Robyn Hitchcock - The Chapel, San Francisco, CA, 12-27-2018 (John Wesley Harding)

Robyn Hitchcock has written many hundreds of songs himself. But even so, he loves performing cover songs as well, so much that he sometimes performs entire classic albums by others from start to finish. I've already posted a bunch of those, and here's another. This time, he did "John Wesley Harding," the great 1967 album by Bob Dylan. 

Most of the cover albums I've posted by Hitchcock so far were performed at the Three Kings club in London, with a full band. But this one took place in San Francisco, and is in solo acoustic format. Dylan's original album was with a band, but the backing was pretty sparse, mostly just Dylan on acoustic guitar, harmonica, and/or piano, plus bass and drums. So Hitchcock, also on acoustic guitar, harmonica, and/or piano, wasn't that different.

The original Dylan album is only 38 minutes long. This concert, however, is almost two hours long. In addition to performing the entire album, he warmed up with three other Dylan covers. 

Strangely, he also did two more covers during the album, "Dear Prudence" by the Beatles and "Dear Doctor" by the Rolling Stones, after playing "Dear Landlord" by Dylan. (He thought the Beatles and Stones were inspired to write songs in the "Dear..." format. I don't know if that's true, but the timing lines up, since the other two were written within a year of the release of Dylan's song.)

Then, after the album finished, he did still more Dylan covers ("I Threw It All Away" and "Senor (Tales of Yankee Power)"), but also songs by the Band ("Caledonia Mission") and John Lennon ("God"), plus two songs he'd recently written himself ("Serpent at the Gates of Wisdom" and "Those Guys Are All Dead Now"). On top of all that, there's plenty of banter between songs, in his usual entertaining stream-of-consciousness style.

This originally was an audience bootleg. It was a pretty good one though, helped by the fact that it's easier to record a solo acoustic show, especially with a small, polite audience. But I improved the sound of every single track, so much so that this sounds as good as a soundboard or FM radio broadcast. For all the talking tracks, I ran them through the Adobe speech enhancer, and improved the clarity a long. Then, for all the songs, I ran them through MVSEP's "Reverb Removal" filter. That made a big difference as well.

This sounds really excellent now, even though everything here is unreleased. These filters are steadily improving with updates. Writing this in August 2026, this wouldn't have sounded this good if I had done these same audio edits even two years ago.  

This album is an hour and 58 minutes long. 

01 talk (Robyn Hitchcock)
02 Mr. Tambourine Man (Robyn Hitchcock)
03 Visions of Johanna (Robyn Hitchcock)
04 talk (Robyn Hitchcock)
05 Clothes Line Saga (Robyn Hitchcock)
06 talk (Robyn Hitchcock)
07 John Wesley Harding (Robyn Hitchcock)
08 talk (Robyn Hitchcock)
09 As I Went Out One Morning (Robyn Hitchcock)
10 I Dreamed I Saw St. Augustine (Robyn Hitchcock)
11 talk (Robyn Hitchcock)
12 All Along the Watchtower (Robyn Hitchcock)
13 talk (Robyn Hitchcock)
14 The Ballad of Frankie Lee and Judas Priest (Robyn Hitchcock)
15 talk (Robyn Hitchcock)
16 Drifter's Escape (Robyn Hitchcock)
17 Dear Landlord (Robyn Hitchcock)
18 talk (Robyn Hitchcock)
19 Dear Prudence (Robyn Hitchcock)
20 talk (Robyn Hitchcock)
21 Dear Doctor (Robyn Hitchcock)
22 talk (Robyn Hitchcock)
23 I Am a Lonesome Hobo (Robyn Hitchcock)
24 talk (Robyn Hitchcock)
25 I Pity the Poor Immigrant (Robyn Hitchcock)
26 talk (Robyn Hitchcock)
27 Wicked Messenger (Robyn Hitchcock)
28 talk (Robyn Hitchcock)
29 Down Along the Cove (Robyn Hitchcock)
30 talk (Robyn Hitchcock)
31 I'll Be Your Baby Tonight (Robyn Hitchcock)
32 talk (Robyn Hitchcock)
33 I Threw It All Away (Robyn Hitchcock)
34 talk (Robyn Hitchcock)
35 Caledonia Mission (Robyn Hitchcock)
36 talk (Robyn Hitchcock)
37 Serpent at the Gates of Wisdom (Robyn Hitchcock)
38 talk (Robyn Hitchcock)
39 Senor [Tales of Yankee Power] (Robyn Hitchcock)
40 talk (Robyn Hitchcock)
41 Those Guys Are All Dead Now (Robyn Hitchcock)
42 talk (Robyn Hitchcock)
43 God (Robyn Hitchcock)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/3YkDVR5v

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/R7pn4yIaQZuE0nv/file

The cover image is a parody of the original cover for Dylan's "John Wesley Harding" album. I came across a version of this that was used to promote this concert. However, I redid the text and moved some of it around a bit.

John Stewart - Ebbets Field, Denver, CO, 4-23-1975

Here's yet another Ebbets Field radio broadcast. This one is a concert by singer songwriter John Stewart in 1975.

I haven't posted any albums by Stewart before. However, when I posted music from the "Playboy After Dark" TV show, he appeared on two volumes, specifically Volume Two and Volume Nine. So check those out if you are a fan of his music.

Stewart's music career had some unusual ups and downs when it came to commercial success. In 1961, he was selected to join the very successful folk group the Kingston Trio. That group broke up in 1967. But that same year, he had his biggest success as a songwriter when the Monkees had a huge hit with his song "Daydream Believer." He then started a solo career. But while he released many critically, acclaimed albums, his sales were not so great. However, in 1979, he had an unexpected big hit in the United States with his song "Gold." Not only did that song make the Top Five, But he had two more Top Forty hits that year. So he briefly became a star at the age of 40. But he wasn't able to follow it up with any more hits. He died in 2008 at the age of 68.

Here is a link to his Wikipedia page if you want to know more:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Stewart_(musician)

In 1975, he released the studio album "Wingless Angels." So many of the songs here are from that album.

As far as I know, this concert is unreleased. The sound quality is excellent.

This album is an hour and seven minutes long. 

01 talk by emcee (John Stewart)
02 The Runaway Fool of Love (John Stewart)
03 talk (John Stewart)
04 Josie (John Stewart)
05 talk (John Stewart)
06 Mazatlan (John Stewart)
07 talk (John Stewart)
08 Friend of Jesus (John Stewart)
09 talk (John Stewart)
10 Still in Love with You (John Stewart)
11 talk (John Stewart)
12 Wingless Angels (John Stewart)
13 talk (John Stewart)
14 Survivors (John Stewart)
15 Mother Country (John Stewart)
16 July, You're a Woman (John Stewart)
17 talk (John Stewart)
18 Wake Up the Child (John Stewart)
19 talk (John Stewart)
20 Summer Child (John Stewart)
21 Lady and the Outlaw (John Stewart)
22 talk (John Stewart)
23 Never Goin' Back (John Stewart)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/SSPZVzXn

alternate:

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

The cover image is from the Great Southeast Music Hall in Atlanta, Georgia, on September 26, 1973.

Tom Waits - Ebbets Field, Denver, CO, 2-19-1975

Here's yet another Ebbets Field radio broadcast. This one stars Tom Waits. I believe that, out of all of the sixty plus Ebbets Field recordings that I've found and am posting, Waits is the only one to have surviving recordings from different years - this one, and one from October 1974.

Waits' second album, "The Heart of Saturday Night," was released in October 1974, right around the time of his first Ebbets Field radio broadcast. His next album wouldn't be released until late 1975. So many of the songs here appeared on that other broadcast too. But there are a good number that were only on this one.

This album is 48 minutes long.

