Isle of Wight Festival, Afton Down, Isle of Wight, Britain, 8-27-1970 to 8-30-1970 - 8-30-1970: Part 9: Richie Havens

Here is the ninth and final album from the last day of the 1970 Isle of Wight festival. It's an acoustic set by Richie Havens.

Perhaps the festival organizers thought there would some positive symbolism to having Havens close the festival, since he was the act to open the 1969 Woodstock Festival, and their hope was this would be seen as the British version of Woodstock. 

When I first posted most of the music from this festival in 2023, I skipped the sets by Donovan, Joan Baez, and Havens, due to poor sound quality. We have soundboard recordings from nearly all the other acts, but only audience recordings from those three. But now, as I write this in 2026, I think the audio editing technology has improved enough for me to post these. Beware though, since the sound quality is still pretty rough. Only so much could be done.

That was especially the case with this Havens set. The good news is that he mostly performed in solo acoustic mode, although he was supplemented by some drumming and some other instruments on a few songs. That's good, because it's easier to get a clear recording from a solo acoustic performance than a full band one. But cutting against that was Havens' aggressive strumming style. There was a frequent problem of wind blowing against the microphones, and that was made worse by his style, with the microphone probably already near its limit. 

Luckily, I have an audio editing program, Izotope, that has a specific "de-wind" filter, as well as a "de-rustle" one. I used both of those on all the songs here, and it helped a lot. I used some other audio editing tricks as well. Read my write-up for the Donovan set for more information on that. The bottom line is, this sounds decent now, but still far from as good as most of the rest of the festival. Still, it's nice to have this, if you want to have as much from the festival as reasonable, like I do.

I included the rest of this write-up for the Leonard Cohen set when I posted it back in 2023. That's because the Cohen one was the last set from the festival that I posted at that time. But now that we have one after that one, I've moved that text from that album to here:

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So that's the end of the festival. All in all, I have to say that although the festival had some problems, in terms of music, the line-up was fantastic, and the recordings that have been made public contain a lot of great music. That's especially the case because so few festivals from this era were professionally recorded from start to finish like this one was. The only one that bests it, in my opinion, is Woodstock, because all of that has been released. 

Maybe someday there will be a complete release of this festival too, allowing us to hear the full sets from Kris Kristofferson, Mighty Baby, Supertramp, the Groundhogs, Gilberto Gil & Caetano Veloso, Fairfield Parlour (a.k.a. Kaleidoscope), Lighthouse, Family, Cactus, Shawn Phillips, Tiny Tim, Melanie, Ralph McTell, and more. If that happens, I think it would be an even more impressive musical document than Woodstock, with even more big name classic artists.

Oh, as an aside, the Everly Brothers, Mungo Jerry,  Cat Mother, Spirit, and Redbone were on the bill for the concert, but none of them actually played. There were a lot of last minute arguments with the promoters about getting paid, since it was common for musical acts to get stiffed at big festivals like this at the time. Here's a concert poster showing the acts, including those who didn't show. You can tell from the font size which ones were considered the biggest attractions.

In case you want to know more about the festival, there's an entire website about it here, with lots of photos and personal accounts:

https://www.ukrockfestivals.com/iow1970menu.html

If you attended, I'd be curious to hear your impressions. Was it a disaster, or great, or somewhere in between? I gather the vast majority of people who went had a good time, so I'd consider that a successful festival.

This album is an hour and one minute long. 

154 Maggie's Farm (Richie Havens)
155 Minstrel from the Gault (Richie Havens)
156 Fire and Rain (Richie Havens)
157 War (Richie Havens)
158 I'm a Stranger Here (Richie Havens)
159 The Parable of Ramon (Richie Havens)
160 Here Comes the Sun (Richie Havens)
161 Freedom - Run Shaker Run (Richie Havens)
162 talk (Richie Havens)
163 Hare Krishna (Richie Havens)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/NB1fkJhs

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/UINy9WILdRLmo9B/file

The cover image is from this exact concert.

Isle of Wight Festival, Afton Down, Isle of Wight, Britain, 8-27-1970 to 8-30-1970 - 8-30-1970: Part 7: Joan Baez

This is the seventh album from the last day of the 1970 Isle of Wight festival. It's an acoustic set by Joan Baez.

