Kevin Gilbert - Originals (1984-1996) (A Mike Solof Guest Post)

Here's a really interesting album put together by guest poster Mike Solof. Have you ever heard of Kevin Gilbert? If you have, congrats, because he's not as well known as he sound be. Mike is a huge fan of Gilbert's music, so much so that he put together three albums to showcase Gilbert's musical talent. The first album, this one, consists of the original songs Mike considers the best. Then he's made another one of the best rarities, and a third one of the best cover versions. If you want to get started, this is the obvious first album to listen to. Then, if you're interested, check out the other two. (Then, hopefully, more than that.)

For a quick overview, I'll quote the intro paragraph to his Wikipedia entry, which states me "was an American singer, songwriter, musician, composer, and producer. He was best known for his solo progressive rock projects, Toy Matinee, and his contributions to 'Tuesday Night Music Club' (1993), the debut studio album of Sheryl Crow. Kevin Gilbert died from autoerotic asphyxiation. He was found dead at his Los Angeles-area home on May 18, 1996, at the age of 29."

Here's the link to the rest of the Wikipedia page:

Kevin Gilbert (musician) - Wikipedia

I have to admit I wasn't familiar with Gilbert's music before Mike made these albums, although I'd previously heard good things about his career here and there. After hearing the albums Mike made, I have to agree that Gilbert was a very talented musician who deserves to be much better known than he is. He often combined a catchy pop sensibility with the complexity of prog rock. That is a very difficult combination to pull off. It's a real shame he died so young, and the strange manner of his death probably didn't help his musical legacy.

Note that this albums combines songs from Gilbert's solo albums, as well as songs he did with bands he was in: Giraffe, Toy Matinee, and Kaviar. All the lead vocals are by Gilbert. 

Anyway, Mike has written extensive notes about Gilbert, his life, and why he likes his music so much. You can find that in the PDF included with the download zip, as usual for Mike's guest posts. 

This album is an hour and 23 minutes long. 

01 When Strangers Part (Kevin Gilbert)
02 This Warm Night (Giraffe)
03 Air Dance (Giraffe)
04 Tired Old Man Suite (Kevin Gilbert)
05 Last Plane Out (Toy Matinee)
06 Things She Said (Toy Matinee)
07 The Ballad of Jenny Ledge (Toy Matinee)
08 Goodness Gracious (Kevin Gilbert)
09 Shadow Self [Alternate Version] (Kevin Gilbert)
10 Miss Broadway (Kevin Gilbert)
11 Single (Kaviar)
12 The Sultan of Brunei (Kaviar)
13 The Best Laid Plans (Kevin Gilbert)
14 Certifiable No. 1 Smash (Kevin Gilbert)
15 All Fall Down [Alternate Horn Mix] (Kevin Gilbert)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/GvEgk98D

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/BNCnBxCFRjJRq5o/file

I don't know the details of the cover image. It was found by Mike.

Chris Rea - BBC Sessions, Volume 7: In Concert, Shepherd's Bush Empire, London, Britain, 1-30-1998

The mini-flood of Chris Rea BBC albums continues. Like all the previous ones so far, this is a BBC concert.

Rea's career momentum was starting to slow down. He didn't release any studio albums between 1993 and 1998. However, he was involved in a 1996 movie soundtrack called "La Passione," which mostly consisted of instrumentals or songs sung by others. Finally, in January 1998, the same month as this concert, he released the album "The Blue Cafe." It still made the Top Ten in the British albums chart, but its sales were less than previous albums, because none of the songs from it were hits.

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

This album is 57 minutes long.

01 Nothing to Fear (Chris Rea)
02 Stainsby Girls (Chris Rea)
03 On the Beach (Chris Rea)
04 Shadows of the Big Man (Chris Rea)
05 Thinking of You (Chris Rea)
06 Anyone Quite like You (Chris Rea)
07 Miss Your Kiss (Chris Rea)
08 Square Peg, Round Hole (Chris Rea)
09 The Road to Hell I and II (Chris Rea)
10 The Blue Cafe (Chris Rea)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/zxwx7VVT

alternate: 

https://bestfile.io/en/9HI2XBeJ2wepfYr/file

The cover photo is possibly from this exact concert. I know it was taken at the Shepherd's Bush Empire in London, in January 1998. But he played there three nights in a row. So there's a one in three chance it's from this concert.

Covered: Tom Waits, Volume 2: 1994-2004

Here's the second Covered volume for Tom Waits. Like the Covered albums made for other musical acts, the talent of a songwriter is shown through cover versions, rather than that person performing their own songs.

And like the rest of this series for Waits, most of the heavy lifting in making this album is thanks to Fabio from Rio. He basically found a zillion Waits covers, then whittled them down to his favorites. That was still a very large number, so I then listened to them and whittled them down a lot more.

Fabio also answered my request to do the write-ups for each album in this series. So here's what he had to say about this one. And thanks, Fabio, for all your work on these albums. Take it away:

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Around the mid-1980s, Waits began to break away from conventional arrangements. The music became more percussive and raw, foreshadowing a major stylistic shift. This period marks the end of his "classic singer-songwriter" phase and the start of a more radical artistic reinvention. Waits embraced experimental instrumentation, junkyard percussion, polyrhythms, and global folk influences. His work became deeply theatrical, influenced by Brecht, Weill, and his collaborations with his wife Kathleen Brennan. Songs feel like surreal street operas populated by grotesques and dreamers. This second volume includes mostly songs from that period.

The best known cover here is probably "Way Down in the Hole," due to its use in the HBO series "The Wire." (The Blind Boys from Alabama's version was used as the first season opening music, and other versions were selected for the remaining four seasons, including Waits' own original version.) Norah Jones' delicate outtake "Picture in a Frame" also got some recognition, especially after its inclusion in special editions of her breakthrough album "Come Away With Me."

"I Don't Wanna Grow Up" sounds so natural in the Ramones' catalog that many listeners assume it is an original. It was used as the opening track and first single of their last studio album. Waits' version (from the excellent 1992 album "Bone Machine") is way darker. 

"Little Boy Blue" was only performed by Waits in the movie "One from the Heart." Here we have a bluesy version by jazz singer and pianist Holly Cole. Other highlights of the volume include Screamin' Jay Hawkins' "Whistling Past the Graveyard" and John Hammond's "Big Black Mariah" (which is taken from an album he did fully dedicated to Waits songs). 

On the mellower side, there are soft-sounding melodic folk versions by Shawn Colvin and Valerie Carter that prove Waits can write poignant ballads. Overall, another very nice flowing album with well performed covers that honor Waits' music.

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This album is 58 minutes long. 

01 The Heart of Saturday Night (Shawn Colvin)
02 Whistling Past the Graveyard (Screamin' Jay Hawkins)
03 16 Shells from a Thirty-Ought Six (Bob Seger & the Silver Bullet Band)
04 I Don't Want to Grow Up (Ramones)
05 Better Off without a Wife (Pete Shelley)
06 Little Boy Blue (Holly Cole)
07 Whistle Down the Wind (Valerie Carter)
08 The Briar and the Rose (Niamh Parsons)
09 Dirt in the Ground (Christine Collister)
10 Heartattack and Vine (Popa Chubby)
11 Invitation to the Blues (Jennifer Warnes)
12 Big Black Mariah (John Hammond)
13 Picture in a Frame (Norah Jones)
14 Way Down in the Hole (Blind Boys from Alabama)
15 Jockey Full of Bourbon (Los Lobos)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/zUDkHa5i

alternate: 

https://bestfile.io/en/2nAIGV2f2Rq1n6p/file

The cover photo was taken in San Francisco in 2002.

Martin Simpson, Michael Chapman & Steve Tilston - Songwriters' Circle, Bush Hall, London, Britain, 3-18-2012

Here's another episode of the "Songwriters' Circle" BBC TV show. Just like other episodes, this one features three singer-songwriters taking turns performing their songs. In this case, the songwriters are Martin Simpson, Michael Chapman, and Steve Tilston. The episode has a theme, because all three of them are famous figures in British folk music.

Martin Simpson's career started in the 1970s. He didn't have any hits or famous albums. But he's steadily built up a following by releasing dozens of albums and touring frequently. He's mostly performed cover songs, especially of traditional music. He's still alive, and 76 years old, as I write this in 2026.

Here's his Wikipedia entry:

Martin Simpson - Wikipedia 

Michael Chapman's music is hard to describe, so I'll just quote the lead paragraph of his Wikipedia entry, which says he was a "British singer-songwriter and guitarist who released 58 albums, displaying a 'fusion of jazz, rock, Indian and ragtime styles [that] made him a cult hero.' He began playing with jazz bands, mainly in his home town of Leeds, and became well known in the folk clubs of the late 1960s, as well as on the progressive music scene." Note the use of the past tense, because he died in 2021 at the age of 80. He's probably best known for his 1970 album "Fully Qualified Survivor," which contains his most famous song, "Postcards of Scarborough."

Here's his Wikipedia page:

Michael Chapman (singer) - Wikipedia 

That just leaves Steve Tilston. Like the other two, his music career began roughly around 1970. Also like the other two, he's had a long career with British folk music, releasing dozens of albums. 

Here's his Wikipedia entry:

Steve Tilston - Wikipedia 

To be honest, I wasn't familiar with the music of any of these three musicians. But this was a nice listen, with the three of them all playing good songs and making interesting comments. It's a bit curious and disappointing that it didn't end with all three of them performing a classic song together, like all the other episodes I can remember of this TV series. But all three of them were/are talented guitarists, and often helped out with songs when it wasn't their turn to sing.

