Brinsley Schwarz - BBC Sessions, Volume 2: In Concert, London, Britain, 3-25-1971

Here's the second of seven BBC albums for the band Brinsley Schwarz. This one is a short concert.

Back in 2021, I posted only three BBC albums. At that time, I couldn't find their full BBC concerts. Two official BBC albums were released for the band, "Cruel to Be Kind" and "What IS So Funny about Peace, Love and Understanding." But both of them only presented selected songs from both studio sessions and concerts. As far as I know, none of the band's BBC concerts have been released in full. Many of the songs have been released on those two official albums, plus other archival releases. So I've gathered what I could from the best sounding sources. Then I added material from bootlegs to fill in the gaps, such as the banter between songs.

In 1970, the band put out two studio albums, and then put out another in 1972, but they didn't put out an album in 1971. Perhaps they were planning to but then it got delayed and changed or something, because there are a bunch of unreleased-at-the-time songs from that year, more than any other year for the band. Three out of the five songs performed here were unreleased: "Crime of Passion," "Rock and Roll Station," and "Motorway Madness." Versions only were released decades later, on the "Thinking Back" box set. They actually are taken from this BBC concert, and had most of the audience noise removed. The scanty information from the box set doesn't mention this, but I compared the versions to make sure. 

Note that I've also posted some stray tracks albums for the band. Where there are rarities like those three songs I just mentioned, I've included those on a stray tracks album as well, even when the only version is from a BBC source. 

This album is 27 minutes long. 

01 talk (Brinsley Schwarz)
02 Crime of Passion (Brinsley Schwarz)
03 talk (Brinsley Schwarz)
04 Rock and Roll Station (Brinsley Schwarz)
05 talk (Brinsley Schwarz)
06 Ju Ju Man (Brinsley Schwarz)
07 talk (Brinsley Schwarz)
08 The Slow One (Brinsley Schwarz)
09 talk (Brinsley Schwarz)
10 Motorway Madness (Brinsley Schwarz)
11 talk (Brinsley Schwarz)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/oWbwNMR3

alternate:

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

It's really damn hard finding good color photos of this band. The good news is that I found one for the cover here. The bad news is that it only clearly shows Nick Lowe and Ian Gomm (with the ginger hair). Also, I don't know when it was taken, although I do know it's from the Newlands Tavern in London. I upgraded the photo with the use of the Krea AI program.

Brinsley Schwarz - BBC Sessions, Volume 1: 1970-1972

In 2021, I posted three albums of the British band Brinsley Schwarz performing for the BBC. At the time, that was the best I thought I could do, since it was hard to find a lot of their BBC recordings. But since then, I've found more. Most importantly, I've found four short but (probably) complete BBC concerts. So I decided to completely redo my Brinsley Schwarz BBC albums. Now, instead of three, I have seven. I find it easier to just start from scratch. So I've deleted the three albums I previously posted, and I'll be replacing them with seven new ones. Starting with this one, "Volume 1."

 Weirdly, Brinsley Schwarz was the name of the band and a member of the band, but not the most important or most visible member. Brinsley Schwarz was the lead guitarist. But the member who sang and wrote most of the songs was Nick Lowe. He would later go on to have a long and successful solo career. Another key member was Ian Gomm, who also sang and wrote some songs, and also would have a hit as a solo artist. (Gomm isn't on this album though, since he joined the band in 1971.)

Here's the band's Wikipedia entry, if you want to know more:

Brinsley Schwarz - Wikipedia 

In April 1970, the band released their debut album, simply titled "Brinsley Schwarz." Then, in December 1970, they released their second album, "Despite It All." This album consists entirely of radio appearances in 1970 when they were promoting those two albums, with one exception. 

The first three songs come from an appearance on the German TV show "Beat Club" in June 1970. True, that's not a BBC thing, but I'm including it anyway. It's one of very few TV or radio appearances they did (and survived) that wasn't for the BBC.

"Love Song" is from a BBC concert in September 1970. Unfortunately, it seems no recordings of this concert are known except for this one song. I found two versions of it. Both had issues. For instance, one version was missing the beginning. But I was able to combine them to create a decent version. So that's why this song has "[Edit]" in its title. I also removed the audience noise at the end.

The next four songs, tracks 5 through 8, come from an appearance on the "Top Gear" radio show in November 1970. 

The last song, "She's Got to Be Real" is from an appearance on the Bob Harris BBC radio show in early 1972. 

Most of the songs performed here were from the band's first two albums. However, "Indian Woman" and "Seymour (I Love You)" were unreleased at the time. Eventually, versions were released on archival albums in the 2020s. "Indian Woman" came out on the "Last Orders" album, and it's this version. However, that version, and all versions I found, have the beginning cut off, with the song beginning in mid-verse. But I managed to fix it by patching in some music from later in the song. That's why it has "[Edit]" in its title. 

"Seymour (I Love You)" and "Funk Angel" came out on the "Thinking Back" box set. "She's Got to Be Real" came out on the official BBC album "What IS So Funny about Peace, Love and Understanding." All the other performances are unreleased. However, they generally have sound quality similar to the officially released ones.

This album is 52 minutes long.

01 Ebury Down (Brinsley Schwarz)
02 Ballad of a Has-Been Beauty Queen (Brinsley Schwarz)
03 Indian Woman [Edit] (Brinsley Schwarz)
04 Love Song [Edit] (Brinsley Schwarz)
05 Seymour [I Love You] [Instrumental] (Brinsley Schwarz)
06 Funk Angel (Brinsley Schwarz)
07 The Slow One (Brinsley Schwarz)
08 Rock and Roll Station (Brinsley Schwarz)
09 She's Got to Be Real (Brinsley Schwarz)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/DBWw4shB

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/849iAbTbA8CQRMq/file

The cover art photo comes from a concert in Tumbridge Wells, Britain, in 1973. The original was in black and white, but due to the severe lack of good color photos of the band, I went through some trouble to colorize it. I later improved the image detail with the Krea AI program.

Various Artists - Dave Edmunds' All Star Rock 'n' Roll Revue, Warfield Theater, San Francisco, CA, 4-7-1990

The world lost another musical great last week (as I write this in early December 2025). Lead guitarist Steve Cropper died on December 3, 2025. He was 84 years old. I wanted to post something to celebrate his music. But that was a bit tricky, since he was mostly a session musician and songwriter. While he did put out some album under his own name, that was just a small part of his musical legacy. And when he toured, he almost always was part of bands supporting other stars.

I looked around, and found this concert, which I'd never known of before. Cropper was part of the backing band, along with Terry Williams (ex-Rockpile), Phil Chen (ex-Rod Stewart), the Memphis Horns, and others, so he played on every song.

This tour probably happened thanks to Ringo Starr of the Beatles. In 1989, Starr put on the first of many "His All-Starr Band" concert tours. These consisted of Starr plus a rotating group of other musical stars who weren't big enough of their own to play big concert venues. But when they were packaged together, along with an ex-Beatle, they were. Dave Edmunds looked at that formula and immediately decided to try the same thing. He brought together Kim Wilson, former lead vocalist of the Fabulous Thunderbirds, Graham Parker, and Dion. Each of them played about a half an hour set, with Edmunds playing both at the start of the concert and at the end.

The shows were successful, it seems. But Edmunds only attempted this for this one tour. In fact, he joined the "His All-Starr Band" tours in 1992 and 2000. Perhaps that's because Edmunds went into semi-retirement after 1990. He only put out one more album of new material, in 1994. And he only did one more significant tour, in 2007, before retiring from music for good in 2017.

This concert was the last show of the tour. I read that a double album of this exact concert was released, but only in Japan. However, if that's true, it would only be a minority of this recording, since this is a very long concert, at nearly three hours! This concert was also broadcast for the King Biscuit Flower Hour radio show, which is why we have it with excellent sound quality.

One last thought. A while back, I made two "Covered" album for Steve Cropper. So if you want to remember all the great songs he helped write, that's probably an even better way to do it. Here are the links to those:

https://albumsthatshouldexist.blogspot.com/2021/05/various-artists-covered-steve-cropper.html

https://albumsthatshouldexist.blogspot.com/2021/05/various-artists-covered-steve-cropper_30.html

This album is two hours and 47 minutes long. 

