Belle & Sebastian - BBC Sessions, Volume 11: In Concert, Glastonbury Festival, Worthy Farm, Pilton, Britain, 6-28-2015

Here's yet another in a long series of Belle and Sebastian performing for the BBC. It's a full concert from the yearly Glastonbury Festival in Britain.

Belle and Sebastian weren't very active for much of the 2010s. They put out an album in 2010, but didn't put out another one until 2015. That's why there's a five-year gap between this and previous volumes I've posted.

The Glastonbury Festival is massive, with a couple hundred thousand people in attendance. So I presume the band tried to be at their best, playing well known songs mixed with some from their latest album, 2015's "Girls in Peacetime Want to Dance." Other that, there's not much to say. It's an excellent recording with no problems, and there were no big surprises with the setlist or performance.

This concert is 58 minutes long.

01 talk (Belle & Sebastian)
02 Nobody's Empire (Belle & Sebastian)
03 I'm a Cuckoo (Belle & Sebastian)
04 talk (Belle & Sebastian)
05 The Party Line (Belle & Sebastian)
06 talk (Belle & Sebastian)
07 Another Sunny Day (Belle & Sebastian)
08 talk (Belle & Sebastian)
09 Allie (Belle & Sebastian)
10 talk (Belle & Sebastian)
11 Perfect Couples (Belle & Sebastian)
12 talk (Belle & Sebastian)
13 Lord Anthony (Belle & Sebastian)
14 Dear Catastrophe Waitress (Belle & Sebastian)
15 If You Find Yourself Caught in Love (Belle & Sebastian)
16 talk (Belle & Sebastian)
17 The Boy with the Arab Strap (Belle & Sebastian)
18 talk (Belle & Sebastian)
19 I Didn't See It Coming (Belle & Sebastian)

https://www.upload.ee/files/15832864/BellenS_2015_BBSessionsVolume11InConcertGlastonbury__6-28-2015_atse.zip.html

The cover photo shows band leader Stuart Murdoch posing dramatically at a similarly massive festival. But that one was Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, in Indio, California, in April, 2015.

Etta James, Dr. John & Allen Toussaint - PBS Soundstage, WTTW Studios, Chicago, IL, 6-29-1982

"PBS Soundstage" was a hour-long concert TV show created by the Chicago PBS TV station WTTW. It ran from 1974 to 1985, then again from 2003 to 2018. It was picked up and shown around the US mainly by PBS, but some other stations too. Whoever picked the artists for this show must have known and loved music, because they made some interesting choices. Occasionally, they had artists join together, such as this show, which has the inspired union of Etta James, Dr. John, and Allen Toussaint.

It you want to know more about them, I've posted individual albums by all three of them. (For Allen Toussaint, he was featured as part of my Covered series.) In short, Etta James was an acclaimed soul and blues singer, while Dr. John and Allen Toussaint were both closely associated with the music of New Orleans.

For this show, the three of them appeared on stage in various combinations, with a band backing them. For the song titles, I've only included those who could be heard singing. But it was often the case that Dr. John or Allen Toussaint were still on stage helping out by playing piano. And on some songs Dr. John played guitar instead, which was unusual for him at this point in his career. I know this because one can watch the video of the whole show on YouTube.

I did a little bit of editing and cutting. For instance, there were some short interview segments crammed in between some of the songs that clearly were filmed at a different place and time. I cut all those out. I'm sure there was more to this concert than what we have here. The makers had to fit it into an hour slot. So, for instance, it seems some of the banter before songs were cut. Even some of the songs were cut, especially the last one, "What I'd Say," which fades out after only a minute. But I figure having some of the concert is better than having none of it.

This album is 52 minutes long.

UPDATE: On March 17, 2025, I updated the mp3 download file. The music is the same. However, I figured out the exact date of the concert, so I changed the title. I also improved the cover art.

01 Groove Me (Etta James, Dr. John & Allen Toussaint)
02 Such a Night (Dr. John)
03 Right Place, Wrong Time (Dr. John)
04 Something's Got a Hold on Me (Etta James)
05 talk (Etta James)
06 Tell Mama (Etta James)
07 talk (Etta James)
08 Sugar on the Floor (Etta James)
09 I'd Rather Go Blind (Etta James & Dr. John)
10 What Do You Want the Girl to Do (Allen Toussaint)
11 With You in Mind (Allen Toussaint)
12 Life (Dr. John & Allen Toussaint)
13 Amazing Grace (Etta James, Dr. John & Allen Toussaint)
14 What'd I Say (Etta James, Dr. John & Allen Toussaint)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/eGXtY8Vk

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/YsnE5MhNKXFQQgQ/file

For the cover, I took a screenshot from the YouTube video. From right to left, that's James singing, Toussaint on piano, and John on guitar. In March 2025, I updated the image with the use of the Krea AI program.

Various Artists - Covered: Norman Whitfield & Barrett Strong, Volume 2: 1968-1970

This is Volume 2 of the Covered series, focusing on the songwriting team of Norman Whitfield and Barrett Strong. This is the time period where their collaboration reached full flower and they had hit after hit after hit.

Barry Gordy, the owner and leader of Motown Records, was known to be very conservative in his decision making. He didn't like being on the cutting edge musically, because that's not what was most commercially successful. But around 1968, Norman Whitfield, as the producer for a few big Motown groups, especially the Temptations, helped innovate what was dubbed "psychedelic soul." It took parts of psychedelic music popular in rock and roll in 1967 and applied it to soul music, expanding the possibilities of what soul music could be. Some of this was influenced by Sly and the Family Stone, which was doing a similar thing at the same time, but much of the innovation was original. This resulted in many more hit songs, all written by Whitfield and Barrett Strong, and a surge of popularity for the Temptations in particular.

I just have a few comments on the songs here. I included a version of "I Heard It through the Grapevine," even though there's a version of that song by Gladys Knight and the Pips on Volume One. Both versions were big hits, and different from each other, so I couldn't pick just one.

I picked the extended (album) version of "Runaway Child, Running Wild" to show off more of Whitfield's "psychedelic soul" production. The single version was five minutes long, but this one is nine and a half minutes long.

All of the songs were hits at the time for Motown artists, except one. That exception is "I Can't Get Next to You." That was a Number One hit in the US by the Temptations in 1969. But since I have a bunch of Temptations songs here, I chose the 1970 version by Al Green, which also was a hit.

This album is 53 minutes long.

01 The End of Our Road (Gladys Knight & the Pips)
02 I Heard It through the Grapevine (Marvin Gaye)
03 Cloud Nine (Temptations)
04 Friendship Train (Gladys Knight & the Pips)
05 That's the Way Love Is (Marvin Gaye)
06 Runaway Child, Running Wild [Extended Version] (Temptations)
07 Gonna Give Her All the Love I've Got (Marvin Gaye)
08 Don't Let the Joneses Get You Down (Temptations)
09 Too Busy Thinking about My Baby (Marvin Gaye)
10 Psychedelic Shack (Temptations)
11 I Can't Get Next to You (Al Green)
12 Message from a Black Man (Derrick Harriott)
13 Ball of Confusion [That's What the World Is Today] (Temptations)

https://www.upload.ee/files/17181193/COVRDWhtfildStrng1968-1970Volum2_atse.zip.html

alternate:

https://pixeldrain.com/u/W7Syoqpr

As with Volume 1, I had a hard time finding material for the cover image. I found a good color photo of Whitfield from 1972, so I used that. He's the one on the right with the big, wide afro hairdo. For Strong, I found a photo of him from 1970 that was in black and white, so I colorized it.

UPDATE: On September 30, 2024, I upgraded the photo with the use of the Krea AI program.

The Wild Honey Orchestra - Tribute to the Beach Boys. 1967 - 1977, Alex Theatre, Glendale, CA, 2-13-2016

Here's yet another concert from the Wild Honey Orchestra (WHO), that collection of mostly Los Angeles-based professional musicians. 

This time, the target of their tribute show is a little unexpected. The tribute is to the Beach Boys, but not that band's most popular era, in the early and mid-1960s when they had hits like "California Girls" and "Help Me, Rhonda." Instead, it focuses on the years 1967 to 1977. By that time, the band's resident genius was less involved. But the other band members stepped up with surprisingly strong songwriting efforts, leading to more variety. Personally, that's my favorite Beach Boys era, even though there were a lot fewer hits in those years.

The Beach Boys are an ideal tribute subject for the WHO, because their music sounded simple but actually was surprisingly complicated. How many bands of that era would use instruments like the glockenspiel and theramin? But the Beach Boys did. The WHO could have twenty or more musicians on stage at a time, and these songs were well rehearsed, so they were able to nail the arrangements while a carousel of different lead singers sang the songs.

This time around, the WHO was joined by one actual long-time member of the Beach Boys, Al Jardine. But his role was relatively small compared to that of John Sebastian at the WHO's Lovin' Spoonful tribute show. Jardine only sang three songs, two near the beginning and one at the end. David Marks was also there and sang one song. But his involvement with the Beach Boys was much less. He was a member of the band in its very early years, 1962 and 1963, then joined again for their 2012 reunion album and tour.

Other than them, it was mostly the "usual suspects." By now, I've noticed that certain people seem to have taken part in the WHO show every year, or at least most every year. People like Thomas Walsh of Pugwash, Susan Cowsill of the Cowsills, Syd Straw, Mike Mills of R.E.M., Micky Dolenz of the Monkees, Darian Sahanaja of the Wondermints, and so on.

