Our Final Week - The Closing of the Fillmore West, Fillmore West, San Francisco, CA, 6-30-1971, Part 5: Elvin Bishop, Taj Mahal, and More

Here's the fifth set from the first day of five days of concerts that closed the Fillmore West venue in San Francisco in 1971. (See my write-up on the Boz Scaggs set for general information about the closing.) This set is different. Instead of featuring one musical act, it was a bonus jam session after all the acts scheduled to perform had finished their sets. 

I luckily found this set on YouTube, then converted it to audio format and broke it into mp3s. The text for that contained some informative text taken from Wolfgang's Vault, so I'll repeat that here: 

"As many may already know, on the final night (July 4th) of the closing week festivities at Fillmore West a lengthy jam session occurred, featuring many great musicians and singers. What few remember is that a similar event occurred earlier in the week (on the first night, June 30th). It was this jam session, in fact, that provided the two tracks that made it onto the 'Fillmore: The Last Days' live release. The core band includes Elvin Bishop on lead guitar, Stephen Miller (from Elvin's band) on organ, David Brown (from Boz Scaggs' band) on bass and Michael Shrieve (from Santana) on drums. This was one of the few sets not broadcast locally, and until these pre-production reels were recently discovered in the Bill Graham Archive, nobody was aware that most of this jam session existed on tape. This part of the session features Lester Chambers of The Chambers Brothers on lead vocals. On 'Have You Ever Been Mistreated,' Chambers sings in an unfamiliar falsetto and on 'You Better Believe,' sings in his distinctive voice, with the Pointer Sisters punching out their gospel-fueled vocals between each line of the verses. A truly captivating performance." 

I have some more information to add. This set also included some lead vocals by Linda Tillery, who was the lead singer for the band the Loading Zone. And Jo Baker was involved as well. She sang lead on some songs in the Elvin Bishop Group at the time. The Pointer Sisters sang lead vocals on one song. Their involvement here is especially interesting because they were just starting out. They signed a record contract at some point in 1971, and released a single later that year, as well as another one in 1972. But their debut album wouldn't come out until 1973.

The credits in the song list are only for the main lead vocalists. Many others were involved, but it's pretty much for me to tell who was playing on each song. But, for instance, the Pointer Sisters were an opening act for the Elvin Bishop Group in 1971, and doing a lot of backing vocals in studio sessions. So they sang some backing vocals here as well. 

This album is an hour and two minutes long. 

01 We Gonna Rock (Taj Mahal, Elvin Bishop & Boz Scaggs)
02 Long and Tall (Taj Mahal, Elvin Bishop & Boz Scaggs)
03 You Got Me Hummin' (Pointer Sisters)
04 I Found a Love (Linda Tillery)
05 Why I Sing the Blues (Linda Tillery)
06 Have You Ever Been Mistreated (Lester Chambers)
07 You Better Believe (Lester Chambers)
08 talk (Elvin Bishop)
09 Blues Jam (Elvin Bishop & Everyone)
10 talk (Elvin Bishop)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/2x78nZby

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/kq2pNq5x6Li4Q5X/file

I thought it would be tough to find a good cover photo for this album, since there wasn't one main musical act this time. So I was tickled pink to discover a photo of Boz Scaggs, Taj Mahal, and Elvin Bishop from this exact concert. It must be from the first two songs. That's Scaggs, Mahal, and Bishop from right to left. The original was in black and white, but I colorized it with the help of the Kolorize program. 

Our Final Week - The Closing of the Fillmore West, Fillmore West, San Francisco, CA, 6-30-1971, Part 4: Stoneground

Here's the fourth set from the first day of five days of concerts that closed the Fillmore West venue in San Francisco in 1971. (See my write-up on the Boz Scaggs set for general information about the closing.) This set features the band Stoneground.

Here's what their Wikipedia entry has to say about them:

"Stoneground was an American rock band formed in 1970 in Concord, California. Originally a trio, Stoneground expanded to a 10-piece band by the time of their self-titled 1971 debut album. The group appeared in two films and released three albums before singer Sal Valentino quit in 1973. Three other band members — Cory Lerios, Steve Price and David Jenkins — left to form the pop group Pablo Cruise. Stoneground continued as an act through 1982, with only Tim Barnes and Annie Sampson remaining from the early incarnation of the band. Barnes and Price led a re-formed Stoneground in 2003 and released a studio album the following year."

Here's the link if you want to read the full Wikipedia entry:

Stoneground - Wikipedia

I just want to add that most of the songs here are originals, but they did some interesting covers. For instance, they started with two Bob Dylan songs, and also covered two Johnny Cash songs ("Get Rhythm" and "Big River"). But what really impressed me was a cover of "Total Destruction to Your Mind," a great but obscure song by the soul music singer Swamp Dogg. 

This album is exactly one hour long. 

01 It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry (Stoneground)
02 If You Gotta Go, Go Now (Stoneground)
03 See Ya Later (Stoneground)
04 I'm Always Looking for You (Stoneground)
05 You Wanna See Me (Stoneground)
06 Me and the Devil (Stoneground)
07 talk (Stoneground)
08 Passion Flower (Stoneground)
09 talk (Stoneground)
10 Get Rhythm (Stoneground)
11 talk (Stoneground)
12 Richland Women (Stoneground)
13 Chicken Fried (Stoneground)
14 I Wish (Stoneground)
15 talk (Stoneground)
16 Total Destruction to Your Mind (Stoneground)
17 Big River (Stoneground)
18 talk by Bill Graham (Stoneground) 

https://pixeldrain.com/u/BaZyfvUw

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/NhBHzbizXa0OyXC/file

Stoneground is not that famous of a band, so I had a hard time finding any good color photos of them in concert. However, it turns out they appeared on the German TV show "Beat Club" in 1971. I took screenshots of each of the two lead singers, then Photoshopped them so both could fit on the cover.

Our Final Week - The Closing of the Fillmore West, Fillmore West, San Francisco, CA, 6-30-1971, Part 3: Flamin' Groovies

Here's the third set from the first day of five days of concerts that closed the Fillmore West venue in San Francisco in 1971. (See my write-up on the Boz Scaggs set for general information about the closing.) This set features the band Flamin' Groovies.

In my write-up for the second set, I said I'm going to keep my write-ups short, and mostly rely on Wikipedia information. But this one is different, because it's the only set from these closing of the Fillmore West concerts I previously posted on this blog. So I'm deleting that post and making this new one, but largely keeping the old write-up. This version also has a new cover photo, taken from this exact venue (though on a different date).

In case you're not familiar, (the) Flamin' Groovies were an American rock band that always seemed to have a retro sound, even though they were formed in 1965. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, they had a kind of proto-punk sound reminiscent of the Rolling Stones when they were in their mid-1960s bluesy mode. Then, in 1971, Roy Loney, one of the band's lead vocalists, left the band. He was replaced by Chris Wilson, who led the band in more of a Beatles / power pop direction. Their other lead singer, Cyril Jordan, stayed with both versions of the band. They never had much commercial success, but they're kind of a hidden treasure if you're into rootsy rock and roll.

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

Flamin' Groovies - Wikipedia

There have been a bunch of official live albums by the band, but they're generally either from way past the band's prime or the sound quality is middling at best. One key exception is this concert. It has been officially released at different times under different names: "Slow Death, Live!," "Bucket of Brains," and "The Flamin' Groovies in Person." I'm posting it here because I was able to significantly improve the sound quality by the simple trick of boosting the lead vocals relative to the instruments (using the UVR5 audio editing program).

This seems to be the only soundboard quality live recording of the original line-up of the band. Roy Loney left the band in 1971, but that happened shortly after this concert. It seems the band wasn't high profile and/or wealthy enough to professionally record their concerts. This is a lucky exception, because this comes from a series of concerts marking the closing of the Fillmore West concert venue in San Francisco, that included lots of famous acts like the Grateful Dead, Santana, and Creedence Clearwater Revival. The performances were professionally recorded and broadcast on San Francisco radio stations, including this set by Flamin' Groovies. 

Flamin' Groovies played cover versions more often than not. But they could write very good originals as well. For instance, in my opinion, two of the songs here, "Slow Death" and "Teenage Head," are classic originals that should be much better known. "Road House" and "Doctor Boogie" are also originals, but the rest are covers.

This album is 46 minutes long. 

01 I Can't Explain (Flamin' Groovies)
02 Sweet Little Rock and Roller (Flamin' Groovies)
03 talk (Flamin' Groovies)
04 Have You Seen My Baby (Flamin' Groovies)
05 talk (Flamin' Groovies)
06 Road House (Flamin' Groovies)
07 Doctor Boogie (Flamin' Groovies)
08 talk (Flamin' Groovies)
09 Slow Death (Flamin' Groovies)
10 talk (Flamin' Groovies)
11 Shakin' All Over (Flamin' Groovies)
12 talk (Flamin' Groovies)
13 Teenage Head (Flamin' Groovies)
14 Louie, Louie (Flamin' Groovies)
15 Walking the Dog (Flamin' Groovies)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/RW7qv8tm

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/MpOvtLq3gFsznTF/file

The cover photo comes from a concert at the Fillmore West, but from a different date. Specifically, it's from a concert on May 15, 1970. The version I found was in black and white. But I used the program Kolorize to colorize it.

Our Final Week - The Closing of the Fillmore West, Fillmore West, San Francisco, CA, 6-30-1971, Part 2: Cold Blood

Here's the second set from the first day of five days of concerts that closed the Fillmore West venue in San Francisco in 1971. (See my write-up on the Boz Scaggs set for general information about the closing.) This set features the band Cold Blood.

