Leon Russell, Nick Lowe, & Paul Brady - Songwriters' Circle, Porchester Hall, London, Britain, 10-7-2011

Recently, a musical friend named Peter sent me several episodes of the "Songwriters' Circle" BBC TV show. That inspired me to organize some that I had already. So while I didn't get this one from Peter, his sharing is responsible for me finishing getting it ready to be posted. This episode features the singer-songwriters Leon Russell, Nick Lowe, and Paul Brady taking turns performing their songs.

I've already posted a bunch of music by Nick Lowe, with more to come, so I don't feel the need to say much about him. Suffice to say that he's great.

I've also already posted a joint Leon Russell and Elton John concert. But I didn't say that much about him then, so I'll say a bit more now. Actually, to make it easy on myself, I'll just quote the introductory paragraph to his Wikipedia entry:

"[Russell] was an American musician and songwriter who was involved with numerous bestselling records during his 60-year career that spanned multiple genres, including rock and roll, country, gospel, bluegrass, rhythm and blues, southern rock, blues rock, folk, surf and the Tulsa sound. His recordings earned six gold records and he received two Grammy Awards from seven nominations. In 1973, Billboard named Russell the 'Top Concert Attraction in the World.' In 2011, he was inducted into both the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and the Songwriters Hall of Fame." He died in 2016. 

Here's the link if you want to read the rest of the very informative Wikipedia entry about him:

Leon Russell - Wikipedia 

So that leaves Paul Brady, who is the least well known of the three. The Wikipedia intro isn't so good for him, so I'll try to write something myself. Brady is a singer-songwriter from Northern Ireland. His career began in the late 1960s and 1970s when he concentrated on playing traditional Irish music. But starting in the early 1980s, he switched to doing his own songs, in pop and rock styles. He didn't have big commercial success on his own, but many musical acts covered his songs, including Bonnie Raitt, Santana, Dave Edmunds, and Tina Turner. 

Here's an interesting quote that Bob Dylan included in his "Biograph" box set, released in 1985, that names Brady:

"[P]eople get too famous too fast these days and it destroys them. Some guys got it down - Leonard Cohen, Paul Brady, Lou Reed, secret heroes, John Prine, David Allen Coe, Tom Waits. I listen more to that kind of stuff than whatever is popular at the moment. They're not just witchdoctoring up the planet, they don't set up barriers."

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

Paul Brady - Wikipedia 

In terms of the musical content of this album, I don't have much to say. It follows the same format of other episodes of this TV series. Russell stuck to playing piano, while Lowe and Brady played acoustic guitars. They mostly just sang their own songs, but there are some backing vocals where they helped each other out, especially on the last couple of songs. 

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

This album is 58 minutes long. 

01 A Song for You (Leon Russell)
02 I Live on a Battlefield (Nick Lowe)
03 Smile (Paul Brady)
04 Tightrope (Leon Russell)
05 talk (Nick Lowe)
06 Cruel to Be Kind (Nick Lowe)
07 talk (Paul Brady)
08 Nobody Knows (Paul Brady)
09 Hummingbird (Leon Russell)
10 talk (Nick Lowe)
11 The Beast in Me (Nick Lowe)
12 talk (Paul Brady)
13 Crazy Dreams (Paul Brady)
14 Delta Lady (Leon Russell)
15 talk (Nick Lowe)
16 I Read a Lot (Nick Lowe)
17 talk (Paul Brady)
18 Luck of the Draw (Paul Brady)
19 This Masquerade (Leon Russell)
20 talk (Nick Lowe)
21 [What's So Funny 'Bout] Peace, Love and Understanding (Nick Lowe)
22 talk (Paul Brady)
23 The World Is What You Make It (Paul Brady) 

https://pixeldrain.com/u/p4Rb21Ce

alternate: 

https://bestfile.io/en/xjPlM2YBOzIA7Sw/file

The cover image is a screenshot I took from a video of this exact concert. From right to left: Leon Russell, Nick Lowe, and Paul Brady.

Nirvana - Palaghiaccio di Marino, Marino, Italy, 2-22-1994

I've never posted a Nirvana album until now. That hasn't been deliberate, I do like their music. But it seems to me there's a huge amount of attention on the bootlegs of just a few musical acts, like the Beatles, Led Zeppelin, Nirvana, and so on. I figure other websites are taking care of them, and I'd rather post more obscure stuff that's getting neglected. But if I can post something from those big acts that's different, I will. Recently, I got a request to post this Nirvana concert. I looked into it, and realized there were things I could do to improve the sound quality, so here it is, hopefully sounding better than ever before.

In late 1993, Nirvana released the album "In Utero." It was a big hit, going on to sell about 16 million copies worldwide. This appears to be the only truly excellent sounding live recording from the tour to promote the album, due to it being broadcast on Italian radio at the time. (That's not counting the "MTV Unplugged" concert, which was a different type of concert.) 

It's also important because it was one of the very last concerts Nirvana performed before the band's leader Kurt Cobain committed suicide, ending the band. This concert took place on February 22, 1994. After that, the band had one TV show appearance, plus four more concerts, with the last one on March 1st. On March 4th, Cobain very nearly overdosed on drugs, resulting in a canceling of the rest of the tour. About a month later, he was found dead of suicide back in Seattle, Washington. Apparently he died on April 5th, though his body wasn't discovered until three days later. So this concert is close to the last word from the band.

In terms of sound quality, this was almost too good. What I mean by that is the recording made for radio focused so well on recording what was happening on stage that very little audience noise was recorded. So I used MVSEP to split the tracks into crowd noise and everything else. Then I greatly boosted the volume of the crowd noise, and put the tracks back together. The crowd noise is still rather low sometimes, but at least now the songs get an expected crowd reaction. While I was at it, I noticed the vocals were also relatively low in the mix, which I've noticed is all too common for live recordings. So I fixed that too, using the same MVSEP method.

This recording already sounded excellent. But it should sound even better now, due to those two fixes. 

This album is an hour and 16 minutes long. 

01 Radio Friendly Unit Shifter (Nirvana)
02 Drain You (Nirvana)
03 Breed (Nirvana)
04 Serve the Servants (Nirvana)
05 Come as You Are (Nirvana)
06 Smells like Teen Spirit (Nirvana)
07 Sliver (Nirvana)
08 Dumb (Nirvana)
09 Run to the Hills [Instrumental] (Nirvana)
10 In Bloom (Nirvana)
11 About a Girl (Nirvana)
12 Lithium (Nirvana)
13 Pennyroyal Tea (Nirvana)
14 School (Nirvana)
15 Polly (Nirvana)
16 talk (Nirvana)
17 Very Ape (Nirvana)
18 talk (Nirvana)
19 Lounge Act (Nirvana)
20 talk (Nirvana)
21 Rape Me (Nirvana)
22 Territorial Pissings (Nirvana)
23 All Apologies (Nirvana)
24 On a Plain (Nirvana)
25 talk (Nirvana)
26 Scentless Apprentice (Nirvana)
27 Heart-Shaped Box (Nirvana)
28 Instrumental Jam (Nirvana)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/UYMnAkbw

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/user/files/VUoUXk0iyzJhI6t/edit

The cover photo of Kurt Cobain isn't from this exact concert, but it's close. It's a concert in Milan, Italy, that took place just a couple of days later. I actually tried to use a screenshot taken from this exact concert, but I decided the quality was low and it was better to try something else.

Tony Joe White - BBC Sessions, Volume 3: In Concert, American Music Festival, Crystal Palace Bowl, London, Britain, 7-2-1992

I recently posted two Tony Joe White BBC albums from the 1970s. This one is from much later, 1992, when he had a career revival.

White had a lot of commercial and critical success in the late 1960s and early 1970s. But he didn't have much success in the late 1970s and through most of the 1980s. Things started to turn around for him in 1989, due to his songwriting. Four of his songs were chosen for Tina Turner's 1989 album "Foreign Affair." Two of those were hits, "Steamy Windows" and "Undercover Agent for the Blues." (Both of those songs are performed here.) That gave his own music career a new lease on life, resulting in a new record contract. His 1991 album "Closer to the Truth" was mostly ignored in the U.S., but it sold pretty well in Europe and Australia. All the songs here are from that album, except for "Polk Salad Annie," which was a big hit for him in 1969.

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

This album is 29 minutes long. 

01 talk (Tony Joe White)
02 Undercover Agent for the Blues (Tony Joe White)
03 Tunica Motel (Tony Joe White)
04 Bi-Yo Rhythm (Tony Joe White)
05 [You're Gonna Look] Good in Blues (Tony Joe White)
06 Polk Salad Annie (Tony Joe White)
07 Steamy Windows (Tony Joe White)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/SRWG57A3

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/user/files/T03k8COYKPK3JVY/edit

The cover photo is from a concert in Hamburg, Germany, in February 1992. 