01 talk by emcee (Tom Waits)
02 talk (Tom Waits)
03 Diamonds on My Windshield (Tom Waits)
04 On a Foggy Night (Tom Waits)
05 Eggs and Sausage (Tom Waits)
06 Ice Cream Man (Tom Waits)
07 San Diego Serenade (Tom Waits)
08 talk (Tom Waits)
09 Big Joe and Phantom 309 [Phantom 309] (Tom Waits)
10 New Coat of Paint (Tom Waits)
11 Spare Parts I (Tom Waits)
12 Ol' 55 (Tom Waits)
13 talk by emcee (Tom Waits)
14 talk (Tom Waits)
15 The Ghosts of Saturday Night [After Hours at Napoleone's Pizza House] (Tom Waits)
16 [Looking For] The Heart of Saturday Night (Tom Waits)
17 talk by emcee (Tom Waits)
18 talk (Tom Waits)
19 Nobody (Tom Waits)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/mYTc5m9X 

alternate: 

https://bestfile.io/en/rsqBQdSbBdIhZf0/file

The cover image is from a concert at McCabe's Guitar Shop in Los Angeles, California, in February 1975.

Madison Cunningham - Weekly Covers, Volume 2 (2019-2020)

Just yesterday, I posted "Volume One" Of singer-songwriter Madison Cunningham, singing a collection of cover versions. This is the second and final volume of the same.

Many of the songs from this series date to 2019, when she Released one cover so per week on her YouTube page. It ended before the end of 2019. But then the Covid pandemic hit the world in early 2020. That caused her to revive her weekly covers series. But that only lasted for a few months before she stopped again. Since that time, she's concentrated on her original material. I was only able to find a couple more covers she did, not nearly enough for a third album. But I recommend you check out her original album. They are very good and a cut above the usual.

This album is an hour and three minutes long.

Here are the original artists for the songs:

01 Killing the Blues - Rowland Salley
02 Gentle on My Mind - John Hartford
03 Rocks and Water - Deb Talan
04 Don't Talk [Put Your Head on My Shoulder] - Beach Boys
05 Manifest - Andrew Bird
06 I'm Getting Ready - Michael Kiwanuka
07 Song Name Unknown - T Bone Burnett
08 California - Joni Mitchell
09 The Kiss - Judee Sill
10 Smoke Gets in Your Eyes - Jerome Kern & Otto Harbach / The Platters
11 Hands on the Wheel - Willie Nelson
12 Sweet Old World - Lucinda Williams
13 Who Is He [And What Is He to You] - Bill Withers
14 The Age of Worry - John Mayer
15 Summer's End - John Prine
16 Hold On - Tom Waits
17 One Little Song - Gillian Welch
18 Sister Rosetta Goes Before Us - Sam Phillips

And here's the usual song list: 

01 Killing the Blues (Madison Cunningham)
02 Gentle on My Mind (Madison Cunningham & Andrew Bird)
03 Rocks and Water (Madison Cunningham & Joey Ryan)
04 Don't Talk [Put Your Head on My Shoulder] (Madison Cunningham)
05 Manifest (Madison Cunningham)
06 I'm Getting Ready (Madison Cunningham & Sam Weber)
07 Song Name Unknown (Madison Cunningham)
08 California (Madison Cunningham)
09 The Kiss (Madison Cunningham)
10 Smoke Gets in Your Eyes (Madison Cunningham)
11 Hands on the Wheel (Madison Cunningham)
12 Sweet Old World (Madison Cunningham)
13 The Age of Worry (Madison Cunningham)
14 Who Is He [And What Is He to You] (Madison Cunningham)
15 Summer's End (Madison Cunningham)
16 Hold On (Madison Cunningham)
17 One Little Song (Madison Cunningham & Jacob Collier)
18 Sister Rosetta Goes Before Us (Madison Cunningham)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/rqdNgzDk

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/vT6vTkEdjOggY0s/file

The cover photo is a screenshot I took from the video for the song "Hold On," included here. 

Madison Cunningham - Weekly Covers, Volume 1 (2019)

A couple of weeks ago (I am writing this in June 2026), a close friend of mine suggested that I should listen to the music of singer-songwriter Madison Cunningham. I was impressed with her singing, guitar playing, and songwriting. It turns out that she wants had a YouTube series where she posted different cover versions most every week. I have gathered them all together. There's enough for two volumes. This is the first volume.

Cunningham is relatively new artist by the standards of this classic rock type blog. She is 29 years old at the time I'm writing this in 2026. She has released four albums of original music as well as a collaborative album with Andrew Bird, in which she and Bird covered every single song from the obscure 1973 album "Buckingham Nicks" by Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks, about a year before they joined Fleetwood Mac and became superstars.

Rolling Stone magazine has described her music as "a new spin on West Coast, folk rock, with classical tendencies, electric guitars, jazz school chord changes, and alt rock strut, all living under the same roof." I am normally pretty picky when it comes to relatively new singer, songwriter types, so in my opinion, she is a special talent. I strongly suggest you check out her original songs. But by listening to this album, you can at least get a sense of her musical talent in covering songs by others. Just looking at the list of original artists for this album shows that she has good musical taste.

Here is her Wikipedia link if you want to know more:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madison_Cunningham

All of these songs were posted on her YouTube page. I downloaded them, converted them to audio, and made MP3s out of them.

By the way, although I have a special fondness for music from the 1960s to the 1980s, I would like to think that I am always open to suggestions about relatively new musical acts. If you are excited about one or more such musical acts, please let me know. Perhaps it will result in me making albums like this one.

This album is one hour and one minute long.

Here are the original artists for the songs:

01 Sweet Adeline - Elliott Smith
02 Poses - Rufus Wainwright
03 Alive in the World - Jackson Browne
04 No Surprises - Radiohead
05 Dayton, Ohio, 1903 - Randy Newman
06 Every Grain of Sand - Bob Dylan
07 In My Life - Beatles
08 Who Loves the Sun - Velvet Underground
09 Jesus on the Mainline - traditional
10 Woncha Come On Home - Joan Armatrading
11 Everything Is Free - Gillian Welch
12 River Man - Nick Drake
13 Night and Day - Cole Porter
14 Lover, You Should've Come Over - Jeff Buckley
15 Love Hurts - Everly Brothers
16 Sin Guia, No - Juana Molina
17 Life's What You Make It - Talk Talk 

And here's the usual song list: 

01 Sweet Adeline (Madison Cunningham)
02 Poses (Madison Cunningham)
03 Alive in the World (Madison Cunningham)
04 No Surprises (Madison Cunningham)
05 Dayton, Ohio, 1903 (Madison Cunningham & Tyler Chester)
06 Every Grain of Sand (Madison Cunningham & Tyler Chester)
07 In My Life (Madison Cunningham & Mike Viola)
08 Who Loves the Sun (Madison Cunningham & Alan Hampton)
09 Jesus on the Mainline (Madison Cunningham with Alan Hampton, Tyler Chester, Mike Viola & Ted Poor)
10 Woncha Come On Home (Madison Cunningham & Laura Jean Anderson)
11 Everything Is Free (Madison Cunningham)
12 River Man (Madison Cunningham)
13 Night and Day (Madison Cunningham & Joe Henry)
14 Lover, You Should've Come Over (Madison Cunningham)
15 Love Hurts (Madison Cunningham & Joey Ryan)
16 Sin Guia, No (Madison Cunningham, Gaby Moreno & James McAlister)
17 Life's What You Make It (Madison Cunningham with Tyler Chester, Sam Weber & Abe Rounds)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/wrQaNSF2

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/O6dYjK0pTvxhruY/file

The cover photo is a screenshot I took from the video for the song "In My Life," included here.

Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee - Ebbets Field, Denver, CO, 8-27-1974

Here is another concert from the Ebbets Field radio broadcasts. This one features the blues duo Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee.