The source for this bootleg is the same as the others, which means excellent sound quality. But there's the same quirk that it's only the songs and not much talking between songs, except usually giving out artist names at the end of each song. In fact, this time there are no banter tracks whatsoever. 

But on the plus side, there's a heck of a lot of music. This album is two hours and 17 minutes long, which I believe is the longest of the WHO shows I have recordings for.

Unfortunately, I only have one more WHO concert after this one, a 2016 tribute show for the Band. There are many more shows than that, including a 2022 Big Star tribute show, so let's hope quality bootlegs of more of them emerge. If you have any, please let me know.

By the way, the bootleg I found had a nice graphic included that shows which songs played were originally from which Beach Boys album. So I've included that in the zip file as well, and you can see it here.

01 Our Prayer (Wild Honey Vocal Group with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
02 Heroes and Villains (Al Jardine with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
03 California Saga- California (Al Jardine with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
04 Feel Flows (Thomas Walsh & Carnie Wilson with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
05 Country Air (Rachel Haden & Anna Waronker with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
06 This Whole World (Chris Price & Emeen Zarookian with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
07 Breakaway (John Wicks & Debbi Peterson with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
08 Sail On Sailor (Susan Cowsill with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
09 Add Some Music to Your Day (Willie Aron with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
10 Thoughts of You (Syd Straw with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
11 Let Us Go On This Way (Steve Wynn, Mike Mills & Linda Pitmon with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
12 Our Sweet Love (Steve Stanley with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
13 Be Still (Stephen Kalinich with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
14 Surf's Up (Skylar Gudasz & Brett Harris with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
15 Funky Pretty (Scott Bennett with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
16 Disney Girls (Rumer with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
17 'Til I Die (Roger Joseph Manning, Jr. with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
18 The Trader (Rob Laufer with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
19 I Can Hear Music (Nick Guzman with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
20 Friends (Nelson Bragg & Carnie Wilson with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
21 Wonderful (Muffs with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
22 Busy Doin' Nothing (Mike Randle & Monique St. Walker with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
23 Be Here in the Mornin' (Mike Randle with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
24 WIld Honey (Micky Dolenz with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
25 Time to Get Alone (Matt Jardine with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
26 Wake the World (Jason Brewer with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
27 Little Bird (David Marks with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
28 Darlin' (Darian Sahanaja with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
29 Let the Wind Blow (Danny Henry with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
30 Marcella (Cosmo Topper with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
31 Only with You (Chris Price with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
32 Bluebirds Over the Mountain (Carla Olson with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
33 Pacific Ocean Blues (Bobby Figueroa & Carl B. Wilson with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
34 Lookin' at Tomorrow (Cindy Lee Berryhill with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
35 Forever (Billy Hinsche with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
36 Back Home (Bill Mumy with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
37 Day in the Life of a Tree (Andrew Sandoval with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
38 Long Promised Road (All Day Sucker with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
39 Honkin' Down the Highway (Al Jardine with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
40 Hold On Dear Brother (David Goodstein & Monique St. Walker with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
41 Good Vibrations (Probyn Gregory with the Wild Honey Orchestra)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/Qrx17wqx

alternate: 

https://bestfile.io/en/3bBPM9tImq65GYs/file

alternate:

https://www.imagenetz.de/guGh7

I made the cover art from two sources. The top and bottom parts both come from promotional art for the show. I split that in two and made some other adjustments. In the middle, I put some artwork by someone named Thomas Leparskas. This is a collage of everyone who participated in the show.

Marshall Crenshaw - BBC Sessions, Volume 1: BBC College Concert, My Father’s Place, Roslyn, NY, 6-29-1982

The subject of my next BBC posting is American power pop musician Marshall Crenshaw. I found two concerts he did that were broadcast by the BBC, one from 1982 and the other from 1983. Here's the first one.

Crenshaw released his debut album, "Marshall Crenshaw," in 1982. It was his best selling album, and it contains his only Top 40 US hit, "Someday, Someway." He'd been writing songs and improving his musical skills for many years prior to his debut album, so it's a surprisingly strong one. 

This isn't a "true" BBC concert, meaning one recorded in Britain by BBC professionals. Instead, this was first broadcast on the New York radio station WLIR. But it seems the BBC wanted to have something from him at the time, so they got this recording it and broadcast it in Britain in early 1983, making it a BBC concert too. It remains officially unreleased.

Most of the songs are Crenshaw originals, generally from his debut album. However, there are three covers: "Soldier of Love," "Move It" and "Got a Lot of Livin' to Do." The first was by soul singer Arthur Alexander, the second was a big hit by Cliff Richards in the 1950s, and the third is an obscure Elvis Presley song.

This concert is 48 minutes long.

UPDATE: On March 3, 2025, I updated the mp3 download file. The music is the same, but I changed the album name to "Volume 1" after posting a "Volume 2." I also changed the cover art somewhat, giving the text new colors.

01 Soldier of Love (Marshall Crenshaw)
02 Not for Me (Marshall Crenshaw)
03 talk (Marshall Crenshaw)
04 There She Goes Again (Marshall Crenshaw)
05 Brand New Lover (Marshall Crenshaw)
06 I'll Do Anything (Marshall Crenshaw)
07 talk (Marshall Crenshaw)
08 Mary Anne (Marshall Crenshaw)
09 Rockin' Around in N.Y.C. (Marshall Crenshaw)
10 talk (Marshall Crenshaw)
11 Something's Gonna Happen (Marshall Crenshaw)
12 Move It (Marshall Crenshaw)
13 talk (Marshall Crenshaw)
14 Someday, Someway (Marshall Crenshaw)
15 Got a Lot of Livin' to Do (Marshall Crenshaw)
16 She Can't Dance (Marshall Crenshaw)
17 talk (Marshall Crenshaw)
18 Cynical Girl (Marshall Crenshaw)
19 Girls (Marshall Crenshaw)
20 The Usual Thing (Marshall Crenshaw)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/SzgEwNz1

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/i2UPy7hz4wXorWC/file

Sometimes I get lucky with the cover photos, and this appears to be one of those times. The cover is from this exact concert. However, it was taken at the soundcheck before the show.

Alan Bown - BBC Sessions, Volume 1: 1966-1969

Next up with my big BBC project is Alan Bown. If you don't know who Alan Bown is, I'm not surprised. I didn't know of him until this project. In short, he was the leader of a British band that went by several names: The Alan Bown Set, The Alan Bown!, and finally just Alan Bown. For simplicity's sake, I'm just using "Alan Bown" across the board. But just as Spencer Davis was not the main guy in the Spencer Davis Group (that was Steve Winwood), Bown was the trumpet player and not the lead vocalist or main songwriter, so it's a bit odd to me that the band was named after him. 

Alan Bown never had a big hit, though they came close a couple of times. However, they developed enough of a following to put out five albums and a bunch of singles while the band was together from 1965 to 1972. The band went through all the same musical changes many British bands went through at the time. They started out rooted in blues and jazz. That morphed into soul, then psychedelia, then progressive rock. If the band is remembered for anything these days, it's probably for the fact that Robert Palmer was the lead singer for a while. But the band has enough material for two BBC volumes, and Palmer won't show up until Volume 2.

Here's the Wikipedia link if you want to know more:

The Alan Bown Set - Wikipedia

The first three songs aren't actually from BBC recordings. They're taken from a relatively obscure 1965 live album called "London Swings: Live at the Marquee Club." But I wanted to include them because none of the band's 1965 BBC recordings survive, and I wanted something to document that period. The song "Emergency 999" wasn't well known at the time, but later caught on as a Northern Soul favorite. 

Everything else here is from BBC studio sessions. Only one of those songs is officially released though. "Pandora's Golden Heebie Jeebies" came out on a various artists compilation focused on BBC recordings called "Shapes and Sounds, Volume 2." But the vast majority of the unreleased songs come from pristine transcription reels and so have excellent sound quality.

You may notice that aside from the first three songs, which aren't actually BBC recordings, every single song has "[Edit]" in their titles. That's because in every single case, BBC DJs talked over the music. But I did my usual thing of using the X-Minus audio editing program to wipe that talking while keeping the underlying music.

Actually, one of those didn't have a BBC DJ talking over the music: "Story Book." But it has "[Edit]" in the title for other reasons. The sound quality of that one was so poor that when I first posted this, I only included it as a bonus track. But within 24 hours, musical friend MZ surprised me by making some improvements, and it sounded a lot better. I noticed the vocals were still low, so I used X-Minus to boost them. The combined results were good enough for me to remove it from being a bonus track, but the sound is still somewhat rougher than the others.

This album is 46 minutes long.

01 It's Growing (Alan Bown)
02 Emergency 999 (Alan Bown)
03 I Need You (Alan Bown)
04 Do the Boomerang [Edit] (Alan Bown)
05 Gonna Fix You Good [Edit] (Alan Bown)
06 Headline News [Edit] (Alan Bown)
07 Penny for Your Thoughts [Edit] (Alan Bown)
08 Technicolour Dream [Edit] (Alan Bown)
09 My Girl the Month of May [Edit] (Alan Bown)
10 Pandora's Golden Heebie Jeebies [Edit] (Alan Bown)
11 Toyland [Edit] (Alan Bown)
12 Love Is a Beautiful Thing [Edit] (Alan Bown)
13 Story Book [Edit] (Alan Bown)
14 Magic Handkerchief [Edit] (Alan Bown)
15 All Along the Watchtower [Edit] (Alan Bown)
16 Still as a Stone [Edit] (Alan Bown)

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

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/8UbsXSbwx6wpEqj/file

A couple of days after I first posted this album, I redid the cover with a different photo I found while looking for a good photo for Volume 2. This one come from a Facebook page for the band. A band member who was actually in the photo suggests it dates from 1966 or 1967. Later, I improved the photo with the use of the Krea AI program.

