Various Artists - Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony, Waldorf Astoria, New York City, 1-20-1988

Yesterday (January 28, 2026), Bruce Springsteen dropped a new song about the current problems with ICE in Minneapolis, called "Streets of Minneapolis." It's good to see a protest song that addresses current issues, since there haven't been many of those in recent years. (He wrote, recorded, and released it in four days!) Here's a link, if you haven't heard it already:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWKSoxG1K7w 

Anyway, I wanted to post something from Springsteen after hearing that inspiring song. However, some recent computer problems I've been having have flared up again, which means I currently can't use Photoshop, which in turn means I can't make new album covers until that's fixed. So I looked around to see if I had some Springsteen-related album ready to go, cover and all. Luckily, I did. (I have soooo many albums I could post tomorrow, if only I had the time to finish them off. Sigh!) This one doesn't have a ton of Springsteen content, but it's a really interesting (thought short) concert. So, in a way, my current computer issues have an upside in that they're getting me to finally post this.

Now, finally, to the music. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame started in the early 1980s. In 1986, they had their first induction ceremony, complete with a short concert featuring some of the inductees and other famous musicians. This has become a yearly tradition. Some concerts have been a lot more memorable than others. In my opinion, the ones from 1988 and 1989 were the most interesting, with the biggest star power. I haven't collected the others (though I very may well do so with some of them in the future), but I've made albums of those two. This is the 1988 one.

1988 was a really big year for the Hall of Fame, because their rule is that artists are only eligible for induction 25 years after their first record (be it a single or album). And when they were making their decisions in 1987 for this ceremony, that meant they were looking at the artists who put out their first records in 1962. It just so happens that was the first year of recordings for the Beatles, Bob Dylan, and the Beach Boys! Those are three of the biggest and most influential musical acts of all time. The Drifters and the Supremes were inducted that year as well, plus some non-performers, like Berry Gordy.

The induction ceremony had a lot of intrigue and drama in it. The Beatles are arguably the biggest (and best, IMHO!) musical act ever, so they were the main focus here, even overshadowing Dylan and the other very big names. Since John Lennon was assassinated in 1980, he was represented by his wife Yoko Ono, and his sons Julian Lennon and Sean Lennon, and each of them gave short speeches. Ex-Beatles George Harrison and Ringo Starr were there, and also gave speeches. 

However, the big no-show was Paul McCartney. He was in the middle of a lawsuit still connected to the break-up of the band back in 1970, so he felt he couldn't attend due to that. He put out a statement: "I was keen to go to and pick up my award, but after 20 years the Beatles still have some business differences which I had hoped would have been settled by now. Unfortunately, they haven't been [settled], so I would feel like a complete hypocrite waving and smiling with [Harrison and Starr] at a fake reunion." 

It turns out the lawsuit, which involved the division of profits from record sales, was settled a year later. So that was unfortunate timing as far as this concert goes. But at least that opened the door to the "Anthology" collaboration between the ex-Beatles a few years later.

Normally, when I post albums like this, I skip long speeches and focus on the music. But I'm making an exception here. I didn't include all the induction speeches, but I thought the ones relating to the induction of the Beatles and Dylan were important enough to include. They're all together at the beginning of this album, and they are about 19 minutes long in total. If you don't want to hear them, or just hear them once or twice, there's still about 40 minutes of music after that.

A big element of the drama involved Mike Love, a member of the Beach Boys. Love is one of the most notorious assholes in rock and roll, something I've discussed in other posts. But he really outdid himself this time. He appeared to be drunk, and used his induction speech to insult various famous musicians in the audience. This led to a funny quip from Dylan during his acceptance speech: when he listed people he wanted to thank, he thanked Love for not mentioning him in his speech!

Anyway, there are lots of interesting stories about what happened during this event. But instead of trying to summarize them all here, I'll just point out to an article from Rolling Stone Magazine that does a good job:

Rock and Roll Hall of Fame 

I've also posted a text file in the download zip that has the text to that article.

Regarding the music here, everything was professionally recorded, so the sound quality is excellent. However, I found the lead vocals were rather low in most of the songs, so I boosted that up with the help of the MVSEP program. Also, there was a problem in the performance of "Stop in the Name of Love." Mary Wilson of the Supremes was asked to sing the song (since Diana Ross was another prominent no show). But it was clear for this songs, as well as all the other songs, that there hadn't been any practice beforehand, so everyone was just winging it. For the first chorus at the start of the song, Wilson sang the song in one key, while the band (or at least most of it) played in another key. That sounds pretty painful to my ears. So I erased that, and patched in a chorus from later in the song. That's why that one song has "[Edit]" in its title.

Oh, also, during all the talking between songs, where band leader Paul Shaffer was trying to direct things, one or more people on stage kept playing guitar so loudly that it nearly drowned out what anyone was saying. So for most of those tracks, I used MVSEP to lower the volume of the guitar enough to make the talking more audible.  

The songs "I Saw Her Standing There" and "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" were officially released on the compilation album "Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Volume 1: 1986-1991." Everything else here remains unreleased.

By the way, when it comes to the song list below, I only listed the name of the main lead singers. For all the songs, there was one of the most amazing gatherings of musical talent ever seen on one stage together. But it's next to impossible to figure out who was on stage doing what, other than the lead vocals. So that's why I kept the credits in the titles relatively simple. 

However, just as one example, it was Jeff Beck who started playing the "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" riff that led to that song being played, right when it seemed everyone was leaving the stage. Some of the others who were on stage at least part of the time but don't get mentioned in the song titles include: Neil Young, Paul Simon, Johnny Moore, Joe Blunt, Clyde Brown, Tom Fogerty, Les Paul, Arlo Guthrie, Yoko Ono, Ringo Starr, Little Richard, Peter Wolf,  Dave Edmunds, Jeff Lynne, Julian Lennon, Sean Lennon, Little Steven, and Clarence Clemons.  

This album is an hour and six minutes long. 

01 talk (Mick Jagger)
02 talk (Ringo Starr)
03 talk (George Harrison)
04 talk (Yoko Ono)
05 talk (Julian Lennon)
06 talk (Sean Lennon)
07 talk (Bruce Springsteen)
08 talk (Bob Dylan)
09 Twist and Shout (Johnny Moore)
10 All Along the Watchtower (Bob Dylan with George Harrison)
11 talk (Paul Shaffer)
12 I Saw Her Standing There (Billy Joel & Bruce Springsteen)
13 talk (Paul Shaffer)
14 Stand by Me (Ben E. King & Julian Lennon)
15 talk (Paul Shaffer)
16 Stop in the Name of Love [Edit] (Mary Wilson)
17 talk (Paul Shaffer)
18 Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On - Hound Dog - Honey Hush (Elton John)
19 talk (Paul Shaffer)
20 Barbara Ann (Beach Boys)
21 talk (Paul Shaffer & John Fogerty)
22 Born on the Bayou (John Fogerty with Bruce Springsteen)
23 talk (Paul Shaffer & John Fogerty)
24 Like a Rolling Stone (Bob Dylan with Bruce Springsteen)
25 talk (Paul Shaffer)
26 [I Can't Get No] Satisfaction (Mick Jagger with Bruce Springsteen)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/SpmdHRju

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/yv9ChPKPJqpFcYT/file

The cover photo is from this exact concert. From right to left: Bob Dylan, George Harrison, and Mick Jagger.

Bob Dylan - SEC Armadillo, Glasgow, Britain, 11-17-2025

Early this month, as I write this in December 2025, I posted a Bob Dylan concert that took place in August 2025. I was happy to post that, because the sound quality was exceptional for having taken place only a few months earlier. Now, here's another one with equally great sound quality, and a set list that's almost entirely different!

For many, many years, there were next to no Dylan new concert bootlegs with soundboard-level sound quality. The only exceptions since 2000 or so (and I've posted most of them at my blog already) are due to IEM technology. "IEM" stands for "in-ear monitor." Basically, instead of everything going through wires, these days many concerts broadcast the music wirelessly so the band members can hear what the others are playing. And every now and then, people manage to pick up that signal and record it, even though it has a very, very limited broadcast frequency. I'm pretty sure that's what happened here, although it's just generically described as a soundboard by the people who made the original liner notes.

Actually, the people who recorded this also recorded the concert the day before, held in the same Glasgow venue. I decided to post only one, since the set lists were basically identical. (Dylan pretty much played the same songs for the entire short European tour this was a part of. But, as I mentioned above, it's a drastically different set from what he was playing earlier in the year.) So I read some reviews. Both shows were rated highly. Generally, most people think Dylan has been "on" during this tour, singing well and clearly, and generally being engaged. But I read slightly better things about the November 17th concert, so I decided to process that one.

And it turns out it needed a lot of processing. The main problem is that there was virtually NO audience noise whatsoever. Furthermore, the people who turned it into a bootleg cut out everything but the music, probably since they figured it would sound strange to hear dead silence between songs. But the downside is that made it sound like one long song. I think having clear breaks between songs really helps.

So I wanted to fix things, but there was no audience noise to work with at all. I decided on a drastic approach I've never used before. I downloaded an audience bootleg of a Dylan concert from Dublin, which took place a few days after this one. Then, using the MVSEP program, I split the crowd noise from the music for all those songs. Then I took the crowd noise from the beginnings and ends of each of the songs and pasted them into the same songs in this concert. It helped greatly that the set lists were almost exactly the same, with one extra song played in Dublin. Thus, what you're getting here is the real audience reaction to each song, song by song. It's just that the reaction is from a different concert that took place a few days later.

