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.

Earthquake Relief Benefit, Henry J. Kaiser Auditorium, Oakland, CA, 11-26-1989, Part 2 - Dan Hicks

Here's Part 2 of the 1989 Earthquake Relief Benefit concert in Oakland, California. This is a set by Dan Hicks.

I want to make a general point that many of the musical acts in the Earthquake Benefit Concerts were popular in the late 1960s and/or early 1970s, and went in commercial decline after that. But these concerts gave them at least one more last hurrah on a big stage. I'm sure this had a lot to do with the fact that the promoter of these benefit concerts, Bill Graham, was most active as a promoter in the San Francisco Bay Area in that same earlier time period.

Dan Hicks is a good example of this. He was the leader of the band Dan Hicks and His Hot Licks from 1967 to 1973. After that, he kept a low musical profile until he had a minor comeback in the late 1980s.

Here's his Wikipedia page:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Hicks_(singer) 

This is a pretty short set, but it appears to be the entire thing. 

This album is 18 minutes long. The music is unreleased, like all the other music from these benefit concerts.

01 talk by emcee (Dan Hicks)
02 Up, Up, Up (Dan Hicks)
03 The Buzzard Was Their Friend (Dan Hicks)
04 talk (Dan Hicks)
05 I Scare Myself (Dan Hicks)
06 talk (Dan Hicks)
07 Long Come a Viper (Dan Hicks)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/iQXyR5Sq

alternate: 

https://bestfile.io/en/ONvCumaav2qTa4t/file

The cover image 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 1 - Caribbean Allstars, Pete Escovedo, and Dinosaurs

On November 26, 1989, there were three Earthquake Relief Benefit concerts in the San Francisco Bay Area. Recently, I posted albums from the concerts in Daly City (near San Francisco) and Watsonville (close to Santa Cruz). Now, I'm starting to post albums from the third concert, in Oakland. I've found more music from this concert than the other two, enough for ten albums. 

I don't know the correct chronological order of the performers, so I made up my own order. For this first one, I gathered together three short performances. For all the other albums, I have one musical act per album.

The three acts here are the Caribbean Allstars, Pete Escovedo, and Dinosaurs. I had never heard of any of them before, to be honest.  

I know next to nothing about the Caribbean Allstars. They apparently don't have a Wikipedia entry. Pete Escovedo is a percussionist. He was a member of Santana, led the Latin big band Azteca, and has released many solo albums. He also is the father of the famous drummer and singer Sheila E.

Here's his Wikipedia page:

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

Dinosaurs was a band that consisted of musicians from various 1960s and 1970s Bay Area bands. They only released one album, in 1988, cleverly called "Dinosaurs." The band existed from 1982 into the 1990s. The membership of this band changed over the years. At the time of this concert, it consisted of Barry 'The Fish' Melton on guitar and vocals (from Country Joe and the Fish), Peter Albin on bass and vocals (from Big Brother and the Holding Company), Merle Saunders on keyboards and vocals, Papa John Creach on violin (from Hot Tuna), and Spencer Dryden on drums (from Jefferson Airplane).

Here's the band's Wikipedia entry: 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinosaurs_(band) 

This album is 48 minutes long.

01 talk by emcee (Caribbean Allstars)
02 Paths to Greatness (Caribbean Allstars)
03 Oh What a Situation (Caribbean Allstars)
04 talk by emcee (Pete Escovedo)
05 Charango Sunrise [Instrumental] (Pete Escovedo)
06 Modern Dance [Instrumental] (Pete Escovedo)
07 talk (Dinosaurs)
08 Dance (Dinosaurs)
09 talk (Dinosaurs)
10 Built for Comfort (Dinosaurs)
11 talk (Dinosaurs)
12 John's Other (Dinosaurs)
13 talk (Dinosaurs)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/zoMZCJVS 

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/rrnI7S2KOQTTw8Y/file

The cover image is of one of the Caribbean Allstars singers. This is taken from a video of this exact concert.  

Graham Nash - Capitol Theater, Port Chester, NY, 7-15-2017

Here's another concert that comes from the April 2026 leak of soundboard bootlegs from the Capitol Theater in Port Chester, New York. This one is an acoustic show starring Graham Nash of Crosby, Stills and Nash. He was backed up only by Shane Fontayne on lead guitar and backing vocals.

Due to that leak mentioned above, I was able to find a video file of this concert. I converted the video to audio, and chopped them into mp3s. Like most files from that leak, the sound quality is excellent, but in mono.

Unfortunately, according to setlist.fm, the video is missing the first six songs. (Everything here prior to "King Midas in Reverse.") But since I found a list of what those songs were, I looked around to see if there were good versions from another concert. It turns out there is a pretty good audience bootleg from Perth, Britain, on July 28, 2018. All of those six missing songs were played, but in different order. I repositioned them in the correct order, including some banter that fit. Since the source for these is an audience boot with lesser sound, I took some extra steps to improve the sound quality for those. I ended up running the songs through the MVSEP program a couple of times each to get rid of unwanted crowd noise and reverb. Now, those six songs sound better, though still not quite as good as the rest.

In 2016, Nash released the solo album "This Flight Tonight." It was his first solo album in 14 years, and, in my opinion, one of his best. He played just four songs from that album. He also did some unexpected rarities. I was especially pleased to see that he did a couple of Hollies songs "On a Carousel" and "Carrie Anne" that he has very rarely done during his long post-Hollies career. ("King Midas in Reverse" is also originally a Hollies song, but he's played that one a lot more over the years.)