The Jeff Beck Group - Fillmore West, San Francisco, CA, 7-24-1968

This is easily the best sounding bootleg from when Rod Stewart was a part of the Jeff Beck Group in the 1960s. It has gotten around publicly, including with several grey market releases (meaning they look like official releases but the original artist has no say and gets no profit). In 2023, I found a recently posted version that was edited by Captain Acid and Professor Goody to fix speed and pitch issues. It's the best sounding version yet.

However, that version still had big sound quality issues, in my opinion. Some people, such as those two, are purists who only want to fix technical flaws. I'm more than willing to go further and tinker with whatever I think makes a recording sound better. In this case, I thought the lead vocals were too low in many places. So, using the audio editing program X-Minus, I went through the entire recording line and line, and made lots of little adjustments. That's because some areas needed much more volume boosting than others. For instance, Jeff Beck sang only one song, "Hi Ho Silver Lining." His vocals had to be boosted more than Stewart's. He's a lead guitarist, not really a singer, so I suspect his microphone was turned down lower. And on "Morning Dew," there were parts where Stewart's vocals were so low they could barely be heard at all. But now they come through loud and clear.

But I made some other edits as well. This is an excellent soundboard bootleg, overall. But one problem with excellent soundboards is that they sometimes capture the sound on stage so well that barely any audience cheering is heard. That was the case here, so I boosted the audience reactions at the ends of songs quite a bit. I also boosted what little banter there was between songs. Finally, the first fifteen or so seconds of the first song, "You Shook Me," were missing. I used the BBC version of that song, which I've also posted at this blog, to fill in that missing part. The two versions matched very well. That's why the first song has "[Edit]" in the title, although in fact I made many edits to all the songs.

The one downside to this concert is that it's relatively short. But it appears to be the whole thing. I found set lists of some other concerts they did around this time with the exact same songs in the same order. They weren't well known yet - their first album "Truth" came out several days AFTER this concert - so they only had a short opening slot. You can hear Beck mention at the end that Moby Grape was going to come to the stage next.

It's true this concert is short, only 32 minutes long. But the sound quality is fantastic for a 1968 live recording, and the band was on fire.

01 You Shook Me [Edit] (Jeff Beck Group)
02 Let Me Love You (Jeff Beck Group)
03 talk (Jeff Beck Group)
04 Morning Dew (Jeff Beck Group)
05 Jeff's Boogie [Instrumental] (Jeff Beck Group)
06 The Sun Is Shining (Jeff Beck Group)
07 talk (Jeff Beck Group)
08 Hi Ho Silver Lining (Jeff Beck Group)

https://www.upload.ee/files/15275902/JeffB_1968_FillmoreWstSanFranciscoCA__7-24-1968_atse.zip.html

I'm really happy with how the cover photo of Beck came out. It was taken at the Fillmore West in 1968, but later in the year, in December. The original was in black and white. However, I've found a new program to colorize pictures. It's called Palette and it does an even better job than Pixbim does, using the same kind of new AI (artificial intelligence) technology as that used in ChatGPT and other revolutionary programs. It's free, and you can find it here:

Palette - Colorize Photos

Los Lobos - Graffiti's, Pittsburgh, PA, 9-29-1992

Los Lobos has put out a lot of quality music over the years of their long career, but in my opinion they peaked in 1992 with the album "Kiko." That album generally got their best critical ratings for its inventiveness and diversity, and for good reason. So when I wanted to listen to a Los Lobos concert recently, I went looking for one from 1992.

I found one, which I'm posting here. It's a long concert, nearly two hours, with a well chosen song selection. And critically, it's a soundboard, so it sounds great.

That said, I listened to it a few times, and something seemed a bit off. I wasn't going to post it due to sound quality issues. Then I realized the problem was a bad mix. Although it is a clear soundboard, so much so that there isn't much audience heard at the ends of songs, the drums were too loud, the guitars too quiet, etc... I used the audio editing program Spleeter to break the different instruments into different tracks, then boost or lower their volumes, and then recombine them. So I thought this would be an easy concert to post, but it turned out to be a pain in the butt for me. 

But the end result is most likely the best 1992 bootleg from the band. I think it sounds much better than it did before, after fixing the mixes. In fact, if one were to pick just one concert of theirs to listen to, I'd challenge any fan to find one that beats this one.

There were a couple other issues I fixed. The volume levels wandered all over the place in the first two songs. That almost certainly is due to the person manning the board making adjustments. So, on top of the remixing editing mentioned above, I had to do more work on those two songs. But they sound pretty good now. Also, the talking between songs was at a low volume, so I boosted those bit up. Plus, I cut out a fair amount of dead air between songs, such as tuning up.

This album is an hour and 55 minutes long. A big chunk of that is the last song, a cover of the Grateful Dead song "Bertha" that jams for 16 minutes.

01 talk (Los Lobos)
02 Ay Te Dejo en San Antonio [Edit] (Los Lobos)
03 talk (Los Lobos)
04 I Got to Let You Know [Edit] (Los Lobos)
05 Kiko and the Lavender Moon (Los Lobos)
06 talk (Los Lobos)
07 Let’s Say Goodnight (Los Lobos)
08 One Time, One Night (Los Lobos)
09 My Baby’s Gone (Los Lobos)
10 Short Side of Nothing (Los Lobos)
11 talk (Los Lobos)
12 Just a Man (Los Lobos)
13 Dream in Blue (Los Lobos)
14 Wake Up Dolores (Los Lobos)
15 talk (Los Lobos)
16 Anselma (Los Lobos)
17 talk (Los Lobos)
18 Los Ojos de Pancha (Los Lobos)
19 talk (Los Lobos)
20 Carabina 30-30 (Los Lobos)
21 Wicked Rain (Los Lobos)
22 Papa Was a Rolling Stone (Los Lobos)
23 I Can’t Understand (Los Lobos)
24 talk (Los Lobos)
25 Georgia Slop (Los Lobos)
26 Peace (Los Lobos)
27 Jenny’s Got a Pony (Los Lobos)
28 talk (Los Lobos)
29 Evangeline (Los Lobos)
30 Will the Wolf Survive (Los Lobos)
31 Don’t Worry Baby (Los Lobos)
32 talk (Los Lobos)
33 Marie, Marie (Los Lobos)
34 talk (Los Lobos)
35 That Train Don’t Stop Here (Los Lobos)
36 talk (Los Lobos)
37 Bertha (Los Lobos)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/V3wi7mXF

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/iCoI1gvhNGqRarX/file

I didn't find any really good photo of the band in 1992. This one is captioned "circa 1990," so who knows, maybe it's from 1992. At least it looks close. Unfortunately it only highlights two band members, but those are the two singer-songwriters (Cesar Rosas on the left and David Hidalgo on the right).

Various Artists - Covered: Norman Whitfield & Barrett Strong, Volume 1: 1960-1967

The Covered series rises from the dead again. Singer and songwriter Barrett Strong died over a month ago as I write this in March 2023. He died on January 28, 2023. He was 81 years old. I got a request in the comments section to include him in the Covered series. I thought that was a good idea, except he mostly wrote songs with producer Norman Whitfield, so this features songs by either or both of them, though most often both.

Strong is probably best known as the singer on the classic 1959 hit "Money (That's What I Want)." It was a very pivotal record because it was the very first hit for the soon to be legendary record company Motown Records. Rolling Stone Magazine has listed it as one of the 500 greatest songs of all time. Technically, the song was only written by Barry Gordy (the founder of Motown) and Janie Bradford. However, Strong has always claimed he had a role in writing it, and his name was on the credits as late as 1968. Given his later track record of songwriting success, I'm giving him the benefit of the doubt in having a role.

Strong had a strange career because he had that big hit, and he clearly was a talented singer. But he soon retired from singing and releasing records in favor of being a professional songwriter for the Motown label. (Yet in the 1970s he would briefly resurrect his singing career, as I will explain another time.) 

Whitfield and Strong soon began writing songs together, because they co-wrote "Wherever I Lay My Hat (That's My Home)," which was a minor hit for Marvin Gaye in 1962. I'm not including it here because it was a Number One hit for Paul Young in the 1980s, so I will be including that version. But I guess it took time for their songwriting partnership to jell, because most of the songs on this volume were written by Whitfield or Strong with others, not with each other. They would hit their stride as a songwriting team with "I Heard It through the Grapevine" in 1967, one of the most popular songs of all time (and of course also on that Rolling Stone Magazine list), and almost always wrote together after that.

Whitfield began as a songwriter for Motown in the early 1960s at the tender age of 19. He was fairly successful, co-writing songs like "Too Many Fish in the Sea" and "Needle in a Haystack." But he slowly moved into production, most crucially taking over production of all records by the Temptations in 1966. He would do so well in that that his production work generally overshadowed his songwriting.

