Brian Wilson - PBS Soundstage, Palazzo Theatre, Venetian Hotel, Las Vegas, NV, 12-11-2014

Here's another episode of the TV Show "PBS Soundstage." This one stars Brian Wilson, the genius songwriter behind most of the hits by the Beach Boys.

There aren't many Soundstage episodes that have been officially released as audio albums, but this is one of them. The album is called "Brian Wilson and Friends." Normally, I would shy from posting released episodes, since they can easily be found elsewhere. However, I'm making an exception here because it turns out a DVD version was released as well that had a bunch of extra songs. I managed to combine the CD and DVD versions to create a closer approximation of the actual concert.

In 2012, the Beach Boys had a reunion that included most of the long-time members of that band, including Brian Wilson. Wilson remained on good terms with most of the others (with the exception of Mike Love, who kept the rights to the band name). So Wilson reunited with some former Beach Boys in this concert. The main one of note is Al Jardine, who played on a bunch of songs and sang lead vocals on a few. But Blondie Chaplin and Ricky Fataar were also guests. They were members for a short time in the early 1970s.

On top of that, there were some other guest stars. Sebu Simonian, who is part of the indie pop duo Capital Cities, sang one song here. (He actually sang another one, but I thought it was a terrible attempt to mix the Beach Boys sound with the modern pop sound, so I didn't include it.) Mark Isham, who plays trumpet and keyboards and scores films, played trumpet on a couple of songs. Finally, Nate Ruess, singer-songwriter for the band fun, sang on a couple of songs.

This concert took place at the end of 2014. However, it was aired on TV around the time of the release of Wilson's next studio album, "No Pier Pressure," released in April 2015. Many of the songs come from that album. So do most of the collaborations with guest stars. That album was criticized for its use of AutoTune and other bad production choices. So it's better to hear those songs here, in my opinion.

The DVD was rather strange because the vast majority of it stuck to showing the concert, but they occasionally stuck in extra things not from the concert at all. For instance, there were a couple of songs featuring actress and singer Zooey Deschanel. But I didn't include them because they were recorded in a studio, not in this concert. I also cut out some interview segments between songs. Luckily, I managed to get rid of most of them without much trouble. But the song "Saturday Night" has "[edit]" in the name because some of the talking overlapped the start of the song. I got rid of that, as I usually do, with the UVR5 audio editing program.

I found a complete song list of the concert at setlist.fm, which you can see here:

Brian Wilson Concert Setlist at The Venetian Theatre, Las Vegas on December 12, 2014 | setlist.fm 

Both the CD and the DVD has some of the songs out of order, so I did some rearranging to get it as close to the actual concert as possible. There still are some missing songs, however, including some great ones like "God Only Knows" and "Surfin' U.S.A." Two more songs, "Pacific Coast Highway" and "Summer's Gone," apparently appeared as DVD bonus tracks, but I couldn't find them. If anyone has them, or other missing songs here, let me know and I'll add them in.

This album is an hour and 17 minutes long.

01 Our Prayer (Brian Wilson)
02 Heroes and Villains (Brian Wilson)
03 Sloop John B (Brian Wilson with Al Jardine)
04 Dance, Dance, Dance (Brian Wilson)
05 Good Vibrations (Brian Wilson)
06 This Beautiful Day (Brian Wilson)
07 Don't Worry Baby (Brian Wilson with Sebu Simonian)
08 talk (Brian Wilson)
09 Marcella (Brian Wilson with Blondie Chaplin & Ricky Fataar)
10 talk (Brian Wilson with Blondie Chaplin & Ricky Fataar)
11 Wild Honey (Brian Wilson with Blondie Chaplin & Ricky Fataar)
12 Sail On, Sailor (Brian Wilson with Blondie Chaplin & Ricky Fataar)
13 Sail Away (Brian Wilson with Al Jardine, Blondie Chaplin & Ricky Fataar)
14 Half Moon Bay (Brian Wilson with Mark Isham)
15 Don't Talk [Put Your Head on My Shoulder] [Instrumental] (Brian Wilson with Mark Isham)
16 The Right Time (Brian Wilson with Al Jardine)
17 California Saga- California (Brian Wilson with Al Jardine)
18 Wouldn't It Be Nice (Brian Wilson with Al Jardine)
19 Help Me, Rhonda (Brian Wilson with Al Jardine)
20 talk (Brian Wilson)
21 Saturday Night [Edit] (Brian Wilson with Nate Ruess)
22 Hold On Dear Brother (Brian Wilson with Blondie Chaplin & Nate Ruess)
23 Darlin' (Brian Wilson)
24 talk (Brian Wilson)
25 California Girls (Brian Wilson)
26 All Summer Long (Brian Wilson)
27 Fun, Fun, Fun (Brian Wilson) 

https://pixeldrain.com/u/Y2R2sBUP

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/rXSe9xQ2hIcsx1n/file

The cover photo is from this exact concert.

Cyndi Lauper - PBS Soundstage, WTTW Studios, Chicago, IL, 11-6-2003

Here's the turn of Cyndi Lauper to perform for the "PBS Soundstage" TV show. Her episode is from 2003. That's the year the show was revived after being dormant for over a decade.

Lauper is best known for his hits from the 1980s. After that, she struggled to get sales and attention. But she never stopped releasing music, and she has an excellent voice. In 2003, the same month as this concert, she released the studio album "At Last." IT was an unusual departure from her pop rock style, because it consisted entirely of jazzy covers of classic songs.

This concert heavily relied on that new album. Most of the songs come from it, with only four of her 1980s hits near the end. Personally, I think she did a good job with this kind of music.

This album is 55 minutes long. This album is unreleased and the sound quality is excellent.

01 At Last (Cyndi Lauper)
02 Walk On By (Cyndi Lauper)
03 talk (Cyndi Lauper)
04 Stay (Cyndi Lauper)
05 talk (Cyndi Lauper)
06 Until You Come Back to Me [That's What I'm Gonna Do] (Cyndi Lauper)
07 talk (Cyndi Lauper)
08 Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood (Cyndi Lauper)
09 talk (Cyndi Lauper)
10 On the Sunny Side of the Street (Cyndi Lauper)
11 True Colors (Cyndi Lauper)
12 talk (Cyndi Lauper)
13 Shine (Cyndi Lauper)
14 Girls Just Want to Have Fun (Cyndi Lauper)
15 talk (Cyndi Lauper)
16 Money Changes Everything (Cyndi Lauper)
17 Time after Time (Cyndi Lauper)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/42wZmwsw

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/G0u3tfjl3cUASqb/file

The cover image is a screenshot from a video taken from this exact concert.

Alanis Morissette - PBS Soundstage, WTTW Studios, Chicago, IL, 11-14-2003

I just posted an episode of "PBS Soundstage" (the Doobie Brothers from 1979) that required a lot of editing. So I'm going to reward myself by posting a couple that needed very little editing. This episode features a performance by Alanis Morissette in 2003.