Diana Krall - BBC Sessions, Volume 1: Wigan Jazz Festival, The Mill at the Pier, Wigan, Britain, 7-17-1998

At first, two months ago in October 2025, I posted a Diana Krall BBC concert from 2004. I thought that was all there was, and I was lucky to find that, because searches of her name and BBC basically came up empty. Then, last month, I found another one from 2009. I thought that was all there was, and I was lucky to find that (due to Progsprog sharing his music with me). But a few days ago, yet another Diana Krall BBC concert appeared for the first time at a bootleg sharing site. So here we are again.

This one is from 1998, early in her career. (She released her first album in 1993.) Because of that, I'm renaming the other two, to "Volume 2" and "Volume 3," respectively. Here are the links to those updated versions:

https://albumsthatshouldexist.blogspot.com/2025/10/diana-krall-bbc-in-concert-mermaid.html

https://albumsthatshouldexist.blogspot.com/2025/11/diana-krall-bbc-sessions-volume-2.html

This is a relatively short concert. It's just a trio, with Krall on keyboards, plus a guitarist and bassist. So one could say it was an acoustic performance.

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

Let's hope more Diana Krall BBC concerts mysteriously emerge. 

This album is 50 minutes long. 

01 Frim-Fram Sauce (Diana Krall)
02 You’re Getting to Be a Habit with Me (Diana Krall)
03 You Call It Madness, but I Call It Love (Diana Krall)
04 ‘Deed I Do (Diana Krall)
05 I Love Being Here with You (Diana Krall)
06 talk (Diana Krall)
07 I’ve Got You Under My Skin (Diana Krall)
08 East of the Sun (Diana Krall)
09 Peel Me a Grape (Diana Krall)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/83n8JUz4

alternate: 

https://bestfile.io/en/u5UvYcSFLR2LgY0/file

The cover photo is from a concert at the Nice Jazz Festival in Nice, France, in 1998. 

Various Artists - Concert for a Landmine Free World, Point Theatre, Dublin, Ireland, 1-14-2002

I just found this the other day, and I liked it so much that I'm posting it straight away. I've posted a bunch of "Songwriter's Circle" BBC TV shows. This isn't from that show, but it follows the same format: several singer-songwriters sitting next to each other and taking turns singing their songs. In this case, there were four: Emmylou Harris, Steve Earle, Elvis Costello, and John Prine.

The concert was one of six concerts in Europe in 2002, all called "Concert for a Landmine Free World." This, in turn, was just one of several concert tours for that cause, which took place from at least 1997 to 2017. Most of them have been helmed by Emmylou Harris. However, I can't find much information about these tours. There was one official album containing some highlights from a 1999 tour, but it's very hard to find. Other than that, there are only a small number of bootlegs, and they generally are audience boots with sound quality too poor for my standards. 

This one concert is an exception though. This recording has been called a soundboard boot. I doubt that though, because one often hears clapping between songs from what sounds like people extremely close to the recording spot. I think it's more likely that it's just a very, very, very well recorded audience boot. Not all audience boots are the same. Every now and then, you can find one that sounds as good or better than a typical soundboard, if superior recording equipment was used, and the location was ideal, and the people nearby were quiet, and so forth. But whatever the case, this sounds good enough to be an official live album, so don't worry about the quality.

Of the six concerts in 2002, five of them also had Nanci Griffith in it. For some reason, in seems she couldn't attend this one. That's a bummer, but on the plus side it means we got even more songs from the remaining four stars, who in my opinion are all major musical talents. For the most part, each of them just sang and played guitar on their own songs. But later in the show, Emmylou Harris, who is kind of the queen of harmony vocalizing in the music world, sang backing vocals on some songs. And everyone joined in on two songs ("God's Comic" and "Paradise").    

This album is two hours long exactly. 

01 talk (Emmylou Harris)
02 Red Dirt Girl (Emmylou Harris)
03 talk (Steve Earle)
04 Now She's Gone (Steve Earle)
05 talk (Elvis Costello)
06 Our Little Angel (Elvis Costello)
07 talk (John Prine)
08 Souvenirs (John Prine)
09 talk (Emmylou Harris)
10 Bang the Drum Slowly (Emmylou Harris)
11 talk (Steve Earle)
12 Hometown Blues (Steve Earle)
13 talk (Elvis Costello)
14 Please (Elvis Costello)
15 That's the Way that the World Goes Round (John Prine)
16 talk (Emmylou Harris)
17 Michelangelo (Emmylou Harris)
18 talk (Elvis Costello)
19 God's Comic (Elvis Costello with Everyone)
20 Goodbye (Steve Earle & Emmylou Harris)
21 talk (Elvis Costello)
22 Shipbuilding (Elvis Costello)
23 talk (John Prine)
24 talk (John Prine)
25 The Other Side of Town (John Prine)
26 talk (Emmylou Harris)
27 Hour of Gold (Emmylou Harris)
28 talk (Steve Earle)
29 Tom Ames' Prayer (Steve Earle)
30 talk (Elvis Costello)
31 Alibi (Elvis Costello)
32 Sam Stone (John Prine with Emmylou Harris)
33 talk (Emmylou Harris & Elvis Costello)
34 Sleepless Nights (Emmylou Harris & Elvis Costello)
35 talk (Steve Earle)
36 Galway Girl (Steve Earle)
37 talk (John Prine)
38 Speed of the Sound of Loneliness (John Prine with Emmylou Harris)
39 talk (Emmylou Harris)
40 talk (Steve Earle)
41 Fort Worth Blues (Steve Earle with Emmylou Harris)
42 talk (Emmylou Harris)
43 Paradise (John Prine with Everyone)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/v18WJsJZ

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/xWxX8iu7hB5JDuJ/file

I couldn't find a photo from this exact concert. However, I found one from a concert in Belfast the day before. It had two other people in it, including Nanci Griffith. So I carefully zoomed in and cropped them out. The quality is a bit rough, and Krea AI didn't help much in this case.

Little Feat with Bonnie Raitt - BBC Sessions, Volume 2: In Concert, Town and Country Club, London, Britain, 12-8-1988

Here's the second and last Little Feat BBC album that I've found. Like the first one, it's a concert. It also features Bonnie Raitt playing on a few songs, and even sharing lead vocals on a couple of them.

At the end of the 1970s, Little Feat broke up. They also lost their main musical force, lead vocalist and lead guitarist Lowell George, who died in 1979. But the regrouped with the album "Let It Roll." Not only was it a surprise hit, but they actually had more commercial success than ever before. It contained two big hit songs, " Hate to Lose Your Lovin'" and "Let It Roll." I was just watching an NFL Thursday Night Football game last night, and the show played part of "Let It Roll" as background music at one point, showing how that song has become an establish classic. 

I think the key to their resurgence was Craig Fuller. You may not have heard of him, but he's a very talented songwriter. For instance, he wrote "Amie," a hit by the Pure Prairie League in 1972. He joined Little Feat when they reunited, and cowrote eight out of ten songs on their "Let It Roll" album. He also became one of the band's main lead vocalists. He stayed with the band until 1993, and occasional reunions after that. 

Anyway, the typical version of this concert bootleg is just short of an hour long. The BBC often cut concerts down to that length to make it fit an hour-long radio show time slot. But I found one version that was longer - an extra 40 minutes. I also found a set list of the correct song order, and saw the longer version had a scrambled song order. So I put the concert back pretty close to the correct order. ("Down on the Farm" is slightly out of place.)

As I mentioned above Bonnie Raitt was a guest star on some songs. For four songs, she played slide guitar and sometimes sang backing vocals. But for two songs, "Man Size Job" and "Rock and Roll Doctor," she shared lead vocals. Check the song list for the songs she was on, because she came and went from the stage multiple times. Note that Raitt has a long history with Little Feat, as she absolutely loves that band. For instance, I've also posted an episode of the "Midnight Special" from 1977 when she performed with the band then as well.

Here's a random side note. For years, I've been using the program TagScanner to help with making the mp3 tags and fixing the file names for the albums in my music collection. I've never had any notable problem with the program in all that time, except for one weird quirk: any time I have a song with "Little Feat" in the name, and I save a change, it changes it to "Little feat" (lower case "f"). Every single damn time! If I try "Little Fead" or anything else similar? No problem. Just the exact spelling of "Little Feat" specifically. And it's never happened with any other musical act name. It's so bizarre! Would anyone have an explanation for this? (Luckily, I also use a second program, called Mp3tag, so I fixed this problem in that program.) 

This album is an hour and 39 minutes long. 