01 talk (Dave Edmunds)
02 Last Night [Instrumental] (Dave Edmunds)
03 Fallin' through a Hole (Dave Edmunds)
04 Feel So Right (Dave Edmunds)
05 Closer to the Flame (Dave Edmunds)
06 Don't Talk to Me (Dave Edmunds)
07 I Knew the Bride [When She Used to Rock and Roll] (Dave Edmunds)
08 talk (Dave Edmunds)
09 Wrap It Up (Kim Wilson)
10 It Comes to Me Naturally (Kim Wilson)
11 Wasted Tears (Kim Wilson)
12 I Believe I'm in Love with You (Kim Wilson)
13 There Is Something on Your Mind (Kim Wilson)
14 Tuff Enuff (Kim Wilson)
15 talk (Kim Wilson)
16 Nervous Fella (Kim Wilson)
17 talk (Dave Edmunds)
18 Get Started, Start a Fire (Graham Parker)
19 Under the Mask of Happiness (Graham Parker)
20 talk (Graham Parker)
21 Local Girls (Graham Parker)
22 talk (Graham Parker)
23 My Girl (Graham Parker)
24 Slash and Burn (Graham Parker)
25 talk (Graham Parker)
26 Lady Doctor (Graham Parker)
27 talk (Graham Parker)
28 My Love's Strong (Graham Parker)
29 Soultime (Graham Parker)
30 Heat Treatment (Graham Parker)
31 talk (Dave Edmunds)
32 King of the New York Streets (Dion)
33 talk (Dion)
34 The Night Stood Still (Dion)
35 talk (Dion)
36 Ruby Baby (Dion)
37 talk (Dion)
38 Written on the Subway Wall (Dion)
39 Runaround Sue (Dion)
40 The Wanderer (Dion)
41 talk (Dion)
42 Abraham, Martin and John (Dion)
43 From Small Things [Big Things One Day Come] (Dave Edmunds)
44 I Hear You Knocking (Dave Edmunds)
45 talk (Dave Edmunds)
46 Ju Ju Man (Dave Edmunds)
47 King of Love (Dave Edmunds)
48 talk (Dave Edmunds)
49 Crawling from the Wreckage (Dave Edmunds)
50 Paralyzed (Dave Edmunds)
51 talk (Everyone)
52 [Sitting On] the Dock of the Bay (Everyone)
53 I'm Ready (Everyone)
54 Keep A-Knockin' (Everyone) 

https://pixeldrain.com/u/w4EEsJQM

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/4B7YTBcfLApwM51/file

The cover photo is from a concert at the Marlboro Blues Festival, in Chicago, Illinois, on March 24, 1990. From right to left: Steve Cropper, Dave Edmunds, Graham Parker, and Dion.

Richard Thompson - BBC Sessions, Volume 8: 1992-1994

Here's another BBC album by singer-songwriter Richard Thompson. This one consists of studio sessions, with all the performances in solo acoustic mode.

Actually, this album only consists of two studio sessions, both for BBC DJ Andy Kershaw's radio show. The first 10 tracks come from a session in 1992, when Thompson was touring to support his 1991 album "Rumour and Sigh." The remaining tracks are from a session in 1994, when Thompson was touring to support his album from that year, "Mirror Blue." Most of the songs are from those two albums, though there are some surprise choices thrown in as well.

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

This album is 51 minutes long. 

01 I Ride in Your Slipstream (Richard Thompson)
02 Now that I Am Dead (Richard Thompson)
03 Withered and Died (Richard Thompson)
04 King of Bohemia (Richard Thompson)
05 I Misunderstood (Richard Thompson)
06 I Feel So Good (Richard Thompson)
07 talk (Richard Thompson)
08 King of Bohemia (Richard Thompson)
09 The Bloater - Job of Journeywork [Instrumental] (Richard Thompson)
10 1952 Vincent Black Lightning (Richard Thompson)
11 For the Sake of Mary (Richard Thompson)
12 Taking My Business Elsewhere (Richard Thompson)
13 I Can't Wake Up (Richard Thompson)
14 Mingus Eyes (Richard Thompson)
15 Easy There, Steady Now (Richard Thompson)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/cHgk6XpK

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/437N8eR52xaKTxj/file

The cover photo is from a concert at The Barns at Wolf Trap in Vienna, Virginia, on March 10, 1992.

The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band - WLIR Ultrasonic Concert Series, Ultrasonic Recording Studios, Hempstead, NY, 11-5-1974

Here's a performance by the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band on the "Ultrasonic" radio show in 1974.

To be honest, I don't know much about this band, nor have I listened to much of their music, but I'm posting this because I'm trying to post all the Ultrasonic concerts I can find. I mostly know them for the fact that they had the hit with the song "Mr. Bojangles." But while that was their biggest pop hit, they've gone through many styles in a very long music career. For instance, they went through a soft rock phase around the end of the 1970s. Then, for most of the 1980s, they had many country hits.

At the time of this concert, they were definitely in country music mode. The had a big success with their 1972 album "Will the Circle Be Unbroken," which featured many famous country guest stars and helped make country music accessible for the "hippie crowd." Their next album was released in 1974, "Stars & Stripes Forever," and contained a minor hit, "The Battle of New Orleans."

As was typical for the radio show, there was a short interview in the middle of the concert. I've moved it to the end, as a bonus track, since it interrupts the flow of the concert (in my opinion). 

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

This album is an hour and one minute long, not including the bonus track.

01 talk (Nitty Gritty Dirt Band)
02 The Moon Just Turned Blue (Nitty Gritty Dirt Band)
03 talk (Nitty Gritty Dirt Band)
04 Cosmic Cowboy (Nitty Gritty Dirt Band)
05 Sally Goodin' - The Battle of New Orleans (Nitty Gritty Dirt Band)
06 talk (Nitty Gritty Dirt Band)
07 Jambalaya [On the Bayou] (Nitty Gritty Dirt Band)
08 talk (Nitty Gritty Dirt Band)
09 Resign Yourself to Me (Nitty Gritty Dirt Band)
10 Way Downtown (Nitty Gritty Dirt Band)
11 talk (Nitty Gritty Dirt Band)
12 Gentle on My Mind (Nitty Gritty Dirt Band)
13 talk (Nitty Gritty Dirt Band)
14 Steamboat Whistle Blues (Nitty Gritty Dirt Band)
15 talk (Nitty Gritty Dirt Band)
16 My Walking Shoes (Nitty Gritty Dirt Band)
17 talk (Nitty Gritty Dirt Band)
18 Rocky Top (Nitty Gritty Dirt Band)
19 talk (Nitty Gritty Dirt Band)
20 Old Joe Clark (Nitty Gritty Dirt Band)
21 talk (Nitty Gritty Dirt Band)
22 Fish Song (Nitty Gritty Dirt Band)
23 Lost Highway (Nitty Gritty Dirt Band)
24 talk (Nitty Gritty Dirt Band)
25 Dark as a Dungeon (Nitty Gritty Dirt Band)
26 Promised Land (Nitty Gritty Dirt Band)
27 Will the Circle Be Unbroken (Nitty Gritty Dirt Band)
28 talk (Nitty Gritty Dirt Band)

talk (Nitty Gritty Dirt Band) 

https://pixeldrain.com/u/4KMvwFCE

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/yeZQ7B7MSzfzW2I/file

The cover photo is from an appearance on the ABC TV show "In Concert" in August 1973. 

Daryl Hall - BBC In Concert, The Forum, London, Britain, 12-6-1993

Here's a BBC concert starring Daryl Hall, from Hall and Oates.

Daryl Hall was the dominant force in Hall and Oates, doing most of the lead vocals and songwriting. (That said, Oates' role was far from insignificant, as he was involved in writing many of the duo's songs.) 

After a 1990 album, Hall and Oates took a prolonged break. They wouldn't release another album until 1997. So in 1993, Hall had time to release a solo album, "Soul Alone." It emphasized soul and jazz more than his music with Oates. This concert is from the tour supporting that album. 

Apparently wanting to differentiate his solo career from his Hall and Oates career, this concert mostly consists of songs from his solo album, plus a lot of soul music covers, and relatively few Hall and Oates hits. 

This BBC concert has been widely available as a bootleg. However, that was only an hour long version. Thanks to Progsprog sharing his music with me, this is the full concert, with 45 extra minutes. Yet the sound quality is excellent for all of it. 

This album is an hour and 45 minutes long.

 01 Money Changes Everything (Daryl Hall)
02 Help Me Find a Way (Daryl Hall)
03 talk (Daryl Hall)
04 Borderline (Daryl Hall)
05 Stop Loving Me, Stop Loving You (Daryl Hall)
06 talk (Daryl Hall)
07 Everytime You Go Away (Daryl Hall)
08 Send Me (Daryl Hall)
09 Love T.K.O. (Daryl Hall)
10 I Can't Go for That [No Can Do] (Daryl Hall)
11 I'm in a Philly Mood (Daryl Hall)
12 talk (Daryl Hall)
13 Love Revelation (Daryl Hall)
14 talk (Daryl Hall)
15 Maneater (Daryl Hall)
16 talk (Daryl Hall)
17 What's Going On (Daryl Hall)
18 talk (Daryl Hall)
19 Work to Do (Daryl Hall with Alan Gorrie)
20 talk (Daryl Hall)
21 For the Love of Money (Daryl Hall)
22 Hot Fun in the Summertime (Daryl Hall)
23 talk (Daryl Hall)
24 Wildfire (Daryl Hall)
25 talk (Daryl Hall)
26 Me and Mrs. Jones (Daryl Hall)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/Mn5tnuuU 

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/3sExbNFUhPpSG5C/file

The cover photo is from a 1993 concert, but I don't know the details.