Terry and McGhee had an unusually long musical relationship with each other. They began playing together around 1942, and continued to record albums and tour together until about 1980, when they stopped due to retirement. Terry died in 1986, and McGhee died in 1996.

Here are their Wikipedia entries if you want to know more:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonny_Terry

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brownie_McGhee

This album is an hour and two minutes long.

01 talk (Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee)
02 Played the Blues in Every Town (Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee)
03 talk (Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee)
04 Walk On (Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee)
05 talk (Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee)
06 Midnight Hour Blues [Edit] (Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee)
07 Instrumental (Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee)
08 Feel So Good [Edit] (Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee)
09 Key to the Highway (Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee)
10 talk (Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee)
11 Hooray Hooray [These Women Is Killing Me] (Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee)
12 talk (Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee)
13 My Baby Chained the Lock on the Door (Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee)
14 Good Old General (Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee)
15 Walk from Boulder to Denver (Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee)
16 Packing Up (Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee)
17 talk (Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee)
18 Chain Don't Turn Around - Midnight Special (Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/PSE9SH1j

alternate: 

https://bestfile.io/en/9t0ib8EK6lvAYKF/file

The cover photo is from the Festival Record, in Sydney, Australia, on July 26, 1974. That is Brownie McGhee on the guitar and Sonny Terry on the harmonica. The picture is actually a composite of two photos taken from the same photo session. One of the photos made up about 80% of the image, but I used the second one to get part of McGhee’s body and put them together in Photoshop. The original image was in black and white, but I used the Kolorize program to colorize it.

Emmylou Harris & Buddy Miller - City Winery, Nashville, TN, 11-10-2020

So far, I've posted three albums that featured Emmylou Harris performing with others in a series of concerts at the City Winery in Nashville in 2020 and 2021. There were six in all, and all of them were pay-per-view webcasts at the time. Here's one more. This one has Emmylou Harris paired up with Buddy Miller.

I've posted a lot from Harris already, so I don't feel any need to say anything about her. However, here's a bit about Miller. The intro to the Wikipedia entry on him doesn't say much, but here it is anyway:

"Steven Paul 'Buddy' Miller is an American singer, songwriter, musician, recording artist and producer, currently living in Nashville, Tennessee. Miller is married to and has recorded with singer-songwriter Julie Miller."

Let me add some more to that. He got his start in music in the late 1970s. In 1980, he started his own band. But he didn't have much success at first. For the rest of the 1980s, and into the 1990s, he made a living as a session musician and also playing in bands led by others. He released his first solo album in 1995. From that point forward, his career slowly began gaining momentum. Although he never had any hits, he won a Grammy Award in 2010, and was nominated three other times.

Over the years, he's been involved in various music projects with Harris. For instance, according to Wikipedia, Miller toured as lead guitarist and backing vocalist for Emmylou Harris's Spyboy band, and for Emmylou Harris and Linda Ronstadt on their Western Wall tour. In 2004, he toured with Emmylou Harris, Patty Griffin, Gillian Welch and David Rawlings as the Sweet Harmony Traveling Revue. In 2009, he joined Emmylou Harris, Patty Griffin and Shawn Colvin on tour as Three Girls and Their Buddy. 

In this concert, Harris and Miller typically traded songs. However, there were a lot of duets as well. It was just the two of them performing with acoustic instruments. 

The concert with Harris, Carlene Carter, and Marty Stuart at this venue was given to me by an anonymous person. That same person also gave me this one. So, thank you! I believe this is the first time this has been publicly available on the Internet.

Unfortunately though, this concert starts abruptly, with no introduction. I checked the song list with the list at setlist.fm, and I found out the first three songs are missing. Those songs are: "Blackhawk," "Burning the Midnight Oil," and "Gulf Coast Highway." If anyone has the missing songs, please let me know, and I'll add them in.

This album is an hour and 20 minutes long.

01 Don't Tell Me (Buddy Miller)
02 talk (Emmylou Harris)
03 Home Sweet Home (Emmylou Harris)
04 talk (Emmylou Harris & Buddy Miller)
05 Shelter Me (Buddy Miller)
06 talk (Emmylou Harris)
07 Love Hurts (Emmylou Harris & Buddy Miller)
08 talk (Emmylou Harris)
09 I Don't Mean Maybe (Emmylou Harris & Buddy Miller)
10 talk (Emmylou Harris)
11 My Antonia (Emmylou Harris & Buddy Miller)
12 talk (Buddy Miller)
13 I Love (Buddy Miller)
14 talk (Emmylou Harris)
15 That's How I Got to Memphis (Buddy Miller)
16 talk (Emmylou Harris)
17 Big Black Dog (Emmylou Harris)
18 talk (Buddy Miller)
19 All My Tears [Be Washed Away] (Buddy Miller)
20 talk (Emmylou Harris)
21 Your Long Journey (Emmylou Harris)
22 talk (Buddy Miller)
23 Gasoline and Matches (Buddy Miller)
24 talk (Emmylou Harris)
25 The Pearl (Emmylou Harris)
26 Wide River to Cross (Buddy Miller)
27 talk (Emmylou Harris)
28 Green Pastures (Emmylou Harris & Buddy Miller)
29 talk (Emmylou Harris)

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

alternate: 

https://bestfile.io/en/BfCNxR6GQ8xzsxq/file

The cover image is a screenshot I took from a video of this exact concert. 

Elle Cordova & Toni Lindgren - Full Moon Tunes Livestream, 5-31-2026

Here's something that's only a couple of days old, as I post this in early June 2026. This happened to come up for me on YouTube. It's a short acoustic concert from Elle Cordova and Toni Lindgren.

So far, I've posted 14 volumes of Cordova and Lindgren performing cover songs. (In case the names don't ring a bell, Cordova used to be known as "Reina del Cid.") Unfortunately, it seems they've broken their habit of performing a new cover song every Sunday, after doing that for at least eight years. There's only been one new cover song posted in the last six months, for instance, so I haven't been able to update that series in a long time. But in this video, they talked about resuming that, but only doing one new cover song every full moon.

I enjoy their cover versions, but they have good originals too. This is a mix of covers and originals. (Specifically, "Jambalaya (On the Bayou)," "Tennessee Waltz," and "The Monkey and the Engineer" are the covers.) It was performed in acoustic mode, with just the two of them, as they usually do.

I'm a stickler for giving the date and location of any concert I post. In this case, I know the date but not the location. Clearly, it was a free webcast recorded in somebody's living room. But I have no idea of the town or even the state. If you do know, please let me know, and I'll fill in the missing information in the title. 

This album is 43 minutes long. 

01 Runner in the Sun (Elle Cordova & Toni Lindgren)
02 talk (Elle Cordova & Toni Lindgren)
03 Bernadette (Elle Cordova & Toni Lindgren)
04 talk (Elle Cordova & Toni Lindgren)
05 Jambalaya [On the Bayou] (Elle Cordova & Toni Lindgren)
06 talk (Elle Cordova & Toni Lindgren)
07 Carl Sagan (Elle Cordova & Toni Lindgren)
08 talk (Elle Cordova & Toni Lindgren)
09 Tennessee Waltz (Elle Cordova & Toni Lindgren)
10 talk (Elle Cordova & Toni Lindgren)
11 Roswell (Elle Cordova & Toni Lindgren)
12 talk (Elle Cordova & Toni Lindgren)
13 The Monkey and the Engineer (Elle Cordova & Toni Lindgren)
14 talk (Elle Cordova & Toni Lindgren)
15 Whiskey Down (Elle Cordova & Toni Lindgren) 

https://pixeldrain.com/u/6DAV8Sd4

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/i5y5WQSFEvYZyFi/file

The cover image is not from this exact concert. However, this is the thumbnail image they used to promote the concert on YouTube. The thumbnail was too small, but I looked around and found a larger version, then used that. That's Lindgren with the sunglasses and Cordova with the striped shirt.