Morissette is best known for her 1996 album "Jagged Little Pill," which is one of the best selling albums of all time, selling over 33 million copies worldwide. Her next two albums, "Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie" in 1998 and "Under Rug Swept" in 2002 were also big sellers, although her sales steadily declined for later albums. For instance, "Under Rug Swept" sold about five million albums worldwide. So this was a good time for a concert recording, after she'd released most of her famous songs.

Curiously, this concert seems to have taken place between album releases. "Under Rug Swept" came out in early 2002, and her next album, "So Called Chaos," wouldn't be released until May 2004. So she mostly played songs from "Under Rug Swept" and earlier, but she did play one song that would be on her next album, "Eight Easy Steps."

This album is 55 minutes long. It's unreleased, and the sound quality is excellent.

01 All I Really Want (Alanis Morissette)
02 21 Things I Want in a Lover (Alanis Morissette)
03 Hands Clean (Alanis Morissette)
04 talk (Alanis Morissette)
05 Eight Easy Steps (Alanis Morissette)
06 Head Over Feet (Alanis Morissette)
07 talk (Alanis Morissette)
08 Excuses (Alanis Morissette)
09 talk (Alanis Morissette)
10 Knees of My Bees (Alanis Morissette)
11 This Grudge (Alanis Morissette)
12 You Oughta Know (Alanis Morissette)
13 Uninvited (Alanis Morissette)
14 talk (Alanis Morissette)
15 Thank U (Alanis Morissette)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/GPhLerG1

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/i1tF3vocVOF8D6m/file

The cover image is a screenshot I took from a video of this exact concert. I used Krea AI to improve it a bit.

The Doobie Brothers - PBS Soundstage, Alpine Valley Music Theatre, East Troy, WI, 7-21-1979

Here is an episode of the Doobie Brothers performing for the TV show "PBS Soundstage," from 1979. They also did an episode in 1977. I've found about 70 episodes of this show so far, and I believe this is one of only two times a musical act had two episodes so close in time. It was very rare for the same act to get two episodes at all.

Soundstage ran from 1974 to 2018, with some significant gaps in there. Sometimes, during that long run, the concerts would be edited horribly to fit the hour long time slot. Plus, some producers got cute and liked to jazz things up by cutting in interviews and other scenes not from the concerts. Unfortunately, both Doobie Brothers episodes were butchered pretty badly. I'm posting the 1979 show first because I still have to figure out how to fix some of the problems in the 1977 show.

For this show, I found three different versions, all with slightly different song lists and different edits. This was a lucky thing, though also a pain in the butt, because I was able to combine them to make the longest version, while avoiding some of the problems that were present in only some of the versions. For instance, the songs "Sweet Maxine - It Keeps You Runnin'" and "Minute by Minute" are not found in the most commonly traded versions of this bootleg.

Unfortunately though, some stupid edits were present in all versions. For instance, right in this middle of the song "Don't Stop to Watch the Wheels," a song about motorcycles, an interview with a band member about his love of motorcycles was overdubbed over the music. Ugh! It was the same deal with a couple of other songs, with interview segments right in the middle of them, during instrumental solos. In other cases, songs were faded in or out early. Luckily, I was able to use parts of different versions to fix those. For instance, one version of "Listen to the Music" was cut short, and another version had one of those damn annoying interview sections over the soloing. By combining the two, I was able to get the full version without the overdubbed interview. 

However, note there are a couple of places where the sound quality gets a bit rough. I used the UVR5 audio editing program to separate out the talking of the interview from the music, but sometimes there was some damage to the music. Luckily, those damaged parts that remain are petty short, half a minute or so.

Another problem is it turns out the song order in the video was all jumbled up. For instance, "What a Fool Believes" was the third song, which didn't make sense since it was their huge Number One single at the time. I found the correct song list and reordered it to match. (There are a bunch of missing songs, unfortunately.) That meant some of the song transitions didn't sound good. So I fixed those up by adding in more applause. 

Also by the way, many versions of this bootleg state the date was July 20, 1979. But during the banter between songs, a band member clearly stated this was the second night of a two night stand at the venue, which makes it July 21st instead, since they played this venue two nights in a row.

This album is an hour and ten minutes long.

01 Take Me in Your Arms (Doobie Brothers)
02 talk (Doobie Brothers)
03 Clear as the Driven Snow (Doobie Brothers)
04 Dependin' on You (Doobie Brothers)
05 Jesus Is Just Alright (Doobie Brothers)
06 Long Train Runnin' (Doobie Brothers)
07 Sweet Maxine - It Keeps You Runnin' [Edit] (Doobie Brothers)
08 Minute by Minute (Doobie Brothers)
09 talk (Doobie Brothers)
10 Don't Stop to Watch the Wheels [Edit] (Doobie Brothers)
11 Black Water (Doobie Brothers)
12 Slack Key Soquel Rag [Instrumental] (Doobie Brothers)
13 Takin' It to the Streets [Edit] (Doobie Brothers)
14 I Cheat the Hangman [Instrumental] (Doobie Brothers)
15 China Grove (Doobie Brothers)
16 What a Fool Believes (Doobie Brothers)
17 Listen to the Music [Edit] (Doobie Brothers)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/BJ2kFoiQ 

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/tc7vZHS4kYR1WpV/file

The cover shows lead vocalist Michael McDonald. I took a screenshot from a video of this exact concert. I used the Krea AI program to improve the image quality.

The writing on his T-shirt intrigued me. I looked at the video to read the whole thing, and found out it was what I'd thought from taking this screenshot: it reads "Bruce Hornsby Band." The odd thing about that is that Hornsby didn't get famous until his first hit single in 1986. I looked it up at his Wikipedia page, and in 1979 his musical career was just getting started. He was only playing small clubs in his hometown of Williamsburg, Virginia. So why the heck was McDonald wearing a shirt with his name on it?!

I did a little more digging and found out there was an interesting story there. It turns out that in 1979, Hornsby boldly went in search of the Doobie Brothers when they were playing a concert near Williamsburg. He found McDonald in the lobby of a hotel, and invited him to see them perform in a small club that night. Remarkably, McDonald went to the club later that night, despite the band being so unknown that only about 15 people were there. McDonald liked the band so much that he invited the entire Doobie Brothers band to see Hornsby's band the next night, which they did. This then led Hornsby to Los Angeles, where he stayed in McDonald's house for about ten days while they did some recording and tried to get a record company. Ultimately, that didn't work out and it would take many more years for Hornsby to even get a record contract. 

You can read the whole interesting story here:

Don't Call It A Comeback - Style Weekly

That story certainly explains the unusual T-shirt. Kudos to McDonald for recognizing Hornsby's talent so early.

Derek & the Dominos (including Duane Allman) - Curtis Hixon Hall, Tampa, FL, 12-1-1970

I want to kick off the month of April 2025 with a special album posting. This album is the one and only concert recording of Derek and the Dominos with Duane Allman taking part. This has been bootlegged many times. But I'm proud to say this version has noticeably better sound quality than any previous version!