Anyway, I don't know how confusing that sounds. But the bottom line is that the appropriate sounding audience noise has been added, when there had been no audience noise at all. So I think that makes this a big improvement from the version I took it from. I've left in the original notes, so you can see who to thank, and what they did.

I made some other changes as well. The main one is that, occasionally, I noticed some brief dropouts, lasting a second or less. That's not long, but it's long enough for my ear to notice something was off. Every time I heard one of those dropouts, I tracked down the exact spot and did some audio editing to fill in the silence. Since they were very short dropouts, I usually fixed it just by stretching the music on either side a little bit to fill in the gap. That happened in a bunch of songs. I've included "[Edit]" in the titles of two songs where I found two or three such gaps. But there were some others where I found one, and fixed those as well. 

Oh, by the way, track 17, where the other band members are introduced, comes entirely from the Dublin show. Dylan makes those introductions in every concert. But it seems the people who made this bootleg cut everything but the songs so thoroughly that they cut that too. Since that comes from a middling sounding boot, I ran that track through the Adobe Enhance Speech program to make his banter more intelligible. 

If you want to know more about the concert, here's a good review of it:

Bob Dylan Live In Glasgow Review: Rough, rowdy, and ever-changing 

This album is an hour and 48 minutes long. 

01 I'll Be Your Baby Tonight (Bob Dylan)
02 It Ain't Me, Babe [Edit] (Bob Dylan)
03 I Contain Multitudes (Bob Dylan)
04 False Prophet (Bob Dylan)
05 When I Paint My Masterpiece (Bob Dylan)
06 Black Rider (Bob Dylan)
07 My Own Version of You (Bob Dylan)
08 To Be Alone with You (Bob Dylan)
09 Crossing the Rubicon (Bob Dylan)
10 Desolation Row (Bob Dylan)
11 Key West [Philosopher Pirate] (Bob Dylan)
12 Watching the River Flow (Bob Dylan)
13 It's All Over Now, Baby Blue (Bob Dylan)
14 I've Made Up My Mind to Give Myself to You [Edit] (Bob Dylan)
15 Mother of Muses (Bob Dylan)
16 Goodbye Jimmy Reed (Bob Dylan)
17 talk (Bob Dylan)
18 Every Grain of Sand (Bob Dylan)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/nnA8vaZG

alternate: 

https://bestfile.io/OdEnGzeqscl9PFJ/file

I don't know where or when the cover image is from. I just know it's from 2025. I could have found a better photo probably, but I thought this was fitting with his face partially obscured, since he's taken to practically hiding on stage. Apparently, if you go see him in concert in recent years, you're lucky to get to see even this much of his face.

Various Artists - Peace Sunday, Rose Bowl, Pasadena, CA, 6-6-1982, Part 3: Stevie Wonder and Joan Baez & Bob Dylan

Here's the third out of five albums that make up the "Peace Sunday" concert in 1982. Musically, this concert is best known for the songs Bob Dylan sang with Joan Baez, and you'll find them in this part.

I'll just paste in a paragraph I wrote in my post for Part 2, since it still applies here:

If you want a full explanation of what the concert was about, please read my write-up for Part 1. In that, I also explained about the sound quality issue. In short, the only known source for the whole concert is an audience bootleg. It didn't sound very good, so this concert recording hasn't been shared that much. But I could tell there was potential there, if I could get rid of most of the much. As I explained in detail in my write-up, I think I did get rid of most of it. It still doesn't have excellent sound, but it's pretty good, and worthy of being posted at my blog, where I have pretty high sound quality standards.

Now, let's get to the music. This part of the concert started with some songs by Stevie Wonder. Just one month before this concert, he released a best of album called "Stevie Wonder's Original Musiquarium I." It contained four new songs, and he performed two of them here, "Front Line" and "Do I Do." He also had a new songs written for the occasion, but it seems he and his band couldn't practice the song enough in time to his satisfaction, so he simply spoke the lyrics instead. I don't know the actual name of the song/poem, but I made an educated guess of "Throw Down in the Name of Love." If anyone knows a better title, please let me know.

The rest of this part of the concert consists of a set by Joan Baez, capped by three songs where she was joined by Bob Dylan. The two of them had a long personal history together, especially since they were romantically linked for a couple of years in the 1960s. The two of them toured together in 1975 and 1976. But after that, they didn't appear on stage together again until this concert. Then they were stage some more in 1984. As far as I know, they have been on stage together again in the many years since then.

Dylan wasn't one of the scheduled performers, so his appearance here was a pleasant surprise. That was especially the case because he basically took all of 1982 off. He didn't release or record any music, and this was his one and only concert appearance. They dueted on two classic Dylan anti-war songs, which were ideal for the occasion. The third song they sang was a real surprise though: "A Pirate Looks at Forty," by Jimmy Buffett. I'm pretty sure that's the only time Dylan ever sang a Jimmy Buffett song in concert.

Unfortunately, Dylan's performance wasn't the best. If you listen, it's pretty clear he did little to no practice with Baez. He even got the lyrics to "Blowin' in the Wind" wrong, singing the same verse twice. But still, it was great to have his involved with this concert. Since the mid-1960s, he's rarely been overtly politically active, but he was making his voice heard on the issue of nuclear disarmament by singing these particular songs at this particular concert.

I mentioned in my write-up to Part 1 that I spent a long time fixing the sound quality issues with this concert. I could have put "[Edit]" on all the songs, since I edited every single one of them a lot. But since I did the same treatment to all of them, I've saved that for the most extreme edits. There's one case here, with "Do Right Woman, Do Right Man." On top of all the other problems I was fixing, the beginning of the song was missing. Probably, the taper was saving tape by stopping during long pauses between songs, and then was a little slow it hitting "record" again in this case. But luckily, the lyrics at the start of the song were repeated later in the song, so I was able to fill in the missing section. 

This album is an hour and nine minutes long.

Note that, for all the parts, the track numbers continue from the numbers in the previous part. That way, you can put all the songs together and listen to the whole thing at once if you want. 

33 talk (Stevie Wonder)
34 Front Line (Stevie Wonder)
35 talk (Stevie Wonder)
36 Throw Down in the Name of Love [Spoken Lyrics] (Stevie Wonder)
37 Master Blaster [Jammin'] (Stevie Wonder)
38 Do I Do (Stevie Wonder)
39 We Demand World Peace Today (Stevie Wonder)
40 Do Right Woman, Do Right Man [Edit] (Joan Baez)
41 talk (Joan Baez)
42 Warriors of the Sun (Joan Baez)
43 Imagine (Joan Baez)
44 Diamonds and Rust (Joan Baez)
45 talk (Joan Baez)
46 With God on Our Side (Joan Baez & Bob Dylan)
47 A Pirate Looks at Forty (Joan Baez & Bob Dylan)
48 Blowin' in the Wind (Joan Baez & Bob Dylan)
49 talk (emcee)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/rZFaw6jr

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/XxOyn7vxXc2PzU7/file

The cover image of Joan Baez and Bob Dylan is from this exact concert.

Bob Dylan - Outlaw Music Festival, Jones Beach Theater, Wantagh, New York, 8-1-2025

Here's a Bob Dylan concert from only a few months ago (as I write this in December 2025). It's rare that I post a concert from this recent, often because of sound quality issues. But this is a special case. Someone managed to record the IEM (in ear monitor) version of this concert. This is a wireless feed of the music the band members were listening to, so they could easily hear each other. That means the sound quality is fantastic, like an excellent soundboard bootleg.

There was only one downside to this IEM recording. In this case, almost nothing of the audience was heard. Furthermore, often the tracks ended immediately after the song ended, because otherwise one would have just heard eerie silence. So I fixed this in two ways. One, I used the MVSEP program to split the songs into crowd noise and everything else. Then, if there was sufficient crowd noise to work with, I greatly, greatly boosted the volume of the crowd noise. Unfortunately, there were only a handful of songs with enough crowd noise to use this method. So that took me to the second method. For all the songs where I had no other option, I copied and pasted crowd noise in, from the ends of other songs. 

So now one can hear the crowd reactions you'd expect at the ends of all the songs. With this change made, this is probably the best sounding Dylan concert bootleg of the last ten years or more. That's my guess, at any rate. The previous one that had similar quality is from 2009, and I've posted that here.

Actually, there are three Dylan concerts from 2025 where someone captured the IEM feed. The other two have more issues though. In my opinion, this one sounded the best, so that's why I put in a lot of work to get the crowd noise problem fixed. 

This album is an hour and 17 minutes long.

01 Gotta Serve Somebody (Bob Dylan)
02 I Can Tell (Bob Dylan)
03 Forgetful Heart (Bob Dylan)
04 Axe and the Wind (Bob Dylan)
05 To Ramona (Bob Dylan)
06 Early Roman Kings (Bob Dylan)
07 Under the Red Sky (Bob Dylan)
08 I'll Make It All Up to You (Bob Dylan)
09 All Along the Watchtower (Bob Dylan)
10 'Til I Fell in Love with You (Bob Dylan)
11 Desolation Row (Bob Dylan)
12 Love Sick (Bob Dylan)
13 Share Your Love with Me (Bob Dylan)
14 Blind Willie McTell (Bob Dylan)
15 Highway 61 Revisited (Bob Dylan)
16 talk (Bob Dylan)
17 Searching for a Soldier's Grave (Bob Dylan)
18 Don't Think Twice, It's All Right (Bob Dylan) 

https://pixeldrain.com/u/RX9e1xVK

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/ZMCc1aifpWeJfVQ/file

The cover image is from this exact concert.

