Tom P*tty & the Heartbreakers - PBS Soundstage, WTTW Studios, Chicago, IL, 4-21-2003

Tom P*tty and the Heartbreakers performed for the "PBS Soundstage" program twice, in 2003 and 2006. I recently posted the 2006 one. But I said I wasn't planning on posting the 2003 one, because it's too similar to another 2003 concert I wanted to post. However, I changed my mind, so here it is.

(Note that I'm not using the full name of this artist due to concerns about copyright issues.) 

The other concert I'd been planning to post instead took place in the same city of Chicago just two days earlier, on April 19, 2003. So not surprisingly, the set lists are very similar. But that one is half an hour longer, and the sound quality is just as great. That's why I prefer that one. But more music is better. I figure I can post both of them eventually.

Virtually this entire concert has been released on DVD, which is why the sound quality is excellent throughout. However, it turns out the DVD song order was all mixed up, almost like someone threw them together at random. Part of that was due to a bunch of "DVD extra" songs at the end, selected from all throughout the concert. But there were other changes as well. So, being a stickler for accuracy, I carefully rearranged the song order to what was actually played.

Unfortunately, three songs didn't make the DVD at all, so they're not included here. There were two versions of "Peggy Sue," and one version of "I'll Feel a Whole Lot Better," which was the last song played. 

This album is two hours and nine minutes long. 

I'm not including the track list due to copyright issues. But you can find it in the mp3 download file. 

https://pixeldrain.com/u/TdNfYrXx

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/FloFdLBwDbOu0Hw/file

The cover photo is a screenshot from the DVD, taken from this exact concert. 

Tom P*tty & the Heartbreakers - Drivin' Down to Georgia - Non-Album Tracks (1993-1994)

Note that I'm experimenting with reviving the links for some Tom P. albums I'd had to hide due to concerns about copyright issues. For some reason, this one pops up as a new album, even though I made it years ago. But there are about ten others I revived today, all of the non-album tracks compilations. Do a search for "Heartbreakers" or use the side labels to find the other ones. If these manage to stay posted, I'll will revive the rest of his hidden albums soon.

Here's another stray tracks album for Tom P. and the Heartbreakers.

(Note that I'm not using the full name of this artist due to concerns about copyright issues.) 

The first song here comes from "Finding Wildflowers." Tracks 2, 3, and 10 are unreleased, and come from a radio show of outtakes called "Behind the Glass." Tracks 4, 5, and 8 are from the "Playback" box set. Track 6 is from the "An American Treasure" box set. Track 7 is from "Live Anthology," and track 9 was released as a B-side.

A long-promised album consisting of outtakes from P.'s 1994 album "Wildflowers" was finally released in 2020, called "Wildflowers and All the Rest." In fact, so much material was released that there even was a "super deluxe" box set version. Note that NONE of the songs here come from "All the Rest." There were so many good previously unreleased songs on that that it makes for a nice single album all on its own. But P. was so prolific in the early 1990s that there's enough material for that, plus this, plus the another stray tracks album I've made,"Mary Jane's Last Dance."

This album is 39 minutes long. 

I'm not including the track list due to copyright issues. But you can find it in the mp3 download file.

https://pixeldrain.com/u/bb4UPyEt

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/hnRrbl3P4nW11JO/file

The cover photo was taken in Hollywood in 1993.

Tom P*tty & the Heartbreakers with Stevie Nicks - PBS Soundstage, Stephan C. O'Connell Center, Gainesville, FL, 9-21-2006

Here's an episode of the great TV show "PBS Soundstage" staring Tom P. and the Heartbreakers, from 2006.

(Note that I'm not using the full name of this artist due to concerns about copyright issues.)  

The star of the show was born and raised in Gainesville, Florida, and in fact most of his band was from there as well. So this concert was a rare homecoming, giving it extra emotional appeal. For the band's entire 2006 summer tour, they were assisted by Stevie Nicks, despite the fact that she was a big star in her own right. She has publicly stated more than once that she wishes she could have been a member of the Heartbreakers, so this tour was probably the closest she came to fulfilling that wish. She didn't sing any of her own songs, but sang back up on some of songs by the main act (including duet in which she sang on the original). 

This album is a lot longer than the typical hour-long episode of this TV show. That's because this is the full concert, from the DVD. It hasn't been released in any audio format, however. 

Note that this musical act did another episode of "PBS Soundstage," back in 2003. I've posted that one as well.

This album is an hour and 54 minutes long.

I'm not including the track list due to copyright issues. But you can find it in the mp3 download file. 

https://pixeldrain.com/u/SrVC27H8

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/wtiqNcLva2nDKFG/file

The cover is from this exact concert.

US Festival '82, Glen Helen Regional Park, San Bernardino, CA, 9-4-1982 - Day 2, Part 6: Tom P*tty & the Heartbreakers

The sixth act presented here from Day Two of the 1982 US Festival is a set by Tom P*tty & the Heartbreakers.

(Note that I'm not using the full name of this artist due to concerns about copyright issues.) 

I can't believe how lucky I am to be posting this, the complete set from this band, which is probably the first time it has been made publicly available anywhere. I was minutes from posting a 55-minute-long version when I got lucky. You see, when I originally searched the Internet for music from this festival, all I could find was that 55-minute-long version, which consisted of the second half of what is here (from track 104 to the end). But I figured there almost certainly had to be more, since P. was the big closing act of Day Two and it would have been odd if his set was less than an hour long, meaning it was shorter than nearly all the other sets from the festival. Also, I'd found a mention of one song performed that I didn't have ("The Waiting"). So, while writing my write-up just before posting the album, I thought I'd do one last search for a more complete set list, at least.

To my surprise, I found a Reddit post I'd previously missed that not only gave the full set list, but had links to YouTube videos of ALL the songs I'd missed! It turns out that, back in 2018, the official Tom P. & the Heartbreakers YouTube page posted videos of all the songs from the never bootlegged first half of this set, but none from the commonly bootlegged second half. It was almost like they knew which songs were available and only posted the missing ones. 

But, in a twist, none of the posted videos were labeled as from the 1982 US Festival. No source info was given at all. Apparently, years went by with hardly anyone noticing the missing portion of the set actually was available. But those videos are still on YouTube, and if you closely compare these videos with the video of the second half of the concert, one can tell they're all from the same concert, due to the clothes P. and his band members are wearing. Plus, there are occasional shots of the massive nighttime crowd of 200,000 people, apparently the largest crowd by far that the band ever played for, or would ever play for.