By the way, sadly, this appears to be the last episode of the TV series, in terms of broadcast order. I still have two more that I plan on posting. And there are another three or so that I haven't found, at least not yet. 

This album is 58 minutes long.

01 An Englishman Abroad (Martin Simpson)
02 talk (Martin Simpson)
03 Postcards of Scarborough (Michael Chapman)
04 talk (Michael Chapman & Steve Tilston)
05 Weeping Willow Replanted (Steve Tilston)
06 talk (Martin Simpson)
07 Never Any Good (Martin Simpson)
08 talk (Michael Chapman)
09 In the Valley (Michael Chapman)
10 talk (Steve Tilston)
11 The Road When I Was Young (Steve Tilston)
12 talk (Martin Simpson)
13 Will Atkinson (Martin Simpson)
14 talk (Michael Chapman)
15 Just Another Story (Michael Chapman)
16 talk (Steve Tilston)
17 The Reckoning (Steve Tilston)
18 talk (Martin Simpson)
19 Home Again (Martin Simpson)
20 talk (Michael Chapman)
21 A Cowboy Phase (Michael Chapman)
22 talk (Steve Tilston)
23 The Slip Jigs and Reels (Steve Tilston)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/FszeUKwt

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The cover photo is from this exact concert, kind of. I couldn't find any good images of the three of them together, since they didn't play a song together at the end, like most episodes. But at the start of the video of this concert there was some footage of the three of them practicing together before the concert, so I took a screenshot of that. From right to left: Steve Tilston, Michael Chapman, and Martin Simpson.

Various Artists - KHJ Third Annual Appreciation Concert, Hollywood Bowl, Los Angeles, CA, 8-16-1968

First, some bad news. I've been having some problems with my computer, which is why I haven't posted anything here in the past couple of days. I had to take it into a repair shop. I was excited to get it back home today, only to find there are still some problems, so I have to take it back tomorrow for further fixes. But while I have it today, I can post some albums.

Now, the good news: I'm very psyched to post this concert. It's not often we get concerts like this from this 1960s, and this one was very hard to find. Hopefully it will get wider exposure now. It was put on by a Los Angeles radio station, KHJ, and it was broadcast on that station at the time. It featured four musical acts: the Yellow Payges, Tommy James and the Shondells, the (Young) Rascals, and Eric Burdon and the Animals.

As you can see from the title, this was the third such annual concert for KHJ. The first one, in 1966, featured Sonny and Cher (as the main headliners), Donovan, Bob Lind, the Knickerbockers, the Mamas & the Papas, the Modern Folk Quartet, Otis Redding, and the Turtles. It would be incredible to hear that, but I've never heard of a recording existing for it. Luckily, a recording for the second annual concert in 1967 does exist, and I posted it at this blog in 2024. The one featured Buffalo Springfield, the Fifth Dimension, Brenda Holloway, the Seeds, Johnny Rivers, and the Supremes. If you missed it, here's the page for the link:

https://albumsthatshouldexist.blogspot.com/2024/05/various-artists-khj-second-annual.html

Just like that 1967 concert, this one featured musical acts that rarely or never were bootlegged. Let's start with the first act, the Yellow Payges. If you've never heard of them, don't feel bad. They never had much commercial success, and have pretty much been forgotten. However, they released ten singles in the 1960s, as well as an album in 1969, before breaking up in 1970. Looking at their reviews at the crowd-sourced rateyourmusic.com, it seems they were pretty good, but struggled for a distinctive style. They ranged from poppy to acid rock. 

Their set here consisted almost entirely of covers, even though it seems they had some good original material. The only song they did in this set that wasn't a classic or hit for another musical act is "Crowd Pleaser."  

Here's their Wiki page, if you want to know more:

The Yellow Payges - Wikipedia

Tommy James and the Shondells were very popular in the mid to late 1960s. But they were seen as a light-weight singles band. They had many big hits that you probably know, even if you don't know they did the original hit versions. They had two songs that reached Number One in the U.S.:  "Hanky Panky" in 1966,  and "Crimson and Clover" in 1969. Some of their other big hits were "I Think We're Alone Now," "Mirage," "Mony Mony," "Sweet Cherry Wine," and "Crystal Blue Persuasion." Some of those, like "Crimson and Clover," hadn't been recorded yet at the time of this concert. But still, their set consisted of several original hits, plus some covers: a medley of "People Get Ready" and "Get Ready," "Baby I Need Your Loving," and "What the World Needs Now Is Love."

I have never seen any bootleg or even official live album from this musical act in their 1960s prime, so it's really nice to find this one. True, they were known for their singles, not their live performances, but still, they acquitted themselves well here. And it appears they never recorded the three covers I mentioned above, so those are all unique to this concert recording, I believe.

Here's their Wikipedia entry:

Tommy James and the Shondells - Wikipedia 

The Rascals were similar to Tommy James and the Shondells in that they were mainly known for their singles, and they had many hit singles in the 1960s. For the first couple years of their success, they were known as the Young Rascals. But even though they were still called that on the poster for this concert (as seen in the cover art), they actually changed their name to just the Rascals in early 1968, many months prior to this concert. At the time of this concert, they were probably at the peak of their popularity. Just one month earlier, they released the single "People Got to Be Free." It was their last huge hit, reaching Number One in the U.S. singles chart. Prior to that, their hits "Good Lovin'," "Groovin'," "How Can I Be Sure," and "A Beautiful Morning" all reached the Top Five in the U.S., with the first two making it to Number One. 

Unfortunately, starting in 1969, the band switched styles, lessening their popularity. They broke up in 1972, and had very few reunions after that. I posted one of their rare full reunions, meaning all the original members participated, as part of an Atlantic Records tribute concert in 1988. You can find that at this blog as well.

Just like Tommy James and the Shondells, there is very little live recordings from the Rascals in their 1960s prime. I've found some songs here and there they performed on various TV shows, and I made an album of that. I noticed just now I've never gotten around to posting that on this blog, so I should probably do that. But, other than that, the only 1960s bootlegs I've seen are short and problematic, and there are no official live albums either. So this has to be the best live recording from them in the 1960s.

Here's their Wikipedia entry: 

The Rascals - Wikipedia 

The final act of the concert, and the headliner, was Eric Burdon and the Animals. Funnily enough, just like Tommy James and the Shondells and the Rascals, there are surprisingly few good live recordings from this band from the 1960s. There are some, but most of those suffer from sound quality issues and/or are quite short. I've posted the best one I could find at this blog, a concert in Stockholm, Sweden, in January 1968. Their appearance at the 1967 Monterey Pop Festival was excellent (though short), and I've posted that here as well. Plus, there's a lot of BBC material from them as well. But still, considering how famous they were, one would have expected more live recordings to survive. At least this recording can be added in.

At the time of this concert, the Animals were on the decline. Singles were essential to success in the 1960s, and they only had one Top Forty hit in 1968, "Sky Pilot." They broke up at the end of the year. This concert avoided their earlier big hits and concentrated on material the band had done in the last year or so.

However, I strongly suspect there was more to their performance that isn't included here. They were the headliners for this concert. If you look at the 1967 KHJ concert, the headliners (the Supremes) for that one performed for about 50 minutes, 15 minutes longer than what we have for the Animals here. But that's just a guess, I don't know. However, clearly, this concert recording isn't 100 percent complete. For instance, we have DJ intros for the first three acts but not the Animals. Also, I got the Animals portion of this concert from a separate source than the rest, increasing the odds that something might be missing.

Now, let me address sound quality. This was broadcast on a radio station at the time, so this is really good for the 1960s. But still, broadcasting live music was rare in the 1960s, and the sound quality still left something to be desired. So I tried to fix the music as best I could. I ran every song through the MVSEP program twice, fixing different things each time. So it definitely sounds better now. However, the 1967 KHJ concert recording still sounds better, in my opinion.

This album is an hour and 58 minutes long. 

01 talk by emcee (Yellow Payges)
02 Uptight [Everything's Alright] (Yellow Payges)
03 Turn On Your Lovelight (Yellow Payges)
04 Sunshine of Your Love (Yellow Payges)
05 talk (Yellow Payges)
06 Crowd Pleaser (Yellow Payges)
07 Lady Jane (Yellow Payges)
08 I'm a Man (Yellow Payges)
09 talk by emcee (Tommy James & the Shondells)
10 People Get Ready - Get Ready (Tommy James & the Shondells)
11 Mirage (Tommy James & the Shondells)
12 Baby I Need Your Loving (Tommy James & the Shondells)
13 talk (Tommy James & the Shondells)
14 Gettin' Together (Tommy James & the Shondells)
15 What the World Needs Now Is Love (Tommy James & the Shondells)
16 Hanky Panky (Tommy James & the Shondells)
17 Mony Mony (Tommy James & the Shondells)
18 I Think We're Alone Now (Tommy James & the Shondells)
19 talk (Tommy James & the Shondells)
20 Gettin' Together [Reprise] (Tommy James & the Shondells)
21 talk by emcee (Rascals)
22 talk (Rascals)
23 Do You Feel It (Rascals)
24 Love Is a Beautiful Thing (Rascals)
25 talk (Rascals)
26 I'm So Happy Now (Rascals)
27 talk (Rascals)
28 Groovin' (Rascals)
29 A Girl like You (Rascals)
30 A Place in the Sun (Rascals)
31 A Beautiful Morning (Rascals)
32 People Got to Be Free (Rascals)
33 New York 1963 - America 1968 (Animals)
34 San Franciscan Nights (Animals)
35 talk (Animals)
36 Monterey - New York 1963, America 1968 - Monterey (Animals)
37 Sky Pilot (Animals)
38 talk by emcee (Animals)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/rna1kUgu

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/wLgVu304138pdrc/file

I couldn't find any photos from this exact concert. However, I found some promotional material, so I used that. I had to make some changes to make it fit into a square shape. 