Robyn Hitchcock - Dylan's Royal Albert Hall 1966 Concert, The Borderline, London, Britain, 5-25-1996

On May 26, 1966, Bob Dylan gave a concert at the Royal Albert Hall in London that became legendary. (Mostly that was due to a popular bootleg that actually turned out to be from a concert in Manchester a few days earlier, but the set list was the same.) Thirty years to the day (well, one day off), Robyn Hitchcock gave a concert in London with the exact same set list. So it was all Dylan covers. He later released much of this concert as the official album "Robyn Sings," but that had some problems I will explain shortly. This, in my opinion, is much better than the official album.

Before I go any further, I want to say this album posting wouldn't have happened without the editing work of musical associate Lil Panda. A couple of weeks ago, he emailed me and told me he'd made a bunch of improvements to this concert. Then I got his permission to post it here. I asked him to summarize what he did, and this was his response: "I separated the ambient audience from the music, left only the applause. Then did azimuth, phase correction, voice de-click, and a slight EQ boost." So kudos to him, because he's far better at that stuff than I am. Hell, I barely even know what azimuth is, much less how to fix it.

Now, let me explain how this compares to the official live album "Robyn Sings." In fact, only half of that album was taken from this concert at the Borderline, specifically, the second half. The first half was taken from a variety of concerts in 1999 and 2000, and consisted of all Dylan covers. In terms of exact overlap, the songs on both "Robyn Sings" and this album are tracks 12 to 24. That makes up about half of the total run time.

As I've said before, I much prefer full concerts to those taken from lots of different sources. I think that's a more honest live album. So just having the full concert here is a big improvement over the official album, in my opinion. But it also turns out the official album had numerous problems. Oddly for an official release, it clearly was taken from an audience bootleg type source. One can tell because of a constant background noise of the crowd all through the songs, as well as other problems. Lil Panda fixed most of those, as mentioned above. I also took the extra step of running all the songs through the UVR5 editing program, to get rid of the lingering ambient crowd noise that Lil Panda missed. So, in addition to this being more complete than the official album, it also sounds better. 

To quote Wikipedia, Dylan's 1966 Royal Albert Hall concert (which, as mentioned above, actually took place in Manchester) "is famous for Dylan's confrontational stance against a heckling audience who objected to his electric instrumentation." Hitchcock didn't talk much during this concert, as he usually does, to stick closer to the original comment. But some of his banter between songs actually repeat what Dylan said in the 1966 concert. For instance, at one point Dylan muttered incoherently until the unruly crowd quieted enough to try to make out what he was saying, and Hitchcock repeated that exactly.

Let's just say Hitchcock is an extremely big Dylan fan!

Oh, by the way, the last two songs, "Dignity" and "Queen Jane Approximately," are the only two songs not played in Dylan's 1966 concert, though they are Dylan covers as well. "Queen Jane Approximately" had been written at the time and could have been performed, but "Dignity" is a song Dylan wrote in the late 1980s.

Anyway, thanks again to Lil Panda for his work on this. Enjoy.  

This album is an hour and 30 minutes long. 

01 talk (Robyn Hitchcock)
02 She Belongs to Me (Robyn Hitchcock)
03 talk (Robyn Hitchcock)
04 Visions of Johanna (Robyn Hitchcock)
05 talk (Robyn Hitchcock)
06 4th Time Around (Robyn Hitchcock)
07 talk (Robyn Hitchcock)
08 It's All Over Now, Baby Blue (Robyn Hitchcock)
09 talk (Robyn Hitchcock)
10 Desolation Row (Robyn Hitchcock)
11 talk (Robyn Hitchcock)
12 Tell Me, Momma (Robyn Hitchcock)
13 I Don't Believe You [She Acts like We Never Have Met] (Robyn Hitchcock)
14 talk (Robyn Hitchcock)
15 Baby, Let Me Follow You Down (Robyn Hitchcock)
16 Just like Tom Thumb's Blues (Robyn Hitchcock)
17 Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat (Robyn Hitchcock)
18 talk (Robyn Hitchcock)
19 One Too Many Mornings (Robyn Hitchcock)
20 Ballad of a Thin Man (Robyn Hitchcock)
21 talk (Robyn Hitchcock)
22 Like a Rolling Stone (Robyn Hitchcock)
23 talk (Robyn Hitchcock)
24 Dignity (Robyn Hitchcock)
25 Queen Jane Approximately (Robyn Hitchcock)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/57SVUW36

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/6NXYau3lI9pt6uV/file

The cover photo is a still taken from the movie "Storefront Hitchcock," which was recorded in 1996. 

Farm Aid, Huntington Bank Stadium, Minneapolis, MN, 9-20-2025, Part 10: Bob Dylan

This is the tenth album I'm posting from the 2025 Farm Aid benefit concert. This is a set by Bob Dylan, with his band.

It seems Dylan has become increasingly reclusive as he gets older, for instance wearing hoodies at all his concerts. He's gotten particularly annoyed at people taking pictures with their cell phones, and generally being so focused on their phones that they don't pay much attention to the actual concert. In his own concerts, he has security carefully enforce a policy of not using cell phones. In an appearance at the Outlaw Music Festival earlier in the year, where he couldn't control cell phone use, he all but made himself invisible, hiding behind a piano and other equipment, and shining lights in a way so that he basically couldn't be seen.

Here's an article about his appearance at the Farm Aid concert by Rolling Stone Magazine: 

Watch Pro-Shot Footage of Bob Dylan's Masterful Farm Aid Set 

The article says: "He wound up wearing the hoodie, though not pulled as tightly around his face as it has been at recent shows, and he agreed to both the projection screens and the livestream. There weren’t closeups, the stage was pretty dark, and much of the stadium audience had a hard time seeing him clearly, but these were major concessions given his history. Very few Never Ending Tour shows have been professionally filmed like this, let alone broadcast on the Internet."

In terms of his performance, I was a bit disappointed that it was rather short, shorter than all the other major acts. And his song selection was pretty conservative, all 1960s classics plus "I Can Tell," a cover of a Bo Diddley song. Still, some Dylan is better than no Dylan, and the sound quality is excellent. 

This album is 23 minutes long. 

01 talk by John Mellencamp (Bob Dylan)
02 All Along the Watchtower (Bob Dylan)
03 I Can Tell (Bob Dylan)
04 To Ramona (Bob Dylan)
05 Highway 61 Revisited (Bob Dylan)
06 Don't Think Twice, It's All Right (Bob Dylan)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/CDHup6V1

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/G3rSkqbJ1kYm6UH/file

The cover photo is from this exact concert. Note how Dylan is wearing a hoodie and generally shrouded in darkness. It took me a while before I could even find a decent photo showing this much of him.

Bob Dylan, Benny Goodman & Friends - The World of John Hammond, PBS Soundstage, NET Television Studios, Chicago, IL, 9-10-1975

Here's a really strange and interesting episode of the "PBS Soundstage" TV show. Especially in the show's early years, it had some theme shows, and this was one. The title was "The World of John Hammond," and the show celebrated the role of producer John Hammond in the music industry. 

The big name here is Bob Dylan. But be warned that Dylan only performed three songs, at the end of the show. Most of the show is filled with big band swing music, with the first three songs starring singer Helen Humes, and then the next three being instrumentals led by Benny Goodman. (Note that George Benson, who was becoming a star in his own right, was the lead guitarist in this band.) Then the episode made a drastic stylistic shift, with Sonny Terry playing the blues for four songs, joined by John Hammond Jr. (son of John Hammond) for the last two. Then there was another drastic stylistic shift, with the three Bob Dylan songs at the end. 

The reason for all the musical jumping around is because John Hammond had a role in the musical careers of many musical acts in many different styles. Wikipedia's entry on his says: "Hammond became one of the most influential figures in 20th-century popular music. ... Hammond sparked or advanced numerous musical careers, including those of Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, Benny Goodman, Harry James, Charlie Christian, Billie Holiday, Count Basie, Teddy Wilson, Big Joe Turner, Fletcher Henderson, Pete Seeger, Babatunde Olatunji, Aretha Franklin, George Benson, Freddie Green, Leonard Cohen, Arthur Russell, Jim Copp, Asha Puthli, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Mike Bloomfield, and Sonny Burke. He is also largely responsible for the revival of delta blues artist Robert Johnson's music."

He died in 1987 at the age of 76. Here's his entry, if you want to know more:

John Henry Hammond - Wikipedia

Note that this originally was two episodes. I cut out some of the material, but I don't think you're missing much. There were video tributes to Bessie Smith and Billie Holiday, but neither of those contained any live music. I also cut out a few gospel songs by Marion Williams that I didn't like.

There's a lot more I could say about this episode, but instead I'd recommend reading this Rolling Stone Magazine article about it, published shortly after it happened:

Bob Dylan, Jazz Stars Salute Label Pioneer John Hammond 

In that, it mentions that only about 100 people attended the taping of the episode, and most of them were older musical insider types who were there mainly to see Benny Goodman. By the time Dylan performed, only a couple dozen people remained. 