Maria Muldaur - BBC In Concert, Cambridge Folk Festival, Cherry Hinton Hall Grounds, Cambridge, Britain, 7-28-1983

Here's a BBC concert by American singer Maria Muldaur.

Muldaur is considered a "one-hit wonder," because her song "Midnight at the Oasis" went to the Top Ten in 1973 in the U.S., and in fact was one of the best selling singles that year, yet she didn't have any other hits. However, that song is only a very small part of her musical legacy, as this concert shows.

Although this concert was recorded at the Cambridge Folk Festival, Muldaur's music couldn't simply be called folk. As her Wikipedia entry puts it, she "has recorded albums in the folk, blues, early jazz, gospel, country, and R&B traditions." There's a lot of different styles mixed together here.

Note that this is another album I never would have found had it not been for musical friend Progspog, who shared this with me. It's another extremely obscure one. I've found reference to her doing at least one other concert for the BBC, in January 1976. If anyone has that, or other BBC stuff from her, please share it with me and I'll post it here. (And then this one will get renamed to "Volume 2.") 

The music is unreleased. The sound quality is excellent. 

This album is 55 minutes long. 

01 talk (Maria Muldaur)
02 I'm a Woman (Maria Muldaur)
03 talk (Maria Muldaur)
04 Walkin' One and Only (Maria Muldaur)
05 talk (Maria Muldaur)
06 Any Old Time (Maria Muldaur)
07 talk (Maria Muldaur)
08 Rio de Janeiro Blues (Maria Muldaur)
09 talk (Maria Muldaur)
10 Cooking Breakfast for the One I Love (Maria Muldaur)
11 talk (Maria Muldaur)
12 It's in the Book (Maria Muldaur)
13 talk (Maria Muldaur)
14 There Must Be a Better World Somewhere (Maria Muldaur)
15 talk (Maria Muldaur)
16 Lover Man [Oh, Where Can You Be] (Maria Muldaur)
17 Midnight at the Oasis (Maria Muldaur)
18 talk (Maria Muldaur)
19 What about the Price (Maria Muldaur)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/4j35ydmo

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/WYs3CucvhKPyb0j/file

The cover photo is from this exact concert. 

Covered: Hoyt Axton: 1963-1977

Here's another edition of the "Covered" series, where I pay tribute to talented songwriters by collecting cover versions of their songs. This time, the focus is on Hoyt Axton.

Axton was born in a small town in Oklahoma in 1938. He came from a musical family. His mother, Mae Boren Axton, was a songwriter who co-wrote the Elvis Presley classic hit "Heartbreak Hotel" and many country songs, and one of his cousins was folk singer Arlo Guthrie. After going to college and serving a few years in the U.S. Navy, he began playing his songs in clubs. He released his first album in 1962, and released a couple dozen from that time until the end of the 1990s.

However, while Axton had some minor hits in the 1970s, especially on the U.S. country chart, he had much greater success by having others cover his songs. He also had a successful parallel career as an actor, especially playing colorful characters in supporting roles in dozens of TV shows and movies. 

His first success as a songwriter was "Greenback Dollar," which became kind of a folk music classic after it was covered by the Kingston Trio in 1963. He didn't have much more success with others covering his songs for the rest of the 1960s, although "The Pusher" became one of Steppenwolf's best known songs in 1968. However, everything changed for him in 1970, because Three Dog Night covered "Joy to the World." Not only was it a Number One hit in the U.S., it was the best selling song of the year! After that, he had quite a few more successes with other people covering his songs for the rest of the 1970s. For instance, Three Dog Night had a Top Five hit with "Never Been to Spain," and Ringo Starr had a Top Five hit with "No No Song."

I've tried to avoid including songs sung by Axton, since this is supposed to be a collection of other musical acts covering his songs. However, I've included two duets he was involved in. "When the Morning Comes," a duet with Linda Ronstadt, is particularly notable for being his biggest hit as a singer. It reached Number 10 in the U.S. country chart in 1974.

He kept putting out new music until the end of his life. He died in 1999 at the age of 61 due to a heart attack.

Axton's songs weren't often big hits, though occasionally they were. However, they usually were distinctive and interesting.   

This album is 46 minutes long. 

01 Greenback Dollar (Kingston Trio)
02 The Pusher (Steppenwolf)
03 Willie Jean (Sunshine Company)
04 Joy to the World (Three Dog Night)
05 Snowblind Friend (Steppenwolf)
06 Ease Your Pain (Jackie DeShannon)
07 Never Been to Spain (Three Dog Night)
08 Sweet Fantasy (Glen Campbell)
09 When the Morning Comes (Hoyt Axton & Linda Ronstadt)
10 No No Song (Ringo Starr)
11 Sweet Misery (Martha Reeves)
12 Southbound (Three Dog Night)
13 Boney Fingers (Hoyt Axton & Rene Armand)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/V6H6sG3w

alternate:

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

I don't know where or when the cover photo is from. The original was in black and white, but I colorized it with the help of the Kolorize program. 

John Mayer with Buddy Guy - PBS Soundstage, WTTW Studios, Chicago, IL, 6-29-2004

Here's yet another episode of the great "PBS Soundstage" TV show. This one stars singer-songwriter John Mayer. But it also includes blues legend Buddy Guy as a guest star.

I'm not a huge John Mayer fan, but his music is certainly good enough to be worthy of a Soundstage episode. And while that show encourages the inclusion of guest stars, I was impressed that Mayer chose Buddy Guy, out of all people. Like Guy, Mayer is a talented lead guitarist, and the two of them jammed well together near the end of the concert. Guy also got to sing one of his songs at the end.

At the time of this concert, Mayer had released two albums. Both of them sold at least three million copies. So he was at or near the peak of his popularity, though he continued to sell at that level through the rest of the decade.

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

This album is 57 minutes long.

01 talk (John Mayer)
02 Clarity (John Mayer)
03 No Such Thing (John Mayer)
04 talk (John Mayer)
05 Something's Missing (John Mayer)
06 talk (John Mayer)
07 Why Georgia (John Mayer)
08 talk (John Mayer)
09 Bigger than My Body (John Mayer)
10 Daughters (John Mayer)
11 talk (John Mayer)
12 Your Body Is a Wonderland (John Mayer)
13 Come Back to Bed (John Mayer with Buddy Guy)
14 talk (John Mayer with Buddy Guy)
15 Damn Right, I've Got the Blues (John Mayer & Buddy Guy)
16 talk (John Mayer with Buddy Guy) 

https://pixeldrain.com/u/htLkXHt1

alternate: 

https://bestfile.io/en/voUMgU0Zop1kzZm/file

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

Dionne Warwick - BBC In Concert, Mermaid Theatre, London, Britain, 9-4-2005

Here's a BBC concert for Dionne Warwick. She's had a very long career, starting in the early 1960s and continuing to this day as I write this in 2025, but this seems to be the only concert that she did for the BBC, at least as far as I can tell.

It's too bad this wasn't from earlier in her career. But in terms of song selection, it basically was. I'm pretty sure that every single song here is from the early 1960s until the early 1980s, which was her long hit-making era. And, not surprisingly for her, the vast majority of the songs were written by the remarkable songwriting team of Burt Bacharach and Hal David.

After a long spoken intro over some music, the rest of the concert is practically one long medley, with almost no breaks between songs. But she alternated between performing truncated versions of some songs and full versions of other songs.

This is another album where I must thank musical friend Progsprog. I didn't know this existed, and it doesn't seem available on the Internet. But he had it and sent it to me. 

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

This album is 56 minutes long. 

01 Intro (Dionne Warwick)
02 Here I Am - The April Fools (Dionne Warwick)
03 Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head (Dionne Warwick)
04 Arthur's Theme [Best That You Can Do] (Dionne Warwick)
05 [Theme From] Valley of the Dolls (Dionne Warwick)
06 The Look of Love (Dionne Warwick)
07 A House Is Not a Home (Dionne Warwick)
08 What the World Needs Now (Dionne Warwick)
09 Walk On By (Dionne Warwick)
10 Anyone Who Had a Heart (Dionne Warwick)
11 You'll Never Get to Heaven [If You Break My Heart] (Dionne Warwick)
12 Message to Michael (Dionne Warwick)
13 This Girl's in Love with You (Dionne Warwick)
14 Alfie (Dionne Warwick)
15 talk (Dionne Warwick)
16 All the Love in the World (Dionne Warwick)
17 Heartbreaker (Dionne Warwick)
18 I'll Never Love This Way Again (Dionne Warwick)
19 That's What Friends Are For (Dionne Warwick)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/nz2HaRv4

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/h0FOKwK2ZtW5wpt/file

The cover photo isn't from this exact concert, but it's close. It's from the concert she did the night before, at the Hackney Empire in London, on September 3, 2005.