01 Fat Man in a Bathtub (Little Feat)
02 Spanish Moon (Little Feat)
03 talk (Little Feat)
04 All that You Dream (Little Feat)
05 talk (Little Feat)
06 Cajun Girl (Little Feat)
07 Down on the Farm (Little Feat)
08 Hate to Lose Your Lovin' (Little Feat with Bonnie Raitt)
09 Oh Atlanta (Little Feat)
10 talk (Little Feat)
11 Man Size Job (Little Feat & Bonnie Raitt)
12 talk (Little Feat & Bonnie Raitt)
13 Rock and Roll Doctor (Little Feat & Bonnie Raitt)
14 talk (Little Feat)
15 Let It Roll (Little Feat)
16 talk (Little Feat)
17 Old Folks Boogie (Little Feat)
18 Dixie Chicken (Little Feat with Bonnie Raitt)
19 Tripe Face Boogie (Little Feat)
20 Willin' (Little Feat with Bonnie Raitt)
21 Feats Don't Fail Me Now (Little Feat with Bonnie Raitt)
22 talk (Little Feat)
23 Apolitical Blues (Little Feat)
24 Teenage Nervous Breakdown (Little Feat) 

https://pixeldrain.com/u/skqfCimg

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/EV2oJrVtpbvtSoZ/file

The cover photo is from an appearance on the "Saturday Night Live" TV show in 1988. I believe one band member got cropped out because he was way to the side. I would have liked to use a photo of the band with Bonnie Raitt from this time, but I couldn't find any like that except from the 1970s. To be honest, it was hard to even find a decent photo of the band from around 1988 at all.

In Concert Against AIDS, Oakland Coliseum Stadium, Oakland, CA, 5-27-1989, Part 4: The Grateful Dead with Clarence Clemons

Here's the fourth and last out of four albums I made from the "In Concert Against AIDS" concert in 1989. This one consists of a set by the Grateful Dead. Furthermore, they were joined by saxophonist Clarence Clemons for more than half of the songs they played.

In the late 1980s, the Grateful Dead had a surge of popularity. This was due to their 1987 hit album "In the Dark," and especially one song from it, "Touch of Grey," which was their only song to ever reach the Top Ten of the U.S. singles chart. As a result, they were the headliner for this benefit concert. 

They proceeded to play a typical concert, with a typically long length. This album is nearly two and a half hours long, and that's after I cut out many lengthy pauses between songs. But they did make a nod to the fact that many in the crowd weren't the usual devout Deadheads by performing their two best known songs, "Touch of Grey" and "Truckin'." 

By most accounts, their performance wasn't extraordinary or unusual compared to their many other concerts that year. But what did set it apart was the presence of Clarence Clemons of Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band joining with his saxophone on a majority of the songs. I mentioned Clemons in Part 2 of this concert, because he also played saxophone on a couple of John Fogerty's songs.

I looked it up, and it turns out Clemons joined in a Jerry Garcia Band concert earlier in 1989. But this was the first time he played with Garcia in an actual Grateful Dead concert. His soulful style added an interesting element. It was so successful that he went on to play at about a dozen more Dead concerts later that year. He sometimes played with the Dead and/or splinter bands after that, but not as frequently.

This album is two hours and 23 minutes long. 

53 Touch of Grey (Grateful Dead)
54 Greatest Story Ever Told (Grateful Dead)
55 Althea (Grateful Dead)
56 Walking Blues (Grateful Dead)
57 Iko Iko (Grateful Dead with Clarence Clemons)
58 Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again (Grateful Dead with Clarence Clemons)
59 Bird Song (Grateful Dead with Clarence Clemons)
60 Promised Land (Grateful Dead with Clarence Clemons)
61 Hell in a Bucket (Grateful Dead with Clarence Clemons)
62 Fire on the Mountain (Grateful Dead with Clarence Clemons)
63 Blow Away (Grateful Dead with Clarence Clemons)
64 Truckin' (Grateful Dead with Clarence Clemons)
65 Drums [Instrumental] (Grateful Dead)
66 Space [Instrumental] (Grateful Dead)
67 I Will Take You Home (Grateful Dead)
68 The Other One (Grateful Dead)
69 Wharf Rat (Grateful Dead)
70 Turn On Your Lovelight (Grateful Dead with Clarence Clemons)
71 Brokedown Palace (Grateful Dead with Clarence Clemons)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/Mg13oudf

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/xe9CMacMKAPTz4f/file

The cover photo shows the band's lead guitarist Jerry Garcia at this exact concert. 

In Concert Against AIDS, Oakland Coliseum Stadium, Oakland, CA, 5-27-1989, Part 2: John Fogerty with the Grateful Dead

Here's the second out of four albums I made from the "In Concert Against AIDS" concert in 1989. This one consists of a set by John Fogerty, backed by the Grateful Dead. Well, kind of the Grateful Dead, as I'll explain in a minute.

At the time, Fogerty hadn't been on tour since 1985, and he didn't have a backing band, so he got some very talented musicians to support him just for this concert. Specifically, he was supported Jerry Garcia on lead guitar, Bob Weir on rhythm guitar, Randy Jackson on bass, and Steve Jordan on drums. Jackson and Jordan were very well respected session musicians at the time. Jackson would later go on to greater fame as one of the judges on the "American Idol" TV show. And if you know anything about the Grateful Dead, you'd know the two best known members were Garcia and Weir. They were the lead vocalists and songwriters for the vast majority of the band's original songs. So whether one can consider this the Grateful Dead is debatable, since the other band members were missing. But in my opinion, at least, I'd consider anything with Garcia and Weir in it to be the essence of the Grateful Dead, even if it was just the two of them in a duo.

On top of that, Clarence Clemons added his saxophone playing for the last two songs. He was a long time member of Bruce Springsteen's E-Street Band, but he also had a hit of his own in the 1980s. 

Fogerty is best known as the leader of Creedence Clearwater Revival (CCR) in the 1960s and early 1970s. He effectively retired from the music business from 1976 to 1985. But then he came back with a big hit album in 1985 ("Centerfield") and another album in 1986. When he went on tour in 1985 and 1986 to support those albums, he avoided playing all of his many CCR hits, due to a dispute with his record company. But in 1987, he was persuaded to resume playing his CCR songs, and did so at a one-off benefit concert that year. I think this was the second big concert where he played those songs, and it was a big deal at the time. Furthermore, the fact that Garcia and Weir were going to back him on was announced in advance, adding to the anticipation.

Here's what a Los Angeles Times article from the day after the concert had to say: "Fogerty's set... [was] a wonderful occasion in and of itself. It wasn't just that Fogerty devoted most of the show to old Creedence Clearwater Revival hits that he rarely plays because of bitterness toward his old record company. It was the sheer, smiling delight and vocal aplomb he brought to the performance. Grateful Dead guitarists Jerry Garcia and Bob Weir lent unremarkable support, but Fogerty, drummer Steve Jordan, and bassist Randy Jackson supplied all the sizzle one could ask. Saxophonist Clarence Clemons, the day's only surprise guest, turned up to haunt through an encore rock-out to 'Suzie Q' and 'Long Tall Sally.'" 

As the article noted, Garcia and Weir were pretty restrained in their playing. Fogerty's songs were short and simple, so they respected that. That meant Garcia didn't go off on lengthy solos like he did with the Dead, but stuck to what the songs needed, based on the original versions. They also added backing vocals on some songs, with Weir singing more than Garcia. It looked like Garcia was having a ball, smiling through most of the set. Probably, he enjoyed simply being a backing musician through a bunch of classic songs that he loved, instead of having to be the main star, which was almost always the case for him. 

This album is 41 minutes long. 

24 Born on the Bayou (John Fogerty with the Grateful Dead)
25 talk (John Fogerty with the Grateful Dead)
26 Green River (John Fogerty with the Grateful Dead)
27 Down on the Corner (John Fogerty with the Grateful Dead)
28 talk (John Fogerty with the Grateful Dead)
29 Rock and Roll Girls (John Fogerty with the Grateful Dead)
30 talk (John Fogerty with the Grateful Dead)
31 Centerfield (John Fogerty with the Grateful Dead)
32 Proud Mary (John Fogerty with the Grateful Dead)
33 Midnight Special (John Fogerty with the Grateful Dead)
34 Bad Moon Rising (John Fogerty with the Grateful Dead)
35 Fortunate Son (John Fogerty with the Grateful Dead)
36 talk (John Fogerty with the Grateful Dead)
37 Suzie Q (John Fogerty with the Grateful Dead & Clarence Clemons)
38 talk (John Fogerty with the Grateful Dead & Clarence Clemons)
39 Long Tall Sally (John Fogerty with the Grateful Dead & Clarence Clemons) 

https://pixeldrain.com/u/eLjiHABc

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/MZAspsTu9FmVaWK/file

The cover photo is from this exact concert. Fogerty is wearing the baseball cap, while Garcia can be seen further back.

In Concert Against AIDS, Oakland Coliseum Stadium, Oakland, CA, 5-27-1989, Part 3: Tracy Chapman

Here's the third out of four albums I made from the "In Concert Against AIDS" concert in 1989. This one consists of a set by singer-songwriter Tracy Chapman.

By 1989, Chapman was a big star, after her self-titled debut album sold about 20 million copies. At the time of this concert, she was still a few months away from releasing her second album, "Crossroads." A couple of songs she performed, "Subcity" and "All That You Have Is Your Soul," would appear on that album.

None of the other musical acts spoke about AIDS in their banter between songs, but she did. Here's how a Los Angeles Times article at the time put it: "Chapman, known for her pointed avoidance of between-song chatter, told a respectful audience that the occasion demanded talk as well as music. She decried a lack of government commitment to fighting AIDS, then called for listeners to have personal commitment that might lead to change."