So I was pretty psyched to find the length of this set had doubled with those newly discovered songs. Adding to the good news, the second half I was already aware of had great sound quality, but this newly discovered first half sounded just as good. (It seems they're all different pieces of the same film footage.) Now, the entire thing can be heard with sound quality just as good as a typical official live album

That's what I'm presenting here, the full set. I would think this immediately has to become of the best and most important Tom P. concert recordings that is publicly available, because it's a great recording of a great performance of one of the band's most important shows in their long career, performed in front of their biggest ever crowd. 

Note that the YouTube videos of the first half of the concert did have some problems. Namely, they consisted of the full songs, but little else. In a few cases, there was some banter by P. that was included too, but those were just brief comments directly relating to the song just played or about to be played. I think it's pretty likely there was more general banter that got cut out. The reason I think this is because most of the applause at the ends of songs got cut out too. Even the start of the first song, "American Girl," got cut out, and I patched in a few seconds from a different 1982 live version to fix that. 

There was nothing I could do about any missing banter. But for the missing applause after each song, I found bits of cheering from the second half of the concert and patched those in so there would be a normal amount of cheering after each song. And I edited it all carefully so it sounds like one continuous recording, instead of having fade-ins and fade-outs between all the songs in the first half. (Thankfully, the second half comes from one continuous video, so there wasn't anything missing there.) 

On top of that editing, I made some other edits to improve the sound quality. P.'s voice was a bit low in the mix, so I fixed that with the UVR5 editing program. And sometimes there was too much crowd noise during the songs, so I reduced that with the MVSEP editing program. I think the final result sounds great. This is a must-have for any Tom P. fan!

Now, let me address the song selections here. At the time of this festival, the band was close to releasing their next album, "Long After Dark." But that wouldn't come out for two more months, at the very start of November 1982. Despite that fact, the band played two songs that would appear on that album, "You Got Lucky" and "A One Story Town." The also played four cover songs that hadn't appeared on any of their albums at the time: "I'm in Love," "Louie, Louie," "Shout," and "So You Want to Be a Rock 'n' Roll Star." Furthermore, they played every original hit the band had had by that point, plus some deeper album tracks. 

As an aside, not long before this concert, the bass player for the Heartbreakers, Ron Blair, quit due to burnout. He was replaced by Howie Epstein. Epstein's first concert with the band was on September 1, 1982, making this his second concert with the band. He would stay with the band until 2002, when he would be replaced by Blair again.

Oh, and there's one little bit at the end that amused me. In my post about the Kinks set earlier on Day Two, I told a story about a big dispute between the Kinks and promoter Bill Graham, who helped organize this festival. At the end of this set, you can hear Graham thanking all the bands who performed that day. When he gets to the Kinks, there is a veeeeeery long pause before he decides to mention their name.

This album is an hour and 37 minutes long.

I'm not including the track list due to copyright issues. But you can find it in the mp3 download file.

https://pixeldrain.com/u/jr9qdygf

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/GKV2puEKswc0ycj/file

The cover photo comes from this exact concert.

No Nukes Concerts, Madison Square Garden, New York City, 9-23-1979: Tom P*tty & the Heartbreakers

As I mentioned previously, I've gotten in trouble twice posting music from this artist. But I want to post this to complete the 1979 No Nukes recordings that I have. So I'm not going to say much. Note that I'm sharing this set via SoulseekQT. 

Look in the comments and you might see a way to grab the files for that.

Live Aid - JFK Stadium, Philadelphia, PA, 7-13-1985, Part 4: Ashford & Simpson with Teddy Pendergrass, Madonna, Tom P*tty & the Heartbreakers, Kenny Loggins, and the Cars

This is Part 3 of the Philadelphia portion of the 1985 Live Aid benefit concert. There are seven parts in total for Philadelphia, so I'm not more than halfway finished. The London portion will follow.

The first act up in this part was the soul duo Ashford and Simpson. For their second and final song, they were joined on stage by soul singer Teddy Pendergrass. This was a very emotionally moving moment for the concert. Pendergrass was injured in a car accident in 1982, and permanently paralyzed from the waist down. His musical career was put on hold for a while. He was still able to sing though, and he put out an album of new material in 1984. But this appearance in Live Aid was his first time on a public stage since the accident.

 Madonna was the next act. She was a very big deal, and a cultural phenomenon, at this time, after becoming a superstar in 1984. The same month of this concert, Playboy and Penthouse magazines published nude photos of Madonna, taken when she moonlighted as an art model in 1978. As a result, she made a jokey comment between songs about how she was going to keep all her clothes on.

Tom P. and the Heartbreakers came next. (Note I'm not using his full name due to copyright issues.) They were followed by Kenny Loggins. But he only got to play one song. The last act on this album were the Cars.

As with the other albums in this series, sometimes I was able to include introductions to the acts, and sometimes I couldn't. Madonna was introduced by actress and singer Bette Midler, and Tom P. was introduced by Don Johnson.

This album is an hour and 11 minutes long.

075 Solid [Edit] (Ashford & Simpson)
076 Reach Out and Touch [Somebody's Hand] (Ashford & Simpson with Teddy Pendergrass)
077 talk (Bette Midler)
078 Holiday (Madonna)
079 Into the Groove (Madonna)
080 talk (Madonna)
081 Love Makes the World Go Round (Madonna)
082 talk (Don Johnson)
083 American Girl (Tom P & the Heartbreakers)
084 talk (Tom P & the Heartbreakers)
085 The Waiting (Tom P & the Heartbreakers)
086 Rebels (Tom P & the Heartbreakers)
087 talk (Tom P & the Heartbreakers)
088 Refugee (Tom P & the Heartbreakers)
089 Footloose (Kenny Loggins)
090 talk (Bill Graham)
091 You Might Think (Cars)
092 Drive (Cars)
093 talk (Cars)
094 Just What I Needed (Cars)
095 Heartbeat City (Cars)
096 talk (Cars)

https://www.upload.ee/files/15699785/LveAidJFKStdiumPhladlphiaPA__7-13-1985_Part4.zip.html

 There actually were five musical acts in this part, but I only had room for photos taken from the concert of four. The one that got left out is Kenny Loggins, since he only performed one song. Ashford and Simpson, with guest Teddy Pendergrass, is in the top left, Madonna is in the top right, Tom P. is in the bottom left, and Ric Ocasek of the Cars is in the bottom right.

Various Artists - Bridge School Benefit 1988, Oakland Coliseum Arena, Oakland, CA, 12-4-1988

As I mentioned in my last post, I'm a big fan of the annual Bridge School Benefit Concerts, and I recently was given soundboard versions of most of the complete shows from 1988 to 1999. All I had of the 1986 show with excellent sound quality was the Bruce Springsteen set, which I just posted. But I have the entire 1988 show, so here it is. There has been a very good audience bootleg circulating for years, so good that one might even mistake it for a soundboard. But this is an actual soundboard and it sounds even better than that other version.