Buffy Saint-Marie - BBC In Concert, Hammersmith Odeon, London, Britain, 11-11-1992

Here's a BBC concert by American singer-songwriter Buffy Sainte-Marie. 

I've already discussed Sainte-Marie some when I posted a "Songwriters' Circle" album that she was involved in. You can read more about her there, including a Wikipedia link to even more:

https://albumsthatshouldexist.blogspot.com/2025/01/donovan-buffy-sainte-marie-roger-cook.html

I'll just add some more information relevant to this album. Sainte-Marie had a successful career in the 1960s and early 1970s. But then she went 16 years without releasing an album of new music. That changed in 1992, with her album "Coincidence and Likely Stories." It was mostly ignored in the U.S., failing to make the charts. But it got a better reception in Britain, even resulting in two minor hit singles there. "The Big Ones Get Away" in particular made the Top Forty. So the songs here are about an even split between those from her most recent album at the time and her best known songs from earlier in her career.

This concert has been pretty much impossible to find on the Internet, as far as I could tell. But musical associate Progsprog had a copy and passed it on to me. So a big thanks to him. 

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

This album is 56 minutes long. 

01 talk (Buffy Saint-Marie)
02 Getting Started (Buffy Saint-Marie)
03 talk (Buffy Saint-Marie)
04 The Piney Wood Hills (Buffy Saint-Marie)
05 talk (Buffy Saint-Marie)
06 The Big Ones Get Away (Buffy Saint-Marie)
07 I'm Gonna Be a Country Girl Again (Buffy Saint-Marie)
08 talk (Buffy Saint-Marie)
09 Disinformation (Buffy Saint-Marie)
10 talk (Buffy Saint-Marie)
11 Universal Soldier (Buffy Saint-Marie)
12 talk (Buffy Saint-Marie)
13 Fallen Angels (Buffy Saint-Marie)
14 Until It's Time for You to Go (Buffy Saint-Marie)
15 talk (Buffy Saint-Marie)
16 Bad End (Buffy Saint-Marie)
17 Soldier Blue (Buffy Saint-Marie)
18 talk (Buffy Saint-Marie)
19 The Priests of the Golden Bull (Buffy Saint-Marie)
20 talk (Buffy Saint-Marie)
21 Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee (Buffy Saint-Marie)
22 talk (Buffy Saint-Marie)
23 Starwalker (Buffy Saint-Marie)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/STUM34h7

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/chFZzhQhYHoMKP7/file

The cover photo is from a concert in Paris, France, on February 22, 1993. 

KT Tunstall - PBS Soundstage, WTTW Studios, Chicago, IL, 5-6-2006

Here's another episode of the excellent "PBS Soundstage" TV show. This one stars singer-songwriter KT Tunstall.

Tunstall had a massive debut album in 2004. "Eye to the Telescope" sold nearly five million copies worldwide. So her popularity was still soaring at the time of this concert in 2006. Her next album wouldn't be released until 2007, so this mostly consists of songs from that debut album. 

Unfortunately, the popularity of her debut wasn't sustained. But I think she's put out quality music all along.

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

This album is 54 minutes long. 

01 talk (KT Tunstall)
02 Other Side of the World (KT Tunstall)
03 talk (KT Tunstall)
04 Miniature Disasters (KT Tunstall)
05 Under the Weather (KT Tunstall)
06 Another Place to Fall (KT Tunstall)
07 Universe and U (KT Tunstall)
08 talk (KT Tunstall)
09 Black Horse and the Cherry Tree (KT Tunstall)
10 talk (KT Tunstall)
11 Hollywood Hills (KT Tunstall)
12 Heal Over (KT Tunstall)
13 talk (KT Tunstall)
14 Suddenly I See (KT Tunstall)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/eV9ZqTNt

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/JeBGNkeZ9qqw5ST/file

The cover photo is from this exact concert. 

Gilbert O'Sullivan - BBC Sessions, Volume 3: 1972-1976

I recently found some Gilbert O'Sullivan BBC session material that I'd missed. In fact, I found so many that I split what had been "BBC Sessions, Volume 1" into a revamped "Volume 1" plus this album. (In between chronologically is a 1971 concert that makes up "Volume 2.") So, before I say anything more, if you want to download this, you should redownload "Volume 1." I added five songs I'd previously missed to that one, and moved a bunch of songs from there to here, and so on. 

Here's the link to the revised version:

https://albumsthatshouldexist.blogspot.com/2025/05/gilbert-osullivan-bbc-sessions-volume-1.html

Furthermore, note that while "Volume 2" stays exactly the same, I also had to renumber the two BBC volumes that come after this one. That includes "Volume 4," which I just posted here a few days prior to this, and is now called "Volume 5." (Sigh.) Here are the updated links for those:

https://albumsthatshouldexist.blogspot.com/2025/05/gilbert-osullivan-bbc-sessions-volume-3.html

https://albumsthatshouldexist.blogspot.com/2025/12/gilbert-osullivan-bbc-sessions-volume-4.html 

The first seven songs here were moved from the old "Volume 1." They all are from the BBC "Top of the Pops" radio show (not to be confused with the TV show of the same name), and were very rare until an anonymous musical friend passed them on to me. However, everything else is new. All the remaining songs come from TV shows, mostly from the BBC, but with a couple of non-BBC ones thrown in there too.

Tracks 8 and 9 are from a TV special called "Burt Bacharach: Opus No. 3," in 1973. O'Sullivan almost never performed cover songs, but he did a short version of the Bacharach classic "Do You Know the Way to San Jose." Then he did a version of his big hit "Alone Again (Naturally)" with Bacharach essentially interviewing him for about a minute during the middle of the song!  

Tracks 10 and 11 are from the "Midnight Special" TV show in 1973. It was the only time he was on that show. Tracks 12, 13, and 14 are from the BBC TV show "It's Lulu." Track 15 is from a TV special called "Gilbert O'Sullivan: Welcome to My Show." I wish I had more, but unfortunately, most of it seems to have been lost or at least remains unavailable. This one song probably survived because it was a duet with Elton John. (And one other song performed by John survived as well.) Tracks 16 and 17 are from the BBC TV show "Lulu" in 1975. And the last song is from the BBC TV show "Shirley Bassey" in 1976.

I ran into a bit of a problem with all these different sources. O'Sullivan had a huge hit with "Get Down" in 1973, as it went to Number One in Britain and made the Top Ten in the U.S. I ended up with three versions of the song here, including two right in a row. The first, from the "Top of the Pops" radio show, is O'Sullivan doing it on his own. Then track 14 is a version of him performing the song as a duet with Lulu. Right after that, track 15, is a duet version with Elton John. I thought all three were different and interesting enough for me to include them all.

Everything here is unreleased. The sound quality is excellent. 

This album is 50 minutes long.

01 Bye Bye (Gilbert O'Sullivan)
02 Ooh Wakka Doo Wakka Day (Gilbert O'Sullivan)
03 But I'm Not (Gilbert O'Sullivan)
04 Clair (Gilbert O'Sullivan)
05 I Hope You'll Stay (Gilbert O'Sullivan)
06 Out of the Question (Gilbert O'Sullivan)
07 Get Down (Gilbert O'Sullivan)
08 Do You Know the Way to San Jose (Gilbert O'Sullivan & Burt Bacharach)
09 Alone Again [Naturally] (Gilbert O'Sullivan & Burt Bacharach)
10 Ooh Baby (Gilbert O'Sullivan)
11 Who Knows Perhaps Maybe (Gilbert O'Sullivan)
12 Why Oh Why Oh Why (Gilbert O'Sullivan)
13 talk (Gilbert O'Sullivan)
14 Get Down (Gilbert O'Sullivan & Lulu)
15 Get Down (Gilbert O'Sullivan & Elton John)
16 Nothing to Do about Much (Gilbert O'Sullivan)
17 You Are You (Gilbert O'Sullivan)
18 Can't Get Enough of You (Gilbert O'Sullivan)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/7uve1osJ

alternate: 

https://bestfile.io/en/phyte77MENyKMVA/file

The cover photo is taken from the Burt Bacharach TV special where tracks 8 and 9 are from. Bacharach was in the original image, but I cropped him out to focus on O'Sullivan. 

Bob Dylan - Outlaw Music Festival, Jones Beach Theater, Wantagh, New York, 8-1-2025

Here's a Bob Dylan concert from only a few months ago (as I write this in December 2025). It's rare that I post a concert from this recent, often because of sound quality issues. But this is a special case. Someone managed to record the IEM (in ear monitor) version of this concert. This is a wireless feed of the music the band members were listening to, so they could easily hear each other. That means the sound quality is fantastic, like an excellent soundboard bootleg.

There was only one downside to this IEM recording. In this case, almost nothing of the audience was heard. Furthermore, often the tracks ended immediately after the song ended, because otherwise one would have just heard eerie silence. So I fixed this in two ways. One, I used the MVSEP program to split the songs into crowd noise and everything else. Then, if there was sufficient crowd noise to work with, I greatly, greatly boosted the volume of the crowd noise. Unfortunately, there were only a handful of songs with enough crowd noise to use this method. So that took me to the second method. For all the songs where I had no other option, I copied and pasted crowd noise in, from the ends of other songs. 