I've described in other write-ups how, when I posted most of the music from this festival in 2023, I didn't post a few of the sets due to poor sound quality. This is one of those sets, along with ones from Donovan and Richie Havens. But as I write this three years later, audio editing technology improved enough for me to hopefully clean these up enough to make them worth listening.

For whatever reason, out of the three, this Baez one probably sounds the best. Most of it comes from an audience bootleg. But a couple of the songs come from other sources which are a lot better, for instance "Let It Be." Perhaps the crowd was quieter, since it was late at night by this time. Also, there don't seem to be as many airplanes flying overhead as during the Donovan set, which took place in the middle in the day. Still one more lucky thing is that the taper recorded most of the banter between songs, when virtually none of that was recorded for the Donovan and Richie Havens sets. 

I ran this music through various audio editing filters, the same ones I described in my write-up for the Donovan album. So that helped. But still, beware. One can only do so much with problematic source material. This sounds okay now, but it still sounds worse than most of the other music from this festival. 

This album is an hour and two minutes long.

105 Love Is Just a Four-Letter Word (Joan Baez)
106 talk (Joan Baez)
107 Let It Be (Joan Baez)
108 Joe Hill (Joan Baez)
109 talk (Joan Baez)
110 The Brand New Tennessee Waltz (Joan Baez)
111 talk (Joan Baez)
112 The Hitchhikers' Song (Joan Baez)
113 The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down [Edit] (Joan Baez)
114 Farewell, Angelina (Joan Baez)
115 talk (Joan Baez)
116 Oh Happy Day (Joan Baez)
117 Blowin' in the Wind (Joan Baez)
118 Gracias a la Vida (Joan Baez)
119 Te Ador (Joan Baez)
120 talk (Joan Baez)
121 C'era Un Ragazzo Che Come Me Amava [Edit] (Joan Baez)
122 Suzanne (Joan Baez)
123 talk (Joan Baez)
124 Sweet Sir Galahad (Joan Baez)
125 I Shall Be Released (Joan Baez)
126 talk (Joan Baez)
127 Ghetto (Joan Baez)
128 Swing Low, Sweet Chariot (Joan Baez)
129 We Want Our Freedom Now (Joan Baez)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/1yVdU8uM 

alternate:

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

The cover image is from this exact concert.

Isle of Wight Festival, Afton Down, Isle of Wight, Britain, 8-27-1970 to 8-30-1970 - 8-30-1970: Part 2: Donovan

Back in 2023, I posted the vast majority of all the available music from the 1970 Isle of Wight festival. However, there were three sets I didn't post due to sound quality issues. This set by Donovan was one of them. I have now made some audio edits to get this to a decent state. But note that the sound quality is just okay, and worse than the vast majority of the recordings from this festival.

The problem here is that while most of the other publicly available recordings from this festival are soundboard bootlegs (or even official live albums), this one comes from an audience bootleg. And not even a particularly good one. There was a lot of wind blowing on the mike, airplanes flying overhead, nearby people talking, and other such problems that got onto the record. 

On the plus side, I write this in September 2026, and audio editing technology has improved a lot since I posted most of the other music from the festival in 2023. So I ran these songs through multiple filters, mostly using the MVSEP program, but also Izotope 10. That helped sometimes, but not all the time. It's better, for sure, and I consider it listenable, but if you have high standards, this probably isn't for you. There still are many problems I couldn't fix.  

For most of the concert, Donovan performed in solo acoustic mode. That was a lucky break for us, because it's easier to get a decent recording of that kind of music compared to a full band one. But for the last few songs, he switched to performing with his band at the time, Open Road. The last four songs in particular got really rocking, which meant the sound quality got even worse. So I decided not to include those, sorry.

Thing start off strong with "Catch the Wind." But that's just luck. It has the best sound quality of any song, because it was included on the album "Message to Love" that went with the film documentary of the same name. You'll notice a drop-off between that and everything else.

