Various Artists - Walden Woods Benefit, Universal Amphitheater, Los Angeles, CA, 4-1-1992

This is yet another "various artists" type rock concert. But you could also see it basically as short concerts by Neil Young, John Fogerty, and Roger Waters, plus three songs at the beginning by Big Head Todd and the Monsters.

I've previously posted five albums of music coming from a Walden Woods Benefit concert held in 1993. And before I say more, I just want to note that when I first posted those albums in early 2024, I couldn't find any photos from the concert, so I used an artistic logo from the concert for all five covers. I was never happy with that. But when I was putting this album together, I did another search and found proper photos for those. So I suggest you search this blog for "Walden Woods" and "1993" to redownload those, if you want better cover art.

Anyway, in 1990, Don Henley of the Eagles helped start the Walden Woods Project, a non-profit dedicated to preserving the land around Walden Pond near Concord, Massachusetts, which became well known due to the writings of Henry David Thoreau. The main idea was to buy up the land around Walden Pond and put it into a conservancy so the nature of the area would be preserved. It was important to get a lot of money for this effort quickly, before property developers bought up the land instead. To that end, Henley organized a series of benefit concerts. There were two in 1990 and two more in 1991. Then there was this one in 1992, and the one I posted from 1993. There have been still more after that, in 1997, 1998, 2007, and 2017. Eventually, about $22 million was raised, from these concerts and other means, and hundreds of acres were bought and preserved.

That's all great. But, unfortunately, when it comes to the music, I only know of bootlegs from this one, plus the 1993 one I've already posted. And this one is incomplete. There actually were two concerts in the same venue, one on March 31, 1992. That one had a country theme. The artists that night were Clint Black, Mark Chesnutt, the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, Trisha Yearwood, and Don Henley. Then, for this night, in additions to the acts presented here, Henley played again. But for whatever reason, we don't have his set, which probably was the final act.

The recording I found is an audience bootleg. It's a pretty good one, but still, it suffers some flaws. The main flaw, though, has been fixed. There was a lot of crowd noise all the way through it. But I ran all the songs through the MVSEP program, specifically its de-crowd filter. I only kept the cheering at the ends of songs, and also whenever there were big surges of cheering during sounds. But I lowered the volume a lot on those surges. The result, in my opinion, sounds very close to soundboard quality.

By the way, if anyone else has any of the other Walden Woods Benefit concerts, please share them with me so I can share them here. It sounds like a lot of good music was performed. You can see the setlists to some (but not all) of the concerts here:

https://www.setlist.fm/festivals/concert-for-walden-woods-6bd69e26.html 

This is an hour and 54 minutes long.

01 Vincent of Jersey (Big Head Todd & the Monsters)
02 Broken Hearted Savior (Big Head Todd & the Monsters)
03 Moose Song (Big Head Todd & the Monsters)
04 Unknown Legend (Neil Young)
05 From Hank to Hendrix (Neil Young)
06 talk (Neil Young)
07 Old King (Neil Young)
08 Such a Woman (Neil Young)
09 talk (Neil Young)
10 Dreamin' Man (Neil Young)
11 talk (Neil Young)
12 Natural Beauty (Neil Young)
13 After the Gold Rush (Neil Young)
14 Born on the Bayou (John Fogerty)
15 The Old Man Down the Road (John Fogerty)
16 talk (John Fogerty)
17 Centerfield (John Fogerty)
18 I Heard It through the Grapevine (John Fogerty)
19 talk (John Fogerty)
20 Bad Moon Rising (John Fogerty)
21 talk (John Fogerty)
22 Proud Mary (John Fogerty)
23 talk (John Fogerty)
24 Fortunate Son (John Fogerty)
25 In the Flesh (Roger Waters)
26 The Happiest Days of Our Lives (Roger Waters)
27 Another Brick in the Wall, Part 2 (Roger Waters)
28 Mother (Roger Waters)
29 Comfortably Numb (Roger Waters & Don Henley)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/rJ9xttUq

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/yu1JbGtNP7nIGZv/file

I couldn't find any photos whatsoever from this concert. But I did find the cover of the program for this concert, so I used that. It shows a map of the Walden Woods area, plus a little portrait of Henry David Thoreau at the bottom. I added the text below that. I also squished the rectangular map vertically so it could fit into a square space. 

Roberta Flack - Springfield Civic Center, Springfield, MA, 10-1-1972

In my opinion, Robert Flack was at her best in the early 1970s. But there are very few quality live recordings of her from that time period, official or not. However, this bootleg is excellent.

This actually is a combination of two concerts. The first eight songs come from a performance at the Newport Jazz Festival in New York City, on June 8, 1972. That lasts 29 minutes. It nicely augments the main concert here, from Springfield, Massachusetts, because the beginning of that concert is missing. In fact, part of the first song from that recording, "Do What You Gotta Do," was missing too. I filled it in with a different live version from this era. That's why that one song has "[Edit]" in its title.

The Springfield portion is more than twice as long, at an hour and one minute long. Both have excellent sound quality. I'm guessing they came from FM radio broadcasts or soundboards. But what's especially nice is that I'm presenting both in the most complete versions I could find, yet there's no songs repeated in the two shows.

The music here is unreleased (both parts). 

This album is an hour and 30 minutes long. 

01 talk (Roberta Flack)
02 Suzanne (Roberta Flack)
03 talk (Roberta Flack)
04 Where Is the Love (Roberta Flack)
05 talk (Roberta Flack)
06 Trade Winds (Roberta Flack)
07 Ain't No Mountain High Enough (Roberta Flack)
08 Somewhere (Roberta Flack)
09 Do What You Gotta Do [Edit] (Roberta Flack)
10 Inner City Blues [Make Me Wanna Holler] (Roberta Flack)
11 talk (Roberta Flack)
12 Tennessee Waltz (Roberta Flack)
13 talk (Roberta Flack)
14 It Could Happen to You [Instrumental] (Roberta Flack)
15 talk (Roberta Flack)
16 Never Dreamed You'd Leave in Summer (Roberta Flack)
17 talk (Roberta Flack)
18 All Blues - Frankie and Johnny (Roberta Flack)
19 talk (Roberta Flack)
20 Just like a Woman (Roberta Flack)
21 The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face [Edit] (Roberta Flack)
22 No Tears [In The End] (Roberta Flack)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/E6aioP5f

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/fU5yX7d6V99hRqH/file

The cover image is from the Ronnie Scott's club in London, at some point in 1972.

John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison & Ringo Starr - Solo Rockers, Volume 1 (1969-2026) (A Mike Solof Guest Post)

In the 1970s, the Beatles remained extremely popular but there was no new Beatles music to sell, so the record companies repackaged their music in different ways. For instance, in 1976, an album called "Rock n' Roll Music" was released, containing all rocking Beatles songs. And in 1977, another one came out called "Love Songs." A similar one came out in most countries but the U.S. in 1980 called "The Beatles Ballads." Guest poster Mike Solof was inspired by these albums to create similar albums, but for the Beatles' solo careers. He's taken roughly equal numbers of songs by the four ex-Beatles and mixed them together. This was enough for three albums of rockers and another three albums of ballads. 

But wait, there's more! Paul McCartney has been prolific, and stubbornly refuses to die. (Ha ha) As a result, Mike also made an extra album each just for more rockers and ballads from him. So here's the first of eight albums. We'll start with some rockers.