The classic album "Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs" was by the band Derek and the Dominos, with Eric Clapton the main star. However, one thing that made that album special was that Duane Allman of the Allman Brothers Band played his distinctive slide guitar all through the album. That kind of made him one of the Dominos, but only partially because he already had a full time job with the Allman Brothers Band, and they were touring constantly. It turned out during the couple of months that Derek and the Dominos went on tour, in late 1970, Duane Allman only took part in two concerts: this one, in Tampa, Florida, and one the next day in Syracuse, New York. 

Only this one of the two got recorded, and only an average sounding audience bootleg. But due to the unique presence of Allman playing guitar for the entire show, this is probably the most traded Derek and the Dominos bootleg, despite the sound quality issue. Personally, I had this in my music collection for years, but I almost never listened to it, due to the sound. But I noticed last week that a person named Goody posted a new version that adjusted the speed and the pitch. So I downloaded that. Then I tried to see what I could do to improve upon it. 

I used two tricks that I often use. First, I used the UVR5 audio editing program to boost the vocals relative to the instruments. There were some places in particular where the vocals were extra quiet. For instance, I went through parts of "Got to Get Better in a Little While" line by line. Probably, Clapton had his head too far from the microphone at times. I also got rid of most vocals that weren't actually by the band members. For example, in the middle of "Have You Ever Loved a Woman," a sad blues song, a woman in the audience could be heard laughing loudly for a few seconds. I didn't get rid of all of that, but I got most of it. I made a lot of other little changes like that.

Then I used the MVSEP audio editing program to get rid of most of the crowd noise, except at the very beginnings and ends of songs. Since this is an audience boot, there was a low level of crowd noise all through the songs. Sometimes, one could even hear snippets of conversation. I got rid of most of that.

I also cut down on the dead air between songs. There was quite a bit, for instance, guitar tuning. That probably shortened the album by a couple of minutes.

However, my audio editing skills are quite limited. So I then handed the files off to my musical associate MZ. Here's what he said he did to the file: "anomalies repaired, EQ rationalised, compressed (loud parts lowered, quiet parts made louder), etc... Numerous details fixed." When I listened to the music after he sent it back to me, I noticed a difference. 

Mind you, one can only do so much with the source material. This is still an audience boot, not a soundboard or FM boot. But if you compare this with previous versions, I'm confident you'll notice that this sounds better. Let's hope the powers that be who own the rights to this material do a professional job and officially release it, since this is a truly historic concert. There's so much that can be done these days due to improving audio editing technology.

Note that I previously included two songs from this concert, "Layla" and "Have You Ever Loved a Woman," on a Derek and Dominos live compilation album called "Live and Rare." I have now removed those, since they're here, and with better sound. Here's the link if you want to get the revised version:

https://albumsthatshouldexist.blogspot.com/2018/04/derek-dominos-live-and-rare-1970.html

Also note that in recent days I updated most of the Derek and the Dominos album covers with better versions, using the Krea AI program. They were generally pretty rough images due to the lack of many good photos of the band.

Finally, a big thanks to both Goody and MZ!

This album is an hour and 34 minutes long.

01 talk (Derek & the Dominos)
02 Layla (Derek & the Dominos)
03 Got to Get Better in a Little While (Derek & the Dominos)
04 Key to the Highway (Derek & the Dominos)
05 talk (Derek & the Dominos)
06 Why Does Love Got to Be So Sad (Derek & the Dominos)
07 Blues Power (Derek & the Dominos)
08 Have You Ever Loved a Woman (Derek & the Dominos)
09 Bottle of Red Wine (Derek & the Dominos)
10 Let It Rain - Drum Solo - Let It Rain (Derek & the Dominos)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/68ZtMkmG

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/C1iKYwbanNr5xa6/file

There are two parts to the cover art. The top part is a photograph of a genuine ticket from this historic concert. (That's Clapton on the left, Allman on the right, and bassist Carl Radle in the middle background.) I figured it contained all the important information needed, so I didn't add any text to the cover. The bottom is a photograph from this exact concert. The original was in black and white, and was quite dark. I colorized it using the Kolorize program. I also lightened it some, and used the Krea AI program to improve the quality a bit.

Journey with Albert King and Friends - PBS Soundstage, Aragon Ballroom, Chicago, IL, 7-9-1978

When I think of Journey, I think of a lot of good hit songs, but I also think of slick "corporate rock," and I'm not a big fan of the latter. However, I've recently discovered that Journey was way more interesting than I'd thought in their early years, especially 1978. That's because 1978 was the year they did the "Super Jam II" concert consisting almost entirely of unexpected cover versions, and it was also the year they did this "PBS Soundstage" concert. Parts of it were typical of Journey concerts from that year. But they also had Albert King as their special guest on a few songs. I certainly never would have expected a Journey and Albert King collection! So kudos to them.

And they didn't just have Albert King as their special guest. He was the main guest star, and sang a couple of songs. However, some other great blues musicians were included as well: Pinetop Perkins, Luther Allison, and Jerry Portnoy. King and the others came on stage and jammed on several songs, mainly tracks six through eight here. So double kudos to Journey for shining the spotlight on all these blues musicians, most of them who made their mark in an earlier era. For instance, Pinetop Perkins, one of the greatest blues piano players ever, was born way back in 1913, so he was a senior citizen at the time of this concert.

As an aside, this was one of the last concerts the band played with Aynsley Dunbar on drums. His leaving was part of the band's transition from progressive rock to more corporate rock.

The one disappointment I have with this recording is that the last song, "I'm Gonna Move to the Outskirts of Town," is sung by Albert King, but it fades out after only a minute and a half. I looked at the video of this concert on YouTube, and there wasn't any more of it because the final credits from the TV were playing during that time. By the way, King sang "Sweet Little Angel" together with Journey lead vocalist Steve Perry. It seems this was the only time Journey ever played that song in concert.

This album is unreleased. There are videos of it for sale, but I suspect they're grey market releases.

This album is 54 minutes long.

01 Feeling That Way (Journey)
02 Anytime (Journey)
03 Winds of March (Journey)
04 Wheel in the Sky (Journey)
05 talk (Journey)
06 Overall Junction [Instrumental] (Journey with Albert King)
07 Sweet Little Angel (Journey with Albert King)
08 B Flat Blues Shuffle [Instrumental] (Journey with Albert King)
09 On a Saturday Night (Journey)
10 She Makes Me [Feel Alright] (Journey)
11 Lights (Journey)
12 I'm Gonna Move to the Outskirts of Town (Journey with Albert King)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/8feQK3dw

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/M0T7rZxySCUAw0X/file

The cover image is from this exact concert. It shows Albert King on the left and Journey lead guitarist Neal Schon on the right.

Rod Stewart - BBC Sessions, Volume 6: In Concert, Festival in a Day, Hyde Park, London, Britain, 9-13-2015

Here's the sixth BBC album I'm posting of Rod Stewart performing for the BBC. It's probably the last, unless something I missed pops up. This time, it's a concert from 2015.