Generally speaking, I haven't posted as much music as I have ready for posting due to the hassles of making the cover art and/or writing the write-ups. For instance, I've had these Fillmore West albums ready to go for a year or two, but never got around to actually posting them until now. The cover art needs to happen regardless, but to help things along, I'm going to try to keep the write-ups to a minimum. Instead, I'll lean heavily on information from Wikipedia.

Here's how Wikipedia introduces this band: "Cold Blood is a long-standing R&B horn funk band founded by Larry Field in 1968, and was originally based in the East Bay region of the San Francisco Bay Area. The band has also performed and recorded under the name Lydia Pense and Cold Blood, due to the popularity of their lead singer, Lydia Pense." 

Here's the rest of their Wikipedia entry, if you want to know more: 

Cold Blood (band) - Wikipedia 

The music here is unreleased. However, all the sets from the five final days of concert at the Fillmore West were broadcast on local radio stations. (Specifically, KSAN, KSFX, and KMET.) As a result, they all have been bootlegged, with excellent sound quality.

This album is an hour and 18 minutes long.

01 You Got Me Hummin' (Cold Blood)
02 talk (Cold Blood)
03 Too Many People (Cold Blood)
04 talk (Cold Blood)
05 Lo and Behold (Cold Blood)
06 talk (Cold Blood)
07 Let Me Down Easy (Cold Blood)
08 talk (Cold Blood)
09 Monkey on My Back (Cold Blood)
10 talk (Cold Blood)
11 Real Good Thing (Cold Blood with the Stanton Brothers)
12 Watch Your Step (Cold Blood)
13 talk (Cold Blood)
14 Shop Talk [Instrumental] (Cold Blood)
15 I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel to Be Free (Cold Blood)
16 Understanding (Cold Blood)
17 I Just Want to Make Love to You (Cold Blood)
18 I'm a Good Woman (Cold Blood)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/Ei9CNDgV 

alternate: 

https://bestfile.io/en/ZOM9affn3Lizpgs/file

The cover image shows Lydia Pense, the lead singer of Cold Blood. I believe it comes from this exact concert, but I could be wrong. (It's been a long time since I made the cover art for all the albums in this series.)

Our Final Week - The Closing of the Fillmore West, Fillmore West, San Francisco, CA, 6-30-1971, Part 1: Boz Scaggs

A few days ago as I write this, Bob Weir died. Specifically, he died on January 10, 2026, at the age of 78. He was one of the two main singer-songwriters for the Grateful Dead. I want to post something in tribute to his musical legacy. I was thinking about what I might have ready to post that was all ready to go, and I remembered there's a good Grateful Dead concert that was part of the final run of concerts at the Fillmore West, in San Francisco, in 1971. I've had all the concerts from that run all ready to go for a long time now; I just never got around to posting them. (This is a common problem for me!) But I decided with Weir's passing, I'm not only going to post that Grateful Dead show, I'm going to post all of the shows that made up the closing of the Fillmore West, since I'd been meaning to do that anyway. And there are a lot of them: I have 20 albums to post in all. Here's the first one, a set by Boz Scaggs.

Before I talk about Scaggs and this specific concert, I want to talk about the closing of the Fillmore West (in San Francisco) in general, which also took just a week after the closing of the Fillmore East (in New York City). The closing of the Fillmore East was just a one-day event. I've already posted seven albums that made up the different sets from that long concert. But the closing of the Fillmore West was a series of concerts over five nights in a row, with multiple star performers each night.

For the first album I posted from the closing of the Fillmore East, I wrote some general comments about that that also apply to the closing of the Fillmore West. So I'm copying and paste the text from that to here, to save me some time and effort. I'm only making a few minor tweaks: 

The Fillmore West is closely tied to its owner, promoter Bill Graham, who was arguably the most important promoter in rock history. He was particularly instrumental in the development of the San Francisco psychedelic sound in the late 1960s. Bands like the Grateful Dead and Jefferson Airplane didn't have many good places to play at first. But Graham opened the Fillmore Auditorium in San Francisco in late 1965, and that became a haven for many new and upcoming bands. At first, this venue was just known as "the Fillmore" (named after the street it was on), but its name changed to "the Fillmore West" in 1968 when Graham moved it to a larger building about a mile away, around the same time he opened a similar venue in New York City, which he called "the Fillmore East."

Both the Fillmore West and Fillmore East were among the most important and prestigious concert venues in the late 1960s and early 1970s. They each held between 2,500 and 3,000 people, which was big enough for most of the famous rock acts of the time, but not so big to become a stadium-type show, with inevitably poorer sound quality and less of a connection between the musicians and the fans. Many great live albums were recorded at both venues. Here's the Wikipedia entry for the Fillmore West, if you want to know more:

Fillmore West - Wikipedia

Unfortunately, these two venues didn't last that long. In 1971, Graham decided to close both of them. Part of it seems to be that Graham seemed to be personally burned out after hosting concerts on both the East and West coasts nearly every night for three years. But also, the economics were changing. As rock music got increasingly popular and mainstream, the acts that had found success playing at both Fillmores were increasing graduating to playing in arenas and stadiums that could hold 10,000 or more spectators. Graham couldn't pay the acts nearly the same amount when his venues were much smaller. He could have continued with lesser known acts, but he decided to (temporarily) quit the business instead.

As it so happens, Graham didn't stay retired for long. Within a year, he was back to promoting rock concerts, although he wasn't as closely tied to particular venues as he'd been with the Fillmores. He arguably remained the most important concert promoter in rock music until he died in a helicopter crash in 1991. The original Fillmore in San Francisco reopened in 1994, and remains a popular venue until today.

Anyway, the closing of the Fillmore West on July 4, 1971, is well documented. There were five nights of closing concerts. This resulted in a documentary film called "Fillmore" and a triple album called "Fillmore: The Last Days," released in 1972. Better still for my purposes, all five nights were broadcast live on a local radio station, which resulted in excellent sounding bootlegs for practically all the music performed on all the nights.

Luckily though, we have the bootleg recordings. I'm calling this album series "Our Final Week," because the marquee sign in front of the Fillmore West had that written on it during that week. You can see that included in the artwork at the top of the cover art for each album.

Now, let me address this specific concert. It seems each act was allowed to performed just as long as they wanted - for instance, the Grateful Dead set a couple of days later lasted three hours. So this is the length of a typical concert at the time, about an hour and a half. Scaggs started out a member of the Steve Miller Band, but he quit to start a solo career, releasing his first solo album in 1969. This concert took place a few months after the release of his third solo album, "Moments," so naturally a lot of songs that were played came from that album. 

I found an interesting article written about the concerts, especially the one on the last day, for Rolling Stone Magazine from just after when the concerts took place. Since this is the first album from this series of concerts, I've included the text of that article in the download zip. It especially has a lot of insight into promoter Bill Graham, and why he decided to close both the Fillmore East and Fillmore West. The short version is that he was burned out from working non-stop, and needed a prolonged break. 

This album is an hour and 24 minutes long.

01 I Feel So Good (Boz Scaggs)
02 talk (Boz Scaggs)
03 We Were Always Sweethearts (Boz Scaggs)
04 talk (Boz Scaggs)
05 Painted Bells (Boz Scaggs)
06 talk (Boz Scaggs)
07 I Will Forever Sing the Blues (Boz Scaggs)
08 talk (Boz Scaggs)
09 We Been Away (Boz Scaggs)
10 Hollywood Blues (Boz Scaggs)
11 Baby's Calling Me Home (Boz Scaggs)
12 Stepping Stone (Boz Scaggs)
13 talk (Boz Scaggs)
14 Country Girl (Boz Scaggs)
15 Loan Me a Dime (Boz Scaggs)
16 I'll Be Long Gone (Boz Scaggs)
17 talk (Boz Scaggs)
18 I'm Easy (Boz Scaggs)
19 Near You (Boz Scaggs)
20 Sweet Release (Boz Scaggs)
21 talk (Boz Scaggs)

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alternate: 

https://bestfile.io/gxoQw2PLAZVsWZb/file

The cover image comes from this exact concert. It's a screenshot I took from the "Fillmore" movie. For the top part, I found a photo of the marquee from the front of the venue. Then I manipulated it some in Photoshop, cleaning it up and stretching it to fit the space.

Covered: Tom Waits, Volume 3: 2004-2012

Here's "Volume 3" out of four volumes made for the "Covered" series, showcasing the songs of Tom Waits.

Like the other volumes in this series, this was mostly put together by Fabio from Rio. He did all the heavy lifting in finding the source material, and I only helped to winnow down the songs to a reasonable number. Fabio also wrote the notes for each volume, so here's his notes for this one:

In the nineties and early 2000s, Waits fused experimental sounds with stark American roots music—blues, gospel, field hollers, and folk. Themes of death, sin, redemption, and rural myth dominate. This allows for covers that, while highlighting their folk or country origins (sometimes deeply buried at the original recordings, but more perceptible when reinterpreted by performers from diverse backgrounds), still keep their darker spirits through melancholic or nihilistic lyrics.

In this volume, the country side of Waits' music is quite perceptible via covers by Elvis Costello, Norah Jones, and Claudia Bettinaglio. One may also feel the sexiness and smoky-room cabaret ambiance at Diana Krall's "Temptation", Monique Maion's "Walking Spanish," and Clara Bellino's "Swordfishtrombone." 