I have a particular fondness for this show, because it was one of the first concerts I attended, when I was a teenager. Consider the list of performers: Neil Young, Nils Lofgren, Billy Idol, Bob Dylan, Jerry Garcia & Bob Weir (the two leaders of the Grateful Dead), Tom P. and the Heartbreakers, Tracy Chapman, and Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young (CSNY). The vast majority of those are musical legends, in my book. 

The one artist that the crowd looked at skeptically was Billy Idol, because all the performances were supposed to be acoustic or at least semi-acoustic in nature and one doesn't think of "Billy Idol" and "acoustic" in the same sentence. But he played a genuinely acoustic set and get a good reaction.

The soundboard recording was generally great, but it had some problems. I mostly fixed them. The most glaring problem was that portions of two songs were missing: "Comes a Time" by Neil Young and "Gates of Eden" by Bob Dylan. Luckily, I had that very good audience bootleg I mentioned above. I used that to patch in the missing bits, which is why those two songs have "[Edit]" in their titles. I also used that audience bootleg to fill in some other missing bits, such as intros to a couple of the performers. (The voice making the intros belongs to actor Timothy Hutton.) But some intros either didn't happen or are missing from both versions, for instance with Bob Dylan's set. With Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young, the recording cut in part way through the artist name in both versions, only a couple seconds apart.

One great thing about soundboards is that the songs are clear because there's very little crowd noise. But, taken to extremes, that can be weird when there's almost no cheering when the songs end. Strangely, there was a lot of variability with the crowd noise in this soundboard recording: sometimes the cheering sounded normal, and other times there was almost no cheering heard at all, especially at the ends of sets. So I used the audience bootleg version to patch in more applause whenever necessary, using the actual applause from that song. As a result, the applause may vary a bit from song to song, with some guess work on my part as to how loud the reaction actually was, but there should be a decent crowd response after each and every song.

Another thing I did was trim some dead air. For instance, the Tom P. set started with over a minute of guitar tuning. (I'm not using his full name due to copyright issues.) I cut all that out. I also cut back on some of the cheering. For instance, the applause might go on for two minutes after a set ended, but I'd cut that after only a minute. I figured this concert was long enough as it is.

Note that Neil Young, who brought the concert together along with his wife Pegi Young, played a short set to start the show. On the last number, "American Dream," Crosby, Stills and Nash walked onto stage during the song to sing harmony vocals. That's why you get a huge surge of applause partway through the song, even on the soundboard version, because the audience recognized who they were. Then Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young came back to do the last set of the night. By the way, I've previously posted the CSNYset at this blog, together with their 1986 Bridge School Benefit show. I'm keeping that post up if you just want their set.

Here's some other random notes. Billy Idol was backed by a couple other musicians, but still basically had an acoustic sound. Bob Dylan was assisted only by guitarist G. E. Smith. Jerry Garcia and Bob Weir of the Grateful Dead were also assisted by bassist Rob Wasserman. When Tom P. performed at the 1986 Bridge School Benefit, it was just him on stage. But this time he was assisted by all of his backing band, the Heartbreakers. So that was more of a semi-acoustic set, especially due to the presence of some drumming. Also, if you look closely at the credits, you'll see that Neil Young backed Nils Lofgren for a song, and Jerry Garcia and Bob Weir for a song. He played harmonica and sang backing vocals. Finally, Tracy Chapman and Nils Lofgren joined CSNY for the very last song, "Teach Your Children."

This album is three hours and 52 minutes long. That makes it the longest album I've posted at this blog so far, beating out a 1975 Bob Dylan Rolling Thunder concert by only one minute. Currently, I'm only offering it as a single download. But if there's a demand to break this up into pieces, I could do that too.

01 talk (Neil Young)
02 Comes a Time [Edit] (Neil Young)
03 Sugar Mountain (Neil Young)
04 This Note's for You (Neil Young)
05 talk (Neil Young)
06 American Dream (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
07 talk (Nils Lofgren)
08 Dreams Die Hard (Nils Lofgren)
09 talk (Nils Lofgren)
10 Live Each Day (Nils Lofgren)
11 Believe (Nils Lofgren with Neil Young)
12 talk (Nils Lofgren)
13 Keith Don't Go (Nils Lofgren)
14 No Mercy (Nils Lofgren)
15 talk (Billy Idol)
16 Untouchables (Billy Idol)
17 talk (Billy Idol)
18 Sweet Sixteen (Billy Idol)
19 talk (Billy Idol)
20 Bo Diddley (Billy Idol)
21 talk (Billy Idol)
22 To Be a Lover (Billy Idol)
23 talk (Billy Idol)
24 Prodigal Blues (Billy Idol)
25 San Francisco Bay Blues (Bob Dylan)
26 Pretty Boy Floyd (Bob Dylan)
27 With God on Our Side (Bob Dylan)
28 Girl from the North Country (Bob Dylan)
29 Gates of Eden [Edit] (Bob Dylan)
30 Forever Young (Bob Dylan)
31 talk (Jerry Garcia & Bob Weir)
32 Wang Dang Doodle (Jerry Garcia & Bob Weir with Neil Young)
33 Friend of the Devil (Jerry Garcia & Bob Weir)
34 Throwing Stones (Jerry Garcia & Bob Weir)
35 Ripple (Jerry Garcia & Bob Weir)
36 Even the Losers (Tom P & the Heartbreakers)
37 talk (Tom P & the Heartbreakers)
38 Blue Moon of Kentucky (Tom P & the Heartbreakers)
39 talk (Tom P & the Heartbreakers)
40 The Wild One, Forever (Tom P & the Heartbreakers)
41 talk (Tom P & the Heartbreakers)
42 Refugee (Tom P & the Heartbreakers)
43 talk (Tom P & the Heartbreakers)
44 Don't Come Around Here Anymore (Tom P & the Heartbreakers)
45 The Waiting (Tom P & the Heartbreakers)
46 talk (Tracy Chapman)
47 If Not Now (Tracy Chapman)
48 What Child Is This (Tracy Chapman)
49 Fast Car (Tracy Chapman)
50 Mountain O' Things (Tracy Chapman)
51 All That You Have Is Your Soul (Tracy Chapman)
52 talk (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
53 Helplessly Hoping (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
54 Love the One You're With (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
55 talk (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
56 This Old House (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
57 talk (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
58 Southern Man (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
59 talk (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
60 Don't Say Goodbye (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
61 talk (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
62 Compass (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
63 talk (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
64 Long Time Gone (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
65 Southern Cross (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
66 Teach Your Children (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young with Tracy Chapman & Nils Lofgren)

UPDATE: On June 8, 2023, the link has been removed due to a request by people associated with the Bridge School Benefits. Sorry about that.