This album is one hour and 51 minutes long. 

01 On a Carousel - Carrie Anne (Graham Nash)
02 talk (Graham Nash)
03 Marrakesh Express (Graham Nash)
04 I Used to Be a King (Graham Nash)
05 talk (Graham Nash)
06 Immigration Man (Graham Nash)
07 talk (Graham Nash)
08 Sleep Song (Graham Nash)
09 talk (Graham Nash)
10 Myself at Last (Graham Nash)
11 talk (Graham Nash)
12 King Midas in Reverse (Graham Nash)
13 talk (Graham Nash)
14 Wasted on the Way (Graham Nash)
15 Military Madness (Graham Nash)
16 talk (Graham Nash)
17 Wind on the Water (Graham Nash)
18 talk (Graham Nash)
19 A Day in the Life (Graham Nash)
20 talk (Graham Nash)
21 talk (Graham Nash)
22 Simple Man (Graham Nash)
23 talk (Graham Nash)
24 Taken at All (Graham Nash)
25 talk (Graham Nash)
26 Lady of the Island (Graham Nash)
27 talk (Graham Nash)
28 Golden Days (Graham Nash)
29 talk (Graham Nash)
30 Mississippi Burning (Graham Nash)
31 talk (Graham Nash)
32 Back Home (Graham Nash)
33 talk (Graham Nash)
34 Cathedral (Graham Nash)
35 talk (Graham Nash)
36 Our House (Graham Nash)
37 Chicago (Graham Nash)
38 talk (Graham Nash)
39 Blackbird (Graham Nash)
40 talk (Graham Nash)
41 Teach Your Children (Graham Nash)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/ibE3x7YN 

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/sS1lfWNIk0DlnIb/file

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

The Pretty Things - WLIR Ultrasonic Concert Series, Ultrasonic Recording Studios, Hempstead, NY, 3-10-1975

Here's another in the WLIR Ultrasonic radio broadcast series. This time, it's a 1975 concert by the Pretty Things.

I love the music of the Pretty Things in general, but I think they had a decline from about 1973 to 1976, before breaking up (for the first time). They went in more of a glam rock/ hard rock direction, which would have been fine if they wrote great songs, but in my opinion they didn't. But in any case, 1975 is when they happened to do an Ultrasonic concert, so here we are. They were promoting their album "Silk Torpedo," which was released about two months earlier.

They generally played songs from that album and other recent albums. But for the last two songs, they went back to some of their earliest songs. ("(Get Your Kicks On) Route 66" is a cover, but they did it from the mid-1960s).

The music here is unreleased. The sound quality is very good, but not excellent. 

This album is an hour and three minutes long.

01 Singapore Silk Torpedo (Pretty Things)
02 talk (Pretty Things)
03 Dream-Joey (Pretty Things)
04 talk (Pretty Things)
05 Belfast Cowboys (Pretty Things)
06 talk (Pretty Things)
07 It's Been So Long (Pretty Things)
08 talk (Pretty Things)
09 Bridge of God (Pretty Things)
10 talk (Pretty Things)
11 Havana Bound (Pretty Things)
12 Come Home Momma (Pretty Things)
13 talk (Pretty Things)
14 It Isn't Rock 'n' Roll (Pretty Things)
15 talk (Pretty Things)
16 Rosalyn (Pretty Things)
17 talk (Pretty Things)
18 [Get Your Kicks On] Route 66 (Pretty Things)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/USXzCwAj

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/63GYPBUJjBHoCIO/file

The cover image is from a concert at the New Victoria Theatre in London, some time in 1975.

Dolly Parton - Hollywood Bowl, Los Angeles, CA, 7-23-2011

A couple of days ago as I write this, another musical great passed away. Dolly Parton died on August 25, 2026, at the age of 80. She was more than just a great country singer and songwriter; by all accounts she was a nice person who gave many millions to charitable causes. She will be missed.

After hearing she had died, I looked around to see what music I could post of hers that would be interesting. I found an ALD recording of this concert that apparently hasn't been shared much until now. ALD stands for "assistive learning device." By U.S. law, big concert venues must provide these devices for concert-goers who are hard of hearing. Sometimes, clever people manage to record the live signal going to these devices. This is one of those cases.

Typically, ALD recordings are excellent, very similar to soundboard recordings. However, one flaw is that they often don't have much of the audience cheering. That was very much the case for this one. In addition, when Parton spoke between songs, sometimes her voice was quite faint. So I ran every song through the MVSEP audio editing program. I separated out the crowd noise, and then drastically boosted it at the ends of songs. I also simply boosted the vocals of her banter, sometimes making adjustments line by line. I boosted those so much that it often resulted in a lot of hiss. So I then made more audio edits to get rid of the hiss.  

I had extra trouble with the last song. For some reason, bursts of static came through repeatedly. I used both the MVSEP and UVR5 programs to use different noise-cleaning tools. I'm glad to say that got rid of nearly all of the problem. But that's why that one song has "[Edit]" in its title.

This fixing of the songs took a lot of work, but it was my way of paying tribute to the great Dolly Parton. Hopefully, this now will be considered one of her best, and best sounding, concert bootlegs. The concert took place during her tour for her 2011 album "Better Day." A New York Times newspaper review of that album praised her "almost ageless" vocals, and you can hear that vocal quality in this concert too. That album was well received by critics, but only sold moderately in the U.S. However, it Britain, it became her highest charting album, reaching Number One on the country chart there, and in the Top Ten in the main pop chart.

This album is two hours and 17 minutes long. 

