Covered: Brian Wilson, Volume 2: 1980-2001 (A Fabio from Rio Guest Post)

For Volume 2 of this “Covered” collection, covering the years 1980 to 2001, we begin to move firmly into Brian Wilson’s "influential songwriter" era. During the early and mid-1990s, his work started to gain broader recognition as something far greater than simply a catalog of breezy pop songs. One important factor was the release of the excellent "Good Vibrations: Thirty Years of The Beach Boys" box set in 1993, which included several rare recordings from the legendary (and then still unreleased) "Smile" album, along with material from other overlooked chapters of the Beach Boys’ story. The set helped spark renewed interest in both Brian Wilson and the Beach Boys' musical legacy.

By the late 1990s, a wide range of tribute albums began appearing, recorded by younger generations of musicians eager to acknowledge Brian’s influence. Indie artists such as Sonic Youth, Yo La Tengo, and Adventures in Stereo demonstrated a genuine affection for his music, helping introduce it to new audiences. This volume also offers a first glimpse of the Wondermints, who would later become Brian Wilson’s backing band and play a crucial role in bringing a modern version of "Smile" to life in the early 2000s.

This album is 58 minutes long.

01 The Farmer's Daughter (Fleetwood Mac)
02 Go Away Boy (Honeys)
03 Dead Man's Curve (Eddie Meduza)
04 She Knows Me Too Well (Wondermints)
05 California Girls (David Lee Roth)
06 Fun, Fun, Fun (Joan Jett)
07 Be True to Your School (Cynics)
08 I Know There's an Answer (Sonic Youth)
09 Meet Me in My Dreams Tonight (Vacant Lot)
10 Surfin' (Dave Goelz & the Surf Rats)
11 Girl Don't Tell Me (Fuzzy)
12 Everything I Need (Wilsons with Brian Wilson)
13 In My Room (Marilyn Scott)
14 Little Honda (Yo La Tengo)
15 Wonderful (Adventures in Stereo)
16 Honkin' Down the Highway (Radio Sweethearts)
17 Rainbow Eyes (Kle)
18 Stevie - My Diane (Saint Etienne)
19 Surfer Girl (Paul Simon)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/qvGze9yR

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/Upv0FegAFyf6FTM/file

The cover image is from 1978. The original was in black and white, but I colorized it with the help of the Kolorize program.

Dr. John - Ebbets Field, Denver, CO, 9-25-1974

Here is another great Ebbets Field radio broadcast. This one stars New Orleanslegend Dr. John in 1974.

In April 1974, Dr. John released the album “Desitively Bonnaroo.” This was from the tour supporting that album.

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

This album is an hour and six minutes long.

01 talk by emcee (Dr. John)
02 Down Yonder (Dr. John)
03 Gris Gris Gumbo Ya Ya (Dr. John)
04 Danse Kalinda Ba Doom (Dr. John)
05 Walk on Guilded Splinters (Dr. John)
06 Mama Roux (Dr. John)
07 Quitters Never Win (Dr. John)
08 Mos' Scocious (Dr. John)
09 talk (Dr. John)
10 Mess Around - Qualified (Dr. John)
11 Junko Partner (Dr. John)
12 Can't Git Enough (Dr. John)
13 Desitively Bonnaroo (Dr. John)
14 Stagger Lee (Dr. John)
15 Didn't He Ramble (Dr. John)
16 Right Place, Wrong Time (Dr. John)
17 Lil' Liza Jane (Dr. John)
18 talk by emcee (Dr. John)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/66Dqw5NM 

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/pqFmvOK84iEpLJi/file

The cover image was taken on June 28, 1973. I don't know the location.

Covered: Brian Wilson, Volume 1: 1963-1978 (A Fabio from Rio Guest Post)

June 11th marks the first anniversary of the passing of musical genius Brian Wilson (1942–2025), who would have turned 84 on June 20th had he still been with us. This seems like the perfect moment to post "Covered" albums devoted to this extraordinary songwriter. Since Brian is, of course, closely associated with the Beach Boys, the "Covered: Brian Wilson" collection also serves as an indirect tribute to the legendary vocal group, highlighting the enormous influence they have had on generations of musicians since the 1960s.

This collection is another collaboration with Fabio from Rio. He is a devoted Beach Boys fan and, in fact, his first guest post here was a tribute to Brian Wilson, written and published just days after Brian’s death one year ago. You can find it here:

https://albumsthatshouldexist.blogspot.com/2025/06/various-artists-songs-in-key-of-brian.html

It is therefore no surprise that he embraced this project wholeheartedly and came up with hundreds of potential covers, which were eventually trimmed down to exactly 100 tracks spread across five volumes. These 100 recordings represent 98 different compositions, since we made minor exceptions to my usual policy of avoiding duplicate songs by including two versions each of "God Only Knows" and "Good Vibrations", which will appear in later volumes.

Most of the songs here were not hits in their cover versions or at least were not big hits. But there is one important exception: “Surf City” was a Number One hit in the US in 1963 for Jan and Dean. The song was written by Wilson and Jan Berry of Jan and Dean fame. However, even though a lot of these were not the big hits, they were intended to be, it shows that Wilson’s songs were being widely covered practically from the very beginning of his career with The Beach Boys in 1962.

Note that during The time period of this album, 1963 to 1978, Wilson wrote or cowrote dozens of hit songs for the Beach Boys. Fabio and I were careful to never use the Beach Boys versions or solo Brian Wilson versions, but only covers by other musical acts. It just so happens that many of the best covers of those hits from this time come later. So if you don’t see some of your favorite songs, just wait to see what we come up with for the later volumes.

Out of these 23 tracks here, only 12 were recorded by the Beach Boys around the time of their first release. The remaining 11 tracks were originally recorded by other artists, demonstrating that Brian's talent was not limited to his own group.

These are the non-Beach Boys tracks: 

01 Drag City (Jan & Dean)

02 He's a Doll (Honeys)

03 Surf City (Jan & Dean)

04 The One You Can't Have (Honeys)

06 The New Girl in School (Jan & Dean)

08 Guess I'm Dumb (Glen Campbell)

13 Time to Get Alone (Redwood)

17 Good Time (American Spring)

19 Sweet Mountain (American Spring)

20 Had to Phone Ya (American Spring)

23 Almost Summer (Celebration)

A few of those songs - tracks 13, 17, and 20 - were later done by the Beach Boys. And Celebration was a side project for Beach Boys singer Mike Love.

Particularly noteworthy are the Honeys / American Spring (a.k.a. Spring), which together are represented here by five songs. The Honeys were a pop group formed by sisters Marilyn Rovell (later Marilyn Wilson), Diane Rovell, and Barbara Rovell (the latter eventually replaced by their cousin, Ginger Blake). In many ways, they were a female counterpart to the Beach Boys. They were discovered by Gary Usher at a talent show in 1961. Usher eventually introduced them to Brian, who renamed the group and began dating Marilyn. The couple married in December 1964.

The Honeys dissolved in 1970 when Ginger left the group to pursue a solo career. Marilyn and Diane then formed Spring, and later added "American" to the band's name after encountering trademark issues with a British group of the same name that threatened legal action. American Spring released a single album in 1972, produced by Brian Wilson, and recorded several additional tracks in 1977–1978 for a second album that was never released. Some of these recordings would later appear on compilations and anthologies. "Had to Phone Ya," recorded before the Beach Boys' own version, is one such example. 

This album is one hour long.