Another problem is there's no banter between songs, with one exception (track 21). That's because the person who recorded this paused the recordings between songs. This was a common bootleg recording style in this era, due to people wanting to save tape. The audience applause was generally cut off right in the middle as well for every song. But there were a few that escaped that problem. I used the few cases of having the applause die out, and then pasted those endings onto other songs, so all the applause come to natural ends. 

This album is 56 minutes long.

017 Catch the Wind (Donovan)
018 Henry Martin (Donovan)
019 Sailing Homeward (Donovan)
020 The Pee Song (Donovan)
021 talk (Donovan)
022 Hurdy Gurdy Man (Donovan)
023 Slow Down World (Donovan)
024 There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly (Donovan)
025 The Garden (Donovan)
026 How Silly (Donovan)
027 Get Myself Together Somehow (Donovan)
028 Atlantis (Donovan)
029 Sand and Foam (Donovan)
030 There Is a Mountain (Donovan)
031 Train Whistle Blues (Donovan)
032 Mistaken Eternity (Donovan)
033 Season of the Witch (Donovan)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/uUHwRKtE 

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/He9B38q80uR8oYP/file

The cover image comes from this exact concert. 

The Isle of Wrght 1970 Festival Revisisted

In 2023, I posted the vast majority of all the music I could find from the 1970 Isle of Wight rock festival. It's a big one. In my opinion, it's right up there with the granddaddy of all rock festivals, Woodstock in 1969, in terms of the big name musicians and the musical quality of the festival. At that time, though, there were a few sets I didn't post, because the sound quality didn't meet my usual standards.

Now, I'm posting those missing bits. Specifically, I'm posting the sets by Donovan, Joan Baez, and Richie Havens. Most everything else I posted from the festival are from soundboard-level quality recordings. But for those three, we only have audience bootlegs, probably all recorded by the same person, since they sound similar. They all share the same problems. For instance, there was a lot of wind blowing against the microphones, which marred the recordings. There also were frequent airplanes flying overhead, sometimes quite loudly. There were people talking near to the taper. Worst of all, the sound quality of the recordings were just okay, probably due to mediocre tape recorders being used.

So that's why I didn't post these sets back then. But there has been a lot of improvement in audio editing technology in just the last three years. So I gave these a try. A big problem was the wind blowing on the microphone noises. Luckily, the audio editing program Izotope has a filter just to get rid of those exact kinds of noises. I ran most of the songs through that filter, and got rid of most of it (but not all!). I used other tricks, like separating out the lead vocals and boosting them over the muck. I also used MVSEP to reduce reverb and get rid of noise. 

The good news is, I consider these sets sound decent enough for me to post them now. But beware! There's still a lot of problems. One can only do so much with problematic source material. I'll post the Donovan, Joan Baez, and Richie Havens sets after posting this.

It so happens that all three of these sets are from the last day of the festival, August 30, 1970. If you're going to download some of them, I'd also suggest re-downloading the other sets from that day. The reason is, the Donovan set is the second one, so that becomes the new "Part 2," and all the sets after that are renumbered with their album titles. By the end of the day, there are nine parts instead of six. Furthermore, the song numbering for each part continues from the last part, so all that changes too. There ends up being 163 songs instead of 115, so there are lots of changes on all the sets from that day.

On top of that, I've made some minor changes to the cover art of some of the other albums, now that the technology for that has been improving as well. That includes changing some of the covers from the other days of the festival, specifically the sets by Chicago, Procol Harum, Ten Years After, John Sebastian, the Who, and Emerson, Lake and Palmer. So you might want to redownload those as well.

Norah Jones - Capitol Theatre, Port Chester, NY, 11-8-2015

Here's another album from the April 2026 leak of mono soundboard concerts from Port Chester, New York. I'm trying to prioritize these, because it seems most of them haven't been shared much, and the original leak has disappeared. This is a Norah Jones concert from 2015.

In 2015, Jones didn't really have an album to promote. Her most recent solo studio album at the time was "Little Broken Hearts," released in 2012. She would release "Day Breaks" in 2016. However, only two songs here are from that album ("Flipside" and "And Then There Was You"). So she performed songs from all over her career up until that point.

The music is unreleased. The sound quality is excellent. 

This album is an hour and 35 minutes long. 