Traces of rockabilly and R&B can be found with Mark Lemhouse's "No One Can Forgive Me" and English seventies folk with Plant and Krauss' "Trampled Rose", along with blues and rock tracks like Hart and Bonamassa's "Chocolate Jesus" and Goldheart Assembly's "Clap Hands." Overall, this makes for an eclectic selection, much like the average Tom Waits album. An acoustic, home-demo-like version of "In the Neighborhood" by Peter Gabriel, recorded in 2012 for a benefit album for war-torn regions, closes the volume on a poignant note.

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This album is 57 minutes long. 

01 Innocent When You Dream (Elvis Costello)
02 Temptation (Diana Krall)
03 Long Way Home (Norah Jones)
04 Big in Japan (Shane Nicholson)
05 Swordfishtrombone (Clara Bellino)
06 Eyeball Kid (Michael Stanley)
07 Cold Cold Ground (Claudia Bettinaglio)
08 Trampled Rose (Robert Plant & Alison Krauss)
09 All the Time in the World (Southside Johnny)
10 No One Can Forgive Me (Mark Lemhouse)
11 Walking Spanish (Monique Maion)
12 Chocolate Jesus (Beth Hart & Joe Bonamassa)
13 Clap Hands (Goldheart Assembly)
14 In the Neighborhood (Peter Gabriel)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/yUHGi7qy 

alternate: 

https://bestfile.io/en/i96wIB252GpXMcV/file

The cover photo shows Waits at a movie premiere in Leicester Square, in London, on October 6, 2009. (As usual with this series of course, I replaced the background with blank light blue).

Kevin Gilbert - Covers (1986-1996) (A Mike Solof Guest Post)

Here's the third and last album that make up guest poster Mike Solof's collections of his favorite songs from the music career of Kevin Gilbert. The first two albums focused on original songs, but this one consists entirely of cover versions.

As I mentioned in my write-up for the first album in this series, Gilbert often mixed a catchy pop sensibility in his songs with the musical complexity of prog rock. As a result, he especially liked prog rock type bands that also had some pop appeal. Probably his favorite band of all was Genesis. In fact, he was such a Genesis fan that he once performed the entirety of the Genesis double album "The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway" in concert! This album contains three Genesis covers, as well as some other prog rock songs that are almost never covered by anyone, such as "Siberian Khatru" by Yes and "Karn Evil 9" by Emerson, Lake, and Palmer. And yet we can see Gilbert's pop side as well, with covers of songs like "The Joker" by the Steve Miller Band and "If I Fell" by the Beatles. Definitely interesting stuff here.

As usual, Mike has included a PDF in the download zip that has more information and photos and such. But note that it's the same PDF as in the other two Kevin Gilbert albums he put together. 

This album is 60 minutes long.

Here's a list of the original musical acts for each of the songs here: 

01 Suite- Judy Blue Eyes - Crosby, Stills and Nash
02 Firth of Fifth - Genesis
03 The Joker - Steve Miller Band
04 Rendezvous 602 - U.K.
05 Back in NYC - Genesis
06 Kashmir - Led Zeppelin
07 Rocket Man - Elton John (with Pink Floyd intro)
08 Siberian Khatru - Yes
09 If I Fell - Beatles
10 Karn Evil 9 - Emerson, Lake & Palmer
11 The Musical Box - Genesis 

And here's the usual song list: 

01 Suite- Judy Blue Eyes (Toy Matinee)
02 Firth of Fifth (Kevin Gilbert & Mickey Sorey)
03 The Joker (Kevin Gilbert)
04 UK Suite [Rendezvous 6-02 - Danger Money - Caesar's Palace Blues] (Kevin Gilbert & Mickey Sorey)
05 Back in N.Y.C. (Kevin Gilbert)
06 Kashmir (Kevin Gilbert)
07 Rocket Man (Toy Matinee)
08 Siberian Khatru (Kevin Gilbert)
09 If I Fell (Toy Matinee)
10 Karn Evil 9 (Kevin Gilbert)
11 The Musical Box (Giraffe)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/mvhs6yEL

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/o1G0R8xtPXiJqQL/file

I believe I found the cover image in an Instagram post. It had some distracting things on it, like some text added on top. But I wiped that out using Photoshop. I don't know exactly when or where it's from. 

Joan Baez with Mimi Farina and Steve Goodman - The Midnight Special, NBC Studios, Burbank, CA, 7-20-1973

Here we go again, with another episode of the "Midnight Special" TV show. This one stars folk singer Joan Baez. It also has two guests, Mimi Farina and Steve Goodman.

Baez had been one of the most famous folk singers since the mid-1960s. But she didn't have a big hit until 1971. That year, her version of "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down" went all the way to Number Three in the U.S. singles chart. So that's probably what gave her enough commercial appeal to be given the host slot for this show.

Baez had two sisters, and one of them was Mimi Farina. So it's not too surprising that their music careers have often intersected. That including Baez asking her to be part of this episode, and then singing a duet with her on the song "Best of Friends." Farina is probably best known as part of the mid-1960s duo of Richard and Mimi Farina, which sadly ended when Richard Farina died in 1966. Here's a Wikipedia entry if you want to know more about her:

Mimi Fariña - Wikipedia

Steve Goodman was an excellent singer-songwriter. He was near the start of his musical career at the time of this concert, as his first album was released in 1971. The best known song he wrote, by far, was "The City of New Orleans." Arlo Guthrie had a big hit with it in 1972, and it has gone on to become a classic, covered by many. So I'm a bit surprised Goodman didn't perform his own version in this episode.

Baez and Goodman didn't perform a duet here, like Baez and Farina did. But Baez mentioned in her banter between songs that she was the one that got Goodman on the show because she was such a big fan of his songs. So I included him here, especially because his musical style fits in well with the songs by Baez and/or Farina. Also, it turns out this was the only appearance Goodman ever made on the show, so I didn't have nearly enough songs to give him his own album. (This also was Farina's only appearance, but Baez would be a host again in 1975, and she would make other appearances too.)

Here's his Wikipedia entry:

Steve Goodman - Wikipedia  

In case you're curious, the other musical acts on the show were Wilson Pickett, Black Oak Arkansas, Bloodstone, and the Pointer Sisters. I've already put the Pickett and Pointer Sisters songs on other albums I've made.

Two songs have "[Edit]" in their titles. For the first track, I got rid of the show's theme song playing in the background, and replaced that with audience applause. For the third track, I stitched together two chunks of banter that were separated by one or more songs.

This album is 33 minutes long. 

01 talk [Edit] (Wolfman Jack)
02 The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down (Joan Baez)
03 talk [Edit] (Joan Baez)
04 Someone Else's Troubles (Steve Goodman)
05 talk (Wolfman Jack)
06 talk (Joan Baez)
07 Joe Hill (Joan Baez)
08 talk (Joan Baez)
09 In the Quiet Morning (Mimi Farina)
10 talk (Joan Baez & Mimi Farina)
11 Best of Friends (Joan Baez & Mimi Farina)
12 Love Song to a Stranger (Joan Baez)
13 Prison Trilogy (Joan Baez)
14 Would You Like to Learn to Dance (Steve Goodman)
15 talk (Joan Baez)
16 Rider Pass By (Joan Baez)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/n1N9WdEs

alternate: 

https://bestfile.io/en/kz1AXtVnbvi6IHH/file

The cover image is a screenshot I took from a video of this exact concert. Mimi Farina is the one closer and higher up in the image.

Marshall Crenshaw - PBS Soundstage, WTTW Studios, Chicago, IL, 5-2-1983

Here's another episode of the "PBS Soundstage" TV show. This time, it stars Marshall Crenshaw.

Crenshaw was really hot stuff in the music business for about two years, 1982 and 1983. That's when he released his first two albums, "Marshall Crenshaw" and "Field Day." Both of them got a lot of critical acclaim, and contained hit songs. Unfortunately, he couldn't maintain that level of success after that. But, given that history, it's not surprising that his Soundstage episode came in 1983, probably the peak of his popularity.

I've already posted two BBC concerts Crenshaw did, in 1982 and 1983. The 1983 one took place less than two months after this one, so it's not surprising the set lists are pretty similar. However, I do want to post all the worthy Soundstage episodes I can find, so I'm posting this despite the similarity to the other 1983 concert I've posted from him.

While there are similarities, there also are differences. Most notably, Crenshaw performed some cover versions in this concert he didn't perform in the 1983 BBC concert: "Soldier of Love (Lay Down Your Arms)," "Got a Lot o' Livin' to Do," "Stop Her on Sight (S.O.S.)," "Brown Eyed Handsome Man," and "White Lightning."

This album is 56 minutes long.