Emmylou Harris, Carlene Carter & Marty Stuart - City Winery, Nashville, TN, 11-16-2020

In late 2020 and into 2021, Emmylou Harris hosted some special concerts at the City Winery in Nashville, Tennessee. The world was still dealing with the Covid pandemic, so she couldn't tour. But she held a few webcast concerts for local charities, with Covid distancing rules in place for the sparse audiences. Recently, I posted two of them. I thought that was all I could find. But then a kind anonymous person saw those posts, and sent me more. In each one, she had a special guest or guests. This time, it's Carlene Carter and Marty Stuart.

Carter was the daughter of June Carter Cash with her first husband, Carl Smith. Since her mother went on to be married to Johnny Cash for most of her life, Carlene became a member of the Cash musical family, as well as the closely related Carter musical family. She also was married for all of the 1980s to singer-songwriter Nick Lowe. She had a solo music career starting in the late 1970s. Her popularity peaked in the early 1990s, with some hit albums and singles on the U.S. country charts.

Here's her Wikipedia page:

Carlene Carter - Wikipedia

The Wikipedia entry intro for Marty Stuart is better than the one for Carlene Carter, so I'll quote it here:

"John Marty Stuart (born September 30, 1958) is an American country and bluegrass music singer, songwriter, and musician. Active since 1968, Stuart initially toured with Lester Flatt, and then in Johnny Cash's road band before beginning work as a solo artist in the early 1980s. He is known for his combination of rockabilly, country rock, and bluegrass music influences, his frequent collaborations and cover songs, and his distinctive stage dress. His greatest commercial success came in the first half of the 1990s... Stuart has recorded over 20 studio albums, and has charted over 30 times on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts. His highest chart entry is 'The Whiskey Ain't Workin'', a duet with Travis Tritt."

Like Carlene Carter, he also ended up related to Johnny Cash. His first wife was Johnny's daughter Cindy. Since the late 1990s, he's been married to country star Connie Smith.

Here's his Wikipedia page:

Marty Stuart - Wikipedia 

This is an acoustic concert. The three stars performed in songwriter circle style, with each of them taking turns singing their songs. In the song credits, I only listed the lead singers. On many songs, whoever the lead singer was often was assisted by backing vocals by one or both of the others.

The music here is unreleased. After I got the video, I converted it to audio and broke it into mp3s. The sound quality is excellent. The only problem was the banter between songs was very low, so I generally boosted the volume for those bits. The webcast had been a pay-per-view thing, which is now defunct. I believe this is the first time this concert is publicly available on the Internet. Thanks again to the anonymous donor.

This album is an hour and 28 minutes long.

01 talk (Emmylou Harris)
02 Gold Watch and Chain (Emmylou Harris, Carlene Carter & Marty Stuart)
03 talk (Emmylou Harris)
04 Easy from Now On (Emmylou Harris)
05 talk (Carlene Carter)
06 The Bitter End (Carlene Carter)
07 talk (Marty Stuart)
08 Ready for the Times to Get Better (Marty Stuart)
09 talk (Emmylou Harris)
10 Blackhawk (Emmylou Harris)
11 talk (Carlene Carter)
12 Sad Clowns (Carlene Carter)
13 talk (Marty Stuart & Carlene Carter)
14 Fault Lines (Marty Stuart)
15 talk (Emmylou Harris & Marty Stuart)
16 Spanish Johnny (Emmylou Harris & Marty Stuart)
17 talk (Carlene Carter)
18 To Change Your Heart (Carlene Carter)
19 talk (Marty Stuart)
20 Tempted (Marty Stuart with Emmylou Harris)
21 talk (Emmylou Harris)
22 Strong Hand (Emmylou Harris)
23 talk (Carlene Carter)
24 Foggy Mountain Top (Carlene Carter)
25 talk (Marty Stuart)
26 Orange Blossom Special (Marty Stuart)
27 talk (Emmylou Harris)
28 The Road (Emmylou Harris)
29 talk (Carlene Carter)
30 Me and the Wildwood Rose (Carlene Carter)
31 talk (Marty Stuart)
32 Time Don't Wait (Marty Stuart)
33 talk (Emmylou Harris)
34 Beyond the Great Divide (Emmylou Harris, Carlene Carter & Marty Stuart)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/JU8MPLz8

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/0v6GnvJAu0XQwkJ/file

The cover image is a screenshot I took from a video of this concert. From right to left: Carlene Carter, Emmylou Harris, and Marty Stuart. I used Photoshop to move Carter closer to the other two. 

Elvis Costello - Capitol Theatre, Port Chester, NY, 11-12-2013

Here's another concert from the April 2026 leak of dozens of soundboard recordings from the Capitol Theatre in Port Chester, New York. This is an Elvis Costello solo acoustic concert.

In September 2013, Costello released his latest studio album, "Wake Up Ghost," supported by the band the Roots. So one would think this concert just two months later would promote that. But no, you would wrong. Even this concert was over two hours long, only two of the songs were from that album ("Cinco Minutos con Vos" and "Tripwire"). Instead, it seemed he played whatever he felt like playing from all points in his career, including some obscurities. Then, in early 2014, he returned to this venue backed by the Roots, and performed a more typical concert promoting the "Wake Up Ghost" album. A recording of that concert has been leaked as well, and I'd like to post it eventually.

Some improvements were made by this recording by my musical associate Lil Panda. I made some additional minor changes on top of that, such as boosting the volume of the cheering at the ends of some songs, since that usually was quite low, as is the case for many soundboard bootlegs. I also boosted the volume of most of the banter between songs.

If you're a big Elvis Costello fan, this is a good concert for you, because he only played a few of his hits and made a lot of unexpected but interesting selections instead. And the sound quality can't be beat.

By the way, when this appeared in the leak I mentioned above, it was labeled as a 2012 concert. But I found out it definitely was a 2013 concert instead. The proof is from this page from an Elvis Costello fan site:

https://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/index.php?title=Concert_2013-11-12_Port_Chester

It links to a newspaper review of the concert, which removes all doubt about the date. It also has some other interesting things related to this concert. For instance, that's where I got the photo for the cover. 

This album is two hours and 12 minutes long. 

01 King Horse (Elvis Costello)
02 Either Side of the Same Town (Elvis Costello)
03 Little Triggers (Elvis Costello)
04 talk (Elvis Costello)
05 Sneaky Feelings (Elvis Costello)
06 talk (Elvis Costello)
07 Crimes of Paris (Elvis Costello)
08 talk (Elvis Costello)
09 Town Cryer (Elvis Costello)
10 talk (Elvis Costello)
11 Starting to Come to Me (Elvis Costello)
12 After the Fall (Elvis Costello)
13 Watching the Detectives (Elvis Costello)
14 The Long Honeymoon (Elvis Costello)
15 The Delivery Man (Elvis Costello)
16 talk (Elvis Costello)
17 Walkin' My Baby Back Home (Elvis Costello)
18 Beyond Belief (Elvis Costello)
19 Human Hands (Elvis Costello)
20 Party Girl (Elvis Costello)
21 talk (Elvis Costello)
22 Almost Blue (Elvis Costello)
23 talk (Elvis Costello)
24 The Flirting Kind (Elvis Costello)
25 talk (Elvis Costello)
26 Shipbuilding (Elvis Costello)
27 Cinco Minutos con Vos (Elvis Costello)
28 Alison (Elvis Costello)
29 In Another Room (Elvis Costello)
30 A Slow Drag with Josephine (Elvis Costello)
31 Blue Chair (Elvis Costello)
32 talk (Elvis Costello)
33 Dirty Rotten Shame [Edit] (Elvis Costello)
34 Jimmie Standing in the Rain (Elvis Costello)
35 I Want You (Elvis Costello)
36 [What's So Funny 'Bout] Peace, Love and Understanding (Elvis Costello)
37 Tripwire - [What's So Funny 'Bout] Peace, Love and Understanding (Elvis Costello)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/berEjnCv

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/YwJdSSi5H1BmYT6/file

The cover photo isn't the best, for instance, with his face partly covered in shadow. But it's the best I could find, since it hat was casting a shadow on his face nearly all the time. I used it because it's from this exact concert. It's a screenshot I took from a video.  