The cover is the promotional poster for this concert. I cropped it and stretched it horizontally a bit to get it to fully fit into a square shape.

The Traveling Wilburys - Volume 2 - Non-Album Tracks (1989-1990)

The Traveling Wilburys were a great but short-lived "supergroup," consisting of George Harrison, Bob Dylan, Tom Petty, Roy Orbison, and Jeff Lynne. Unfortunately, they only made two studio albums, and never did any live performances. The unexpected death of Orbison due to a heart attack effectively killed the group, even though they did their second album without them.

Due to the limited amount of material the band made together, people naturally want more. And since their albums were called "Volume 1" and "Volume 3" (as a joke), it's just as natural that when people put together stray tracks to make another album, they call it "Volume 1." Many others have put together various versions of "Volume 2," but here is my attempt.

In terms of actual songs recorded by all of the Traveling Wilburys, it's slim pickings. I count four songs, all of which eventually came out as bonus tracks as part of the archival album "The Traveling Wilburys Collection." So I started with those four. 

Luckily, and the reason this album is possible, is that different members of this band helped out with various solo albums. Plus, member Jeff Lynne typically did the production, and he had a distinctive sound that he put on everything he produced during this time period. So, if it wasn't an actual Traveling Wilburys song, I limited myself to song where at least two of the band members collaborated, and it had their typical production sound. To help make things clear, I've included who was on each track in the song list. And while I didn't list the songwriters, many of these were collaborations. For instance, the big Roy Orbison hit "You Got It" that starts this album was co-written by Orbison, Petty, and Lynne.

I could have included more songs, but I tried to avoid songs that were on very famous albums, such as George Harrison's "Cloud Nine," Tom Petty's "Full Moon Fever," and Bob Dylan's "Oh Mercy" and "Under the Red Sky." For the sources of the other songs, check the mp3 tags. But I'll note I did use some songs from Lynne and Orbison solo albums from around that time. Maybe it's just me with my personal record collection, but those don't seem as overplayed as the songs from the other albums mentioned above. (Certainly, the song from Petty's album are played on the radio a zillion times a day.)

I think there's a good mix of songs sung by all the band members, except for Dylan. He's heard some here and there, but not as much as the others. That's not too surprising, since he's tended to do his own thing for his long music career. I've added an early, unreleased version of his song "Everything Is Broken" as a bonus track, just in case you want to up the amount of Dylan on the album. But it's only a bonus track because it doesn't have any of the other Wilburys on it. I considered using the Dylan song "Under the Red Sky" because it has a Harrison guitar solo on it, but I ultimately decided against it because it didn't have that Jeff Lynne-esque sound all the other songs have.

The last song is somewhat unusual because it comes from a solo album by Jim Horn, a saxophone player who is a long-time session musician. I've included it because, although it's mostly an instrumental, it has vocals by Tom Petty and Jeff Lynne only (Horn doesn't sing at all). Those vocals have that exact Traveling Wilburys sound, and the production is by Lynne, also making it fit sonically with the rest. Using the audio editing program X-Minus, I boosted the vocals some (so that's why there's "[Edit]" in the song title).

This album is 51 minutes long, not including the bonus track.

01 You Got It (Roy Orbison with Tom Petty & Jeff Lynne)
02 Cheer Down (George Harrison with Tom Petty & Jeff Lynne)
03 Runaway (Traveling Wilburys)
04 A Love So Beautiful (Roy Orbison with Jeff Lynne & George Harrison)
05 Poor Little Girl (George Harrison with Jeff Lynne)
06 Lift Me Up (Jeff Lynne with George Harrison)
07 Nobody's Child (Traveling Wilburys)
08 California Blue (Roy Orbison with Tom Petty & Jeff Lynne)
09 Cockamamie Business (George Harrison with Jeff Lynne)
10 Don't Treat Me like a Stranger (Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers with Jeff Lynne)
11 Like a Ship (Traveling Wilburys)
12 Blown Away (Jeff Lynne with Tom Petty)
13 Maxine (Traveling Wilburys)
14 Work It Out [Edit] (Jim Horn with Tom Petty & Jeff Lynne)

Everything Is Broken [Early Version] (Bob Dylan)

https://www.upload.ee/files/16701028/TRAVLNGWILBRYS1989-1990_Volum2_atse.zip.html

For the cover art, I found a promotional photo of the band taken around the time of the release of their first album. There's a famous logo of the band name, but looking at the band's official website, I noticed a different band name logo. So I used that one, then added "Volume Two" with a similar font to some of it.

Various Artists - Tom Petty's 70th Birthday Bash, 10-23-2020

Here's something that I think is great if you're a fan of Tom Petty's music at all. And who isn't a fan of Tom Petty's music? Petty died in 2017. Had he lived, he would have turned 70 on October 20, 2020. There has been a yearly tribute concert in his hometown of Gainsville, Florida, on his birthday each year since his death. Due to the coronavirus pandemic, a normal concert wasn't possible, so a virtual home concert was held instead, with different artists sending in their cover versions of Petty songs from their homes. The entire concert was well over five hours long. I've cut that down to three hours to make a really strong concert.

Somewhat strangely, this concert was broken into three different parts. The first two parts were only played on SiriusXM satellite radio. The first part consisted mostly of performances by Gainsville musicians. Most of those musicians are obscure, with no officially recorded music whatsoever. In cutting this concert from five hours down to three, I mostly cut from the first part. There are a lot of generic and unremarkable covers of Petty songs by bands you've never heard of, such as the Arts in Medicine Hospital Band and Jeff Slate's Weekend Wilburys. But there were some excellent performances by some unknowns, so I've included those. There are were a few songs by more famous artists sprinkled in early, such as one of my favorites, Larkin Poe, doing a song with Steve Ferrone of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers on drums. Another Heartbreaker, guitarist Mike Campbell, also helped with a song by Starcrawler.

For the second part of the concert, a different SiriusXM DJ took over. The focus on Gainsville musicians ended. Instead, more famous musicians from all over were featured, starting with Eddie Vedder, lead vocalist of Pearl Jam. This section continued through the performance by the Raconteurs.