I have to be honest. I planned on posting this only due to wanting to be complete in posting the main BBC concerts I'd but I was pleasantly surprised, because it wasn't what I was expecting. For some reason, Stewart decided to avoid performing all of his biggest hits from his career. There's no "Maggie May" here, no "Da Ya Think I'm Sexy," no "You're in My Heart," no "The First Cut Is the Deepest," no "Tonight's the Night," and so on. In fact, the website setlist.fm lists the number of times he's played over the entire duration of his solo career. NONE of the top twenty most performed songs in his career were performed in this concert!

Instead, he chose to play hits, but lesser hits that he generally hadn't performed in concert in many years, sometimes decades. So this is an ideal complement to some of the other BBC concerts I've posted from him, with very little overlap. I think that was a great idea. It's too bad more musical acts don't do it. But then again, not many have so many hits that they could play so many songs familiar to the audience while avoiding the best known ones.

There were some interesting choices here. For instance, "In a Broken Dream" was a song by the band Python Lee Jackson, with Stewart singing lead vocals on it. It was released in 1970, and was a Number Three hit in Britain. It still gets played on the radio. However, according to setlist.fm, Stewart only ever performed it in concert three times, and this concert was one of those times. 

Jim Cregan was a special guest on the last song. Cregan was a guitarist and songwriter in many bands. He was a member of Stewart's band for most of the 1980s and 1990s, and co-wrote about 30 songs with him, including some hits.

This album is an hour and 19 minutes long.

01 talk by James Corden (Rod Stewart)
02 Every Beat of My Heart (Rod Stewart)
03 talk (Rod Stewart)
04 The Motown Song (Rod Stewart)
05 talk (Rod Stewart)
06 What Am I Gonna Do [I'm So In Love with You] (Rod Stewart)
07 talk (Rod Stewart)
08 [I Know] I'm Losing You (Rod Stewart)
09 talk (Rod Stewart)
10 You Can Make Me Dance, Sing or Anything (Rod Stewart)
11 talk (Rod Stewart)
12 Gasoline Alley (Rod Stewart)
13 talk (Rod Stewart)
14 The Killing of Georgie [Parts I & II] (Rod Stewart)
15 talk (Rod Stewart)
16 Ooh La La (Rod Stewart)
17 talk (Rod Stewart)
18 Tom Traubert's Blues [Waltzing Matilda] (Rod Stewart)
19 talk (Rod Stewart)
20 Please (Rod Stewart)
21 talk (Rod Stewart)
22 Angel (Rod Stewart)
23 talk (Rod Stewart)
24 I'm Every Woman (Rod Stewart)
25 talk (Rod Stewart)
26 Rollin' and Tumblin' (Rod Stewart)
27 In a Broken Dream (Rod Stewart)
28 talk (Rod Stewart)
29 Love Is (Rod Stewart)
30 You Can't Stop Me Now (Rod Stewart)
31 talk (Rod Stewart)
32 I Was Only Joking (Rod Stewart with Jim Cregan)

https://bestfile.io/GdcVFa5XyR0a9ZI/file

alternate:

https://pixeldrain.com/u/PaoK5rpb

The cover photo is from this exact concert.

Covered: Stevie Wonder, Volume 5: 1981-1989

Here's Volume 5 in my "Covered" series highlighting the songwriting of Stevie Wonder. As with the other volumes in this series, this consists of other musical acts covering his songs.

Wonder was still very commercially successful in the early 1980s, but there was a slow decline as the decade went on. However, that isn't so important for this album, because many of the covers here are of songs he wrote earlier in his career.

Some songs here were written by Wonder but never officially released by him. Those are tracks 2, 4, 5, 7, 8, 11, and 12. That's a lot of songs. It's too bad he didn't put more of those songs on his own albums. 

My usual rule is to only include one version of each song in this series. However, I couldn't resist with "Superstition," since it's one of the greatest songs of all time and I really like two covers of it. I included a version by Jeff Beck on an earlier volume, and a version by Stevie Ray Vaughan here.

This album is 55 minutes long.

01 Happy Birthday (Brotherhood of Man)
02 Betcha' Wouldn't Hurt Me (Quincy Jones)
03 Lately (Rudy Grant)
04 Buttercup (Carl Anderson)
05 Try Jah Love (Third World)
06 If You Really Love Me (Mary Wells)
07 You're Playing Us Too Close (Third World)
08 The Crown (Gary Byrd & G.B. Experience with Stevie Wonder)
09 Ribbon in the Sky (Nancy Wilson)
10 Superstition (Stevie Ray Vaughan)
11 Remembering the Sixties (George Duke)
12 Hold On to Your Love (Smokey Robinson)
13 Higher Ground (Red Hot Chili Peppers)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/SMBE8DsJ

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/tBVPCnxrzfmeh4J/file

The cover photo is from 1985. That's all I know about it.

Van Morrison - BBC Sessions, Volume 8: 1999-2005

Here's another volume of Van Morrison performing for the BBC. This time, it's a collection of BBC TV performances.

Everything here comes from different episodes of the BBC TV show "Later... with Jools Holland." That's just by chance, as these were all the BBC sessions from the time period that I could find. The first two songs are from a 1999 episode. The next five are from another 1999 episode, a special year end celebration one. The three after that are from a 2000 episode. The last song is from a 2005 episode.

On many of these songs, Morrison shared the stage with some special guests. For the 1999 year-end episode (tracks 3 through 7), Morrison sang duets with Lonnie Donegan on three songs. Donegan was the "King of Skiffle" in the 1950s. The skiffle was a form of folk music that was extremely popular in Britain for a few years. Note that on one of the songs, "Midnight Special," Bryan Ferry of Roxy Music also joined Morrison and Donegan in singing different verses. For the 2000 episode (tracks 8 through 10), Morrison was prominently backed on vocals by Linda Gail Lewis. A duet album starring Morrison and Lewis was released in 2000.

There's one song I chose not to include from the 2005 session: "They Sold Me Out." I was fine with it at first, until I clearly heard the lyrics. They sound suspiciously antisemitic to me, and I don't want to further spread them. Even if they're not, the whole conceit of the song, in which he likens himself to being persecuted just like Jesus, is both ridiculous and offensive. Here's an article if you want a hint of the controversy this song caused:

https://www.algemeiner.com/2021/05/27/van-morrisons-lyrical-antisemitism/

In fact, this is basically when I reach the limit of what I can take from Morrison's declining career. Musically, he was repeating himself, and lyrically he was turning into a grumpy old man. Things would reach an all time low with his 2021 album "Latest Record Project: Volume 1," which has to be one of the worst albums of all time by a famous musical act. (At the crowd-sourced rateyourmusic.com, it gets a 1.77 on a 1 to 5 scale as I write this in 2025, which is a shockingly low number for that site.)

The music on this album I still like. He's helped a lot by the support of Lonnie Donegan and Linda Gail Lewis. But after this, I only plan on posting one more BBC album from him (although there are others), which is a concert from 2003.

This album is 47 minutes long.