Nick Lowe - Party of One Demos (1988)

I really need to post more Nick Lowe albums. I have a bunch ready to go, but I'm so swamped I never get around to them. However, this is something I only discovered a few days ago (as I write this in May 2026), so it went to the top of my pile of stuff to post.

In 1990, Lowe released the album "Party of One." It was a good album - in my opinion, all of Lowe's albums are at least good - but it didn't sell that well. Somehow, an album's worth of demos from that album has been leaked to the public, with excellent sound quality. It contains all the songs from that album, plus seven more (tracks 6, 9, 11, 13, 14, 16, and 18). Two of those extras ended up as bonus tracks for the album (tracks 9 and 14). Another two (tracks 11 and 18) wound up on a 1992 album by a band he briefly joined, "Little Village." Another one, the great "I Live on a Battlefield," appeared on his next studio album in 1994, "The Impossible Bird." That leaves "I've Got Work to Do" and "Love's Been Gone Too Long" still unreleased.

On the "Party of One" album, all the songs were performed with a full band. Whereas this is just Lowe on vocals and guitar, though the songs are fairly fleshed out. He often added bass and backing vocals as well. Personally, I like this stripped down version better than the album version.

Everything here is unreleased except for two songs: "Rocky Road" and "Don't Think about Her When You're Trying to Drive." These exact versions of those have shown up on a "Party of One" EP.

This album is 58 minutes long. 

01 You Got the Look I Like (Nick Lowe)
02 Shting-Shtang (Nick Lowe)
03 I Don't Know Why You Keep Me On (Nick Lowe)
04 [I Want to Build A] Jumbo Ark (Nick Lowe)
05 What's Shakin' on the Hill (Nick Lowe)
06 Love's Been Gone Too Long (Nick Lowe)
07 All Men Are Liars (Nick Lowe)
08 Refrigerator White (Nick Lowe)
09 You Stabbed Me in the Front (Nick Lowe)
10 Honey Gun (Nick Lowe)
11 Fool Who Knows (Nick Lowe)
12 Who Was That Man (Nick Lowe)
13 Rocket Coast (Nick Lowe)
14 I've Got Work to Do (Nick Lowe)
15 Gai-Gin Man (Nick Lowe)
16 I Live on a Battlefield (Nick Lowe)
17 Rocky Road (Nick Lowe)
18 Don't Think about Her When You're Trying to Drive (Nick Lowe) 

https://pixeldrain.com/u/qgCNMcrb

alternate: 

https://bestfile.io/nNPgZSSrFS9rhf2/file

The cover image is supposed to have been taken in London in 1989. The original was in black and white. But, as I usually do, I used the Kolorize program to colorize it. For his hair, I checked with color images from around this time, and he'd already gone totally grey/white. 

Brewer & Shipley - Ebbets Field, Denver, CO, 3-28-1974

Here's another Ebbets Field radio broadcast concert. This one stars the singer-songwriter duo Brewer and Shipley.

Here's the intro to their Wikipedia entry: 

"Brewer & Shipley were an American folk rock duo who enjoyed their peak success in the late 1960s through the 1970s. The duo consisted of singer-songwriters Mike Brewer and Tom Shipley. They were known for their intricate guitar work, vocal harmonies, and socially conscious lyrics which reflected the concerns of their generation - especially the Vietnam War, and the struggles for personal and political freedom. Their greatest commercial success was the song 'One Toke Over the Line' from their 1970 album 'Tarkio.' They had two other singles on the Billboard charts: 'Tarkio Road' (1970) and 'Shake Off the Demon' (1971)."

Here's the link to the whole entry: 

Brewer & Shipley - Wikipedia 

This is an acoustic performance, with just Brewer and Shipley singing and playing guitars. 

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

This album is an hour and one minute long.

01 talk (Brewer & Shipley)
02 See That My Grave Is Kept Clean (Brewer & Shipley)
03 talk (Brewer & Shipley)
04 Black Sky (Brewer & Shipley)
05 talk (Brewer & Shipley)
06 Oh, Mommy (Brewer & Shipley)
07 Tarkio Road (Brewer & Shipley)
08 talk (Brewer & Shipley)
09 How Are You (Brewer & Shipley)
10 Indian Summer - To Love Somebody (Brewer & Shipley)
11 Shake Off the Demon (Brewer & Shipley)
12 talk (Brewer & Shipley)
13 All Along the Watchtower (Brewer & Shipley)
14 Yankee Lady (Brewer & Shipley)
15 talk (Brewer & Shipley)
16 One Toke Over the Line (Brewer & Shipley)
17 talk (Brewer & Shipley)
18 Witchi-Tai-To (Brewer & Shipley)
19 talk (Brewer & Shipley)
20 Fifty States of Freedom (Brewer & Shipley)
21 talk by emcee (Brewer & Shipley) 

https://pixeldrain.com/u/ZHCkvfFS

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/kE35gB3qGsfpEOi/file 

The cover image is from the "Midnight Special" T.V. show, aired on June 29, 1973. Brewer is the one in a blue shirt, and Shipley is the one with a beard and a red shirt.

John Hartford, Joni Mitchell & Pete Seeger - Gentle on Your Mind, KCOP-TV Studios, Los Angeles, CA, 10-18-1970

Here's a really nice find I luckily stumbled across recently. It's the audio from a 1970 musical T.V. special that featured John Hartford, Joni Mitchell, and Pete Seeger in roughly equal amounts. (Technically, the special was called "John Hartford, Joni Mitchell & Pete Seeger - Gentle on Your Mind," but I cut it down to just "Gentle on Your Mind" because really long album titles can cause problems for PC users.)

I wish I knew more about this T.V. show, but I could find very little about it other than this audio recording, plus one photo. And even that photo, which I used for the cover art, was taken from a newspaper clipping. So apparently none of the film footage survives, at least not in the public domain. 

The official Joni Mitchell website is normally extremely comprehensive about anything relating to her. But even that site has very little about this show. However, if you go to this link, you cansee the one photo I'm talking about (before I colorized it and used Krea AI to fill in some detail):

Joni Mitchell - 1970.10.18 | Gentle On My Mind KCOP-TV | Los Angeles

There are some nice surprises in this special. One is having Mitchell sing two songs with Seeger and one song with Hartford. "The Water Is Wide" was mostly Seeger, with Mitchell generally singing wordless backing vocals. But "Both Sides Now" was a proper duet. Seeger even wrote some nice new lyrics and sang those. And it was also great to hear Mitchell sing "Mr. Tambourine Man" with Hartford, especially since it's a Bob Dylan song that she very rarely sang.

Another nice surprise is that Mitchell performed "A Case of You" from her 1971 classic album "Blue" nearly a year before that album was released. So this was an early version, and it turned out a lot of the lyrics were changed by the time the album version came out. I actually prefer some of these lyrics (though some other changes were clear improvements). I particularly like "I'm frightened by the devil, and I'm scared to death by saints." (It was later changed to "I'm frightened by the devil, and I'm drawn to those ones that ain't afraid.")

Hartford also sang an original song he didn't release at the time, "Sunshine Lady, You Really Know How to Slow a Man Down." It eventually came out on an archival release, "Radio John," in 2002. 