01 Light of a Clear Blue Morning (Dolly Parton)
02 Walking on Sunshine (Dolly Parton)
03 Better Get to Livin' (Dolly Parton)
04 talk (Dolly Parton)
05 Jolene (Dolly Parton)
06 talk (Dolly Parton)
07 Rocky Top (Dolly Parton)
08 Mule Skinner Blues [Instrumental] (Dolly Parton)
09 talk (Dolly Parton)
10 Help (Dolly Parton)
11 Shine (Dolly Parton)
12 Stairway to Heaven (Dolly Parton)
13 talk (Dolly Parton)
14 My Tennessee Mountain Home (Dolly Parton)
15 talk (Dolly Parton)
16 Precious Memories (Dolly Parton)
17 talk (Dolly Parton)
18 Coat of Many Colors (Dolly Parton)
19 talk (Dolly Parton)
20 Smoky Mountain Memories (Dolly Parton)
21 talk (Dolly Parton)
22 Son of a Preacher Man (Dolly Parton)
23 talk (Dolly Parton)
24 Better Day (Dolly Parton)
25 talk (Dolly Parton)
26 Together You and I (Dolly Parton)
27 talk (Dolly Parton)
28 Holding Everything (Dolly Parton)
29 talk (Dolly Parton)
30 Rappin' Dolly (Dolly Parton)
31 talk (Dolly Parton)
32 He Will Take You Higher (Dolly Parton)
33 talk (Dolly Parton)
34 He's Everything (Dolly Parton)
35 talk (Dolly Parton)
36 White Limozeen (Dolly Parton)
37 talk (Dolly Parton)
38 Best of Both Worlds (Dolly Parton)
39 talk (Dolly Parton)
40 The Sacrifice (Dolly Parton)
41 talk (Dolly Parton)
42 In the Meantime (Dolly Parton)
43 talk (Dolly Parton)
44 Little Sparrow (Dolly Parton)
45 River Deep, Mountain High (Dolly Parton)
46 talk (Dolly Parton)
47 Here You Come Again (Dolly Parton)
48 Islands in the Stream (Dolly Parton)
49 9 to 5 (Dolly Parton)
50 talk (Dolly Parton)
51 I Will Always Love You (Dolly Parton)
52 Light of a Clear Blue Morning [Reprise] [Edit] (Dolly Parton)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/Qw9MQQtM

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/78uu4bJr1gpxzBY/file 

The cover image is from this exact concert.

Earthquake Relief Benefit, Watsonville High School Football Field, Watsonville, CA, 11-26-1989, Part 3 - Santana

Here is the third and final album from the 1989 Earthquake Relief Benefit concert in Watsonville, California. This is a Santana set. 

As I mentioned in a previous write-up, the Watsonville population is about 80 percent ethnically Hispanic. So it made sense to have acts like Los Lobos and Santana, who were popular with the Hispanic community. As a nice bonus, Cesar Rosas and David Hildago, the two main singer-songwriters in Los Lobos, played with Santana on a couple of songs near the end of this concert. They can't be heard singing very much, but they traded lead guitar solos with Carlos Santana. Jorge Santana, brother of Carlos, joined in on a couple of other songs as well.

Note that music from a third concert in Oakland that was also part of this benefit effort will be coming soon. 

This album is an hour and 58 minutes long.

01 Angels All Around Us (Santana)
02 Spirits Dancing in the Flesh (Santana)
03 For Those Who Chant [Instrumental] (Santana)
04 It's a Jungle Out There (Santana)
05 Soweto [Africa Libre] [Instrumental] (Santana)
06 Full Moon [Instrumental] (Santana)
07 Black Magic Woman - Gypsy Queen (Santana with Jorge Santana & Carlos Hernandez)
08 Oye Como Va (Santana with Jorge Santana & Carlos Hernandez)
09 She's Not There (Santana)
10 Jingo (Santana)
11 Goodness and Mercy [Instrumental] (Santana)
12 Choose (Santana)
13 Toussaint L'Overture (Santana)
14 talk (Santana)
15 Mandela [Instrumental] (Santana)
16 Europa [Earth's Cry, Heaven's Smile] [Instrumental] (Santana)
17 talk (Santana)
18 The Healer [Instrumental] (Santana with Los Lobos)
19 We Don't Have to Wait [Instrumental] (Santana with Los Lobos)
20 Soul Sacrifice - Aranjuez [Instrumental] (Santana with Los Lobos)
21 Blues Jam [Instrumental] (Santana with Los Lobos)
22 Cloud Nine [Instrumental] (Santana)
23 talk by emcee (Santana)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/QMeE1Ke6

alternate:

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

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

Earthquake Relief Benefit, Watsonville High School Football Field, Watsonville, CA, 11-26-1989, Part 2 - Los Lobos

Here's Part 2 of the 1989 Earthquake Relief Benefit concert in Watsonville, California. This is a Los Lobos set.

Los Lobos had a Number One hit in the U.S. in 1986 with their cover of "La Bamba." So they were near the peak of their popularity around this time.

This album is 50 minutes long.