01 Drag City (Jan & Dean)
02 He's a Doll (Honeys)
03 Surf City (Jan & Dean)
04 The One You Can't Have (Honeys)
05 You're So Good to Me (Fireballs)
06 The New Girl in School (Jan & Dean)
07 Don't Worry Baby (Ivy League)
08 Guess I'm Dumb (Glen Campbell)
09 Here Today (Bobby Vee)
10 I'm Waiting for the Day (Peanut)
11 Don't Talk [Put Your Head on My Shoulder] (Carmen McRae)
12 The Little Girl I Once Knew (Bystanders)
13 Time to Get Alone (Redwood)
14 Aren't You Glad (Peggy March)
15 Darlin' (Paper Dolls)
16 Friends (Chicks)
17 Good Time (American Spring)
18 Vegetables (Jan & Dean)
19 Sweet Mountain (American Spring)
20 Had to Phone Ya (American Spring)
21 Sail On Sailor (KGB)
22 Breakaway (Wildfire)
23 Almost Summer (Celebration)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/ypFoz44W

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/DdA0Xae8n72zlKI/file

The cover image is from 1964.

Jeff Beck - Capitol Theater, Port Chester, NY, 7-19-2016

For some reason, I’ve noticed that there aren’t many Jeff Beck concert recordings with really excellent sound quality. So I was especially pleased to see that when there was a big leak of soundboard recordings from the Capitol Theater in Port Chester back in April 2026, two of those are Jeff Beck concerts. Here is the first one I’m posting.

This concert was part of a tour to support his 2016 studio album “Loud Hailer.” It got good reviews, but the sales were disappointing. A lot of the songs on the album had vocals. I was pleasantly surprised to discover a song called The Ballad of the Jersey Wives,” which was performed in this concert, concerns the widows of the 9/11 victims and their search to find out what really happened in the events related to that terror attack. I didn’t know Beck wrote or cowrote those kinds of songs.

Some of the songs performed in the concert or instrumentals. Other others are sung by vocalist Rosie Bones, And still, others are sung by vocalist Jimmy Hall. You can see which is which in the song list.

A friend of musical associate Lil Panda was the one who split a single audio file into separate songs. I made a little change of boosting the volume of the applause between songs. That was too low, as is often the case with soundboard recordings. 

You sound quality is excellent. But note that the recording is mono, not stereo, just like virtually all the others from the Port Chester leak. 

This album is an hour and 23 minutes long.

01 The Revolution Will Be Televised (Jeff Beck)
02 Freeway Jam [Instrumental] (Jeff Beck)
03 Stratus [Instrumental] (Jeff Beck)
04 Live in the Dark (Jeff Beck with Rosie Bones)
05 The Ballad of the Jersey Wives (Jeff Beck with Rosie Bones)
06 The Pump [Instrumental] (Jeff Beck)
07 Morning Dew (Jeff Beck with Jimmy Hall)
08 A Change Is Gonna Come (Jeff Beck with Jimmy Hall)
09 Even Odds [Instrumental] (Jeff Beck)
10 Cause We've Ended as Lovers [Instrumental] (Jeff Beck)
11 O.I.L. [Can't Get Enough of That Sticky] (Jeff Beck with Rosie Bones)
12 Scared for the Children (Jeff Beck with Rosie Bones)
13 You Never Know [Instrumental] (Jeff Beck)
14 Rollin' and Tumblin' (Jeff Beck with Jimmy Hall)
15 Superstition (Jeff Beck with Jimmy Hall)
16 Right Now (Jeff Beck with Rosie Bones)
17 A Day in the Life [Instrumental] (Jeff Beck)
18 talk (Jeff Beck with Jimmy Hall)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/u79KGFbF

alternate: 

https://bestfile.io/en/cx70kxxgyWCFYlu/file

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

Vacation Again

As I write this, I am sitting in an airport getting ready to board a flight from the United States to Europe. I am going on vacation again! I will be going to Britain, Hungary (where I have relatives), and especially Spain for total of over a month.

Good news, from your perspective if you like this blog, is that before I left my home, I queued up dozens of albums for me to post while I’m gone. I should have enough for about one album a day. I just have to do the write ups when I find myself with a little bit of free time during my travels. I may be more intermittent with my posting the travel factor, but I hope to at least maintain an average of one post a day. Half or more of the albums that I have ready to post while I’m gone are more Ebbets Field Radio broadcast, until I run out of material.

Oh, and while I am making an announcement, I just want to mention that I think last month was the most prolific month I’ve ever had on this blog, with almost 100 posts. Maybe someday I will break that 100 post amount, especially if I get more help from guest posters like Mike Solof and Fabio from Rio.

Various Artists - Pete Seeger's 90th Birthday Benefit, Madison Square Garden, New York City, 5-3-2009, Part 3

Here's the third and last volume of Pete Seeger's 90th Birthday Benefit concert in 2009.

Like most concerts, the idea was to build up to a big finale. So this last part has some heavy hitters, like Roger McGuinn, Joan Baez, Dave Matthews, and the biggest name of all, Bruce Springsteen. His presence made a lot of sense, because he put out an album in 2006, "We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions," consisting entirely of covers of songs associated with Seeger.

I think Seeger is mainly known as someone who mostly performed cover songs, because he liked to sing songs from a wide variety of sources, even some in other languages. But I think that resulted in many people underappreciating his songwriting. He wrote or co-wrote a lot of great songs, including, "Turn! Turn! Turn!," "If I Had a Hammer," "Where Have All the Flowers Gone," "The Bells of Rhymney," "Kisses Sweeter than Wine," and more. In fact, now that I think about it, I should put him on the list of songwriters who deserved the "Covered" treatment. Anyway, if you're not that familiar with his music, hopefully this concert helped with that, even though some songs here weren't written by him ("The Ghost of Tom Joad" by Bruce Springsteen being one such example). 

As with the previous volumes in this series, the track numbers continue where the last volume left off, in case you want to put all the songs in one folder to listen to this as one big album.  

This album is 54 minutes long.

38 Jacob's Ladder (Joan Baez, Mike & Ruthy Merenda, Scarlett Lee Moore, Jay Unger, Molly Mason & Larry Long)
39 Mary Don't You Weep (Arlo Guthrie, Del McCoury, John Hall, Tony Trischka & Preservation Hall Jazz Band)
40 talk (Arlo Guthrie)
41 Worried Man Blues (Arlo Guthrie, Tao Rodriguez-Seeger, Jay Unger, Molly Mason & Ramblin' Jack Elliott)
42 Gather 'Round the Stone (Ben Harper, Ellen Harper, Sue Chase & Tom Morello)
43 talk (Peggy Seeger)
44 Turn, Turn, Turn [To Everything There Is a Season] (Roger McGuinn with Ben Bridwell & Tyler Ramsey)
45 Precious Friend (Emmylou Harris, Arlo Guthrie, Tony Trischka & the Preservation Hall Jazz Band)
46 talk (Dave Matthews)
47 Rye Whiskey (Dave Matthews)
48 talk (Bruce Springsteen)
49 The Ghost of Tom Joad (Bruce Springsteen with Tom Morello)
50 This Land Is Your Land (Pete Seeger & Everyone)
51 Happy Birthday (Joan Baez & Everyone)
52 Well May the World Go (Everyone)
53 talk (Seeger Family)
54 Goodnight Irene (Pete Seeger & Everyone)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/zV7sk3SE

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/NR8A45pdRYpWEnj/file

The cover image is a screenshot I took from a video of this exact concert. From right to left in the front row: Arlo Guthrie, Joan Baez, Bruce Springsteen, Patti Scialfa, Tom Morello, and Dave Matthews.

Renaissance - Ebbets Field, Denver, CO, 8-7-1974

Here's another Ebbets Field radio broadcast. This time, it's the British prog-rock band Renaissance.

Renaissance was founded in 1969 by two ex-members of the Yardbirds, Keith Relf and Jim McCarty. However, from the very start, the intention was to go in a classical direction, very different from what the Yardbirds did. The band went through some different personnel changes, losing Relf and McCarty along the way. By 1972, the band's line-up stabilized. The new focus for the band were the vocals of Annie Haslam and the piano of John Tout. 

In July 1974, the band released their fifth album, "Turn of the Cards." Wikipedia says, "With a larger budget, the album went from folk-flavored to a more dark, lush, orchestral rock sound." This concert was part of a U.S. tour to promote that album.