Even though Dylan only played three songs, this was an important event for him. John Hammond was the person who discovered him back when he was little known, and Dylan wanted to show his appreciation. It was the first time Dylan had performed on national TV since 1969. Two of the three songs he played, "Hurricane" and "Oh Sister," were unreleased at the time. In fact, this was the very first time he performed them in public. They would be released on his album "Desire" in early 1976. The version of "Hurricane" is particularly important, because this is the version with the original lyrics. One month later, record company lawyers found out about the song and worried that Dylan could be sued for libel regarding some of the things he said about real people in the song. So Dylan was forced to rewrite some of the lyrics, and then he rerecorded it. I'm guessing this performance still hasn't been officially released because those legal issues might still be a concern.

This album is an hour and four minutes long. 

01 Ain't Nobody's Business (Helen Humes & the All Star Band)
02 Body and Soul (Helen Humes & the All Star Band)
03 Where Can I Go (Helen Humes & the All Star Band)
04 talk (Benny Goodman & the All Star Band)
05 Sweet Lorraine [Instrumental] (Benny Goodman & the All Star Band)
06 Avalon [Instrumental] (Benny Goodman & the All Star Band)
07 talk (Benny Goodman & the All Star Band)
08 Seven Come Eleven [Instrumental] (Benny Goodman & the All Star Band)
09 talk (Sonny Terry)
10 My Baby Done Changed the Lock on the Door (Sonny Terry)
11 talk (Sonny Terry)
12 A Whoopin' the Blues (Sonny Terry)
13 talk (Sonny Terry)
14 Terraplane Blues (Sonny Terry & John Hammond, Jr.)
15 talk (Sonny Terry & John Hammond, Jr.)
16 I Can't Find My Baby (Sonny Terry & John Hammond, Jr.)
17 Hurricane (Bob Dylan)
18 Oh Sister (Bob Dylan)
19 Simple Twist of Fate (Bob Dylan)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/f6TY3bLE

alternate: 

https://bestfile.io/en/kjyK7MobPdvjyFn/file

The cover photo of Bob Dylan is from this exact concert. However, the picture was rather low-res so I used the Krea AI program to fill in more detail. 

Various Artists - A Country Music Celebration, Grand Ole Opry House, Nashville, TN, 1-13-1993

There are so many interesting tribute concerts that have taken place over the years but then were largely forgotten because they didn't get an official release. Here's another one I happened to find recently. 

There have been many country music themed TV specials over the years. I'm not familiar with most of them. But in terms of sheer star power, I couldn't overlook this one. The vast majority of the biggest names in country music at the time performed, back before country music went downhill with "bro country," rap, Autotune, and so forth. I don't know how often the Country Music Association has put on shows like this. I did find their 25th anniversary concert on YouTube, but it's less than an hour long and not as impressive a line-up.

This concert crammed in a surprising number of songs in the amount of time it had. That's because it often only allowed for truncated versions of songs, meaning two minutes or less. In the worst case, Glen Campbell's version of "I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry" was under a minute long. But the plus side is the show kept moving, so if there's a song you don't like, it wasn't long until the next one started.

I pretty much kept the show intact, until near the end. Very late in the show, around track 45, there was an extended tribute to Dolly Parton. I cut the vast majority of it out, because it was a video presentation, with short snippets of the recorded versions of her most famous songs. I cut all that because it was meant to be seen more than heard, with no live musical performances in it. However, immediately following that was a speech by Parton, and I kept all that.

The sound quality is excellent, even though this all remains unreleased. The only problem I had was with the last song, "I Will Always Love You" by Dolly Parton (with Kenny Rogers assisting). Clearly, the time allotted for the TV show came to an end, because the song was cut short, at only about a minute long, and then faded out. But at least it seems the performers knew the version was going to be a short one, because they only sang the chorus over and over. However, even that short version was marred by an announcer speaking over part of it to hype up the next shows coming up on that TV channel. I managed to cut that out by largely repeating one of the choruses. That's why that one song has "[Edit]" in its title. 

Oh, by the way, this website has a couple dozen nice photos from the event:

Nashville Then: A Country Music Celebration to honor CMA in 1993 

This album is an hour and 24 minutes long. 

01 talk (emcee)
02 This Nightlife (Clint Black with Ricky Skaggs, Glen Campbell & Mark O'Connor)
03 talk (Clint Black)
04 Road Scholar (Lee Roy Parnell & Delbert McClinton)
05 talk (Clint Black)
06 Here I Am (Lyle Lovett)
07 talk (Clint Black)
08 Heartland (Bob Dylan & Willie Nelson)
09 One More Last Chance (Vince Gill)
10 talk (Vince Gill & Travis Tritt)
11 What Would Elvis Do (Pam Tillis)
12 Wear My Ring Around Your Neck (Rodney Crowell)
13 T-R-O-U-B-L-E (Travis Tritt)
14 Devil in Disguise (Trisha Yearwood)
15 That's All Right, Mama (Vince Gill)
16 talk (Reba McEntire)
17 A Little Bit of Love (Wynonna Judd)
18 talk (Reba McEntire)
19 Goodbye Again (Mary Chapin Carpenter)
20 talk (Mary Chapin Carpenter)
21 Take It Back (Reba McEntire)
22 talk (Randy Owen)
23 Old Time Rock and Roll (Little Texas)
24 talk (Randy Owen)
25 It's a Heartache (Lorrie Morgan)
26 talk (Randy Owen)
27 Hard Working Man (Brooks & Dunn)
28 Drive South (Suzy Bogguss)
29 I'm in a Hurry (Alabama)
30 talk (Vince Gill)
31 The Heart Won't Lie (Reba McEntire & Vince Gill)
32 The Whiskey Ain't Working Anymore (Travis Tritt & Marty Stuart)
33 Love Certified (Ronnie Milsap & Patti LaBelle)
34 Silver Bells [Instrumental] (Charlie Daniels, Mark O'Connor & Sam Bush)
35 talk (Charlie Daniels & Emmylou Harris)
36 Too Far Gone (Emmylou Harris, Rodney Crowell, Vince Gill & Ricky Skaggs)
37 Two More Bottles of Wine (Emmylou Harris, Rodney Crowell, Vince Gill & Ricky Skaggs)
38 I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry (Glen Campbell)
39 talk (Glen Campbell)
40 The Ride (John Anderson)
41 Talking to Hank (Mark Chesnutt & Joe Diffie)
42 talk (Glen Campbell)
43 Midnight in Montgomery (Alan Jackson)
44 You Decorated My Life (Kenny Rogers)
45 talk (Kenny Rogers)
46 talk (Dolly Parton)
47 Full Circle (Dolly Parton, Emmylou Harris, Willie Nelson, Kenny Rogers & Glen Campbell)
48 talk (Kenny Rogers & Dolly Parton)
49 I Will Always Love You [Edit] (Dolly Parton & Kenny Rogers)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/Eosyj9Qd

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/2l2znKTYkfdFKDm/file 

The cover photo is from the finale of this exact concert. From left to right: Emmylou Harris, Kenny Rogers, Dolly Parton, and Willie Nelson.

Bob Dylan - Toad's Place, New Haven, CT, 1-12-1990

I'm excited to present this Bob Dylan concert, especially since it sounds better than ever before. Some say this is the greatest concert Dylan ever did, or at least the most interesting. It can't be denied it's the longest, by a good margin. The concert was over four hours long! For the first time in many years, Dylan performed in a club (Toad's Place), with a crowd of only 750 people. He basically did a live rehearsal to get warmed up before going on a world tour, trying out lots of rarities.

However, I never even had this in my music collection until a couple of days ago, due to poor sound quality. All that has emerged from the concert is an unreleased audience bootleg. But things changed in mid-March 2025 when Captain Acid posted an upgrade to it. He did phase and level correction, and new equalization. I listened to the result, and I was impressed. 

Then I decided to do what I could to improve that version still more. I'm willing to make more drastic edits than most people. When it comes to audience bootlegs, my one big trick is to use the MVSEP audio editing program to remove the crowd noise. The taper had to be standing in the middle of a packed audience that was very excited to see Dylan do such a special show in a small venue. That meant there was a constant ambient noise of people talking and hollering through the songs. I basically got rid of all that, while keeping the crowd noise at the ends of songs and between songs. This technique more or less can make an audience boot sound like a soundboard instead. 

After that, I ran all the songs through the UVR5 audio editing program, to adjust the balance between the vocals and everything else. I boosted Dylan's vocals a little bit overall. But I also made extra little boosts here and there when some of his singing was harder to hear. This also allowed me to get rid of more crowd noise that had been missed by the MVSEP program. For instance, at the start of "Everything Is Broken," someone standing near the taper could be heard saying over the music, "get down to her level... can't see anything." I got rid of that entirely, and other little bits like that. 

I could have put "[Edit]" in the titles to many songs, due to the extra editing work I did. But I only put that in the titles of the two songs I did the most work on, "Across the Borderline" and "It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry." The latter was the biggest pain in the butt, because some excited fan kept shouting "Woo!" noises through the song. I had to get rid of each of those individually. There's only a couple that remain, when the "Woo" noises overlapped with Dylan's vocals. I also got rid of some dead air between songs, but there wasn't much of that.