Note there's nothing really new here. These are just already released songs, but hopefully repackaged in an interesting way. Just like those 1970s repackaged Beatles albums. By the way, interesting fact: "Rock n' Roll Music" went all the way to Number Two on the U.S. album chart in 1976, and was only kept out of the top spot by the Paul McCartney and Wings album "Wings at the Speed of Sound." 

As usual with Mike's posts, please check out the PDF file he's included with the download zip. 

This album is 54 minutes long. 

01 Save Us (Paul McCartney)
02 Rock and Roll People (John Lennon)
03 Horse to the Water (George Harrison)
04 You're Sixteen [You're Beautiful and You're Mine] (Ringo Starr)
05 The Mess [Reworked] (Paul McCartney)
06 Cleanup Time (John Lennon and Yoko Ono)
07 Cockamamie Business (George Harrison)
08 Lonely Road (Paul McCartney)
09 Snookeroo (Ringo Starr)
10 Cold Turkey (John Lennon)
11 Helen Wheels (Paul McCartney)
12 All Those Years Ago [Paul on Vocals, Ringo on Drums] (George Harrison)
13 After All These Years (Ringo Starr)
14 Big Barn Bed (Paul McCartney)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/tuCsvKEk

alternate: 

https://bestfile.io/en/plP5cXglEj9HZci/file

Mike is more of a fan of making new AI pictures than I am. In 1969, the Beatles played a short concert on top of Abbey Road studios in London. For this one, he asked an AI program to make an image of an imaginary Beatles reunion on that rooftop many decades later. Mike was particularly pleased at how the AI creatively added two big beer bottles at their feet. 

Cassandra Wilson - Vredenburg, Utrecht, Netherlands, 3-31-1996

A week ago as I write this, specifically September 1, 2026, jazz singer Cassandra Wilson passed away. She was 70 years old. I wasn't that familiar with her music, but I liked what I had heard. So, to mark her passing, I thought I'd post a bootleg concert from her. I chose this one, from 1996.

Here's the Wikipedia entry intro for her: 

"Cassandra Wilson was an American jazz singer, songwriter and producer from Jackson, Mississippi. She was one of the most successful female jazz singers and has been described by critic Gary Giddins as "a singer blessed with an unmistakable timbre and attack [who has] expanded the playing field" by incorporating blues, country, and folk music into her work. She won numerous awards, including two Grammys, and was named "America's Best Singer" by Time magazine in 2001."

Here's the link to the rest of the entry: 

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

I've mentioned elsewhere in this blog that I'm not a big fan of most instrumental jazz, but I do like a lot of vocal jazz. It's especially easy to like Wilson's stuff, because it's jazz mixed with other genres. Just look at some of the songs she covers here: "Harvest Moon" by Neil Young, "Death Letter" by blues legend Son House, "Love Is Blindness" by U2, "Last Train to Clarksville" by the Monkees, and "32-20 Blues" by Robert Johnson. That's not typical jazz fare, that's for sure!

At the time of this concert, he most recent album was "New Moon Daughter," released in 1995. About half of the songs performed are from that album. The last three songs here, "Solomon Sang," "A Little Warm Death" and "Until," were written by Wilson.

This recording sounds great because it was broadcast on a local radio station at the time. There was some talk in Dutch by a Dutch DJ between the songs, but I cut all that out.

This album is an hour and seven minutes long.

01 Harvest Moon (Cassandra Wilson)
02 Death Letter (Cassandra Wilson)
03 talk (Cassandra Wilson)
04 Love Is Blindness (Cassandra Wilson)
05 Last Train to Clarksville (Cassandra Wilson)
06 32-20 Blues (Cassandra Wilson)
07 Solomon Sang (Cassandra Wilson)
08 A Little Warm Death (Cassandra Wilson)
09 Until (Cassandra Wilson)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/Sx3CQ4tR

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/s7R84d6ElGZEyMu/file

The cover image comes from a concert at the Montreux Jazz Festival, in Montreux, Switzerland, in 1996.

Gregson & Collister - BBC Sessions, Volume 1: Cambridge Folk Festival, Cherry Hinton Hall Grounds, Cambridge, Britain, 8-1-1987

I was going through my music collection recently and noticed that I have yet to post any music by the British folk rock duo of Clive Gregson and Christine Collister. This is an oversight on my part, because I really like them. I have three albums of them performing for the BBC. Here's the first one.

Gregson got his start being the lead vocalist and main songwriter for the band Any Trouble. They released four albums from 1980 to 1984, then broke up. Unfortunately, while they were critically acclaimed, their sales weren't great. Gregson then started a solo career, while also joining Richard Thompson's band.

Christine Collister didn't have much musical experience before also joining Richard Thompson's band in 1985, roughly the same time Gregson did. She joined after Gregson saw her performing at a folk club and recommended her to Thompson. The two of them began working together as a duo, very much in the mold of the duo of Richard and Linda Thompson in the 1970s and early 1980s.

Gregson and Collister would perform together from 1986 to 1992. They released their first two albums in 1987, "Home and Away" and "Mischief." Most of the songs here come from those albums. If you like Richard Thompson's music, you definitely should check this out. Gregson writes clever and tuneful songs, just like Thompson, and is an excellent guitarist, just like him as well. During these years, Gregson pretty much wrote all the songs, but Collister added a lot with her excellent vocals.

Here's the Wikipedia link for Gregson:

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

And here's the one for Collister:

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

Note that the first nine tracks are from the show mentioned in the title. The last four tracks are from another BBC show. It's a lucky break that all the songs are different from the first show here. I don't know anything about this show other that it too was broadcast on the BBC, and it apparently dates to November 2, 1987. If anyone has more information about it, please let me know.

Finally, thanks to musical friend Peter who made this music available to me. 

This album is 42 minutes long.

01 All the Time in the World (Gregson & Collister)
02 talk (Gregson & Collister)
03 Home Is Where the Heart Is (Gregson & Collister)
04 You Rascal You (Gregson & Collister)
05 Not a Day Passes (Gregson & Collister)
06 talk (Gregson & Collister)
07 Touch and Go (Gregson & Collister)
08 talk (Gregson & Collister)
09 I Heard It through the Grapevine (Gregson & Collister)
10 When My Ship Comes In (Gregson & Collister)
11 It's All Just Talk (Gregson & Collister)
12 Lost at Sea (Gregson & Collister)
13 All Because of You (Gregson & Collister)

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

alternate: 

https://bestfile.io/M9vzjuwg1SHlpo6/file

The cover image is a screenshot I took from an unknown TV show appearance. I don't know any details.

Isle of Wight Festival, Afton Down, Isle of Wight, Britain, 8-27-1970 to 8-30-1970 - 8-30-1970: Part 9: Richie Havens

Here is the ninth and final album from the last day of the 1970 Isle of Wight festival. It's an acoustic set by Richie Havens.

Perhaps the festival organizers thought there would some positive symbolism to having Havens close the festival, since he was the act to open the 1969 Woodstock Festival, and their hope was this would be seen as the British version of Woodstock. 

When I first posted most of the music from this festival in 2023, I skipped the sets by Donovan, Joan Baez, and Havens, due to poor sound quality. We have soundboard recordings from nearly all the other acts, but only audience recordings from those three. But now, as I write this in 2026, I think the audio editing technology has improved enough for me to post these. Beware though, since the sound quality is still pretty rough. Only so much could be done.