This recording sounds pretty good considering how long it's been since the broadcast, though I couldn't call it "excellent." But there was one big problem with the recording: the applause for many of the songs were cut off. Probably, that's how it was in the original broadcast, due to the usual practice of quickly cutting to commercial breaks. I fixed that by patching in extra cheering that I took from the ends of other songs. 

Also, there's no banter included whatsoever. I'm sure there was some in the original broadcast. In fact, there were a few words said by Seeger before one of the songs, but I cut that out because it was literally just a few words, a mere sentence fragment. It would have been great to hear Hartford, Mitchell, and Seeger all talking to each other. But hey, at least we have the music.

The music is unreleased.  

This album is 48 minutes long. 

01 Frustrated Bird (John Hartford)
02 In Tall Buildings (John Hartford)
03 A Case of You (Joni Mitchell)
04 Bring Me Little Water (Pete Seeger)
05 Orange Blossom Special [Instrumental Version] (John Hartford)
06 Both Sides Now (Joni Mitchell & Pete Seeger)
07 Willy (Joni Mitchell)
08 [He Played Real Good] For Free (Joni Mitchell)
09 A Simple Thing as Love (John Hartford)
10 Sunshine Lady, You Really Know How to Slow a Man Down (John Hartford)
11 The Water Is Wide (Joni Mitchell with Pete Seeger)
12 Mr. Tambourine Man (Joni Mitchell & John Hartford)
13 Letter to Eve [Edit] (Pete Seeger) 

https://pixeldrain.com/u/jjUYyFhP

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/LImWqWn09DQyBVQ/file

As mentioned above, the image is the sole picture I could find that is actually from this exact performance. It's too bad Pete Seeger isn't shown as well. And, also as I mentioned above, I colorized it (using the Kolorize program) as well, and then increased the detail with the Krea AI program. 

Don McLean - Ebbets Field, Denver, CO, 4-14-1975

Here's another concert from the Ebbets Field radio broadcasts. This time, it's singer-songwriter Don McClean.

I've already posted a good amount of live music from McLean, thanks to various BBC recordings. This isn't much different in terms of the song selection from some of that around the same time period. However, the sound quality here is notable, maybe even a bit better than some of that BBC stuff. 

This is a solo acoustic performance. There's not much when it comes to banter between songs. 

This album is an hour and six minutes long. 

01 talk by emcee (Don McLean)
02 American Pie (Don McLean)
03 Dreidel (Don McLean)
04 La La Love You (Don McLean)
05 Wonderful Baby (Don McLean)
06 Birthday Song (Don McLean)
07 You Have Lived (Don McLean)
08 Magdalene Lane (Don McLean)
09 On the Amazon (Don McLean)
10 talk (Don McLean)
11 Old Joe Clark [Instrumental] (Don McLean)
12 East Virginia (Don McLean)
13 The Song of Wandering Aengus (Don McLean)
14 And I Love You So (Don McLean)
15 The Legend of Andrew McCrew (Don McLean)
16 Vincent (Don McLean)
17 talk by emcee (Don McLean)
18 talk (Don McLean)
19 I Guess It Doesn't Matter Anymore (Don McLean)
20 talk by emcee (Don McLean)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/AA2Pzz1m

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/347aUsJuHmyJZq0/file

The cover photo is from 1975. I don't know more details than that. 

Elton John - Great Amphitheatre, Ephesus, Turkey, 7-17-2001

Recently, guest poster Fabio from Rio posted a couple of albums of the Carpenters stripped down to just piano and lead vocals. That led to a commenter suggesting that a similar album or albums be made for Elton John. That, in turn, got me thinking about how much music is available that just features John and his piano. It turns out not much. But I did find this 2001 concert, with excellent sound quality.

The concert was originally done for a pay-per-view service back in 2001. Then, in 2020, during the pandemic, John briefly released it on YouTube as part of a series of concerts he posted there to make up for the fact that he couldn't go on tour that year. Here's some of the promotional description from that 2020 posting: 

"Elton walks on to the oldest stage he has ever played (built circa 200 B.C.) and invites the audience to join him in one of the most intimate performances he has ever given. Everything about this concert is the opposite of what most people think of when they bring Elton to mind: his wardrobe is sedate, his staging virtually non-existent, no wild spectacles or platform shoes... Nor, for that matter, a band – just the piano player and his instrument, revealing in sublime simplicity that it’s really all about the songs."

Apparently, the people behind the pay-per-view idea wanted a dramatic setting for the concert, similar to Pink Floyd playing in the ancient Pompeii amphitheater in 1972. The Ephesus amphitheatre was built by the ancient Greeks. At its peak, it held about 25,000 people. In recent decades, it has been used for some concerts again. Many stars have performed there, including Diana Ross, Joan Baez, Chris de Burgh, Bryan Adams, Sting, Julio Iglesias, and Luciano Pavarotti, as well as classical concerts. But parts of it were ruined. so these modern concerts only hold about 2,500 people. In 2018, it was closed for three years to repair damage from some of these concerts. 

As far as I can tell, John hasn't performed in a solo format very often, especially considering how often he has performed. He's given well over 4,000 concerts in his long career, more than nearly any other big star, except for Willie Nelson, and B.B. King. In all that time, he only did one solo tour, in 1999. He's also done occasional solo concerts, usually for special events, like charity benefits. This was the only solo concert he did in 2001.

At the time of this concert, his album "Songs from the West Coast" was going to be released in a few months. He played one song from it, "This Train Don't Stop There Anymore." But mostly he stuck to his best known songs.

This album is an hour and 58 minutes long. 

01 Your Song (Elton John)
02 talk (Elton John)
03 Someone Saved My Life Tonight (Elton John)
04 Daniel (Elton John)
05 talk (Elton John)
06 Mona Lisas and Mad Hatters (Elton John)
07 Honky Cat (Elton John)
08 Rocket Man [I Think It's Going to Be a Long, Long Time] (Elton John)
09 talk (Elton John)
10 Philadelphia Freedom (Elton John)
11 Nikita (Elton John)
12 talk (Elton John)
13 Sacrifice (Elton John)
14 talk (Elton John)
15 Sorry Seems to Be the Hardest Word (Elton John)
16 I Guess That's Why They Call It the Blues (Elton John)
17 talk (Elton John)
18 This Train Don't Stop There Anymore (Elton John)
19 talk (Elton John)
20 Burn Down the Mission (Elton John)
21 The One (Elton John)
22 Blue Eyes (Elton John)
23 I'm Still Standing (Elton John)
24 Crocodile Rock (Elton John)
25 Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me (Elton John)
26 talk (Elton John)
27 Circle of Life (Elton John)
28 talk (Elton John)
29 Candle in the Wind (Elton John)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/GDzBMzci

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/uUGfdE5hLOzPUXG/file

The cover image is from this exact concert. I wanted a wide view that showed some of the Roman ruins in the background.

The Great American Music Band with Eric Andersen - Ebbets Field, Denver, CO, 5-7-1974

Here's another concert from the Ebbets Field radio broadcasts. But this is a rather unusual one, because it's from a band that never officially released any music: the Great American Music Band. This band was a collaboration between David Grisman, Jerry Garcia, Taj Mahal, and others. It was a mostly instrumental and acoustic band that combined folk, bluegrass, and jazz. It was a loose association, with people coming and going, and unfortunately, Garcia didn't take part in this concert. However, singer-songwriter Eric Andersen did join in to sing two songs.

In my opinion, the main figure in this band was mandolin player David Grisman. After playing in some bands in New York City in the late 1960s, he moved to the San Francisco Bay Area. He made a key musical connection with Jerry Garcia. He played some mandolin on the classic Grateful Dead album "American Beauty" in 1970. He also played with Garcia for about 50 concerts and one album in 1973 as part of the bluegrass band Old and in the Way. 