The Counting Crows - PBS Soundstage, WTTW Studios, Chicago, IL, 11-13-2003

Here's another episode of the "PBS Soundstage" TV show. It features the band the Counting Crows, from 2003.

The Counting Crows (technically, just "Counting Crows") burst onto the music scene with their 1993 debut album "August and Everything After." It sold ten million copies worldwide, including seven million in the U.S. Their next album was also very successful. But each succeeding album has lower sales. Their most recent album at the time of this concert, "Hard Candy" in 2002, only went Gold (meaning U.S. sales of half a million). After that album, the band would take a recording break, not releasing another studio album until 2008.

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

Counting Crows - Wikipedia 

I'm not much of a fan of this band. For some reason, I've never enjoyed the vocals of lead singer Adam Duritz. But they certainly are talented and have many good songs. If only I could handle that voice. 

In addition to their own songs, this concert includes a cover of the Grateful Dead song "Friend of the Devil." They didn't put that on any of their studio albums, but they did put it on a "best of" album released in 2003.

The music is unreleased, and the sound quality is excellent. 

This album is 53 minutes long. 

01 Mrs. Potter's Lullaby (Counting Crows)
02 Mr. Jones (Counting Crows)
03 talk (Counting Crows)
04 Recovering the Satellites (Counting Crows)
05 talk (Counting Crows)
06 She Don't Want Nobody Near (Counting Crows)
07 Friend of the Devil (Counting Crows)
08 talk (Counting Crows)
09 American Girls (Counting Crows)
10 Rain King (Counting Crows)
11 talk (Counting Crows)
12 Long December (Counting Crows)
13 Hangin' Around (Counting Crows)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/7if7kWvm

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/DG0oHIC82M2yAM8/file

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

Chris Rea - BBC Sessions, Volume 6: In Concert, Exhibition and Conference Centre, Aberdeen, Britain, 2-15-1993

The mini-flood of Chris Rea BBC albums continues. Here's one from 1993. Like all previous ones in this series so far, it's a BBC concert. But all the previous ones had been edited down to an hour or less. This one appears to be a full concert.

At the time of this concert, Rea's popularity was still peaking. In 1991, he released the album "Auberge," which reached Number One in the British album chart. Then in late 1992, he released the album "God's Great Banana Skin," which reached Number Four in Britain. The songs "Auberge" and "Nothing to Fear" were his best selling singles from those albums, and both of them were performed in this concert.

Unfortunately, he still refused to tour the U.S., so he remained little known there. He later said that he regretted that.

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

This album is an hour and 31 minutes long. 

01 Auberge (Chris Rea)
02 Daytona (Chris Rea)
03 Josephine (Chris Rea)
04 You Must Be Evil (Chris Rea)
05 Soft Top, Hard Shoulder (Chris Rea)
06 Nothing to Fear (Chris Rea)
07 Gone Fishing (Chris Rea)
08 The Road to Hell I and II (Chris Rea)
09 Looking for a Rainbow (Chris Rea)
10 On the Beach (Chris Rea)
11 God's Great Banana Skin (Chris Rea)
12 Working on It (Chris Rea)
13 Let's Dance (Chris Rea)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/jCNbSkho

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/1x4tTs7ZCrIZtbt/file

The cover photo isn't from this exact concert, but at least it's pretty close, from one less than a week later. It comes from a concert in Birmingham, on January 21, 1993.

Jerry Lee Lewis & Various Artists - The Midnight Special, NBC Studios, Burbank, CA, 4-27-1973

Here's another episode of the "Midnight Special" TV show. I previously posted an episode hosted by Roy Orbison. In that show, they called it one of their "solid gold" oldies episodes. This is another one of those, looking back at the music of the 1950s and early 1960s. The host is Jerry Lee Lewis. But while he introduced most of the acts, he didn't perform much (five songs), since there were so many other musical acts on this show.

Usually when I'm converting these episodes into albums, I only include the music of the host, plus maybe one more guest. But since this is a theme show, I included absolutely everything, except for a couple of short promo spots talking about who would be on the next episode.

Jerry Lee Lewis, of course, was a big 1950s rock and roll star. But he successfully transitioned into a country star in the late 1960s and 1970s. However, due to the theme of this episode, he just stuck to his rock and roll style. Here's all the other guests that got to play two songs each: Chubby Checker, Lloyd Price, the Diamonds, Little Anthony and the Imperials, the Shirelles, Freddie Cannon, and the Ronettes. And these are the guests that one played one song: the Penguins, the Del-Vikings, and Bobby Day. Linda Gail Lewis didn't get a song of her own, but sang a duet with Lewis.

I think it's pretty nice that this show brought all these musical acts to get another chance to appear on a national TV program, even though their hit-making heyday was long in the past. They were still young enough to look and sound just like they did when they made their hits. 

A 1950s rock and roll revival arguably began at the end of the 1960s. The retro band Sha Na Na performed at the Woodstock Festival in 1969, and one of their songs made it into the movie about that festival. That helped kick start the revival. The Broadway musical "Grease" also came out in 1971. But still, I think this show was generally ahead of the curve. The movie "American Grafitti" took the revival to another level. But I just checked, and that movie didn't come out until August 1973, months after this episode aired.

This album is an hour and five minutes long. 

01 Great Balls of Fire (Jerry Lee Lewis)
02 talk (Jerry Lee Lewis)
03 The Twist (Chubby Checker)
04 talk (Jerry Lee Lewis)
05 Stagger Lee (Lloyd Price)
06 talk (Jerry Lee Lewis)
07 Little Darlin' (Diamonds)
08 talk (Jerry Lee Lewis)
09 Tears on My Pillow (Little Anthony & the Imperials)
10 talk (Jerry Lee Lewis)
11 Soldier Boy (Shirelles)
12 High School Confidential (Jerry Lee Lewis)
13 talk (Jerry Lee Lewis)
14 Tallahassee Lassie (Freddie Cannon)
15 talk (Jerry Lee Lewis)
16 Roll Over Beethoven (Jerry Lee Lewis & Linda Gail Lewis)
17 talk (Wolfman Jack)
18 Earth Angel (Penguins)
19 Huckle Buck (Chubby Checker)
20 talk (Jerry Lee Lewis)
21 Be My Baby (Ronettes)
22 The Stroll (Diamonds)
23 talk (Jerry Lee Lewis)
24 Come Go with Me (Del-Vikings)
25 Drinkin' Wine Spo-Dee-O-Dee (Jerry Lee Lewis)
26 I'm Alright (Little Anthony & the Imperials)
27 Where Were You (Lloyd Price)
28 talk (Jerry Lee Lewis)
29 Way Down Yonder in New Orleans (Freddie Cannon)
30 Tonight's the Night (Shirelles)
31 Cold, Cold Heart (Jerry Lee Lewis)
32 talk (Wolfman Jack)
33 Rockin' Robin (Bobby Day)
34 Walkin' in the Rain (Ronettes)
35 talk (Jerry Lee Lewis)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/1Js7c8EF

alternate: 

https://bestfile.io/fT1h9rzReFG6tmh/file

The cover image is a screenshot I took from a video of this exact concert. That's Linda Gail Lewis standing and Jerry Lee Lewis sitting at a piano. 

Muddy Waters with B.B. King - Ebbets Field, Denver, CO, 6-19-1974

If you like listening to the blues, what a remarkable concert recording this is! It started out as a concert starring blues legend Muddy Waters and his band performing in a small club in Denver. But then, halfway through, blues legend B.B. King came on stage, playing lead guitar and also singing a couple of songs. I don't know of any other recordings of these two absolute legends performing together like this, so this is a special treat.

I did a little research on this. It turns out King happened to perform at a different venue in Denver that evening. When his show was over, he went to the Waters concert and joined in. At the time, even though Ebbets Field was only a small venue holding a maximum of about 200 people, many of its concerts were broadcast live on a local radio station, and this was one such concert. So that's why we have this recording with excellent sound quality. One can find various "grey market" releases of this, meaning they are put on the market in Europe due to legal loopholes. But none of them are legit, with profits going to the performers (or the performers' estates).

I have to admit there are two instrumentals at the start, before Waters joined the stage, that I cut out. I didn't find them that interesting, and I wanted to get to the "good stuff" with Waters and King. If you're interested in those, check out one of those grey market releases I mentioned.

At the time of this concert, Waters was 61 years old, and already nearing the end of his career. Pretty much all of his classic recordings were behind him, but he was far from done as a performer. In fact, he had a bit of a career renaissance in the late 1970s, thanks to some albums he made with the help of blues musician Johnny Winter. Waters kept performing pretty much right until his death in 1983. By contrast, King was ten years younger, and in the middle of an exceptionally long career. He also kept playing almost until his death, much, much later, in 2015, at the age of 89.