I wouldn't say this sounds as good as an excellent soundboard now, but there certainly some soundboards that sound worse than this. It's still rather rough, but I think that's part of its charm, capturing a small club atmosphere, where you can hear individual people clapping and cheering. 

Here's some more information on the concert and how it came to be. In late 1989, Dylan's career was revitalized with the release of the studio album "Oh Mercy," his best album in many years. However, his concerts didn't seem inspired... until this one. Rolling Stone Magazine wrote an entire article about this concert, entitled "Bringing It All Back Home: Dylan Thrills With Exhaustive Show." It read: "The January 12th show was a striking contrast to Dylan's recent lackluster, perfunctory performances, at which he has appeared so indifferent that the audience has been lucky if he acknowledged its presence, much less invested any of himself in his songs. But at Toad's, he rose to the challenge of his first scheduled club date in countless years with a brilliant marathon show."

Here's a link if you want to read the entire article. I highly recommend giving it a read:

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/bringing-it-all-back-home-dylan-thrills-with-exhaustive-show-71301/

Before Dylan, other musical acts had started using Toad's Place for secret open rehearsals. The most famous of these was the Rolling Stones, who gave a legendary performance there just five months prior to this concert. (I've thought about posting that concert too, but the audience bootleg for that one sounds much worse than this one.) Probably, Dylan heard about the Stones doing that, and decided he wanted to give that a try as well. He demanded 100 percent of the ticket sale profits, which the club happily gave him. No doubt, they more than made up for that with alcohol sales during the extremely long concert. Plus, the credibility it gave the venue was priceless. Since then, many other musical acts have done similar open rehearsal type shows there.

Dylan was backed by G.E. Smith on lead guitar (who was in the Saturday Night Live band), Tony Garnier on bass, and Christopher Parker on drums. The band came onstage shortly before 9 P.M., and played for an hour, then left the stage. Brian Phelps, the owner of the club, was later interviewed about the concert. Here's what he said happened next: 

"Dylan asked me if he could play another set. And we said sure, go ahead! You know, and they asked again, and played a third. Can I play another? You know what? Yeah! Go ahead! There's no problem!  He wasn't sure what he was going to play, it was like a practice session, because he was going on this theater tour. I think most of the theaters were 5,000 seats on up, and our show was like a practice session... Well for him anyways, but for the people that were there, they were just loving it, and they really couldn't believe it."

Dylan's fourth and final set began around 1:00 A.M. Phelps had to shut the bar down at that time due to state law. But instead of stopping the show, staffers just collected all of the drinks from the crowd so the show could go on. Dylan finally finished at 2:20 A.M.! He threw his harmonica into the adoring crowd, and walked off after 4 hours, 20 minutes. 

He ended up performing 50 songs in total. But what's really interesting in that he generally avoided playing most of his best known, most frequently played songs in favor of rarities. Many of the songs had never been performed by him before. All of these were done in concert for the first time: "Trouble No More," "I've Been All Around This World," "Political World," "Where Teardrops Fall," "What Was It You Wanted," "Oh Babe, It Ain't No Lie," "Tight Connection to My Heart (Has Anybody Seen My Love)," "Wiggle Wiggle," "Key to the Highway," and "Dancing in the Dark." And yes, you read that right, that last song mentioned was "Dancing in the Dark," as in the huge 1984 hit by Bruce Springsteen. It was the one and only time Dylan played it in concert. If you listen carefully to the recording, it's clear Dylan didn't remember most of the words to it, but he was having a fun time winging it anyway.

In addition to all those debuts, there were lots of rarities played. For instance, he did the Traveling Wilburys song "Congratulations," apparently after someone in the audience shouted for it. That was only one of three times he ever performed that. A bunch of the debuts I mentioned were covers: "Trouble No More," "I've Been All Around This World," "Oh Babe, It Ain't No Lie," "Key to the Highway," and "Dancing in the Dark." But he played many other covers too: "Walk a Mile in My Shoes," "Everybody's Movin'," "Across the Borderline," "Paid the Price," "Help Me Make It Through the Night," "Lonesome Whistle," "Confidential," "So Long, Good Luck and Goodbye," "Peggy-O," "When Did You Leave Heaven," "In the Pines," and "Precious Memories." That's a lot of covers, 18 in all.

Unfortunately, because this concert was a kind of open rehearsal, Dylan repeated some songs to make sure the band played them to his satisfaction. "I've Been All Around This World" and "Where Teardrops Fall" were played twice. That wasn't so bad, but "Political World" was played three times. I decided I didn't want to hear all those repeats every time I listen to this. But some other people might, so I'm including the extra versions, but only as bonus tracks. I kept the last versions in the main song list, assuming they improved as they played the songs more.

This really was a remarkable concert for Dylan. It seems to have been the only one he ever did like this, where he let it all hang out and played whatever the hell he wanted for as long as he wanted. He even warmed up enough to chat some with the audience and take requests, which he basically never did. It's not just the longest Dylan concert by a mile, it's also one of a handful of the longest concerts by any famous rock musician, period. He even beat the longest Bruce Springsteen concert ever by a few minutes, and Springsteen is famous for his long concerts.

Here's one more anecdote from Brian Phelps, the owner of Toad's Place:

"[Many years later,] I actually gave the whole rundown to his son Jakob, from the Wallflowers, who have played Toad's a number of times, and I told him about his father's show. He started peppering me with questions about it, and he really enjoyed the whole story about how it happened, and the length of the show, and everything that went on that night. He was a great great guy too. Jacob enjoyed the history of the club, and the history of playing in the same place where his father played his longest show in."

This concert is three hours and forty minutes long, without the bonus songs. Including those, it's four hours and two minutes long. The actual concert was still longer than that, due to some short breaks between sets.

 01 Walk a Mile in My Shoes (Bob Dylan)
02 One More Cup of Coffee [Valley Below] (Bob Dylan)
03 Rainy Day Women No. 12 and 35 (Bob Dylan)
04 Trouble No More (Bob Dylan)
05 Tears of Rage (Bob Dylan)
06 I Dreamed I Saw St. Augustine (Bob Dylan)
07 It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry [Edit] (Bob Dylan)
08 Everybody's Movin' (Bob Dylan)
09 Watching the River Flow (Bob Dylan)
10 What Was It You Wanted (Bob Dylan)
11 Oh Babe, It Ain't No Lie (Bob Dylan)
12 talk (Bob Dylan)
13 Lenny Bruce (Bob Dylan)
14 I Believe in You (Bob Dylan)
15 talk (Bob Dylan)
16 Man of Peace (Bob Dylan)
17 Across the Borderline [Edit] (Bob Dylan)
18 Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat (Bob Dylan)
19 All Along the Watchtower (Bob Dylan)
20 talk (Bob Dylan)
21 Tight Connection to My Heart [Has Anybody Seen My Love] (Bob Dylan)
22 What Good Am I (Bob Dylan)
23 Wiggle Wiggle (Bob Dylan)
24 Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again (Bob Dylan)
25 Paid the Price (Bob Dylan)
26 Help Me Make It through the Night (Bob Dylan)
27 Man in the Long Black Coat (Bob Dylan)
28 Congratulations (Bob Dylan)
29 Dancing in the Dark (Bob Dylan)
30 Lonesome Whistle Blues (Bob Dylan)
31 Confidential (Bob Dylan)
32 In the Garden (Bob Dylan)
33 Everything Is Broken (Bob Dylan)
34 talk (Bob Dylan)
35 So Long, Good Luck and Goodbye (Bob Dylan)
36 Where Teardrops Fall (Bob Dylan)
37 talk (Bob Dylan)
38 Political World (Bob Dylan)
39 Pretty Peggy-O (Bob Dylan)
40 I'll Remember You (Bob Dylan)
41 Key to the Highway (Bob Dylan)
42 talk (Bob Dylan)
43 Joey (Bob Dylan)
44 Lay Lady Lay (Bob Dylan)
45 I Don't Believe You [She Acts like We Never Have Met] (Bob Dylan)
46 When Did You Leave Heaven (Bob Dylan)
47 Maggie's Farm (Bob Dylan)
48 I've Been All Around This World (Bob Dylan)
49 In the Pines (Bob Dylan)
50 Highway 61 Revisited (Bob Dylan)
51 Precious Memories (Bob Dylan)
52 Like a Rolling Stone (Bob Dylan)

I've Been All Around This World [First Version] (Bob Dylan)
Political World [First Version] (Bob Dylan)
Political World [Second Version] (Bob Dylan)
Where Teardrops Fall [First Version] (Bob Dylan)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/c3pudHMC

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/3lYIq83WpMHkgLV/file

The cover photo is from this exact concert. In the original, his eyes couldn't be seen due to the shadow from his hat. But thanks to the magic of AI art, I was able to make an adjustment there while keeping the rest of the image the same. I also found a photo of one of the tickets from this concert, and I thought that was nice, so I added that in at the top left.

Bob Dylan - Rothbury Music Festival, Double JJ Ranch, Rothbury, MI, 7-5-2009

Last month (writing this in February 2025), I posted an excellent sounding Bob Dylan concert from 2002. Here's another excellent one, from 2009.

Both the 2002 and 2009 recordings are bootlegs on an unusual kind: they are examples of Assisted Listening Device (ADL) recordings. These are usually special feeds at concerts to help people who have hearing trouble. Every now and then, these recordings make it onto bootlegs. The ones I heard generally sound great, but they almost always have pristine sound of what was happening on stage, and very little crowd noise. It makes for a strange listen, as if the performer was playing to a bored audience that could barely be bothered to cheer.