Note however that while the other musical acts didn't directly address the issue, there were video presentations between the sets about AIDS, as well as a lot of informational pamphlets handed out, and the like. 

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

This album is 50 minutes long.

24 talk by Bill Graham (Tracy Chapman)
25 talk by Danny Glover (Tracy Chapman)
26 Why (Tracy Chapman)
27 She's Got Her Ticket (Tracy Chapman)
28 For My Lover (Tracy Chapman)
29 talk (Tracy Chapman)
30 Subcity (Tracy Chapman)
31 For You (Tracy Chapman)
32 Mountains O' Things (Tracy Chapman)
33 Fast Car (Tracy Chapman)
34 talk (Tracy Chapman)
35 All That You Have Is Your Soul (Tracy Chapman)
36 Talkin' bout a Revolution (Tracy Chapman)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/uEoyX6dx

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/K2KcpYBo4tsDdKK/file

The cover photo is from this exact concert. 

In Concert Against AIDS, Oakland Coliseum Stadium, Oakland, CA, 5-27-1989, Part 1: Tower of Power, Joe Satriani, and Los Lobos

Here's another big benefit concert with lots of big name stars. It's another case where these kinds of concerts seem to have mostly been forgotten, so I'm trying to give them the attention they deserve. I found enough for four albums from this concert. Here's the first one.

In the 1980s especially, the disease AIDS was a big issue. There was a lot of misinformation and fear about it. Ronald Reagan, who was president of the U.S. from 1981 to 1989, didn't even mention AIDS in public until 1985, despite it being a big news story since 1981, and he didn't give a speech addressing it until 1987. Foolish people were saying AIDS was a punishment from God for homosexuality (though eventually way more non-homosexuals would get it), and that one could get it from toilet seats and kissing and the like (which was untrue). So this concert was meant to help raise awareness about to issue as well as raise money to fund non-profits that were working on the issue.

The concert was held in the Oakland Coliseum, which could hold about 50,000 people. But I've come across some articles from the time period. It turns out there was so much fear and misinformation about AIDS at the time that about 20,000 tickets were unsold, and the articles cited opinions that some people were staying away out of fear of AIDS. For instance, famous music promoter Bill Graham, who helped promote this festival, said at the time, "There are people who are staying away out of fear, and they need to be educated." As if you could get AIDS just by attending a concert about AIDS! Sheesh!

Anyway, this first album essentially contains the warm-up acts before the bigger names performed later. Los Lobos was already a pretty big name, especially after they had a Number One single in the U.S. with "La Bamba" in 1987, so they get most of the time here. However, it's possible the first two acts, Joe Satriani and Tower of Power, performed more songs. I don't know. I put these albums together from multiple sources, and none of them had everything, which increases the chances there are more pieces I couldn't find.

This album is an hour and two minutes long. 

01 Always with Me, Always with You [Instrumental] (Joe Satriani)
02 Surfing with the Alien [Instrumental] (Joe Satriani)
03 The Crush of Love [Instrumental] (Joe Satriani)
04 Believe It (Tower of Power)
05 talk (Tower of Power)
06 What Is Hip (Tower of Power)
07 talk (Los Lobos)
08 Evangeline (Los Lobos)
09 Don't Worry Baby (Los Lobos)
10 talk (Los Lobos)
11 Will the Wolf Survive (Los Lobos)
12 I Walk Alone (Los Lobos)
13 talk (Los Lobos)
14 The Giving Tree (Los Lobos)
15 talk (Los Lobos)
16 Let's Say Goodnight (Los Lobos)
17 talk (Los Lobos)
18 Someday (Los Lobos)
19 Georgia Slop (Los Lobos)
20 Shakin' Shakin' Shakes (Los Lobos)
21 I Got Loaded (Los Lobos)
22 Why Do You Do (Los Lobos)
23 talk (Los Lobos) 

https://pixeldrain.com/u/jXifNoFo

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/P9BFcCIUhqeQ3SE/file

The cover image is a screenshot taken from a video of Los Lobos performing at this exact concert. It's a bit low-res, but it was the best I could find. I tried to use the Krea AI program to increase the detail, but in this case it didn't seem to help much.

Oingo Boingo - Reseda Country Club, Los Angeles, CA, 5-21-1984

The other day, I wanted to listen to Oingo Boingo, but I wanted to hear something different. I thought I had all the really excellent sounding live recordings from the band's early years, which is my favorite time period for them. There are only a few worthy bootlegs, and I've posted most of them. But I was pleasantly surprised to discover one more.

This took place almost a year after the release of the 1983 album "Good for Your Soul." But they still hadn't released anything new since then, so the songs generally come from that album, plus the two previous ones.

This comes from a soundboard bootleg. The sound quality is excellent, and there were no problems to fix. But there is one unfortunate thing, and that's that it's not complete. I looked it up at setlist.com, and around this time, the band usually ended the show with an encore of "Violent Love" and "Only a Lad." Those are missing. Plus, they played one or more songs before the first song here. For instance, they almost certainly played "Wake Up (It's 1984)," since it was very relevant in the year of 1984. But hey, at least we have the vast majority of the concert, with maybe ten to 20 minutes missing. 

I looked around for versions of "Violent Love" and "Only a Lad" to add as bonus tracks, but I couldn't find any with worthy sound quality from 1983, 1984, or 1985. So I decided to just stick with this.

This album is an hour and seven minutes long.

01 Dead or Alive (Oingo Boingo)
02 Who Do You Want to Be (Oingo Boingo)
03 No Spill Blood (Oingo Boingo)
04 Private Life (Oingo Boingo)
05 Insects (Oingo Boingo)
06 talk (Oingo Boingo)
07 Grey Matter (Oingo Boingo)
08 Little Guns (Oingo Boingo)
09 Nothing to Fear [But Fear Itself] (Oingo Boingo)
10 talk (Oingo Boingo)
11 Wild Sex [In the Working Class] (Oingo Boingo)
12 Nothing Bad Ever Happens (Oingo Boingo)
13 talk (Oingo Boingo)
14 Sweat (Oingo Boingo)
15 talk (Oingo Boingo)
16 Capitalism (Oingo Boingo)
17 Little Girls (Oingo Boingo)
18 Ain't This the Life (Oingo Boingo)
19 What You See (Oingo Boingo)
20 On the Outside (Oingo Boingo)
21 Goodbye, Goodbye (Oingo Boingo)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/8216AZTu

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/RLXQkxwnP7741UF/file

The cover photo of lead singer Danny Elfman is from 1985.

Madness - BBC Sessions, Volume 7: In Concert, New Broadcasting House, London, Britain, 12-11-2025

Here's a concert from a mere week ago (as I post this in mid-December 2025). It's the British band Madness performing a concert for the BBC. 

True, they're getting pretty long in the tooth by this time, and I wasn't sure at first if I wanted to post this or not. But they've done pretty well in their later years, both commercially and critically. In fact, their most recent album, "Theatre of the Absurd Presents C'est la Vie," released in 2023, actually reached Number One in the British album charts. Surprisingly, that was their first number one album (though it should be noted that doesn't mean nearly as much as it used to, since album sales have plummeted in general). 

Most importantly, I listened to the album and though it was a strong performance, so I decided to post it. This could easily be mistaken for a recording from decades earlier. That's true of the song list as well. They were promoting a new greatest hits album, released the month before, so they concentrated on their best known songs and didn't play anything from their latest album. The only surprise is they finished with the cover song "I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday," a hit for Wizzard in 1973, to mark the Christmas season.

I found a high-quality video file of this concert at a bootleg site. I converted it into audio format and chopped it into mp3s. The music here is unreleased, but the sound quality is excellent. 

This album is an hour and 12 minutes long.

01 talk by Jo Whiley (Madness)
02 One Step Beyond (Madness)
03 Embarrassment (Madness)
04 talk (Madness)
05 The Prince (Madness)
06 talk (Madness)
07 NW5 (Madness)
08 talk (Madness)
09 My Girl (Madness)
10 talk (Madness)
11 The Sun and the Rain (Madness)
12 talk (Madness)
13 Return of the Los Palmas 7 [Instrumental] (Madness)
14 talk (Madness)
15 Wings of a Dove (Madness)
16 talk (Madness)
17 Lovestruck (Madness)
18 talk (Madness)
19 Bed and Breakfast Man (Madness)
20 talk (Madness)
21 Shut Up (Madness)
22 talk (Madness)
23 Mr. Apples (Madness)
24 talk (Madness)
25 House of Fun (Madness)
26 talk (Madness)
27 Baggy Trousers (Madness)
28 Our House (Madness)
29 talk (Madness)
30 It Must Be Love (Madness)
31 talk (Madness)
32 Madness (Madness)
33 Night Boat to Cairo (Madness)
34 talk (Madness)
35 I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday (Madness) 

https://pixeldrain.com/u/oEs7aFLZ

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/5kL2wdH1y2g9QUH/file

The cover image of the band's lead singer Suggs is a screenshot I took of a video of this exact concert. 