The final and longest section tended to feature the most famous names, though a few lesser knowns are scattered in as well. This last second was made available on video at Tom Petty's official website and other places. You can find all of it on YouTube if you want to watch and not just listen. Since this section is much more widely available, most press accounts mistakenly asserted that was the entire concert. But in fact it was only about half.

Now, let me explain some more about what I chose not to include. There were five songs performed by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers scattered through the concert. Judging by appearances, they're from different years of Petty's long careers. I didn't include any of those because I felt they didn't fit the rest of the concert. They were typical versions of his famous songs, like "Refugee" and "I Need to Know." Most of the songs were done by other musicians in the concert, so including them would have increased the repetition of songs a lot.

There also were a lot of spoken word sections. I removed nearly all of those. They're nice to hear once or twice, but they don't have much replay value after that, in my opinion. I've only included the between song banter by Mike Campbell & Benmont Tench, the lead guitarist and pianist, respectively, of Tom Petty's band the Heartbreakers. They did a mini-set of three songs, and the banter between the songs was an important part of that, in my opinion. Nearly all the talking was in the last section of the concert. If you watch that on YouTube, you'll hear nice spoken tributes to Petty by his wife Dana, his daughter Adria, Stevie Nicks, a poem by George Harrison's wife Olivia, and more.

Most of the songs sound great. But a few were recorded from homes with poor recording equipment. I rejected a few songs due to sound quality issues. I didn't include a version of "Yer So Bad" by Adam Sandler mostly because it was so poorly recorded. The songs by Beck and Susanna Hoffs also were not recorded well, but I included them because they just barely sounded good enough for my ears, and I particularly like those two artists.

Another problem was that there didn't seem much effort to prevent multiple versions of the same songs. For instance, there were no less than four versions of the song "Wildflowers!" I removed two of them, by the bands Grouplove and the Arts in Medicine Hospital Band, while keeping the versions by Eddie Vedder and Brandi Carlile. The song "Honey Bee" was another problem. There were three versions that I decided to keep, by Larkin Poe, Grace Potter with Reysonator, and the Foo Fighters. There were all good, and all different from each other. I removed some other songs that were done more than once. There are a few other songs with two versions: "American Girl," "Room at the Top," "Runnin' Down a Dream," and "Walls (Circus)." Since the concert is so long at three hours, I figure a few of those are okay.

Almost all musicians played just one song. There are a couple of exceptions though. As mentioned above, Heartbreakers Mike Campbell and Benmont Tench did three songs together to end the concert. Norah Jones played two songs. And Margo Price and Lukas Nelson each did one song, but then also did a duet together.

As I mentioned above, this a great concert. All sorts of my favorite musicians were included, and they did excellent versions. Honestly, I could hardly have picked a better line-up myself. If you like Tom Petty at all, please give this a listen!

Another point I want to mention is that the vast majority of the performances were done on or just before the broadcast date, from the musician's homes, but there are a few exceptions. The Gary Clark, Jr. and Jason Isbell performances comes from concerts in 2017. The Killers did their song "American Girl" in concert. I don't know the date or location, but they played that song a bunch of times in concert from 2017 to 2019. Eddie Vedder's version of "Wildflowers" is a solo acoustic version done without an audience, so it sounds much like the others. But it actually was done in 2017 at some point after Petty's death and not made public until this concert.

Oh, and one last thing: as Mike Campbell and Benmont Tench repeatedly said at the very end of the concert, if you're a US citizen, please VOTE in the election on November 3rd!

01 Saving Grace (Andrew Leahey & the Homestead)
02 Anything That's Rock 'N' Roll (Hannah Harber)
03 Ways to Be Wicked (Sunkat)
04 Yer So Bad (Tristen)
05 Kings Highway (Michigan Rattlers)
06 Honey Bee (Larkin Poe with Steve Ferrone & Tyler Bryant)
07 Joe (Hannah Wicklund & the Stepping Stones)
08 The Apartment Song (Miss Tess)
09 Sweet William (Edan Archer)
10 There Goes Angela [Dream Away] (Emma Swift)
11 I Need to Know (Starcrawler with Mike Campbell)
12 Wildflowers (Eddie Vedder)
13 Walls [Circus] (Dawes with Mike Viola)
14 Room at the Top (Jason Isbell & the 400 Unit)
15 Square One (Caamp)
16 Honey Bee (Grace Potter with Resynator)
17 Learning to Fly (Kurt Vile)
18 American Girl (Killers)
19 Runnin' Down a Dream (Raconteurs)
20 Listen to Her Heart (Flaming Lips)
21 Don't Come Around Here No More (Beck)
22 The Waiting (Jackson Browne)
23 Stop Draggin' My Heart Around (Lukas Nelson & Margo Price)
24 Southern Accents (Lukas Nelson)
25 Free Fallin' (Susanna Hoffs)
26 Walls [Circus] (Wesley Schultz of the Lumineers)
27 Breakdown (Spoon)
28 Angel Dream No. 2 (Lady Blackbird)
29 Crawling Back to You (Margo Price)
30 Honey Bee (Foo Fighters)
31 Runnin' Down a Dream (Lucinda Williams)
32 Rockin' Around [With You] (Sabina Sciubba)
33 Good Enough (Gary Clark, Jr.)
34 Love Is a Long Road (Dhani Harrison & Graham Coxon)
35 Room at the Top (Amos Lee)
36 Climb That Hill (Patterson Hood of Drive-By Truckers)
37 Cabin Down Below (Alison Mosshart)
38 Wildflowers (Brandi Carlile)
39 Don't Fade on Me (Chris Stapleton)
40 Time to Move On (Norah Jones)
41 Only a Broken Heart (Norah Jones)
42 King of the Hill (Roger McGuinn)
43 I Won't Back Down (Stephen Stills with Christopher Stills)
44 It's Good to Be King (Dave Stewart)
45 Alright for Now (Emily King)
46 talk (Mike Campbell & Benmont Tench)
47 American Girl (Mike Campbell & Benmont Tench)
48 Something Good Coming (Mike Campbell & Benmont Tench)
49 talk (Mike Campbell & Benmont Tench)
50 We Want Boogie 'bout Midnight (Mike Campbell & Benmont Tench)
51 talk (Mike Campbell & Benmont Tench)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/yj163rsU

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/niPJPGTDgY0Se4Y/file

alternate:

https://www.imagenetz.de/cpuNJ

The cover art is the official artwork for the convert. I didn't have to make any changes at all.

Tom P*tty & the Heartbreakers with John Lee Hooker - The Fillmore, San Francisco, CA, 2-7-1997

Here's a great Tom P. and the Heartbreakers concert.

(Note that I'm not using the full name of this artist due to concerns about copyright issues.)  