I came across this concert after discovering that there were a whole bunch of great radio broadcasts from this venue in the mid-1970s. In recent days, I posted two other concerts that took place there (Gene Clark and Dan Fogelberg). At some point, I'd like to get around to posting more, but it might be a while until that happens.

By the way, if anyone knows the names of either or both of the instrumentals (tracks 1 and 14), please let me know so I can fix the titles. 

This album is 50 minutes long. 

01 Introduction (Muddy Waters)
02 talk (Muddy Waters)
03 My Sweet Little Baby (Muddy Waters)
04 talk (Muddy Waters)
05 Rock Me (Muddy Waters)
06 talk (Muddy Waters)
07 Can't Get No Grindin' [What's the Matter with the Meal] (Muddy Waters)
08 I Got My Mojo Working (Muddy Waters)
09 Forty Days and Forty Nights (Muddy Waters)
10 talk (Muddy Waters)
11 I Know You Didn't Want Me (Muddy Waters & B.B. King)
12 talk (Muddy Waters & B.B. King)
13 The Thrill Is Gone (Muddy Waters & B.B. King)
14 Instrumental (Muddy Waters & B.B. King)
15 talk (Muddy Waters & B.B. King)
16 Caldonia (Muddy Waters & B.B. King)
17 talk by emcee (Muddy Waters & B.B. King)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/tPHFQ1Kk

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/VwIIVVfR6jDAhEL/file

The cover photo is a real photo of Waters and King. However, I drastically edited it. The full photo actually shows James Cotton standing between Waters and King, as well as Johnny Winter off to the side. I cropped out Winter, and then used Photoshop to bring Waters and King closer together, cutting out Cotton along the way. It's from a concert at the Radio City Music Hall in New York City, on June 29, 1979. Also, it was in black and white. I used the Kolorize program to colorize it.

Richard Thompson - BBC Sessions, Volume 9: 1996-1997

Here's another BBC album by singer-songwriter Richard Thompson. This one is a collection of studio sessions.

In 1996, Thompson released the double album "You? Me? Us?" In my opinion, it wasn't as strong as most of his previous solo albums, and probably would have been better as a single album. Then in 1997, he released the album "Industry," with Danny Thompson (no relation). Half of the songs were his, and half were instrumentals by Danny. The songs by Richard were great, but the instrumentals mostly seemed like filler. 

Considering both of those albums were flawed, it's nice to have this collection, because it mostly consists of the strongest songs from both of those albums. There are a couple of songs from other albums, such as "Beeswing" and "Keep Your Distance," but not many. I count five songs from "You? Me? Us?" and three songs from "Industry." One song, "Bathsheba Smiles," was unreleased at the time and would appear on his next studio album, "Mock Tudor."

Most of the songs, tracks two through seven and nine through eleven, come from two sessions on the Andy Kershaw radio show. The first track is from the Bob Harris radio show, and the last one is from the Cambridge Folk Festival. (Highlights or even full sets of that festival are often broadcast by the BBC.) All of those songs are unreleased. That leaves just one officially released song, "Lotteryland." It also comes from one of the Andy Kershaw sessions, but it came out on the "The Live and Music Of" box set.

This album is 47 minutes long.

01 Beeswing (Richard Thompson)
02 Cold Kisses (Richard Thompson)
03 Dark Hand Over My Heart (Richard Thompson)
04 Hide It Away (Richard Thompson)
05 The Ghost of You Walks (Richard Thompson)
06 Train Don't Leave (Richard Thompson)
07 She Cut Off Her Long Silken Hair (Richard Thompson)
08 Lotteryland (Richard Thompson)
09 Drifting through the Days (Richard Thompson)
10 Bathsheba Smiles (Richard Thompson)
11 Keep Your Distance (Richard Thompson)
12 Sweetheart on the Barricade (Richard Thompson)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/3fdocN5N

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/mcle0yKdfdbG1ps/file 

The cover photo is from a concert in the Royal Albert Hall, in London, on May 5, 1996.

Re-Re-Squeezed, and More

Just yesterday, I posted an announcement that said I'd found a better copy of a 1984 BBC concert by Difford and Tilbrook, the two singer-songwriters in the band Squeeze. Today, musical friend Progsprog saw that, and realized he had a version with equally excellent sound, but also four songs that were missing from the other version. So he sent it to me. I added those songs in, and I've updated that album again. Now it's fifteen minutes longer than before, and much better. 

A big thanks to Progsprog, for noticing and helping out.

Here's the link to that one:

https://albumsthatshouldexist.blogspot.com/2025/01/difford-tilbrook-squeeze-bbc-in-concert.html

Furthermore, these announcements helped me remember that I made some additions to a few other albums in the last month, but I forgot to make an announcement about them. So here is such an announcement, better late than never.

First comes the name of the album. Then the names of the songs that were recently added. Then the link to get you to the album to download it. 

Lenny Kravitz - BBC Sessions, Volume 2: In Concert, Wembley Arena, London, Britain, 11-27-1993
Sister (Lenny Kravitz)
Flower Child (Lenny Kravitz)
It Ain't Over 'Til It's Over (Lenny Kravitz)
https://albumsthatshouldexist.blogspot.com/2025/10/lenny-kravitz-bbc-sessions-volume-2-in.html

Tim Buckley - BBC Sessions (1967-1974) 
Love from Room 109 at the Islander [On Pacific Coast Highway] (Tim Buckley)
The Train (Tim Buckley)
https://albumsthatshouldexist.blogspot.com/2022/05/tim-buckley-bbc-sessions-1967-1974.html

Joan Armatrading - BBC Sessions, Volume 1: 1973-1977 
Woncha Come on Home (Joan Armatrading with Georgie Fame)
https://albumsthatshouldexist.blogspot.com/2025/04/joan-armatrading-bbc-sessions-volume-1.html

Love Sculpture (with Dave Edmunds) - BBC Sessions (1968-1969) 
The Rebel [Edit] (Love Sculpture)
https://albumsthatshouldexist.blogspot.com/2021/11/love-sculpture-with-dave-edmunds-bbc.html

Don McLean - BBC Sessions, Volume 1: 1971-1982
11 Prime Time (Don McLean)
12 talk (Don McLean)
13 Colour TV Blues (Don McLean)
https://albumsthatshouldexist.blogspot.com/2025/05/don-mclean-bbc-sessions-volume-1-1972.html

The Who - BBC Sessions, Volume 4: 1971-1981
04 Peg Leg Peggy (John Entwistle)
05 My Wife (John Entwistle) 
https://albumsthatshouldexist.blogspot.com/2019/06/the-who-bbc-sessions-1971-1981.html

Once I post albums on this blog, I'm determined to keep updating them if I find more songs or better sound quality.

The Wild Honey Orchestra - Tribute to the Nuggets Album, Alex Theatre, Glendale, CA, 5-19-2023

I'm particularly happy to be posting this album. Most every year, a big, loose collection of professional musicians in the Los Angeles area come together to put on a benefit concert that celebrates a favorite musical act or album. In 2023, this group, the Wild Honey Orchestra, did it again. This time, they targeted the 1972 album "Nuggets." 

"Nuggets" was a collection of garage rock from the mid-1960s. It was a hugely influential collection, especially since it helped inspire the punk rock movement a few years later. It also led to an entire cottage industry of similar releases, often with similar names like "Pebbles," mining obscure garage rock gems from that era.

The last Wild Honey Orchestra concert I could find with worthy sound quality was the one from 2019, celebrating the music of the band Lovin' Spoonful. Then a year was skipped due to the Covid pandemic. The 2022 concert celebrated the band Big Star. Then came this one in 2023. Then 2024 was skipped for some reason. Most recently (as I write this in January 2026), there was a 2025 concert celebrating singer-songwriter Warren Zevon.

The only place I've found any of these concert with worthy sound quality was from the Wild Honey Orchestra's YouTube page. But it seemed they stopped posting their concerts after 2020, so I had resigned myself to not finding any more. But I took another look at that page a few days ago, after not going there for a year or two, and I found a video of most of this Nuggets concert, with excellent sound quality. All the songs were there, but lots of the banter between songs was missing. So I converted it to audio format and chopped it into mp3s.

That was good, but I wanted to do something about the missing banter. The emcee for the concert was Lenny Kaye. He was the person who compiled the album back in 1972, and wrote the liner notes. He later played lead guitar for Patti Smith in the 1970s, and then again from the mid-1990s until the current day. For this concert, he gave brief spoken introductions to each of the songs. But about half of them were missing from the video I found. I wanted to do something about that. 

Luckily, I discovered an audience bootleg of the same concert. The sound quality was far worse, but at least it was complete, which meant it had all the missing intros. If I had wanted to take some music from this boot, that would have been a problem. But sound quality didn't matter so much just for talking between songs. Even there, there were sound issues. So I ran all the banter I took from this boot through the Adobe voice enhancer program. That made a drastic difference. Now, I think in most cases, one can't tell which talking tracks were from the original video and which were from the audience boot. Oh, and I also boosted the lead vocals relative to the instruments on the songs that needed that, which was most of them. 

The Wild Honey Orchestra was the backing band for the entire concert, with members coming and going from the stage depending on the musical instruments needed for each song. Furthermore, each song typically had a different lead vocalist, though some sang two or three songs. 