That was especially the case with this Havens set. The good news is that he mostly performed in solo acoustic mode, although he was supplemented by some drumming and some other instruments on a few songs. That's good, because it's easier to get a clear recording from a solo acoustic performance than a full band one. But cutting against that was Havens' aggressive strumming style. There was a frequent problem of wind blowing against the microphones, and that was made worse by his style, with the microphone probably already near its limit. 

Luckily, I have an audio editing program, Izotope, that has a specific "de-wind" filter, as well as a "de-rustle" one. I used both of those on all the songs here, and it helped a lot. I used some other audio editing tricks as well. Read my write-up for the Donovan set for more information on that. The bottom line is, this sounds decent now, but still far from as good as most of the rest of the festival. Still, it's nice to have this, if you want to have as much from the festival as reasonable, like I do.

I included the rest of this write-up for the Leonard Cohen set when I posted it back in 2023. That's because the Cohen one was the last set from the festival that I posted at that time. But now that we have one after that one, I've moved that text from that album to here:

--- 

So that's the end of the festival. All in all, I have to say that although the festival had some problems, in terms of music, the line-up was fantastic, and the recordings that have been made public contain a lot of great music. That's especially the case because so few festivals from this era were professionally recorded from start to finish like this one was. The only one that bests it, in my opinion, is Woodstock, because all of that has been released. 

Maybe someday there will be a complete release of this festival too, allowing us to hear the full sets from Kris Kristofferson, Mighty Baby, Supertramp, the Groundhogs, Gilberto Gil & Caetano Veloso, Fairfield Parlour (a.k.a. Kaleidoscope), Lighthouse, Family, Cactus, Shawn Phillips, Tiny Tim, Melanie, Ralph McTell, and more. If that happens, I think it would be an even more impressive musical document than Woodstock, with even more big name classic artists.

Oh, as an aside, the Everly Brothers, Mungo Jerry,  Cat Mother, Spirit, and Redbone were on the bill for the concert, but none of them actually played. There were a lot of last minute arguments with the promoters about getting paid, since it was common for musical acts to get stiffed at big festivals like this at the time. Here's a concert poster showing the acts, including those who didn't show. You can tell from the font size which ones were considered the biggest attractions.

In case you want to know more about the festival, there's an entire website about it here, with lots of photos and personal accounts:

https://www.ukrockfestivals.com/iow1970menu.html

If you attended, I'd be curious to hear your impressions. Was it a disaster, or great, or somewhere in between? I gather the vast majority of people who went had a good time, so I'd consider that a successful festival.

This album is an hour and one minute long. 

154 Maggie's Farm (Richie Havens)
155 Minstrel from the Gault (Richie Havens)
156 Fire and Rain (Richie Havens)
157 War (Richie Havens)
158 I'm a Stranger Here (Richie Havens)
159 The Parable of Ramon (Richie Havens)
160 Here Comes the Sun (Richie Havens)
161 Freedom - Run Shaker Run (Richie Havens)
162 talk (Richie Havens)
163 Hare Krishna (Richie Havens)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/NB1fkJhs

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/UINy9WILdRLmo9B/file

The cover image is from this exact concert.

Isle of Wight Festival, Afton Down, Isle of Wight, Britain, 8-27-1970 to 8-30-1970 - 8-30-1970: Part 7: Joan Baez

This is the seventh album from the last day of the 1970 Isle of Wight festival. It's an acoustic set by Joan Baez.

I've described in other write-ups how, when I posted most of the music from this festival in 2023, I didn't post a few of the sets due to poor sound quality. This is one of those sets, along with ones from Donovan and Richie Havens. But as I write this three years later, audio editing technology improved enough for me to hopefully clean these up enough to make them worth listening.

For whatever reason, out of the three, this Baez one probably sounds the best. Most of it comes from an audience bootleg. But a couple of the songs come from other sources which are a lot better, for instance "Let It Be." Perhaps the crowd was quieter, since it was late at night by this time. Also, there don't seem to be as many airplanes flying overhead as during the Donovan set, which took place in the middle in the day. Still one more lucky thing is that the taper recorded most of the banter between songs, when virtually none of that was recorded for the Donovan and Richie Havens sets. 

I ran this music through various audio editing filters, the same ones I described in my write-up for the Donovan album. So that helped. But still, beware. One can only do so much with problematic source material. This sounds okay now, but it still sounds worse than most of the other music from this festival. 

This album is an hour and two minutes long.

105 Love Is Just a Four-Letter Word (Joan Baez)
106 talk (Joan Baez)
107 Let It Be (Joan Baez)
108 Joe Hill (Joan Baez)
109 talk (Joan Baez)
110 The Brand New Tennessee Waltz (Joan Baez)
111 talk (Joan Baez)
112 The Hitchhikers' Song (Joan Baez)
113 The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down [Edit] (Joan Baez)
114 Farewell, Angelina (Joan Baez)
115 talk (Joan Baez)
116 Oh Happy Day (Joan Baez)
117 Blowin' in the Wind (Joan Baez)
118 Gracias a la Vida (Joan Baez)
119 Te Ador (Joan Baez)
120 talk (Joan Baez)
121 C'era Un Ragazzo Che Come Me Amava [Edit] (Joan Baez)
122 Suzanne (Joan Baez)
123 talk (Joan Baez)
124 Sweet Sir Galahad (Joan Baez)
125 I Shall Be Released (Joan Baez)
126 talk (Joan Baez)
127 Ghetto (Joan Baez)
128 Swing Low, Sweet Chariot (Joan Baez)
129 We Want Our Freedom Now (Joan Baez)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/1yVdU8uM 

alternate:

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

The cover image is from this exact concert.

Isle of Wight Festival, Afton Down, Isle of Wight, Britain, 8-27-1970 to 8-30-1970 - 8-30-1970: Part 2: Donovan

Back in 2023, I posted the vast majority of all the available music from the 1970 Isle of Wight festival. However, there were three sets I didn't post due to sound quality issues. This set by Donovan was one of them. I have now made some audio edits to get this to a decent state. But note that the sound quality is just okay, and worse than the vast majority of the recordings from this festival.

The problem here is that while most of the other publicly available recordings from this festival are soundboard bootlegs (or even official live albums), this one comes from an audience bootleg. And not even a particularly good one. There was a lot of wind blowing on the mike, airplanes flying overhead, nearby people talking, and other such problems that got onto the record. 

On the plus side, I write this in September 2026, and audio editing technology has improved a lot since I posted most of the other music from the festival in 2023. So I ran these songs through multiple filters, mostly using the MVSEP program, but also Izotope 10. That helped sometimes, but not all the time. It's better, for sure, and I consider it listenable, but if you have high standards, this probably isn't for you. There still are many problems I couldn't fix.  

For most of the concert, Donovan performed in solo acoustic mode. That was a lucky break for us, because it's easier to get a decent recording of that kind of music compared to a full band one. But for the last few songs, he switched to performing with his band at the time, Open Road. The last four songs in particular got really rocking, which meant the sound quality got even worse. So I decided not to include those, sorry.