01 Back on Top (Van Morrison)
02 When the Leaves Come Falling Down (Van Morrison)
03 Precious Time (Van Morrison)
04 Lost John (Van Morrison & Lonnie Donegan)
05 I Wanna Go Home [Sloop John B.] (Van Morrison & Lonnie Donegan)
06 Philosopher's Stone (Van Morrison)
07 Midnight Special (Van Morrison, Lonnie Donegan & Bryan Ferry)
08 Let's Talk about Us (Van Morrison with Linda Gail Lewis)
09 Real Gone Lover (Van Morrison with Linda Gail Lewis)
10 No Way Pedro (Van Morrison with Linda Gail Lewis)
11 Celtic New Year (Van Morrison)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/N4o2Wu5U

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/V8c1NTHQU6Y38dE/file 

The cover image is a screenshot I took from a video of one of these TV episodes.

Paul Weller - BBC Sessions, Volume 17: In Concert, BBC Radio Theatre, London, Britain, 5-14-2015

Here's yet another Paul Weller BBC album. This time, it's a full concert.

The previous full BBC concert I'd posted from him was from 2010, five years earlier. Since then, he's released the albums "Sonik Kicks" in 2012 and "Saturns Pattern" in 2015. Many of the songs performed here are from those, especially the more recent one.

This album is unreleased. The sound quality is excellent.

This appears to be the full concert. Interestingly, Weller seemed to have been given a precise amount of time to perform, down to the minute, because before he played the last song he said he would make it a short version to make sure all of it got broadcast.

This album is an hour and ten minutes long. 

01 talk by Jo Whiley (Paul Weller)
02 White Sky (Paul Weller)
03 Sunflower (Paul Weller)
04 talk (Paul Weller)
05 Come On-Let's Go (Paul Weller)
06 talk (Paul Weller)
07 I'm Where I Should Be (Paul Weller)
08 When Your Garden's Overgrown (Paul Weller)
09 talk (Paul Weller)
10 The Attic (Paul Weller)
11 talk (Paul Weller)
12 Saturns Pattern (Paul Weller)
13 Going My Way (Paul Weller)
14 talk (Paul Weller)
15 Long Time (Paul Weller)
16 Friday Street (Paul Weller)
17 Porcelain Gods (Paul Weller)
18 talk (Paul Weller)
19 Broken Stones (Paul Weller)
20 You Do Something to Me (Paul Weller)
21 Peacock Suit (Paul Weller)
22 The Changingman (Paul Weller)
23 These City Streets (Paul Weller)
24 talk (Paul Weller)
25 From the Floorboards Up (Paul Weller)
26 talk by Jo Whiley (Paul Weller)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/8dyAMCYF

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/WyuQiEg1mYUyyYu/file

The cover photo is from a concert in Hyde Park, London, on June 26, 2015.

Aretha Franklin - PBS Soundstage, Park West, Chicago, IL, 5-13-1985

The flood of "PBS Soundstage" shows continues with a 1985 concert by Aretha Franklin.

In 1985, Franklin was at the peak of a commercial revival, after having some tough years in the late 1970s especially. Her 1985 album "Who's Zoomin' Who?" sold over a million in the U.S. and was the best selling album of her career. This concert took place about two months before the release of that album. So some hit songs from that album weren't played, like "Who's Zoomin' Who?" and "Sisters are Doin' It for Themselves." However, the biggest hit from it, "Freeway of Love," was released in advance from the album, and that was performed here. It would reach Number Three on the U.S. singles chart. "Sweet Bitter Love" also appeared on that album.

This concert is officially unreleased. The sound quality is very good.

This album is 58 minutes long.

01 talk (Aretha Franklin)
02 Love Is the Key (Aretha Franklin)
03 Love All the Hurt Away (Aretha Franklin)
04 Day Dreaming (Aretha Franklin)
05 I Say a Little Prayer (Aretha Franklin)
06 See Saw (Aretha Franklin)
07 Rock Steady (Aretha Franklin)
08 Something He Can Feel (Aretha Franklin)
09 Think (Aretha Franklin)
10 Ain't No Way (Aretha Franklin)
11 Respect (Aretha Franklin)
12 Sweet Bitter Love (Aretha Franklin)
13 It's My Turn (Aretha Franklin)
14 Freeway of Love (Aretha Franklin)
15 Didn't It Rain (Aretha Franklin)
16 Jump to It (Aretha Franklin)
17 Respect [Reprise] (Aretha Franklin)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/P59kFyCT

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/5zn13pdx5RTwTla/file

The cover photo is a screenshot I took from this exact concert. The video I took it from was rather low-res, so I ran it through Krea AI twice to get it looking better. Also, using Photoshop, I erased some distracting things in the background.

Mary Chapin Carpenter - BBC Sessions, Volume 4: Celtic Connections Festival, Royal Concert Hall, Glasgow, Britain, 1-24-2014

Here's the fourth, and so far last, BBC album I have of Mary Chapin Carpenter. It's a concert one, but it's rather unusual in that she is backed by a full orchestra (specifically, the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra).

In January 2014, a couple of weeks before this album, Carpenter released the studio album "Songs from the Movie." Instead of being new material, it consisted of older songs, but redone with orchestral backing. In this way, it was similar to a couple of Joni Mitchell albums from around 2000 in which she redid some of her songs with an orchestra. This is basically the live version of that album. Nearly all the songs here come from that album. This definitely has a mellow feel, since rocking songs usually don't fit well with orchestral backings.

This album is unreleased. The sound quality is excellent. 

This album is 53 minutes long.

01 On and On It Goes (Mary Chapin Carpenter)
02 I Am a Town (Mary Chapin Carpenter)
03 Between Here and Gone (Mary Chapin Carpenter)
04 The Dreaming Road (Mary Chapin Carpenter)
05 talk (Mary Chapin Carpenter)
06 Mrs. Hemingway (Mary Chapin Carpenter)
07 Only a Dream (Mary Chapin Carpenter)
08 Where Time Stands Still (Mary Chapin Carpenter)
09 talk (Mary Chapin Carpenter)
10 Come On Come On (Mary Chapin Carpenter)
11 Goodnight America (Mary Chapin Carpenter)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/iiCMnFCc

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/9rNK4fU0VSkNclN/file

The cover photo is from this exact concert. I used the Krea AI program to improve the image some.

Jim Croce - PBS Soundstage, WTTW Studios, Chicago, IL, 8-13-1973

I'm extra happy to be posting this, because excellent sounding Jim Croce concert recordings are very rare, due to him dying shortly after becoming famous. This is another "PBS Soundstage" concert. Note however, that technically the program at the time was called "Made in Chicago." It would change titles a year later and keep the new title until the apparent final cancellation in 2018.

Jim Croce died in a plane crash on September 20, 1973. This concert was recorded a month before his death. By the time it aired, he had already died. Due to his death, his music career got a sudden surge of attention. So PBS put together an hour long TV special about his life. The Soundstage episode about him was less than half an hour long. However, I noticed that there were scenes in the hour-long special that were outtakes from the Soundstage show. I could tell due to the same clothes for Croce and his lead guitarist Maury Muehleisen, as well as the same lighting and stage design. So I took those bits and added them in to the concert. It wasn't a whole lot. In fact, there was only one new song ("Speedball Tucker"). However, there was some interesting banter before other songs. All in all, it added about eight minutes to the length of this album.