Here's the band's Wikipedia page:

Renaissance (band) - Wikipedia 

It looks like this concert has been officially released under the title "Alive in America 1974." But it's a very obscure release, so obscure that I couldn't find a copy. But that didn't matter much, since I found a bootleg version of the radio broadcast that I'm sure was the same original source.

This album is 58 minutes long.

01 talk (Renaissance)
02 Can You Understand (Renaissance)
03 talk (Renaissance)
04 Black Flame (Renaissance)
05 talk (Renaissance)
06 Things I Don't Understand (Renaissance)
07 talk (Renaissance)
08 Cold Is Being (Renaissance)
09 talk (Renaissance)
10 Running Hard (Renaissance)
11 talk (Renaissance)
12 Ashes Are Burning (Renaissance)
13 talk by emcee (Renaissance)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/m9mBftdg

alternate: 

https://bestfile.io/91FjfxC67cpvvjv/file

The cover image of Annie Haslam is from an unknown concert in 1973.

Various Artists - Pete Seeger's 90th Birthday Benefit, Madison Square Garden, New York City, 5-3-2009, Part 2

Here's the second out of three parts for Pete Seeger's 90th Birthday Benefit concert in 2009.

The concert was quite long, so I decided to split it into three parts. Perhaps in retrospect it would have made more sense to split it into two parts, because the concert reached a sort of emotional peak right in the middle with a group singalong of "We Shall Overcome." It seems an intermission followed that. But what's done is done, and I think it's a good listen this way as well.

Also, Seeger's direct participation is rather strange. He stayed off the stage for most of this concert that was dedicated to him, but he occasionally took part. For instance, he did a solo version of "Amazing Grace" in this part. He returned for the final part. 

One weird thing about this part of this concert is that one song, "Garbage, Garbage, Garbage," was basically a duet between Tom Chapin, a human, and Oscar the Grouch, a Muppet famous for his long role on the TV show "Sesame Street." Normally, I would find this sort of thing silly or gimmicky. But in this case, I think it worked nicely. You can decide for yourself. 

By the way, when I first posted "Part 1" a few days ago, I forgot to include "Part 1" in the title and artwork. That has now been fixed. So you might want to re-download it.

Also, note that the numbering in the song list starts with 21, in case you want to put all three of the albums from this concert into the same folder, to make it easier to listen to the entire concert all at once. 

This album is 51 minutes long.

21 Dink's Song [Fare Thee Well] (Bruce Cockburn, Kate & Anna McGarrigle & Rufus & Martha Wainwright)
22 talk (Tony Triaschka)
23 D-Minor Flourish - Blue Skies - Goofing-Off Suite - Happy Birthday (Bela Fleck & Tony Triaschka)
24 Waist Deep in the Big Muddy (Tom Morello & Taj Mahal)
25 Where Have All the Flowers Gone (Joan Baez)
26 Bring 'Em Home (Ben Bridwell, Patterson Hood, Tao Rodriguez-Seeger, Tyler Ramsey & Warren Haynes)
27 We Shall Overcome (Everyone)
28 talk (Norman Lear)
29 talk (Pete Seeger)
30 Amazing Grace (Pete Seeger)
31 talk (Tom Chapin & Oscar the Grouch)
32 Garbage, Garbage, Garbage (Tom Chapin, Michael Mark & Oscar the Grouch)
33 talk (Kris Kristofferson)
34 A Hole in the Bucket (Kris Kristofferson & Ani DiFranco)
35 Little Boxes (Tommy Sands Irish Band)
36 Michael, Row the Boat Ashore (Rufus & Martha Wainwright, Kate & Anna McGarrigle, Tony Trischka & Tim Robbins)
37 Freedom (Richie Havens) 

https://pixeldrain.com/u/KRkaXqaV

alternate: 

https://bestfile.io/en/ggUyjMIHnWrDd5Q/file

The cover image is taken from the video of this exact concert. It shows Kris Kristofferson and Ani Di Franco when they duetted on the song "A Hole in the Bucket." 

Steeleye Span - Ebbets Field, Denver, CO, 7-1-1974

Here's another Ebbets Field radio broadcast. I'm going to keep going posting these nearly daily until I run out. This time, is the British folk-rock band Steeleye Span.

This band was formed in late 1969, when bassist Ashley Hutchings left the band Fairport Convention. He wanted to go in an even more traditional direction, despite the fact that Fairport was also moving in a traditional direction at the time. But the most visible person in the band soon turned out to be Maddy Prior, who sang most of the songs. The band become one of the most important bands in the British folk revival of the early 1970s.

By 1973, the band gained a full-time drummer and pursued more of a rocking sound, while still covering many traditional folk songs. Also in 1973, they had a surprise hit with "Gaudete." It made the Top Twenty in Britain, despite the fact that is was sung acappella while being completely in Latin!

Here's the band's Wikipedia page:

Steeleye Span - Wikipedia 

At the time of this concert, they had released the album "Now We Are Six" earlier in 1974, with the title referencing the fact the band had grown to six members. Naturally, they played some songs from that album, including their one hit at the time, "Gaudete." However, note that the band was much less popular in the U.S., which would explain why they were booked at the small Ebbets Field venue. As an example, their "Now We Are Six" reached Number 13 in the British album chart, but didn't make the U.S. album chart at all.

One year after this, the band would have their biggest hit with "All Around My Hat." It's a shame that's not here, but it makes sense in terms of the year.

By the way, note that the song "John Barleycorn" performed here is a very different one than the one made famous in 1970 by Traffic. That would be a bizarre coincidence, except that name has a historic general meaning in Britain to symbolize alcohol, especially alcoholic drinking, so it's a generic name like "Uncle Sam." I believe both songs with that title are hundreds of years old. 

The music is unreleased. The sound quality is excellent. 

This album is an hour and 17 minutes long. 

01 talk (Steeleye Span)
02 We Beg Your Leave (Steeleye Span)
03 Tunes [Instrumental] (Steeleye Span)
04 Alison Gross (Steeleye Span)
05 talk (Steeleye Span)
06 Cam Ye O'er Frae France (Steeleye Span)
07 talk (Steeleye Span)
08 John Barleycorn (Steeleye Span)
09 talk (Steeleye Span)
10 Little Sir Hugh (Steeleye Span)
11 talk (Steeleye Span)
12 Drink Down the Moon - The Cuckoo (Steeleye Span)
13 talk (Steeleye Span)
14 Two Magicians (Steeleye Span)
15 Robbery with Violins [Instrumental] (Steeleye Span)
16 Summer Is Acumen In (Steeleye Span)
17 Staines Morris (Steeleye Span)
18 McBride (Steeleye Span)
19 One Misty Moisty Morning (Steeleye Span)
20 Gaudete (Steeleye Span)
21 Thomas the Rhymer (Steeleye Span)
22 talk (Steeleye Span)
23 The Musical Priest - The Steel Spear [Instrumental] (Steeleye Span)
24 talk (Steeleye Span)
25 Sea Shanties (Steeleye Span)
26 talk (Steeleye Span)
27 The Royal Forester (Steeleye Span)
28 The Mason's Apron [Instrumental] (Steeleye Span)
29 talk by emcee (Steeleye Span)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/PbaQjgvN 

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/9i1oYzw1Bdpww2X/file

The cover image shows lead singer Maddy Prior in a concert in England in 1974. 

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

This album is an hour and 20 minutes long.

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

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

alternate: 

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

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

Pure Prairie League - Ebbets Field, Denver, CO, 7-30-1974

Here's still more from the near-daily posts of Ebbets Field radio broadcasts. This one features the Pure Prairie League in 1974.

This band was formed in 1970. In 1972, they released two albums, "Pure Prairie League" and "Bustin' Out." The latter contained the song "Amie." That song has "classic" written all over it, but it wasn't a hit in 1972. However, it would become a Top Forty hit in the U.S. when it was released as a single in 1975. 