The vocalists generally fell into two categories. The first was musicians who actually played on the original recordings over 50 years ago, or were otherwise from that era. That's pretty remarkable, considering how many years had passed. The others were somewhat younger musicians who just really liked this kind of music. Overall, there weren't that many "big names." Probably the most famous musician was Susanna Hoffs of the Bangles, who sang two songs. For one of them, she was joined by musical comedian Weird Al Yankovic, but he only played accordion and didn't sing. All in all though, it was a pretty old crowd on stage, and I'll bet in the audience as well.

I still can't find worthy audio from the Big Star and Warren Zevon tribute concerts. Let's hope those emerge someday. But in the meantime, at least there's this.  

If you like listening to garage rock, you really should listen to this. True, most of the performers were in their sixties and seventies, but I swear you can't tell by listening. These "old geezers" still knew how to rock! 

This album is two hours and 26 minutes long. 

Before I post the set list, I made this list of the original musical acts for each song, as well as the years the songs were released. Some track numbers are skipped, due to those being talk tracks. The vast majority of the songs on the 1972 "Nuggets" album were performed, but not all of them. Plus, some songs not on that album (but similar in spirit) were played. For instance, "96 Tears," "7 and 7 Is," and "Crazy like a Fox."

02 Oh Yeah - Shadows of Knight (1966)
05 Are You a Boy or Are You a Girl - Barbarians (1965)
07 A Little Bit of Soul - Music Explosion (1967) 
09 Don't Look Back - Remains (1966)
12 96 Tears - Question Mark & the Mysterians (1966)
14 Liar, Liar - Castaways (1965) 
16 [Just Like] Romeo and Juliet - Reflections (1964) 
18 Sugar and Spice - Cryan' Shames (1966)
20 Lies - Knickerbockers (1965)
22 Dirty Water - Standells (1966)
24 Little Girl - Syndicate of Sound (1966)
26 Talk, Talk - Music Machine (1966)
28 Crazy like a Fox - Link Cromwell (1966)
30 Pushin' Too Hard - (Seeds 1966)
32 It's-a-Happening - Magic Mushrooms (1966)
35 You're Gonna Miss Me - 13th Floor Elevators (1966)
37 Baby Please Don't Go - Amboy Dukes (1968)
39 Sit Down, I Think I Love You - Mojo Men (1967)
41 Run, Run, Run - Third Rail (1967)
43 My World Fell Down - Sagittarius (1967)
45 An Invitation to Cry - Magicians (1965) 
47 I Want Candy - Strangeloves (1965)
49 I Had Too Much to Dream [Last Night] - Electric Prunes (1966)
51 No Time like the Right Time - Blues Project (1967) 
53 Hey Joe - Leaves (1966) 
55 Let's Talk about Girls - Chocolate Watchband (1967) 
57 Psychotic Reaction - Count Five (1966) 
59 Open My Eyes - Nazz (1968) 
61 7 and 7 Is - Love (1966)
63 Tobacco Road - Blues Magoos (1966)
65 Farmer John - Premiers (1964)
67 Gloria - Them (1965) 

Here's the usual song list: 

01 talk (Lenny Kaye)
02 Oh Yeah (Mike Stax)
03 talk (Lenny Kaye)
04 talk (Cindy Lee Barryhill)
05 Are You a Boy or Are You a Girl (Cindy Lee Barryhill)
06 talk (Lenny Kaye)
07 A Little Bit of Soul (Paley Brothers)
08 talk (Billy Vera)
09 Don't Look Back (Billy Vera)
10 talk (Lenny Kaye)
11 talk (All Day Sucker)
12 96 Tears (All Day Sucker)
13 talk (Lenny Kaye)
14 Liar, Liar (Nick Guzman)
15 talk (Lenny Kaye)
16 [Just Like] Romeo and Juliet (Ron Dante)
17 talk (Lenny Kaye)
18 Sugar and Spice (Andrew Sandoval & Chris Price)
19 talk (Lenny Kaye)
20 Lies (Peter Case)
21 talk (Lenny Kaye)
22 Dirty Water (Peter Zaremba)
23 talk (Peter Zaremba)
24 Little Girl (Peter Zaremba)
25 talk (Peter Zaremba)
26 Talk, Talk (Peter Zaremba)
27 talk (Lenny Kaye)
28 Crazy like a Fox (Lenny Kaye)
29 talk (Lenny Kaye)
30 Pushin' Too Hard (Lenny Kaye & Paul Kopf with Daryl Hooper)
31 talk (Lenny Kaye)
32 It's-a-Happening (Paul Kopt)
33 talk (Lenny Kaye)
34 talk (Carla Olson, Kathy Valentine & Pearl Bentley)
35 You're Gonna Miss Me (Carla Olson, Kathy Valentine & Pearl Bentley)
36 talk (Lenny Kaye)
37 Baby Please Don't Go (Mike Peters with Wayne Kramer)
38 talk (Lenny Kaye)
39 Sit Down, I Think I Love You (Susanna Hoffs & Owen Elliot with Weird Al Yankovic)
40 talk (Lenny Kaye)
41 Run, Run, Run (Tom Kenny)
42 talk (Lenny Kaye)
43 My World Fell Down (Evie Sands)
44 talk (Evie Sands)
45 An Invitation to Cry (Evie Sands)
46 talk (Lenny Kaye)
47 I Want Candy (Susanna Hoffs)
48 talk (Lenny Kaye)
49 I Had Too Much to Dream [Last Night] (James Lowe)
50 talk (Lenny Kaye)
51 No Time like the Right Time (Cameron Dye)
52 talk (Lenny Kaye)
53 Hey Joe (Jim Pons & John Beck)
54 talk (Lenny Kaye)
55 Let's Talk about Girls (David Aguilar)
56 talk (Lenny Kaye)
57 Psychotic Reaction (Kenn Eliner)
58 talk (Lenny Kaye)
59 Open My Eyes (Three O'Clock)
60 talk (Lenny Kaye)
61 7 and 7 Is (Johnny Echols with John Easdale)
62 talk (Lenny Kaye)
63 Tobacco Road (Tara Austin & Rob Laufer with Kathy Valentine)
64 talk (Lenny Kaye)
65 Farmer John (Peter Buck, Scott McCaughey & Lenny Kaye)
66 talk (Lenny Kaye)
67 Gloria (Lenny Kaye & Everyone)
68 talk (Lenny Kaye)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/ZjhTUbAN

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/7LzIelePtiW6Dx7/file

The cover image is taken from a promotional poster for this exact concert. However, I had to make a lot of changes to get all the key parts of that rectangular poster into a square shape. The art in the middle section is the original "Nuggets" cover (which was also the main part of the poster). The list of musical acts at the bottom is not completely acccurate, since there were some no-shows (like Van Dyke Parks) and some surprise guests (like Susanna Hoffs). But I figured it was close enough to get the gist.

Chris Rea - BBC Sessions, Volume 5: In Concert, Wembley Arena, London, Britain, 3-9-1990

The mini-flood of Chris Rea BBC albums continues. Like all the previous albums in this series so far, this is a BBC concert.

In the previous volumes in this series, I've been describing how Rea's popularity was slowly growing. That peaked around this time, thanks to his 1989 album "The Road to Hell." It went all the way to Number One in the British album chart, and it ended up going Platinum six times over in Britain. (By contrast, he still has very little success in the U.S., due in large part to him not wanting to tour much there.) 

This concert contained the song "The Road to Hell," which reached the Top Ten in Britain. This concert contains that song, as well as his other really big hit up until this point in his career, "Let's Dance."

Unfortunately, as with most of his BBC concerts, the BBC cut the broadcast down to an hour or less. Three of the songs here (1, 6, and 7) were released as bonus tracks on a 2019 deluxe edition of "The Road to Hell." The rest remains unreleased.

This album is 50 minutes long. 

01 The Road to Hell I and II (Chris Rea)
02 You Must Be Evil (Chris Rea)
03 Texas - Josie's Tune (Chris Rea)
04 On the Beach (Chris Rea)
05 Stainsby Girls (Chris Rea)
06 Working on It (Chris Rea)
07 Let's Dance (Chris Rea)
08 Tell Me There's a Heaven (Chris Rea)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/2FZ7sPCs

alternate:

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

All I know about the cover image is it was taken at some point in 1990. 

The Allman Brothers Band and Friends - Tune In to Hep C Benefit, Beacon Theatre, New York City, 6-27-2011

When it comes to the Allman Brothers Band, I like all their music up to about the year 2000. That's when Dickey Betts was kicked out of the band. It very well could be the band has good reasons to kick him out, but in my opinion it just wasn't the same without him. However, this concert is an exception. I really like this one, even though it's from 2011, which was close to the end. (The band folded in 2014.) The reason is this had interesting guest stars for a majority of the concert, resulting in the band playing different songs than usual.

When I found this bootleg, it came with a file that contains the text of an article from Rolling Stone Magazine describing the concert in detail. I've left that in the download zip. I recommend you give it a read.

The short version is the band's main singer-songwriter at this point, Gregg Allman, got hepatitis C when he was younger. It gave him health problems, and in 2010, he had to get a liver transplant. So when a non-profit charity called Hep C asked him to perform a benefit concert to help them out, he readily agreed, and he brought some special guests. The guests weren't chosen by accident, since most of them also had hepatitis C. Phil Lesh, bassist for the Grateful Dead, had to get a liver transplant. So did David Crosby, of Crosby, Stills and Nash. Natalie Cole also had the disease. I'm guessing Graham Nash didn't, but was there to assist Crosby, his longtime musical partner.