This album is unreleased. The sound quality is excellent. I hope there's even more in the archives from this show and it'll all get released someday.

This album is 36 minutes long.

01 Rapid Roy [The Stock Car Boy] (Jim Croce)
02 talk (Jim Croce)
03 Working at the Car Wash Blues (Jim Croce)
04 Operator [That's Not The Way It Feels] (Jim Croce)
05 talk (Jim Croce)
06 Roller Derby Queen (Jim Croce)
07 talk (Jim Croce)
08 You Don't Mess Around with Jim (Jim Croce)
09 talk (Jim Croce)
10 Lover's Cross (Jim Croce)
11 Bad, Bad Leroy Brown (Jim Croce)
12 talk (Jim Croce)
13 Five Short Minutes (Jim Croce)
14 The Hard Way Every Time (Jim Croce)
15 talk (Jim Croce)
16 Speedball Tucker (Jim Croce)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/CYH8qPSf

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/Aa6FrY6koyQNuKe/file

The cover photo is from this exact concert. I used the Krea AI program to improve the image quality.

Humble Pie - BBC Sessions, Volume 4: In Concert, Reseda Country Club, Los Angeles, CA, 5-17-1981

Here's another album of the British band Humble Pie performing for the BBC. It's a BBC concert, from 1981.

As far as I can tell, the only previous BBC concert by this band took place in 1970. I find it kind of strange that there were no other BBC concerts in the early 1970s, when the band was at a commercial peak. By 1981, the band was having a hard time. It broke up in 1975, then got back to make a new album in 1980. But musical tastes had changed, and the band's style of boogie rock was no longer in vogue. The band put out albums in 1980 and 1981, but both albums sold poorly, with neither of them even making the U.S. charts at all. In July 1981, only a couple of months after this concert, the band's lead singer and lead guitarist Steve Marriott developed an ulcer, which forced the cancellation of a tour. The band broke up at that point. Just one year later, Marriott formed an all-new band, but due to commercial reasons he was obliged to call it Humble Pie. That only lasted for about a year before the band was retired for good, at least as far as any Marriott version went.

Marriott had gone through a lot of things since the early 1970s, and it could be argued that he was a shadow of his former self creatively, especially when it comes to songwriting. At once point in the late 1970s, he was so hard up for money that he took to collecting empty bottles to redeem them for spare change. He frequently had big issues with drugs and alcohol. But despite all that, if you listen to this recording, he was still singing and playing lead guitar at a top level. I checked out a forum of Humble Pie fans, and this is considered one of the band's best concert recordings, period, in terms of both sound quality and performance.

The music here has been officially released, but in an obscure way. A box set of five CDs called "The Official Bootleg Box Set, Volume 2" came out, consisting of five different Humble Pie concerts, and this was one of them. But in terms of sound quality alone, this one deserves more attention, since it sounds better than most of the other material in that set.

This album is 49 minutes long.

01 I Don't Need No Doctor (Humble Pie)
02 Infatuation (Humble Pie)
03 30 Days in the Hole (Humble Pie)
04 Tin Soldier (Humble Pie)
05 Fool for a Pretty Face (Humble Pie)
06 [Get Your Kicks On] Route 66 (Humble Pie)
07 Be-Bop-A-Lula (Humble Pie)
08 Tulsa Time (Humble Pie)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/YPG5JBky

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/ZAsYh76vroOngpH/file

The cover photo of Steve Marriott is from a concert at the Park West, in Chicago, Illinois, on April 15, 1981.

Dr. John and Friends - New Orleans Swamp, PBS Soundstage, Park West, Chicago, IL, 10-30-1974

Here's a special episode of "PBS Soundstage." It was one of very few that got a special name - "New Orleans Swamp" - because it was a collection of musical acts instead of just one. The main star here was Dr. John. But he was joined by other pivotal musical acts from New Orleans: Professor Longhair, Earl King, and the Meters. All of these were key to the New Orleans sound. Due to the passage of time, there's no doubt a collection of talent like this will never be seen on stage together.

I've already post music by Dr. John, and he's a famous figure anyway. But here are Wikipedia links to the others, in case you want to know more:

Professor Longhair - Wikipedia 

Earl King - Wikipedia 

The Meters - Wikipedia

Dr. John served as the emcee. First, Professor Longhair played a short set, then Earl King did, then the Meters did. Dr. John stayed on stage the entire time, usually playing keyboards. Then Dr. John did an extra long set. Everyone was on stage for the finale, "Big Chief," an Earl King song.

To be honest, many times with these PBS Soundstage shows, I'm not entirely sure where they took place. I try to find out, but when I can't find any definitive information, I assume it took place in Chicago. (As usual, I'm open to corrections.) In this case, I thought the odds were pretty good the show took place in New Orleans, since it was such a gathering of talent all from that city. But I actually found a social media thread on it by other people who had been wondering the same thing, and I was able to find some definitive information about the location and date.

The music here remains unreleased. The sound quality is excellent. If you want authentic New Orleans music, don't miss this! 

This album is 58 minutes long.

01 talk (Dr. John)
02 She Walks Right In - Shake, Rattle and Roll (Dr. John with Professor Longhair)
03 Tipitina (Dr. John with Professor Longhair)
04 Whole Lotta Lovin' (Dr. John with Professor Longhair)
05 Everyday I Have the Blues (Dr. John with Professor Longhair)
06 talk (Dr. John)
07 Mama and Papa (Dr. John with Earl King)
08 Those Lonely, Lonely Nights (Dr. John with Earl King)
09 talk (Dr. John)
10 Looka Py Py [Instrumental] (Dr. John with Meters)
11 Jungle Man (Dr. John with Meters)
12 Call a Doctor (Dr. John)
13 Qualified (Dr. John)
14 talk (Dr. John)
15 Quitters Never Win (Dr. John)
16 Such a Night (Dr. John)
17 Right Place, Wrong Time (Dr. John)
18 Big Chief (Dr. John & Everyone)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/ta2ATSJt

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/4LcpIp1VB0T15Ud/file

The cover photo of Dr. John is from this exact concert.

Covered: Stevie Wonder, Volume 4: 1976-1981

Here we are again with another "Covered" album consisting of songs written or co-written by Stevie Wonder. This volume deals with the years 1976 to 1981.

I my opinion, the peak of Wonder's music career was from about 1972 to 1981. So this represents the latter half of that. But keep in mind that covers always come after the original versions, sometimes decades later. So many of the songs he wrote during this time don't show up until later volumes.

However, just like with previous sessions, there are some songs here that Wonder didn't release himself. This time, those are tracks 5, 6, 7, 8, and 11.

This album is 59 minutes long.