Craig Fuller wrote and sang "Amie" and most of the songs on those first two albums. Unfortunately, in early 1973, Fuller was charged with draft evasion in Kentucky. He had to leave the band to serve six months in prison. When his time was finished, he decided to do something other than music for a while. (He would eventually rejoined the band in later stints, starting in 1985.) With Fuller gone, the band was dropped by their record label. 

It took a while for the band to recover from these blows. They toured very frequently, and built up a following. That finally led to a new album, "Two Lane Highway," in 1975, as well as the popular release of "Amie" that I mentioned above. The band would have later revivals, especially in the late 1970s and early 1980s when their lead singer was Vince Gill.

Given all that history, this concert took place while the band was still trying to rebuild after the loss of Fuller and the record contract, plus other personnel turnover. They played a fair number of song's from the band's first two albums. But I was surprised that I only noticed one song, "I'll Fix Your Flat Tire, Merle," that would appear on the band's 1975 album. I'm not sure about some other songs, since I don't know this band's material that well. I'm guessing some songs never appeared on any of their studio albums in that era. 

This album is an hour and ten minutes long.

The music is unreleased. The sound quality is excellent. 

01 talk (Pure Prairie League)
02 Amie (Pure Prairie League)
03 talk (Pure Prairie League)
04 I've Just Seen a Face (Pure Prairie League)
05 Brand New Tennessee Waltz (Pure Prairie League)
06 talk (Pure Prairie League)
07 In and Out of Town (Pure Prairie League)
08 talk (Pure Prairie League)
09 Harmony Song (Pure Prairie League)
10 talk (Pure Prairie League)
11 Country Song (Pure Prairie League)
12 talk (Pure Prairie League)
13 Early Morning Riser - Jazzman (Pure Prairie League)
14 talk (Pure Prairie League)
15 Fool for You (Pure Prairie League)
16 talk (Pure Prairie League)
17 I'll Fix Your Flat Tire, Merle (Pure Prairie League)
18 talk (Pure Prairie League)
19 It's Not Love, but It's Not Bad (Pure Prairie League)
20 talk (Pure Prairie League)
21 Tears (Pure Prairie League)
22 talk (Pure Prairie League)
23 Sugar Babe (Pure Prairie League)
24 It's All on Me (Pure Prairie League)
25 talk (Pure Prairie League)
26 Bring It with You (Pure Prairie League)
27 Leave My Heart Alone (Pure Prairie League)
28 talk (Pure Prairie League)
29 Lose My Blues (Pure Prairie League)
30 talk (Pure Prairie League)
31 You're Between Me (Pure Prairie League)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/8M4Sriwc

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/B2JZy6fgWS9WKVK/file

It's very hard to find a good photo of the band from around this time period. The best I could do was take a screenshot from an appearance on "Don Kirshner's Rock Concert" in 1977.

Tommy Bolin & Friends - Ebbets Field, Denver, CO, 6-3-1974

When it comes to the Ebbets Field radio broadcasts, more recordings survive that feature lead guitarist Tommy Bolin than anyone else. Already, I've posted two albums from the venue where he was helping to back Big Mama Thornton, another where he was part of a reunion of the band Zephyr, and another where he played some instrumentals with Carmine Appice and the Good Rats. Here's another, and I have yet one more to come.

It so happens that this concert has been officially released. So that means it got a review in the "All Music Guide." I'm going to quote that review, written by Greg Prato, since it says everything I would want to say, and then some:   

"During his tragically-cut-short career, Tommy Bolin played with many different musicians and bands. In early June 1974, Bolin was still a member of the about-to-splinter James Gang, and decided to book a couple of nights at the Denver club Ebbets Field to try out some new material he'd written. He called upon his old band Energy to back him up, and the show is a guitar player's dream, especially for those into the classic sounds of Jeff Beck, Santana, Hendrix, etc... And even though the five songs that contain vocals (courtesy of Jeff Cook) are quite good, it's the other five instrumental tracks that make this disc a fine testament to the Tommy Bolin legacy. Tommy lends his touch to such raging rockers as the opening 'You Know, You Know' and 'Homeward Strut,' while fans of the Allman Brothers should definitely check out 'Shakin' All Night,' with its fluid slide guitar work. Also included are nasty renditions of the blues-rock standards 'Born Under a Bad Sign' and 'Ain't No Sunshine,' combined as a medley. Even though some of these tracks have been issued on some of the other releases from the Tommy Bolin Archives record label, they are all versions from different recording dates. This is an excellent live document showing what Tommy Bolin could accomplish while jamming for fun, in the company of some good friends." 

The only thing I would add to that is that I believe the album is actually made up of the best from two nights of performances. That means the order may be scrambled a bit. Also, there was a second album officially released from those same performances, called "Live at Ebbets Field - The Alternate Takes." It was largely different versions of the same songs, plus one unique song, "Wang Dang Doodle." So I added that song at the end.

This album is an hour and ten minutes long.

01 You Know, You Know [Instrumental] (Tommy Bolin & Friends)
02 San Francisco River [Instrumental] (Tommy Bolin & Friends)
03 talk (Tommy Bolin & Friends)
04 Shakin' All Night (Tommy Bolin & Friends)
05 Walk in My Shadow (Tommy Bolin & Friends)
06 Born under a Bad Sign (Tommy Bolin & Friends)
07 Ain't No Sunshine [Instrumental Version] (Tommy Bolin & Friends)
08 Crazed Fandango [Instrumental] (Tommy Bolin & Friends)
09 talk (Tommy Bolin & Friends)
10 Ain't Nobody's Fool (Tommy Bolin & Friends)
11 talk (Tommy Bolin & Friends)
12 Homeward Strut [Instrumental] (Tommy Bolin & Friends)
13 talk (Tommy Bolin & Friends)
14 Honey Man (Tommy Bolin & Friends)
15 talk by emcee (Tommy Bolin & Friends)
16 Stratus [Instrumental] (Tommy Bolin & Friends)
17 Wang Dang Doodle (Tommy Bolin & Friends)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/1JvAZkzw

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/hpy5dLJUh7677JB/file

The cover image shows Bolin performing at the Ebbets Field venue some time in 1974. I don't know if it's from this exact show though, since he performed there on multiple nights. 

Various Artists - Pete Seeger's 90th Birthday Benefit, Madison Square Garden, New York City, 5-3-2009, Part 1

Pete Seeger had a remarkable music career, and a remarkably long one. By the time of this concert, he was truly a living legend. This concert celebrated his 90th birthday. (He went on to live four more years, until 2014.) It's staggering to consider he began performing music in public before the start of World War II, and he was still going at this concert, sixty years later! This concert was a benefit for the Clearwater Project, which Seeger had been involved in for a long time. But it also was a tribute to Seeger, and a celebration of his career, including his progressive activism. It's such a big concert that I decided it was best to split it into three parts. This is the first part.

Seeger made such a big musical impact that practically everyone in the folk music genre, and lots of people in other genres like rock, jazz, and country, wanted to be a part of this concert. There are quite a few guests mostly singing Seeger songs, and songs associated with Seeger, for this album, as you can see from the song list. But keep in mind this is just the first of three parts, and most of the "big names" were saved until later.

The music here has never been officially released in an audio format, as far as I know. But it has been released on DVD. It also has been shown on PBS stations. I converted the video to audio, then chopped it into mp3s. Due to that source, the sound quality is excellent.

This album is 50 minutes long. 