01 What Am I to You (Norah Jones)
02 Out on the Road (Norah Jones)
03 I've Got to See You Again (Norah Jones)
04 Carnival Town (Norah Jones)
05 talk (Norah Jones)
06 Black (Norah Jones)
07 talk (Norah Jones)
08 It Must Have Been the Roses (Norah Jones)
09 talk (Norah Jones)
10 Chasing Pirates (Norah Jones)
11 Flipside (Norah Jones)
12 talk (Norah Jones)
13 Stuck (Norah Jones)
14 talk (Norah Jones)
15 Lonestar (Norah Jones)
16 And Then There Was You (Norah Jones)
17 Painter (Norah Jones)
18 Little Broken Hearts (Norah Jones)
19 talk (Norah Jones)
20 Don't Know Why (Norah Jones)
21 Miriam (Norah Jones)
22 Sinkin' Soon (Norah Jones)
23 talk (Norah Jones)
24 Don't Know What It Means (Norah Jones)
25 talk (Norah Jones)
26 Come Away with Me (Norah Jones)
27 talk (Norah Jones)
28 Sunrise (Norah Jones)
29 Creepin' In (Norah Jones)
30 How Many Times Have You Broken My Heart (Norah Jones)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/LUbwWwaE 

alternate: 

https://bestfile.io/en/7XUY4CydQNAjDoS/file

The cover image is from "Brian Fest," a tribute concert for Brian Wilson, at the Fonda Theater in Los Angeles, California, on March 30, 2015.

Billy Joel - WLIR Ultrasonic Concert Series, Ultrasonic Recording Studios, Hempstead, NY, 11-9-1971

Here's WLIR Ultrasonic Concert radio broadcast. This one features Billy Joel at the very start of his solo music career.

Joel struggled for a few years in various bands, including a stint in a heavy metal duo called Attila that he would prefer to forget. In 1971, he changed direction and released his first album, "Cold Spring Harbor," in singer-songwriter mode. I could be wrong, but I'm pretty sure this is the first live bootleg of him, from just after that album came out. The album didn't make much of a mark, being released on a small record label, so we're lucky to have this recording at all.

However, there's a big downside in that we only 19 minutes of that radio broadcast. That's probably all there is, since it's likely he had to share the program with one or more other musical acts, due to him not having a well known name at the time.

Nineteen minutes isn't very long for an album. So I asked musical friend Mike Solof for advice, since he's a big Billy Joel fan. He pointed me to another radio show Joel did about two months later, on January 29, 1972. It's a broadcast of a few songs from a club in San Francisco (going from tracks 10 to 15). A couple of songs were the same, so I didn't include them. But the other four were different, so this other song fills out this album to a reasonable length very nicely.

The last song, "Josephine," has "[Edit]" in its title. That's because a small chunk of the middle of the song was missing. Luckily, I was able to find another version and fill it in. And also, it was a pretty small missing piece. So hopefully you won't notice the problem.

The sound quality is very good. The music remains unreleased. 

This album is 37 minutes long.

01 talk (Billy Joel)
02 Everybody Loves You Now (Billy Joel)
03 talk (Billy Joel)
04 She's Got a Way (Billy Joel)
05 All American Blues (Billy Joel)
06 talk (Billy Joel)
07 Got to Begin Again (Billy Joel)
08 talk (Billy Joel)
09 Captain Jack (Billy Joel)
10 Travelin' Prayer (Billy Joel)
11 Long, Long Time (Billy Joel)
12 talk (Billy Joel)
13 Ballad of Billy the Kid (Billy Joel)
14 Josephine [Edit] (Billy Joel)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/QpWuSsxK

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/iLD5mPGM8GbAYAT/file

The cover photo shows Billy Joel at a piano with his band behind him. I don't know the details, but I would guess it's from around 1973. In all the photos I've seen of Joel in 1971 he has a mustache, so I added a mustache to his face here.

The Drive-By Truckers - Capitol Theatre, Port Chester, NY, 10-6-2017

I have to admit I'm not very familiar with the Drive-By Truckers. But I have a bootleg from them due to the April 2026 Capitol Theatre in Port Chester leak. This shown is very little known as an audio bootleg, so I thought I should share it.