01 Mary Anne (Marshall Crenshaw)
02 Rockin' Around in N.Y.C. (Marshall Crenshaw)
03 Girls (Marshall Crenshaw)
04 Soldier of Love [Lay Down Your Arms] (Marshall Crenshaw)
05 Got a Lot o' Livin' to Do (Marshall Crenshaw)
06 She Can't Dance (Marshall Crenshaw)
07 Move It (Marshall Crenshaw)
08 talk (Marshall Crenshaw)
09 Something's Gonna Happen (Marshall Crenshaw)
10 Someday, Someway (Marshall Crenshaw)
11 There She Goes Again (Marshall Crenshaw)
12 Brand New Lover (Marshall Crenshaw)
13 talk (Marshall Crenshaw)
14 Stop Her on Sight [S.O.S.] (Marshall Crenshaw)
15 Look at What I Almost Missed (Marshall Crenshaw)
16 talk (Marshall Crenshaw)
17 Brown Eyed Handsome Man (Marshall Crenshaw)
18 The Usual Thing (Marshall Crenshaw)
19 Cynical Girl (Marshall Crenshaw)
20 talk (Marshall Crenshaw)
21 White Lightning (Marshall Crenshaw)
22 [I Wanna] Love My Life Away (Marshall Crenshaw)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/ksBSRo1y

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/KjQqG8aCOPMGUwh/file

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

Kevin Gilbert - Rarities (1985-1996) (A Mike Solof Guest Post)

Here's the second out of three "best of" albums guest posted Mike Solof has made for singer-songwriter Kevin Gilbert. The first album, "Originals," focuses on Mike's favorite songs that were on Gilbert's studio albums (including albums for bands he led, such as Toy Matinee). This one digs deeper. 

Considering that Gilbert's music career only lasted about ten years, he created a remarkable amount of music. He only put out a few albums in his lifetime. But since his death in 1996, a couple dozen more albums have come out! Gilbert was one of those musicians, like Prince, who played practically every instrument he could get his hands on, and was always writing and creating. So there was a ton of rare material for Mike to draw on when making this album. (As usual, look to the mp3 tags for all the details on the sources of the songs.)

One interesting highlight of this album is "Leaving Las Vegas." That was a big hit for Sheryl Crow. But Gilbert co-wrote it, as well as co-writing most of the songs on Crow's debut album, "Tuesday Night Music Club." The two of them were romantically linked for a while, and Crow was a member of Gilbert's band for a time.  

Like Mike always does with his guest posts, he's created a PDF file with additional comments and photos and so forth. In this case, the PDF is the same for all three Gilbert "best of" albums he made.  

This album is 59 minutes long. 

01 National Public Radio (Kevin Gilbert)
02 Things She Said [Jazz Version] (Kevin Gilbert)
03 Circling Winds (Kevin Gilbert)
04 Goodbye L.A. (Kevin Gilbert)
05 Suit Fugue [Dance of the A & R Men] [Early Mix] (Kevin Gilbert)
06 God's Been Tapping My Phone (Kevin Gilbert)
07 Queen of Misery (Toy Matinee)
08 KMTT Jingle (Kevin Gilbert)
09 Leaving Las Vegas (Kevin Gilbert)
10 Tea for One [Sax Mix] (Kevin Gilbert)
11 Something Nice for My Dog (Kevin Gilbert)
12 Late for Dinner [Dark Mix] (Kevin Gilbert)
13 Souvenir (Kevin Gilbert)
14 Finally Over You (Kevin Gilbert)
15 All Fall Down [Toto Version] (Kevin Gilbert)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/N98cVBGz

alternate: 

https://bestfile.io/en/pzxlRnsVOmw60ea/file

I don't know the details of where or when the cover image is from. It was selected by Mike. 

Kevin Gilbert - Originals (1984-1996) (A Mike Solof Guest Post)

Here's a really interesting album put together by guest poster Mike Solof. Have you ever heard of Kevin Gilbert? If you have, congrats, because he's not as well known as he sound be. Mike is a huge fan of Gilbert's music, so much so that he put together three albums to showcase Gilbert's musical talent. The first album, this one, consists of the original songs Mike considers the best. Then he's made another one of the best rarities, and a third one of the best cover versions. If you want to get started, this is the obvious first album to listen to. Then, if you're interested, check out the other two. (Then, hopefully, more than that.)

For a quick overview, I'll quote the intro paragraph to his Wikipedia entry, which states me "was an American singer, songwriter, musician, composer, and producer. He was best known for his solo progressive rock projects, Toy Matinee, and his contributions to 'Tuesday Night Music Club' (1993), the debut studio album of Sheryl Crow. Kevin Gilbert died from autoerotic asphyxiation. He was found dead at his Los Angeles-area home on May 18, 1996, at the age of 29."

Here's the link to the rest of the Wikipedia page:

Kevin Gilbert (musician) - Wikipedia

I have to admit I wasn't familiar with Gilbert's music before Mike made these albums, although I'd previously heard good things about his career here and there. After hearing the albums Mike made, I have to agree that Gilbert was a very talented musician who deserves to be much better known than he is. He often combined a catchy pop sensibility with the complexity of prog rock. That is a very difficult combination to pull off. It's a real shame he died so young, and the strange manner of his death probably didn't help his musical legacy.

Note that this albums combines songs from Gilbert's solo albums, as well as songs he did with bands he was in: Giraffe, Toy Matinee, and Kaviar. All the lead vocals are by Gilbert. 

Anyway, Mike has written extensive notes about Gilbert, his life, and why he likes his music so much. You can find that in the PDF included with the download zip, as usual for Mike's guest posts. 

This album is an hour and 23 minutes long. 

01 When Strangers Part (Kevin Gilbert)
02 This Warm Night (Giraffe)
03 Air Dance (Giraffe)
04 Tired Old Man Suite (Kevin Gilbert)
05 Last Plane Out (Toy Matinee)
06 Things She Said (Toy Matinee)
07 The Ballad of Jenny Ledge (Toy Matinee)
08 Goodness Gracious (Kevin Gilbert)
09 Shadow Self [Alternate Version] (Kevin Gilbert)
10 Miss Broadway (Kevin Gilbert)
11 Single (Kaviar)
12 The Sultan of Brunei (Kaviar)
13 The Best Laid Plans (Kevin Gilbert)
14 Certifiable No. 1 Smash (Kevin Gilbert)
15 All Fall Down [Alternate Horn Mix] (Kevin Gilbert)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/GvEgk98D

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/BNCnBxCFRjJRq5o/file

I don't know the details of the cover image. It was found by Mike.

Chris Rea - BBC Sessions, Volume 7: In Concert, Shepherd's Bush Empire, London, Britain, 1-30-1998

The mini-flood of Chris Rea BBC albums continues. Like all the previous ones so far, this is a BBC concert.

Rea's career momentum was starting to slow down. He didn't release any studio albums between 1993 and 1998. However, he was involved in a 1996 movie soundtrack called "La Passione," which mostly consisted of instrumentals or songs sung by others. Finally, in January 1998, the same month as this concert, he released the album "The Blue Cafe." It still made the Top Ten in the British albums chart, but its sales were less than previous albums, because none of the songs from it were hits.

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

This album is 57 minutes long.

01 Nothing to Fear (Chris Rea)
02 Stainsby Girls (Chris Rea)
03 On the Beach (Chris Rea)
04 Shadows of the Big Man (Chris Rea)
05 Thinking of You (Chris Rea)
06 Anyone Quite like You (Chris Rea)
07 Miss Your Kiss (Chris Rea)
08 Square Peg, Round Hole (Chris Rea)
09 The Road to Hell I and II (Chris Rea)
10 The Blue Cafe (Chris Rea)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/zxwx7VVT

alternate: 

https://bestfile.io/en/9HI2XBeJ2wepfYr/file

The cover photo is possibly from this exact concert. I know it was taken at the Shepherd's Bush Empire in London, in January 1998. But he played there three nights in a row. So there's a one in three chance it's from this concert.

Covered: Tom Waits, Volume 2: 1994-2004

Here's the second Covered volume for Tom Waits. Like the Covered albums made for other musical acts, the talent of a songwriter is shown through cover versions, rather than that person performing their own songs.

And like the rest of this series for Waits, most of the heavy lifting in making this album is thanks to Fabio from Rio. He basically found a zillion Waits covers, then whittled them down to his favorites. That was still a very large number, so I then listened to them and whittled them down a lot more.

Fabio also answered my request to do the write-ups for each album in this series. So here's what he had to say about this one. And thanks, Fabio, for all your work on these albums. Take it away:

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Around the mid-1980s, Waits began to break away from conventional arrangements. The music became more percussive and raw, foreshadowing a major stylistic shift. This period marks the end of his "classic singer-songwriter" phase and the start of a more radical artistic reinvention. Waits embraced experimental instrumentation, junkyard percussion, polyrhythms, and global folk influences. His work became deeply theatrical, influenced by Brecht, Weill, and his collaborations with his wife Kathleen Brennan. Songs feel like surreal street operas populated by grotesques and dreamers. This second volume includes mostly songs from that period.

The best known cover here is probably "Way Down in the Hole," due to its use in the HBO series "The Wire." (The Blind Boys from Alabama's version was used as the first season opening music, and other versions were selected for the remaining four seasons, including Waits' own original version.) Norah Jones' delicate outtake "Picture in a Frame" also got some recognition, especially after its inclusion in special editions of her breakthrough album "Come Away With Me."

"I Don't Wanna Grow Up" sounds so natural in the Ramones' catalog that many listeners assume it is an original. It was used as the opening track and first single of their last studio album. Waits' version (from the excellent 1992 album "Bone Machine") is way darker. 

"Little Boy Blue" was only performed by Waits in the movie "One from the Heart." Here we have a bluesy version by jazz singer and pianist Holly Cole. Other highlights of the volume include Screamin' Jay Hawkins' "Whistling Past the Graveyard" and John Hammond's "Big Black Mariah" (which is taken from an album he did fully dedicated to Waits songs). 

On the mellower side, there are soft-sounding melodic folk versions by Shawn Colvin and Valerie Carter that prove Waits can write poignant ballads. Overall, another very nice flowing album with well performed covers that honor Waits' music.