Thankfully, these days, there are many ways to edit sound files. So I did to this concert recording what I did to the 2001: I split the crowd noise from everything else (using the MVSEP program), greatly boosted the cheering, the put the cheering back with the rest. Now, it sounds like a typical high quality soundboard boot. And that's extremely unusual for a Dylan concert from this era. There are lots of soundboard boots from earlier phases of his career. But from about 2000 onwards, there are basically none. The only exceptions I know of are these two ADL recordings from the 2001 concert and this one.

Dylan has had a late career renaissance, with many of his more recent album being both critically acclaimed and selling well. This concert took place a few months after the release of his studio album "Together Through Life," which was another winner, even reaching Number One on the album charts in some countries. Weirdly, he only performed one song from that album, "Jolene." But he played four from the previous album, "Modern Times" ("Rollin' and Tumblin," "Nettie Moore," "Spirit on the Water," and "Thunder on the Mountain"), and well as songs from other more recent albums like "Love and Theft" and "Time Out of Mind."

This album is one hour and 46 minutes long.

01 talk (Bob Dylan)
02 Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat (Bob Dylan)
03 Senor [Tales of Yankee Power] (Bob Dylan)
04 Tangled Up in Blue (Bob Dylan)
05 Rollin' and Tumblin' (Bob Dylan)
06 Spirit on the Water (Bob Dylan)
07 High Water [For Charley Patton] (Bob Dylan)
08 'Til I Fell in Love with You (Bob Dylan)
09 Po' Boy (Bob Dylan)
10 Highway 61 Revisited (Bob Dylan)
11 Ballad of a Thin Man (Bob Dylan)
12 Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again (Bob Dylan)
13 Nettie Moore (Bob Dylan)
14 Thunder on the Mountain (Bob Dylan)
15 Like a Rolling Stone (Bob Dylan)
16 Jolene (Bob Dylan)
17 All Along the Watchtower (Bob Dylan)
18 talk (Bob Dylan)
19 Blowin' in the Wind (Bob Dylan)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/LGeWVRGo

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/B5HObNIxaDkwCTV/file

The cover photo comes from this exact concert.

Van Morrison - BBC Sessions, Volume 2: 1984-1995

When I posted Van Morrison's "BBC Sessions, Volume 1," I commented that it was a shame Morrison hardly ever performed for the BBC in 1980s. Musical associate MZ saw that comment, and sent me some stuff. Based mostly on that, I was able to put together this album of BBC sessions.

"Sense of Wonder" is from an appearance on the BBC TV show "The Old Grey Whistle Test" in 1984. "In the Garden" is from another BBC TV show in 1986. 

The next four songs come from a BBC TV special about Morrison called "One Irish Rover." It collected a bunch of different performances. One of them featured Van Morrison and Bob Dylan in 1989 singing just as a duo in Athens, Greece, on a hill overlooking the Acropolis. It's great to have these two musical giants collaborate, but to be honest it generally seemed like Dylan was winging it and didn't know Morrison's songs that well. But he did play some nice harmonica, and he sang more assertively on "One Irish Rover." The last of those four songs, "And It Stoned Me," was from the same session, but wasn't actually included in the "One Irish Rover" show. (You can find YouTube videos of all four songs, if you're interested in seeing and not just hearing them.)

"Whenever God Shines His Light" is from the BBC TV show "Top of the Pops," in 1989. Most appearances on that show are lipsynced, but not this one. It's a duet of Morrison and Cliff Richard, the same as on Morrison's 1989 studio album "Avalon Sunset." The next two songs, "Avalon of the Heart" and "So Quiet in Here" are from an appearance on the "Late Show," another BBC TV show, in 1990. Finally, the last two songs are from the show "Later... with Jools Holland" in 1995.

Everything here is unreleased on audio format, though the "One Irish Rover" show has been released on video. For the songs with cheering studio audiences, I used the MVSEP program to get rid of the cheering. "Whenever God Shines His Light" has "[Edit]" in the title because the first few seconds were missing. I fixed that by patching in some music from later in the song.

This album is 43 minutes long.

01 Sense of Wonder (Van Morrison)
02 In the Garden (Van Morrison)
03 Crazy Love (Van Morrison with Bob Dylan)
04 Foreign Window (Van Morrison with Bob Dylan)
05 One Irish Rover (Van Morrison with Bob Dylan)
06 And It Stoned Me (Van Morrison with Bob Dylan)
07 Whenever God Shines His Light [Edit] (Van Morrison & Cliff Richard)
08 Avalon of the Heart (Van Morrison)
09 So Quiet in Here (Van Morrison)
10 Don't Worry about a Thing (Van Morrison)
11 That's Life (Van Morrison)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/gfJA3oVS

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/NQkCrr4NOO0M1l5/file

The cover photo is from a photo shoot in Bath, Britain, in May, 1989.

Bob Dylan - Philips Arena, Atlanta, GA, 2-9-2002

When it comes to posting music by Bob Dylan, I have been working my way chronologically through his career. As I write this in January 2025, I've only made it to the late 1970s, so I have a long way to go. But I'm posting this concert from 2002 way out of chronological order because I only recently discovered it, and I think it's fantastic.

From the late 1980s onward, Dylan has toured a remarkable degree, and he's still going today as I write this. But since the late 1990s, there have been almost no soundboard bootlegs, no FM radio concert broadcasts, and no official live albums that weren't archival from previous decades. So, if you've wanted to hear his concerts from at least 2000 onwards, you've had to cope with audience bootlegs that sometimes sound good, but never great.

However, this concert is a staggering exception. It's one of only two soundboard bootlegs from him after 2000 that I know of. The sound quality and performance is so good that there's even a Rolling Stone Magazine article about it, written in 2021. The title of the article is "Hear a Pristine Recording of a Stunning 2002 Bob Dylan Concert," and it's basically a plea to listen to this show.

Here's some excerpts from that article:

[This bootleg] was reportedly sourced to an Assisted Listening Device connected straight to the soundboard, which explains why the sound quality is absolutely perfect. Simply put, it sounds just about as good as any official live album. The show also captured Dylan during a peak era of the Never Ending Tour. This was just five months after "Love and Theft" hit stores, and the new songs infused the show with incredible energy and purpose. Charlie Sexton and Larry Campbell are two of the best guitarists he’s ever played with, and he gave them a lot of freedom to stretch out and even harmonize with him on the vocals.

The song selection is excellent, mixing the Love and Theft tunes with hits like "All Along the Watchtower" and "Like a Rolling Stone," deeper cuts like "Drifter’s Escape" and "My Back Pages," and traditional folk covers like "Searching for a Soldier’s Grave" and set opener "I Am the Man, Thomas." And while his vocals are no match for the heights he reached back in 1966, 1975, or 1980, they’re crisp, clear, and haunting. 

Hear a Pristine Recording of a Stunning 2002 Bob Dylan Concert

I agree with all that. But there was one big problem with the recording, which I have now fixed. Namely, the recording caught what happened on stage perfectly, but at the cost of virtually no audience noise whatsoever. When each song ended, you basically just heard silence, which is weird for a concert. Thankfully, now there are many ways to edit audio files. First, I split each song into crowd noise and everything else using the MVSEP program. The crowd noise part was basically a flat line when I looked at it in Audacity. For some songs, I literally would have to zoom in to see anything there at all. But I tried increasing the volume of the cheering after each song, by ten or twenty times or more. For normal recordings, this wouldn't work, because one would get an overwhelming amount of hiss. But this recording was so pristine that it actually worked really well. After I joined the crowd noise back with the music, the result has the crowd cheering a normal level after every song. And it's exactly what was really there, just buried, as opposed to many times where I've had to paste in cheering from the ends of other songs and things like that.

So even if you have a recording of this concert already, I highly suggest you get this one. And if you're a fan of Dylan's live performances at all, this is a "must have," for all the reasons mentioned in the Rolling Stone article.

This album is two hours and 20 minutes long.

01 I Am the Man, Thomas (Bob Dylan)
02 My Back Pages (Bob Dylan)
03 It's Alright Ma [I'm Only Bleeding] (Bob Dylan)
04 Searching for a Soldier's Grave (Bob Dylan)
05 Lonesome Day Blues (Bob Dylan)
06 Lay Lady Lay (Bob Dylan)
07 Floater (Bob Dylan)
08 High Water [For Charley Patton] (Bob Dylan)
09 It Ain't Me, Babe (Bob Dylan)
10 Masters of War (Bob Dylan)
11 Tangled Up in Blue (Bob Dylan)
12 Summer Days (Bob Dylan)
13 Sugar Baby (Bob Dylan)
14 Drifter's Escape (Bob Dylan)
15 Rainy Day Women No. 12 & 35 (Bob Dylan)
16 Things Have Changed (Bob Dylan)
17 Like a Rolling Stone (Bob Dylan)
18 Forever Young (Bob Dylan)
19 Honest with Me (Bob Dylan)
20 Blowin' in the Wind (Bob Dylan)
21 All Along the Watchtower (Bob Dylan)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/UpMdJ2zL

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/eFnEN5WXekqSuBm/file

The cover photo is from a concert in Bournemouth, Britain, on May 5, 2002.