Drive-By Truckers are an American rock band known for a mix of Southern rock, alternative country, and punk. They're also known for their lyrics, which often involves complex storytelling about the problems of the working class life. They've even been known to make entire concept albums. 

Being a political progressive myself, I especially like their political bent. Most of their songs aren't political. But at the time of this concert, their most recent album was one of their most overtly political. "American Band," released in 2016, addressed contemporary gun violence, race, and identity in the U.S. It probably was influenced by the rise of Donald Trump, although it came out a couple of months before he was elected president.

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drive-By_Truckers 

I found a high quality video of this concert, thanks to the leak mentioned above. There's a somewhat lower quality version of it available on YouTube. I did my usual thing of converting the video to audio and then chopping it into mp3s. The video I worked from was missing the first six songs, however. But luckily I found that other version on YouTube, so I used that to fill in the missing songs. 

This concert took place just four days after Tom Petty died. Clearly, the band members were big fans. They played one of his songs, "The Waiting," and sang the lyrics to another, "Southern Accents," on top of somewhat different original music. They also played a Ramones song, "The KKK Took My Baby Away." The rest are originals.

This album is two hours and 12 minutes long.

01 talk (Drive-By Truckers)
02 Guns of Umpqua (Drive-By Truckers)
03 Ramon Casiano (Drive-By Truckers)
04 Darkened Flags on the Cusp of Dawn (Drive-By Truckers)
05 72 [This Highway's Mean] (Drive-By Truckers)
06 Days of Graduation (Drive-By Truckers)
07 Ronnie and Neil (Drive-By Truckers)
08 Surrender Under Protest (Drive-By Truckers)
09 talk (Drive-By Truckers)
10 The Perilous Night (Drive-By Truckers)
11 A Ghost to Most (Drive-By Truckers)
12 The Living Bubba (Drive-By Truckers)
13 Panties in Your Purse (Drive-By Truckers)
14 The Waiting (Drive-By Truckers)
15 talk (Drive-By Truckers)
16 Filthy and Fried (Drive-By Truckers)
17 The Righteous Path (Drive-By Truckers)
18 Kinky Hypocrite (Drive-By Truckers)
19 The KKK Took My Baby Away (Drive-By Truckers)
20 Sink Hole (Drive-By Truckers)
21 talk (Drive-By Truckers)
22 Made Up English Oceans (Drive-By Truckers)
23 What It Means (Drive-By Truckers)
24 Birthday Boy (Drive-By Truckers)
25 Girls Who Smoke (Drive-By Truckers)
26 Marry Me (Drive-By Truckers)
27 Southern Accents - Ever South (Drive-By Truckers)
28 Three Dimes Down (Drive-By Truckers)
29 Let There Be Rock (Drive-By Truckers)
30 Zip City (Drive-By Truckers)
31 Hell No, I Ain't Happy (Drive-By Truckers)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/2NV1NYQS

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/oEhqH0kxU9iPJo1/file

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

Eric Clapton - Going Down Slow - Non-Album Tracks (1996-1998)

Recently, I decided to make a renewed effort to post more of my non-album tracks albums. I have a lot of these I made a long time ago. I tend to forget about posting them though because I get distracted by other music that's newer to me. As an example, I have several more of these albums for Eric Clapton's long career. So far, I've posted albums up until 1996. Here's the next one.

The main thing that happened musically to Clapton during the 1996 to 1998 time period is he released his studio album "Pilgrim" in 1998. I've already posted an alternate version of that one that cuts down on the overproduction that troubled it. 

There's one track here that later ended up as a bonus track on the "Pilgrim" album: "Theme from a Movie that Never Happened." However, it's an acoustic instrumental that doesn't have much in common with that album. Most of the other songs here are instrumentals or blues, or both.

"Rock Me Baby" is a duet with B.B. King from one of King's studio albums. "Angelica" and "What Else" come from a studio album as well. The rest are unreleased. Most of those are from concert bootlegs. See the mp3 tags for further details about sourcing.

This album is 46 minutes long.