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This album is 58 minutes long. 

01 The Heart of Saturday Night (Shawn Colvin)
02 Whistling Past the Graveyard (Screamin' Jay Hawkins)
03 16 Shells from a Thirty-Ought Six (Bob Seger & the Silver Bullet Band)
04 I Don't Want to Grow Up (Ramones)
05 Better Off without a Wife (Pete Shelley)
06 Little Boy Blue (Holly Cole)
07 Whistle Down the Wind (Valerie Carter)
08 The Briar and the Rose (Niamh Parsons)
09 Dirt in the Ground (Christine Collister)
10 Heartattack and Vine (Popa Chubby)
11 Invitation to the Blues (Jennifer Warnes)
12 Big Black Mariah (John Hammond)
13 Picture in a Frame (Norah Jones)
14 Way Down in the Hole (Blind Boys from Alabama)
15 Jockey Full of Bourbon (Los Lobos)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/zUDkHa5i

alternate: 

https://bestfile.io/en/2nAIGV2f2Rq1n6p/file

The cover photo was taken in San Francisco in 2002.

Martin Simpson, Michael Chapman & Steve Tilston - Songwriters' Circle, Bush Hall, London, Britain, 3-18-2012

Here's another episode of the "Songwriters' Circle" BBC TV show. Just like other episodes, this one features three singer-songwriters taking turns performing their songs. In this case, the songwriters are Martin Simpson, Michael Chapman, and Steve Tilston. The episode has a theme, because all three of them are famous figures in British folk music.

Martin Simpson's career started in the 1970s. He didn't have any hits or famous albums. But he's steadily built up a following by releasing dozens of albums and touring frequently. He's mostly performed cover songs, especially of traditional music. He's still alive, and 76 years old, as I write this in 2026.

Here's his Wikipedia entry:

Martin Simpson - Wikipedia 

Michael Chapman's music is hard to describe, so I'll just quote the lead paragraph of his Wikipedia entry, which says he was a "British singer-songwriter and guitarist who released 58 albums, displaying a 'fusion of jazz, rock, Indian and ragtime styles [that] made him a cult hero.' He began playing with jazz bands, mainly in his home town of Leeds, and became well known in the folk clubs of the late 1960s, as well as on the progressive music scene." Note the use of the past tense, because he died in 2021 at the age of 80. He's probably best known for his 1970 album "Fully Qualified Survivor," which contains his most famous song, "Postcards of Scarborough."

Here's his Wikipedia page:

Michael Chapman (singer) - Wikipedia 

That just leaves Steve Tilston. Like the other two, his music career began roughly around 1970. Also like the other two, he's had a long career with British folk music, releasing dozens of albums. 

Here's his Wikipedia entry:

Steve Tilston - Wikipedia 

To be honest, I wasn't familiar with the music of any of these three musicians. But this was a nice listen, with the three of them all playing good songs and making interesting comments. It's a bit curious and disappointing that it didn't end with all three of them performing a classic song together, like all the other episodes I can remember of this TV series. But all three of them were/are talented guitarists, and often helped out with songs when it wasn't their turn to sing.

By the way, sadly, this appears to be the last episode of the TV series, in terms of broadcast order. I still have two more that I plan on posting. And there are another three or so that I haven't found, at least not yet. 

This album is 58 minutes long.

01 An Englishman Abroad (Martin Simpson)
02 talk (Martin Simpson)
03 Postcards of Scarborough (Michael Chapman)
04 talk (Michael Chapman & Steve Tilston)
05 Weeping Willow Replanted (Steve Tilston)
06 talk (Martin Simpson)
07 Never Any Good (Martin Simpson)
08 talk (Michael Chapman)
09 In the Valley (Michael Chapman)
10 talk (Steve Tilston)
11 The Road When I Was Young (Steve Tilston)
12 talk (Martin Simpson)
13 Will Atkinson (Martin Simpson)
14 talk (Michael Chapman)
15 Just Another Story (Michael Chapman)
16 talk (Steve Tilston)
17 The Reckoning (Steve Tilston)
18 talk (Martin Simpson)
19 Home Again (Martin Simpson)
20 talk (Michael Chapman)
21 A Cowboy Phase (Michael Chapman)
22 talk (Steve Tilston)
23 The Slip Jigs and Reels (Steve Tilston)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/FszeUKwt

alternate:

The cover photo is from this exact concert, kind of. I couldn't find any good images of the three of them together, since they didn't play a song together at the end, like most episodes. But at the start of the video of this concert there was some footage of the three of them practicing together before the concert, so I took a screenshot of that. From right to left: Steve Tilston, Michael Chapman, and Martin Simpson.

Various Artists - KHJ Third Annual Appreciation Concert, Hollywood Bowl, Los Angeles, CA, 8-16-1968

First, some bad news. I've been having some problems with my computer, which is why I haven't posted anything here in the past couple of days. I had to take it into a repair shop. I was excited to get it back home today, only to find there are still some problems, so I have to take it back tomorrow for further fixes. But while I have it today, I can post some albums.

Now, the good news: I'm very psyched to post this concert. It's not often we get concerts like this from this 1960s, and this one was very hard to find. Hopefully it will get wider exposure now. It was put on by a Los Angeles radio station, KHJ, and it was broadcast on that station at the time. It featured four musical acts: the Yellow Payges, Tommy James and the Shondells, the (Young) Rascals, and Eric Burdon and the Animals.

As you can see from the title, this was the third such annual concert for KHJ. The first one, in 1966, featured Sonny and Cher (as the main headliners), Donovan, Bob Lind, the Knickerbockers, the Mamas & the Papas, the Modern Folk Quartet, Otis Redding, and the Turtles. It would be incredible to hear that, but I've never heard of a recording existing for it. Luckily, a recording for the second annual concert in 1967 does exist, and I posted it at this blog in 2024. The one featured Buffalo Springfield, the Fifth Dimension, Brenda Holloway, the Seeds, Johnny Rivers, and the Supremes. If you missed it, here's the page for the link:

https://albumsthatshouldexist.blogspot.com/2024/05/various-artists-khj-second-annual.html

Just like that 1967 concert, this one featured musical acts that rarely or never were bootlegged. Let's start with the first act, the Yellow Payges. If you've never heard of them, don't feel bad. They never had much commercial success, and have pretty much been forgotten. However, they released ten singles in the 1960s, as well as an album in 1969, before breaking up in 1970. Looking at their reviews at the crowd-sourced rateyourmusic.com, it seems they were pretty good, but struggled for a distinctive style. They ranged from poppy to acid rock. 

Their set here consisted almost entirely of covers, even though it seems they had some good original material. The only song they did in this set that wasn't a classic or hit for another musical act is "Crowd Pleaser."  

Here's their Wiki page, if you want to know more:

The Yellow Payges - Wikipedia

Tommy James and the Shondells were very popular in the mid to late 1960s. But they were seen as a light-weight singles band. They had many big hits that you probably know, even if you don't know they did the original hit versions. They had two songs that reached Number One in the U.S.:  "Hanky Panky" in 1966,  and "Crimson and Clover" in 1969. Some of their other big hits were "I Think We're Alone Now," "Mirage," "Mony Mony," "Sweet Cherry Wine," and "Crystal Blue Persuasion." Some of those, like "Crimson and Clover," hadn't been recorded yet at the time of this concert. But still, their set consisted of several original hits, plus some covers: a medley of "People Get Ready" and "Get Ready," "Baby I Need Your Loving," and "What the World Needs Now Is Love."

I have never seen any bootleg or even official live album from this musical act in their 1960s prime, so it's really nice to find this one. True, they were known for their singles, not their live performances, but still, they acquitted themselves well here. And it appears they never recorded the three covers I mentioned above, so those are all unique to this concert recording, I believe.

Here's their Wikipedia entry:

Tommy James and the Shondells - Wikipedia 

The Rascals were similar to Tommy James and the Shondells in that they were mainly known for their singles, and they had many hit singles in the 1960s. For the first couple years of their success, they were known as the Young Rascals. But even though they were still called that on the poster for this concert (as seen in the cover art), they actually changed their name to just the Rascals in early 1968, many months prior to this concert. At the time of this concert, they were probably at the peak of their popularity. Just one month earlier, they released the single "People Got to Be Free." It was their last huge hit, reaching Number One in the U.S. singles chart. Prior to that, their hits "Good Lovin'," "Groovin'," "How Can I Be Sure," and "A Beautiful Morning" all reached the Top Five in the U.S., with the first two making it to Number One. 

Unfortunately, starting in 1969, the band switched styles, lessening their popularity. They broke up in 1972, and had very few reunions after that. I posted one of their rare full reunions, meaning all the original members participated, as part of an Atlantic Records tribute concert in 1988. You can find that at this blog as well.

Just like Tommy James and the Shondells, there is very little live recordings from the Rascals in their 1960s prime. I've found some songs here and there they performed on various TV shows, and I made an album of that. I noticed just now I've never gotten around to posting that on this blog, so I should probably do that. But, other than that, the only 1960s bootlegs I've seen are short and problematic, and there are no official live albums either. So this has to be the best live recording from them in the 1960s.