01 talk (Los Lobos)
02 Anselma (Los Lobos)
03 I'm Gonna Be a Wheel Someday (Los Lobos)
04 Georgia Slop (Los Lobos)
05 Will the Wolf Survive (Los Lobos)
06 Evangeline (Los Lobos)
07 My Baby's Gone (Los Lobos)
08 Someday (Los Lobos)
09 Let's Say Goodnight (Los Lobos)
10 Ay te Dejo en San Antonio (Los Lobos)
11 Volver, Volver (Los Lobos)
12 I Got Loaded (Los Lobos)
13 Don't Worry Baby (Los Lobos)
14 talk (Los Lobos)
15 La Bamba (Los Lobos)
16 Shakin' Shakin' Shakes (Los Lobos)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/GpZQ8BJA

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/F9DC1rCrInmiKba/file

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

Earthquake Relief Benefit, Watsonville High School Football Field, Watsonville, CA, 11-26-1989, Part 1 - Square Roots

I finished posting a bunch of albums from an Earthquake Relief Benefit concert at the Cow Palace venue near San Francisco in 1989. But that actually was just one of three concerts for the benefit that took place on the same day. Now, I'm starting to post the concert that took place at Watsonville, about an hour and a half south of San Francisco. I've found enough for three albums. This first one features the band Square Roots.

As I mentioned in a previous write-up, these benefit concerts were in response to an earthquake that took place in Loma Prieta, California, near Santa Cruz, about 40 days prior to these concerts. Watsonville is about an hour south of Loma Prieta. I suppose it was decided to hold a concert for a different crowd of people, who would have found it difficult to go all the way to the other concerts in San Francisco or Oakland, which were about two hours away. 

About 80 percent of the population of Watsonville is Hispanic. As you'll see, the musical acts chosen were meant to appeal to the Hispanic community. This concert begins with a short talk by Bill Graham, the famous Bay Area music promoter who led the organization of these benefit concerts. Then there was a speech by comedian Jose Simon. I cut the vast majority of it, because it was in Spanish and I don't speak that language. I just kept enough for the introduction to the first musical act. (That's why that track has "[Edit]" in its title.)

That act was Square Roots. This is probably one of the most obscure music acts I've posted at this blog. They don't seem to have either a Wikipedia page or a rateyourmusic.com page. I was able to find out from the discogs.com website that they were an "American ska band from Santa Cruz, USA, active between 1983 and 1995." I also found out that they only released on album, which was self-titled, and was released in 1991. That means that, at the time of this concert, they hadn't even released an album yet. They probably were chosen because they were popular with the locals. 

But for an obscure band, they sounded very professional and good, in my opinion. For instance, they had a horn section, which is not something a lot of bands can afford to have. Just listening to this, I would have figured they were much more popular than they apparently ever were. So please don't pass this by just because you haven't heard of them before.

Generally speaking, the sound quality of this bootleg is excellent. However, the vocals were low in the mix. I fixed that with the help of the UVR5 audio editing program. I put in some extra work on the song "Every Little Step" because it has male and female vocals, and the female vocals were loud but the male vocals were extra quiet. It sounds a lot better now, though still not ideal.  

This album is 33 minutes long.

01 talk by Bill Graham (Square Roots)
02 talk by Jose Simon [Edit] (Square Roots)
03 Program Zero (Square Roots)
04 Steady Action (Square Roots)
05 Rude Boys (Square Roots)
06 Try (Square Roots)
07 Every Little Step (Square Roots)
08 talk (Square Roots)
09 Pleasure Point Posse (Square Roots) 

https://pixeldrain.com/u/zkLPrAnz

alternate: 

https://bestfile.io/en/JP7jVOopLejfwwb/file

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

Pat Benatar - Greatest Hits Live (1980-2015) (A Mike Solof Guest Post)

Here's another nice guest post by Mike Solof. It's a collection of the best songs by Pat Benatar - as judged by Mike, who is a big fan. But there's a twist, because he chose all live versions. Well, except for three songs at the end he couldn't bear leaving out, which apparently were never performed live.

This album came to be because I had posted a concert by Joan Jett, and I was planning on posting one by Pat Benatar as well. Those two have always been linked in my mind, since they were pioneering female rock and rollers that became famous at the start of the 1980s. Anyway, since Mike is a bigger Benatar fan than I am, I asked him what would be the best concert recording from her. Instead, he came up with this idea, to make something that contains all of her best known songs, most of them performed within a year or two of being recorded.

The songs are in rough chronological order of when they were first released. But the actual performance dates jump all over, from 1980 to 2015. A little over half of the songs here are from bootlegs, but very excellent sounding ones. The following songs, however, are from official live albums: tracks 8, 9, 10, 12, 17, 20, and 24 through 28. You can find more details in the mp3 tags.

Finally, as always with Mike's posts, check out his PDF for comments from him, as well as some more nice photos of Benatar. He's also included a gapless single file version of the album, for those who like that.

This album is two hours and seven minutes long. 

01 Heartbreaker (Pat Benatar)
02 I Need a Lover (Pat Benatar)
03 We Live for Love (Pat Benatar)
04 Treat Me Right (Pat Benatar)
05 You Better Run (Pat Benatar)
06 Hit Me with Your Best Shot (Pat Benatar)
07 Hell Is for Children (Pat Benatar)
08 Promises in the Dark (Pat Benatar)
09 Fire and Ice (Pat Benatar)
10 Helter Skelter (Pat Benatar)
11 Shadows of the Night (Pat Benatar)
12 Lookin' for a Stranger (Pat Benatar)
13 Anxiety (Pat Benatar)
14 Fight It Out (Pat Benatar)
15 The Victim (Pat Benatar)
16 It's a Little Too Late (Pat Benatar)
17 I Want Out (Pat Benatar)
18 Oh Oh Song (Pat Benatar)
19 Love Is a Battlefield (Pat Benatar)
20 Sex as a Weapon (Pat Benatar & Neil Giraldo)
21 Invincible (Pat Benatar)
22 We Belong (Pat Benatar)
23 Cool Zero (Pat Benatar)
24 All Fired Up (Pat Benatar & Neil Giraldo)
25 True Love (Pat Benatar)
26 Lipstick Lies [Studio] (Pat Benatar)
27 Silent Partner [Studio] (Pat Benatar)
28 Tell It To Her [Studio] (Pat Benatar)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/cBKEwVKq

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/2EXi12DYTbXNaf6/file

The cover image was selected by Mike. I don't know when or where it's from, exactly. 