01 talk (Native American Indian Cultural Alliance)
02 Blessing of the River (Native American Indian Cultural Alliance)
03 talk (Tim Robbins)
04 talk (John Mellencamp)
05 If I Had a Hammer (John Mellencamp)
06 talk (John Mellencamp)
07 A Ride Back Home (John Mellencamp)
08 talk (Ani DiFranco)
09 Which Side Are You On (Bruce Cockburn & Ani DiFranco)
10 John Henry (Tom Paxton, Tom Morello, Eric Weissberg & Jacob Silver)
11 talk (Michael Franti)
12 Dear Mr. President (Michael Franti, Laura Cortese, Eric Weissberg & Patterson Hood)
13 Oh Freedom (Patterson Hood, Toshi Reagon, Bernice Reagon, Abigail Washburn, Guy Davis & Jacob Silver)
14 talk (Billy Bragg)
15 L'Internationale (Billy Bragg)
16 Union Maid (Billy Bragg, Mike & Ruthy Merenda & Dar Williams)
17 talk (Toshi Reagon)
18 Sailin' Up, Sailin' Down (Pete Seeger, Taj Mahal, Steve Earle, Toshi Reagon & Warren Haynes)
19 False from True (Guy Davis, Steve Earle & Warren Haynes)
20 The Water Is Wide (Emmylou Harris with Teddy Thompson, Kate & Anna McGarrigle & Rufus & Martha Wainwright)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/q3gpWv1z

alternate:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

This album is 43 minutes long. 

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

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

alternate:

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

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

Covered: George Harrison, Volume 6: 2015-2025

Here's the sixth and last "Covered" album for George Harrison.

Most people love the Beatles, and pretty much all their songs. So all of the songs Harrison wrote that were done by the Beatles have gotten good cover versions in this series. But, with the exception of his very popular album "All Things Must Pass," his solo career has gotten much less attention, and thus fewer covers. I've strived to include covers of all the songs I like from him. I couldn't always find even a decent cover, but I was successful most of the time.

In my opinion, Harrison was a very fascinating songwriter. On one hand, being in the Beatles, he learned from Paul McCartney and John Lennon how to write very catchy and poppy melodies. But on the other hand, he had a natural tendency to write songs with unusual and complicated chords. This led to Lennon repeatedly complaining how difficult it was to learn how to play Harrison's songs. On Harrison's best songs, he somehow managed to combine being catchy and poppy with unusual and complicated chords and other musical moves. That's not easy to pull off. 

But unfortunately, that has been another big reason many Harrison songs haven't been covered that much. He almost never wrote three or four chord songs. Out of the six volumes, this is the one where I have the most of his obscure and rarely covered songs, usually from his solo career. That's because, when looking for cover versions, my last resort is to find unreleased versions by lesser known musicians on YouTube. Most of those have taken place in the last ten years or so (as I write this in June 2026). Songs that fall into that category on this volume include "Nowhere to Go," "Cosmic Empire," "Poor Little Girl," "Miss O'Dell," "Beautiful Girl," and more. However, I always maintained quality control. There are a few more Harrison songs I wanted to include where none of the cover versions I found were good enough, in my opinion.

Two of the songs here have "[Edit]" in them. For "Circles" by Pete Zolli, there was some drumming on the song that I didn't like. Something about it seemed off. So I used the MVSEP program to remove the drumming. I thought the song was better that way. And for "Miss O'Dell" by Christopher Clause, this is a nice song, but little known, since it only ever came out as a B-side. So I didn't have many covers options. The version by Clause is very good. However, it was something he did live in the studio and then posted on YouTube. And in the live version, he kept making brief talking asides during the instrumental parts of the song. I thought all that talking was unnecessary and distracted from the song, so I used MVSEP to get rid of that, and just keep the singing.

It's very sad that Harrison died as young as he did. It's also a shame, from a musical point of view, That from 1982 until his death in 2001, he only put out two albums of new songs. We could have had so much more music from him. But at least what he did was usually of a high quality. His Beatles songs will never be forgotten. But I hope this series helps people better appreciate the songs he wrote in his solo career as well.

This album is an hour and two minutes long. 

01 Crackerbox Palace (Jonathan Di Renzo)
02 This Is Love (Suburban Skies)
03 You Know What to Do (Weeklings)
04 Only a Northern Song (Walker's Run)
05 Fish on the Sand (Allah-Las)
06 Nowhere to Go (Danny McEvoy)
07 Piggies (Morgan James)
08 You Like Me Too Much (Randy Bachman)
09 Cosmic Empire (Mac Randall)
10 Not Guilty (Jeffrey Detrick)
11 Run of the Mill (Deer Tick)
12 Rising Sun (Jeff Andrews)
13 Devil's Been Busy (Leeroy)
14 Poor Little Girl (Judge Timbers)
15 Circles [Edit] (Pete Zolli)
16 End of the Line (Dominique Cotten)
17 Miss O'Dell [Edit] (Christopher Clause)
18 Beautiful Girl (Rod Switzer)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/WPizpn7X 

alternate:

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

The cover image is from about 2000.

The Marshall Tucker Band - Ebbets Field, Denver, CO, 6-23-1974

Here's another album from the Ebbets Field radio broadcasts. This one features the Marshall Tucker Band in 1974.

The Marshall Tucker Band was formed in the early 1970s and released their first album in 1973. They have been one of the most important Southern rock bands. In the 1970s, they were led by Toy Caldwell, who was the lead guitarist and wrote most of the songs. He also sang their best known song at the time, "Can't You See." This concert took place a few months after the band released their second album, "A New Life."

At this point, all the songs on the band's first two albums were originals. But in this concert, they played some covers, such as "Ramblin' on My Mind," "Everyday I Have the Blues," and "The Thrill Is Gone." The latter two songs are closely associated with blues legend B.B. King.

As usual with these Ebbets Field concerts, the music is unreleased and the sound quality is excellent. 

This album is 59 minutes long.

01 talk by emcee (Marshall Tucker Band)
02 talk (Marshall Tucker Band)
03 Hillbilly Band (Marshall Tucker Band)
04 talk (Marshall Tucker Band)
05 Take the Highway (Marshall Tucker Band)
06 Can't You See (Marshall Tucker Band)
07 talk (Marshall Tucker Band)
08 See You Later, I'm Gone (Marshall Tucker Band)
09 talk (Marshall Tucker Band)
10 24 Hours at a Time (Marshall Tucker Band)
11 talk (Marshall Tucker Band)
12 Ramblin' on My Mind (Marshall Tucker Band)
13 talk (Marshall Tucker Band)
14 Everyday, I Have the Blues (Marshall Tucker Band)
15 talk by emcee (Marshall Tucker Band)
16 talk (Marshall Tucker Band)
17 The Thrill Is Gone (Marshall Tucker Band)
18 talk (Marshall Tucker Band)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/iptSCR8h

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/0d5bS2s87dgJcJe/file

The cover image shows guitarist Toy Caldwell of the Marshall Tucker Band. It's from a concert at the Columbia Township Auditorium in Columbia, South Carolina, on March 18, 1975.

Covered: George Harrison, Volume 5: 2010-2014

Here's the fifth "Covered" album out of six for ex-Beatle George Harrison.

As I mentioned in my write-up to the previous album, since Harrison tragically died in 2001, the volumes that come after that are playing catch up, with covers from all points in his music career. In fact, most of the songs here are from his Beatles years or from his great "All Things Must Pass" album, making this a particularly strong volume of familiar songs.

However, there's one song here that very few people will recognize, probably not even die-hard fans: "Silence Is Its Own Reply." Admittedly, including it here is a bit of a stretch, but I decided to do so anyway because it's a good song, and it's unlikely you'll find it elsewhere.

There's an interesting story behind this song. Around 1967 or 1968, Harrison wrote about ten lines of song lyrics on a piece of paper, and gave it the title "Silence Is Its Own Reply." At the time, author Hunter Davies was writing an authorized biography about the Beatles. While writing that, he asked for writing samples from each of the Beatles. These lyrics were given to him to show Harrison's writing. Davies published his book, simply called "The Beatles," in 1968, but the lyrics weren't included or mentioned. Then, decades later, around 2009, Davies rediscovered the lyrics while combing through his archives of papers as he prepared to write an updated version of his Beatles book. He mentioned the lyrics in a BBC interview. The BBC DJ was intrigued, and got a copy of the lyrics. That DJ then passed the lyrics on to a singer-songwriter named Dean Johnson, and gave him the opportunity to finish the song. 