If you want to know more, here's the Wikipedia page on Strong:

Barrett Strong - Wikipedia

And here's the page on Whitfield:

Norman Whitfield - Wikipedia 

Note that for different songwriters in the Covered series, I use different self-imposed rules. If an artist generally doesn't have a lot of hits, I usually pick the versions of the songs that I like the most, and try to keep it to one song for each artist. But with Whitfield and Strong, it's pretty much ALL hits in this collection, and enough for three volumes. I decided to usually go with the biggest hit versions, since those usually were also the best. Thus, there tends to be many songs by a small group of musical artists, because Strong and Whitfield typically were only assigned by Motown to those artists.

One oddity here is the song "Stay in My Corner," by the Dells. I believe it's the only song in this volume that wasn't done by a Motown artist. Strong was one of three co-writers on that, without Whitfield. It was first released by the Dells in 1965, but they had a Number One hit on the R&B charts in the US with it in 1968.

Generally speaking, the songs appear here in chronological order by year, though I moved a couple a little bit to limit the number of times there were two songs in a row by the same artist.

This album is 53 minutes long.

01 Money [That's What I Want] (Barrett Strong)
02 Pride and Joy (Marvin Gaye)
03 He Was Really Sayin' Somethin' (Velvelettes)
04 Girl [Why You Wanna Make Me Blue] (Temptations)
05 Needle in a Haystack (Velvelettes)
06 Too Many Fish in the Sea (Marvelettes)
07 Throw a Farewell Kiss (Velvelettes)
08 Can't You See [You're Losing Me] (Mary Wells)
09 A Bird in the Hand [Is Worth Two in the Bush] (Velvelettes)
10 Stay in My Corner (Dells)
11 Lonely, Lonely Girl Am I (Velvelettes)
12 [I Know] I'm Losing You (Temptations)
13 Ain't Too Proud to Beg (Temptations)
14 [Stop Leading Me On] I Know How to Love Her (Jimmy Ruffin)
15 Beauty Is Only Skin Deep (Temptations)
16 Everybody Needs Love (Gladys Knight & the Pips)
17 I Wish It Would Rain (Temptations)
18 Take Me in Your Arms and Love Me (Gladys Knight & the Pips)
19 You're My Everything (Temptations)
20 I Heard It through the Grapevine (Gladys Knight & the Pips)

https://www.upload.ee/files/17181194/COVRDWhtfildStrng1959-1967Volum1_atse.zip.html

alternate:

https://pixeldrain.com/u/ZfJyBDgZ

I actually finished putting these Whitfield and Strong volumes together a couple of weeks ago. But I didn't post them because I couldn't figure out what to do for the cover art. The number of photos of Whitfield and Strong together is extremely small, and most of them are of low quality. I especially had trouble finding any for this time period, because they got famous. 

Eventually, I found this one, which is from 1969, probably at some awards ceremony because they're wearing tuxedos. It was black and white, naturally, and very small, but I did my best to enlarge it, colorize it, and make it look decent. Although it's from 1969, it was right before both of them got afros. From other, even worse pictures, usually of just one of them, I can saw they looked pretty much like this for most of the 1960s, with short haircuts and little facial hair.

UPDATE: On September 30, 2024, I upgraded the photo with the use of the Krea AI program.

John Mellencamp - Timothy White's Rockstars, Belmont Mall Studios, Belmont, IN, 7-10-1987

Rcently, I searched to see if I could find any BBC performances by John Mellencamp. I came up blank - he probably haven't performed in Britain much. But in the search, I did find a really great American radio show performance he did in 1987, near the height of his fame.

"Timothy White's Rockstars" is a radio show broadcast on a US radio network. I've already posted a show from that featuring Steve Winwood and Jim Capaldi. It a good show in that it mixes in live performances (without a studio audience) with extensive talking. What I've done here is I've cut the talking way down. I've removed all the talking by DJ Timothy White, for instance. I also got rid of a couple of long interview segments with John Mellencamp. But I kept Mellencamp's comments that were directly relevant to the songs being played. With some clever editing, I think the result is it seems as if this was a concert (with no audience) and some banter before each song. That's what I was aiming for, anyway.

I used the audio editing program Spleeter for some other editing. For instance, I removed a couple of cases where the DJ started talking a few seconds before a song ended. I also boosted the lead vocals in some cases. So, technically speaking, pretty much every track here should have "[Edit]" in their titles. But I saved that for just one song, the instrumental "Walk, Don't Run," which had really drastic editing in it. The DJ Timothy White talked over a big chunk of it, giving thank yous and credits at the end of the show. This damaged the underlying music so much that it didn't sound good. Luckily, the instrumental repeated some parts almost exactly, so nothing really important was lost.

The result of all my editing is that you're left with an excellent sounding bunch of songs, plus some interesting banter. Because this was recorded in a studio with no audience, the songs often sound as good as the studio versions.

This album is 47 minutes long.

01 Introduction (John Mellencamp)
02 Paper in Fire (John Mellencamp)
03 talk (John Mellencamp)
04 Hard Times for an Honest Man (John Mellencamp)
05 talk (John Mellencamp)
06 Cherry Bomb (John Mellencamp)
07 talk (John Mellencamp)
08 Shama Lama Ding Dong (John Mellencamp)
09 talk (John Mellencamp)
10 Small Town (John Mellencamp)
11 talk (John Mellencamp)
12 Empty Hands (John Mellencamp)
13 talk (John Mellencamp)
14 Down and Out in Paradise (John Mellencamp)
15 talk (John Mellencamp)
16 Rooty Toot Toot (John Mellencamp)
17 talk (John Mellencamp)
18 Pink Houses (John Mellencamp)
19 talk (John Mellencamp)
20 R.O.C.K. in the U.S.A. (John Mellencamp)
21 Walk Don't Run [Instrumental] [Edit] (John Mellencamp)

https://www.upload.ee/files/16693363/JOHNMLLNCMP1987_TmthyWhitesRockstrsBelmntMllStudos__7-10-1987_atse.zip.html

The cover photo was taken at a concert in Ohio University some time in 1987.

Tir Na Nog - Live, 1970-1971

Here's another album from the Irish folk rock duo Tir Na Nog. They're so obscure that there are virtually no bootlegs of them. But I did find one, only on YouTube. It only had some songs from a selection of undated concerts in a small club in Cornwall, Britain, in 1971. Additionally, their only official live album from their 1970s heyday is called "Live 1970-'71." (A title similar to mine here, but different.) That combines some BBC material with a short live set they did for "Doing Their Thing," a short-lived music show on the Granada TV channel in Britain.

So this album is a combination of the two sources. Tracks 1 through 13 make up the compete "Doing Their Thing" performance. The rest comes from the bootleg of the Cornwall shows. The unreleased songs have good sound quality in my opinion, close to the others. Plus, there's banter before many of the songs in both. So, in my opinion, it sounds like one cohesive show.

The Cornwall boot on YouTube actually has many more songs. But I've only included the ones not performed in the "Doing Your Thing" show or other BBC recordings that I'll post later, since the quality is a little worse. 

There are a few cover songs here: "Woodstock" by Joni Mitchell, "Willy o' Winsbury," a traditional song, "Story of Isaac" by Leonard Cohen, and "Reason to Believe" by Tim Hardin. No official versions of "Willy o' Winsbury" and "Reason to Believe" by the duo have been released.

This album is 42 minutes long. The "Doing Their Thing" portion is 25 minutes long.

01 Let My Love Grow (Tir Na Nog)
02 talk (Tir Na Nog)
03 Daisy Lady (Tir Na Nog)
04 talk (Tir Na Nog)
05 Mill Pond (Tir Na Nog)
06 talk (Tir Na Nog)
07 Looking Up (Tir Na Nog)
08 talk (Tir Na Nog)
09 Time Is like a Promise (Tir Na Nog)
10 talk (Tir Na Nog)
11 Woodstock (Tir Na Nog)
12 talk (Tir Na Nog)
13 I'm Happy to Be [On This Mountain] [Edit] (Tir Na Nog)
14 Two White Horses (Tir Na Nog)
15 talk (Tir Na Nog)
16 Willy o' Winsbury (Tir Na Nog)
17 Hey Friend (Tir Na Nog)
18 talk (Tir Na Nog)
19 Story of Isaac (Tir Na Nog)
20 Reason to Believe (Tir Na Nog)

https://www.upload.ee/files/15634992/TirTaN_1970-1971_Lve_atse.zip.html

The cover picture is a bit rough. That's because it's a screenshot from the "Doing Their Thing" TV show. There are nearly no photos of the band from that time period otherwise.

Gene Clark - Dingwall's, London, Britain, 4-4-1985

Gene Clark was one of the founding members of the Byrds. For the band's first couple of years, he was their most prolific singer and songwriter, writing or co-writing great songs like "I'll Feel a Whole Lot Better" and "Eight Miles High." Unfortunately though, he quit in 1966. Then he had a long solo career before dying young in 1991. However, he never had any solo hits and his solo career tends to get ignored, even by many Byrds fans. I really need to post some of his solo material to try to bring it more attention. Here's a start.

Because Clark wasn't a big name as a solo artist, he didn't get bootlegged that often, and there are very few bootlegs with excellent sound quality. This is one of the best, but it's only an audience bootleg, not a soundboard. However, it's unusually good as far as audience boots go. I rather bother with those at all, but there are plenty of soundboards that actually sound worse than this. It's a long concert done in solo acoustic format, with lots of interesting song choices. Clark had ups and downs in his career, due to drug use, medical issues, and so on. But this was from a time when he was sounding very good.