The concert started out as a typical Allman Brothers Band performance for its era, though even here the band did some nice covers of classic songs, like "I Want on Guilded Splinters," "Into the Mystic," and "Blind Willie McTell." Even one of their old originals, "Black Hearted Woman," ended with an instrumental jam based on "That's It for the Other One" by the Grateful Dead. 

Then came the guest vocalists, starting with Natalie Cole (who also came back later). The five songs with Crosby and Nash were all songs written by Crosby or Nash (with one song, "Find the Cost of Freedom," written by their longtime bandmate Stephen Stills). Phil Lesh joined them for the last two. Then three Grateful Dead classics followed, with Lesh still anchoring things with his bass playing. There were other guests too, including Bill Evans playing saxophone on a few songs, and Billy Gibbons of ZZ Top playing some lead guitar on the last song. 

The music here is unreleased. This concert was broadcast on the radio, which is why the sound quality is excellent. For some of the songs, like the Grateful Dead covers, the lead vocals were low in the mix. So I fixed that with the help of the MVSEP program.

This album is two hours and 56 minutes long. 

01 Don't Want You No More [Instrumental] (Allman Brothers Band)
02 It's Not My Cross to Bear (Allman Brothers Band)
03 I Walk on Guilded Splinters (Allman Brothers Band)
04 One Way Out (Allman Brothers Band)
05 Into the Mystic (Allman Brothers Band)
06 Statesboro Blues (Allman Brothers Band)
07 Blind Willie McTell (Allman Brothers Band)
08 Black Hearted Woman - That's It for the Other One (Allman Brothers Band)
09 talk (Allman Brothers Band)
10 A Change Is Gonna Come (Allman Brothers Band with Natalie Cole)
11 The Weight (Allman Brothers Band with Natalie Cole)
12 In Memory of Elizabeth Reed [Instrumental] (Allman Brothers Band with Bill Evans)
13 talk (Allman Brothers Band)
14 talk (Allman Brothers Band with Crosby & Nash)
15 Teach Your Children (Allman Brothers Band with Crosby & Nash)
16 talk (Allman Brothers Band with Crosby & Nash)
17 Guinnevere (Allman Brothers Band with Crosby & Nash)
18 talk (Allman Brothers Band with Crosby & Nash)
19 Find the Cost of Freedom (Allman Brothers Band with Crosby & Nash)
20 talk (Allman Brothers Band with Crosby & Nash)
21 Cowboy Movie (Allman Brothers Band with Crosby & Nash, & Phil Lesh)
22 talk (Allman Brothers Band with Crosby & Nash, & Phil Lesh)
23 Almost Cut My Hair (Allman Brothers Band with Crosby & Nash, & Phil Lesh)
24 talk (Allman Brothers Band with Crosby & Nash, & Phil Lesh)
25 Shakedown Street (Allman Brothers Band with Phil Lesh)
26 Sugaree (Allman Brothers Band with Phil Lesh)
27 Franklin's Tower (Allman Brothers Band with Phil Lesh & Bill Evans)
28 Whipping Post (Allman Brothers Band with Natalie Cole)
29 talk (Allman Brothers Band with Crosby & Nash, & Natalie Cole)
30 Midnight Rider (Allman Brothers Band with Crosby & Nash, & Natalie Cole)
31 talk (Allman Brothers Band with Crosby & Nash, & Natalie Cole)
32 Will the Circle Be Unbroken (Allman Brothers Band with Crosby & Nash, Natalie Cole, & Billy Gibbons)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/rmicPn3A

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/SPdkV6lPGFp9gxo/file

The cover photo is from this exact concert. In the front row, from right to left, that's Warren Haynes of the Allman Brothers Band, Graham Nash, David Crosby, and Phil Lesh. I darkened the large video screen shown at the top of the image, so the writing on it wouldn't conflict with the writing of the band name I added in that area.

Ray LaMontagne, KT Tunstall, & David Gray - Songwriters' Circle, Bush Hall, London, Britain, 10-22-2010

Here's another episode of the fantastic BBC TV show "Songwriters' Circle." This one is from 2010, and features the singer-songwriters Ray LaMontagne, KT Tunstall, and David Gray. As is the usual with this show, they took turns singing their own songs, backed just by their acoustic guitars (and sometimes each other).

LaMontagne has an interesting back story. He was working at a shoe factory in a small town in Maine,when he heard the song "Treetop Flyer" by Stephen Stills. The song inspired him to quit his job and become a musician, despite having no special interest or background in music at that point. His debut album "Trouble" was released in 2004. It sold half a million copies in the U.S., and the title song was a hit in Britain. His next three albums from 2006 to 2010 also did well, with each one going Gold in the U.S. (Although his sales have slowly declined since then.)

Ray LaMontagne - Wikipedia 

I've already posted a lot of music by KT Tunstall, so I don't feel the need to summarize her career here.

David Gray was born in England and mostly raised in Wales. He started out a fairly typical folk singer-songwriter. But his first three albums, released in 1993, 1994 and 1996, didn't stand out or sell well. His fourth album, "White Ladder," released in 1998, was different. It combined the folk style with electronica. At first, it also was basically totally ignored. But it was released in 2000, and began to slowly build momentum, helped by the hit song "Babylon." It ended up doing great in the U.S., selling two and a half million copies. But it did even better in Britain, selling over three million, which is especially impressive considering the U.S. population is four times as large. In fact, according to Wikipedia as I write this in 2026, this album is one of the top 30 best selling albums of all time in Britain!

But he wasn't just a one-album wonder. For instance, his 2002 album "A New Day at Midnight" went Platinum four times over in Britain, and sold half a million copies in the U.S. as well. He's been especially popular in Ireland, where his albums have broken some sales records.

Here's his Wikipedia entry:

David Gray (British musician) - Wikipedia 

Unfortunately for all three of the singer-songwriters here, they had a lot more success up to 2010, the year of this concert, than in the years since then. But at least at the time of this concert they were all doing very well.

As is typical for the episodes of this show, the three of them came together for the last song. They chose to sing "Morning of My Life," a well-known early Bee Gees song, even though it never was a big hit.

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

This album is an hour and seven minutes long. 

01 talk (David Gray)
02 Shine (David Gray)
03 talk (KT Tunstall)
04 Other Side of the World (KT Tunstall)
05 talk (Ray LaMontagne)
06 Beg, Steal or Borrow (Ray LaMontagne)
07 talk (David Gray)
08 Ain't No Love (David Gray)
09 talk (KT Tunstall)
10 [Still A] Weirdo (KT Tunstall)
11 Trouble (Ray LaMontagne)
12 talk (David Gray)
13 Babylon (David Gray)
14 talk (KT Tunstall)
15 The Entertainer (KT Tunstall)
16 talk (Ray LaMontagne)
17 Are We Really Through (Ray LaMontagne)
18 This Years Love (David Gray)
19 talk (KT Tunstall)
20 Black Horse and the Cherry Tree (KT Tunstall)
21 Like Rock and Roll and Radio (Ray LaMontagne)
22 Morning of My Life (Ray LaMontagne, KT Tunstall & David Gray)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/dRNsymF7

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/IIWwgAdBt4OaAy3/file

The cover image is a screenshot I took of a video of this exact concert. From right to left: David Gray, KT Tunstall, and Ray LaMontagne.

Wilson Pickett with the Chi-Lites - The Midnight Special, NBC Studios, Burbank, CA, 9-21-1973

Here's another episode of the excellent "Midnight Special" TV show. This one is hosted by soul music legend Wilson Pickett, with the soul band the Chi-Lites as a guest star.

I've already posted a couple of songs by Pickett from this show in 1973, when he was a guest star for an episode hosted by the Bee Gees. Those songs aren't included here, since they're that other album I've made. 

In my write-up, I pointed out that Pickett had a long series of hits from about 1963 to 1973, but 1973 was the start of a steep decline in his career. I'm mentioning it here, since it's just as relevant for this album. In retrospect, his big mistake was changing record companies around the start of 1973. He didn't write songs himself, so he had to rely on professional songwriters, and the songs his new record company gave him weren't nearly as good as before.

Be that as it may, it has very little relevance here, because he stuck entirely to hit songs from earlier in his career. The only "new" song was "Never My Love," but that was a cover of a massive pop hit from 1967, so he couldn't really go wrong with that one.

Additionally, and I think rather weirdly, Pickett talked with soul singer and keyboardist Billy Preston a little bit, but that's all they did, just talk. 

It's too bad he didn't sing with the Chi-Lites, because they would have made for a good match. The Chi-Lites had many hits, especially from 1969 to 1974. In 1972 they had their biggest hit, "Oh Girl," which made it to Number One on the U.S. singles chart (as well as the U.S. R&B singles chart). So it's not surprising they performed that one here. The other song they played, "Stoned Out of My Mind," was their most recent hit at the time of this concert. That only made it to Number 30 on the U.S. singles chart, but at least it made it to Number 2 on the R&B chart, and I think it's one of their best.

Not all the songs are from this one episode. Tracks 12 and 13 are from an episode that aired on July 20, 1973. (I only know the broadcast dates for this TV show, unfortunately). Tracks 14 and 15 are from the September 14, 1973 episode, which was just a week prior to this one.

In case you're curious, the main episode here also featured songs by Canned Heat, Brian Auger's Oblivion Express, Curtis Mayfield, B.W. Stevenson, Brenda Patterson, and Spooky Tooth. I've already put the Mayfield on a different album.