So now one can hear the crowd reactions you'd expect at the ends of all the songs. With this change made, this is probably the best sounding Dylan concert bootleg of the last ten years or more. That's my guess, at any rate. The previous one that had similar quality is from 2009, and I've posted that here.

Actually, there are three Dylan concerts from 2025 where someone captured the IEM feed. The other two have more issues though. In my opinion, this one sounded the best, so that's why I put in a lot of work to get the crowd noise problem fixed. 

This album is an hour and 17 minutes long.

01 Gotta Serve Somebody (Bob Dylan)
02 I Can Tell (Bob Dylan)
03 Forgetful Heart (Bob Dylan)
04 Axe and the Wind (Bob Dylan)
05 To Ramona (Bob Dylan)
06 Early Roman Kings (Bob Dylan)
07 Under the Red Sky (Bob Dylan)
08 I'll Make It All Up to You (Bob Dylan)
09 All Along the Watchtower (Bob Dylan)
10 'Til I Fell in Love with You (Bob Dylan)
11 Desolation Row (Bob Dylan)
12 Love Sick (Bob Dylan)
13 Share Your Love with Me (Bob Dylan)
14 Blind Willie McTell (Bob Dylan)
15 Highway 61 Revisited (Bob Dylan)
16 talk (Bob Dylan)
17 Searching for a Soldier's Grave (Bob Dylan)
18 Don't Think Twice, It's All Right (Bob Dylan) 

https://pixeldrain.com/u/RX9e1xVK

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/ZMCc1aifpWeJfVQ/file

The cover image is from this exact concert.

The Bee Gees with Jerry Lee Lewis - The Midnight Special, NBC Studios, Burbank, CA, 4-6-1973

Here's another episode of the Bee Gees performing for the "Midnight Special" TV show. Each time they were on, they did a duet with another star. This time, that other star is 1950s rocker Jerry Lee Lewis.

The Bee Gees had a down year in 1973, compared to their usual hit-making ways in the late 1960s and all through the 1970s. They did have one song, "Saw a New Morning," just barely scrape the bottom of the Top 100 in the U.S. singles chart. It's a nice song though, and they performed it here.

I beefed up the Bee Gees performance by adding two songs they did for a different episode of the show. "Bad Bad Dreams" and "Don't Wanna Be the One" are from a November 23, 1973 episode.

Jerry Lee Lewis was one of a few artists who were big in the 1950s who kept having hits in the 1970s. His trick was switching from being a rock and roll star to being a country star. However, for this episode, he stuck solely to his 1950s rock and roll style, probably figuring, correctly, the show was more targeted towards rock music. 

A highlight of this album is Jerry Lee Lewis dueting with the Bee Gees on the Motown classic "Money (That's What I Want)." You can see them performing it together in the cover art.

A big thanks to GMan. He helped cut up the episode into mp3 files, and named them. Then I did some advanced work, adding applause at the ends of songs that got abruptly cut off for commercial breaks and such (which was most of them). I also edited some of the talk tracks. For instance, for the first track, I removed the theme song music and replace it with applause. And by the way, if anyone else wants to volunteer to help, I could get more of these episodes posted faster. There are dozens still to come.

In case you're curious, the other musical acts in this episode were Gladys Knight and the Pips, Frank Welker (doing comedy), Johnny Nash, Jim Weatherly, and Skeeter Davis. I've already posted the Gladys Knight songs elsewhere.

This album is 39 minutes long.

01 talk [Edit] (Wolfman Jack)
02 To Love Somebody (Bee Gees)
03 talk (Bee Gees)
04 Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On (Jerry Lee Lewis)
05 Lonely Days (Bee Gees)
06 talk [Edit] (Bee Gees)
07 Money [That's What I Want] (Jerry Lee Lewis & Bee Gees)
08 Good Golly, Miss Molly - Jenny Jenny - Tutti Frutti - Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin On (Jerry Lee Lewis)
09 Saw a New Morning (Bee Gees)
10 New York Mining Disaster 1941 (Bee Gees)
11 I Started a Joke - Massachusetts (Bee Gees)
12 How Can You Mend a Broken Heart (Bee Gees)
13 Bad Bad Dreams (Bee Gees)
14 Don't Wanna Be the One (Bee Gees)
15 talk [Edit] (Bee Gees) 

https://pixeldrain.com/u/AmxKkWmC

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/xDqHC6coPq2edqc/file

The cover photo is from this exact concert.

Sparks - Live at the Record Plant, Record Plant, Los Angeles, CA, 9-1-1974

Here's another episode from the great "Live at the Record Plant" radio show. This one stars the band Sparks. 

I'm rather surprised this is the first Sparks albums I've posted. I have several BBC concerts from them that I'll hopefully post eventually.

Sparks is an American band that was formed in 1971. Their second album, "Kimono My House," was a big hit, but only in Britain, not in the U.S. One song from that album, "This Town Ain't Big Enough for Both of Us," made it all the way to Number Two in the British singles chart. Another song, "Amateur Hour," made the Top Ten there. But neither song even charted in the U.S. So they must have been pretty unknown to the radio audience at the time of this concert. 

They would eventually find some success in the U.S., but gradually, and not nearly to the extent of their success in Britain and the rest of Europe.

The music here is unreleased. The sound quality is excellent. However, I did have to fix some things. There was some hiss during the banter bits, so I got rid of that using the MVSEP program. I also used that program to boost the lead vocals relative to the instruments. 

This album is 39 minutes long. 

01 talk (Sparks)
02 Hasta Manana, Monsieur (Sparks)
03 talk (Sparks)
04 Something for the Girl with Everything (Sparks)
05 talk (Sparks)
06 Talent Is an Asset (Sparks)
07 talk (Sparks)
08 Thank God It's Not Christmas (Sparks)
09 BC (Sparks)
10 talk (Sparks)
11 Here in Heaven (Sparks)
12 This Town Ain't Big Enough for Both of Us (Sparks)
13 talk (Sparks)
14 Amateur Hour (Sparks)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/tUGHpbDf

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/UeBiFbfcyJ5H4di/file

The cover photo is from an appearance on a German TV show called "Disco," in 1974. I removed a couple of Disco logos in the picture, using Photoshop.

Randy Newman - BBC Sessions, Volume 3: Sight and Sound, Planet Theatre, Slough, Britain, 2-26-1983

Here's another BBC concert album by Randy Newman. It's from the BBC TV show "Sight and Sound."

This will probably be the last BBC album from him, unless something else emerges. Actually, there is one more BBC concert he did, but I don't plan on posting it, because it's been officially released as the album "Live in London" in 2011.

In early 1983, Newman released the album "Trouble in Paradise." It was one of his best sellers, helped along by the popular song "I Love L.A." Many of the songs here come from that album, although he avoided that song (either that or the BBC edited it from a longer concert).

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

This album is 41 minutes long. 

01 talk (Randy Newman)
02 Simon Smith and His Amazing Dancing Bear (Randy Newman)
03 Birmingham (Randy Newman)
04 talk (Randy Newman)
05 A Real Emotional Girl (Randy Newman)
06 talk (Randy Newman)
07 Christmas in Cape Town (Randy Newman)
08 Short People (Randy Newman)
09 talk (Randy Newman)
10 God's Song [That's Why I Love Mankind] (Randy Newman)
11 talk (Randy Newman)
12 The Blues (Randy Newman)
13 talk (Randy Newman)
14 The Girls in My Life [Part One] (Randy Newman)
15 Rednecks (Randy Newman)
16 talk (Randy Newman)
17 Jolly Coppers on Parade (Randy Newman)
18 Baltimore (Randy Newman)
19 talk (Randy Newman)
20 My Life Is Good (Randy Newman)
21 talk (Randy Newman)
22 Political Science (Randy Newman)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/NzVhj4Vp

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/T4YkMgVViA5nvlf/file

The cover photo is from an appearance on the "Saturday Night Live" TV show, on February 26, 1983.

All Our Colors Benefit, Shoreline Amphitheatre, Mountain View, CA, 10-10-1992 - Part 6: Santana

Here's the sixth and final album from the "All Our Colors" benefit concert in 1992. For an overview of the concert as a whole, check out my write-up for Part 1. This is a set by Santana. 

It's a bit unusual in that about half of the set prominently features guest stars Ry Cooder and Steve Miller. No doubt, lead guitarist Carlos Santana took advantage of the fact that these two other talented guitarists were at the venue, since they had performed in earlier sets. Mostly, Cooder and Miller jammed on guitars with Santana, but Miller also did the lead vocals on the blues classic "All Your Love (I Miss Loving)."

I'm guessing that John Lee Hooker, who played a set earlier in the evening, went to sleep already, since he was well over 70 years old by this time. Had he been awake, he probably would have wanted to join in on "The Healer," because it's a song from Hooker's 1989 album of the same name. Santana co-wrote it and performed on it. 

