Various Artists - Peace Sunday, Rose Bowl, Pasadena, CA, 6-6-1982, Part 5: Linda Ronstadt & Nicolette Larson, Bette Midler, Jackson Browne, Gary U.S. Bonds, and Tom Petty

Here's the fifth out of five albums that make up the "Peace Sunday" concert in 1982.

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.

This big concert ended with a bunch of star performers. Linda Ronstadt dominated the first half of this part of the concert. During her set, she let her friend Nicolette Larson sing one song, while Larson and Rosemary Butler sang back-up on another song. Then Bette Midler just sang one song, acappella style, and also made a lot of funny comments.

Jackson Browne dominated the second half of this part of the concert. After performing three songs, he had Gary U.S. Bonds sing one song, "This Little Girl," which was a hit in 1981. Then Browne and Bonds sang a song together, "The Pretender." The song was written by Browne and released by him in 1975. But Bonds did a version on his 1981 album. After that, Tom Petty showed up to sing two songs, with Browne backing him up. Curiously, he sang two cover versions instead of any of his own songs. Perhaps that was because he was backed by Browne's band instead of the Heartbreakers, like he was used to.

At the very end, all the stars from earlier in the concert came back to sing two songs. First, Graham Nash led the others on his song "Teach Your Children." Then everyone sang "Give Peace a Chance," originally by John Lennon. But this version skipped the verses (with very hard to remember lyrics) and just repeated the chorus over and over again. 

Two songs, "Blue Bayou" and "I Only Want to Be with You," have "[Edit]" in their titles. As I mentioned in my Part 1 write-up, I did a lot of editing on all the songs. But those two needed even more work on top of that. For instance, with "Blue Bayou" the first verse had the sound of some person near the taper talking through it. But luckily the verse was repeated later, so I patched in sections of that to get rid of that person's voice. 

This album is an hour and eight 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.  

61 Blue Bayou [Edit] (Linda Ronstadt)
62 talk (Linda Ronstadt)
63 The Shoop Shoop Song [It's in His Kiss] (Linda Ronstadt with Rosemary Butler & Nicolette Larson)
64 talk (Linda Ronstadt & Nicolette Larson)
65 I Only Want to Be with You [Edit] (Nicolette Larson with Linda Ronstadt)
66 Get Closer (Linda Ronstadt)
67 talk (Linda Ronstadt)
68 Back in the U.S.A. (Linda Ronstadt)
69 talk (Bette Midler)
70 You Must Ask the Heart (Bette Midler)
71 talk (Bette Midler)
72 talk (Jackson Browne)
73 Crow on the Cradle (Jackson Browne)
74 talk (Jackson Browne)
75 Running on Empty (Jackson Browne)
76 Doctor My Eyes (Jackson Browne)
77 talk (Gary U.S. Bonds & Jackson Browne)
78 This Little Girl (Gary U.S. Bonds with Jackson Browne)
79 The Pretender (Gary U.S. Bonds & Jackson Browne)
80 talk (Jackson Browne)
81 Well... Alright (Tom Petty with Jackson Browne)
82 Not Fade Away (Tom Petty with Jackson Browne)
83 talk (Everyone)
84 Teach Your Children (Graham Nash & Everyone)
85 Give Peace a Chance (Everyone)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/tBipmuXn

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/g4QkgU1zmITJigf/file

I got really lucky when it comes to this concert. I only found a handful of photos from the whole thing, but that was just enough to find good ones for four out of the five parts. This one shows Tom Petty (in front) and Jackson Browne during this part of the concert. 

All Our Colors Benefit, Shoreline Amphitheatre, Mountain View, CA, 10-10-1992 - Part 5: Jackson Browne

Here's the fifth album from the "All Our Colors" benefit concert in 1992. For an overview of the concert as a whole, check out my write-up for Part 1. This is a set by Jackson Browne.

In late 1993, a year after this concert, Browne would release the album "I'm Alive." But he already performed a three songs from it at this concert: "I'm Alive," "All Good Things," and "Miles Away." Many of the other songs played were from his 1980s albums.

This set includes a nice guest appearance by Bonnie Raitt on two songs, with her singing and playing slide guitar. Browne and Raitt were friends and usually played together when they were nearby. Raitt was scheduled to headline the similar themed benefit concert in the same venue one day later, so it made sense she was there watching this concert too. 

This album is an hour and three minutes long. 