01 Roberta (Eric Clapton with Dr. John)
02 St James Infirmary (Eric Clapton & Dr. John)
03 Ruthie [Instrumental] (Eric Clapton & Legends)
04 Rock Me Baby (B. B. King & Eric Clapton)
05 I Got You [I Feel Good] [Instrumental] (Eric Clapton & Legends)
06 I Hardly Ever Do (Eric Clapton with Alan Darby)
07 Angelica [Instrumental] (T.D.F (Eric Clapton))
08 What Else [Instrumental] (T.D.F (Eric Clapton))
09 Going Down Slow (Eric Clapton with David Sanborn)
10 Theme from a Movie that Never Happened [Instrumental] (Eric Clapton)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/VnTn2Csj

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/VwH2gxYlIaahpJc/file

The cover image is a painting by David Lloyd Glover. 

Two "New" Kinks Songs from the 1960s!

I'm a massive Kinks fan. As I've said here before, they're my second favorite band, only behind the Beatles. And I think they were at their absolute best from about 1966 to 1970, when they were writing tons of songs, and when even their "bad" songs were pretty darn good. So I was delighted to discover two Kinks songs from 1969 have recently become publicly available: "Darling, I Respect You" and "Let's Take Off All Our Clothes." 

They haven't been officially released. Instead, a mysterious person or group called the "Johnny Kidd Fan Club" apparently gave them to Prof. Stoned, who runs a great music blog: http://profstoned.com/ He added them to an improved collection of Kinks BBC tracks which he released in mid-August 2026. I don't know who or what the Johnny Kidd Fan Club is, but they're doing some great work. In recent years, they've made public unreleased music from the Beatles, Jimi Hendrix, Fleetwood Mac, Cream, the Animals, and much more. May they keep up the good work!

Here's the known history behind these two songs. Ray Davies, the main songwriter for the Kinks, was commissioned to write songs for a six-episode 1969 BBC series called "Where Was Spring?" Apparently, he did five, and his versions (backed by the Kinks) were broadcast on each show weeks with animations made to fit the lyrics. All of the episodes have been lost, apparently, although some stills from the animations survive. Two of the Kinks were later officially released: "Where Did the Spring Go?" and "When I Turn Off the Living Room Light." The other three were considered lost, mostly. A version of "Darling, I Respect You" did make some bootlegs, but the sound quality was truly terrible, to the point that I found it unlistenable. Now, somehow, 56 years later (!), we have very good sounding versions of "Darling, I Respect You" and "Let's Take Off All Our Clothes." Only "We Are Two of a Kind" still remains completely unknown and unbootlegged.

There was a little bit of audience applause at the starts and ends of these songs, even though they're clearly studio versions. I surmise that's because each skit or scene in the BBC TV show ended with applause, and trailed into the next one. I used the MVSEP program to wipe out most of the clapping. 

Instead of posting links to just these two newly discovered songs, I've added them into a compilation of non-album tracks I made called "Where Was Spring" (named after the long-lost BBC TV show). You can find them here as tracks 3 and 11:

https://albumsthatshouldexist.blogspot.com/2018/04/the-kinks-where-was-spring-1969.html

You also can find them at Prof. Stoned blog, with lots of other top quality Kinks BBC material. 

Are these two songs long lost masterpieces? No. They're pretty slight and light. Each of them is only about two minutes long. But, as I said above, in the late 1960s, even "bad" Kinks songs were pretty good. So I'm very psyched to finally be able to enjoy these.

Diana Krall - Capitol Theatre, Port Chester, NY, 3-12-2015

Here's yet another concert from the April 2026 leak of dozens of concerts from the Capitol Theatre in Port Chester, New York. Nobody else seems to be posting these anymore, but I have dozens more I want to post. This one is a concert by jazz pianist Diana Krall.

This concert was part of a tour to support her 2015 album "Wallflower." It was released earlier that month, and this was probably one of the first concerts of that tour, if not the very first. 

The recording of this concert seems to have been very obscure. Even months after the leak mentioned above, I couldn't find it on any of the usual bootleg sites. Heck, setlist.fm doesn't even have this concert listed in their very big database. So hopefully this post will change that. 