This album is an hour and 15 minutes long. 

01 talk (Santana)
02 Peace on Earth... Mother Earth... Third Stone from the Sun (Santana)
03 Somewhere in Heaven (Santana)
04 Viva La Vida [Life Is for Living] (Santana)
05 Savor [Instrumental] (Santana)
06 talk (Santana)
07 The Healer [Instrumental] (Santana with Ry Cooder)
08 talk (Santana with Ry Cooder)
09 All Your Love [I Miss Loving] (Santana with Ry Cooder & Steve Miller)
10 Sacred Fire [Instrumental] (Santana with Ry Cooder & Steve Miller)
11 Why Can't We Live Together (Santana with Ry Cooder & Steve Miller)
12 Exodus (Santana with Ry Cooder & Steve Miller)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/W1VeBVud

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/tvlzB8CYRYgsZ6o/file

The cover photo of Carlos Santana is from this exact concert.

All Our Colors Benefit, Shoreline Amphitheatre, Mountain View, CA, 10-10-1992 - Part 5: Jackson Browne

Here's the fifth album from the "All Our Colors" benefit concert in 1992. For an overview of the concert as a whole, check out my write-up for Part 1. This is a set by Jackson Browne.

In late 1993, a year after this concert, Browne would release the album "I'm Alive." But he already performed a three songs from it at this concert: "I'm Alive," "All Good Things," and "Miles Away." Many of the other songs played were from his 1980s albums.

This set includes a nice guest appearance by Bonnie Raitt on two songs, with her singing and playing slide guitar. Browne and Raitt were friends and usually played together when they were nearby. Raitt was scheduled to headline the similar themed benefit concert in the same venue one day later, so it made sense she was there watching this concert too. 

This album is an hour and three minutes long. 

01 talk (Jackson Browne)
02 Before the Deluge (Jackson Browne with David Lindley)
03 talk (Jackson Browne)
04 I'm Alive (Jackson Browne)
05 talk (Jackson Browne)
06 Miles Away (Jackson Browne)
07 talk (Jackson Browne)
08 Soldier of Plenty (Jackson Browne)
09 In the Shape of a Heart (Jackson Browne)
10 talk (Jackson Browne)
11 World in Motion (Jackson Browne with Bonnie Raitt)
12 talk (Jackson Browne with Bonnie Raitt)
13 Here Come Those Tears Again (Jackson Browne with Bonnie Raitt)
14 talk (Jackson Browne)
15 All Good Things (Jackson Browne)
16 talk (Jackson Browne)
17 Lawless Avenues (Jackson Browne)
18 talk (Jackson Browne)
19 The Pretender (Jackson Browne)
20 talk (Jackson Browne)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/55ERHawF

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/zyYdIN2dwvMuAK9/file

The cover photo is from this exact concert. 

All Our Colors Benefit, Shoreline Amphitheatre, Mountain View, CA, 10-10-1992 - Part 4: The Steve Miller Band

Here's the fourth album from the "All Our Colors" benefit concert in 1992. For an overview of the concert as a whole, check out my write-up for Part 1. This is a set by the Steve Miller Band. 

This set was a little different from most Steve Miller Band concerts in that Miller and his band mates played on acoustic instruments. While most of his set was devoted to his big hits from the 1960s and 70s, he also played some blues covers. None of the songs played came from recent albums. (He would have a comeback album of sorts the next year with "Wide River.")

This album is 46 minutes long. 

01 talk (Steve Miller Band)
02 Fly like an Eagle (Steve Miller Band)
03 Seasons (Steve Miller Band)
04 Honey, Where You Going (Steve Miller Band)
05 talk (Steve Miller Band)
06 Mercury Blues (Steve Miller Band)
07 talk (Steve Miller Band)
08 I'm Tore Down (Steve Miller Band)
09 Gangster of Love (Steve Miller Band)
10 Living in the U.S.A. (Steve Miller Band)
11 talk (Steve Miller Band)
12 Dance, Dance, Dance (Steve Miller Band)
13 talk (Steve Miller Band)
14 Rock'n Me (Steve Miller Band)
15 Take the Money and Run (Steve Miller Band)
16 talk (Steve Miller Band)
17 Jet Airliner (Steve Miller Band)
18 talk (Steve Miller Band)
19 The Joker (Steve Miller Band)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/F6iCiLoJ

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/BSLcAPbow7uvuFq/file

The cover photo is from this exact concert. 

All Our Colors Benefit, Shoreline Amphitheatre, Mountain View, CA, 10-10-1992 - Part 3: John Lee Hooker with Ry Cooder

Here's the third album from the "All Our Colors" benefit concert in 1992. For an overview of the concert as a whole, check out my write-up for Part 1. This is a set by blues legend John Lee Hooker. For his entire set, he was backed on slide guitar by Ry Cooder.

If you're a fan of blues music, you should know John Lee Hooker, who is one of the biggest names in the genre. (He died in 2001 in his 80s, his exact age being uncertain.) He had a very long music career, starting with the classic hit single "Boogie Chillen," which was the best selling race record in 1949. By the 1980s, it seemed his best years were behind him. But in 1989, he had a career revival that started with the album "The Healer." It was a hit (for the blues genre), thanks in large part to many guest stars on it, such as Carlos Santana, Bonnie Raitt, Robert Cray, and Los Lobos. He repeated the guest star formula with his 1991 album "Mr. Lucky."

However, his relatively short set was pretty different from those albums. He performed without any backing other than Cooder, and generally played songs from much earlier in his career. But it does seem worth mentioning that Cooder helped produce "Mr. Lucky," so I'd guess that's how they started musically collaborating. 

This album is 24 minutes long. 

01 talk (John Lee Hooker with Ry Cooder)
02 Lonely Man (John Lee Hooker with Ry Cooder)
03 talk (John Lee Hooker with Ry Cooder)
04 Serve Me Right to Suffer (John Lee Hooker with Ry Cooder)
05 Hobo Blues (John Lee Hooker with Ry Cooder)
06 Crawling King Snake (John Lee Hooker with Ry Cooder)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/pM3c2HEf 

alternate: 

https://bestfile.io/en/Y9DY1Rm1QRX0CmD/file

The cover image is from this exact concert. That's Hooker on the left (wearing a hat) and Cooder on the right. I used Photoshop to move them a few feet closer together.

All Our Colors Benefit, Shoreline Amphitheatre, Mountain View, CA, 10-10-1992 - Part 2: John Trudell

Here's the second album from the "All Our Colors" benefit concert in 1992. For an overview of the concert as a whole, check out my write-up for Part 1. This is a set by John Trudell.

This concert was designed to support groups promoting the welfare and rights of Native Americans, so it was very fitting that Trudell performed. As Wikipedia puts it, he was a Native American author, poet, actor, musician, and political activist. (He died in 2015 at the age of 69.) He was more of a poet than a typical singer. As you can hear on this album, he spoke his poetry with a musical backing. 

In 1986, he put out his second album, "aka Graffiti Man." It slowly gained acclaim and popularity as a cassette-only release that spread through Native American gatherings. He released other albums after that. But in 1992, he redid "aka Graffiti Man" in a more professional manner, and had it released on CD and other formats, giving it wider release. A Rolling Stone Magazine review of the album stated that "Trudell employs basic rock, blues, traditional indigenous music, street shuffles, and folk songs to craft a compelling hybrid that encompasses many viewpoints and visions of reality." Most of the songs performed here come from that album.

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

John Trudell - Wikipedia 

This album is 39 minutes long.

01 talk (John Trudell)
02 Grafitti Man (John Trudell)
03 Rockin' the Res (John Trudell)
04 Fables and Other Realities (John Trudell)
05 Beauty in a Fade (John Trudell)
06 Johnny Damas and Me (John Trudell)
07 Crazy Horse (John Trudell)
08 talk (John Trudell)
09 Somebody's Kid (John Trudell)
10 Bombs Over Baghdad (John Trudell)
11 talk (John Trudell)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/QunU6hLK

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/laiIUHwlYvGU9JZ/file

The cover photo is from this exact concert. 

All Our Colors Benefit, Shoreline Amphitheatre, Mountain View, CA, 10-10-1992 - Part 1: Mickey Hart & Friends

Christopher Columbus reached the Americas on October 12, 1492, landing on an island in the Bahamas he named San Salvador. Almost exactly 500 years to the day after that, there was a series of concerts in the San Francisco Bay Area not celebrating Columbus, but instead celebrating Native American resistance to colonialism. This is the first set available from the first day of these concerts. I could only find the first day concert with high quality sound, so that's the only concert I'm posting.

This first day concert was called "All Our Colors: The Good Road Concert," held at the Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mountain View, California. The main acts were Mickey Hart and Friends, John Trudell, John Lee Hooker with Ry Cooder, the Steve Miller Band, Jackson Browne, and Santana. I'll be posting all of that. White Boy and the Wagon Burners and Red Thunder also performed, but I don't have that music. There also were pow wow dance performances in the hours prior to the start of the formal music program.