Lyle Lovett, John Hiatt & Joe Ely - Songwriters' Circle, Bush Hall, London, Britain, 10-15-2010

American singer-songwriter Joe Ely died yesterday, December 15, 2025, of age-related issues. He was 78 years old. It so happens that I'm not very familiar with his music. I've heard good things, but there's just so much music out there, I haven't gotten to everything I'd want to. So I hadn't planned to post anything to mark his passing. But it also just so happens that I had an episode of the BBC TV show "Songwriters' Circle" in which Lyle Lovett, John Hiatt, and Joe Ely took turns performing their songs. I figured this was the ideal time to post that, so here it is.

Before I say anything else, I want to give a thanks to a musical friend named Peter. A few weeks ago, he sent me a bunch of high quality full-length videos of this show, including this one. So I plan on posting a few more in the near future, knock on wood. He didn't have all of them, however. Here's a list of the ones I still don't have:

Joan Baez, Matraca Berg & Gretchen Peters
Paul Heaton & Dave Rotheray, Dan Penn & Spooner Oldham, & John Martyn
Allen Toussaint, James Dean Bradfield, & John Grant
Bill Anderson, Clint Black, & Bob DiPiero

If anyone has any of those and wants to share, please do. I've noticed the one with Toussaint, Bradfield and Grant is on YouTube, but only individual songs in no particular order, and no banter between songs. So I'd rather hold out for the whole show with that one.

Another comment before I get to the details of this album: some of the videos that Peter sent me were of episodes I already had. I didn't need to make any changes to the audio for those. However, some of the album covers I made weren't very good, based on low-res YouTube videos. I was able to remake some of the covers, and they look much better now. In fact, I've made at least some changes to all the Songwriters' Circle covers I've posted so far, standardizing the font type and size, and things like that. So I recommend you redownload those. Look to the label on the side of this blog called "Songwriters' Circle." There should be five of them prior to this one.

Okay, getting to the content of this album already, if you look at the cover image, you can probably tell that all three singer-songwriters here had long careers by the time they appeared on this show in 2010. Joe Ely's first album (with the Flatlanders) is from 1972, John Hiatt's first album is from 1974, and Lyle Lovett's first album is from 1986. They all are influenced by folk and country, so their styles fit well together.

As is the usual format for the show, each of them took turns performing songs, then they came together to all perform the last song. However, there were some instances where they backed each other on guitar or backing vocals. I only included that in the song credits if it was significant, such as "Thing Called Love," a Hiatt song where Lovett also had a prominent singing role. 

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

This album is an hour and two minutes long. 

01 talk (Joe Ely)
02 Billy the Kid (Joe Ely)
03 Thing Called Love (John Hiatt & Lyle Lovett)
04 talk (John Hiatt & Lyle Lovett)
05 If I Had a Boat (Lyle Lovett)
06 talk (Joe Ely)
07 My Baby Thinks She's French (Joe Ely)
08 talk (Joe Ely & John Hiatt)
09 Master of Disaster (John Hiatt)
10 She's No Lady (Lyle Lovett)
11 talk (Joe Ely)
12 All that You Need (Joe Ely)
13 talk (John Hiatt)
14 Drive South (John Hiatt)
15 talk (Lyle Lovett)
16 Simple Song (Lyle Lovett)
17 Honky Tonk Masquerade (Joe Ely)
18 Have a Little Faith in Me (John Hiatt)
19 My Baby Don't Tolerate (John Hiatt, Lyle Lovett & Joe Ely)
20 Old Dusty Road [Goin' Down the Road Feelin' Bad] (John Hiatt, Lyle Lovett & Joe Ely)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/UVyWdHLC

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/5j5miq1rhL3x2st/file

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

Little Feat with Tower of Power - BBC Sessions, Volume 1: In Concert, L'Olympia, Paris, France, 2-3-1975

Here's a BBC concert album from the band Little Feat. It took place when they were at or near their musical prime, in 1975. It also contains a short opening set by the band Tower of Power.

This concert was a popular bootleg for a long time, ever since people recorded it off the radio. In 2024, the Little Feat portion was finally officially released, as extra tracks on the deluxe edition of the band's 1974 album "Feats Don't Fail Me Now." I used that recording for that portion of the concert. However, I was surprised to discover that recording has a serious flaw (and one not shared with the Tower of Power section), in that the vocals were quite low in the mix. So I brought the vocals back up to where they should have been, to match the Tower of Power section, using the MVSEP program. So now this should sound better than it ever has sounded before.

The Tower of Power section is 20 minutes long, while the Little Feat portion is 55 minutes long. The Tower of Power section is still unreleased. The sound quality is excellent throughout.

There's been some contradictory information about when this concert took place. I've seen some sources say February 1st, while others say February 3rd. When I first posted this, I had it as February 1st. But then I was sent some more information by a commenter, and that swayed me to change it to February 3rd just one day later. 

Note that I found a second BBC concert Little Feat did much later, so this is "Volume 1." I hope to post "Volume 2" soon as well.

This album is an hour and 15 minutes long. 

01 Only So Much Oil in the Ground (Tower of Power)
02 talk (Tower of Power)
03 Don't Change Horses [In the Middle of a Stream] (Tower of Power)
04 So Very Hard to Go (Tower of Power)
05 Knock Yourself Out (Tower of Power)
06 On Your Way Down (Little Feat)
07 Skin It Back (Little Feat)
08 Fat Man in the Bathtub (Little Feat)
09 talk (Little Feat)
10 Rock and Roll Doctor (Little Feat)
11 Oh Atlanta (Little Feat)
12 Cold, Cold, Cold - Dixie Chicken - Tripe Face Boogie (Little Feat)
13 Willin' (Little Feat)
14 Teenage Nervous Breakdown (Little Feat)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/Mjp1qfbw

alternate: 

https://bestfile.io/2prYxhk5LhIkhFm/file

The cover photo is from a TV show appearance in 1974. All I know it took place in Los Angeles. For the text, I found the band name logo with the font and colors shown here. I then used Photoshop to mimic the text for all the other writing.

The Bee Gees with Chuck Berry - The Midnight Special, NBC Studios, Burbank, CA, 10-12-1973

Here's yet another album from the Bee Gees on the "Midnight Special" TV show. They hosted the show four times in 1973 and one time in 1975, and I've made albums of each of those episodes. This is the last one I'm posting from them. What makes this one stand out is they performed with one of the show's guests, Chuck Berry.

By the early 1970s, it seemed Berry's hit-making years were over, he had tons of hits from 1955 to 1964, but none since. But then, in 1972, he had a novelty hit called "My Ding-a-Ling" that didn't just do a little well - it went all the way to Number One on the U.S. and British singles charts. That made it the biggest hit of his career. As a result, his career was revived for a while, leading to TV appearances like this one, as well as a one-hour long concert on BBC TV. Luckily, he didn't actually play "My Ding-a-Ling" - it's a long song that gets old fast. Instead, he played some of his classics. And for two of those, he sang with the Bee Gees. 

However, more of the songs were performed by the Bee Gees on their own. They played some rather unexpected songs. For instance, "Lay It on Me" appeared on a 1970 album, but it wasn't a hit. And "Bye Bye Blackbird" is a cover of a song from 1926 that they never officially released in any form. 

In case you're curious, these are the other guests on the episode they hosted: Lee Michaels, King Crimson, Apple & Appleberry, and Barbara Mason.

The music here is unreleased, and the song quality is excellent. As usual with Midnight Special shows, I did a lot of extra editing, for instance adding applause to smooth over transitions between songs. I cut out some talking from the talking bits, for instance when performers for future episodes were discusssed, which is why some of those have "[Edit]" in their names. 

This album is 32 minutes long. 

01 talk by Wolfman Jack [Edit] (Bee Gees)
02 Massachusetts (Bee Gees)
03 talk [Edit] (Bee Gees)
04 Maybellene (Chuck Berry)
05 Reelin' and Rockin' (Chuck Berry with the Bee Gees)
06 Johnny B. Goode (Chuck Berry with the Bee Gees)
07 talk (Bee Gees)
08 Lay It on Me (Bee Gees)
09 Alive (Bee Gees)
10 Sweet Little Sixteen (Chuck Berry)
11 Bye Bye Blackbird (Bee Gees)
12 talk [Edit] (Bee Gees)
13 Alone Again (Bee Gees) 

https://pixeldrain.com/u/FnNCArhA

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/uzK6mlV3KT5U1Sh/file

The cover photo is from this exact concert. It's rather blurry, but at least it shows all the main figures from this concert. From left to right: Robin Gibb, Chuck Berry, Maurice Gibb, and Barry Gibb.

The Small Faces - Live: 1966-1968

I recently got a request by a commenter to post updated links for all the Small Faces albums I've posted. (Sorry, I forget the commenter or where that request was.) I'd like to update all the upload.ee links eventually anyway, so I decided to do that. But that also reminded me that I have this album I made a long time ago and never got around to posting. It's a collection of stray live tracks.