This concert is part of P.'s month-long series of concerts at the Fillmore in San Francisco in 1997. I previously posted another one of those concerts, which took place on January 26, 1997, just two weeks prior to this one. You can find that here:

https://albumsthatshouldexist.blogspot.com/2020/06/tom-petty-heartbreakers-with-carl.html

There's a lot of similarities between the two concerts, with many of the same songs played. He even had some of the same between song banter and told the same story during his long version of "Gloria." However, both versions are very much worth hearing, or I wouldn't be posting both. The two concerts stand out from all those 1997 Fillmore shows mostly due to sound quality. Both were professionally recorded and played live on the radio, so the sound quality is excellent. Plus, each one had a special guest. That other concert had rockabilly legend Carl Perkins, and this one had blues legend John Lee Hooker.

But this one is probably even better than the other one, if only due to sheer length. That one is two hours and 19 minutes long, whereas this one is three hours and eight minutes long. So it's nearly an hour longer! I just calculated the stats. There are 22 songs played at both concerts. Eight more songs were only played at the first one, and 18 more were only played at this one. Those 18 extra songs would total about an hour and a half, enough for a typical concert in and of itself!

I didn't have much that needed tinkering. However, for three songs (including the last one), the recording can to a sudden end immediately when the song ended, leaving a gap of silence where the audience response should have been. So for those three, I patched in audience applause from other songs.

In 2022, a box set was released called "Live at the Fillmore." Seventeen songs from this concert appeared on that: Jammin' Me, Time Is on My Side, I Want You Back Again, You Really Got Me, American Girl, Boogie Chillun, Serves You Right to Suffer, Find My Baby [Locked Up in Love Again], I Got a Woman, Free Fallin', Shakin' All Over, Mary Jane's Last Dance, Bye Bye Johnny, [I Can't Get No] Satisfaction, It's All Over Now, Louie, Louie, and Alright for Now. While that's a lot, there were another 23 songs that still remain unreleased.

I'm not including the track list due to copyright issues. But you can find it in the mp3 download file.

https://pixeldrain.com/u/q59eDDhV

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/WHiqC8gOmKkm447/file

I couldn't find any photo for the album cover art from the exact night in question. However, I believe John Lee Hooker was a guest on this night, plus again three nights later. I was able to find a good photo that includes him from that other night. He's sitting down, Tom P. is standing up with a harmonica, and you can see two more band members behind them.

Tom P*tty & the Heartbreakers with Carl Perkins - The Fillmore, San Francisco, CA, 1-26-1997

I was in the mood for some good ol' Tom P. and the Heartbreakers rock and roll today, so I listened to one of my favorite bootleg concert recordings by him and prepared it to be posted here.

(Note that I'm not using the full name of this artist due to concerns about copyright issues.)  

This concert is from a legendary run of over 20 shows in a row P. played at the Fillmore in San Francisco. Instead of playing the usual set list consisting mostly of hits, P. and his band used the Fillmore run to stretch out and play lots of covers as well as deep cuts from their own catalog. Two of the shows were professionally recorded and broadcast on the radio at the time. This is the first one, but I'll post the other one eventually as well.

If you've been following this blog a while, you may know that I've posted a long series of albums of P.'s live cover versions. Since a lot of covers were played at the Fillmore shows, and this is one of the very best of those shows in terms of sound quality, I've used seven of these exact performances in that series. But still, it's worth hearing the entire concert. In addition to those seven covers, they played five more, plus lots of rare originals. For instance, they did "On the Street," a song done by Mudcrutch, P.'s band before the Heartbreakers. But also, it was a long show (two hours and twenty minutes), so they still had time for lots of the big hits that everyone knows and loves.

On top of all that, rockabilly legend Carl Perkins was the opening act, and he came out during P.'s show and essentially took over for about 20 minutes, singing lead while P. and the Heartbreakers backed him up. So that's another four covers, if you want to count them that way.

Because this recording was already is very good shape, I didn't have to do much tinkering. But I did do some. Mostly, I adjusted the volume of the audience cheering (often too loud) and the comments between songs (often too quiet). I also fixed a few dropouts that only happened in one channel, so I was able to duplicate the music from the other channel.

In 2022, a box set called "Live at the Fillmore" was released, consisting of highlights from this Fillmore run. But none of the songs in it come from this particular concert, so everything here is still unreleased.

I'm not including the track list due to copyright issues. But you can find it in the mp3 download file.

https://pixeldrain.com/u/cepZCwr2

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/QJGIudAnKE0syXg/file

The cover art photo is from this exact concert. That's Carl Perkins dressed in black and playing a guitar solo while Tom P. watches. The very red lighting (which I think looks pretty cool) was like that in the original.

Tom P*tty & the Heartbreakers - VH-1 Storytellers, Soundstage One, Burbank, CA, 3-31-1999

Here's a nice little concert from Tom P. and the Heartbreakers. It's not the full show, but this is what was shown on the VH-1 TV show "Storytellers." Some performers on that show played in a solo acoustic format. P. did some of that, but most of the songs were performed with the rest of the Heartbreakers.

(Note that I'm not using the full name of this artist due to concerns about copyright issues.)  

However, what differed from a typical concert by the band is that P. stuck to the format of talking a lot between songs, mostly to explain what his inspirations were behind the songs he chose. He was very entertaining and charming with his dialogue.

The album is only 43 minutes long, which is the length of an hour long TV show minus the commercials. About 13 minutes of that is made up of P. talking between songs.

The sound quality is consistently excellent, like a professionally recorded live album in front of a small audience. I don't believe any of the performances have been officially released.

I'm not including the track list due to copyright issues. But you can find it in the mp3 download file.

https://pixeldrain.com/u/sYabav3h

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/5e3eeDjF9mPghXS/file

For the album cover, I found a screenshot of P. from a YouTube video of the "Storytellers" show. I later upgraded it using the Krea AI program.

Tom P*tty & the Heartbreakers - Live Cover Versions, 2012-2016

I've posted 11 albums of Tom P*tty and the Heartbreakers playing live cover versions. This is the 12th, and the last. I wish this series could keep going on, but P*tty died all too soon in 2017.

(Note that I'm not using the full name of this artist due to concerns about copyright issues.)

Typically, P*tty and the Heartbreakers played classic hits from the 1950s and 1960s. That still was the case for some of the songs here. But this time around, he played more country songs, including some obscure songs, such as "June Apple." He also returned to some of his favorite artists, like the Byrds ("Lover of the Bayou"), Bob Dylan ("Knockin' on Heaven's Door"), and J. J. Cale ("Traveling Light").

