Preston started his music career quite young. Having taught himself how to play piano, he began performing on stage by the time he was ten. In 1963, he released his first studio album, at the age of 16. But he didn't have a lot of success at first, and mostly worked as a backing musician for Ray Charles and others. He got a big break in early 1969 when he backed the Beatles in the studio for a couple of weeks during their Get Back / Let It Be sessions. And when the song "Get Back" was released as a single that year, it was credited to "The Beatles with Billy Preston." He had his first big hit later in 1969 with "That's the Way God Planned It." It didn't do much in the U.S., but it almost reached the Top Ten in Britain. More hits followed by the time of this show, especially "Outa-Space," "Will It Go Round in Circles," and "Space Race."
Here's his Wikipedia entry, if you want to know more:
This album is a combination of three episodes. Most of the songs come from the August 31, 1973 episode named in the album title. But "Blackbird" and "That's the Way God Planned It" come from a February 16, 1973 episode. Actually, "That's the Way God Planned It" was played twice, in the August and February episodes. But the August version faded out before the end of the song. So I used the complete February version. However, the talking right before it is from the August version. Also, tracks 11, 12 and 13 come from the December 14, 1973 episode.
Preston hosted the show again in 1975. I plan on posting that again. It seems he and Buddy Miles actually were friends (as they said on this episode), because Miles was a guest on that episode as well. It seems the host often had some say on who the guests for their episodes would be.
I included Miles as the guest mostly because they performed "My Sweet Lord" together, as you can see from the cover image. Also, they had similar soul music styles. In case you're curious, the other guests on the August 1973 episode that Preston hosted were: Steely Dan, Bo Diddley, Maureen McGovern, Ned Doheny, and Gladstone. For the opening talk by Wolfman Jack, I edited it so that mentions of the those other guests weren't included. That's what that track has "[Edit]" in the title. I also included only part of the next track, which consisted of some comments by comedian Tommy Smothers.
By the way, "I'm So Tired" is not the Beatles song of the same name. However, "Blackbird" is a Beatles cover.
The music here is unreleased. The sound quality is excellent.
This album is 45 minutes long.
01 talk [Edit] (Wolfman Jack)
02 talk (Tommy Smothers)
03 Will It Go Round in Circles (Billy Preston)
04 talk (Billy Preston)
05 Them Changes (Buddy Miles)
06 talk (Wolfman Jack)
07 My Sweet Lord (Billy Preston & Buddy Miles)
08 talk (Billy Preston)
09 All Spaced Out (Billy Preston)
10 Music's My Life (Billy Preston)
11 Space Race [Instrumental] (Billy Preston)
12 How Long Has the Train Been Gone (Billy Preston)
13 I'm So Tired (Billy Preston)
14 Blackbird (Billy Preston)
15 Thinking of You (Buddy Miles)
16 talk (Billy Preston)
17 That's the Way God Planned It (Billy Preston)
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The cover image is from this exact concert. That's Buddy Miles playing drums, and Billy Preston looking over at him while playing keyboards. I used Photoshop to remove some mostly empty space between them.
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