Thing start off strong with "Catch the Wind." But that's just luck. It has the best sound quality of any song, because it was included on the album "Message to Love" that went with the film documentary of the same name. You'll notice a drop-off between that and everything else.

Another problem is there's no banter between songs, with one exception (track 21). That's because the person who recorded this paused the recordings between songs. This was a common bootleg recording style in this era, due to people wanting to save tape. The audience applause was generally cut off right in the middle as well for every song. But there were a few that escaped that problem. I used the few cases of having the applause die out, and then pasted those endings onto other songs, so all the applause come to natural ends. 

This album is 56 minutes long.

017 Catch the Wind (Donovan)
018 Henry Martin (Donovan)
019 Sailing Homeward (Donovan)
020 The Pee Song (Donovan)
021 talk (Donovan)
022 Hurdy Gurdy Man (Donovan)
023 Slow Down World (Donovan)
024 There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly (Donovan)
025 The Garden (Donovan)
026 How Silly (Donovan)
027 Get Myself Together Somehow (Donovan)
028 Atlantis (Donovan)
029 Sand and Foam (Donovan)
030 There Is a Mountain (Donovan)
031 Train Whistle Blues (Donovan)
032 Mistaken Eternity (Donovan)
033 Season of the Witch (Donovan)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/uUHwRKtE 

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/He9B38q80uR8oYP/file

The cover image comes from this exact concert. 

The Isle of Wrght 1970 Festival Revisisted

In 2023, I posted the vast majority of all the music I could find from the 1970 Isle of Wight rock festival. It's a big one. In my opinion, it's right up there with the granddaddy of all rock festivals, Woodstock in 1969, in terms of the big name musicians and the musical quality of the festival. At that time, though, there were a few sets I didn't post, because the sound quality didn't meet my usual standards.

Now, I'm posting those missing bits. Specifically, I'm posting the sets by Donovan, Joan Baez, and Richie Havens. Most everything else I posted from the festival are from soundboard-level quality recordings. But for those three, we only have audience bootlegs, probably all recorded by the same person, since they sound similar. They all share the same problems. For instance, there was a lot of wind blowing against the microphones, which marred the recordings. There also were frequent airplanes flying overhead, sometimes quite loudly. There were people talking near to the taper. Worst of all, the sound quality of the recordings were just okay, probably due to mediocre tape recorders being used.

So that's why I didn't post these sets back then. But there has been a lot of improvement in audio editing technology in just the last three years. So I gave these a try. A big problem was the wind blowing on the microphone noises. Luckily, the audio editing program Izotope has a filter just to get rid of those exact kinds of noises. I ran most of the songs through that filter, and got rid of most of it (but not all!). I used other tricks, like separating out the lead vocals and boosting them over the muck. I also used MVSEP to reduce reverb and get rid of noise. 

The good news is, I consider these sets sound decent enough for me to post them now. But beware! There's still a lot of problems. One can only do so much with problematic source material. I'll post the Donovan, Joan Baez, and Richie Havens sets after posting this.

It so happens that all three of these sets are from the last day of the festival, August 30, 1970. If you're going to download some of them, I'd also suggest re-downloading the other sets from that day. The reason is, the Donovan set is the second one, so that becomes the new "Part 2," and all the sets after that are renumbered with their album titles. By the end of the day, there are nine parts instead of six. Furthermore, the song numbering for each part continues from the last part, so all that changes too. There ends up being 163 songs instead of 115, so there are lots of changes on all the sets from that day.

On top of that, I've made some minor changes to the cover art of some of the other albums, now that the technology for that has been improving as well. That includes changing some of the covers from the other days of the festival, specifically the sets by Chicago, Procol Harum, Ten Years After, John Sebastian, the Who, and Emerson, Lake and Palmer. So you might want to redownload those as well.

Norah Jones - Capitol Theatre, Port Chester, NY, 11-8-2015

Here's another album from the April 2026 leak of mono soundboard concerts from Port Chester, New York. I'm trying to prioritize these, because it seems most of them haven't been shared much, and the original leak has disappeared. This is a Norah Jones concert from 2015.

In 2015, Jones didn't really have an album to promote. Her most recent solo studio album at the time was "Little Broken Hearts," released in 2012. She would release "Day Breaks" in 2016. However, only two songs here are from that album ("Flipside" and "And Then There Was You"). So she performed songs from all over her career up until that point.

The music is unreleased. The sound quality is excellent. 

This album is an hour and 35 minutes long. 

01 What Am I to You (Norah Jones)
02 Out on the Road (Norah Jones)
03 I've Got to See You Again (Norah Jones)
04 Carnival Town (Norah Jones)
05 talk (Norah Jones)
06 Black (Norah Jones)
07 talk (Norah Jones)
08 It Must Have Been the Roses (Norah Jones)
09 talk (Norah Jones)
10 Chasing Pirates (Norah Jones)
11 Flipside (Norah Jones)
12 talk (Norah Jones)
13 Stuck (Norah Jones)
14 talk (Norah Jones)
15 Lonestar (Norah Jones)
16 And Then There Was You (Norah Jones)
17 Painter (Norah Jones)
18 Little Broken Hearts (Norah Jones)
19 talk (Norah Jones)
20 Don't Know Why (Norah Jones)
21 Miriam (Norah Jones)
22 Sinkin' Soon (Norah Jones)
23 talk (Norah Jones)
24 Don't Know What It Means (Norah Jones)
25 talk (Norah Jones)
26 Come Away with Me (Norah Jones)
27 talk (Norah Jones)
28 Sunrise (Norah Jones)
29 Creepin' In (Norah Jones)
30 How Many Times Have You Broken My Heart (Norah Jones)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/LUbwWwaE 

alternate: 

https://bestfile.io/en/7XUY4CydQNAjDoS/file

The cover image is from "Brian Fest," a tribute concert for Brian Wilson, at the Fonda Theater in Los Angeles, California, on March 30, 2015.

Billy Joel - WLIR Ultrasonic Concert Series, Ultrasonic Recording Studios, Hempstead, NY, 11-9-1971

Here's WLIR Ultrasonic Concert radio broadcast. This one features Billy Joel at the very start of his solo music career.

Joel struggled for a few years in various bands, including a stint in a heavy metal duo called Attila that he would prefer to forget. In 1971, he changed direction and released his first album, "Cold Spring Harbor," in singer-songwriter mode. I could be wrong, but I'm pretty sure this is the first live bootleg of him, from just after that album came out. The album didn't make much of a mark, being released on a small record label, so we're lucky to have this recording at all.

However, there's a big downside in that we only 19 minutes of that radio broadcast. That's probably all there is, since it's likely he had to share the program with one or more other musical acts, due to him not having a well known name at the time.

Nineteen minutes isn't very long for an album. So I asked musical friend Mike Solof for advice, since he's a big Billy Joel fan. He pointed me to another radio show Joel did about two months later, on January 29, 1972. It's a broadcast of a few songs from a club in San Francisco (going from tracks 10 to 15). A couple of songs were the same, so I didn't include them. But the other four were different, so this other song fills out this album to a reasonable length very nicely.

The last song, "Josephine," has "[Edit]" in its title. That's because a small chunk of the middle of the song was missing. Luckily, I was able to find another version and fill it in. And also, it was a pretty small missing piece. So hopefully you won't notice the problem.

The sound quality is very good. The music remains unreleased. 

