Jim Capaldi - Old Grey Whistle Test, New Victoria Theatre, London, Britain, 3-30-1976

Here's another album I recently discovered from the "Old Grey Whistle Test" BBC TV show. This is a concert by Jim Capaldi.

The British band Traffic was dominated by Steve Winwood, who did nearly all of the lead vocals, and cowrote most of the songs. But Jim Capaldi played a key role too, cowriting those songs with Winwood. When Traffic broke up in the early 1970s, Capaldi transitioned to a fairly successful solo career, showing himself to be a very capable lead singer as well.

At this point, his biggest success as a solo artist was a cover of the Everly Brothers classic "Love Hurts." Released in late 1975, his version made it all the way to Number Four in the British singles chart. That single also made his 1975 album, "Short Cut Draw Blood," a success. The songs "Goodbye Love," "Boy with a Problem," "Talkin' about My Baby," and "Keep On Trying" also come from that album. (Note that "Boy with a Problem" is about the drug problems of Traffic band member Chris Wood.)

Unfortunately for Capaldi, his solo career would be derailed by problems with his record company. Due to these problems, his next album wouldn't be released until 1978, which was an eternity in that era. Two of the songs here, "Short Ends" and "Elixir of Life," would eventually appear on that album, or the next one. Note that he didn't perform any Traffic songs here, though he usually did in his concerts. Probably that was because this was a relatively short concert, so some things had to be cut out.

The music here is unreleased. The sound quality is excellent. I found a video file of this concert, converted it to audio, and broke it into mp3s.

This album is 50 minutes long. 

01 talk by Bob Harris (Jim Capaldi)
02 Low Rider (Jim Capaldi)
03 talk (Jim Capaldi)
04 Love Hurts (Jim Capaldi)
05 talk (Jim Capaldi)
06 Goodbye Love (Jim Capaldi)
07 talk (Jim Capaldi)
08 Elixir of Life (Jim Capaldi)
09 talk (Jim Capaldi)
10 Boy with a Problem (Jim Capaldi)
11 talk (Jim Capaldi)
12 Short Ends (Jim Capaldi)
13 talk (Jim Capaldi)
14 Talkin' about My Baby (Jim Capaldi)
15 talk (Jim Capaldi)
16 Keep On Trying (Jim Capaldi)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/KCtgsrGB

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/NIxwqK01xdI2eTI/file

The cover image is a screenshot I took from this exact concert. I used the Krea AI program to improve the detail.