Various Artists - A Musical Tribute to Woody Guthrie, Carnegie Hall, New York City, 1-20-1968

In October 1967, one of the all-time musical greats, Woody Guthrie, died at the age of 55. His health started declining in the late 1940s, and in 1952 he was diagnosed with Huntington's Disease, which causes a gradual decline in motor skills and mental abilities. He was hospitalized continuously from 1956 until his death. From the early 1960s onward, Bob Dylan regularly visited him in the hospital and sang songs for him, but so did Pete Seeger and many other folk singers.

Back in the 1960s, musical tribute concerts weren't really a thing yet, but Guthie was such a towering figure that there actually were three such concerts. I plan on posting all three eventually. This is the natural way to start, since it came first chronologically.

This concert was officially released in full as the album "A Tribute to Woody Guthrie, Part 1," in 1972. In 1970, another tribute concert for him happened, and that was eventually released as "A Tribute to Woody Guthrie, Part 2." Then, decades later, highlights from the two were combined onto one CD simply called "A Tribute to Woody Guthrie." 

Normally, I wouldn't post something that has been officially released in full. But I think in this case I can made a more listenable album by subtraction. What I mean is, the 1968 concert was a combination of songs that were sung and spoken word/poetry that was read, going back and forth between the two. I think the songs have a lot of relistening value, but I don't want to hear the spoken word parts that often. So I deleted almost twenty tracks of that, keeping just the music. If you want the full version, the official album is for you.

In removing those tracks, I was careful to manage the applause at the end of each song, since the spoken word part often started while the cheering was still going on. In some cases, I was able to fade the cheering down to bring it to a natural end. But when it was too short for that, I pasted in some cheering from the ends to other songs.

Now, let's get to the music, which consists entirely of songs written by Woody Guthrie, or cover songs he was closely associated with. This concert is most famous due to the appearance of Bob Dylan and the Band. It was important for several reasons. This was Dylan's first public performance since his motorcycle accident a year and a half earlier. It seems he wasn't actually that seriously injured in that accident, and it certainly didn't take him years to recover. But he'd been living a fast and crazy life of stardom and wanted to step away from all that for a while, and the accident gave him an excuse to go into seclusion. After this concert, Dylan basically went back into seclusion for another year or so. But he considered Woody Guthrie so important to his life that he made this rare public appearance during that time anyway.

Also important was the fact that Dylan was backed by the Band. Most members of the Band had backed him on a 1966 tour, and then during his "Basement Tapes" studio sessions in 1967. But at the time of this concert, they still hadn't made a name for themselves... both figuratively and literally! Since they literally didn't have a name to call themselves yet, for this concert, they were billed as "The Crackers," weirdly enough. Later in 1968, the Band would release their first studio album, "Music from Big Pink," to great critical acclaim. They would continue to back Dylan on other projects, including the 1969 Isle of Wight Festival concert and a 1974 tour. This concert was critical to their early career as well as their evolving musical connection with Dylan.

By the way, in addition to playing three songs with the Band, Dylan sang on two others: "This Train Is Bound for Glory" and the finale, "This Land Is Your Land." His voice is just one of many on the finale. As for "This Train Is Bound for Glory," he sang a verse on his own. Unfortunately, the album only included about a 30-second long snippet of that song, and his part wasn't included. I didn't include that snippet since I found it frustrating to only have a bit of the song. I'm guessing there was a flaw with the recording for much of the song.

The other stars of the concert were some of the biggest names in folk music at the time: Arlo Guthrie (Woody Guthrie's son, who had just hit it big with "Alice's Restaurant" in 1967), Judy Collins, Pete Seeger, Odetta, Richie Havens, and Tom Paxton. (I was asked the other day if I could post something by Pete Seeger. I couldn't think of anything worth posting. But then I remembered this concert.)

If you want to know more about this concert, here's an article in Rolling Stone Magazine about it that came out just a month after it took place:

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/bob-dylan-turns-up-for-woody-guthrie-memorial-197917/

This album is 56 minutes long.

01 Oklahoma Hills (Arlo Guthrie)
02 So Long, It's Been Good to Know Yuh [Dusty Old Dust] (Judy Collins)
03 Curly Headed Baby (Pete Seeger)
04 Ramblin' Round (Odetta)
05 Goin' Down the Road Feelin' Bad (Pete Seeger, Arlo Guthrie & Judy Collins)
06 Pretty Boy Floyd (Tom Paxton)
07 I'd Rather Drink Muddy Water (Richie Havens)
08 Plane Wreck at Los Gatos [Deportee] (Judy Collins)
09 Vigilante Man (Richie Havens)
10 Pastures of Plenty (Tom Paxton)
11 Grand Coulee Dam (Bob Dylan & the Band)
12 Dear Mrs. Roosevelt (Bob Dylan & the Band)
13 I Ain't Got No Home (Bob Dylan & the Band)
14 Roll On Columbia [Edit] (Judy Collins)
15 Jackhammer John (Pete Seeger & Richie Havens)
16 Biggest Thing That Man Has Ever Done [The Great Historical Bum] (Tom Paxton)
17 Union Maid (Judy Collins & Pete Seeger)
18 This Land Is Your Land (Will Geer, Arlo Guthrie, Odetta & Everyone)

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What a historic photo for the cover! From left to right, that's Pete Seeger, Bob Dylan, Judy Collins, and Arlo Guthrie. I found a bunch of photos from this concert, but all of them were in black and white. I picked this one, and then colorized it with the Kolorize.cc program. It did a really good job, including picking the colors. I only had to make a few fixes in Photoshop.

Bob Dylan & the Band - Chicago Stadium, Chicago, IL, 1-4-1974

In September 2024, a big box set of the Bob Dylan and the Band 1974 tour was released. Called, "The 1974 Live Recordings," it's a whopping 27 CDs in size. It includes all the soundboard and multitrack recordings that could be found from that tour. Way back in 1974, just a few months after the tour ended, a double album called "Before the Flood" was released, compiling songs from several concerts from the tour. I never liked that album much, for reasons I'll explain in a minute. So I decided to pick what I consider the best concert from this box set and make some changes that arguably makes this superior to what is on the box set.

I have two issues with the "Before the Flood" album. First, I usually prefer full concerts, warts and all, to live albums selected from multiple concerts. And second, it seemed to me that Dylan was just going through the motions, playing his "greatest hits" to please the large crowds without much enthusiasm on his part. 

It turns out that's exactly what happened. Dylan had been in seclusion pretty much since his 1966 motorcycle accident. He'd only done one full concert in all the years since then (at the Isle of Wight Festival in 1969), plus a handful of guest appearances. The public demand to see him on tour was immense. Add to that the fact that his backing band in 1966 were just a bunch of unknowns, but had since been deemed "the Band," and had some hits and critically praised albums of their own. They were a big concert draw in their own right, so to see them back Dylan was extra special. The resulting tour was one of the biggest and most hyped tour in rock and roll up until that point, selling out everywhere.

Unfortunately, whoever booked the tour set up a punishing schedule, with two shows per days sometimes and almost no days off. As the tour went on, Dylan started to lose the power of his voice. He often resorted to shouting the songs more than singing them. Furthermore, he played fewer and fewer rarities as the tour went on, ending up with just his biggest crowd pleasers by the end. Unfortunately, the "Before the Flood" album is drawn from the end of the tour. But most Dylan fanatics are more interested in the beginning of the tour, when Dylan and the Band were excited instead of weary, Dylan was singing great, and they weren't afraid to play unusual songs.

But there are more problems with the box set. One is that some of the concerts were not professionally recorded in full, due to technical difficulties or negligence or the like. Another is that although the Band played many of their own songs in every concert on the tour, the box set contains absolutely NONE of those. 

The very first concert on the tour took place in Chicago on January 3, 1974. That one, plus the next one, also in Chicago, on January 4th, are the most interesting ones to me, in terms of the set list as well as the quality of the performance. But there's a pretty good sounding audience bootleg for the January 4th show, but only a very poor sounding bootleg for January 4th. So I decided to post the January 4th concert. 

I used the audience bootleg to fill in the missing Band songs, all ten of them (tracks 7-12 and 21-24). The sound quality on these isn't as good, and you'll probably notice that right away. But I still think they sound very listenable. I used some tricks with the UVR5 and MSVEP audio editing programs to make them sound a little better. For instance, I got rid of most of the crowd noise in the middles of sounds, generally only keeping the cheering at the starts and ends of songs. 

Another problem with this concert is that five of the Dylan songs were missing (probably due to technical problems). Those were: "Lay, Lady, Lady," "All Along the Watchtower," "Forever Young," "Something There Is about You," and "Like a Rolling Stone." Luckily for my purposes, all five of these songs happened have been performed the night before, even though there were many differences in the two set lists. So, for those five songs, I used the versions from January 3rd, since the sound quality was significantly better than the audience bootleg from the Fourth.

There was yet another problem with this concert recording. Namely, for both the January 3rd and 4th recordings, virtually all of the applause was quickly faded out at the ends of songs. This would have resulted in the loss of all banter between songs, but it so happened Dylan and the members of the Band almost never said a word between songs, so there probably wasn't anything lost there. However, it sounded annoying to me to have the applause cut off. So I did some editing, patching in extra applause after virtually every song, except for the Band ones, since they were sourced differently. It seems whoever was recording the concerts cut the applause off like that for all the early dates in the tour. Maybe it was to save on recording tape, I don't know.