This album is 37 minutes long.

01 talk (Billy Joel)
02 Everybody Loves You Now (Billy Joel)
03 talk (Billy Joel)
04 She's Got a Way (Billy Joel)
05 All American Blues (Billy Joel)
06 talk (Billy Joel)
07 Got to Begin Again (Billy Joel)
08 talk (Billy Joel)
09 Captain Jack (Billy Joel)
10 Travelin' Prayer (Billy Joel)
11 Long, Long Time (Billy Joel)
12 talk (Billy Joel)
13 Ballad of Billy the Kid (Billy Joel)
14 Josephine [Edit] (Billy Joel)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/QpWuSsxK

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/iLD5mPGM8GbAYAT/file

The cover photo shows Billy Joel at a piano with his band behind him. I don't know the details, but I would guess it's from around 1973. In all the photos I've seen of Joel in 1971 he has a mustache, so I added a mustache to his face here.

The Drive-By Truckers - Capitol Theatre, Port Chester, NY, 10-6-2017

I have to admit I'm not very familiar with the Drive-By Truckers. But I have a bootleg from them due to the April 2026 Capitol Theatre in Port Chester leak. This shown is very little known as an audio bootleg, so I thought I should share it.

Drive-By Truckers are an American rock band known for a mix of Southern rock, alternative country, and punk. They're also known for their lyrics, which often involves complex storytelling about the problems of the working class life. They've even been known to make entire concept albums. 

Being a political progressive myself, I especially like their political bent. Most of their songs aren't political. But at the time of this concert, their most recent album was one of their most overtly political. "American Band," released in 2016, addressed contemporary gun violence, race, and identity in the U.S. It probably was influenced by the rise of Donald Trump, although it came out a couple of months before he was elected president.

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drive-By_Truckers 

I found a high quality video of this concert, thanks to the leak mentioned above. There's a somewhat lower quality version of it available on YouTube. I did my usual thing of converting the video to audio and then chopping it into mp3s. The video I worked from was missing the first six songs, however. But luckily I found that other version on YouTube, so I used that to fill in the missing songs. 

This concert took place just four days after Tom Petty died. Clearly, the band members were big fans. They played one of his songs, "The Waiting," and sang the lyrics to another, "Southern Accents," on top of somewhat different original music. They also played a Ramones song, "The KKK Took My Baby Away." The rest are originals.

This album is two hours and 12 minutes long.

01 talk (Drive-By Truckers)
02 Guns of Umpqua (Drive-By Truckers)
03 Ramon Casiano (Drive-By Truckers)
04 Darkened Flags on the Cusp of Dawn (Drive-By Truckers)
05 72 [This Highway's Mean] (Drive-By Truckers)
06 Days of Graduation (Drive-By Truckers)
07 Ronnie and Neil (Drive-By Truckers)
08 Surrender Under Protest (Drive-By Truckers)
09 talk (Drive-By Truckers)
10 The Perilous Night (Drive-By Truckers)
11 A Ghost to Most (Drive-By Truckers)
12 The Living Bubba (Drive-By Truckers)
13 Panties in Your Purse (Drive-By Truckers)
14 The Waiting (Drive-By Truckers)
15 talk (Drive-By Truckers)
16 Filthy and Fried (Drive-By Truckers)
17 The Righteous Path (Drive-By Truckers)
18 Kinky Hypocrite (Drive-By Truckers)
19 The KKK Took My Baby Away (Drive-By Truckers)
20 Sink Hole (Drive-By Truckers)
21 talk (Drive-By Truckers)
22 Made Up English Oceans (Drive-By Truckers)
23 What It Means (Drive-By Truckers)
24 Birthday Boy (Drive-By Truckers)
25 Girls Who Smoke (Drive-By Truckers)
26 Marry Me (Drive-By Truckers)
27 Southern Accents - Ever South (Drive-By Truckers)
28 Three Dimes Down (Drive-By Truckers)
29 Let There Be Rock (Drive-By Truckers)
30 Zip City (Drive-By Truckers)
31 Hell No, I Ain't Happy (Drive-By Truckers)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/2NV1NYQS

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/oEhqH0kxU9iPJo1/file

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

Eric Clapton - Going Down Slow - Non-Album Tracks (1996-1998)

Recently, I decided to make a renewed effort to post more of my non-album tracks albums. I have a lot of these I made a long time ago. I tend to forget about posting them though because I get distracted by other music that's newer to me. As an example, I have several more of these albums for Eric Clapton's long career. So far, I've posted albums up until 1996. Here's the next one.

The main thing that happened musically to Clapton during the 1996 to 1998 time period is he released his studio album "Pilgrim" in 1998. I've already posted an alternate version of that one that cuts down on the overproduction that troubled it. 

There's one track here that later ended up as a bonus track on the "Pilgrim" album: "Theme from a Movie that Never Happened." However, it's an acoustic instrumental that doesn't have much in common with that album. Most of the other songs here are instrumentals or blues, or both.

"Rock Me Baby" is a duet with B.B. King from one of King's studio albums. "Angelica" and "What Else" come from a studio album as well. The rest are unreleased. Most of those are from concert bootlegs. See the mp3 tags for further details about sourcing.

This album is 46 minutes long.

01 Roberta (Eric Clapton with Dr. John)
02 St James Infirmary (Eric Clapton & Dr. John)
03 Ruthie [Instrumental] (Eric Clapton & Legends)
04 Rock Me Baby (B. B. King & Eric Clapton)
05 I Got You [I Feel Good] [Instrumental] (Eric Clapton & Legends)
06 I Hardly Ever Do (Eric Clapton with Alan Darby)
07 Angelica [Instrumental] (T.D.F (Eric Clapton))
08 What Else [Instrumental] (T.D.F (Eric Clapton))
09 Going Down Slow (Eric Clapton with David Sanborn)
10 Theme from a Movie that Never Happened [Instrumental] (Eric Clapton)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/VnTn2Csj

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/VwH2gxYlIaahpJc/file

The cover image is a painting by David Lloyd Glover. 

Two "New" Kinks Songs from the 1960s!

I'm a massive Kinks fan. As I've said here before, they're my second favorite band, only behind the Beatles. And I think they were at their absolute best from about 1966 to 1970, when they were writing tons of songs, and when even their "bad" songs were pretty darn good. So I was delighted to discover two Kinks songs from 1969 have recently become publicly available: "Darling, I Respect You" and "Let's Take Off All Our Clothes." 

They haven't been officially released. Instead, a mysterious person or group called the "Johnny Kidd Fan Club" apparently gave them to Prof. Stoned, who runs a great music blog: http://profstoned.com/ He added them to an improved collection of Kinks BBC tracks which he released in mid-August 2026. I don't know who or what the Johnny Kidd Fan Club is, but they're doing some great work. In recent years, they've made public unreleased music from the Beatles, Jimi Hendrix, Fleetwood Mac, Cream, the Animals, and much more. May they keep up the good work!