Although this recording sounded very good, it had many, many problems. But I spent a lot of work fixing them, and I think I got most of them. One problem is that whoever was recording this often turned off their recording device between songs in order to save tape. Thankfully it didn't happen between every song, but many of them. As a result, the applause was sometimes cut off, or there was no time for any applause at all. A couple of songs had their beginnings cut off too, as the person probably was a bit slow hitting the record button again. I'm sure there is a lot of between song banter that was lost due to this.

Happily, there were enough instances of applause that did survive that allowed me to fix this. I was able to patch in cheering after one song to another song. I had to do tricks like that probably for a majority of the songs. But when you listen, hopefully the applause will sound totally normal and complete. I also boosted the lead vocals for some songs. I made so many changes like that that I only reserved adding "[Edit]" to the songs where I made even more significant edits on top of those.

One example of a more significant edit is "Satisfied Mind." Clark started the song, got through part of the first verse, but then realized one of the guitar strings was way off. So he stopped, fixed the string, then started again. Unfortunately when he started again, the taper was slow to resume recording. But as luck would have it, the aborted beginning and the missed part covered about the same amount. So I was able to merge the two takes into one that sounds complete. I got very lucky there. :)

A similar problem happened with "Knockin' on Heaven's Door" - the beginning is missing. In that case, I got lucky again, because the first verse was repeated near the end of the song. So I was able to patch in the first two lines, making it complete.

For "Eight Miles High," the first five seconds or so sounded out of key, no doubt due to tape distortion. Luckily, that was an instrumental part that was repeated later, so I was able to patch that up too. 

In the case of "One in a Hundred," there was a section in the middle where Clark forgot the chords, stopped the song, remembered, then started the song again. That annoyed me, so I was able to fix that section so it sounded like he never made the mistake. Unfortunately though, he forgot the lyrics later in the song and stopped it early. There was nothing I could do about that. There also were a couple other songs where he had notable trouble forgetting the lyrics or the chords. I kept those mistakes in. He was stretching out, taking requests and thus trying some songs he didn't remember that well.

Most of the songs are originals, but there are some exceptions, like "It's All Over Now, Baby Blue," "Gates of Eden," "The Bells of Rhymney," "Mr. Tambourine Man," and "Knockin' on Heaven's Door," all of them written by Bob Dylan, or in the case of "The Bells of Rhymney," closely associated with him. Other covers were: "Satisfied Mind," "In the Pines," "Fair and Tender Ladies," and "Long Black Veil."

This album is an hour and 52 minutes long.

01 Kansas City Southern (Gene Clark)
02 It's All Over Now, Baby Blue (Gene Clark)
03 talk (Gene Clark)
04 No Other (Gene Clark)
05 She Darked the Sun (Gene Clark)
06 talk (Gene Clark)
07 Here without You (Gene Clark)
08 Gates of Eden (Gene Clark)
09 The World Turns All Around Her (Gene Clark)
10 Silver Raven (Gene Clark)
11 talk (Gene Clark)
12 Spanish Guitar (Gene Clark)
13 talk (Gene Clark)
14 The Bells of Rhymney (Gene Clark)
15 Satisfied Mind [Edit] (Gene Clark)
16 Full Circle (Gene Clark)
17 American Dreamer (Gene Clark)
18 Why Did You Leave (Gene Clark)
19 Crazy Ladies (Gene Clark)
20 talk (Gene Clark)
21 Hear the Wind (Gene Clark)
22 In the Pines (Gene Clark)
23 talk (Gene Clark)
24 One in a Hundred [Edit] (Gene Clark)
25 talk (Gene Clark)
26 Gypsy Rider (Gene Clark)
27 talk (Gene Clark)
28 Rodeo Rider (Gene Clark)
29 I Don't Have You (Gene Clark)
30 talk (Gene Clark)
31 Fair and Tender Ladies (Gene Clark)
32 Mr. Tambourine Man (Gene Clark)
33 Eight Miles High [Edit] (Gene Clark)
34 Knockin' on Heaven's Door [Edit] (Gene Clark)
35 Long Black Veil (Gene Clark)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/mM66x7A5

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/nSWc83RTrjfFpGq/file

Because Clark's solo career wasn't very commercially successful, there are very few good photos of him from the 1980s. I wanted to use a photo of him in concert from 1985 or thereabouts, but couldn't find one. However, I found a good close up of his head from 1986, which is pretty close, so I used that. The original had some issues, such as the colors being too strong, but I made some adjustments in Photoshop. Then, in February 2025, I upgraded the image quality some with the Krea AI program.

U2 - Levitate - Non-Album Tracks (1998-2000)

In my opinion, U2 was an excellent band for all of the 1980s and 1990s, but they've been on a slow decline ever since. That is the common trend for musical acts. For instance, I saw a chart once that showed the average time between album releases. Artists tend to release an album a year at first, then an album once every two years, then once every three years, and so on. Often it gets to a point like the Rolling Stones these days (as I write this in 2023) where a new album comes once every five to ten years. So the creative fires don't burn as brightly as they used to.

Due to all that, it's difficult for me to keep going with stray tracks albums for U2, since more of those extra songs aren't that good. However, U2 was still playing at a high level at the time of this album. Their 2000 album "All That You Can't Leave Behind" was seen as a return to form.

All but two of the songs here were officially released. Of those two, there is an officially released version of "North and South of the River," which first came out as a B-side in 1997. However, I prefer the live version from the one time it was played in concert, so I used that. 

"Jump Start My Heart" is a studio outtake. It's a nice song, so I don't know why it hasn't been released in any form. However, it is rather short, at just under two minutes long. So I edited it to repeat some bits, making it nearly three minutes long. That's why I have "[Edit]" in the title.

Many of the songs here are related to the soundtrack to the 2000 movie called "The Million Dollar Hotel." U2 singer Bono was the executive producer for that soundtrack. It included some U2 songs, as well as some songs "Bone and the Million Dollar Hotel Band," which was U2 plus a bunch of other musicians, including Brian Eno and Daniel Lanois. I didn't include everything by this group, because there were some unremarkable instrumentals typical of movie soundtracks.

"Sweetest Thing" is a remake of a U2 song from the 1980s. The remake isn't that different, but I included it for completeness's sake, especially since the remake was a hit. "Slide Away" is from the only solo album by Michael Hutchence, the lead singer of the band INXS. Three more songs are from B-sides, and one is from the collection "Unreleased and Rare."

This album is 49 minutes long.

01 Sweetest Thing [1998 Version] (U2)
02 North and South of the River (U2)
03 Slide Away (Michael Hutchence & Bono)
04 Always (U2)
05 Summer Rain (U2)
06 Big Girls Are Best (U2)
07 Levitate (U2)
08 Falling at Your Feet (Bono & Daniel Lanois)
09 Jump Start My Heart [Edit] (Bono & the Million Dollar Hotel Band)
10 Stateless (U2)
11 Never Let Me Go (Bono & the Million Dollar Hotel Band)
12 The Ground Beneath Her Feet (U2)

https://www.upload.ee/files/16701178/UTWO1998-2000_Levitte_atse.zip.html

The cover photo is from 2000, but I don't know any other details. Bono, at the bottom, was even lower. But I used Photoshop to raise him up relative to the others.

Lenny Kravitz - BBC Sessions, Volume 1: In Concert, Town and Country Club, London, Britain, 5-24-1990

A lot of people say that Lenny Kravitz mostly imitates other people's styles. I think that's true. But the thing is, he picks really great styles to imitate, mostly classic rock and soul, and he's really good at it. So he's definitely worthy of inclusion in my big BBC project. I particularly like his first few albums, so I went looking for any BBC material from that time period. 

I found this one, a concert on his tour to support his debut album, "Let Love Rule," released in late 1989. At that time, he didn't have a lot of original songs. So that's probably why two covers are included, "Cold Turkey" by John Lennon, and "If 6 Was 9" by Jimi Hendrix.

The album is an hour and two minutes long.

UPDATE: Note that when I originally posted this, I have five extra songs at the end, most of them from a 1993 BBC concert. But on October 3, 2025, I updated the mp3 download, by removing those extra songs. Instead, they're going on a "Volume 2." So I also renamed this one "Volume 1." 

01 Flower Child (Lenny Kravitz)
02 talk (Lenny Kravitz)
03 Mr. Cab Driver (Lenny Kravitz)
04 Freedom Train (Lenny Kravitz)
05 talk (Lenny Kravitz)
06 Be (Lenny Kravitz)
07 My Precious Love (Lenny Kravitz)
08 talk (Lenny Kravitz)
09 Cold Turkey (Lenny Kravitz)
10 talk (Lenny Kravitz)
11 If 6 Was 9 (Lenny Kravitz)
12 Fear (Lenny Kravitz)
13 talk (Lenny Kravitz)
14 Let Love Rule (Lenny Kravitz)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/e33tGqnN

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/vuLuTnNLaTGt5EU/file

The cover photo is not from this exact concert, but it's from another small venue in London just one month earlier. It was taken at the Marquee Club on April 18, 1990.