That association apparently led to this different grouping a year later. The liner notes to the official David Grisman compilation album "DGQ20: A Twenty-Year Retrospective 1976-1996" explains what happened next:

"In 1974, mandolinist David Grisman and violinist Richard Greene, with Jerry Garcia, Taj Mahal, and others, formed a loose aggregation called the Great American Music Band.  The concept was simple: sophisticated folk and bluegrass instrumentalists creating a format to play and improvise without vocals.  The repertoire would draw on varied sources: traditional fiddle tunes, swing tunes from the Hot Club of France, and music from great American composers Bill Monroe, Fats Waller, and Duke Ellington. David Grisman had also been writing music, mostly bluegrass style mandolin tunes, patterned after those of his heroes Monroe, Frank Wakefield and others. Now, with this new vehicle, David started composing pieces with greater scope and a more personal stamp; 'dawg' music had come into being."

The band only played about 20 shows in the middle of 1974 before breaking up. Six of those were from this stand at Ebbets Field. By the end of the year, Grisman and Greene formed a new band with a similar style. That evolved into the David Grisman Quintet, which released its debut album in 1976. 

The quote above says the band was designed to be an instrumentals-only band. That was mostly true, but it wasn't entirely true. I find it curious that the band's bassist was Taj Mahal, who was a concert headliner of his own by this time, and generally played guitar, not bass. Maybe he just wanted to try something different for a while, and hone his bass playing skills. Anyway, he was a very capable vocalist, so although this concert was mostly instrumental, he did sing a couple of songs near the end ("Will the Circle Be Unbroken" and "Sweet Georgia Brown"). 

Also, singer-songwriter Eric Andersen was a surprise guest lead singer on two other songs. It seems like he just happened to be in town, and otherwise didn't have any involvement with this band.

By the way, this band was such a loose, low-key thing that even its name wasn't certain. Apparently, for most of the 20 or so concerts the band played, they were introduced as the "Great American String Band." But sometimes they were introduced as the "Great American Music Band." I went with the second name, since that's the name used for the band in the liner notes to an official David Grisman album years later. 

I was rather disappointed to find out that Jerry Garcia wasn't a part of this concert. So I looked around, and found that there is a excellent recording of a different 1974 concert that did involve Garcia, as well as Maria Muldaur. I plan on posting that here soon as well.

This album is an hour and two minutes long. 

01 talk by emcee (Great American Music Band)
02 Instrumental (Great American Music Band)
03 talk (Great American Music Band)
04 Dawg's Rag [Instrumental] (Great American Music Band)
05 talk (Great American Music Band)
06 Bud's Bounce [Instrumental] (Great American Music Band)
07 talk (Great American Music Band with Eric Andersen)
08 Beautiful Brown Eyes (Great American Music Band with Eric Andersen)
09 talk (Great American Music Band with Eric Andersen)
10 Why Don't You Love Me (Great American Music Band with Eric Andersen)
11 talk (Great American Music Band)
12 Swing '42 [Instrumental] (Great American Music Band)
13 talk (Great American Music Band)
14 Will the Circle Be Unbroken (Great American Music Band)
15 talk (Great American Music Band)
16 My Plastic Banana Is Not Stupid [Instrumental] (Great American Music Band)
17 talk (Great American Music Band)
18 It's Cold Outside [Instrumental] (Great American Music Band)
19 Back on the Porch [Instrumental] (Great American Music Band)
20 talk (Great American Music Band)
21 Sweet Georgia Brown (Great American Music Band)

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

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/I2VyZUac9aJWYOp/file

The cover photo shows Taj Mahal. It features him playing upright bass in a 1974 Great American Music Band concert, but a different one than the one presented here.

Emmylou Harris & Rodney Crowell - City Winery, Nashville, TN, 11-29-2021

Yesterday, I posted an acoustic concert of Emmylou Harris performing with Steve Earle at a small club in Nashville in 2021. They traded songs and shared stories for the entire concert. Today, I'm posting the exact same thing, except Harris did it with Rodney Crowell. 

It seems Harris did about six of these concerts in 2021, as people were starting to return to concerts as the Covid pandemic was easing up. All of these concerts went to benefit local charities. I could only find these two, but it seems they got a lot a bit more because they featured the best known guests. I know one more is with Harris and Buddy Miller. If anyone has that one, please let me know and I'll post it too.

Most or all of these concerts Harris did at this venue in 2021 were webcasts. So that means the sound quality is excellent, despite the fact that the music is unreleased.

Harris and Crowell have been musical collaborators and friends going back to the early 1970s, at the start of their respective musical careers. But it's very unique to have them share a full concert like this together, with just the two of them. For all I know, this may have been the only time this has happened. 

This album is an hour and 47 minutes long. 

01 talk (Emmylou Harris & Rodney Crowell)
02 Even Cowgirls Get the Blues (Emmylou Harris & Rodney Crowell)
03 talk (Emmylou Harris & Rodney Crowell)
04 Still Learning How to Fly (Emmylou Harris & Rodney Crowell)
05 talk (Emmylou Harris & Rodney Crowell)
06 Red Dirt Girl (Emmylou Harris & Rodney Crowell)
07 talk (Emmylou Harris & Rodney Crowell)
08 Bluebird Wine (Emmylou Harris & Rodney Crowell)
09 talk (Emmylou Harris & Rodney Crowell)
10 You Can't Say We Didn't Try (Emmylou Harris & Rodney Crowell)
11 talk (Emmylou Harris & Rodney Crowell)
12 Evangelina (Emmylou Harris & Rodney Crowell)
13 talk (Emmylou Harris & Rodney Crowell)
14 I'll Be Your San Antone Rose (Emmylou Harris & Rodney Crowell)
15 talk (Emmylou Harris & Rodney Crowell)
16 It Ain't Over Yet (Emmylou Harris & Rodney Crowell)
17 talk (Emmylou Harris & Rodney Crowell)
18 If I Could Only Win Your Love (Emmylou Harris & Rodney Crowell)
19 talk (Emmylou Harris & Rodney Crowell)
20 Just Pleasing You (Emmylou Harris & Rodney Crowell)
21 talk (Emmylou Harris & Rodney Crowell)
22 Invitation to the Blues (Emmylou Harris & Rodney Crowell)
23 talk (Emmylou Harris & Rodney Crowell)
24 Dreaming My Dreams with You (Emmylou Harris & Rodney Crowell)
25 'Till I Gain Control Again (Emmylou Harris & Rodney Crowell)
26 talk (Emmylou Harris & Rodney Crowell)
27 Pancho and Lefty (Emmylou Harris & Rodney Crowell)
28 talk (Emmylou Harris & Rodney Crowell)
29 Return of the Grievous Angel (Emmylou Harris & Rodney Crowell)
30 talk (Emmylou Harris & Rodney Crowell)
31 Tulsa Queen (Emmylou Harris & Rodney Crowell)
32 talk (Emmylou Harris & Rodney Crowell)
33 Old Yellow Moon (Emmylou Harris & Rodney Crowell)
34 Leaving Louisiana in the Broad Daylight (Emmylou Harris & Rodney Crowell)
35 talk (Emmylou Harris & Rodney Crowell)
36 talk (Emmylou Harris & Rodney Crowell)
37 Boulder to Birmingham (Emmylou Harris & Rodney Crowell)
38 talk (Emmylou Harris & Rodney Crowell)  

https://pixeldrain.com/u/7vqNgSLJ

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/Km3fPRfWjrHjJrd/file

The cover is a screenshot I took from a video of this exact concert. However, I used Photoshop to move the two people closer together.

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

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

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

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

This album is an hour and 36 minutes long. 