So, first off, note that, as of today, I did post updated links to nearly all the existing Small Faces albums on this blog. The only exceptions are the two BBC ones. I want to make some fixes and additions to that, enough to create a third volume, so expect those to be reposted soon.

There never has been a widely officially released Small Faces live album, and even bootlegs are few and far between. However, note that I did post a great concert from 1966, which I've called "Live 1966." Here's the link, in case you missed it:

https://albumsthatshouldexist.blogspot.com/2021/03/the-small-faces-twenty-club-mouscron.html 

Aside from that one recording, plus some BBC stuff, we just have dribs and drabs, sometimes with poor sound quality. So this gathers the best of the rest. Most of it is non-BBC, except for the first four tracks, which all come from a 1996 session in front of a cheering audience, and were released on "The Decca Years" compilation. I put that here instead of on one of the BBC albums I've made mostly because most of the songs are ones that repeated on other BBC sessions around that time.

The next song, which may or may not be called "Baby Please Don't Go," is from a video I found on YouTube. It shows the band performing in a small club in 1966, and apparently was taken from some unknown British news program that was showing what the rock scene was like at the time. There were two snippets of other songs, but I didn't include them because they were well under half a minute each. And this song is incomplete and fades out, but I thought it was good enough to include anyway.

The next three songs, tracks 6, 7, and 8, are from the German TV show "Beat Beat Beat." The next year, it was renamed "Beat Club." The band made more appearances on that show in 1967 and 1968, but all of them were lip-synced, so I didn't include them. This appearance, though, was fully live. 

The next two songs, tracks 9 and 10, are from an appearance on "The Morrcambe & Wise Show" in 1967. Like the "Beat Beat Beat" songs, they're still unreleased.

The remaining songs, tracks 11 through 15, are from a concert in Newcastle, Britain, in November 1968, a few months before the band broke up. They all were first released on the "In Memoriam" album in 1969, shortly after the band broke up. There were more songs recorded from that show, but they were lost. They also had fake audience noise slathered over them. Decades later, they were released on the "Here Comes the Nice" box set without the fake audience noise, which is where I got them. 

But I discovered the lead vocals were very low relative to the instruments. So I fixed that using MVSEP. I think they sound much better now. Also, there were some spoken words, which I have put on track 15. They were so very low in the mix they were almost unheard by me. First I boosted the volume greatly, again using MVSEP. But I still couldn't understand what was being said, so I ran the comments through Adobe's Enhanced Speech program as well. Now, I can at least catch the gist of the comments.

That leaves just the bonus track, "Long Black Veil." This comes from a bootleg of a concert in Vienna, Austria, in January 1969. This was one of the band's very last concerts, as they broke up by the end of that month. Unfortunately, the bootleg is only about 20 minutes long, and the sound quality is poor. So I only included one song as a bonus track, because the others were done live elsewhere. Yet this is a song that has no other recording, official or otherwise.

This album is 42 minutes long, not including the bonus track. 

01 Sha La La La Lee (Small Faces)
02 Whatcha Gonna Do about It (Small Faces)
03 Comin' Home Baby [Instrumental] (Small Faces)
04 You Need Love [You Need Loving] (Small Faces)
05 Baby Please Don’t Go (Small Faces)
06 Hey Girl (Small Faces)
07 Whatcha Gonna Do about It (Small Faces)
08 Sha La La La Lee (Small Faces)
09 All or Nothing (Small Faces)
10 I Can't Make It (Small Faces)
11 Rollin' Over (Small Faces)
12 If I Were a Carpenter (Small Faces)
13 Every Little Bit Hurts (Small Faces)
14 All or Nothing (Small Faces)
15 talk (Small Faces)
16 Tin Soldier (Small Faces)

Long Black Veil (Small Faces)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/L54f8H1e 

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/wDDsrSpynXm2I1W/file

The cover photo was taken at the ABC cinema, in the town of Romford, Britain, at some point in 1968. It shows Steve Marriott on the left (in a light blue shirt) and Ronnie Lane on the right (in a dark blue shirt).

Leo Sayer - BBC In Concert, Bristol Hippodrome, Bristol, Britain, 5-29-1988

Here's a BBC concert by singer-songwriter Leo Sayer. It's the only BBC one I've ever come across by him.

I've gotta admit, just like the last musical act I've posted (Death Cab for Cutie), I'm not particularly keen on the music here. But musical friend Progsprog recently shared some of his music with me, and I noticed this concert. I also took notice of how very obscure it is. In all my digging for BBC material in recent years, I've never come across even a mention of it. So I figure it's kind of my duty to help share this sort of thing. I may not been excited about it, but Sayer has sold a ton of music, so no doubt there will be some people who will enjoy hearing this.

Sayer had a decade of hits, from 1973 to 1983. In the late 1980s, his career took a commercial downturn. In fact, he didn't release a studio album between 1983 and 1990. But when this concert took place in 1988, he still was only a few years from his hit-making era. Plus, this concert has the advantage of being a full one, instead of edited down to an hour or less, like many BBC concerts. So pretty much all of his best known songs can be found here.

The music here is unreleased (and very rare - thanks again to Progsprog for sharing), and the sound quality is excellent. 

This album is an hour and 35 minutes long.

01 Leave My World Alone (Leo Sayer)
02 Wonderworld (Leo Sayer)
03 Moonlighting (Leo Sayer)
04 One Step (Leo Sayer)
05 talk (Leo Sayer)
06 Don't Wait until Tomorrow (Leo Sayer)
07 Giving It All Away (Leo Sayer)
08 Orchard Road (Leo Sayer)
09 One Man Band (Leo Sayer)
10 You Make Me Feel like Dancing (Leo Sayer)
11 The Show Must Go On (Leo Sayer)
12 Working Man (Leo Sayer)
13 Easy to Love (Leo Sayer)
14 More than I Can Say (Leo Sayer)
15 Endless Flight (Leo Sayer)
16 talk (Leo Sayer)
17 Sally (Leo Sayer)
18 How Much Love (Leo Sayer)
19 When I Need You (Leo Sayer)
20 Something New (Leo Sayer) 

https://pixeldrain.com/u/ajnRVmej

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/0gdQ4mkfUqdeFUZ/file

The cover image is from 1987. That's all I know about it.

Death Cab for Cutie - PBS Soundstage, WTTW Studios, Chicago, IL, 7-9-2009

Here's another episode of the "PBS Soundstage" TV show. It stars American indie rock band Death Cab for Cutie.

I gave this a listen, and it didn't do much for me. But I'm trying to post all the "Soundstage" episodes that are at least decent, and this certainly gets over that bar. In order to be the subject of one of these episodes, I've noticed the musical act needs to be pretty commercially successful. At the time of this concert, the band's previous album had gone Gold (sales of over 500,000) in the U.S., and their two prior albums had gone Platinum (sales of over a million), so one can see how they qualified. Their biggest hit was "I Will Follow You into the Dark," which went double Platinum as a single, but curiously, the band didn't perform that song in this concert. (Or at least it didn't make the final cut in the editing room.)

If you want to know more about this act, here's their Wikipedia page:

Death Cab for Cutie - Wikipedia 

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

This album is 54 minutes long. 

01 Employment Pages - Your Heart Is an Empty Room (Death Cab for Cutie)
02 New Year (Death Cab for Cutie)
03 Crooked Teeth (Death Cab for Cutie)
04 My Mirror Speaks (Death Cab for Cutie)
05 Summer Skin (Death Cab for Cutie)
06 Soul Meets Body (Death Cab for Cutie)
07 I Will Possess Your Heart (Death Cab for Cutie)
08 Cath (Death Cab for Cutie)
09 Long Division (Death Cab for Cutie)
10 Sound of Settling (Death Cab for Cutie)
11 Transatlanticism (Death Cab for Cutie)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/HMRUGkty

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/SDHLTHvQpYhy5ey/file

The cover image is a screenshot taken from this exact concert. 

Cyndi Lauper - A Grammy Salute to Cyndi Lauper, Hollywood Bowl, Los Angeles, CA, 8-29-2025

In recent years, the people behind the annual Grammy Awards have gotten in the habit of having a "Grammy Salute" concert each year that typically stars one musical act, but also has some guest stars. In 2025, the main star was Cyndi Lauper. So here's her concert.

At the time of this concert, Lauper was 72 years old. She had most of her commercial success in the 1980s. So she's not a spring chicken anymore. In fact, she announced that her 2025 tour would be her last tour. (However, she's not done performing: she plans on having a residency in Las Vegas in 2026 instead.) But despite her age, she still sounds great here. She had a voice that had a remarkable four-octave range, so even if she lost some notes, she has a lot of notes to lose.

The thing that makes this concert stand out from her other concerts are the many guest stars she sings duets with, especially Joni Mitchell, John Legend, SZA, and Cher. (It seems John Legend goes to every single tribute concert there is.) At the same time, she presented a kind of "greatest hits" from her career, while also throwing in some cover versions, like "Iko Iko" and "Carey." 