Because it had been so long since Dylan had gone on tour, many of the songs were being played for the first time on these two Chicago nights. For instance, even though "All Along the Watchtower" had been written way back in 1967, and Dylan would go on to perform that song in concerts more than any other (2300 plus and growing as I write this), he'd never played it in concert before this. Others had only been done rarely. For instance, "Hero Blues" and "Song to Woody" had only been performed a couple of times back in 1962 and/or 1963. Dylan and the Band released a new studio album right as the tour was starting, called "Planet Waves." They only played a few songs from the album on tour though, and they gradually dropped out of the set lists as the tour went on. But this concert has "Tough Mama," "Something There Is about You," and "Forever Young," plus the outtake "Nobody 'Cept You." Additionally, "Knockin' on Heaven's Door" had only been released the year before on a movie soundtrack, and was being played for the first time as well.

If you're a Dylan fanatic, you should get the entire box set. If you're not though, I'd easily recommend this over the "Before the Flood" album, even though the Band songs sound a little worse.

This album is an hour and 57 minutes long.

01 Hero Blues (Bob Dylan & the Band)
02 Lay, Lady, Lay (Bob Dylan & the Band)
03 Just like Tom Thumb's Blues (Bob Dylan & the Band)
04 It Ain't Me, Babe (Bob Dylan & the Band)
05 Tough Mama (Bob Dylan & the Band)
06 Ballad of a Thin Man (Bob Dylan & the Band)
07 Stage Fright (Bob Dylan & the Band)
08 The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down (Bob Dylan & the Band)
09 King Harvest [Has Surely Come] (Bob Dylan & the Band)
10 Long Black Veil (Bob Dylan & the Band)
11 I Shall Be Released (Bob Dylan & the Band)
12 Up on Cripple Creek (Bob Dylan & the Band)
13 All Along the Watchtower (Bob Dylan & the Band)
14 Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat (Bob Dylan & the Band)
15 Knockin' on Heaven's Door (Bob Dylan & the Band)
16 The Times They Are A-Changin' (Bob Dylan & the Band)
17 Love Minus Zero-No Limit (Bob Dylan & the Band)
18 The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll (Bob Dylan & the Band)
19 Nobody 'Cept You (Bob Dylan & the Band)
20 It's Alright, Ma [I'm Only Bleeding] (Bob Dylan & the Band)
21 Rag Mama Rag (Bob Dylan & the Band)
22 When You Awake (Bob Dylan & the Band)
23 The Shape I'm In (Bob Dylan & the Band)
24 The Weight (Bob Dylan & the Band)
25 Forever Young (Bob Dylan & the Band)
26 Something There Is about You (Bob Dylan & the Band)
27 Like a Rolling Stone (Bob Dylan & the Band)
28 Maggie's Farm (Bob Dylan & the Band)

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second alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/3yBhONV52L7qIXC/file

Luckily, the cover photo comes from one of the two Chicago concerts in January 1974, though I'm not sure which one. It probably was this one though, because the first night had a bunch of furniture on stage to try to create a homey atmosphere, but that was dropped by the second show.

Woodstock '94, Winston Farm, Saugerties, NY, 8-12-1994 to 8-14-1994 - Day 3, Part 15: Bob Dylan

The 15th album from Day Three of the Woodstock '94 Festival was a set by legendary singer-songwriter Bob Dylan.

The Wikipedia entry about this festival has a good paragraph about the Dylan set, so I'll quote it in full here:

"After being injured in a traffic accident in 1966 and his subsequent disappearance from the popular music scene, Bob Dylan declined to go to the original Woodstock Festival of 1969, even though he lived in the area at the time. He set off for the Isle of Wight Festival the day the Woodstock festival started and performed at Woodside Bay on August 31, 1969. Dylan, however, did accept an invitation to perform at Woodstock '94 and was introduced with the phrase: 'We waited twenty-five years to hear this. Ladies and gentlemen, Mr. Bob Dylan.' Although he was an hour and a half late to his performance, his set was considered one of the greater moments of the festival by various critics and represented the beginning of another new phase in his lengthy career. Uncharacteristically for the time, Dylan played lead guitar in a more rock-oriented electric set."

I would add to that that Dylan was in the middle of a songwriting dry spell when this festival occurred. His last album of original material had been released in 1990, "Under the Red Sky." He released acoustic folk albums made up entirely of cover songs in 1992 and 1993. He would eventually come roaring back with a strong album of original material in 1997. But for this festival, nearly all the songs he played were classics that were at least a decade old. The only exception was "God Knows," from his 1990 album. He also said absolutely nothing between the songs.

This album is an hour and 21 minutes long.

01 talk (Bob Dylan)
02 Jokerman (Bob Dylan)
03 Just like a Woman (Bob Dylan)
04 All Along the Watchtower (Bob Dylan)
05 It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry (Bob Dylan)
06 Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right (Bob Dylan)
07 Masters of War (Bob Dylan)
08 It's All Over Now, Baby Blue (Bob Dylan)
09 God Knows (Bob Dylan)
10 I Shall Be Released (Bob Dylan)
11 Highway 61 Revisited (Bob Dylan)
12 Rainy Day Women No. 12 & 35 (Bob Dylan)
13 It Ain't Me, Babe (Bob Dylan)

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

The cover photo is from this exact concert.

Various Artists - An All-Star Tribute to Johnny Cash, Hammerstein Ballroom, New York City, 4-6-1999

I've previously posted "All-Star Tribute" concerts for Paul Simon and Brian Wilson. I discovered they were part of a short-lived annual tradition at the TNT TV network. There are only a couple more, so I plan on posting them too. Here's the next one, an "All-Star Tribute" to country legend Johnny Cash.

In 1999, Cash's health was in serious decline. He wouldn't die until 2003, at the age of 71. But by 1999, he rarely gave public performances. As he mentioned in his stage comments here, he hadn't performed on stage in the past year and a half. After this, he would only make about half a dozen additional musical performances, none of them full concerts. So although he did sing at the very end of this concert, maybe with his health in mind he only sang two songs.

The rest of the concert featured an impressive roster of musical stars singing songs made famous by Cash. It should be noted that the biggest stars, Bruce Springsteen, Bob Dylan, and U2, weren't actually there but videotaped musical performances that were played at the concert. 

Unfortunately, one person who couldn't sing at this concert was Cash's famous musical daughter Rosanne Cash. This concert happened to take place during a three-year time period in which Rosanne was unable to sing due to a polyp on her vocal chords. She did, however, give a brief speech.

Most of the concert was emceed by actor Jon Voight. However, some of the other banter was by singer-songwriter Larry Gatlin, actor Kevin Bacon, and actor Tim Robbins. There were some additional parts that I cut out. These were narrated video tributes to different stages of Cash's life. I cut those out because they were mainly meant to be seen, not heard.

Like the other "All-Star Tributes" in this series, this concert remains officially unreleased. I found the video of it on YouTube, then converted that to audio. The sound quality is excellent throughout.

This album is an hour and a half long.

01 Jackson - Orange Blossom Special (Sheryl Crow & Willie Nelson)
02 talk (Jon Voight)
03 I Guess Things Happen That Way (Chris Isaak)
04 Get Rhythm Intro (Chris Isaak)
05 Get Rhythm (Chris Isaak)
06 talk (Jon Voight & John Carter Cash)
07 talk (Willie Nelson)
08 I Still Miss Someone (Willie Nelson)
09 talk (Jon Voight)
10 talk (June Carter Cash)
11 Ring of Fire (June Carter Cash)
12 talk (Jon Voight)
13 Train of Love (Bob Dylan)
14 talk (Jon Voight)
15 The Man in Black (Mavericks)
16 talk (Jon Voight)
17 The Ballad of Ira Hayes (Kris Kristofferson)
18 talk (Kris Kristofferson)
19 Sunday Morning Coming Down (Trisha Yearwood with Kris Kristofferson)
20 talk (Larry Gatlin)
21 Ghost Riders in the Sky (Brooks & Dunn)
22 talk (Jon Voight)
23 Tennessee Flat Top Box (Lyle Lovett)
24 talk (Lyle Lovett)
25 talk (Bruce Springsteen)
26 Give My Love to Rose (Bruce Springsteen)
27 talk (Jon Voight)
28 Flesh and Blood (Emmylou Harris, Sheryl Crow & Mary Chapin Carpenter)
29 talk (Kevin Bacon)
30 Delia's Gone (Wyclef Jean)
31 talk (Jon Voight)
32 talk (Dave Matthews)
33 Long Black Veil (Dave Matthews & Emmylou Harris)
34 talk (Jon Voight)
35 talk (Rosanne Cash)
36 talk (Marty Stuart)
37 Belshazzar (Marty Stuart with the Fairfield Four)
38 talk (Jon Voight & Bono)
39 Don't Take Your Guns to Town (U2)
40 talk (Jon Voight)
41 talk (Tim Robbins)
42 Folsom Prison Blues (Johnny Cash)
43 talk (Johnny Cash)
44 I Walk the Line (Johnny Cash with June Carter Cash)

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https://bestfile.io/en/FO4eXOKBVGBjELk/file

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The cover shows John Mellencamp with Johnny Cash at this exact concert. Curiously, Mellencamp didn't appear in any of the songs. Perhaps he had a song or two that got cut out of the TV broadcast, or perhaps he had a non-performing role, I don't know. But I thought it was a good photo to show how Cash was honored.