The second day concert, which I won't be posting, was called "Healing the Sacred Loop: The Next 500 Years," and was also held at the Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mountain View, California. The main acts were Cris Williamson, Todd Rundgren, Ry Cooder & David Lindley, Little Feat, Don Henley, and Bonnie Raitt. Then, on Monday October 12, 1992, a free concert was held at Crissy Field, in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park, with many of the same performers. I don't know why only the first day's concert is available with excellent sound quality, but it is what it is. If anyone has a worthy version of the other two concerts, please let me know.

These concerts were promoter Bill Graham's last big event that he was working on before he died in 1991. They were sponsored by the IITC Council (International Indian Treaty Conference), and the profits went to associated non-profits. 

Now, let me address this specific performance. Mickey Hart was one of two drummers for the Grateful Dead for decades. He also had a solo career that explored world music genres, especially through rhythm. Hart played drums during this set. But he was joined by many other musicians. Those included vocalists and multi-instrumentalists Bean, Tina, Candice  and Janelle of D'Cuckoo', Kitaro on keyboards, Michael Shrieve on drums, Marco Minnemann, Baba Olatunji of Planet Drum on percussion, and Steve Miller on guitar. As mentioned above, Miller would get his own set later in the concert. 

I have no idea what the actual names of these songs are, if they had specific names. If anyone knows, please let me know and I'll update the song list. 

Like all the other albums from this concert, the music is unreleased but the sound quality is excellent.  

This album is 52 minutes long. 

01 talk (Mickey Hart & Friends)
02 Pow Wow Jam 1 (Mickey Hart & Friends)
03 Pow Wow Jam 2 (Mickey Hart & Friends)
04 Pow Wow Jam 3 (Mickey Hart & Friends)
05 Pow Wow Jam 4 (Mickey Hart & Friends)
06 Pow Wow Jam 5 (Mickey Hart & Friends)

 https://pixeldrain.com/u/1fC88dHS

alternate: 

https://bestfile.io/en/B0rUk056QnViOn3/file 

The cover photo of Mickey Hart is from this exact concert. For the art framing the central photo, I used a promotional poster for the concert, and edited it to fit the space. 

Kansas - Best Of / Sampler (1974-1980) (A MIKE SOLOF GUEST POST)

Here's an album that came into being as a result of the Kansas concert that was posted here a few days ago. After guest poster Mike Solof suggested making an album of a concert from Kansas's 1979 Monolith tour, I agreed, but I mentioned that I was really familiar with the band's music. I only knew their big hits, especially "Dust in the Wind" and "Carry On Wayward Son." He really likes the band and thought that was a shame, so he offered to make a "best of" type album for newbies like me. I agreed again, and suggested that he post that on my blog too.

He went ahead and did that, so here we are. Of course, there are official "best of" albums for the band already. But Mike felt none of those had the ideal selection of songs that he wanted. He focused on just their 1970s heyday, because in the early 1980s they lost key members and became a kind of Christian rock band for a while, before returning to their roots (and getting some key members back) later in the decade. 

If you want to know more, Mike has made a PDF with his explanation, as he usually does. If you think some essential songs were left off, or there are songs that shouldn't have been included, leave a comment. Perhaps Mike will make an updated version.

Unusually for this blog, everything here is released and from the studio albums. But hopefully this is a sampler that will inspire some people to dive deeper into the Kansas catalog. 

This album is an hour and four minutes long. 

Before I get to the usual song list, here's the song list with names of the albums each song is from, and the year that album was released: 

01 Song for America - Song for America (1975)
02 Journey from Mariabronn - Kansas (1974)
03 Down the Road - Kansas (1974)
04 Carry On Wayward Son - Leftoverture (1976)
05 The Wall - Leftoverture (1976)
06 Miracles Out of Nowhere - Leftoverture (1976)
07 Point of Know Return - Point of Know Return (1977)
08 Dust in the Wind - Point of Know Return (1977)
09 How My Soul Cries Out for You - Monolith (1979)
10 A Glimpse of Home - Monolith (1979)
11 People of the South Wind - Monolith (1979)
12 Loner - Audio-Visions (1980)

And here's the usual song list: 

01 Song for America (Kansas)
02 Journey from Mariabronn (Kansas)
03 Down the Road (Kansas)
04 Carry On Wayward Son (Kansas)
05 The Wall (Kansas)
06 Miracles Out of Nowhere (Kansas)
07 Point of Know Return (Kansas)
08 Dust in the Wind (Kansas)
09 How My Soul Cries Out for You (Kansas)
10 A Glimpse of Home (Kansas)
11 People of the South Wind (Kansas)
12 Loner (Kansas)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/y1GhCvdC

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/h9B4sSiXYzdWPLl/file

Mike found the photo of the band. I don't know the details of where or when it's from. 

Gilbert O'Sullivan - BBC Sessions, Volume 5: Friday Night Is Music Night, Mermaid Theatre, London, Britain, 2-12-2016

I recently randomly stumbled across this concert by singer-songwriter Gilbert O'Sullivan. Since I've already posted four BBC albums by him, I decided to post it right away. It's a full concert with a complete orchestra backing him.

This is kind of the ultimate Gilbert O'Sullivan concert, due to the generous length, song selection, and many backing musicians. In addition to the orchestra mentioned above, O'Sullivan dueted with three different singers over the course of the concert.

I found this as a single file and then broke it into mp3s for each song. The music here is unreleased. The sound quality is excellent. 

This album is an hour and 43 minutes long. 

01 talk by Ken Bruce (Gilbert O'Sullivan)
02 Thunder and Lightning (Gilbert O'Sullivan)
03 Private Eye (Gilbert O'Sullivan)
04 Out of the Question (Gilbert O'Sullivan)
05 talk (Gilbert O'Sullivan)
06 Nothing Rhymed (Gilbert O'Sullivan)
07 Where Would We Be [Without Tea] (Gilbert O'Sullivan)
08 talk (Gilbert O'Sullivan)
09 We Will (Gilbert O'Sullivan & Eleanor McEvoy)
10 Houdini Said (Gilbert O'Sullivan)
11 Miss My Love Today (Gilbert O'Sullivan)
12 talk (Gilbert O'Sullivan)
13 I Guess I'll Always Love You (Gilbert O'Sullivan & Ayala)
14 talk (Gilbert O'Sullivan)
15 Can't Think Straight (Gilbert O'Sullivan)
16 talk (Gilbert O'Sullivan)
17 Ooh-Wakka-Doo-Wakka-Day (Gilbert O'Sullivan)
18 Clair (Gilbert O'Sullivan)
19 You Got Me Going (Gilbert O'Sullivan)
20 No Way (Gilbert O'Sullivan)
21 talk (Gilbert O'Sullivan)
22 No Matter How I Try (Gilbert O'Sullivan)
23 talk (Gilbert O'Sullivan & Bobby Davro)
24 Showbiz (Gilbert O'Sullivan & Bobby Davro)
25 Young at Heart [We'll Always Remain] (Gilbert O'Sullivan)
26 Or So They Say (Gilbert O'Sullivan)
27 talk (Gilbert O'Sullivan)
28 Lost a Friend (Gilbert O'Sullivan)
29 Why, Oh Why, Oh Why (Gilbert O'Sullivan)
30 Hold On to What You Got (Gilbert O'Sullivan)
31 talk (Gilbert O'Sullivan)
32 What's in a Kiss (Gilbert O'Sullivan)
33 Alone Again [Naturally] (Gilbert O'Sullivan)
34 Matrimony (Gilbert O'Sullivan)
35 Get Down (Gilbert O'Sullivan) 

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

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/MfpH01we0zmoDdS/file

The cover photo is from this exact concert. 

Various Artists - Colombian Volcano Disaster Appeal Concert, Royal Albert Hall, London, Britain, 2-9-1986

Here's a really interesting benefit concert. There aren't a lot of musical acts, but the ones that took part gave interesting performances, often with some unusual song choices. The big stars were David Gilmour (formerly of Pink Floyd), Pete Townshend (formerly of the Who), Annie Lennox (of Eurythmics) and Chrissie Hynde (of the Pretenders).

In November of 1985, the Nevada del Ruiz volcano erupted, causing a natural disaster in Colombia. It melted glaciers and caused catastrophic flooding that killed over 25,000 people. A native Colombian musician, Chucho Merchan, with the help of Pete Townshend, organized this benefit concert to raise funds for the surviving victims and to help raise awareness of their plight. Highlights of the concert were broadcast in many countries around the world, and a DVD of parts of it was eventually released. 

I had been aware of this concert for a long time, but I could only find the sets from the main stars. I put songs from the David Gilmour and Chrissie Hynde sets on albums I've posted elsewhere on this blog. However, I recently found virtually the entire concert, with excellent sound quality. So that inspired me to post this, and sooner rather than later.