Johnson did, and I think the result is very good. Keep in mind that only the title and the first verse were written by Harrison. Johnson came up with the melody and the lyrics for a second verse and bridge. But I think that still counts as a legitimate co-write. Unfortunately though, it seems that the song was never officially released, probably due to legal complications arising from Harrison's contribution. But I found a version Johnson performed for the BBC, cleaned up the sound some, and I'm including it here.

Adding to the interest, at first glance, the lyrics appear to be about romance. But when Johnson was asked about the meaning of the song, he had this to say: "The lyrics are of a personal nature and were first thought to be a song of unrequited love but, in hindsight, they seem to allude to George's uneasy relationship with John Lennon. This is substantiated by first-hand observations by Hunter Davies and by people close to Harrison." He said he did his best to follow through with the original meaning Harrison gave to the song.

In case you're curious, here's the portion of the lyrics written by Harrison:

I'm happy to say that it's only a dream
When I come across people like you
It's only a dream and you make it obscene
With the things that you think and you do
You're so unaware of the pain that I bear
And jealous for what you can't do
There's times when I feel that you haven't a hope
But I also know that isn't true

And every time I ask you why
Silence is its own reply 

Here's a newspaper article about the song: 

https://www.wirralglobe.co.uk/news/4687467.wirrals-dean-finishes-lost-george-harrison-song/

The only other comment I have to make about this album is that two other songs here are also officially unreleased, "Any Road" by Phil Lesh and Friends, and "Heading for the Light" by Susan Cowsill. Both had sound quality issues. I think I was able to fix those problems for "Any Road." But "Heading for the Light" still sounds pretty rough. However, it's one of my favorite Harrison songs from later in his career, so I had to at least include a version. If anyone finds a better version that it's a virtual carbon copy of the original, please let me know and I'll use that instead. (And it definitely is mostly written by Harrison, despite being credited to all of the Traveling Wilburys.) 

This album is one hour long. 

01 All Those Years Ago (Emmy the Great)
02 Apple Scruffs (Billie Amit)
03 Think for Yourself (Christine Collester)
04 Your Love Is Forever (Trevor Moss & Hannah Lou)
05 I Need You (Webb Sisters)
06 Silence Is Its Own Reply (Dean Johnson)
07 Awaiting on You All (Michael Carpenter)
08 Ding Dong, Ding Dong (Popdudes)
09 Art of Dying (Black Rebel Motorcycle Club)
10 Any Road (Phil Lesh & Friends)
11 Beware of Darkness (Ann Wilson)
12 Heading for the Light (Susan Cowsill)
13 Ballad of Sir Frankie Crisp [Let It Roll] (Jonathan Bates & Dhani Harrison)
14 Behind That Locked Door (Norah Jones)
15 It's All Too Much (Flaming Lips)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/YkPbKTAT 

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/AT5KAwbiaqxUmKA/file

The cover image is from "circa 2000."

Fairport Convention - Ebbets Field, Denver, CO, 5-24-1974, Late Show

Here's another album from the Ebbets Field radio broadcasts. Yesterday, I posted the Fairport Convention early show from a 1974 concert. This is the late show.

I already explained in the write-up for the early show how Sandy Denny rejoined Fairport Convention in early 1974, in time for this concert. Unfortunately, that wouldn't last. She would leave the band for a second time in 1975, as her marriage with Trevor Lucas, another member of the band, was falling apart. She would die two years later, in 1977, after falling down a staircase.

There's some overlap in the song selection between the early shows and the late shows. Here are the songs that were performed in both: "Solo," "Dirty Linen," "Matty Groves," and "Down in the Flood (Crash on the Levee)." But the leaves room for a lot of unique songs in both shows.

This album is an hour and eight minutes long.

01 Rising for the Moon (Fairport Convention)
02 talk (Fairport Convention)
03 Solo (Fairport Convention)
04 talk (Fairport Convention)
05 Dirty Linen [Instrumental] (Fairport Convention)
06 talk (Fairport Convention)
07 One More Chance (Fairport Convention)
08 talk (Fairport Convention)
09 Sloth (Fairport Convention)
10 talk (Fairport Convention)
11 It'll Take a Long Time (Fairport Convention)
12 talk (Fairport Convention)
13 Matty Groves (Fairport Convention)
14 talk (Fairport Convention)
15 Hens March-Four Poster Bed-Brilliancy Medley-Cherokee Shuffle [Instrumental] (Fairport Convention)
16 talk (Fairport Convention)
17 Down in the Flood [Crash on the Levee] (Fairport Convention)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/wesmEDWZ

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/AMGxc976ndnTqdk/file

The cover image is of Dave Swarbrick at a Fairport Convention concert in Denmark, some time in April 1974. It's from the exact same concert as the picture of Sandy Denny I used for the cover of early show. The original was in black and white, but I colorized it with the help of the Kolorize program. 

Fairport Convention - Ebbets Field, Denver, CO, 5-24-1974, Early Show

Your near daily dose of Ebbets Field radio broadcast concerts continues. I have about 25 of these left, so enjoy it while it lasts. This time, the concert is Fairport Convention from a time Sandy Denny was part of the band. There's an early show and late show. Naturally, I'm posting the early show first.

Denny was part of Fairport Convention from 1968 to 1969. It wasn't a long time, but the band was incredibly prolific during that time, and that era has been very critically praised. She left that band to concentrate on a solo career, and especially focus more on her songwriting. She released a few albums, but didn't get widespread success. 

Meanwhile, another singer-songwriter, Trevor Lucas, produced a Fairport Convention album in 1972. That led to him joining that band in early 1973. Around the same time, he got romantically involved with Denny. They married later in 1973. Thus, it wasn't too surprising that Denny rejoined Fairport around the time of her marriage. By the time she rejoined, some key members had left, most notably Richard Thompson. But others were still there from the first time she was in the band: Dave Swarbrick and Dave Mattacks. Also, Dave Pegg joined right when she left.

At the time of this concert, the band had three lead vocalists: Denny, Lucas, and Swarbrick, with Denny dominating.

The music is unreleased. The sound quality is excellent. 

This album is an hour and ten minutes long. 

01 talk by emcee (Fairport Convention)
02 Matty Groves (Fairport Convention)
03 talk (Fairport Convention)
04 Solo (Fairport Convention)
05 talk (Fairport Convention)
06 Dirty Linen [Instrumental] (Fairport Convention)
07 talk (Fairport Convention)
08 Fiddlestix [Instrumental] (Fairport Convention)
09 talk (Fairport Convention)
10 Who Knows Where the Time Goes (Fairport Convention)
11 talk (Fairport Convention)
12 Like an Old Fashioned Waltz (Fairport Convention)
13 talk (Fairport Convention)
14 The Hexhamshire Lass (Fairport Convention)
15 talk (Fairport Convention)
16 Bring 'Em Down (Fairport Convention)
17 talk (Fairport Convention)
18 Down in the Flood [Crash on the Levee] (Fairport Convention)
19 talk (Fairport Convention)
20 John the Gun (Fairport Convention)
21 talk (Fairport Convention)
22 Sir B. McKenzie's Daughter's Lament [Instrumental] (Fairport Convention)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/gsQn3FCR

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/RYGexQ7haYSzFoD/file

The cover image is of Sandy Denny at a Fairport Convention concert in Denmark, some time in April 1974. The original was in black and white, but I colorized it with the help of the Kolorize program. 

Covered: George Harrison, Volume 4: 2004-2010

Here is the fourth out of six "Covered" volumes for George Harrison.

Unfortunately, before the start of the time period of this volume, Harrison had already died. (He died in 2001 all too young, at the age of 58.) That means he wasn't putting out any more new music. So for this volume and the next two, we're basically playing catch up, with covers from earlier parts of his music career, including going back to his years with the Beatles.