Five of the nine songs here are actually done with his first band Mudcrutch, which he revived again for a tour in 2016.

One odd case is the song "Tweeter and the Monkey Man." The song was done by the Traveling Wilburys in 1988, when P*tty was a member of that band. But it's believed the song was written almost entirely by Bob Dylan, as a sort of parody or homage to Bruce Springsteen songs, so I consider this a cover and not P*tty doing a song of his own.

The first song ("Traveling Light") sounds a bit rough, since it comes from an audience bootleg. But most of the rest are officially released, and sound great.

By chance, this series of albums fittingly ends with Dylan's "Knockin' on Heaven's Door." Rest in peace, Tom.

The album is 47 minutes long.

I'm not including the track list due to copyright issues. But you can find it in the mp3 download file.

https://pixeldrain.com/u/dqJtz6GS 

alternate: 

https://bestfile.io/en/Fx3gqXjpoPIc5Zv/file 

For the album cover, I used part of a Mudcrutch concert poster. But I wanted the text to be "Tom P*tty and the Heartbreakers" instead of "Mudcrutch," so I took a banner with the band's name on in from another concert poster and placed that over the Mudcrutch name.

Tom P*tty & the Heartbreakers - Live Cover Versions, 2006-2011

Here's the next in my series of albums of Tom P*tty and the Heartbreakers doing live cover versions. This covers the years 2006 to 2011. It's the second to last, because I only have one more album that covers the years until P*tty's death in 2017.

(Note that I'm not using the full name of this artist due to concerns about copyright issues.)

This album differs a little bit from the previous ones in this series because in 2008, P*tty revived his early 1970s band Mudcrutch and went on tour with them. So four of the nine songs are with Mudcrutch instead of the Heartbreakers.

Also, there are two songs that are collaborations between Tom P*tty and the Heartbreakers and the Allman Brothers Band. They do versions of the Bob Dylan songs "Highway 61 Revisited" and "It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry." P*tty and Gregg Allman swap lead vocals from verse to verse.

But regardless of who P*tty was singing with, the types of songs he plays are pretty much the same as with previous albums in this series. Once again, it's mostly classic hits from the 1950s and 1960s. A few of the songs are lesser known: "Off the Hook," an obscure Rolling Stones song, " Love, Please Come Home," a country/bluegrass song by Bill Monroe, and "Champagne and Reefer," a Muddy Waters blues song.

The sound quality of the songs vary. Unfortunately, they're not as good as with some previous albums. All but two are officially unreleased, and some of those unreleased ones come from audience bootlegs instead of soundboards. But I still think it's a good listen.

I've included one song as a bonus track, due to the poor sound quality. That's "Gunslinger," a lesser known Bo Diddley song.

This album is 41 minutes long, not including the bonus track.

I'm not including the track list due to copyright issues. But you can find it in the mp3 download file. 

https://pixeldrain.com/u/xMaPrDFa 

alternate: 

https://bestfile.io/en/UcTKpngZ84JfetT/file

For the album cover, I found a concert poster from 2010. I didn't change much, except I lopped off some other parts of the poster above and below, and I added in the album title at the bottom.

Tom P*tty & the Heartbreakers - Live Cover Versions, 2003-2006

Here's yet another album in the very long series of collections of live cover versions by Tom P*tty and the Heartbreakers. I believe this is the tenth album so far, and I still have ten more years of the band's career to go. Collect them all!

(Note that I'm not using the full name of this artist due to concerns about copyright issues.)

This album is very much like the others, which means it's more quality rock and roll. As usual, P*tty is mainly interested in covering the classic songs from the 1950s and 60s that he grew up with. A couple exceptions are "Thirteen Days" by J. J. Cale, first recorded in 1979, and "Handle with Care," a song that P*tty was very much a part of with the Traveling Wilburys in 1988. But while P*tty didn't have a role in writing it, and only sang backing vocals on it, with this version, he shares lead vocals with fellow Wilbury Jeff Lynne.

(By the way, I always used to think the song "Thirteen Days" included the line "thirteen days with life to go." I was bummed to find out the correct lyrics are actually "thirteen days with five to go." I like my version better!)

Another interesting anomaly on this album is a cover of the Beatles' classic "While My Guitar Gently Weeps." Again, it's P*tty and Lynne trading off different parts of the lead vocals. But this was done in a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame concert with lots of famous musicians on stage and more in the audience. Prince took over the song and amazed everyone with his lead guitar work, then finished by tossing his guitar into the audience. You should check out the YouTube video of this if you haven't already. It has over 70 million views, and climbing!

Surprisingly, that performance is still officially unreleased. Only five of the eleven performances here have been officially released. Luckily, there isn't much decline in sound quality for the unreleased ones, except for one or two.

This album is 44 minutes long.

I'm not including the track list due to copyright issues. But you can find it in the mp3 download file.

https://pixeldrain.com/u/n3BxtvKQ 

alternate:  

https://bestfile.io/en/QbOfRx5uI3Z7pht/file

I did some rather drastic things for the cover art this time. I found a P*tty concert poster with art I liked. (I think it's for what turned out to be his last tour, in 2016). However, the colors were really ugly, off shades of green and orange that looked horrible together. So I used Photoshop to shift all the colors together. Then I still had the problem of the poster being rectangle and album covers being square. So I chopped off a lot of the bottom, but then added back in the very bottom, so the loss wouldn't be noticeable.

Tom P*tty & the Heartbreakers - Live Cover Versions, 2002-2003

Here's yet another album of live cover versions by Tom P*tty and the Heartbreakers. I believe this is the ninth such album in the series.

(Note that I'm not using the full name of this artist due to concerns about copyright issues.)

All but five of the 13 songs here were officially released, which is a lot more than usual for this album series. That means the sound quality is usually excellent. However, there are a couple of the unreleased tracks, especially "Commit a Crime" that sound somewhat rougher.

As is typical for this series, the vast majority of the songs are classic hits from the 1950s and 1960s. But P*tty seems to have been in more of a bluesy mood than usual. He played a number of usually lesser known blues songs, such as "Commit a Crime," "Down Home Girl," "Born in Chicago," and "Done Somebody Wrong." As an aside, some of the original songs he wrote around this time also had a bluesy sound to them.

I think the most recent song is "I'd Like to Love You Baby," by J. J. Cale, from 1972 (which, by the way, is also a blues song).

As usual, if you like Tom P*tty and good rock and roll music, you should like this.

This album is 50 minutes long.