Here's the known history behind these two songs. Ray Davies, the main songwriter for the Kinks, was commissioned to write songs for a six-episode 1969 BBC series called "Where Was Spring?" Apparently, he did five, and his versions (backed by the Kinks) were broadcast on each show weeks with animations made to fit the lyrics. All of the episodes have been lost, apparently, although some stills from the animations survive. Two of the Kinks were later officially released: "Where Did the Spring Go?" and "When I Turn Off the Living Room Light." The other three were considered lost, mostly. A version of "Darling, I Respect You" did make some bootlegs, but the sound quality was truly terrible, to the point that I found it unlistenable. Now, somehow, 56 years later (!), we have very good sounding versions of "Darling, I Respect You" and "Let's Take Off All Our Clothes." Only "We Are Two of a Kind" still remains completely unknown and unbootlegged.

There was a little bit of audience applause at the starts and ends of these songs, even though they're clearly studio versions. I surmise that's because each skit or scene in the BBC TV show ended with applause, and trailed into the next one. I used the MVSEP program to wipe out most of the clapping. 

Instead of posting links to just these two newly discovered songs, I've added them into a compilation of non-album tracks I made called "Where Was Spring" (named after the long-lost BBC TV show). You can find them here as tracks 3 and 11:

https://albumsthatshouldexist.blogspot.com/2018/04/the-kinks-where-was-spring-1969.html

You also can find them at Prof. Stoned blog, with lots of other top quality Kinks BBC material. 

Are these two songs long lost masterpieces? No. They're pretty slight and light. Each of them is only about two minutes long. But, as I said above, in the late 1960s, even "bad" Kinks songs were pretty good. So I'm very psyched to finally be able to enjoy these.

Diana Krall - Capitol Theatre, Port Chester, NY, 3-12-2015

Here's yet another concert from the April 2026 leak of dozens of concerts from the Capitol Theatre in Port Chester, New York. Nobody else seems to be posting these anymore, but I have dozens more I want to post. This one is a concert by jazz pianist Diana Krall.

This concert was part of a tour to support her 2015 album "Wallflower." It was released earlier that month, and this was probably one of the first concerts of that tour, if not the very first. 

The recording of this concert seems to have been very obscure. Even months after the leak mentioned above, I couldn't find it on any of the usual bootleg sites. Heck, setlist.fm doesn't even have this concert listed in their very big database. So hopefully this post will change that. 

Like all the recordings from that leak, the sound quality is excellent, although the recording is only in mono. I found a video of this concert (from the leak) then converted it to audio and chopped it into mp3s. The video is too big to share here (7 GB!) but I'm sharing it via SoulseekQT. 

This album is an hour and 42 minutes long.

01 We Just Couldn't Say Goodbye (Diana Krall)
02 There Ain't No Sweet Man that's Worth the Salt of My Tears (Diana Krall)
03 talk (Diana Krall)
04 On the Sunny Side of the Street (Diana Krall)
05 talk (Diana Krall)
06 Just like a Butterfly that's Caught in the Rain (Diana Krall)
07 Temptation (Diana Krall)
08 talk (Diana Krall)
09 The Night We Called It a Day (Diana Krall)
10 The Frim-Fram Sauce (Diana Krall)
11 talk (Diana Krall)
12 A Case of You (Diana Krall)
13 talk (Diana Krall)
14 I'm Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Myself a Letter (Diana Krall)
15 California Dreamin' (Diana Krall)
16 talk (Diana Krall)
17 Sorry Seems to Be the Hardest Word (Diana Krall)
18 talk (Diana Krall)
19 Operator [That's Not the Way It Feels] (Diana Krall)
20 Just You, Just Me (Diana Krall)
21 'Deed I Do (Diana Krall)
22 talk (Diana Krall)
23 Wallflower (Diana Krall)
24 I'm a Little Mixed Up (Diana Krall)
25 talk (Diana Krall)
26 If I Take You Home Tonight (Diana Krall)
27 I'll String Along with You (Diana Krall)
28 Ophelia (Diana Krall)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/QQFg8GwT

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/3RFLj2d7PDfEY8Z/file

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

Beck - Outside Lands Music Festival, Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, CA, 8-8-2025

So what has Beck been up to lately? As I write this in September 2026, he hasn't released a new studio album since 2019, the longest gap of his career so far. The good news is, a new album is coming out later this month, called "Ride Lonesome." It's in his more quiet style, like his albums "Sea Change" and "Morning Phase." But this is the first album he's done with a full orchestra.

It turns out he's been experimenting playing with orchestras for a while now, and this concert has been part of that. In the summer of 2025, he performed a short tour of only nine concerts, and in each one he was backed by a full orchestra. This was the last concert of that tour, and he was backed by the Berkeley Symphony while performing in San Francisco. (I think the last two songs were done with just his usual band and not the orchestra, however.)

I looked for the best sounding recording from this tour. I wouldn't have posted anything if none of them sounded that good. But luckily, this concert was professionally recorded for a webcast. As I often do, I found a video version, then converted it to audio and chopped it into mp3s.

It's interesting to hear his songs performed in this different way. He must have enjoyed this enough to make his next album with an orchestra. (He did a 2024 tour with orchestras as well.) One nice thing also is that he performed a cover he'd never done prior to this tour, "Montague Terrace (In Blue)," which was originally done by Scott Walker. Unfortunately, on most of the other concerts in this tour, he did two other cover songs, "Tarantula" by Colourbox, and "It's Raining Today," also by Scott Walker, but for some reason he skipped them for this concert. "Everybody's Gotta Learn Sometime" is also a cover of 1980s hit by the Korgis. Beck has covered it a lot in the past, including doing a version for a 2004 movie soundtrack.

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

This album is an hour and 17 minutes long.

01 Golden Age (Beck)
02 talk (Beck)
03 Everybody's Gotta Learn Sometime (Beck)
04 Lonesome Tears (Beck)
05 Wave (Beck)
06 Tropicalia (Beck)
07 talk (Beck)
08 Blue Moon (Beck)
09 talk (Beck)
10 Lost Cause (Beck)
11 The New Pollution (Beck)
12 talk (Beck)
13 Ramona (Beck)
14 Paper Tiger (Beck)
15 talk (Beck)
16 Montague Terrace [In Blue] (Beck)
17 Phase [Instrumental] (Beck)
18 Morning (Beck)
19 talk (Beck)
20 Waking Light (Beck)
21 talk (Beck)
22 Where It's At (Beck)
23 talk (Beck)
24 Devil's Haircut (Beck)
25 Loser (Beck)

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

alternate:

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

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

Earthquake Relief Benefit, Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum Arena, Oakland, CA, 12-6-1989 - The Grateful Dead

Here, finally, is the last of the 20 albums I'm posting from the Earthquake Relief Benefits. Up until now, all the albums I posted were of concerts that took place at three different San Francisco Bay Area venues on November 26, 1989. However, the Grateful Dead wanted to be a part of this benefit project, but they were already booked to perform elsewhere on that date. So they had this concert about two weeks later instead.

I double checked, and there were no opening acts. The Dead did a typical full concert for them, with an intermission.

I've been mentioned in my write-ups how many of the musical acts in these benefit concerts had peaks of popularity in the late 1960s and/or early 1970s, then broke up or went through hard times for much of the 1980s, only to have a revival at the end of the 80s. The Dead fit that mold as well. They never stopped touring or stopped being popular, due to all that touring. However, they went a long time in the 1980s without recording a studio album, from 1980 to 1987. Then, when they did release an album in 1987, "In the Dark," it turned out to be an unexpected hit for them. It reached the Top Ten in the U.S. album chart, the only album of theirs that ever did that. And one song, "Touch of Grey," also made the Top Ten in the singles chart, also the only time they ever did that. Then, in late 1989, they released another album, "Built to Last," which also did fairly well.

