Etta James - Tramps, New York City, 11-3-1993

There are a bunch of Etta James live albums, but the vast majority of them are only the length of a single vinyl album, roughly 45 minutes. Here's a great sounding bootleg of a full show that would make up a double album instead.

One live album of hers that I highly recommend is called "Rocks the House." It's only 32 minutes long, but it dates to 1963. I've also posted a couple of her concerts from the mid-1970s. Other than that, nearly all of her live material, official or bootleg, come from the 1980s or after. This one is from 1993. She was still in full command of her musical powers, and had a minor career revival around this time with some solid studio albums. (She died in 2012.)

That revival began in 1992 with the release of the critically acclaimed studio album "The Right Time." But only one song here is from that, "Love and Happiness," and that's a cover of an Al Green soul classic. Instead, most of the songs are favorites that she did on many tours, such as "At Last" and "I Would Rather Go Blind."

This is a soundboard bootleg, and sounds as good as any of her official live albums. I did boost the volume of her comments between songs, although there weren't many of those. The one problem was that many of the songs had the applause at the end cut off after only a second or two. I did my best to fix that by patching in applause from the few songs that had a full amount of cheering. But I had to reuse the same applause multiple times, so you might notice some of the same "woo-hoo" noises and such.

By the way, the last song is actually from the previous night's concert. It was at the same venue, and also a soundboard with the same quality. The set list was basically identical with the exception of one song. So that's why I only added that one. 

This concert is an hour and 19 minutes long.

01 Feel like Breaking Up Somebody's Home (Etta James)
02 talk (Etta James)
03 I Would Rather Go Blind (Etta James)
04 Come to Mama (Etta James)
05 talk (Etta James)
06 A Lover Is Forever (Etta James)
07 talk (Etta James)
08 Your Good Thing [Is About to End] (Etta James)
09 How Strong Is a Woman (Etta James)
10 Sugar on the Floor (Etta James)
11 At Last (Etta James)
12 Baby, What You Want Me to Do - Dust My Broom - Hoochie Coochie Man - My Babe (Etta James)
13 Love and Happiness - Take Me to the River (Etta James)

https://www.upload.ee/files/15379328/EttaJms_1993_TrmpsNewYrkC__11-3-1993_atse.zip.html

The cover photo is from the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame concert in January 1993.