Al Stewart - BBC Sessions, Volume 4: In Concert, Golders Green Hippodrome, London, Britain, 6-27-1974

As I explained in my comments to Al Stewart's "BBC Sessions, Volume 3," I've completed an overhaul of Stewart's early BBC recordings. I had to redo the two albums I had previously posted in early 2022, thanks to the release of the mega-box set "The Admiralty Lights" in late 2022, which had lots of BBC material I didn't already have. 

I had previously included much of the material here on my album of early full band BBC recordings. But thanks to that box set, I now have the full concert, and with better sound quality. So I've made this separate volume. This is with a full band. I think he generally played solo acoustic up until this year, then generally played with a band from that point on.

Oddly, not everything here is from the box set. The banter before two of the songs (tracks 1 and 7) come from the unreleased version I had before. 

This is a fairly short concert, at 39 minutes. But it seems to be complete. Stewart had yet to make the big time with his 1976 hit "Year of the Cat," so I imagine the BBC didn't want to give him more air time.

01 talk (Al Stewart)
02 Soho [Needless to Say] (Al Stewart)
03 talk (Al Stewart)
04 Old Admirals (Al Stewart)
05 talk (Al Stewart)
06 Terminal Eyes - Post World War Two Blues (Al Stewart)
07 talk (Al Stewart)
08 Roads to Moscow (Al Stewart)
09 talk (Al Stewart)
10 Nostradamus (Al Stewart)

https://www.upload.ee/files/15288311/AlStwt_1974_BBSessionsVolum4InConcertGoldrsGreenHippodrmeLondnBritain__6-27-1974_atse.zip.html

The cover photo comes from a concert in London in November 1976.