Earthquake Relief Benefit, Cow Palace, Daly City, CA, 11-26-1989, Part 6 - All-Star Jam with Steve Miller

NOTE: Before I say anything about this album, I found a short set of the Dynatones at this concert, and I added it to Part 1. Thanks to the anonymous e-mailer who told me that could be found on YouTube, just buried really deep.

Here's the link, if you want to download that one again:

https://albumsthatshouldexist.blogspot.com/2026/08/earthquake-relief-benefit-cow-palace.html

Here is the sixth and last part of the 1989 Earthquake Relief Benefit concert at the Cow Palace, in Daly City. But note the Cow Palace show was just one of three held in the area on that same night, so there's a lot more of this concert to come. This album is a jam session featuring a mix of performers from earlier sets that evening. I called it "All-Star Jam with Steve Miller" because Miller definitely dominates, singing most of the songs. It's practically like a second Miller set, with some guest stars helping him out, but with him doing almost all blues and soul cover versions.

I have to admit that I don't know for sure who took part in this jam session. One can clearly see Miller, Neil Young, and Norton Buffalo on the cover image I chose, and one can hear them as well. I also can easily make out the sound of the vocals of Taj Mahal and Bonnie Raitt, especially on "Wang Dang Doodle." Both of them performed at a different concert that was part of this benefit in Oakland. So they must have rushed across the San Francisco Bay to make it here in time. Miller introduced the Chambers Brothers right before "In the Midnight Hour," asking them to help sing it, so clearly they were on this as well.

Additionally, according to setlist.fm, Carlos Santana, Maria Muldaur, John Kahn, and the Dynatones were said to take part too, as well as others. Carlos Santana would have been a challenge, since Santana played a big concert as part of this benefit at some point on this same day in Watsonville, California. That's an hour and a half away, without traffic. Perhaps that Watsonville concert ended earlier and he hightailed it to this concert, I don't know. If you can hear his distinctive lead guitar work, please let me know. 

Video footage on YouTube exists of nearly all of this concert. Watching that could confirm who took part in this section of the show. However, I couldn't find any video from this portion.

This album is 50 minutes long. 

01 Wang Dang Doodle (Steve Miller & the All-Star Jam)
02 I Wanna Be Loved [But by Only You] (Steve Miller & the All-Star Jam)
03 Lucille (Steve Miller & the All-Star Jam)
04 Baby What You Want Me to Do (Steve Miller & the All-Star Jam)
05 Underneath the Silvery Moon (Steve Miller & the All-Star Jam)
06 Space Cowboy (Steve Miller & the All-Star Jam)
07 talk (Steve Miller & the All-Star Jam)
08 In the Midnight Hour (Steve Miller & the All-Star Jam)
09 Boogie Chillen (Steve Miller & the All-Star Jam)
10 It Takes Good Lovin' (Steve Miller & the All-Star Jam)
11 talk (Steve Miller)
12 talk (Bill Graham)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/9cCGPUuv

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/1kf3t2mHe7ljVgM/file

The cover image is from this exact concert. From right to left: Steve Miller, Neil Young, and Norton Buffalo. The original was in black and white, but I colorized it. I found another photo from this portion of the concert. I chose not to use it, but it showed Miller and Young in color. So I made sure the colors used in the colorization matched with that other photo.  

Earthquake Relief Benefit, Cow Palace, Daly City, CA, 11-26-1989, Part 5 - Neil Young

Here's Part 4 of the 1989 Earthquake Relief Benefit concert at the Cow Palace, in Daly City. This is a Neil Young solo acoustic set.

As I mentioned in the Crosby, Stills and Nash set earlier in this series, I find it rather strange Young didn't play with CSN at all, since they performed in the same venue on the same night. Furthermore, they did an entire show together at the Bridge Benefit concert a month earlier. 

Perhaps Young was focused on promoting his new album at the time, "Freedom." It came out in October 1989, and was a big commercial and critical success. Only two songs here are from that album though, "Rockin' in the Free World" and "Crime in the City (Sixty to Zero, Part 1)."

This album is 26 minutes long. 

01 My My, Hey Hey [Out of the Blue] (Neil Young)
02 Rockin' in the Free World [Edit] (Neil Young)
03 Comes a Time (Neil Young)
04 Homegrown (Neil Young)
05 Heart of Gold (Neil Young)
06 talk (Neil Young)
07 Crime in the City [Sixty to Zero, Part 1] (Neil Young)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/DNmod53X 

alternate: 

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

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

Earthquake Relief Benefit, Cow Palace, Daly City, CA, 11-26-1989, Part 4 - The Steve Miller Band

Here's Part 4 of the 1989 Earthquake Relief Benefit concert at the Cow Palace, in Daly City. This set features the Steve Miller Band.

This set is a mix of some of his 1970s hits, plus a couple of blues covers ("Mercury Blues" and "Who Do You Love").

Miller would later lead an all-star jam at the end of the concert. There enough material from that for me to post a separate album. So look for that one as well. 