01 Boogie On Reggae Woman (Slickers)
02 Creepin' (Herbie Mann feat. Cissy Houston)
03 You Are the Sunshine of My Life (Ella Fitzgerald)
04 Love Having You Around (First Choice)
05 The Real Thing (Sergio Mendes & New Brasil 77)
06 Stick Together (Minnie Riperton)
07 Don't Make Me Wait Too Long (Roberta Flack & Donny Hathaway)
08 I Can't Help It (Michael Jackson)
09 I'm Wondering (Amy Holland)
10 Signed, Sealed, Delivered, I'm Yours (Syreeta Wright)
11 Let's Get Serious (Jermaine Jackson)
12 Pastime Paradise (Ray Barretto)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/Psmhz2QD

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/4WAUE3LanH8uQY8/file

All I know about the cover image is that it's from 1982.

Huey Lewis & the News with Sam Moore and Lloyd Price - PBS Soundstage, WTTW Studios, Chicago, IL, 6-2-1994

The flood of "PBS Soundstage" concerts. This one is a concert by Huey Lewis and the Lewis, with special guests Sam Moore and Lloyd Price.

First off, note this isn't technically an episode of "PBS Soundstage." The program ran from 1974 to 1985 in its initial run. It would be revived in 1992 to 1993 under the name "Center Stage," but otherwise identical, and then revived again from 2003 to 2018. This concert is an anomaly, because it's the only one from 1994. I found an article in an old newspaper archive that explained what happened. Basically, Huey Lewis liked the old show, and wanted to do a concert on the show when it was revived for a season in 1992 to 1993, but the show had been cancelled again by the time he went to tour to support his next album. But he talked the producers of the show to make a single special episode called "Four Chords Live," which is this. Other than the name, it's exactly like a typical "Soundstage" episode, including the venue, length, and the appearance of special guests.

That name references his 1994 album, "Four Chords and Several Years Ago." It consists entirely of covers of R&B covers from the 1950s and 60s. So most of the songs performed here are covers, with just three songs that were hits for Huey Lewis and the News sprinkled in: "The Heart of Rock and Roll," "The Power of Love," and "I Want a New Drug." Given the emphasis on covers from that earlier era, it makes sense that the two special guests were Sam Moore and Lloyd Price. Moore was half of the famous 1960s R&B music duo Sam and Dave. Price had some R&B hits in the 1950s, especially "Lawdy Miss Claudy" and "Personality."

The episode began with about 30 seconds of Lewis and his band rehearsing a song. I cut that out since it wasn't part of the concert. I also had to make some edits between a few songs, when the applause after a song was immediately cut off. Probably those were where commercials were inserted. I patched in more applause from elsewhere to make those transitions sound natural.

This album is 58 minutes long.

01 The Heart of Rock and Roll (Huey Lewis & the News)
02 talk (Huey Lewis & the News)
03 Stagger Lee (Huey Lewis & the News)
04 Blue Monday (Huey Lewis & the News)
05 Some Kind of Wonderful (Huey Lewis & the News)
06 talk (Huey Lewis & the News)
07 I Thank You (Huey Lewis & the News with Sam Moore)
08 Little Bitty Pretty One (Huey Lewis & the News)
09 talk (Huey Lewis & the News)
10 Good Morning, Little Schoolgirl (Huey Lewis & the News)
11 Shake, Rattle and Roll (Huey Lewis & the News)
12 Searching for My Love (Huey Lewis & the News)
13 talk (Huey Lewis & the News)
14 Personality (Huey Lewis & the News with Lloyd Price)
15 talk (Huey Lewis & the News)
16 Don't Ever Break My Heart (Huey Lewis & the News with Lloyd Price)
17 The Power of Love (Huey Lewis & the News)
18 I Want a New Drug (Huey Lewis & the News)
19 Function at the Junction (Huey Lewis & the News)
20 But It's Alright (Huey Lewis & the News)
21 Better to Have and Not Need (Huey Lewis & the News)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/911mJvYW

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/4W5XyHEcUa47QPm/file 

The cover is from this exact concert.

Emmylou Harris, Patty Griffin, Shawn Colvin & Buddy Miller - PBS Soundstage, WTTW Studios, Chicago, IL, 10-29-2009

Here's an unusual episode of the "PBS Soundstage" TV show. It's the only episode I've found that follows the same format as the "Songwriters' Circle" BBC TV show episodes I've been posting: four singer-songwriters took turns presenting their songs. In this case: Emmylou Harris, Patty Griffin, Shawn Colvin & Buddy Miller.

However, the BBC TV show put together different artists for a single concert. In this case, the four singer-songwriters had joined forces on their own, calling themselves "Three Girls and Their Buddy." They never released any music that I know of, but they toured together for most of 2009.

The four of them had previous ties. Buddy Miller led the Buddy Miller Band back in the early 1980s. Shawn Colvin, just starting her music career, was a member of that band. Miller was the lead guitarist in Emmylou Harris's band in the late 1990s. Then, in 2004, a similar group to this one was formed, called the Sweet Harmony Traveling Revue. It starred Harris, Miller, Patty Griffin, and the duo of Gillian Welch and David Rawlings. But that group, like this group, never officially released any music.

Generally speaking, each of the singer-songwriters performed acoustically on their own. But sometimes they were assisted by others, especially by Miller on guitar. They came together to sing on the last song.

I was very familiar with the careers of Harris and Colvin, but I'd missed Griffin and Miller. I was pleasantly surprised. I thought all four of them impressed with their singing and songwriting, and they worked well as a group. I liked them so much that I found another concert by the same foursome and I plan on posting that here eventually. It's too bad they only toured together in 2009.

This album is 52 minutes long.

01 talk (Emmylou Harris, Patty Griffin, Shawn Colvin & Buddy Miller)
02 Blackhawk (Emmylou Harris, Patty Griffin, Shawn Colvin & Buddy Miller)
03 Love Throws a Line (Emmylou Harris, Patty Griffin, Shawn Colvin & Buddy Miller)
04 Poloroids (Emmylou Harris, Patty Griffin, Shawn Colvin & Buddy Miller)
05 Shelter Me (Emmylou Harris, Patty Griffin, Shawn Colvin & Buddy Miller)
06 talk (Emmylou Harris, Patty Griffin, Shawn Colvin & Buddy Miller)
07 Michelangelo (Emmylou Harris, Patty Griffin, Shawn Colvin & Buddy Miller)
08 Heavenly Day (Emmylou Harris, Patty Griffin, Shawn Colvin & Buddy Miller)
09 talk (Emmylou Harris, Patty Griffin, Shawn Colvin & Buddy Miller)
10 Summer Dress (Emmylou Harris, Patty Griffin, Shawn Colvin & Buddy Miller)
11 talk (Emmylou Harris, Patty Griffin, Shawn Colvin & Buddy Miller)
12 Poison Love (Emmylou Harris, Patty Griffin, Shawn Colvin & Buddy Miller)
13 talk (Emmylou Harris, Patty Griffin, Shawn Colvin & Buddy Miller)
14 Love and Happiness (Emmylou Harris, Patty Griffin, Shawn Colvin & Buddy Miller)
15 talk (Emmylou Harris, Patty Griffin, Shawn Colvin & Buddy Miller)
16 Get Ready Marie (Emmylou Harris, Patty Griffin, Shawn Colvin & Buddy Miller)
17 talk (Emmylou Harris, Patty Griffin, Shawn Colvin & Buddy Miller)
18 Hold On (Emmylou Harris, Patty Griffin, Shawn Colvin & Buddy Miller)
19 talk (Emmylou Harris, Patty Griffin, Shawn Colvin & Buddy Miller)
20 Gasoline and Matches (Emmylou Harris, Patty Griffin, Shawn Colvin & Buddy Miller)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/M9ryEscs

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/AwB6wr9loL6ttAz/file

I found the cover photo by Googling the names of all four of these musicians together. I don't know exactly where or when it's from, but it must be from their 2009 tour. It was a small and low-res picture though, so I enlarged it then used the Krea AI program to improve the picture quality. It worked pretty well, but I thought Harris's face didn't look like her. So I found a different face at the same angle and pasted it in.