Like all the recordings from that leak, the sound quality is excellent, although the recording is only in mono. I found a video of this concert (from the leak) then converted it to audio and chopped it into mp3s. The video is too big to share here (7 GB!) but I'm sharing it via SoulseekQT. 

This album is an hour and 42 minutes long.

01 We Just Couldn't Say Goodbye (Diana Krall)
02 There Ain't No Sweet Man that's Worth the Salt of My Tears (Diana Krall)
03 talk (Diana Krall)
04 On the Sunny Side of the Street (Diana Krall)
05 talk (Diana Krall)
06 Just like a Butterfly that's Caught in the Rain (Diana Krall)
07 Temptation (Diana Krall)
08 talk (Diana Krall)
09 The Night We Called It a Day (Diana Krall)
10 The Frim-Fram Sauce (Diana Krall)
11 talk (Diana Krall)
12 A Case of You (Diana Krall)
13 talk (Diana Krall)
14 I'm Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Myself a Letter (Diana Krall)
15 California Dreamin' (Diana Krall)
16 talk (Diana Krall)
17 Sorry Seems to Be the Hardest Word (Diana Krall)
18 talk (Diana Krall)
19 Operator [That's Not the Way It Feels] (Diana Krall)
20 Just You, Just Me (Diana Krall)
21 'Deed I Do (Diana Krall)
22 talk (Diana Krall)
23 Wallflower (Diana Krall)
24 I'm a Little Mixed Up (Diana Krall)
25 talk (Diana Krall)
26 If I Take You Home Tonight (Diana Krall)
27 I'll String Along with You (Diana Krall)
28 Ophelia (Diana Krall)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/QQFg8GwT

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/3RFLj2d7PDfEY8Z/file

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

Beck - Outside Lands Music Festival, Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, CA, 8-8-2025

So what has Beck been up to lately? As I write this in September 2026, he hasn't released a new studio album since 2019, the longest gap of his career so far. The good news is, a new album is coming out later this month, called "Ride Lonesome." It's in his more quiet style, like his albums "Sea Change" and "Morning Phase." But this is the first album he's done with a full orchestra.

It turns out he's been experimenting playing with orchestras for a while now, and this concert has been part of that. In the summer of 2025, he performed a short tour of only nine concerts, and in each one he was backed by a full orchestra. This was the last concert of that tour, and he was backed by the Berkeley Symphony while performing in San Francisco. (I think the last two songs were done with just his usual band and not the orchestra, however.)

I looked for the best sounding recording from this tour. I wouldn't have posted anything if none of them sounded that good. But luckily, this concert was professionally recorded for a webcast. As I often do, I found a video version, then converted it to audio and chopped it into mp3s.

It's interesting to hear his songs performed in this different way. He must have enjoyed this enough to make his next album with an orchestra. (He did a 2024 tour with orchestras as well.) One nice thing also is that he performed a cover he'd never done prior to this tour, "Montague Terrace (In Blue)," which was originally done by Scott Walker. Unfortunately, on most of the other concerts in this tour, he did two other cover songs, "Tarantula" by Colourbox, and "It's Raining Today," also by Scott Walker, but for some reason he skipped them for this concert. "Everybody's Gotta Learn Sometime" is also a cover of 1980s hit by the Korgis. Beck has covered it a lot in the past, including doing a version for a 2004 movie soundtrack.

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

This album is an hour and 17 minutes long.

01 Golden Age (Beck)
02 talk (Beck)
03 Everybody's Gotta Learn Sometime (Beck)
04 Lonesome Tears (Beck)
05 Wave (Beck)
06 Tropicalia (Beck)
07 talk (Beck)
08 Blue Moon (Beck)
09 talk (Beck)
10 Lost Cause (Beck)
11 The New Pollution (Beck)
12 talk (Beck)
13 Ramona (Beck)
14 Paper Tiger (Beck)
15 talk (Beck)
16 Montague Terrace [In Blue] (Beck)
17 Phase [Instrumental] (Beck)
18 Morning (Beck)
19 talk (Beck)
20 Waking Light (Beck)
21 talk (Beck)
22 Where It's At (Beck)
23 talk (Beck)
24 Devil's Haircut (Beck)
25 Loser (Beck)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/8YkgxrZT

alternate:

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

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