The first three acts were popular in Britain around the of this concert, though their popularity didn't last. Working Week was a British jazz-dance band that had a hit with the song "Venceremos (We Will Win)" in 1984, plus some other minor hits in 1985 and 1986. 

Jaki Graham, a British soul and dance singer, had three Top Ten hits in Britain in 1985 and 1986, with "Could It Be I'm Falling in Love," "Round and Round," and "Set Me Free." But curiously, it seems she was only given time to perform one song, and she chose a song that wasn't one of her hits. 

The Communards were a British synth-pop duo. They had two really big hits and some smaller hits in Britain, though they had no success in the U.S. In 1986, their version of "Don't Leave Me This Way" reached Number One in the British singles chart, and was the biggest hit of the year in that country. However, that single wouldn't be released until about six months after this concert, which explains why they didn't play it here. They also had another big hit with "Never Can Say Goodbye" in 1987. At the time of this concert, they'd only had one minor hit, "You Are My World," but they didn't play it here.

Here are their Wikipedia entries: 

Working Week (band) - Wikipedia 

Jaki Graham - Wikipedia 

The Communards - Wikipedia 

I don't feel the need to explain the other musical acts in this concert, since they're well known and I've posted albums by each of them at this blog already. However, the timing of how this concert fit into their careers is worth mentioning. David Gilmour started a full-time solo career in 1984 after Pink Floyd broke up in 1983. But he hadn't done much as a solo artist after putting out a solo album in 1984, so his appearance here was notable. He would lead a new version of Pink Floyd starting in 1987.

Similarly, Pete Townshend started a full-time solo career after the Who broke up in 1982. At the time of this concert, he'd only released one solo album, in 1985. But in this concert, he only performed three Who songs, plus "Save It for Later," a cover of an English Beat song. 

Annie Lennox was a member of Eurythmics at this time. However, at the time, she was taking a short break due to some trouble with her voice. That's probably why she only sang one song on her own (while also singing a duet at the end). It was very unusual for her to appear as a solo artist. Her solo career wouldn't really begin until her first solo album in 1992.

Similarly, Chrissie Hynde was a member of the Pretenders at this time. By 1986, the Pretenders had basically become Hynde plus whomever she wanted to work with. But I guess she was billed under her own name because she performed with some different musicians than her usual band at the time. Plus, it seems that freed her to play some more interesting songs. She only did two Pretenders songs, the first two in her set. Then she did covers by the Beatles ("In My Life"), the Righteous Brothers, ("Little Latin Lupe Lu"), Bob Dylan ("Property of Jesus"), and KC and the Sunshine Band ("Give It Up"). That probably was her most eclectic set list ever, and the fact the last song was a duet with Annie Lennox was even more interesting.   

By the way, I saw that both actors Peter Richardson and Harry Enfield spoke during the concert. So I figure one of them has to be the emcee talking between songs. It sounds like the same person talking each time, but I'm not familiar with their voices, so I don't know which one it would be. If anyone can tell, please let me know so I can fix the song title info.   

This album is exactly two hours long. 

01 talk (emcee)
02 Inner City Blues [Make Me Wanna Holler] (Working Week)
03 Sweet Nothing (Working Week)
04 South Africa (Working Week)
05 Shot in the Dark (Working Week)
06 talk (emcee)
07 Heaven Knows (Jaki Graham)
08 talk (emcee)
09 Sentimental Journey (Communards)
10 Forbidden Love (Communards)
11 Don't Slip Away (Communards)
12 talk (emcee)
13 talk (Mike Oldfield & Maggie Reilly)
14 Moonlight Shadow (Mike Oldfield & Maggie Reilly)
15 talk (emcee)
16 You Know I'm Right (David Gilmour)
17 Run like Hell (David Gilmour)
18 Out of the Blue (David Gilmour)
19 Comfortably Numb (David Gilmour)
20 talk (emcee)
21 I'm One (Pete Townshend)
22 talk (Pete Townshend)
23 Save It for Later (Pete Townshend)
24 Pinball Wizard (Pete Townshend)
25 Magic Bus (Pete Townshend)
26 talk (emcee)
27 Blame It on the Sun (Annie Lennox)
28 talk (emcee)
29 Time, the Avenger (Chrissie Hynde)
30 Back on the Chain Gang (Chrissie Hynde)
31 talk (Chrissie Hynde)
32 In My Life (Chrissie Hynde)
33 Little Latin Lupe Lu (Chrissie Hynde)
34 Property of Jesus (Chrissie Hynde)
35 Give It Up (Chrissie Hynde & Annie Lennox)
36 talk (emcee)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/t9XbbPYK 

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/DEK86KzNjctEOg0/file

The cover image is from this exact concert. It's a screenshot I took from a video. It shows Chrissie Hynde and Annie Lennox together, on the last song in the concert. The video was very low-res and blurry, so the image has issues. But I was happy to at least come up with this, since I couldn't find any images of the two of them together. 

Gary U.S. Bonds - BBC In Concert, Hammersmith Odeon, London, Britain, 11-24-1981

Here's a BBC concert by Gary U.S. Bonds. It appears to be the only BBC concert he did, during the brief revival of his career in 1981.

Bonds had a rather strange career, and his strange stage name is a part of that. His real name is Gary Anderson. But early in his career, back around 1960, his record company insist that he call himself "U.S. Bonds." The thinking is that radio stations would mistake his records for obligatory public service announcements for the sale of U.S. bonds, which was a thing at the time, and thus he would get extra exposure. Whether he liked it or not, the name stuck, though he soon at least changed it to "Gary U.S. Bonds."

Bonds had a number of hits, all between 1960 and 1962, with "New Orleans" and "Quarter to Three" being the biggest. But then his career was basically forgotten for a long time. Between 1963 and 1980, he released over 20 singles, and none of them even made the charts. But then, in 1981, everything changed, due to music superstar Bruce Springsteen. Springsteen had long been a fan of Bonds' music, and performed "Quarter to Three" in many concerts. Springsteen was heavily involved in making Bonds' 1981 album, called "Dedication." He wrote three songs for it, including "This Little Girl," which became a Top Ten hit in the U.S. He and/or his E Street Band played on many songs, and he dueted with Bonds on another song, "Jole Blon." That helped the album reach Number 27 on the U.S. album chart. Music critic Dave Marsh later called it "one of the most successful comeback albums in rock and roll history." Springsteen would also be involved in two more albums by Bonds, in 1982 and 2004, though to less commercial success.

This concert leaned heavily on the "Dedication" album. Many of the songs are from it: "Jole Blon," "From a Buick 6" (a Bob Dylan cover),  "Daddy's Come Home," "The Pretender" (a Jackson Browne cover), "It's Only Love," (a Beatles cover), "Dedication," "Way Back When," "Your Love," and "This Little Girl" (those last two being Springsteen covers). In fact, only two songs aren't from the album, "Dear Lady Twist" and "Quarter to Three." Even his big 1960 hit "New Orleans" wasn't included (although that probably was a BBC editing decision, since this almost certainly consists of selections from a longer concert).

This is another album where I had help from a new volunteer named Ed. I gave him a long list of albums to choose to work from, and this was one he picked. Otherwise, I probably wouldn't have posted it for a long time. Ed edited all the files to improve the mix. 

There was one problem with the recording. The last song, "Quarter to Three," ended badly. On the BBC recording, a BBC DJ began talking over the music, announcing that the time allotted for the concert had come to an end. Then the song came to a sudden stop. I used the MVSEP program to wipe the DJ's voice, saving a little more of the music. Then I faded the song out, while adding in a growing amount of crowd noise, to bring the concert to a more satisfying end. That's why that last song has "[Edit]" in its title.

Everything here is unreleased. The sound quality is excellent. 

This album is 57 minutes long. 

01 Jole Blon (Gary U.S. Bonds)
02 From a Buick 6 (Gary U.S. Bonds)
03 talk (Gary U.S. Bonds)
04 Daddy's Come Home (Gary U.S. Bonds)
05 talk (Gary U.S. Bonds)
06 The Pretender (Gary U.S. Bonds)
07 talk (Gary U.S. Bonds)
08 Dear Lady Twist (Gary U.S. Bonds)
09 talk (Gary U.S. Bonds)
10 It's Only Love (Gary U.S. Bonds)
11 talk (Gary U.S. Bonds)
12 Dedication (Gary U.S. Bonds)
13 Way Back When (Gary U.S. Bonds)
14 Your Love (Gary U.S. Bonds)
15 talk (Gary U.S. Bonds)
16 This Little Girl (Gary U.S. Bonds)
17 talk (Gary U.S. Bonds)
18 Quarter to Three [Edit] (Gary U.S. Bonds)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/gth4teJz

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/PExtveOGjFIloHW/file

The cover photo is from a concert at the Hammersmith Odeon in 1981. But I don't know if it's from this exact concert or not, because I saw photos of him at that venue that year in different clothes, so he probably performed more than one concert there.