Lyle Lovett with Randy Newman - PBS Soundstage, WTTW Studios, Chicago, IL, 12-18-2002

Here's another "PBS Soundstage" concert. I'm prioritizing posting the ones with key guest stars. This one is mainly a Lyle Lovett concert, but Randy Newman sings two songs with Lovett, and sings two more songs on his own.

Mark Isham is also a guest on two songs. He plays trumpet and keyboards, but he's mainly known for composing hundreds of movie and TV scores.

In February 2003, Lovett released an album called "Smile: Songs from the Movies." It was a compilation of songs he'd done for various movies in the previous ten years. This concert took place two months prior to the release of that album, but was timed to be broadcast on TV after the release. Lovett took the theme of the album seriously, because most of the songs he performed in this concert are from movie soundtracks.

Note by the way that "Mack the Knife" is a song originally written in German in 1928 by Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill, under the title "Die Moritat von Mackie Messer." It was later translated into English and became a huge hit for Bobby Darin in 1959. However, the translation was a loose one, shortening the song and taking out a lot of the gruesome violence. In 1976, a new translation was done that's much longer. This version is typically called "Moritat." That's the version Lovett did for a 1994 movie soundtrack, and performed in this concert. I've included both "Moritat" and "Mack the Knife" in the title.

By the way, Newman had his own Soundstage episode in 1974, but I can't find any recording of it. If anyone has it, please let me know. 

This episode is unreleased, but the sound quality is excellent.

This album is an hour and 21 minutes long.

01 talk (Lyle Lovett)
02 Blue Skies (Lyle Lovett)
03 talk (Lyle Lovett)
04 Straighten Up and Fly Right (Lyle Lovett)
05 talk (Lyle Lovett)
06 Smile (Lyle Lovett)
07 Gee Baby, Ain't I Good to You (Lyle Lovett)
08 talk (Lyle Lovett)
09 Summer Wind (Lyle Lovett)
10 talk (Lyle Lovett)
11 Mack the Knife [Moritat] (Lyle Lovett with Mark Isham)
12 talk (Lyle Lovett)
13 Walking Tall (Lyle Lovett)
14 talk (Lyle Lovett)
15 You've Got a Friend in Me (Lyle Lovett & Randy Newman)
16 talk (Lyle Lovett & Randy Newman)
17 Political Science (Lyle Lovett & Randy Newman)
18 talk (Lyle Lovett & Randy Newman)
19 I Think It's Going to Rain Today (Lyle Lovett & Randy Newman)
20 If I Had a Boat (Lyle Lovett)
21 talk (Lyle Lovett)
22 That's Right, You're Not from Texas (Lyle Lovett)
23 talk (Lyle Lovett)
24 Long Tall Texan (Lyle Lovett with Randy Newman)
25 talk (Lyle Lovett)
26 What Do You Do (Lyle Lovett with Francine Reed)
27 Church (Lyle Lovett)
28 talk (Lyle Lovett)
29 What'd I Say (Lyle Lovett)
30 talk (Lyle Lovett)
31 I'm a Soldier in the Army of the Lord (Lyle Lovett)
32 talk (Lyle Lovett)
33 I'm Gonna Wait (Lyle Lovett with Mark Isham)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/48GxFzYj

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/znJifglgHgeuWSQ/file

The cover is a screenshot from this exact concert, with Newman at the piano and Lovett singing into a microphone. Actually, it's three screenshots. The video I took this from was really low-res. So I took screenshots of different sections, for instance one of just Lovett's head. Then I resized them and used Photoshop to merge them into one. After that, I used Krea AI to improve the image quality overall.

Rod Stewart - BBC Sessions, Volume 5: In Concert, BBC Radio Theatre, London, Britain, 5-16-2013

Here's another BBC album by Rod Stewart. This time, it's a concert from 2013.

The last BBC album I'd posted by Stewart is from 2004. Since that time until 2013, he'd put out more covers albums, especially those of the Great American Songbook. But in 2013, he finally released a studio album in which he wrote or cowrote nearly all of the songs, called "Time." It was the first such album in about 20 years. He said that he'd lost the creative inspiration to write songs for many years, but found it again while he was writing his autobiography. The album did surprisingly well in Britain, especially considering it didn't contain any big hit singles. In fact, it was the seventh best selling album in Britain that year.

As you'd expect, this album consists of songs from that album, plus his greatest hits. There's no sign of the Great American Songbook songs he'd recorded five albums of during the previous decade.

This album is unreleased. But the sound quality is excellent, as you'd expect from the BBC. 

This album is an hour and 22 minutes long.

01 talk by Jo Whiley (Rod Stewart)
02 You Can't Stop Me Now (Rod Stewart)
03 talk (Rod Stewart)
04 You Wear It Well (Rod Stewart)
05 Forever Young (Rod Stewart)
06 talk (Rod Stewart)
07 It's Over (Rod Stewart)
08 talk (Rod Stewart)
09 Rhythm of My Heart (Rod Stewart)
10 talk (Rod Stewart)
11 Finest Woman (Rod Stewart)
12 talk (Rod Stewart)
13 Some Guys Have All the Luck (Rod Stewart)
14 talk (Rod Stewart)
15 Soul Girl [Soul Man] (Rod Stewart)
16 talk (Rod Stewart)
17 Have I Told You Lately (Rod Stewart)
18 talk (Rod Stewart)
19 Brighton Beach (Rod Stewart)
20 talk (Rod Stewart)
21 She Makes Me Happy (Rod Stewart)
22 talk (Rod Stewart)
23 Sweet Little Rock and Roller (Rod Stewart)
24 talk (Rod Stewart)
25 I Don't Want to Talk about It (Rod Stewart)
26 talk (Rod Stewart)
27 The First Cut Is the Deepest (Rod Stewart)
28 talk (Rod Stewart)
29 Sexual Religion (Rod Stewart)
30 Maggie May (Rod Stewart)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/hnYcYQCu

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/3VLzw7wwcQS7Phx/file

The cover photo is from another concert in London later in 2013. Specifically, it's from the 02 Arena on September 21, 2013.