This album is 34 minutes long.

01 talk (Steve Miller Band)
02 The Joker (Steve Miller Band)
03 Mercury Blues (Steve Miller Band)
04 Swingtown (Steve Miller Band)
05 talk (Steve Miller Band)
06 Jungle Love (Steve Miller Band)
07 Rock'n Me (Steve Miller Band)
08 talk (Steve Miller Band)
09 Jet Airliner (Steve Miller Band with Eddie Money)
10 talk (Steve Miller Band)
11 Take the Money and Run (Steve Miller Band)
12 Who Do You Love (Steve Miller Band)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/K2r4exmN

alternate: 

https://bestfile.io/en/xD5JkiByXdfoC3q/file

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

Earthquake Relief Benefit, Cow Palace, Daly City, CA, 11-26-1989, Part 3 - Crosby, Stills & Nash

Here's Part 3 of the Cow Palace, Daly City 1989 Earthquake Relief Benefit concert. This part stars Crosby, Stills and Nash.

Note that Paul Kantner, a member of Jefferson Airplane/ Jefferson Starship, helped sing one song here, "Wooden Ships." He co-wrote the song with Crosby and Stills back in 1969. 

I have to say I'm pretty surprised Crosby, Stills and Nash didn't perform with Neil Young in this concert. Young had his own set in this same venue later in the evening. Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young were on relatively good terms at the time. They put out only their second studio album as a foursome in 1988, "American Dream." After the album had disappointing reviews, Young decided not to tour with CSN to promote it. However, he did play a few benefit concerts with them around this time. In fact, CSNY did a set together about this long at the Bridge School Benefit only a month before this, and they played three more concerts together in 1990. But then again, Young is well known to be very mercurial, and has been for his entire music career. Also, he did have a solo tour in Europe due to start less than two weeks later, so perhaps he wanted this to be a warm-up for that. 

This album is 47 minutes long. 

01 Wasted on the Way (Crosby, Stills & Nash)
02 Change Partners (Crosby, Stills & Nash)
03 talk (Crosby, Stills & Nash)
04 The Lee Shore (Crosby, Stills & Nash)
05 Just a Song Before I Go (Crosby, Stills & Nash)
06 Helplessly Hoping (Crosby, Stills & Nash)
07 Critical Mass - Wind on the Water (Crosby, Stills & Nash)
08 talk (Crosby, Stills & Nash)
09 Southern Cross (Crosby, Stills & Nash)
10 talk (Crosby, Stills & Nash)
11 Wooden Ships (Crosby, Stills & Nash with Paul Kantner)
12 Suite- Judy Blue Eyes (Crosby, Stills & Nash)
13 Teach Your Children (Crosby, Stills & Nash)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/JgqA12Um 

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/fnubcy1mlIeKN1l/file

The cover image is a screenshot I took from a video of this exact concert. From left to right: Crosby, Stills, and Nash.

Earthquake Relief Benefit, Cow Palace, Daly City, CA, 11-26-1989, Part 2 - Jesse Colin Young

Here's Part 2 of the Cow Palace, Daly City 1989 Earthquake Relief Benefit concert. This part stars Jesse Colin Young, formerly of the Youngbloods.

I explained the basics about these benefit concerts in the write-up to Part 1. Now that I've done that, I don't feel the need to write much about each musical act. I've talked about most of them elsewhere, and if I keep these write-ups short, I'll be able to post more, faster.

I do want to note though that I generally don't know the order of appearances for the concerts, with the exception of some of the biggest names. Only because those got mentioned in the couple of newspaper articles I could find. Here's one, in case you're curious:

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1989-11-28-ca-88-story.html

I'm frustrated not to know the order, because I remember taping a lot of these concerts off the radio at the time. Those tapes are long gone by now, for sure. But they were only the four or so hours of highlights that I mentioned in Part 1. For instance, I remember hearing Jesse Colin Young do "Let's Get Together," but not an entire set like this. Anyway, if you do know the order, or have any other recollections about these concerts if you attended them or otherwise heard them, please let us know.

This album is 26 minutes long.

01 talk (Jesse Colin Young)
02 Ridgetop (Jesse Colin Young)
03 talk (Jesse Colin Young)
04 Love that Can Last (Jesse Colin Young)
05 talk (Jesse Colin Young)
06 Sunlight (Jesse Colin Young)
07 We Can Make It Real (Jesse Colin Young)
08 talk (Jesse Colin Young)
09 T-Bone Shuffle (Jesse Colin Young)
10 talk (Jesse Colin Young)
11 Let's Get Together (Jesse Colin Young)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/AEeb4DrQ

alternate:

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

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

Earthquake Relief Benefit, Cow Palace, Daly City, CA, 11-26-1989, Part 1 - America, Aaron Neville, Eddie Money, the Dynatones, and the Chambers Brothers

It's time for me to start posting another big collection of albums from a major rock festival. This time, it's from the Earthquake Relief Benefit, held in the San Francisco Bay Area in late 1989. I've found enough music to make 19 different albums! This actually was three concerts, all held on the same day, November 26, 1989. This is the first of six albums I'm posting that took place at the Cow Palace in Daly City, just south of San Francisco. 

This album gathers all the musical acts where I only had short sets. For the other five I have from this venue, each musical act gets their own set. The acts here are: the Dynatones, the Chambers Brothers, America, Aaron Neville, and Eddie Money.