However, the Dead beat to their own drum, and didn't do typical album promotion. Only three of the songs they performed here were from their recently released album ("Just a Little Light," "Victim or the Crime," and "Standing on the Moon"). 

One nice thing about this concert is that saxophonist Clarence Clemons, who usually played for Bruce Springsteen, joined the band for six songs towards the end of the second set. 

This album is two hours and 28 minutes long.

01 talk (Grateful Dead)
02 Shakedown Street (Grateful Dead)
03 Walking Blues (Grateful Dead)
04 Friend of the Devil (Grateful Dead)
05 Queen Jane Approximately (Grateful Dead)
06 Jack-A-Roe (Grateful Dead)
07 Just a Little Light (Grateful Dead)
08 Victim or the Crime (Grateful Dead)
09 Don't Ease Me In (Grateful Dead)
10 Scarlet Begonias (Grateful Dead)
11 Sugar Magnolia (Grateful Dead)
12 Ship of Fools (Grateful Dead with Clarence Clemons)
13 Terrapin Station (Grateful Dead with Clarence Clemons)
14 Drums [Instrumental] (Grateful Dead)
15 Space [Instrumental] (Grateful Dead)
16 The Wheel (Grateful Dead)
17 All Along the Watchtower (Grateful Dead with Clarence Clemons)
18 Standing on the Moon (Grateful Dead with Clarence Clemons)
19 Sunshine Daydream (Grateful Dead with Clarence Clemons)
20 talk (Grateful Dead with Clarence Clemons)
21 Black Muddy River (Grateful Dead with Clarence Clemons) 

https://pixeldrain.com/u/a4R2vRoc

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/8yjb0FspNjhOuxN/file

The cover image is from this exact concert, but with caveats. It's actually two separate images, one of Bob Weir and the other of Jerry Garcia. By putting them together in Photoshop like I did, I hope it looks like they're looking at each other. Also, the originals of both were in black and white, but I colorized them.

Earthquake Relief Benefit, Henry J. Kaiser Auditorium, Oakland, CA, 11-26-1989, Part 10 - John Fogerty

Here's Part 10 of the 1989 Earthquake Relief Benefit concert in Oakland, California. This is a set by John Fogerty. This is the final album from this concert. But there's one more album I plan on posting relating to these concerts.

It's starting to get uncanny, because here we have another case of a career revival of a musical act popular in the late 1960s and/or early 1970s. I wonder if promoter Bill Graham planned the musical acts for this Oakland concert deliberately. In any case, John Fogerty was the singer-songwriter behind Creedence Clearwater Revival (CCR). But that band broke up in 1972, and he didn't release any solo albums between 1975 and 1985. But he came back strong with "Centerfield" in 1985 and "Eye of the Zombie" in 1986. "Centerfield" in particular was a critical and commercial smash, reaching Number One in the U.S. album chart.

Fogerty's set mostly consisted of classic CCR hits. But he included two hits from "Centerfield," "Rock and Roll Girls" and "Centerfield."

By the way, note that I have no proof of the order of acts at this Oakland concert. I just used logic to make educated guesses. For instance, I think it's pretty obvious that Bonnie Raitt and John Fogerty would have been the two biggest acts, so they would have gone last. I don't know which one of those would have closed the show. Raitt's latest album was the bigger hit at the time. However, Fogerty had all those timeless CCR hits, so I would have put him on last if I was the one planning the concert.

This album is 35 minutes long. 

01 talk (John Fogerty)
02 Born on the Bayou (John Fogerty)
03 talk (John Fogerty)
04 Green River (John Fogerty)
05 talk (John Fogerty)
06 Down on the Corner (John Fogerty)
07 talk (John Fogerty)
08 Lookin' Out My Back Door (John Fogerty)
09 Rock and Roll Girls (John Fogerty)
10 Centerfield (John Fogerty)
11 Midnight Special (John Fogerty)
12 Fortunate Son (John Fogerty)
13 Bad Moon Rising (John Fogerty)
14 talk (John Fogerty)
15 Proud Mary (John Fogerty)
16 talk (John Fogerty)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/EEQwgyA7

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/bia4PsNa6LNkBRS/file

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

Earthquake Relief Benefit, Henry J. Kaiser Auditorium, Oakland, CA, 11-26-1989, Part 9 - Bonnie Raitt

Here's Part 9 of the 1989 Earthquake Relief Benefit concert in Oakland, California. This is a set by Bonnie Raitt. There's just one more album from this concert after this one.

The theme of musical comebacks continues in a big way with this set. Bonnie Raitt had a fair amount of success for most of the 1970s, but her music career was in slow decline for most of the 1980s. She had trouble even getting one of her albums released. But then, in 1989, she had one of the biggest and most successful music career revivals of all time, thanks to her album "Nick of Time." It hit Number One on the U.S. album chart, sold five million copies, and won the Album of the Year Grammy. Rolling Stone magazine has even listed it as one of the top 500 albums of all time. That turned her into a superstar, and she went on to have many more successful records.

This concert is a roughly even mix between "Nick of Time" songs and songs from earlier in her career. 

This album is 48 minutes long. 

01 talk (Bonnie Raitt)
02 About to Make Me Leave Home (Bonnie Raitt)
03 talk (Bonnie Raitt)
04 Green Lights (Bonnie Raitt)
05 talk (Bonnie Raitt)
06 Have a Heart (Bonnie Raitt)
07 talk (Bonnie Raitt)
08 Nick of Time (Bonnie Raitt)
09 Love Me like a Man (Bonnie Raitt)
10 Give It Up or Let Me Go (Bonnie Raitt)
11 talk (Bonnie Raitt)
12 Thing Called Love (Bonnie Raitt)
13 talk (Bonnie Raitt)
14 Love Letter (Bonnie Raitt)
15 talk (Bonnie Raitt)
16 Three Time Loser (Bonnie Raitt)
17 Willya Wontcha (Bonnie Raitt)
18 talk (Bonnie Raitt)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/AmmZ85ae

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/TocaycPjwp64GeU/file

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

Earthquake Relief Benefit, Henry J. Kaiser Auditorium, Oakland, CA, 11-26-1989, Part 8 - Etta James

Here's Part 8 of the 1989 Earthquake Relief Benefit concert in Oakland, California. This is a set by Etta James.

Writing these write-ups, it's uncanny how many of the musical acts in this concert had early success in the 1960s and/or 1970s and then went through hard times in the 1980s. That was definitely the case for Etta James. Most of the 1980s was a lost decade for her musically, largely due to drug addiction and alcoholism problems. But she managed a comeback in 1988 with her album "Seven Year Itch." The title refers to the fact that she didn't even have a record contract for seven years. But the album was a critical success, and got a Grammy nomination.

Two of the songs here are from the "Seven Year Itch" album: "Breaking Up Somebody's Home" and "Come to Mama." The rest are older classics.

This album is 36 minutes long.