Here's their Wikipedia entry: 

The Rascals - Wikipedia 

The final act of the concert, and the headliner, was Eric Burdon and the Animals. Funnily enough, just like Tommy James and the Shondells and the Rascals, there are surprisingly few good live recordings from this band from the 1960s. There are some, but most of those suffer from sound quality issues and/or are quite short. I've posted the best one I could find at this blog, a concert in Stockholm, Sweden, in January 1968. Their appearance at the 1967 Monterey Pop Festival was excellent (though short), and I've posted that here as well. Plus, there's a lot of BBC material from them as well. But still, considering how famous they were, one would have expected more live recordings to survive. At least this recording can be added in.

At the time of this concert, the Animals were on the decline. Singles were essential to success in the 1960s, and they only had one Top Forty hit in 1968, "Sky Pilot." They broke up at the end of the year. This concert avoided their earlier big hits and concentrated on material the band had done in the last year or so.

However, I strongly suspect there was more to their performance that isn't included here. They were the headliners for this concert. If you look at the 1967 KHJ concert, the headliners (the Supremes) for that one performed for about 50 minutes, 15 minutes longer than what we have for the Animals here. But that's just a guess, I don't know. However, clearly, this concert recording isn't 100 percent complete. For instance, we have DJ intros for the first three acts but not the Animals. Also, I got the Animals portion of this concert from a separate source than the rest, increasing the odds that something might be missing.

Now, let me address sound quality. This was broadcast on a radio station at the time, so this is really good for the 1960s. But still, broadcasting live music was rare in the 1960s, and the sound quality still left something to be desired. So I tried to fix the music as best I could. I ran every song through the MVSEP program twice, fixing different things each time. So it definitely sounds better now. However, the 1967 KHJ concert recording still sounds better, in my opinion.

This album is an hour and 58 minutes long. 

01 talk by emcee (Yellow Payges)
02 Uptight [Everything's Alright] (Yellow Payges)
03 Turn On Your Lovelight (Yellow Payges)
04 Sunshine of Your Love (Yellow Payges)
05 talk (Yellow Payges)
06 Crowd Pleaser (Yellow Payges)
07 Lady Jane (Yellow Payges)
08 I'm a Man (Yellow Payges)
09 talk by emcee (Tommy James & the Shondells)
10 People Get Ready - Get Ready (Tommy James & the Shondells)
11 Mirage (Tommy James & the Shondells)
12 Baby I Need Your Loving (Tommy James & the Shondells)
13 talk (Tommy James & the Shondells)
14 Gettin' Together (Tommy James & the Shondells)
15 What the World Needs Now Is Love (Tommy James & the Shondells)
16 Hanky Panky (Tommy James & the Shondells)
17 Mony Mony (Tommy James & the Shondells)
18 I Think We're Alone Now (Tommy James & the Shondells)
19 talk (Tommy James & the Shondells)
20 Gettin' Together [Reprise] (Tommy James & the Shondells)
21 talk by emcee (Rascals)
22 talk (Rascals)
23 Do You Feel It (Rascals)
24 Love Is a Beautiful Thing (Rascals)
25 talk (Rascals)
26 I'm So Happy Now (Rascals)
27 talk (Rascals)
28 Groovin' (Rascals)
29 A Girl like You (Rascals)
30 A Place in the Sun (Rascals)
31 A Beautiful Morning (Rascals)
32 People Got to Be Free (Rascals)
33 New York 1963 - America 1968 (Animals)
34 San Franciscan Nights (Animals)
35 talk (Animals)
36 Monterey - New York 1963, America 1968 - Monterey (Animals)
37 Sky Pilot (Animals)
38 talk by emcee (Animals)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/rna1kUgu

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/wLgVu304138pdrc/file

I couldn't find any photos from this exact concert. However, I found some promotional material, so I used that. I had to make some changes to make it fit into a square shape. 

The Counting Crows - PBS Soundstage, WTTW Studios, Chicago, IL, 11-13-2003

Here's another episode of the "PBS Soundstage" TV show. It features the band the Counting Crows, from 2003.

The Counting Crows (technically, just "Counting Crows") burst onto the music scene with their 1993 debut album "August and Everything After." It sold ten million copies worldwide, including seven million in the U.S. Their next album was also very successful. But each succeeding album has lower sales. Their most recent album at the time of this concert, "Hard Candy" in 2002, only went Gold (meaning U.S. sales of half a million). After that album, the band would take a recording break, not releasing another studio album until 2008.

Here's their Wikipedia link, if you want to know more:

Counting Crows - Wikipedia 

I'm not much of a fan of this band. For some reason, I've never enjoyed the vocals of lead singer Adam Duritz. But they certainly are talented and have many good songs. If only I could handle that voice. 

In addition to their own songs, this concert includes a cover of the Grateful Dead song "Friend of the Devil." They didn't put that on any of their studio albums, but they did put it on a "best of" album released in 2003.

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

This album is 53 minutes long. 

01 Mrs. Potter's Lullaby (Counting Crows)
02 Mr. Jones (Counting Crows)
03 talk (Counting Crows)
04 Recovering the Satellites (Counting Crows)
05 talk (Counting Crows)
06 She Don't Want Nobody Near (Counting Crows)
07 Friend of the Devil (Counting Crows)
08 talk (Counting Crows)
09 American Girls (Counting Crows)
10 Rain King (Counting Crows)
11 talk (Counting Crows)
12 Long December (Counting Crows)
13 Hangin' Around (Counting Crows)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/7if7kWvm

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/DG0oHIC82M2yAM8/file

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

Chris Rea - BBC Sessions, Volume 6: In Concert, Exhibition and Conference Centre, Aberdeen, Britain, 2-15-1993

The mini-flood of Chris Rea BBC albums continues. Here's one from 1993. Like all previous ones in this series so far, it's a BBC concert. But all the previous ones had been edited down to an hour or less. This one appears to be a full concert.

At the time of this concert, Rea's popularity was still peaking. In 1991, he released the album "Auberge," which reached Number One in the British album chart. Then in late 1992, he released the album "God's Great Banana Skin," which reached Number Four in Britain. The songs "Auberge" and "Nothing to Fear" were his best selling singles from those albums, and both of them were performed in this concert.

Unfortunately, he still refused to tour the U.S., so he remained little known there. He later said that he regretted that.

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

This album is an hour and 31 minutes long. 

01 Auberge (Chris Rea)
02 Daytona (Chris Rea)
03 Josephine (Chris Rea)
04 You Must Be Evil (Chris Rea)
05 Soft Top, Hard Shoulder (Chris Rea)
06 Nothing to Fear (Chris Rea)
07 Gone Fishing (Chris Rea)
08 The Road to Hell I and II (Chris Rea)
09 Looking for a Rainbow (Chris Rea)
10 On the Beach (Chris Rea)
11 God's Great Banana Skin (Chris Rea)
12 Working on It (Chris Rea)
13 Let's Dance (Chris Rea)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/jCNbSkho

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/1x4tTs7ZCrIZtbt/file

The cover photo isn't from this exact concert, but at least it's pretty close, from one less than a week later. It comes from a concert in Birmingham, on January 21, 1993.

Jerry Lee Lewis & Various Artists - The Midnight Special, NBC Studios, Burbank, CA, 4-27-1973

Here's another episode of the "Midnight Special" TV show. I previously posted an episode hosted by Roy Orbison. In that show, they called it one of their "solid gold" oldies episodes. This is another one of those, looking back at the music of the 1950s and early 1960s. The host is Jerry Lee Lewis. But while he introduced most of the acts, he didn't perform much (five songs), since there were so many other musical acts on this show.

Usually when I'm converting these episodes into albums, I only include the music of the host, plus maybe one more guest. But since this is a theme show, I included absolutely everything, except for a couple of short promo spots talking about who would be on the next episode.

Jerry Lee Lewis, of course, was a big 1950s rock and roll star. But he successfully transitioned into a country star in the late 1960s and 1970s. However, due to the theme of this episode, he just stuck to his rock and roll style. Here's all the other guests that got to play two songs each: Chubby Checker, Lloyd Price, the Diamonds, Little Anthony and the Imperials, the Shirelles, Freddie Cannon, and the Ronettes. And these are the guests that one played one song: the Penguins, the Del-Vikings, and Bobby Day. Linda Gail Lewis didn't get a song of her own, but sang a duet with Lewis.

I think it's pretty nice that this show brought all these musical acts to get another chance to appear on a national TV program, even though their hit-making heyday was long in the past. They were still young enough to look and sound just like they did when they made their hits. 

A 1950s rock and roll revival arguably began at the end of the 1960s. The retro band Sha Na Na performed at the Woodstock Festival in 1969, and one of their songs made it into the movie about that festival. That helped kick start the revival. The Broadway musical "Grease" also came out in 1971. But still, I think this show was generally ahead of the curve. The movie "American Grafitti" took the revival to another level. But I just checked, and that movie didn't come out until August 1973, months after this episode aired.

This album is an hour and five minutes long. 