All the music here is unreleased. As usual, I did a lot of editing to help the songs flow together, mostly by adding some extra crowd noise to hide commercial breaks and other breaks. 

This album is 45 minutes long.

01 talk (Wolfman Jack)
02 Land of 1000 Dances (Wilson Pickett)
03 talk (Wilson Pickett)
04 talk (Wilson Pickett & Billy Preston)
05 Stoned Out of My Mind (Chi-Lites)
06 Funky Broadway (Wilson Pickett)
07 Never My Love (Wilson Pickett)
08 talk (Wilson Pickett)
09 Oh Girl (Chi-Lites)
10 talk (Wilson Pickett)
11 In the Midnight Hour (Wilson Pickett)
12 Don't Let the Green Grass Fool You (Wilson Pickett)
13 International Playboy (Wilson Pickett)
14 Don't Knock My Love (Wilson Pickett)
15 Get Me Back on Time, Engine 9 (Wilson Pickett) 

https://pixeldrain.com/u/2BNcXqYG

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/9S13XtmDnDmV2GG/file

The cover image is from this exact concert.

The Small Faces - BBC Sessions, Volume 3: Colour Me Pop, BBC Television Centre, London, Britain, 6-21-1968

I've overhauling the albums I'm posting of the Small Faces performing for the BBC. Previously, I'd posted two albums, but I've found enough material for three. Here's the third and final album in this overhaul.

"Colour Me Pop" was the BBC's first serious attempt to make a TV show for rock concerts. About 50 episodes were aired in 1968 and 1969. This should be an incredible treasure trove of music, since most of the musical acts involved were never properly filmed, and many don't even have any decent live recordings. Unfortunately, the vast majority of the episodes were lost, since the BBC didn't bother keeping copies. Only about five full episodes have survived. Luckily for us, one of those is the Small Faces episode. That makes up the bulk of this album.

In case you're curious, you can see the list of "Colour Me Pop" episodes here. (It pains me to think of all the great music that was lost!)

Colour Me Pop - Wikipedia 

At the time of this concert, the Small Faces had just released "Ogdens' Nut Gone Flake," their most acclaimed studio album. Their "Colour Me Pop" episode almost entirely consisted of songs from this album. Unfortunately, it seems all the songs in it consisted of live vocals sung to the record versions. But I still think it's worthy due to those vocals, especially given the paucity of live recordings by this band. Also, the live vocals include the banter between songs by comedian Stanley Unwin, who talked in kind of a strange version of English that he invented. I suspect this is probably the only time the band performed these songs with him, as I highly doubt he went on tour with them.

The "Colour Me Pop" episode makes up tracks three through 17. I've added three more songs for two reasons. One, the album is rather short, and those give it a more reasonable length. But also, different versions of these songs were included on "Volume 2." I figure it's better to put them here, so one doesn't have two versions of the same song on one album. Unfortunately, these songs were also only live vocals added to the studio versions! So every single song on the album is like that.  

Two of these three extra songs were from BBC TV shows. But the third, "Itchycoo Park," comes from a French TV show. The bonus track, "(If You Think You're) Groovy," also comes from that same French show. The reason it's a bonus track is because the lead vocals were by soul singer P.P. Arnold. However, the song was actually written by Small Faces lead vocalist Steve Marriott, who was romantically involved with Arnold around this time. And all the singing and playing was done by the Small Faces, other than Arnold's lead vocals. So it still is very relevant to this band, enough to justify bonus track status, at least.

Everything here is unreleased, I believe. The sound quality is excellent. The vocals were low for the two French TV show ones, but I fixed that using the MVSEP program.

This album is 34 minutes long. 

01 Tin Soldier [Live Vocals Only] (Small Faces)
02 Itchycoo Park [Live Vocals Only] (Small Faces)
03 Song of a Baker [Live Vocals Only] (Small Faces)
04 talk (Small Faces)
05 Happiness Stan [Live Vocals Only] (Small Faces)
06 talk (Small Faces)
07 Rollin' Over [Live Vocals Only] (Small Faces)
08 talk (Small Faces)
09 The Hungry Intruder [Live Vocals Only] (Small Faces)
10 talk (Small Faces)
11 The Journey [Live Vocals Only] (Small Faces)
12 talk (Small Faces)
13 Mad John [Live Vocals Only] (Small Faces)
14 talk (Small Faces)
15 Happy Days Toy Town [Live Vocals Only] (Small Faces)
16 talk (Small Faces)
17 Happy Days Toy Town [Reprise] [Live Vocals Only] (Small Faces)
18 The Universal [Live Vocals Only] (Small Faces)

[If You Think You're] Groovy [Live Vocals Only] [Edit] (P. P. Arnold & the Small Faces)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/X3i4WNEA

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/cxX2VTOYrIznKFh/file

The cover image is a screenshot taken from the "Colour Me Pop" TV show. 

Covered: Tom Waits, Volume 1: 1973-1994

It's high time I post more for the "Covered" series, highlighting great singer-songwriters. This time, we're looking at the songs of Tom Waits. Enough material has been found for four volumes. Here's the first one. As with all albums in this series, the focus is on cover versions, instead of versions done by the songwriter.

First off, I've gotta say I wouldn't be posting this now had it not been for the help of musical friend Fabio from Rio. It was he who suggested making Covered albums for Waits. I would have wanted to tackle him eventually, but that probably would have been well into the future. I have an issue with Waits: I can't stand his voice. As a result, even though it's easy for me to see he's a very talented songwriter, I haven't been that familiar with his songs. But Fabio is a big fan. He sent me literally hundreds of Waits cover versions, with recommendations on the best ones. I went through that and narrowed it down quite a lot. Hopefully this will make a strong collection that can turn the curious on to Waits' music.

Fabio from Rio helped with all aspects of putting this together. He even wrote the write-ups for the four volumes for Waits. So first I'm posting the relevant Wikipedia page:

Tom Waits - Wikipedia 

And now, take it away, Fabio (and a big thanks to him for all his work on this!):

For the general public, Tom Waits is "that guy with the raspy wino voice and the weird songs. Wasn't he one of the convicted fellows in that offbeat Jim Jarmusch movie?" A few music aficionados may also know him as the writer of songs like Springsteen's "Jersey Girl" or Rod Stewart's "Downtown Train", but that is usually where the story ends.

What many are not aware of is that Waits is widely recognized by his peers and by musical experts as an exceptional and influential songwriter. He is praised for his unique voice, vivid storytelling, poetic lyrics, and innovative musical style that blends genres like blues, jazz, vaudeville, and experimental rock. Waits is also known for creating three-dimensional characters and detailed narratives, often exploring life on the fringes. His lyrics are celebrated for their specificity, humor, melancholy, and ability to evoke strong moods, often drawing comparisons to Beat poets and Mark Twain.

Waits is a "songwriters' songwriter," with songs covered by literally hundreds of artists, many of them great composers themselves. He has been subject to many tributes. While searching for tracks for that project, I collected about three dozen different albums fully dedicated to his songs, and around 400 assorted covers, adding up to almost 1,200 tracks and 80-plus hours of music!

I initially selected about 220 different tunes (an almost fully comprehensive "Tom Waits songbook" that would comprise about 15 hours) which Paul wisely helped reduce to around 60 tracks across four volumes. We could have another four or eight volumes with additional top-notch Tom Waits songs - there is enough quality material for that - but I feel this reduced version is just the right size for a first dive into Tom Waits vast catalog. I hope you enjoy it!

Some listeners may find Waits' music difficult to approach due to his peculiar tone (which, contrary to popular belief, was not destroyed by booze and cigarettes, but was conscientiously cultivated as a vocal persona, as he mentioned in some interviews). The fact that some of his more experimental work sounds like monkeys loose in a crystal store doesn't help either. For those, a "Covered" collection focusing on his more melodic output is a great starting point, where one may discover the essence of Waits' music (often through soothing, frequently female, voices).

This first volume includes performances from a long range of years (1973 to 1994), but most of the songs here were composed during Waits' early and middle phases (the seventies and early eighties). His first albums feature piano-led ballads, romantic melancholy, and a relatively smooth, crooning voice. The character is that of a late-night drifter, nostalgic and tender. As his career progressed, Waits' voice grew tougher (both literally and figuratively) and his narratives darker and more cinematic. His late seventies and early eighties albums introduced sardonic humor, social misfits, and a sharper sense of irony, while still rooted in jazz, blues, and cabaret traditions.

Waits started as a folk singer/songwriter in the early seventies, with heavy jazz influences, when his voice was still not so rough. You can hear this in the first selection of this collection, "Rosie," from his 1973 first album. It's the only song in these four volumes that is the composer's own interpretation. He also first caught the ear of the public with an early cover of "Ol' 55" by The Eagles (which we skipped in favor of Sarah McLachlan's 1993 version, which both Paul and myself prefer). Other famous interpreters at the first volume are Johnny Cash and Marianne Faithfull (with songs Tom composed specifically for them), and also 10,000 Maniacs, Elvis Costello, Crystal Gayle and Canned Heat, which showcases the full range of styles and performers reached by Waits' compositions.

