This concert found Hillman at an interesting point in his career, just starting a true solo career. Up until then, he had been in a surprising number of bands. He was a founding member of the Byrds in the 1960s. Then he was one of the leaders of the Flying Burrito Bros. from 1969 to 1972. After that, he joined Manassas, led by Stephen Stills, from 1972 to 1973. In 1973, he took part in a Byrds reunion that resulted in one album. Then in 1974, he became part of the Souther-Hillman-Furay Band, a trio consisting of J.D. Souther, himself, and Richie Furay. They put out two albums, but broke up in 1975.
I checked, and it looks like the Souther-Hillman-Furay Band didn't break up until 1976. However, it also looks like they barely toured at all in 1975 and 1976. I only saw evidence of two concerts. Their second album, released in 1975, was badly received. So it looks like the members were already going their own way. Hillman would release his first true solo album, "Slippin' Away," in 1976. I checked setlist.com, a concert database. It says he performed 16 concerts in 1975, and this one was the very first. If that's true, this concert may have been the very start of his solo career.
However, that meant he hadn't much time to write songs for his own album. Only two songs here, "Down in the Churchyard" and "Blue Morning," would appear on the "Slippin' Away" album. The rest are from his time with the Byrds (tracks 7 and 24), the Flying Burrito Bros. (tracks 4, 5, 7, and 21), Manassas (track 13), and the Souther-Hillman-Furay Band (tracks 1, 8, and 11). It seems there actually were one or more songs at the end that didn't make the recording. There was a little bit of banter and tuning up right before the recording cut off. I got rid of that little bit. Having audience cheering fade out is a more satisfying way to end an album, in my opinion.
As I've mentioned elsewhere, I love these Ebbets Field bootleg radio broadcasts due to the sound quality. A local company called Tuning Up recorded all of them, and did a better job than typical radio broadcasts from that era. But unfortunately, this concert doesn't sound good as most of them. Probably it's a copy of a copy, and so on, or something like that. However, I ran all the songs through a UVR5 program denoise filter, so at least the sound is better than it was before. I'm not saying this sounds bad; it's just it doesn't sound as good as most of the others I'm posting from this venue.
This album is 45 minutes long.
01 talk by emcee (Chris Hillman)
02 talk (Chris Hillman)
03 Safe at Home (Chris Hillman)
04 talk (Chris Hillman)
05 Down in the Churchyard (Chris Hillman)
06 talk (Chris Hillman)
07 Time Between (Chris Hillman)
08 talk (Chris Hillman)
09 High Fashion Queen (Chris Hillman)
10 talk (Chris Hillman)
11 Colorado (Chris Hillman)
12 talk (Chris Hillman)
13 Fallen Eagle (Chris Hillman)
14 talk (Chris Hillman)
15 Christine's Tune (Chris Hillman)
16 talk (Chris Hillman)
17 Follow Me Through (Chris Hillman)
18 talk (Chris Hillman)
19 Blue Morning (Chris Hillman)
20 talk (Chris Hillman)
21 Six Days on the Road (Chris Hillman)
22 Move Me Real Slow (Chris Hillman)
23 talk (Chris Hillman)
24 So You Want to Be a Rock 'N' Roll Star (Chris Hillman)
https://pixeldrain.com/u/Ef1f6W4Y
alternate:
https://bestfile.io/en/4l4Vwr75AByzZWV/file
The cover photo was apparently taken in 1976. It actually showed Hillman in a room that clearly wasn't a concert stage. So I turned the background to black to disguise that fact.
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