01 Great Balls of Fire (Jerry Lee Lewis)
02 talk (Jerry Lee Lewis)
03 The Twist (Chubby Checker)
04 talk (Jerry Lee Lewis)
05 Stagger Lee (Lloyd Price)
06 talk (Jerry Lee Lewis)
07 Little Darlin' (Diamonds)
08 talk (Jerry Lee Lewis)
09 Tears on My Pillow (Little Anthony & the Imperials)
10 talk (Jerry Lee Lewis)
11 Soldier Boy (Shirelles)
12 High School Confidential (Jerry Lee Lewis)
13 talk (Jerry Lee Lewis)
14 Tallahassee Lassie (Freddie Cannon)
15 talk (Jerry Lee Lewis)
16 Roll Over Beethoven (Jerry Lee Lewis & Linda Gail Lewis)
17 talk (Wolfman Jack)
18 Earth Angel (Penguins)
19 Huckle Buck (Chubby Checker)
20 talk (Jerry Lee Lewis)
21 Be My Baby (Ronettes)
22 The Stroll (Diamonds)
23 talk (Jerry Lee Lewis)
24 Come Go with Me (Del-Vikings)
25 Drinkin' Wine Spo-Dee-O-Dee (Jerry Lee Lewis)
26 I'm Alright (Little Anthony & the Imperials)
27 Where Were You (Lloyd Price)
28 talk (Jerry Lee Lewis)
29 Way Down Yonder in New Orleans (Freddie Cannon)
30 Tonight's the Night (Shirelles)
31 Cold, Cold Heart (Jerry Lee Lewis)
32 talk (Wolfman Jack)
33 Rockin' Robin (Bobby Day)
34 Walkin' in the Rain (Ronettes)
35 talk (Jerry Lee Lewis)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/1Js7c8EF

alternate: 

https://bestfile.io/fT1h9rzReFG6tmh/file

The cover image is a screenshot I took from a video of this exact concert. That's Linda Gail Lewis standing and Jerry Lee Lewis sitting at a piano. 

Muddy Waters with B.B. King - Ebbets Field, Denver, CO, 6-19-1974

If you like listening to the blues, what a remarkable concert recording this is! It started out as a concert starring blues legend Muddy Waters and his band performing in a small club in Denver. But then, halfway through, blues legend B.B. King came on stage, playing lead guitar and also singing a couple of songs. I don't know of any other recordings of these two absolute legends performing together like this, so this is a special treat.

I did a little research on this. It turns out King happened to perform at a different venue in Denver that evening. When his show was over, he went to the Waters concert and joined in. At the time, even though Ebbets Field was only a small venue holding a maximum of about 200 people, many of its concerts were broadcast live on a local radio station, and this was one such concert. So that's why we have this recording with excellent sound quality. One can find various "grey market" releases of this, meaning they are put on the market in Europe due to legal loopholes. But none of them are legit, with profits going to the performers (or the performers' estates).

I have to admit there are two instrumentals at the start, before Waters joined the stage, that I cut out. I didn't find them that interesting, and I wanted to get to the "good stuff" with Waters and King. If you're interested in those, check out one of those grey market releases I mentioned.

At the time of this concert, Waters was 61 years old, and already nearing the end of his career. Pretty much all of his classic recordings were behind him, but he was far from done as a performer. In fact, he had a bit of a career renaissance in the late 1970s, thanks to some albums he made with the help of blues musician Johnny Winter. Waters kept performing pretty much right until his death in 1983. By contrast, King was ten years younger, and in the middle of an exceptionally long career. He also kept playing almost until his death, much, much later, in 2015, at the age of 89.

I came across this concert after discovering that there were a whole bunch of great radio broadcasts from this venue in the mid-1970s. In recent days, I posted two other concerts that took place there (Gene Clark and Dan Fogelberg). At some point, I'd like to get around to posting more, but it might be a while until that happens.

By the way, if anyone knows the names of either or both of the instrumentals (tracks 1 and 14), please let me know so I can fix the titles. 

This album is 50 minutes long. 

01 Introduction (Muddy Waters)
02 talk (Muddy Waters)
03 My Sweet Little Baby (Muddy Waters)
04 talk (Muddy Waters)
05 Rock Me (Muddy Waters)
06 talk (Muddy Waters)
07 Can't Get No Grindin' [What's the Matter with the Meal] (Muddy Waters)
08 I Got My Mojo Working (Muddy Waters)
09 Forty Days and Forty Nights (Muddy Waters)
10 talk (Muddy Waters)
11 I Know You Didn't Want Me (Muddy Waters & B.B. King)
12 talk (Muddy Waters & B.B. King)
13 The Thrill Is Gone (Muddy Waters & B.B. King)
14 Instrumental (Muddy Waters & B.B. King)
15 talk (Muddy Waters & B.B. King)
16 Caldonia (Muddy Waters & B.B. King)
17 talk by emcee (Muddy Waters & B.B. King)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/tPHFQ1Kk

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/VwIIVVfR6jDAhEL/file

The cover photo is a real photo of Waters and King. However, I drastically edited it. The full photo actually shows James Cotton standing between Waters and King, as well as Johnny Winter off to the side. I cropped out Winter, and then used Photoshop to bring Waters and King closer together, cutting out Cotton along the way. It's from a concert at the Radio City Music Hall in New York City, on June 29, 1979. Also, it was in black and white. I used the Kolorize program to colorize it.

Richard Thompson - BBC Sessions, Volume 9: 1996-1997

Here's another BBC album by singer-songwriter Richard Thompson. This one is a collection of studio sessions.

In 1996, Thompson released the double album "You? Me? Us?" In my opinion, it wasn't as strong as most of his previous solo albums, and probably would have been better as a single album. Then in 1997, he released the album "Industry," with Danny Thompson (no relation). Half of the songs were his, and half were instrumentals by Danny. The songs by Richard were great, but the instrumentals mostly seemed like filler. 

Considering both of those albums were flawed, it's nice to have this collection, because it mostly consists of the strongest songs from both of those albums. There are a couple of songs from other albums, such as "Beeswing" and "Keep Your Distance," but not many. I count five songs from "You? Me? Us?" and three songs from "Industry." One song, "Bathsheba Smiles," was unreleased at the time and would appear on his next studio album, "Mock Tudor."

Most of the songs, tracks two through seven and nine through eleven, come from two sessions on the Andy Kershaw radio show. The first track is from the Bob Harris radio show, and the last one is from the Cambridge Folk Festival. (Highlights or even full sets of that festival are often broadcast by the BBC.) All of those songs are unreleased. That leaves just one officially released song, "Lotteryland." It also comes from one of the Andy Kershaw sessions, but it came out on the "The Live and Music Of" box set.

This album is 47 minutes long.

01 Beeswing (Richard Thompson)
02 Cold Kisses (Richard Thompson)
03 Dark Hand Over My Heart (Richard Thompson)
04 Hide It Away (Richard Thompson)
05 The Ghost of You Walks (Richard Thompson)
06 Train Don't Leave (Richard Thompson)
07 She Cut Off Her Long Silken Hair (Richard Thompson)
08 Lotteryland (Richard Thompson)
09 Drifting through the Days (Richard Thompson)
10 Bathsheba Smiles (Richard Thompson)
11 Keep Your Distance (Richard Thompson)
12 Sweetheart on the Barricade (Richard Thompson)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/3fdocN5N

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/mcle0yKdfdbG1ps/file 

The cover photo is from a concert in the Royal Albert Hall, in London, on May 5, 1996.

Re-Re-Squeezed, and More

Just yesterday, I posted an announcement that said I'd found a better copy of a 1984 BBC concert by Difford and Tilbrook, the two singer-songwriters in the band Squeeze. Today, musical friend Progsprog saw that, and realized he had a version with equally excellent sound, but also four songs that were missing from the other version. So he sent it to me. I added those songs in, and I've updated that album again. Now it's fifteen minutes longer than before, and much better. 

A big thanks to Progsprog, for noticing and helping out.

Here's the link to that one:

https://albumsthatshouldexist.blogspot.com/2025/01/difford-tilbrook-squeeze-bbc-in-concert.html

Furthermore, these announcements helped me remember that I made some additions to a few other albums in the last month, but I forgot to make an announcement about them. So here is such an announcement, better late than never.

First comes the name of the album. Then the names of the songs that were recently added. Then the link to get you to the album to download it. 

Lenny Kravitz - BBC Sessions, Volume 2: In Concert, Wembley Arena, London, Britain, 11-27-1993
Sister (Lenny Kravitz)
Flower Child (Lenny Kravitz)
It Ain't Over 'Til It's Over (Lenny Kravitz)
https://albumsthatshouldexist.blogspot.com/2025/10/lenny-kravitz-bbc-sessions-volume-2-in.html

Tim Buckley - BBC Sessions (1967-1974) 
Love from Room 109 at the Islander [On Pacific Coast Highway] (Tim Buckley)
The Train (Tim Buckley)
https://albumsthatshouldexist.blogspot.com/2022/05/tim-buckley-bbc-sessions-1967-1974.html

Joan Armatrading - BBC Sessions, Volume 1: 1973-1977 
Woncha Come on Home (Joan Armatrading with Georgie Fame)
https://albumsthatshouldexist.blogspot.com/2025/04/joan-armatrading-bbc-sessions-volume-1.html

Love Sculpture (with Dave Edmunds) - BBC Sessions (1968-1969) 
The Rebel [Edit] (Love Sculpture)
https://albumsthatshouldexist.blogspot.com/2021/11/love-sculpture-with-dave-edmunds-bbc.html

Don McLean - BBC Sessions, Volume 1: 1971-1982
11 Prime Time (Don McLean)
12 talk (Don McLean)
13 Colour TV Blues (Don McLean)
https://albumsthatshouldexist.blogspot.com/2025/05/don-mclean-bbc-sessions-volume-1-1972.html

The Who - BBC Sessions, Volume 4: 1971-1981
04 Peg Leg Peggy (John Entwistle)
05 My Wife (John Entwistle) 
https://albumsthatshouldexist.blogspot.com/2019/06/the-who-bbc-sessions-1971-1981.html

Once I post albums on this blog, I'm determined to keep updating them if I find more songs or better sound quality.