This show was broadcast as a special on CBS. A few days ago, a massive video file emerged of the show. I converted that to audio and chopped it into mp3s. Along the way, I cut out some unnecessary bits. For instance, an announcer often gave teasers of the musical acts still to come later in the special. I got rid of all that. And there were some spoken tributes to Lauper, including one by Brandi Carlile, that I cut out because they weren't part of the actual concert.

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

This album is an hour and 21 minutes long. 

01 She Bop (Cyndi Lauper)
02 talk (Cyndi Lauper)
03 The Goonies 'R' Good Enough (Cyndi Lauper)
04 I Drove All Night (Cyndi Lauper)
05 talk (Cyndi Lauper)
06 Who Let in the Rain (Cyndi Lauper & Mickey Guyton)
07 talk (Cyndi Lauper)
08 Time After Time (Cyndi Lauper & John Legend)
09 Iko Iko (Cyndi Lauper with Trombone Shorty & Angelique Kidjo)
10 talk (Cyndi Lauper)
11 Sally's Pigeons (Cyndi Lauper)
12 talk (Cyndi Lauper)
13 I'm Gonna Be Strong (Cyndi Lauper)
14 Change of Heart (Cyndi Lauper)
15 talk (Cyndi Lauper)
16 Carey (Cyndi Lauper & Joni Mitchell)
17 Money Changes Everything (Cyndi Lauper & Jake Wesley Rogers)
18 Shine (Cyndi Lauper)
19 True Colors (Cyndi Lauper & SZA)
20 Girls Just Want to Have Fun (Cyndi Lauper & Cher)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/Xn6edwLm

alternate: 

https://bestfile.io/en/GSo657YakBN1MrO/file

The cover image is from this exact concert. I also used some promotional material for this show for the text at the top, including the colors, though I rearranged it a bit. Then I made some new text to match that style at the bottom.

Kool Again

Just yesterday, I posted a Kool and the Gang BBC concert from 1981. In my write-up, I lamented that the album lacked two of their biggest hits that had already been released, "Jungle Boogie" and "Ladies' Night." Progsprog saw that, and it turns out he has a slightly different version of the same concert. It was exactly the same until the end. Then, it had "Ladies' Night" as the second to last song, plus a longer version of the last song, "Celebration." Together, the additions make up 14 minutes, mostly because "Ladies' Night" is quite long. So if you downloaded it already, I suggest you download this revised version. And thanks again to Progsprog for his help.

Various Artists - Rally for Nuclear Disarmament, Central Park, New York City, 6-12-1982

A few days ago (as I write this in December 2025), I posted five hours of a concert called "Peace Sunday," which was a big benefit concert for the anti-nuclear war movement in 1992, held in Los Angeles. As I was researching that one, I discovered there was another concert for the same cause that took place a week later in New York City. I did a little more digging, and found part of it that got broadcast on radio station WNEW at the time. So I'm presenting that here. 

There's a lot about this concert that I don't know, apparently lost in the mists of time. I do know there was an absolutely enormous protest rally in Central Park on June 12, 1982. News reports say about a million people attended, making it the largest protest rally in the history of the U.S., at least up until that time. Part of that all day event was a concert. Some of it was broadcast on the radio, and that's what I have here. But I can't find any information about how much more there was that is now missing. 

However, I do have some clues. Rita Marley actually performed four songs, which I found on YouTube. But the sound quality, apparently from homemade video footage was poor. I managed to salvage one song to at least represent her, but I had to do a LOT of work on it (using the MVSEP program) to make it at least listenable. Note the sound quality gets better after that, so don't be discouraged because it's the first song. I also know Jackson Browne played the song "For Everyman," which is not here. The radio broadcast cut in part way through the song, and there were technical problems, so only the last minute was salvageable. That was so little that I decided to just cut it out entirely. I also know performed a duet of the song "I Think It's Gonna Work Out Fine." One can find a video of that on YouTube, but the quality was so bad that I had no hope of salvaging that one. They also did the song together in the studio for Ronstadt's 1982 album "Get Closer," by the way.

Furthermore, at the end of the concert, there were appearances by Jesse Colin Young, Bonnie Raitt, Carly Simon, and Graham Nash. I suspect one or more of them probably had songs of their own earlier in the concert. I also saw a mention that Holly Near sang something at some point. The problem is, the radio broadcast only showed highlights of some of the big names, and even then it seems they took commercial breaks from time to time, skipping songs. If anyone knows more (for instance if you attended and remember what happened), please let us know.

To make matters more complicated, two days earlier, there was a related concert with a very similar name, the "Concert for Nuclear Disarmament," held at Nassau Coliseum on Long Island, just outside New York City. That holds about 15,000 people. I found a review of that concert. There were only three acts: James Taylor, Linda Ronstadt, and Jackson Browne. But because there were fewer acts, each of them performed almost full sets. I found one audience bootleg of part of that, but the sound quality was pretty terrible, so I won't be posting it. 

Anyway, having something (in worthy sound quality) is better than having nothing. What we have here is pretty nice, even though many of the performers are the same ones who played in the "Peace Sunday" concert a week earlier in Los Angeles. Linda Ronstadt even played "The Shoop Shoop Song (It's in His Kiss)" with the same two well-known backing singers, Rosemary Butler and Nicolette Larson.

It was notable that Bruce Springsteen performed. However, I consulted the "Brucebase" website, which is very thorough, and that confirms that he only performed on two songs, while a guest during Jackson Browne's set. He sang his own song, "Badlands," with Browne on backing vocals, then Browne sang his own "Running on Empty" with Springsteen on backing vocals. 

Another interesting tidbit is that James Taylor and John Hall jointly performed the song "Children's Cry." Taylor mentioned before the song started that they had written it together specifically for this concert. I did a little searching. It seems the only time this song was ever played was at this concert and at the "Concert for Nuclear Disarmament" two days earlier. And it apparently was never officially released in any form.

This concert recording sounded pretty decent, but there were issues. Some time back, musical friend Lil Panda did some audio editing to improve just the Linda Ronstadt songs. So I used his version for those. I also tried some editing of my own. I ran all the songs through MVSEP, and got rid of most of the crowd noise during songs while keeping it at the ends of songs. I then ran all the songs through MVSEP again, and adjusted the balance between the lead vocals and the instruments. For maybe half the songs, the lead vocals were too low.

It anyone has more of this concert (or the related Concert for Nuclear Disarmament), please share it. 

This album is an hour and 33 minutes long. 

01 One Love (Rita Marley)
02 The Pretender (Jackson Browne & Gary U.S. Bonds)
03 talk (Joan Baez)
04 Imagine (Joan Baez)
05 Promised Land (Bruce Springsteen with Jackson Browne)
06 talk (Jackson Browne)
07 Running on Empty (Jackson Browne with Bruce Springsteen)
08 talk (Jackson Browne)
09 Tumbling Dice (Linda Ronstadt)
10 Blue Bayou (Linda Ronstadt)
11 talk (Linda Ronstadt)
12 The Shoop Shoop Song [It's in His Kiss] (Linda Ronstadt with Rosemary Butler & Nicolette Larson)
13 Desperado (Linda Ronstadt)
14 Heat Wave (Linda Ronstadt)
15 Living in the U.S.A. (Linda Ronstadt)
16 That Lonesome Road (James Taylor)
17 You've Got a Friend (James Taylor)
18 talk (James Taylor)
19 Up on the Roof (James Taylor)
20 Stand and Fight (James Taylor)
21 talk (James Taylor & Chaka Khan)
22 It's Growing (James Taylor & Chaka Khan)
23 talk (James Taylor)
24 Children's Cry (James Taylor & John Hall)
25 talk (Joy Ryder & Avis Davis)
26 No More Nukes (Joy Ryder & Avis Davis)
27 talk (John Hall)
28 Plutonium Is Forever (John Hall)
29 talk (John Hall)
30 talk (Jackson Browne & Graham Nash)
31 Power (John Hall, Jackson Browne, Bonnie Raitt, Graham Nash & Carly Simon)
32 talk (John Hall)
33 Let's Get Together (Jesse Colin Young & Everyone)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/hjST8tt6

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/NVjT1WCkPe1RhvJ/file

The cover photo shows Linda Ronstadt and James Taylor. I would bet this was taken during the duet they did, "I Think It's Gonna Work Out Fine," which unfortunately is not included here. The original was in black and white. But I used the "Kolorize" program to colorize it.

Tony Joe White - BBC Sessions, Volume 2: In Concert, London, Britain, 5-8-1974

Here's another short BBC concert by singer-songwriter Tony Joe White.

On the same day I'm posting this, I'm posting a BBC concert he did in 1970. Both of them were done for the "In Concert" TV show. I originally had posted that 1970 with this 1974 date, because that was how the bootleg was labelled. But musical friend Progsprog has sent me a lot of rare BBC material lately, and one thing he sent me was this 1974 show. When I got this, I realized I must have had the wrong date for the other show. It was pretty easy to figure out, because all the songs on that one were from 1970 or earlier, while this one has some songs he released in 1973 or 1974. For instance, "Sign of a Lion" was a song that only came out on a single that was released in 1974.