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Thanks again, Fabio. I'll just add that there were only a few cases where Waits wrote hit songs, so we weren't tied down much by that factor. ("Downtown Train" is probably his biggest hit, thanks to the 1989 Rod Stewart version, included here.) And often, his songs didn't get a lot of covers until many years after they were written. So if you don't see some of his songs you really like from this era, wait before you judge. There's a good chance those songs could show up on one of the later volumes.

This album is 54 minutes long. 

01 Rosie (Tom Waits)
02 Foreign Affair (Manhattan Transfer)
03 Jersey Girl (Bruce Springsteen)
04 Is There Any Way Out of This Dream (Crystal Gayle)
05 I Hope that I Don't Fall in Love with You (10,000 Maniacs)
06 Strange Weather (Marianne Faithfull)
07 Downtown Train (Rod Stewart)
08 Gun Street Girl (Canned Heat)
09 San Diego Serenade (Nanci Griffith)
10 Tom Traubert's Blues [Waltzing Matilda] (Rod Stewart)
11 More than Rain (Elvis Costello & Brodsky Quartet)
12 Ol' 55 (Sarah McLachlan)
13 Down There by the Train (Johnny Cash)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/FBZaqvMS

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/IJ5fbwJ3YDrAHXl/file

The cover photo was taken in Chicago, Illinois, on May 30, 1986.

Re-Squeezed

Back in January 2025, I posted a BBC concert by Difford and Tilbrook, the two main singer-songwriters in the band Squeeze. It's from 1984, during the only time in the 1980s they put out an album under their own name instead of using the Squeeze name. Unfortunately, the sound quality wasn't as good as one would expect, even after some tinkering. 

Happily, today I noticed the music blog "Voodoo Wagon" recently posted a version from a different source, and it sounds great. So I've updated the album with that better source. Here's the link if you want to redownload it:

https://albumsthatshouldexist.blogspot.com/2025/01/difford-tilbrook-squeeze-bbc-in-concert.html 

Dan Fogelberg - Ebbets Field, Denver, CO, 8-17-1974

Just yesterday, I posted two Dan Fogelberg "best of" albums made by guest poster Mike Solof. While he was putting those together, he was raving to me about an early Fogelberg concert - this one. I discovered it has great sound quality, but it's very little known. So I figured, heck, while we're doing some Fogelberg stuff, let's post this one too.

At the time of this concert, Fogelberg's music career was just starting. He put out his first album in 1972, "Home Free." But it didn't make a mark at the time, not even reaching the Top 200 in the U.S. albums chart. His second album, "Souvenirs," would do better. But that wouldn't be released until October 1974, a couple of months after this concert. So at the time, Fogelberg was a virtual unknown, touring the U.S. for the very first time. This venue only held about 200 people.  

But already, it seems Fogelberg was showing star potential. I found an interesting quote about this very concert in a Denver Post newspaper article. It quotes Chuck Morris, who would go on to be a big music promoter. He went to the concert, and ran into Irving Azoff, who was Fogelberg's manager at the time and would go on to manage many other famous artists, such as the Eagles, Journey, and Christina Aguilera. "I'll never forget that night," Morris said. "It was a sold-out crowd, and Irving said, 'This guy's going to fill up arenas in two or three years.' And he was right." 

Now, I should mention that when this obscure bootleg is shared at all, it almost always has been mislabeled. The version that Mike Solof has is called "Live in Colorado 1973." But I looked it up, and Fogelberg didn't tour Colorado in 1973. (There's an official Fogelberg website that lists all the concert dates for his entire career.) I guessed this was probably from the Ebbets Field club in Denver, because they were often broadcasting concerts on the radio at the time. I looked into it, and Fogelberg played there twice in 1974, once on this date, and again in October, after his "Souvenirs" album came out. So I didn't know which concert it was, if indeed it was from that venue at all. But luckily, I had a way of finding out. 

There's a quasi-official webpage for the Ebbets Field venue, which you can find here:

Ebbets Field Rarities 1973-1977 | Colorado Music Experience 

That posts just one song from many great concerts that took place there. It had one song from Fogelberg on this date, the song "Stars." I compared the opening banter of that version with this version, and they are exactly the same, down to every last word and vocal nuance. So we know beyond any doubt the correct date and location for this concert. Hopefully, that "Live in Colorado 1973" inaccuracy will fade away.

Fogelberg was supported by a couple backing musicians, but this mostly has a solo acoustic vibe. 

This album is 57 minutes long. 

01 Now the Show Begins (Dan Fogelberg)
02 talk (Dan Fogelberg)
03 Stars (Dan Fogelberg)
04 Next Time (Dan Fogelberg)
05 Morning Sky (Dan Fogelberg)
06 talk (Dan Fogelberg)
07 Changing Horses (Dan Fogelberg)
08 talk (Dan Fogelberg)
09 Part of the Plan (Dan Fogelberg)
10 talk (Dan Fogelberg)
11 Anyway I Love You (Dan Fogelberg)
12 Long Way Home [Live in the Country] (Dan Fogelberg)
13 talk (Dan Fogelberg)
14 As the Raven Flies (Dan Fogelberg)
15 [Someone's Been] Telling You Stories (Dan Fogelberg)
16 To the Morning (Dan Fogelberg)

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

alternate: 

https://bestfile.io/B14uCGotTljqoiU/file 

The cover photo is from an appearance on the "In Concert" ABC TV show in December 1974.

Chris Rea - BBC Sessions, Volume 4: In Concert, Wembley Arena, London, Britain, 12-19-1988

Here's a fourth BBC album starring singer-songwriter Chris Rea. This is a concert from 1988. I've got a lot more of these coming soon. 

Since the last BBC concert from him I posted, in 1986, his career continued to gather momentum. He had one of the biggest hits of his entire career in 1987, with "Let's Dance." It made it to Number 12 on the British singles chart. (He was still having no success in the U.S., and so he wasn't bothering to tour there.) Then, just a month prior to this concert, he had probably his best known hit, "Driving Home for Christmas." It reached Number 10. But it became one of those Christmas songs that keeps coming back every Christmas season. It has returned to the charts in Britain every year since 2007, and has gone Triple Platinum in Britain as a result.

Given all that, it's a disappointment that neither of those songs are included here. According to setlist.fm, he actually DID play both songs in this concert, as you can see here:

Chris Rea Concert Setlist at Wembley Arena, London on December 19, 1988 | setlist.fm 

Unfortunately, the BBC chopped this concert down to an hour's length, as they often do to fit the music into hour-long radio time slots. And for some reason, they didn't include those two, as well as some of his other best known songs, like "Fool (If You Think It's Over)." If anyone has more of this concert, please let me know and I'll add it here. Rea only played "Driving Home for Christmas" sometimes in the late 1980s, then dropped it from his concerts until 2014. So you won't find it on most of the BBC albums I post after this as well.

The music here is unreleased, and the sound quality is excellent. 

This album is 54 minutes long. 

01 Nothing's Happening by the Sea (Chris Rea)
02 Stainsby Girls (Chris Rea)
03 Josephine (Chris Rea)
04 On the Beach (Chris Rea)
05 Working on It (Chris Rea)
06 Loving You Again (Chris Rea)
07 Steel River (Chris Rea)
08 It's All Gone (Chris Rea)

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

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/EMn8hkrkTLuVQaW/file

The cover photo shows Rea at the San Remo Music Festival, in San Remo, Italy, on February 24, 1988. 

Warren Zevon - Live at the Record Plant, Record Plant, Sausalito, CA, 7-27-1978

Here's another concert from the excellent "Live at the Record Plant" radio show. This one stars singer-songwriter Warren Zevon. It's from 1978, one of the last concerts available from the show. 

Zevon's music career began in the mid-1960s. He had some success as a songwriter. For instance, he co-wrote "Outside Chance," which was a hit for the Turtles in 1966. But his own music career didn't get very far. He released a solo album in 1970, but it was ignored at the time. So his solo career only really got rolling in 1976, with his major label debut, the cleverly-titled "Warren Zevon." He followed that in 1978 with the album "Excitable Boy." Most of his "classic" songs come from these two albums. And "Excitable Boy" contained his sole big hit, "Werewolves of London." So 1978 is a good time for a live album.

The sound quality is excellent. The one issue I had was with the talking between the songs. The vocals of his banter was quite low. That was easily fixed, by boosting the volume of those tracks. But there also was a lot of reverb and hiss on his voice, making it hard to hear what he was saying. So I ran those tracks through Adobe's on-line vocal enhancer program. That cleared things up quite nicely.

This album is 46 minutes long. 

01 talk (Warren Zevon)
02 Johnny Strikes Up the Band (Warren Zevon)
03 Tenderness on the Block (Warren Zevon)
04 talk (Warren Zevon)
05 Mohammed's Radio (Warren Zevon)
06 talk (Warren Zevon)
07 Excitable Boy (Warren Zevon)
08 Werewolves of London (Warren Zevon)
09 Accidentally like a Martyr (Warren Zevon)
10 talk (Warren Zevon)
11 Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner (Warren Zevon)
12 Poor, Poor Pitiful Me (Warren Zevon)
13 talk (Warren Zevon)
14 Lawyers, Guns and Money (Warren Zevon)
15 I'll Sleep When I'm Dead (Warren Zevon)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/RY38FKSa

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/7PzJzfGwob9xr8Y/file

The cover image is from a concert at the Riviera Theater, in Chicago, Illinois, on May 13, 1978. The original was in color, but the colors were bad, with everything way oversaturated with red. Rather than try to tweak it, I colorized it from scratch, using the Kolorize program.