The Wild Honey Orchestra - Tribute to the Nuggets Album, Alex Theatre, Glendale, CA, 5-19-2023

I'm particularly happy to be posting this album. Most every year, a big, loose collection of professional musicians in the Los Angeles area come together to put on a benefit concert that celebrates a favorite musical act or album. In 2023, this group, the Wild Honey Orchestra, did it again. This time, they targeted the 1972 album "Nuggets." 

"Nuggets" was a collection of garage rock from the mid-1960s. It was a hugely influential collection, especially since it helped inspire the punk rock movement a few years later. It also led to an entire cottage industry of similar releases, often with similar names like "Pebbles," mining obscure garage rock gems from that era.

The last Wild Honey Orchestra concert I could find with worthy sound quality was the one from 2019, celebrating the music of the band Lovin' Spoonful. Then a year was skipped due to the Covid pandemic. The 2022 concert celebrated the band Big Star. Then came this one in 2023. Then 2024 was skipped for some reason. Most recently (as I write this in January 2026), there was a 2025 concert celebrating singer-songwriter Warren Zevon.

The only place I've found any of these concert with worthy sound quality was from the Wild Honey Orchestra's YouTube page. But it seemed they stopped posting their concerts after 2020, so I had resigned myself to not finding any more. But I took another look at that page a few days ago, after not going there for a year or two, and I found a video of most of this Nuggets concert, with excellent sound quality. All the songs were there, but lots of the banter between songs was missing. So I converted it to audio format and chopped it into mp3s.

That was good, but I wanted to do something about the missing banter. The emcee for the concert was Lenny Kaye. He was the person who compiled the album back in 1972, and wrote the liner notes. He later played lead guitar for Patti Smith in the 1970s, and then again from the mid-1990s until the current day. For this concert, he gave brief spoken introductions to each of the songs. But about half of them were missing from the video I found. I wanted to do something about that. 

Luckily, I discovered an audience bootleg of the same concert. The sound quality was far worse, but at least it was complete, which meant it had all the missing intros. If I had wanted to take some music from this boot, that would have been a problem. But sound quality didn't matter so much just for talking between songs. Even there, there were sound issues. So I ran all the banter I took from this boot through the Adobe voice enhancer program. That made a drastic difference. Now, I think in most cases, one can't tell which talking tracks were from the original video and which were from the audience boot. Oh, and I also boosted the lead vocals relative to the instruments on the songs that needed that, which was most of them. 

The Wild Honey Orchestra was the backing band for the entire concert, with members coming and going from the stage depending on the musical instruments needed for each song. Furthermore, each song typically had a different lead vocalist, though some sang two or three songs. 

The vocalists generally fell into two categories. The first was musicians who actually played on the original recordings over 50 years ago, or were otherwise from that era. That's pretty remarkable, considering how many years had passed. The others were somewhat younger musicians who just really liked this kind of music. Overall, there weren't that many "big names." Probably the most famous musician was Susanna Hoffs of the Bangles, who sang two songs. For one of them, she was joined by musical comedian Weird Al Yankovic, but he only played accordion and didn't sing. All in all though, it was a pretty old crowd on stage, and I'll bet in the audience as well.

I still can't find worthy audio from the Big Star and Warren Zevon tribute concerts. Let's hope those emerge someday. But in the meantime, at least there's this.  

If you like listening to garage rock, you really should listen to this. True, most of the performers were in their sixties and seventies, but I swear you can't tell by listening. These "old geezers" still knew how to rock! 

This album is two hours and 26 minutes long. 

Before I post the set list, I made this list of the original musical acts for each song, as well as the years the songs were released. Some track numbers are skipped, due to those being talk tracks. The vast majority of the songs on the 1972 "Nuggets" album were performed, but not all of them. Plus, some songs not on that album (but similar in spirit) were played. For instance, "96 Tears," "7 and 7 Is," and "Crazy like a Fox."

02 Oh Yeah - Shadows of Knight (1966)
05 Are You a Boy or Are You a Girl - Barbarians (1965)
07 A Little Bit of Soul - Music Explosion (1967) 
09 Don't Look Back - Remains (1966)
12 96 Tears - Question Mark & the Mysterians (1966)
14 Liar, Liar - Castaways (1965) 
16 [Just Like] Romeo and Juliet - Reflections (1964) 
18 Sugar and Spice - Cryan' Shames (1966)
20 Lies - Knickerbockers (1965)
22 Dirty Water - Standells (1966)
24 Little Girl - Syndicate of Sound (1966)
26 Talk, Talk - Music Machine (1966)
28 Crazy like a Fox - Link Cromwell (1966)
30 Pushin' Too Hard - (Seeds 1966)
32 It's-a-Happening - Magic Mushrooms (1966)
35 You're Gonna Miss Me - 13th Floor Elevators (1966)
37 Baby Please Don't Go - Amboy Dukes (1968)
39 Sit Down, I Think I Love You - Mojo Men (1967)
41 Run, Run, Run - Third Rail (1967)
43 My World Fell Down - Sagittarius (1967)
45 An Invitation to Cry - Magicians (1965) 
47 I Want Candy - Strangeloves (1965)
49 I Had Too Much to Dream [Last Night] - Electric Prunes (1966)
51 No Time like the Right Time - Blues Project (1967) 
53 Hey Joe - Leaves (1966) 
55 Let's Talk about Girls - Chocolate Watchband (1967) 
57 Psychotic Reaction - Count Five (1966) 
59 Open My Eyes - Nazz (1968) 
61 7 and 7 Is - Love (1966)
63 Tobacco Road - Blues Magoos (1966)
65 Farmer John - Premiers (1964)
67 Gloria - Them (1965) 

Here's the usual song list: 

01 talk (Lenny Kaye)
02 Oh Yeah (Mike Stax)
03 talk (Lenny Kaye)
04 talk (Cindy Lee Barryhill)
05 Are You a Boy or Are You a Girl (Cindy Lee Barryhill)
06 talk (Lenny Kaye)
07 A Little Bit of Soul (Paley Brothers)
08 talk (Billy Vera)
09 Don't Look Back (Billy Vera)
10 talk (Lenny Kaye)
11 talk (All Day Sucker)
12 96 Tears (All Day Sucker)
13 talk (Lenny Kaye)
14 Liar, Liar (Nick Guzman)
15 talk (Lenny Kaye)
16 [Just Like] Romeo and Juliet (Ron Dante)
17 talk (Lenny Kaye)
18 Sugar and Spice (Andrew Sandoval & Chris Price)
19 talk (Lenny Kaye)
20 Lies (Peter Case)
21 talk (Lenny Kaye)
22 Dirty Water (Peter Zaremba)
23 talk (Peter Zaremba)
24 Little Girl (Peter Zaremba)
25 talk (Peter Zaremba)
26 Talk, Talk (Peter Zaremba)
27 talk (Lenny Kaye)
28 Crazy like a Fox (Lenny Kaye)
29 talk (Lenny Kaye)
30 Pushin' Too Hard (Lenny Kaye & Paul Kopf with Daryl Hooper)
31 talk (Lenny Kaye)
32 It's-a-Happening (Paul Kopt)
33 talk (Lenny Kaye)
34 talk (Carla Olson, Kathy Valentine & Pearl Bentley)
35 You're Gonna Miss Me (Carla Olson, Kathy Valentine & Pearl Bentley)
36 talk (Lenny Kaye)
37 Baby Please Don't Go (Mike Peters with Wayne Kramer)
38 talk (Lenny Kaye)
39 Sit Down, I Think I Love You (Susanna Hoffs & Owen Elliot with Weird Al Yankovic)
40 talk (Lenny Kaye)
41 Run, Run, Run (Tom Kenny)
42 talk (Lenny Kaye)
43 My World Fell Down (Evie Sands)
44 talk (Evie Sands)
45 An Invitation to Cry (Evie Sands)
46 talk (Lenny Kaye)
47 I Want Candy (Susanna Hoffs)
48 talk (Lenny Kaye)
49 I Had Too Much to Dream [Last Night] (James Lowe)
50 talk (Lenny Kaye)
51 No Time like the Right Time (Cameron Dye)
52 talk (Lenny Kaye)
53 Hey Joe (Jim Pons & John Beck)
54 talk (Lenny Kaye)
55 Let's Talk about Girls (David Aguilar)
56 talk (Lenny Kaye)
57 Psychotic Reaction (Kenn Eliner)
58 talk (Lenny Kaye)
59 Open My Eyes (Three O'Clock)
60 talk (Lenny Kaye)
61 7 and 7 Is (Johnny Echols with John Easdale)
62 talk (Lenny Kaye)
63 Tobacco Road (Tara Austin & Rob Laufer with Kathy Valentine)
64 talk (Lenny Kaye)
65 Farmer John (Peter Buck, Scott McCaughey & Lenny Kaye)
66 talk (Lenny Kaye)
67 Gloria (Lenny Kaye & Everyone)
68 talk (Lenny Kaye)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/ZjhTUbAN

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/7LzIelePtiW6Dx7/file

The cover image is taken from a promotional poster for this exact concert. However, I had to make a lot of changes to get all the key parts of that rectangular poster into a square shape. The art in the middle section is the original "Nuggets" cover (which was also the main part of the poster). The list of musical acts at the bottom is not completely acccurate, since there were some no-shows (like Van Dyke Parks) and some surprise guests (like Susanna Hoffs). But I figured it was close enough to get the gist.