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

https://pixeldrain.com/u/m2paqekc 

alternate: 

https://bestfile.io/Tp4XhQjIm89w1un/file

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

Gillian Welch & David Rawlings - Acoustic Reckoning, Capitol Theatre, Port Chester, NY, 4-11-2026

Here's something for Grateful Dead fans as well as fans of Gillian Welch and David Rawlings: it's acoustic versions of most of the songs on the 1981 Grateful Dead album "Reckoning," plus many other Grateful Dead covers. There's a lot of music to love here as well, since the concert was almost three hours long. And it took place less than a month ago, as I write this in May 2026.

Lately, I've been doing a lot of searching for concerts that have taken place in the Capitol Theatre in Port Chester, New York, due to the leak of dozens of concerts from there a couple of weeks ago. The sound quality of these concerts is excellent, but most of them need work being split into individual song files and such, so I've been checking to see if other people are doing that. These searches have turned up a few things that don't actually come from that big leak, and this is one of them. This is from a webcast instead. So, while the sourcing is different, the sound quality is equally excellent.

Welch and Rawlings have become stars of roots music, blending country, bluegrass, and folk. But while they've released many albums mostly consisting of songs they've written, it turns out they've also been Deadheads all along. In fact, while gathering information for this album, I came across an article talking about how Welch followed the Dead for some concerts in the late 1980s, as Deadheads did. So, apparently just for fun, they decided to perform an entire tour of the U.S. consisting of nothing but covers of Dead songs, as well as cover songs closely associated with the Dead. The tour started in April 2026 with this concert, and will continue through August. So if you're reading this, you might want to go see them live. I checked their setlists at setlist.fm. It turns out they've been varying up their set lists a lot on the tour. They played 24 songs here. But they've done over 40 different ones on the tour so far, and all the songs are those that were performed by the Dead.

The tour was inspired by the Dead's "Reckoning" album, which was semi-acoustic. It's hard to call it fully acoustic, since the band had two drummers. But Welch and Rawlings went even more stripped down, being accompanied by just a bassist (as you can see on the cover image). A majority of the songs performed did appear on "Reckoning," but it's a loose tribute. They skipped some songs from that album, and played quite a few others. I was especially impressed by "St. Stephen," as I didn't know it could sound good with such minimal instrumentation.  

This album is two hours and 52 minutes long. 

01 talk (Gillian Welch & David Rawlings)
02 Bertha (Gillian Welch & David Rawlings)
03 Jack Straw (Gillian Welch & David Rawlings)
04 Oh Babe It Ain't No Lie (Gillian Welch & David Rawlings)
05 Dire Wolf (Gillian Welch & David Rawlings)
06 Dark Hollow (Gillian Welch & David Rawlings)
07 talk (Gillian Welch & David Rawlings)
08 It Must Have Been the Roses (Gillian Welch & David Rawlings)
09 Loser (Gillian Welch & David Rawlings)
10 Friend of the Devil (Gillian Welch & David Rawlings)
11 Cassidy (Gillian Welch & David Rawlings)
12 talk (Gillian Welch & David Rawlings)
13 Cumberland Blues (Gillian Welch & David Rawlings)
14 Brown-Eyed Women (Gillian Welch & David Rawlings)
15 I've Been All Around This World (Gillian Welch & David Rawlings)
16 Deep Elm Blues (Gillian Welch & David Rawlings)
17 Brokedown Palace (Gillian Welch & David Rawlings)
18 talk (Gillian Welch & David Rawlings)
19 He's Gone (Gillian Welch & David Rawlings)
20 Cold Rain and Snow (Gillian Welch & David Rawlings)
21 Bird Song (Gillian Welch & David Rawlings)
22 Ripple (Gillian Welch & David Rawlings)
23 talk (Gillian Welch & David Rawlings)
24 Althea (Gillian Welch & David Rawlings)
25 To Lay Me Down (Gillian Welch & David Rawlings)
26 St. Stephen (Gillian Welch & David Rawlings)
27 Not Fade Away - St. Stephen [Reprise] (Gillian Welch & David Rawlings)
28 Morning Dew (Gillian Welch & David Rawlings)
29 talk (Gillian Welch & David Rawlings) 

https://pixeldrain.com/u/eZTJVaSo

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/o5bi397bmPxuc35/file 

The cover image, from right to left: David Rawlings, Gillian Welch and Paul Kowert. This image was taken at the Fox Theater, in Oakland, California, on April 17th, 2026, less than a week after the concert presented here. The text at the top and the bottom come from a promotional image associated with the webcast. I just resized the words and moved them around.

Shawn Colvin & Steve Earle - Capitol Theatre, Port Chester, NY, 9-26-2014

I'm dealing with two "floods" right now - posting a flood of concerts from the Ebbets Field venue in the 1970s and posting a flood of recently leaked concerts from the Capitol Theatre venue in Port Chester in the 2010s. Here's another from that second flood. This one stars singer-songwriters Shawn Colvin and Steve Earle, with both of them in acoustic mode.

By the time of this concert, both Colvin and Earle had long music careers, with their first albums being released in the 1980s. They began performing together in 2014. At first, it seems they only did a handful of concerts in 2014 and 2015. But in 2016 they released an album together, "Colvin and Earle," and toured a lot more. Their collaboration petered out after that. 

I've posted a concert they did in 2016. Many of the songs are different, since this one is from two years earlier, well before their 2016 album was made. Here's the link to that one:

https://albumsthatshouldexist.blogspot.com/2024/02/shawn-colvin-steve-earle-hardly.html

As far as I know, that 2016 concert I posted was the only one featuring the two of them together with excellent sound quality, until this one recently was made public (as I write this in May 2026). This is a soundboard boot, like the others coming from the same Port Chester leak. 

A person named Frenfri made some improvements to this before I got my hands on it. That person broke the single file into songs, and make some sonic improvements as well. Also, the singers were identified for the songs as well as the banter. So I kept that information. But I believe both of them were on the stage the whole time. So even when only one of their names is mentioned, the other one could have been stumming along with guitar and/or doing some backing vocals.

The music is unreleased. The sound quality is excellent. 

This album is an hour and 54 minutes long. 

01 talk (Shawn Colvin & Steve Earle)
02 Wake Up, Little Susie (Shawn Colvin & Steve Earle)
03 talk (Steve Earle)
04 Devil's Right Hand (Steve Earle)
05 talk (Shawn Colvin)
06 Another Long One (Shawn Colvin)
07 talk (Steve Earle)
08 Goodbye (Steve Earle)
09 talk (Shawn Colvin)
10 A Matter of Minutes (Shawn Colvin)
11 Crazy (Shawn Colvin)
12 talk (Steve Earle)
13 Pancho and Lefty (Steve Earle)
14 talk (Shawn Colvin)
15 That Don't Worry Me Now (Shawn Colvin)
16 talk (Steve Earle)
17 Someday (Shawn Colvin & Steve Earle)
18 talk (Shawn Colvin)
19 Fearless Heart (Shawn Colvin & Steve Earle)
20 Diamond in the Rough (Shawn Colvin)
21 talk (Steve Earle)
22 City of Immigrants (Steve Earle)
23 talk (Steve Earle)
24 Burnin' It Down (Steve Earle)
25 talk (Shawn Colvin)
26 Sunny Came Home (Shawn Colvin)
27 talk (Shawn Colvin & Steve Earle)
28 The Galway Girl (Steve Earle)
29 talk (Steve Earle)
30 You're Still Standin' There (Shawn Colvin & Steve Earle)
31 talk (Shawn Colvin & Steve Earle)
32 Baby's in Black (Shawn Colvin & Steve Earle)
33 talk (Shawn Colvin & Steve Earle)
34 Copperhead Road (Steve Earle)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/giAUUYZ5

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/77Fo4va1vBTzYPB/file

The cover image is from a concert at the Chautauqua Auditorium in Boulder, Colorado on August 30, 2016.