The first song here is a special treat. It comes from the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame ceremony in 2004, because Harrison was posthumously inducted that year. This version of "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" has a lot of stars peforming on it, including some I didn't include in the song title, due to wanting to keep it short, like Steve Winwood and Dhani Harrison. But what really makes this version stand out is the wild guitar soloing by Prince. A lot of people were impressed, as you can see by the fact the YouTube video is up to 140 million views when I'm writing this in May 2026. But this version remains unreleased. 

Generally speaking, I try hard to only include one version of each song in a Covered series like this. But every now and then, there are cases where I can't resist adding more than one. For this series, I have two versions of "Something" (on Volumes 1 and 2, by Shirley Bassey and James Brown). I also have two versions of "If I Needed Someone." I included the Hollies version of that song on Volume 1, because they had a hit with it back in 1965. It made the Top Twenty in Britain. That was Harrison's first hit song, actually. 

However, I'm including a second version of that song here, even though it's not one of his most popular songs. That's because in 2004, Roger McGuinn did a version of it. McGuinn used to be the main singer for the Byrds, and Harrison wrote the song with a very obvious Byrds influence. It was one he openly acknowledged from the start. He even sent McGuinn an advanced copy of the song, along with a thank you note. So it's nice to finally hear what the Byrds might have done with this Byrdsy song.   

This album is an hour and one minute long.

01 While My Guitar Gently Weeps (Tom Petty, Jeff Lynne & Prince)
02 All Things Must Pass (Paul McCartney)
03 If I Needed Someone (Roger McGuinn)
04 Love Comes to Everyone (Eric Clapton)
05 Handle with Care (Jenny Lewis with the Watson Twins)
06 Stuck Inside a Cloud (Herb Eimerman)
07 Dark Sweet Lady (Nelson Bragg)
08 I Want to Tell You (Thea Gilmore)
09 Blue Jay Way (Secret Machines)
10 Within You, Without You (Patti Smith)
11 That's the Way It Goes (Joe Brown)
12 I Live for You (Tift Merritt)
13 Blow Away (Den Fiori)
14 Hear Me Lord (Chip Mergott)
15 Deep Blue (Carolina Lima)
16 Be Here Now (Robyn Hitchcock)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/61Dy14BG

alternate: 

https://bestfile.io/esiuW1bolSkXUjR/file

The cover image is from 1991.  

Tommy Bolin, Carmine Appice & the Good Rats - Ebbets Field, Denver, CO, 1974

Here's a rather strange concert from the Ebbets Field radio broadcasts. This is a rather strange one, since it's just three long instrumentals. The main appeal is the lead guitar work of Tommy Bolin.

I've already discussed Bolin on another Ebbets Field album, because he backed blues singer Big Mama Thornton when she played at that venue, and was part of the band Zephyr when they had a reunion at that same venue. He had a strong connection to the venue, because he lived in the Denver area whenever he wasn't on tour, and he liked playing there as much as possible, even just adding his guitar playing to musical acts that were passing through town. I have two more Ebbets Fields concerts involving him I plan on posting.  

Carmen Appice is a famous rock drummer. He was in the band Vanilla Fudge in the late 1960s. But he and the band's bassist, Tim Bogert, left that band to form the band Cactus. But that band, while successful, didn't last long. Appice and Bogert left it to form a trio with Jeff Beck called "Beck, Bogert and Appice." But that group didn't last long either. So at the time of this concert, apparently Appice was in Denver to see if he could talk Bolin into forming yet another new band, this one to be called "Bolin, Bogert and Appice." That band never materialized. But it seems this concert was a kind of public rehearsal to see if they clicked together musically. 

Here's the Wikipedia entry for Appice:

Carmine Appice - Wikipedia 

I don't know if Bogert was at this concert, however. It seems that Bolin and Appice were backed by the band the Good Rats. They had enough success to merit their own Wikipedia entry:

The Good Rats - Wikipedia

The song "Stratus" from this performance has been officially released on a compilation album called "The Bottom Shelf." But the other two songs here are unreleased. "Stratus" first appeared on the stduio album "Spectrum," which was the debut album for jazz fusion drummer Billy Cobham. Bolin played a very well regarded guitar solo on that studio version.

I don't know the names of the other two songs, if indeed they have names. If anyone else does, please let me know and I'll change the names. Mostly, this album consists of lots of jamming. It seems the first two songs ended with only brief pauses, because the only clapping is at the very end. Also, I don't know the exact date of the concert either. I look forward to being corrected on that as well.

I don't know if this was ever broadcast on the radio, or if a recording of it survives thanks to the devotion of Tommy Bolin fans. Either way, the sound quality is pretty good. I used the MVSEP program to get rid of some noise on all three songs.

This album is 36 minutes long. 

01 Blues Jam [Instrumental] (Tommy Bolin, Carmine Appice & the Good Rats)
02 Stratus [Instrumental] (Tommy Bolin, Carmine Appice & the Good Rats)
03 Jazzy Jam [Instrumental] (Tommy Bolin, Carmine Appice & the Good Rats)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/nt43VDjQ

alternate:

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

So far, the only photos I've been able to find that were actually taken inside the Ebbets Field venue are of Tommy Bolin. This is Bolin at the venue at some point in 1974. It may not be from this exact concert, since he played there a number of times that year.

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

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

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

Here's her Wikipedia page:

Carlene Carter - Wikipedia

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

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

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

Here's his Wikipedia page:

Marty Stuart - Wikipedia 

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

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

This album is an hour and 28 minutes long.

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

https://pixeldrain.com/u/JU8MPLz8

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

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

Covered: George Harrison, Volume 3: 1990-2003

This is the third out of six "Covered" volumes for George Harrison.

I had a lot to say about the development of Harrison's songwriting in Volumes 1 and 2. But after a flurry of activity in the late 1980s with his very successful "Cloud Nine" album and two albums with the Traveling Wilburys, his music career slowed waaaay down for the rest of his life. In fact, after a short tour of Japan with Eric Clapton in 1992, he pretty much retired from the music business for the rest of his life. He made slow progress on another studio album, "Brainwashed," but it wasn't released until 2002, a year after his death. 

Yet even though he spent many years away from music (with 15 years between his last two solo albums!), he did enough to get inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2004 for his solo career, in addition to already being inducted in 1987 for being a member of the Beatles.

That brings us to his unfortunate death. He died on November 29, 2001, at the age of 58. On December 30, 1999, Harrison was attacked in his home by an insane man. He was stabbed over 40 times, and barely survived. He died in 2001 of lung cancer, probably a result of a life of smoking. But friends and family say he was physically strong until the knife attack on him in 1999, and quite weak after that. So they blamed the attack for putting him in a condition where he was unable to fight off the cancer.

At any rate, Harrison's songs weren't covered much in most of the time frame here. Only the first four songs in this volume were recorded prior to his death in 2001. But after he died, there was a flood of tribute concerts and cover versions to celebrate his great musical career.

One thing I want to address here is his role in the Traveling Wilburys, the short-lived supergroup consisting of Harrison, Bob Dylan, Tom Petty, Jeff Lynne, and Roy Orbison. I've tried to include covers of all the good songs Harrison wrote or co-wrote from his Beatles career and his solo career, at least when there are worthy cover versions of them. But with the Traveling Wilburys, I wanted to be more selective. Technically, all the songs on both of that band's albums were co-written by all the members. But in reality, most of them were primarily, or sometimes entirely, written by one member. So it doesn't make sense for me to include a cover of a song like "Tweeter and the Monkey Man" here, when that one clearly sounds like a Bob Dylan song. 

Thus, I did a little digging to figure out which Traveling Wilburys songs could be considered written or co-written by Harrison. Luckily, the band members gave some interviews where they talked about the songwriting process and who did what. I may well have missed some information though, so if anyone thinks I missed some songs by this band that are worthy of inclusion, please let me know.