It seems White actually had two episodes of "In Concert" in 1974. They were taken from the same concert, and shown on TV a couple of months apart. If that's true, I'm guessing this is the first part, since it seems unlikely he would end with an obscure song like "Sign of a Lion," and this recording more fades out than comes to a clear end. If and when anyone can send the second part to me, I'll update this with that portion as well.

White had his biggest successes in the early 1970s, and then his commercial prospects declined as the decade went on. But he came back in the 1980s and 90s as a successful songwriter. That led to another BBC concert, which I plan on posting here as well.

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

This album is 31 minutes long. 

01 I've Got a Thing about You Baby (Tony Joe White)
02 Willie and Laura Mae Jones (Tony Joe White)
03 talk (Tony Joe White)
04 Even Trolls Love Rock and Roll (Tony Joe White)
05 talk (Tony Joe White)
06 Polk Salad Annie (Tony Joe White)
07 Caress Me Babe (Tony Joe White)
08 talk (Tony Joe White)
09 That Loving Feeling (Tony Joe White)
10 Sign of the Lion (Tony Joe White)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/ydGx4PEp

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/nqJWIOQfsc9AdKr/file

The cover photo is from a concert at the Crystal Palace Garden Party, in London, on September 15, 1973. The original was in black and white, but I colorized it with the help of the Kolorize program.

Tony Joe White - BBC Sessions, Volume 1: In Concert, London, Britain, 11-23-1970

At the end of 2024, I posted a short BBC concert by singer-songwriter Tony Joe White. I thought it was from 1974, because that's how it was labeled, but it turns out that was wrong. It actually was from 1970. The problem was that he appeared on the same BBC TV show, "In Concert," twice, in 1970 and 1974. So it was easy to mistake one for another. Now, at the end of 2025, I figured out the mistake because I found a copy of the 1974 concert. 

So I've completely deleted the old version I posted last year and I'm replacing it with this. It's actually the same music as before, but with changed title, cover art, and mp3 tags. I'll follow this by posting the 1974 concert.

White is probably best known for the song "Polk Salad Annie," which he wrote and which was a Top Ten hit in the U.S. in 1969. He also wrote "Rainy Night in Georgia," which was a Top Ten hit for Brook Benton in 1970, and was included in Rolling Stone Magazine's list of the top 500 songs of all time. White's career faded into obscurity in the late 1970s, done in by disco like so many others at the time. But he had a revival in the 1990s, including writing some hits for Tina Turner.

Here's his Wikipedia entry if you want to know more:

Tony Joe White - Wikipedia

The date I'm using here is the broadcast date. If anyone knows the recording date please let me know, so I can use that instead. The music here is unreleased. The sound quality is excellent.

This album is 30 minutes long.

01 Polk Salad Annie (Tony Joe White)
02 talk (Tony Joe White)
03 Rainy Night in Georgia (Tony Joe White)
04 talk (Tony Joe White)
05 Willie and Laura Mae Jones (Tony Joe White)
06 talk (Tony Joe White)
07 Groupy Girl (Tony Joe White)
08 talk (Tony Joe White)
09 The Migrant (Tony Joe White)
10 talk (Tony Joe White)
11 Roosevelt and Ira Lee [Night of the Moccasin] (Tony Joe White)
12 talk (Tony Joe White)
13 Save Your Sugar for Me (Tony Joe White)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/CUa8eUGz

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/eYf9ImF35xlgvCs/file

The cover photo is from this exact concert.

Brinsley Schwarz - BBC Sessions, Volume 7: 1973-1975

Over the last week or so, I've posted a complete overhaul of the music the British band Brinsley Schwarz performed for the BBC. Previously, I'd posted three such albums. Now, I've posted seven. This is the seventh and last. So if you downloaded the earlier three albums I made, I recommend you delete them and replace them with these albums. Not only are they more complete, but the sound quality is often improved as well.

Like Volumes One and Five in this revamped series, this is a collection of studio sessions. The first two songs are from an appearance on the BBC TV show "Old Grey Whistle Test" in 1973. Tracks 3 through 5 are from a BBC session in 1974. Tracks 6 through 9 are from another 1974 BBC session. Tracks 10 through 13 are from a BBC session in early 1975.

"Hooked on Love" has been released on an "Old Grey Whistle Test" compilation. Tracks 6 through 13 have been released on either "Cruel to Be Kind" or "What IS So Funny about Peace, Love and Understanding," the two official BBC albums. That leaves four songs that remain unreleased. A couple of songs have "[Edit]" in their titles due to BBC DJs talking over the music. As usual, I fixed that with the help of the MVSEP audio editing program.

Note that I was going to post a few songs from the band's appearance on the German TV show "Rockpalast" in 1975. But it turns out the entire performance was officially released in 2025 under the title "Live at Rockpalast." So you should check that out if you're a fan of the band. It was one of their last concerts before they broke up.

This album is 43 minutes long.

01 Surrender to the Rhythm (Brinsley Schwarz)
02 Hooked on Love (Brinsley Schwarz)
03 [What's So Funny 'Bout] Peace, Love and Understanding [Edit] (Brinsley Schwarz)
04 You Ain't Living Till You're Loving (Brinsley Schwarz)
05 The Ugly Things [Edit] (Brinsley Schwarz)
06 Ju Ju Man (Brinsley Schwarz)
07 Small Town, Big City (Brinsley Schwarz)
08 I Got the Real Thing (Brinsley Schwarz)
09 [What's So Funny 'Bout] Peace, Love and Understanding (Brinsley Schwarz)
10 Everybody (Brinsley Schwarz)
11 We Can Mess Around [Mess with Love] (Brinsley Schwarz)
12 Cruel to Be Kind (Brinsley Schwarz)
13 Give Me Back My Love (Brinsley Schwarz)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/EPTrEu7w

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/JUmaIr8ljS0wgQa/file

I don't know when or where the cover photo was taken. But I found very, very few good color photos of the band, and I thought this one of the band members with their wives and children was a nice one.

Kris Kristofferson & Rita Coolidge with Billy Swan - Sounds like Friday, BBC Television Studios, London, Britain, 9-29-1978

Here's a BBC concert starring both Kris Kristofferson and Rita Coolidge, with one song sung by Billy Swan. It recently showed up at a bootleg sharing site in excellent quality, so I grabbed it and I'm posting it straight away.

I had never heard of "Sounds like Friday" prior to this, but it turns out it was a BBC TV show that only lasted for ten episodes in 1978 and 1979. Starting in 2017, the BBC had another TV show with the very similar title "Sounds like Friday Night," but it seems there's no connection. 

It made great sense to have Kirstofferson and Coolidge on the same show, because they were married to each other for most of the 1970s. They met in 1970, right when both of them were becoming stars, and got married in 1973. They had a child together, and recorded some duet albums. But they divorced in 1980. 

This concert came at or near the peak of Coolidge's popularity. She had three big hits in 1977 and 1978: "The Way You Do the Things You Do," "We're All Alone," and "(Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher and Higher," and she performed all three of them here. Kristofferson didn't really have big hits on his own (with one or two partial exceptions), but had a more steadily successful career as a songwriter. (Check out the two "Covered" albums I've made for his songs.)

Billy Swan had one massive hit, "I Can Help." It went all the way to Number One on the U.S. singles chart in 1974. But what I didn't realize until doing this write-up is that he was more than just a "one-hit wonder." He wrote a bunch of country hits for others (as well as writing his own big hit), and had a series of minor country hits as well. He was a member of Kristofferson's band for many years, as well as a friend, which explains his presence here.

Although this is billed as a Kristofferson and Coolidge album, the first half mostly consists of Kristofferson (and Swan for his one song), and the second half mostly consists of Coolidge. The two of them finally came together to sing duets on the last two songs. Both of those songs were written by Kristofferson, by the way, as well as the other songs sung by him, while Coolidge's songs were cover versions.

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

This album is 44 minutes long. 

01 The Pilgrim, Chapter 33 (Kris Kristofferson)
02 Risky Bizness (Kris Kristofferson)
03 I Can Help (Billy Swan)
04 The Bigger the Fool [The Harder the Fall] (Kris Kristofferson)
05 Spooky Lady's Revenge (Kris Kristofferson)
06 Words (Rita Coolidge)
07 The Way You Do the Things You Do (Rita Coolidge)
08 We're All Alone (Rita Coolidge)
09 talk (Rita Coolidge)
10 For the Good Times (Rita Coolidge with Barbara Carroll)
11 [Your Love Keeps Lifting Me] Higher and Higher (Rita Coolidge)
12 Help Me Make It through the Night (Rita Coolidge & Kris Kristofferson)
13 Me and Bobby McGee (Rita Coolidge & Kris Kristofferson)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/1xJSrcnB

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/R8vqK04rTqK4fVZ/file

The cover imagine shows Rita Coolidge and Kris Kristofferson at a concert in New York City at some point in 1978.