01 Love and Happiness (Etta James)
02 Breaking Up Somebody's Home (Etta James)
03 talk (Etta James)
04 I'd Rather Go Blind (Etta James)
05 Come to Mama (Etta James)
06 talk (Etta James)
07 At Last - Trust in Me (Etta James)
08 Sunday Kind of Love (Etta James)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/GDXzUdaL

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/09INBwivqSSBZUG/file

For the vast majority of musical acts in this concert, I was able to find video footage so I could take screenshots for the cover art. But that wasn't the case for Etta James. So for this cover, I used a screenshot I took of a concert she did for the Montreux Jazz Festival in 1989.

Earthquake Relief Benefit, Henry J. Kaiser Auditorium, Oakland, CA, 11-26-1989, Part 7 - Tower of Power

Here's Part 7 of the 1989 Earthquake Relief Benefit concert in Oakland, California. This is a set by Tower of Power.

Tower of Power had a series of hits in the 1970s. But, like a lot of other musical acts in this concert, they had some hard times in the 1980s. They only put out two albums, one in 1981 and the other in 1987, and neither one made the U.S. album charts. I believe at this time their lead singer was Tom Bowes, who had just joined the band earlier that year.

Their set concentrated on the 1970s hits, with no songs from their 1987 album. 

This album is 28 minutes long. 

01 talk (Tower of Power)
02 Believe It (Tower of Power)
03 A Little Knowledge [Is a Dangerous Thing] (Tower of Power)
04 talk (Tower of Power)
05 You're Still a Young Man (Tower of Power)
06 You Got to Funkifize (Tower of Power)
07 Down to the Nightclub [Bump City] (Tower of Power)
08 What Is Hip (Tower of Power)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/yofGw9vh

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/37BA88UyrJNQFJ3/file

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

Earthquake Relief Benefit, Henry J. Kaiser Auditorium, Oakland, CA, 11-26-1989, Part 6 - Taj Mahal with Bobby McFerrin

Here's Part 6 of the 1989 Earthquake Relief Benefit concert in Oakland, California. This is a set by Taj Mahal. He was joined by Bobby McFerrin on vocals for the last three songs.

Up until now, most of the musical acts in the Oakland benefit concert hadn't been popular since the late 1960s and/or early 1970s, and some of them had only recently reunited. But now we start to get into some more popular acts. 

However, Taj Mahal also had some "wilderness years." He didn't release any new music from 1977 to 1987. He kept a low profile while living in Hawaii. However, he released a well-received comeback album in 1987, "Taj," and has steadily released new albums ever since then.

Bobby McFerrin probably was more famous at this time. That was largely due to his song "Don't Worry, Be Happy," which was a Number One hit in the U.S. in 1988. However, he avoided singing that song here and just assisted Taj Mahal in singing some blues classics. 

This album is 34 minutes long.

01 talk by Bill Graham (Taj Mahal)
02 Big Legged Mamas Are Back in Style Again (Taj Mahal)
03 Easy Rider (Taj Mahal)
04 Fishing Blues (Taj Mahal)
05 Light Rain (Taj Mahal & Bobby McFerrin)
06 Sweet Home Chicago (Taj Mahal & Bobby McFerrin)
07 talk (Taj Mahal & Bobby McFerrin)
08 Blue Light Boogie (Taj Mahal & Bobby McFerrin)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/yqmJpLFi

alternate: 

https://bestfile.io/en/QwAS2LsOZWQ2O3D/file

The cover image shows Taj Mahal (wearing a white hat) and Bobby McFerrin. It's a screenshot I took from a video of this exact concert. 

Earthquake Relief Benefit, Henry J. Kaiser Auditorium, Oakland, CA, 11-26-1989, Part 5 - Big Brother & the Holding Company

Here's Part 5 of the 1989 Earthquake Relief Benefit concert in Oakland, California. This is a set by Big Brother and the Holding Company.

As I mentioned in an earlier write-up, many of the musical acts in these benefit concerts had their most popular years in the late 1960s and/or early 1970s, but broke up or went into commercial decline after that. This is another case. Big Brother and the Holding Company came to fame in the 1960s primarily due to their lead singer Janis Joplin. But she broke up with them in 1969, and then died in 1971. The band stayed together for a little while without Joplin, releasing albums in 1970 and 1971. But they broke up in 1972.

And that's how things stayed until 1987. A reunited band contained most of the original members, including Sam Andrew, Peter Albin, Dave Getz, and James Gurley. But obviously there was no Joplin anymore. Instead, Michel Bastian was chosen to replace her lead vocals. 

For this concert, they chose to play some of the songs most closely associated with Joplin, including the band's biggest hit, "Piece of My Heart." Whether you consider this band should have kept going without Joplin is up to you.

This album is 25 minutes long.

01 talk (Big Brother & the Holding Company)
02 Combination of the Two (Big Brother & the Holding Company)
03 Summertime (Big Brother & the Holding Company)
04 Ball and Chain (Big Brother & the Holding Company)
05 Piece of My Heart (Big Brother & the Holding Company)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/QMUdkuu4

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/w01CgS237PPhA01/file

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

Earthquake Relief Benefit, Henry J. Kaiser Auditorium, Oakland, CA, 11-26-1989, Part 4 - Cold Blood

Here's Part 4 of the 1989 Earthquake Relief Benefit concert in Oakland, California. This is a set by Cold Blood.

Cold Blood was another band at this concert that was most popular in the late 1960s and early 1970s. In this case, they released albums between 1969 and 1976, and then broke up. The main star of the band was lead singer Lydia Pense. She suspended her music career for most of the 1980s. However, she revived the band in 1988, which was fortunate timing for appearing at this concert.

This album is 22 minutes long. 

01 talk by emcee (Cold Blood)
02 You Got Me Hummin' (Cold Blood)
03 I Just Want to Make Love to You (Cold Blood)
04 Baby I Love You (Cold Blood)
05 Down to the Bone (Cold Blood)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/FTveeJfd

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/7SMyRs4d0h8YXFS/file

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

Earthquake Relief Benefit, Henry J. Kaiser Auditorium, Oakland, CA, 11-26-1989, Part 3 - Quicksilver Messenger Service

Here's Part 3 of the 1989 Earthquake Relief Benefit concert in Oakland, California. This is a set by the band Quicksilver Messenger Service.

Technically speaking, this band was billed as the "New Quicksilver Messenger Service." Unfortunately, that's because there wasn't much left from the original band in the late 1960s and early 1970s. According to Wikipedia, the only original member still in the band at this time was Gary Duncan, on lead guitar and vocals. The other members were Michael Lewis on keyboards, John Bird on guitar and vocals, Bobby Vega on bass, and Greg Errico on drums. But at least Duncan was one of the band's leaders back in their heyday. Another key leader, John Cipollina, had been estranged from the band since 1975. He also died earlier in 1989.

I don't know where most of these songs aren't well known songs from when the band was most popular. This version of the band released an album in 1986, but none of these songs are from that album either. Instead, most of them would be released on the albums "Shape Shifter Vols. 1 and 2," which wouldn't be released until 1996.

This album is 23 minutes long.

01 talk (Quicksilver Messenger Service)
02 Bubba Jeans (Quicksilver Messenger Service)
03 Holiday (Quicksilver Messenger Service)
04 What Did You Do to Yo Do (Quicksilver Messenger Service)
05 Time to Shine (Quicksilver Messenger Service)
06 Gangster Purple (Quicksilver Messenger Service)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/kMwRaX9c

alternate: 

https://bestfile.io/neFTDUqqUv5Ru7v/file

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