These concerts were a reaction to the Loma Prieta earthquake, which happened on October 16, 1989, at 5:04 P.M. (I know the time well, because I was just getting out of a college class in the area when the earthquake hit. We were all okay, but the building suffered structural damage and was later closed for retrofitting.) Famously, a game of the baseball World Series was just minutes from starting at Candlestick Park in San Francisco. It had to be cancelled, but tens of millions of people around the world found out about the earthquake as it happened due to the T.V. broadcast. Although the epicenter was about ten miles northeast of Santa Cruz, there was a lot of damage in San Francisco and Oakland, due to poor construction there. 63 people died, most of them in Oakland. The earthquake registered 6.9 on the Richter Scale. 

There was lots of damage throughout the Bay Area, and thousands of injuries. It so happened the Bay Area had a vibrant music scene, and probably the most altruistic (and well known) concert promoter in the country, Bill Graham. Graham leaped into action, and got these three benefits concerts to take place only about forty days after the earthquake. They ended up raising about two million dollars to relief efforts. That was just a small amount compared to the billions needed, but it's nice to see that so many musical acts wanted to help out just the same. I would bet that even more would have liked to take part, but were tied up with concert tours or other obligations they couldn't get out of on such short notice.

Here's a Wikipedia entry about the earthquake:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1989_Loma_Prieta_earthquake

I understand about five hours of highlights from the different concerts were shown on a local T.V. station that night. The main way funds were raised was by people watching on T.V. and donating over the phone. But, for some reason, we have a lot more than just five hours of highlights. I'm posting about 15 hours of music in total. All of it has the excellent sound quality of a soundboard or FM radio bootleg. I think that's because a lot of it became part of Bill Graham's music archive, which later was made public through the company Wolfgang's Vault, then spread to various bootleg sites. You can find video footage of most of the acts on YouTube, although sometimes one has to dig deep.

However, I couldn't find all of the music acts. Some that were billed to perform at Cow Palace included Maria Muldaur, Grace Slick, Paul Kantner, Joe Louis Walker, Narada Michael Walden, the Solid Senders, and the Brass Band. I'm pretty sure some or even all of these actually did perform, since I found some mentions of them. Maria Muldaur actually sings a duet with Aaron Neville on this album, but I believe she got her own set as well. And Paul Kantner later performed a song with Crosby, Stills and Nash, so it stands to reason he got his own set too, perhaps with former bandmate Grace Slick. If anyone knows for sure about these acts, and/or actually has the recordings, please let me know. However, according to the promotional material I found, at least I was able to find all of the best known acts.

In case you're curious, the act that performed the longest in this album was Eddie Money. His portion lasts 21 minutes. Also, I'm only guessing about the order of the acts. The exception is the Dynatones. One can tell they were the first act since the emcee introduced them that way.

This album is an hour and 21 minutes long.

01 talk by emcee (Dynatones)
02 When I Think about Love (Dynatones)
03 Shoot Your Shot (Dynatones)
04 Hard Way to Go (Dynatones)
05 talk (Chambers Brothers)
06 People Get Ready (Chambers Brothers)
07 Love, Peace and Happiness (Chambers Brothers)
08 Tin Man (America)
09 I Need You (America)
10 Ventura Highway (America)
11 talk (America)
12 Sister Golden Hair (America)
13 A Horse with No Name (America)
14 Gypsy Woman (Aaron Neville)
15 Arianne (Aaron Neville)
16 Danny Boy (Aaron Neville)
17 Don't Know Much - Mickey Mouse Club Theme (Aaron Neville)
18 Amazing Grace (Aaron Neville & Maria Muldaur)
19 Two Tickets to Paradise (Eddie Money)
20 talk (Eddie Money)
21 If I Could Walk on Water (Eddie Money)
22 I Think I'm in Love (Eddie Money)
23 Take Me Home Tonight (Eddie Money)
24 Shakin' (Eddie Money)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/JKXrynpt

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/dmLzXRfeF7CQTte/file

The cover image shows Aaron Neville at this exact concert, from a screenshot I took of a video. I picked an image of him simply because the image quality was better than the screenshots I could have taken of the other acts here.

Dana Gillespie - Hold on to Your Fire - Non-Album Tracks (1971-1976)

Recently, a commenter asked me if I still plan on posting more non-album tracks collections. Actually, I have lots of them that are already made. I just don't get around to posting them much because they're part of my music collection and I usually prioritize posting things I've recently discovered. But I'll try to get back to posting more of those. Back in 2020, I posted a non-album tracks collection by British singer-songwriter Dana Gillespie. It consisted of rare songs she did in the late 1960s. Finally, I'm back with a second such collection, from the early 1970s.

First, here's the link to the earlier collection:

https://albumsthatshouldexist.blogspot.com/2020/11/dana-gillespie-light-up-various-songs.html

At the time of the start of the music here, she had released two albums in the late 1960s, mostly consisting of her own songs. Both were well received, but neither of them were hits. Around 1970, she started musically collaborating with David Bowie, whom she had known since about 1965. She was signed to his record company and management team. Bowie even wrote a song for her, "Andy Warhol," and they performed it together on the BBC in 1971. 

The first five songs here are demos she recorded in 1971. This was half of an album with her songs on one side and Bowie's songs on the other. About 500 copies were made and circulated in the music industry to help both of them get record deals. Bowie's songs were redone for his album "Hunky Dory." These versions come from a later archival compilation called "What Memories We Make."

However, Gillespie didn't release another album out until 1973, because she got involved playing a major role (Mary Magdelene) in the first London production of the play "Jesus Christ Superstar." That kept her busy through 1972, and a soundtrack was released in 1973. Tracks 6 and 7 here are from that. 