Paul McCartney - Acoustic Versions, 1995-2010

Prior to the 1990s, Paul McCartney almost never performed songs in the solo acoustic format. In 1991, he recorded and released his "Unplugged" album, which was a commercial and critical success. Since that time, he's performed in that format more often, though still rarely, usually just a song or two at a time. I'll collected all the excellent sounding acoustic performances I could find, stretching from 1995 to 2010. (I haven't really seen anything solo acoustic from him after 2010, which is also around when his voice started to noticeably decline.)

This makes up a nice album with a mix of songs from various points in his career, including a bunch of Beatles songs. There are a couple of acoustic songs I didn't include because they otherwise haven't been released anywhere else. Those will be on the next stray tracks album from him.

Only two of the performances here are easily available officially.  "Picasso's Last Words (Drink to Me)" is a bonus track on an expanded rerelease of the 1973 "Band on the Run" album (but it was recorded in 1999). This version of "Dance Tonight" is a bonus track to the 2007 "Memory Almost Full" album. Three more songs are from the "Wingspan" DVD and two are from the "In the World Tonight" DVD, but I don't know if those count as official releases of music recordings, since only video versions of those are available. 

Other than that, everything else is unreleased. But those tracks generally sound very good. McCartney is so famous that he gets bootlegged a lot, even unreleased studio sessions sometimes. Only the first five, the last two, and "Bishopsgate" were recorded live. Everything else is from the studio. 

I made edits on a few songs. There's a short but very interesting version of "Band on the Run" here. I call it the "Tape and Strangeness Version" based on a comment he makes during the song. It contains loops of strange sounds, such as the the use the "glass harp," which is what it's called when one uses wine glasses as musical instruments. But he had some commentary here and there over the music, so I took those out. I kept his "tape and strangeness" comment though, and moved it to the start so it wouldn't interfere with the music.

If I recall, "Picasso's Last Words (Drink to Me)" was short, and I repeated some of it to make it a more reasonable length. Some of the other songs here are quite short too. For instance, "Three Legs," "Twenty Flight Rock," and "Beautiful Night" are about a minute or less. But those didn't lend themselves to being extended. So I figure short is better than nothing. There are a few other songs I didn't include because they were even shorter than that, really just snippets of songs.

I also edited "That Was Me." It's an acoustic-ish live performance, but I edited out the drums to make it better fit the rest of the songs here. The sound quality of that one is also a bit rougher than the others. 

The world of McCartney bootlegs is vast, so I'm pretty sure there are some other good acoustic performances I've missed. So if anyone knows of anything worthy of being added here, please let me know. I left out a couple cases where there were two versions of the same song, but there were surprisingly few instances of that.

This album is 54 minutes long.

01 One After 909 [Live Acoustic] (Paul McCartney & Elvis Costello)
02 Mistress and Maid [Live Acoustic] (Paul McCartney & Elvis Costello)
03 Eleanor Rigby [Live Acoustic] (Paul McCartney)
04 For No One [Live Acoustic] (Paul McCartney)
05 Lady Madonna [Live Acoustic] (Paul McCartney)
06 Beautiful Night [Demo] (Paul McCartney)
07 Flaming Pie [Solo Piano Version] (Paul McCartney)
08 Calico Skies [Acoustic Version] (Paul McCartney)
09 Great Day [Acoustic Version] (Paul McCartney)
10 Bishopsgate (Paul McCartney)
11 Picasso's Last Words [Drink to Me] [Acoustic Version] [Edit] (Paul McCartney)
12 Yesterday [Acoustic Version] (Paul McCartney)
13 Twenty Flight Rock [Acoustic Version] (Paul McCartney)
14 The Long and Winding Road [Acoustic Version] (Paul McCartney)
15 Your Loving Flame [Acoustic Version] (Paul McCartney)
16 Let Me Roll It [Acoustic Version] (Paul McCartney)
17 Three Legs [Acoustic Version] (Paul McCartney)
18 Mrs. Vanderbilt [Acoustic Version] (Paul McCartney)
19 Band on the Run [Tape and Strangeness Version] [Edit] (Paul McCartney)
20 Dance Tonight [Acoustic Version] (Paul McCartney)
21 Ever Present Past [Acoustic Version] (Paul McCartney)
22 Feet in the Clouds [Acoustic Version] (Paul McCartney)
23 That Was Me [Live Acoustic] [Edit] (Paul McCartney)
24 Here Today [Live Acoustic] (Paul McCartney)

https://www.upload.ee/files/16696798/PALMCCRTNY1995-2010_AcoustcVrsions_atse.zip.html

I have no idea when or where the cover photo is from. But it shows an older McCartney holding an acoustic guitar, so it fit the theme.

The Wild Honey Orchestra - Tribute to the White Album, Alex Theatre, Glendale, CA, 2-28-2015

The Wild Honey Orchestra (WHO) tribute shows I've been posting seem to be going over well, so I'm posting some more. I have three more to go. (There are many more I don't have, so if anyone has them in good sound quality, please let me know). This is the earliest one I have, from 2015. The target of the tribute is the Beatles' classic 1968 double album popularly known as "The White Album." (Technically, it's real name is just "The Beatles.")

If you've seen the other WHO posts I've made, you should know the deal. Basically, once a year, a group of mostly Los Angeles-based professional musicians put on a concert to benefit an autism charity. Some of the musicians involved are fairly well known, but there usually aren't any really famous stars. Some of those who performed in this one but generally not the other ones include Gary Wright, Jules Shear, Christine Collister, and the Muffs.

For this show, it just happens that I stumbled across an article in Goldmine Magazine that reviewed the show. So instead of me having to explain a lot, if you want to know more, I suggest you read that article. Here's the link:

Wild Honey Orchestra Does the White Album - Goldmine Magazine: Record Collector & Music Memorabilia

Most of the show consisted of covers of "White Album" songs. But near the end of the concert, other Beatles songs from 1968 were performed, such as the hit singles "Lady Madonna" and "Hey Jude," and the White Album outtake "Not Guilty." 

The sound quality of this bootleg recording is excellent, the same as the other WHO shows I've posted. However, like those, I generally only had the songs and not the talking between songs. There are a few exceptions, such as a long explanation about how they played to perform the sound collage "Revolution No. 9" before it started, but they're very few.

This album is two hours and six minutes long.

01 Back in the U.S.S.R (Chris Collingwood with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
02 Dear Prudence (John Cowsill, Vicki Peterson & Billy Mumy with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
03 Glass Onion (Thomas Walsh with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
04 Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da (John Wicks & Debbi Peterson with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
05 Wild Honey Pie (Wild Honey Vocal Group with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
06 The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill (Dirk Hamilton & Debbie Shair with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
07 While My Guitar Gently Weeps (Gary Wright & Lyle Workman with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
08 Happiness Is a Warm Gun (Django Haskins with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
09 Martha My Dear (Iain Matthews & Brett Harris with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
10 I'm So Tired (Nick Guzman & Susan Cowsill with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
11 Blackbird (Rob Laufer with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
12 talk (Cosmo Topper with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
13 Piggies (Cosmo Topper with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
14 Rocky Raccoon (Syd Straw & Willie Aron with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
15 Don't Pass Me By (Keith Allison, Kaitlin Wolfberg, & Ryeland Allison with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
16 Why Don't We Do It in the Road (Damon Fox with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
17 I Will (Muffs with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
18 Julia (Susan Cowsill & Vicki Peterson with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
19 Birthday (Damon Fox & David Goodstein with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
20 Yer Blues (Translator with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
21 Mother Nature's Son (Brett Harris with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
22 Everybody's Got Something to Hide... (Steven McDonald & David Goodstein with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
23 Sexy Sadie (Jules Shear with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
24 Helter Skelter (Alain Johannes with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
25 Long, Long, Long (Skylar Gudasz with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
26 Revolution No. 1 (Cindy Lee Berryhill with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
27 Honey Pie (Steve Stanley with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
28 Savoy Truffle (Three O'Clock with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
29 Cry Baby Cry (Iain Matthews & Christine Collister with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
30 talk (Jim Mills with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
31 Revolution No. 9 (Jim Mills with Heidi Servey, Debbie Shair & Darian Sahanaja with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
32 Good Night (Rachel Haden & Anna Waronker with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
33 Hey Bulldog (Chris Collingwood & Thomas Walsh with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
34 Revolution [Single Version] (Mitch Easter with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
35 Not Guilty (John Easdale with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
36 talk (Morty Coyle with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
37 Lady Madonna (Morty Coyle with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
38 Hey Jude (Christine Collister with the Wild Honey Orchestra)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/MXdYo8ZR

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/Pv8yORtenNQj4PG/file

alternate:

https://www.imagenetz.de/aezp7

For the cover, I just used a promotional picture for the concert, with a few modifications. In case it isn't obvious enough, the cover is a nice parody/homage to the "White Album" cover. I cropped it and resized some things to make the text on it larger and easier to read.

Robert Plant - The Boardwalk, Sheffield, Britain, 9-25-1999

The other day, I posted a Robert Plant concert that mostly consisted of him singing fairly obscure cover songs. That reminded me of this concert, which entirely consists of Plant singing fairly obscure cover songs. There isn't a single Led Zeppelin or Plant solo song in sight, unless one counts "We've Gotta Groove," which is a song that Led Zeppelin covered and put on their album "Coda."

