Jr., and even sang one song of his own.

This concert was part of a series of concerts hosted by the radio station WLIR on Long Island, in New York. From 1971 to 1975, they usually broadcast a live show from their Ultrasonic Recording Studios every Tuesday night. They had a really great selection of musical acts. And while these concerts took place in front of a studio audience, it was very small. I came across an article saying that no more than 60 people could fit in the small venue. So these concerts stand out because while there was an audience, the fact that it was a small one, and it was being professionally recorded by a radio station meant the sound quality was excellent.

I already have way too many albums I want to post at this blog. That said, I've decided to make a more concerted effort to post more of these WLIR Ultrasonic concerts. It turns out I've already posted five of them, concerts by: Fleetwood Mac, Lou Reed, Jonathan Edwards, the Doobie Brothers, and Dr. John. If you want to find them, I've made a new label called "WLIR Ultrasonic Concert Series," so look for that at the side bar on any webpage at my blog. I just redid the album covers of all five of those albums I've posted already, so they all can share the same font type and color. In case you're curious, I've found 30 more concerts recorded for that radio show, and there's probably still more out there.

Anyway, getting back to this specific concert, Raitt's long music career had just begun at the time. It took place a month after she released her second studio album, "Give It Up." John Hammond Jr. is the son of John Hammond, a legendary record producer, who helped start the music careers of Billie Holiday, Aretha Franklin, Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, and many, many more. John Hammond Jr. has spent most of his music career playing the blues, especially by singing and playing the harmonica and slide guitar. At the time of this concert, he was already a music veteran having released about a dozen albums since 1963.

Fun fact about Hammond Jr.: in 1966, Jimi Hendrix was the lead guitarist in his band, for about a week, just before Hendrix left to try to make it big in England. Then, in 1967, after making it big there, Hendrix was back in the U.S. where he was still relatively unknown, and had some time off. So he sat in with Hammond Jr.'s band again for another week, and at the same time, Eric Clapton sat in with the band as well! Too bad nobody made any recordings of that. Here's the source of that story:

Tangled up in blues | AudioFile | Colorado Springs Independent 

For this concert, Raitt performed in acoustic mode for the first half. She was backed just by Freebo, a bassist, on all her songs. Plus, for all but two of her songs, she was also backed by Lowell George on lead guitar. Then George sang one of the songs he wrote for his band Little Feat, "Apolitical Blues." Hammond Jr. also played on two of Raitt's songs. At that point, Hammond Jr. took over for the second half of the concert. He played five songs by himself. Then, for the last two songs, he was joined by Raitt and George. The changing musicians are a bit confusing, so look to the names mentioned in the song list.

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

This album is an hour and 19 minutes long. 

01 talk (Bonnie Raitt)
02 Love Me like a Man (Bonnie Raitt with Lowell George)
03 talk (Bonnie Raitt)
04 Under the Falling Sky (Bonnie Raitt)
05 talk (Bonnie Raitt)
06 Love Has No Pride (Bonnie Raitt)
07 talk (Bonnie Raitt)
08 Going Down to Louisiana - Rollin' and Tumblin' (Bonnie Raitt with Lowell George)
09 talk (Bonnie Raitt with Lowell George)
10 Can't Find My Way Home (Bonnie Raitt with Lowell George)
11 tuning (Bonnie Raitt with Lowell George)
12 Big Road (Bonnie Raitt with Lowell George & John Hammond Jr.)
13 You Got to Know How (Bonnie Raitt with Lowell George)
14 talk (Bonnie Raitt with Lowell George)
15 Apolitical Blues (Lowell George with Bonnie Raitt & John Hammond Jr.)
16 talk (John Hammond Jr. & Bonnie Raitt)
17 Riding in the Moonlight (John Hammond Jr.)
18 talk (John Hammond Jr.)
19 As the Years Go Passing By (John Hammond Jr.)
20 All Night Long (John Hammond Jr.)
21 talk (John Hammond Jr.)
22 I Can't Be Satisfied (John Hammond Jr.)
23 The Sky Is Crying (John Hammond Jr.)
24 talk (John Hammond Jr.)
25 Honest I Do (John Hammond Jr. with Bonnie Raitt & Lowell George)
26 talk (John Hammond Jr. with Bonnie Raitt & Lowell George)
27 It's Too Late (John Hammond Jr. with Bonnie Raitt & Lowell George)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/RVd7h517

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/sq7mBENPRmetmhj/file

I found a photo of everyone involved here taken backstage at this exact concert. However, I decided not to use it for the album cover, for a couple of reasons. One is that the picture is in black and white, and is low-res. It would be hard to make it look good, and to colorize it. But the other problem is there are a bunch of people in the photo who I'd rather not be there. Still, it's an interesting photo, especially in showing Bonnie Raitt sitting in the lap of John Hammond Jr. Here it is, if you're curious.

As for the actual cover photo used, I wanted to find a photo of Raitt and Hammond together, but I couldn't find a good one. So I went with a photo of just Raitt in concert, in 1971. It was black and white, so I colorized it using the Kolorize program. (It's way easier to colorize a photo with just one person in it.)