When she finally released her next album, "Weren't Born a Man," it was a very good one. I recommend it if you haven't heard it yet. Bowie and his guitarist Mick Ronson technically produced it. But in fact, they were too busy with their careers, having turned into big stars since Bowie started collaborating with Gillespie in 1971. But Bowie did have some involvement, for instance, playing on and producing that album's version of "Andy Warhol." 

In 1974, she released another album, "Ain't Gonna Play No Second Fiddle." This was also was good, but didn't get much traction. It showed her moving more in a blues direction. Unfortunately, she began having trouble with her record company. She got stuck in a dispute, and was unable to release any more records. Her next album wouldn't come out until 1982. From that point on, she went all in on the blues, and put out many more albums in the blues style. Tracks 8 through 14 are from 1973 and 1974, and mostly consist of songs she wanted to put out on her next album. Those didn't come out until the "What Memories We Make" compilation mentioned above.

While having a music career, Gillespie also was pursuing a movie career. She certainly had the looks to be a big star. When she was blocked from making more records, she spent most of the rest of the 1970s as an actress. She landed some prominent roles, but never became a big star in that field either. The last song here is from a 1976 movie. 

One final thing. Here's an article from the Guardian about Gillespie's very interesting life. It's worth a read:

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2021/aug/12/bowie-bed-hopping-and-the-blues-the-wild-times-of-dana-gillespie

This album is 58 minutes long.

01 Mother, Don't Be Frightened (Dana Gillespie)
02 Andy Warhol (Dana Gillespie)
03 Never Knew (Dana Gillespie)
04 All Cut Up on You (Dana Gillespie)
05 Lavender Hill (Dana Gillespie)
06 Everything's Alright (Dana Gillespie with Stephen Tate & Paul Nicholas)
07 I Don't Know How to Love Him (Dana Gillespie)
08 Hold on to Your Fire (Dana Gillespie)
09 Man Size Job (Dana Gillespie)
10 Stoke the Engine (Dana Gillespie)
11 Goin' Crazy with the Blues (Dana Gillespie)
12 Say Goodnight to the Night (Dana Gillespie)
13 Do the Spin (Dana Gillespie)
14 Gone at the Game (Dana Gillespie)
15 Celandine's Blues (Dana Gillespie)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/LAAK3hDd 

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/I0tgLutyB6aSxSK/file

The cover image is from a 1968 movie called "The Lost Continent." The original picture I found was in black and white, but I colorized it. She also had some dirty smudges on her skin, which I removed in Photoshop. 

Hudson Ford - Ebbets Field, Denver, CO, 7-1974

I'm rather bummed to post this, because this might finally be the end of the line for posting Ebbets Field radio broadcasts. I thought I was done after posting over 70 albums, and then a couple of people came forward with some uncirculated bootlegs. First came a Wendy Waldman one, which I posted a couple of days ago. Now this Hudson Ford one, by an anonymous contributor. 

Hudson Ford was a band that primarily consisted of the singer-songwriter duo of Richard Hudson and John Ford. They got their start as members of the band Elmer Gantry's Velvet Opera, with Hudson on drums and Ford on bass. But that band broke up before the end of the 1960s. Around 1970, the two of them joined the Strawbs. They had a growing role in that band with their singing and songwriting. Their biggest success as a songwriting duo was the Strawbs song "Part of the Union," which went all the way to Number Two in the British singles chart in early 1973. But their growing role in the band put them in conflict with Dave Cousins, who wrote and sang most of the band's songs. 

In the middle of 1973, Hudson and Ford left the Strawbs to form their own band. At this point, Hudson switched from playing drums to guitar, and sang more lead vocals with Ford. They put out an album by the end of 1973, "Nickelodeon." It included "Pick Up the Pieces," which made it to the Top Ten in the British singles chart.

At the time of this concert, the band hadn't yet released their second album, "Free Spirit," but they were close. So they played a couple of songs from that album here, and talked about it coming out soon. However, they didn't play "Burn Baby Burn." That would be their second and final hit. They would put out three more albums after that, before breaking up in late 1977.

Here's their Wikipedia entry:

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

This recording contained a fair amount of hiss. However, I was able to remove almost all of it with the use of the MVSEP audio editing program.

By the way, I don't know the exact date of this concert. But they only had one series of shows at this venue, in late July 1974, so it has to have been that month. For four nights, they were the opening act for the band Goose Creek Symphony, which explains why this recording is rather short. 

Here's yet another plea for people to come forward with more of these Ebbets Field radio broadcasts. The recent posts of this album and the Wendy Waldman one show there are more of these bootlegs out there. Let's bring them back into the public domain so they can be appreciated after all these years! 

This album is 46 minutes long.

01 Crying Blues (Hudson Ford)
02 talk (Hudson Ford)
03 Angels (Hudson Ford)
04 talk (Hudson Ford)
05 Dark Lord (Hudson Ford)
06 talk (Hudson Ford)
07 Free Spirit (Hudson Ford)
08 talk (Hudson Ford)
09 I Don't Want to Be a Star (Hudson Ford)
10 talk (Hudson Ford)
11 Pick Up the Pieces (Hudson Ford)
12 talk (Hudson Ford)
13 I Don't Understand (Hudson Ford)
14 Revelations (Hudson Ford) 

https://pixeldrain.com/u/C69YarN2

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/sRS3xzQxFtKHChJ/file

The cover image shows Hudson Ford on the "Top of the Pops" TV show in Britain in 1974.