I'm not including the track list due to copyright issues. But you can find it in the mp3 download file. 

https://pixeldrain.com/u/au2pcQ53 

alternate: 

https://bestfile.io/en/ERMEH2CyFi1cg8B/file

I've gotten in a habit of using concert posters for the album covers in this series, so I'm going to continue with that. Luckily, P*tty had a lot of colorful and interesting posters. This one dates from 2014. I removed some text towards the bottom and replaced it with the album title. I also changed the background color from white.

Tom P*tty & the Heartbreakers - Live Cover Versions, 2000-2002

Here's the seventh of my albums compiling live cover versions by Tom P*tty and the Heartbreakers. I've got a bunch more of these albums still to come.

(Note that I'm not using the full name of this artist due to concerns about copyright issues.)

For the past couple of albums in this series, there were only a few sources, of very high quality. For this album, every single song comes from a different source. But despite the variety, the sound quality is generally very good to excellent.

As usual for this series, the vast majority of the covers are of classic songs from the 1960s, with a few from the 1950s. But there's more variety than usual, because there are a couple of classic country songs ("I Still Miss Someone" and "Swinging Doors") and a couple of classic blues songs ("Boom Boom" and "Stop Breaking Down.") (I just realized by lucky coincidence that "Stop Breaking Down" here was also covered on the Lucinda Williams concert I posted earlier in the day.)

This album is 44 minutes long.

I'm not including the track list due to copyright issues. But you can find it in the mp3 download file.

https://pixeldrain.com/u/mRE5dLPX

alternate: 

https://bestfile.io/en/tSxsy0mlhbBk6F5/file 

For the cover art, I found some nice artwork of P*tty. I have no idea where the art is from, or what year in P*tty's career it depicts, but it looked too good not to use. ;) I had to crop some of it, and added some text at the top.

Tom P*tty & the Heartbreakers - Live Cover Versions, 1999

Here's the next in my long series of Tom P*tty and the Heartbreakers' albums of live cover versions.

(Note that I'm not using the full name of this artist due to concerns about copyright issues.)

This is more of the same good stuff as on all the previous albums in this series. As usual, P*tty and his band are keen on covering the songs from the 1950s and 1960s that they grew up with. The most recent song covered here is "Call Me the Breeze," a J. J. Cale song from the early 1970s that is better known via a version by Lynyrd Skynyrd.

There also are a couple of obscure country covers this time: "Little Maggie" and "Gonna Lay Down My Old Guitar." The band also does three guitar instrumentals.

One nice thing about this album is that the sound quality is very good. Only the first song is officially released. But all the other songs except for the last one come from two concerts that were played live over the radio, so it was professionally recorded to sound as good as an official live album. I think the last song is from an audience bootleg, but it nonetheless sounds about as good as the rest of the album.

Basically, if you like the other albums in this series, you're sure to like this one.

This album is 46 minutes long.

I'm not including the track list due to copyright issues. But you can find it in the mp3 download file. 

https://pixeldrain.com/u/A6To2uVE 

alternate: 

https://bestfile.io/en/r16P5xty5Nh0Jdm/file 

For the past three albums in this series, I used three of the four matching concert posters from the 1997 Fillmore concerts as the cover art. I still had one more of those to go, so I used it for this one, even though none of the music here is from those Fillmore shows.

Tom P*tty & the Heartbreakers - Live Cover Versions, 1997-1999

This album is very much a continuation of the last one I posted in my series of live cover versions albums by Tom P*tty and the Heartbreakers.

(Note that I'm not using the full name of this artist due to concerns about copyright issues.)

As I said with that one, P*tty and his band played 20 shows in a row at the Fillmore, in San Francisco. All of that album came from those shows, and half of the album before that. Plus, all but one song in this album are from those shows. The last one instead is from a second series of shows the band did at the Fillmore in 1999.

In terms of the music, nearly all of the songs here are covers of famous songs from the 1960s, with a couple from the 1950s sprinkled in. Note especially the cover of "Gloria," which is ten minutes long instead of three minutes or so like the original, because P*tty tells a story in the middle of it that's very entertaining.

The sound quality is generally excellent. Only two of the songs are officially released, the first and the last. (The last one, by the way, features Bo Diddley as a guest star.) Despite the fact that the rest are unreleased, you'd never know it when it comes to sound quality. All of them come from one concert, on February 7, 1997, that was played live on the radio at the time, and was recorded as well as a typical live album for the era.

Anyway, if you like P*tty doing covers at all, definitely get this one.

This album is 43 minutes long.

I'm not including the track list due to copyright issues. But you can find it in the mp3 download file. 

https://pixeldrain.com/u/kBMhz3VT 

alternate: 

https://bestfile.io/en/yjInm9EAmIj6Iu4/file

As I mentioned in the last album in this series, four matching concert posters were made for the 1997 series of Fillmore concerts. Here's another one. As usual, I had to make some drastic cropping to get it to fit into the square album cover shape.

Tom P*tty & the Heartbreakers - Live Cover Versions, 1997

Here's the next in my long series of dealing with Tom P*tty and the Heartbreakers' live covers. The second half of the last one had songs from the band's famous month-long series of concerts at the Fillmore in San Francisco in 1997. All of this album is from those concerts, and nearly all of the next one is as well.

(Note that I'm not using the full name of this artist due to concerns about copyright issues.)

The reason there are so many songs from those Fillmore shows is because they opened up their set list and played all sorts of unusual songs. This time around, nearly all of the songs are from the 1960s or early 1970s. The most recent song is "Crazy Mama" by J. J. Cale in 1971. There are three songs from before the 1960s, two of them Chuck Berry songs ("Around and Around" and "Johnny B. Goode"), plus "Country Farm."

During these Fillmore shows, the band had a number of guest stars join them, typically figures who were major influences on them, such as John Lee Hooker or Bo Diddley. I didn't include any songs where it was a guest star singing their own songs. However, I did include Carl Perkins singing his 1969 song "Restless," because he did it as a duet with P*tty.

The sound quality is generally excellent. Four of the songs are officially released, so of course they sound great. Most of the rest are from soundboard bootlegs or concerts that were played live on the radio at the time, so those all sound great too. In fact, I'd say the sound quality is the best of the series so far. If you've been missing out on this series, this is a good place to start.

This album is 46 minutes long.

I'm not including the track list due to copyright issues. But you can find it in the mp3 download file.

https://pixeldrain.com/u/6BxHC3Nb 

alternate: 

https://bestfile.io/en/ADwbVp4E7M48GBc/file

As I mentioned with the last album, four concert posters were made for the Fillmore concerts that all had the same artistic style. I'm using all four for albums in this series. As usual with concert posters, I had to do some severe cropping to get the rectangular poster into a square shape.