Another problem I ran into with the Traveling Wilburys is that a few of their songs have been covered a lot, but many of them have very few covers. I had particular trouble with the song "Wilbury Twist." I found a Tom Petty interview where he explained that he co-wrote that one with Harrison, so that meant it merited inclusion. But I didn't find any cover versions I liked. So in the end, I just included the Traveling Wilburys version. I have a rule not to include songs by the songwriter highlighted by the "Covered" series unless there's some special reason. But in this case, a majority of the lead vocals are sung by other members in the band, so it's not exactly a cover of Harrison being the main singer anyway. 

This album is one hour long.

01 Wilbury Twist (Traveling Wilburys)
02 That Kind of Woman (Gary Moore)
03 Cheer Down (Rainer, Joey Burns & John Convertino)
04 I Me Mine (Elliott Smith)
05 Horse to the Water (Jools Holland, Sam Brown & Jim Capaldi)
06 For You Blue (Paul McCartney)
07 Isn't It a Pity (Eric Clapton & Billy Preston)
08 You (Lisa Mychols)
09 When We Was Fab (Wendy Ip)
10 Love You To (Marshall Crenshaw)
11 Wah-Wah (Jeff Lynne & Eric Clapton)
12 Savoy Truffle (They Might Be Giants)
13 Old Brown Shoe (Leslie West)
14 Devil's Radio (Masters of Reality)
15 Give Me Love [Give Me Peace on Earth] (Dave Davies)
16 Long, Long, Long (Elliott Smith)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/TKHomhYi 

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/2USkcxm1qimgtCf/file

The cover image is from 1986. 

Ry Cooder - Ebbets Field, Denver, CO, 5-20-1974

The flood of near daily Ebbets Field radio broadcast continues. This time, the performer is Ry Cooder.

I've already posted albums from Cooder, so I won't say much about him. But I'll note this concert took place a couple of weeks before the release of his album "Paradise and Lunch." It was one of the most acclaimed albums of his music career. However, he only performed one song from that album, the medley of "Fool for a Cigarette - Feelin' Good."

As usual with these Ebbets Field concerts, the music is unreleased and the sound quality is excellent. 

This album is 56 minutes long. 

01 talk by emcee (Ry Cooder)
02 talk (Ry Cooder)
03 Too Tight Blues (Ry Cooder)
04 You've Been Doing Something Wrong [I Can Tell by the Way You Smell] (Ry Cooder)
05 talk (Ry Cooder)
06 Blind Man Messed Up by Tear Gas (Ry Cooder)
07 talk (Ry Cooder)
08 Great Dream from Heaven [Instrumental] (Ry Cooder)
09 talk (Ry Cooder)
10 How Can a Poor Man Stand Such Times and Live (Ry Cooder)
11 Ax Sweet Mama (Ry Cooder)
12 talk (Ry Cooder)
13 Floating Bridge (Ry Cooder)
14 talk (Ry Cooder)
15 Fool for a Cigarette - Feelin' Good (Ry Cooder)
16 Crazy 'bout an Automobile [Every Woman I Know] (Ry Cooder)
17 talk (Ry Cooder)
18 Feelin' like a Submarine [Kentucky Blues] (Ry Cooder)
19 Don't Take Everybody to Be a Friend (Ry Cooder)

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https://bestfile.io/HsIs0PhECz2TXU9/file

The cover image is from an appearance on the "Old Grey Whistle Test" TV show, aired on March 20, 1973.

Covered: George Harrison, Volume 2: 1972-1989

Here's the second volume out of six "Covered" albums celebrating the songwriting of George Harrison.

When this album starts, in 1972, Harrison was seemingly on top of the world. His 1970 solo album "All Things Must Pass" was a huge critical and commercial success, hitting Number One in the U.S., Britain, and many countries. It surprised many by outselling the solo albums of John Lennon and Paul McCartney. 

For the first half of the 1970s, Harrison maintained a very active musical career. In addition to putting out his own solo albums, he produced and/or played on albums by other musical acts. We can see that here, especially with his help for fellow ex-Beatle Ringo Starr. There are no less than five songs here performed by Starr. 

"Back Off Boogaloo" follows the pattern of "Octopus's Garden" and "It Don't Come Easy" on the previous volume, in that it was solely credited to Starr when in fact it was co-written by Harrison. It was a big hit in 1972, especially in Britain, where it made it all the way to Number Two in the singles chart. But while those two songs I just mentioned are still credited only to Starr, in 2017, the official credits for "Back Off Boogaloo" changed to be a co-write with Harrison.

The same pattern continued for Starr's next big hit, "Photograph," which went all the way to Number One in 1973 in the U.S., Canada, and other countries. But this one was the first one to be officially credited to Starr and Harrison from the very beginning. Like all the other Starr songs mentioned above, it seems Starr started it, but needed a lot of help from Harrison to finish it off. Starr later said he was good at writing a verse or two, and a chorus, but then he often would get stuck. He also said of Harrison helping his songwriting in this era, "I only know three chords and he'd stick four more in, and they'd all think I was a genius."

But Harrison also wrote or co-wrote songs for others during this time period: "The Holdup" by David Bromberg, "So Sad (No Love of His Own)" by Alvin Lee and Mylon Lefevre, "Far East Man" by Ron Wood, and "I'll Still Love You (When Every Song Is Sung)" by Cilla Black. In all those cases, the cover versions included here came first. For "So Sad" and "Far East Man," Harrison released his own versions a year or two later.

Here's a fun fact about the version of "Something" by James Brown. That great song has been covered around 1,000 times, making it one of the most covered songs of all time. But Harrison said that Brown's version was his favorite out of all the covers he'd heard. In an interview many years later, he said, "There are a lot of really good versions of 'Something.' But the one that is just a killer, and nobody even knows about it except for a few friends of mine, is the James Brown version of it. He put it out as the flip side to a revamped version of 'Think.' And you gotta play it, it's just unbelievable." He even sent Brown a postcard complimenting him on it and suggesting that it should be released as an A-side instead.

Unfortunately, in the mid-1970s, Harrison lost a lot of the passion he'd had for his music career up until then. Here's a quote taken from a Wikipedia article: "Writing for Rolling Stone in 2002, Mikal Gilmore commented that 'the crises [Harrison] faced in the mid-1970s changed him,' and that depression was a key factor. Depression permeated many of the songs that Harrison wrote during this period, an issue that was not helped by his continued heavy drinking and cocaine use." As a result, he mostly stopped writing songs for others, and put out fewer albums himself. This trend deepened in the 1980s, when he only put out three studio albums, compared to six in the 1970s (with one of them being a double album).

As a result, Harrison's music didn't get the same attention in the 1980s, so there weren't as many covers. That's especially the case since he did very little to promote his career. The only concert tour he took in the 1970s and 1980s was in 1974. Only the last three songs here are from the 1980s. One of those, by the way, "Run So Far," was written for a 1989 album by Eric Clapton. However, Harrison's own version would be released in 2002.

This album is one hour long. 

01 Back Off Boogaloo (Ringo Starr)
02 What Is Life (Olivia Newton-John)
03 The Holdup (David Bromberg)
04 Photograph (Ringo Starr)
05 Something (James Brown)
06 Don't Let Me Wait Too Long (Rotten to the Core)
07 You and Me [Babe] (Ringo Starr)
08 I'd Have You Anytime (Ralfi Pagan)
09 So Sad [No Love of His Own] (Alvin Lee & Mylon Lefevre)
10 Sunshine Life for Me [Sail Away Raymond] (Ringo Starr)
11 Far East Man (Ron Wood)
12 I'll Still Love You [When Every Song Is Sung] (Cilla Black)
13 Dark Horse (Thomas Harris)
14 Wrack My Brain (Ringo Starr)
15 Cloud Nine (Gary B.B. Coleman)
16 Run So Far (Eric Clapton)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/PETt92E9 

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

The cover image is from the 1970s, but I don't know the exact year.