The backstory behind this is fairly interesting. Around 1967, a year before Plant joined Led Zeppelin, he was in a band called the "Band of Joy." They mostly did cover songs, especially folk rock from the West Coast of the US. They never had much success, and only recorded a few songs in the studio. By 1999, it seems Plant was tired of being a musical superstar and playing his same hits over and over in concerts. instead, he got involved with musical programs at Kidderminister College. That's a pretty obscure college in Britain, but it's very near where he grew up. He even briefly took chartered accountancy classes there before dropping out and becoming a musician. 

The main connection was that guitarist Kevyn Gammond had been in the Band of Joy with Plant in the 1960s, but went on to become a professor in the Kidderminister College music department. Plant ended up forming a band with Grammond and other professors and students from the college. They called themselves the "Priory of Brion." The name combined "Priory of Zion," a supposed ancient French secret society made famous in Dan Brown novels like "The Da Vinci Code," with "The Life of Brian," a classic Monty Python movie.

At first, in 1999, Priory of Brion was very low key. They played small venues in Britain of only a few hundred people. They were billed just as "Priory of Brion," so few knew that it was really Plant's latest band. They only played cover songs of the type the Band of Joy played back in the 1960s. But the word about them slowly grew, and they began playing larger venues. By 2000, Plant's involvement was well known, and the band played big festivals and the like. But still, they only did relatively obscure covers. 

Plant broke up the band by the end of 2000, and he has never released any material by the band, either live or in the studio (with an obscure exception I'll detail below). However, he did carry over some of the songs with his next band, the Strange Sensations. And when he put out his next studio album in 2002, "Dreamland," there were some Priory of Brion covers on it, including two songs played here, "Morning Dew" and "Darkness, Darkness."

So this is a relatively lost chapter of his music career, but a particularly interesting one, I think. Unfortunately, as far as I can tell, there is only one Priory of Brion bootleg with excellent soundboard sound quality, this one. I wish there were more, because the band played at least 40 different cover songs, and there are only 17 here. The band also recorded three of those songs in the studio, but they've only come out on extremely obscure various artists compilations that were linked to benefits related to Kidderminister College. 

Although this bootleg generally sounds great, it did have some flaws. I had to edit four songs enough that I put "[Edit]" in their names. For instance, "Morning Dew" had a blast of loud noise in the middle of it that lasted a couple of seconds. I managed to patch it up with a section from elsewhere in the song. "Early in the Morning" had some very small skips in it, some of them less than a second. I closed them as best I could, and patched up the second where most of them were. So it went for the others. And some songs ended abruptly, with no applause. So I added applause taken from the ends of other songs to those.

However, there was one serious flaw I couldn't fix. The last song, "High School Confidential" is brutally cut off. It lasts less than a minute. And this was a song played as a special request for a friend. I couldn't find any other instances of Plant ever singing it, so there was nothing I could do to fix the short length. I considered dropping it altogether, but Plant had some interesting comments leading up to it, and it is super rare, so I kept it in.

But that meant the concert ended on a disappointing note. So I added one more song to the end, taken from a different Priory of Brion concert (Rome, Italy, in September 2000). The sound quality is worse than the rest, but still decent. It's one of my favorite obscurities, "Flames," originally by Elmer Gantry's Velvet Opera. Hopefully with that song, the concert ends in a more satisfying manner.

Plant must have particularly liked that song too, because it was one of only three songs Priory of Brion recorded in the studio, as I mentioned above. I recently discovered recordings of those three songs. I'll probably add them to a stray tracks collection someday, but in the meantime I'm including them as bonus tracks here. They're all from really obscure compilation albums released in the early 2000s, but I've put 2000 for the year in the mp3 tag, because that's when they were recorded. As if they weren't obscure enough already, for the song "Flames," Plant used the pseudonym "Johnny Volcano!"

This album is an hour and 20 minutes long. That does include the extra song from a different concert at the end, but it does not the three studio bonus tracks.

Here's a list of the original artists for each song (some numbers are skipped due to the talking tracks):

02 Season of the Witch - Donovan
03 Morning Dew - Bonnie Dobson
04 A House Is Not a Motel - Love
05 Wondrous Place - Billy Fury
07 Girl from the North Country - Bob Dylan
08 If I Were a Carpenter - Tim Hardin
10 Darkness, Darkness - Youngbloods
12 Think - "5" Royales / James Brown
14 Early in the Morning - Ray Charles
16 We're Gonna Groove - Ben E. King
17 Baby Please Don't Go - Big Joe Williams / Them
19 No Regrets - Tom Rush
20 Gloria -Them
21 Trouble in Mind - Richard M. Jones / Muddy Waters
22 Evil Woman - Spooky Tooth / Canned Heat
24 High School Confidential - Jerry Lee Lewis
26 Flames - Elmer Gantry's Velvet Opera

Here's the usual song list:

01 talk (Robert Plant)
02 Season of the Witch (Robert Plant)
03 Morning Dew [Edit] (Robert Plant)
04 A House Is Not a Motel (Robert Plant)
05 Wondrous Place (Robert Plant)
06 talk (Robert Plant)
07 Girl from the North Country (Robert Plant)
08 If I Were a Carpenter (Robert Plant)
09 talk (Robert Plant)
10 Darkness, Darkness (Robert Plant)
11 talk (Robert Plant)
12 Think [Edit] (Robert Plant)
13 talk (Robert Plant)
14 Early in the Morning [Edit] (Robert Plant)
15 talk (Robert Plant)
16 We're Gonna Groove (Robert Plant)
17 Baby Please Don't Go (Robert Plant)
18 talk (Robert Plant)
19 No Regrets (Robert Plant)
20 Gloria (Robert Plant)
21 Trouble in Mind [Edit] (Robert Plant)
22 Evil Woman (Robert Plant)
23 talk (Robert Plant)
24 High School Confidential [Incomplete] (Robert Plant)
25 talk (Robert Plant)
26 Flames (Robert Plant)

Morning Dew (Robert Plant)
Evil Woman (Robert Plant)
Flames (Robert Plant)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/zRWAk9XW

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/DHvMTMyQTzSEK7h/file

alternate:

https://www.imagenetz.de/bGAKS

I couldn't find any really good pictures of Plant in concert in 1999. This one is from August 2000, in Belgium, when he was still backed by the Priory of Brion.

k. d. lang - BBC Sessions, Volume 2: BBC Four Sessions, St. Luke's Church, London, Britain, 2-3-2008

I'm not really familiar with the music of k. d. lang, outside her hit "Constant Craving" and a few more songs. But I recently came across a bunch of BBC concerts from the "BBC Four Sessions" TV series, and hers was one of them. I do know she has an outstanding voice, so here's her BBC show.

k. d. lang is short for her birth name Kathryn Dawn Lang, but she prefers to spell her name with all lower case letters. She's a Canadian singer whose music has been various combinations of country, pop, and folk. If you want to know more about her, here's her Wikipedia entry:

k.d. lang - Wikipedia

This concert took place within days of the release of her studio album of original material, "Watershed." So naturally it has some songs from that. One unusual feature of the concert is that she was backed by a full orchestra. 

This concert is unreleased. I think the music hasn't been widely bootlegged, because I had to break up a video file into individual mp3s. The sound quality is excellent, as you'd expect from the BBC.

This album is an hour and 25 minutes long.

UPDATE: On November 14, 2025, I updated this album. I changed the title to "Volume 2" because I found a "Volume 1." I changed the cover art and mp3 tags accordingly.

01 talk (k. d. lang)
02 Upstream (k. d. lang)
03 Helpless (k. d. lang)
04 Thread (k. d. lang)
05 Western Stars (k. d. lang)
06 talk (k. d. lang)
07 I Dream of Spring (k. d. lang)
08 Coming Home (k. d. lang)
09 Once in a While (k. d. lang)
10 Wash Me Clean (k. d. lang)
11 Sunday (k. d. lang)
12 Smoke Rings (k. d. lang)
13 talk (k. d. lang)
14 The Valley (k. d. lang)
15 Hallelujah (k. d. lang)
16 talk (k. d. lang)
17 Flame of the Uninspired (k. d. lang)
18 Constant Craving (k. d. lang)
19 talk (k. d. lang)
20 Close Your Eyes (k. d. lang)
21 talk (k. d. lang)
22 Don't Smoke in Bed (k. d. lang)
23 talk (k. d. lang)
24 Pay Dirt (k. d. lang)
25 talk (k. d. lang)
26 Jealous Dog (k. d. lang)
27 Je Fais la Planche (k. d. lang)
28 Shadow and the Frame (k. d. lang)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/fne3Rq64

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/e8zKYypzxvnBQ6K/file

The cover photo is a screenshot of this exact concert I took from YouTube. I only found a few songs from this concert there, but there may be more if you look hard.

Chrissie Hynde - Later Tonight - Non-Album Tracks (2009-2014)

My long series of Pretenders stray tracks albums continues here. However, this is so dominated in the credits by Chrissie Hynde, the lead singer and songwriter of the Pretenders, that I'm billing it as a Chrissie Hynde album. Only two songs have the Pretenders in the credits, and even those are duets.

The Pretenders put out an album in 2008, "Breaking Up the Concrete." They didn't put out another one until 2016, "Alone," nearly a decade later. The Pretenders had basically been Hynde plus a changing cast of backing musicians for a long time prior to this era. But I guess she figured putting the band name on an album meant that a certain style was expected.

In this time period, she increasingly moved away from that style. In 2010, she created a band with her boyfriend at the time, called "JP, Chrissie & The Fairground Boys," and put out an album called "Fidelity." Then, in 2014, she released her first true solo album, "Stockholm."

But on top of that she was doing other musical projects that often further expanded her musical range. For instance, she'd gotten into Brazilian bossa nova music in a big way back in 2004, even living in Brazil for a while. That interest continues on a couple of songs here. She also sang some in French!

Six of the 12 songs here are officially released. They generally come from various artists compilations. For instance, her version of "Let It Be" appeared on a tribute album to Paul McCartney. The unreleased songs are tracks 2, 3, 4, 9, 11, and 12. "This Kiss" and "Cry" come from an episode of the TV show "CMT Crossroads" in which she collaborated with country star Faith Hill. The others are cover songs done in concert. "Murder in My Heart for the Judge" was by Moby Grape, "Under My Thumb" by the Rolling Stones, and "Vocal" and "Later Tonight" by the Pet Shop Boys.

This album is 43 minutes long.

01 Postcard from London (Ray Davies & Chrissie Hynde)
02 Murder in My Heart for the Judge (JP, Chrissie & the Fairground Boys)
03 This Kiss (Pretenders & Faith Hill)
04 Cry (Pretenders & Faith Hill)
05 Un Garcon Qui Pleure (Benjamin Schoos, Marie France & Chrissie Hynde)
06 The Empty Boat (Chrissie Hynde, Moreno, Kassin & Domenico)
07 Laisse-moi t'Aimer - We'll Be Together (Michel Berube & Chrissie Hynde)
08 Rodeo (Paul Allen & the Underthinkers with Chrissie Hynde)
09 Under My Thumb (Ingrid & Chrissie Hynde)
10 Let It Be (Chrissie Hynde)
11 Vocal (Chrissie Hynde)
12 Later Tonight (Chrissie Hynde)

https://www.upload.ee/files/16700859/TPRETNDRS2009-2014_LatrTonght_atse.zip.html

The cover photo is from a private dinner event in 2014. Hynde was sitting next to supermodel Cindy Crawford, but unfortunately I felt obliged to crop her out.

Love with Arthur Lee - BBC in Concert, Manchester Academy, Manchester, Britain, 3-21-2004

Yesterday, I posted a Robert Plant concert that was part of a benefit concert for Arthur Lee, the leader of the band Love. I actually found that recently while doing some research for this. So it's fitting that I post them back to back.

Arthur Lee was a musical great, in my opinion, who rarely lived up to his full potential. Some of his troubles were not of his own making. A big one was that in 1996, he was sentenced to 12 years in prison for the negligent discharge of a firearm. The evidence of this relatively minor charge didn't even point to him. A court later reversed the charge, and the prosecutor was found guilty of misconduct, but nonetheless Lee ended up spending five and a half years in prison.

By the time Lee was released at the end of 2001, there was a growing interest in the music of Love. He began touring all over the world using the name "Love with Arthur Lee," which is a bit odd and redundant in my opinion since he basically was Love, having written and sung the vast majority of the band's songs. His musical skills were still intact, and he even was writing the occasional new song that were worthy of the ones from the 1960s.

Unfortunately though, he didn't have long to enjoy this career resurgence. He toured through 2005. But he was diagnosed with leukemia, and his health started to fail fast. He died in 2006 at the age of 61.

There's one really excellent official album from this late stage of his career, called "The Forever Changes Concert," recorded and released in 2003. The songs chosen here are pretty similar, with a heavy emphasis on the classic 1967 album "Forever Changes." Still, I enjoy both concerts. Because this one was recorded by the BBC, the sound quality is excellent, probably as good as the official live album.

Unfortunately, there is only one song here that was written recently at the time, "Rainbow in the Storm." But in my opinion it fits in well with the others, showing he still had his creativity intact. Perhaps if he'd lived a few years longer he would have released an acclaimed album of new material.

This album is an hour and 24 minutes long.

01 talk (Love with Arthur Lee)
02 Live and Let Live (Love with Arthur Lee)
03 Your Mind and We Belong Together (Love with Arthur Lee)
04 talk (Love with Arthur Lee)
05 Alone Again Or (Love with Arthur Lee)
06 Andmoreagain (Love with Arthur Lee)
07 Seven and Seven Is (Love with Arthur Lee)
08 talk (Love with Arthur Lee)
09 Old Man (Love with Arthur Lee)
10 The Daily Planet (Love with Arthur Lee)
11 The Red Telephone (Love with Arthur Lee)
12 Orange Skies (Love with Arthur Lee)
13 My Flash on You (Love with Arthur Lee)
14 Signed D. C. (Love with Arthur Lee)
15 A House Is Not a Motel (Love with Arthur Lee)
16 Bummer in the Summer (Love with Arthur Lee)
17 You Set the Scene (Love with Arthur Lee)
18 talk (Love with Arthur Lee)
19 Rainbow in the Storm (Love with Arthur Lee)
20 talk (Love with Arthur Lee)
21 Singing Cowboy (Love with Arthur Lee)
22 Singing Cowboy Band Intros (Love with Arthur Lee)
23 talk (Love with Arthur Lee)
24 Can't Explain (Love with Arthur Lee)
25 Maybe the People Would Be the Times or Between Clark and Hilldale (Love with Arthur Lee)

https://www.upload.ee/files/16695520/LOVEE2004_BBCncrtMnchestrAcdemy__3-21-2004_atse.zip.html

The cover photo isn't from this exact concert. However, it was taken at the nearby city of Liverpool at around the same time in 2004.

Robert Plant - Benefit for Arthur Lee, Beacon Theatre, New York City, 6-23-2006

Singer Robert Plant has long been a fan of 1960s West Coast rock and folk rock, especially the bands Moby Grape and Love. By early 2006, the health of Arthur Lee, the main singer and songwriter of Love, was in rapid decline, due to leukemia. Love was a very critically acclaimed band, but their sales had never been that big, so Lee didn't have much money for his medical care. Thus, some of his musical friends and admirers stepped up to perform a benefit concert to help pay his medical bills. Musical artists at the concert included Robert Plant, Ian Hunter, Ryan Adams, Nils Lofgren, Yo La Tengo, and Garland Jeffreys.

The bad news is that only a bootleg of Plant's set is publicly available, as far as I know. The good news is that the sound quality of his set is fantastic, just as good as an official album.

The really bad news though is that nothing could stop Lee from getting worse. This concert took place in June 2006. Lee had already started chemotherapy sessions, but he died on August 3, 2006, at the age of 61. Probably his health was so bad that he couldn't attend the concert in person. 

Plant's usual backing band at the time also wasn't there. Instead, he was backed by Ian Hunter's band. He also sang a duet with Hunter, the Everly Brothers classic "When Will I Be Loved." For this concert, the band also included lead guitarist Johnny Echols, who was one of the founders of Love and stayed with the band until shortly after the 1967 release of the band's most acclaimed album, "Forever Changes."

As you'd expect at a concert for Arthur Lee, Plant sang some Love songs. Specifically, he did "Bummer in the Summer," "Old Man," "A House Is Not a Motel," and "Seven and Seven Is." And while Love didn't write the song "Hey Joe," they were one of the first bands to record it for an album (prior to it becoming famous by Jimi Hendrix). Plant has sang some of those songs many times in concert. But this appears to be the only time he's ever sang "Old Man" in public.

Plant, having been the singer for Led Zeppelin, also played three classics by that band: "In the Evening," "What Is and What Should Never Be," and "Ramble On." But what's odd is that he did some cover versions not associated with Love that he rarely or never played in other concerts: "For What It's Worth," "When Will I Be Loved," "Can't Help Falling in Love," and "Nature Boy." In fact, this appears to be the only concert he ever played "When Will I Be Loved" and "Can't Help Falling in Love," and he only did "Nature Boy" three other times.

So this is a unique concert for him. If you're a fan of both Plant (solo and in Led Zeppelin) and Love, like I am, this is a no-brainer to listen to. I'm surprised it's not better known in bootleg circles, especially given the excellent sound quality.

This album is an hour and four minutes long.

01 In the Evening (Robert Plant)
02 talk (Robert Plant)
03 Bummer in the Summer (Robert Plant)
04 talk (Robert Plant)
05 What Is and What Should Never Be (Robert Plant)
06 talk (Robert Plant)
07 Old Man (Robert Plant)
08 talk (Robert Plant)
09 For What It's Worth (Robert Plant)
10 talk (Robert Plant)
11 When Will I Be Loved (Robert Plant & Ian Hunter)
12 talk (Robert Plant)
13 A House Is Not a Motel (Robert Plant)
14 talk (Robert Plant)
15 Can't Help Falling in Love (Robert Plant)
16 talk (Robert Plant)
17 Hey Joe (Robert Plant)
18 Nature Boy (Robert Plant)
19 talk (Robert Plant)
20 Seven and Seven Is (Robert Plant)
21 talk (Robert Plant)
22 Ramble On (Robert Plant)

https://www.upload.ee/files/16697035/ROBRTPLNT2006_BenfitforArthrLeBeacnThetre__6-23-2006_atse.zip.html

The cover photo comes from this exact concert. I found a few, so I could have used one with just Plant in it. But I thought it was more interesting to include this one, which has Ian Hunter on guitar at his side. Hunter was much lower in the photo (probably due to some weird perspective issue), but I used Photoshop to raise him up some.