01 talk (Jackson Browne)
02 Before the Deluge (Jackson Browne with David Lindley)
03 talk (Jackson Browne)
04 I'm Alive (Jackson Browne)
05 talk (Jackson Browne)
06 Miles Away (Jackson Browne)
07 talk (Jackson Browne)
08 Soldier of Plenty (Jackson Browne)
09 In the Shape of a Heart (Jackson Browne)
10 talk (Jackson Browne)
11 World in Motion (Jackson Browne with Bonnie Raitt)
12 talk (Jackson Browne with Bonnie Raitt)
13 Here Come Those Tears Again (Jackson Browne with Bonnie Raitt)
14 talk (Jackson Browne)
15 All Good Things (Jackson Browne)
16 talk (Jackson Browne)
17 Lawless Avenues (Jackson Browne)
18 talk (Jackson Browne)
19 The Pretender (Jackson Browne)
20 talk (Jackson Browne)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/55ERHawF

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/zyYdIN2dwvMuAK9/file

The cover photo is from this exact concert. 

Various Artists - MusiCares Tribute to James Taylor, Los Angeles Convention Center, Los Angeles, CA, 2-6-2006

Here's another MusiCares tribute concert. I only have a couple more of these after this one, and I want to post them in the next days. This one honors James Taylor.

This concert followed the usual format for these kinds of things: a bonus of famous musical acts sang covers of his songs, then he accepted an award and gave a speech, and finally he played a couple of his songs. If you look at the song lists, a lot of big names showed up to perform his songs, including Bruce Springsteen. 

Another big name also played one of his songs at the concert: Paul Simon sung "Sweet Baby James." But unfortunately, this is sourced from a DVD, but that song wasn't included, and I couldn't find any version of it anywhere. If anyone has it, please let me know so I can add it in.

I know Simon played that song in this concert, because it's mentioned in this article, which is a good summary of the concert in general:

MusiCares Honors Singer James Taylor - CBS News 

Also, while trying to find a good photo for the cover art, I went through a stash of hundreds of photos from the concert, and noticed that other big names like Neil Young and Brian Wilson attended. But I doubt they performed, or they probably would have been mentioned in that news article I just linked to. 

As mentioned above, this is sourced from an official DVD, so the sound quality is excellent. No version is any audio format has been released. As I sometimes do, I converted the video to audio, then broke it into mp3s.

This album is an hour and 18 minutes long. 

01 talk (Bill Clinton)
02 talk (emcee)
03 talk (Dixie Chicks)
04 Shower the People (Dixie Chicks)
05 talk (emcee)
06 talk (Bonnie Raitt)
07 Rainy Day Man (Bonnie Raitt)
08 talk (emcee)
09 talk (India.Arie)
10 Secret o' Life (India.Arie)
11 talk (emcee)
12 talk (Jackson Browne, David Crosby & Sheryl Crow)
13 Mexico (Jackson Browne, David Crosby & Sheryl Crow)
14 talk (emcee)
15 talk (Sting)
16 You Can Close Your Eyes (Sting)
17 talk (Dr. John & Taj Mahal)
18 Everybody Has the Blues (Dr. John & Taj Mahal)
19 talk (Alison Krauss & Jerry Douglas)
20 Carolina in My Mind (Alison Krauss & Jerry Douglas)
21 talk (emcee)
22 talk (Keith Urban)
23 Country Road (Keith Urban)
24 talk (emcee)
25 talk (Bruce Springsteen)
26 Millworker (Bruce Springsteen)
27 talk (Carole King)
28 You've Got a Friend (Carole King with James Taylor)
29 talk (Neil Portnow)
30 talk (James Taylor)
31 Shed a Little Light (James Taylor)
32 talk (James Taylor)
33 How Sweet It Is [To Be Loved by You] (James Taylor)
34 Fire and Rain (James Taylor)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/T6dgDM1s

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/5ezYaz8DOi7Zc9L/file

The cover photo is from this exact concert. It shows Taylor receiving the award from Neil Portnow, the head of MusiCares at the time. 

Various Artists - 25th Anniversary Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Concert, Madison Square Garden, New York City, 10-29-2009

Here's a really great concert filled with lots of big stars performing classic songs. It was a two-day concert in New York City, celebrating the 25th anniversary of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. I'm posting both days of the concert, and this is the first one. I highly recommend this.

This two-day long concert had an unusual and interesting format: eight major artists were chosen: Crosby, Stills and Nash, Paul Simon (with and without Art Garfunkel), Stevie Wonder, and Bruce Springsteen for the first day, and Aretha Franklin, Jeff Beck, Metallica, and U2 for the second day. Each of those major stars were hosts for one fourth of the days they were on. Then they invited other stars to join them, to play a song or two. For instance, the first major artist, Crosby, Stills and Nash, had Bonnie Raitt, Jackson Browne, and James Taylor as their guests. The result was that, between the major stars and their guests, most of the major areas of rock and roll going back to the 1950s were represented. 

There were some key gaps though. For instance, although Mick Jagger was a guest on the second day to represent the Rolling Stones, there really wasn't any special representation of the Beatles, the most important musical act of all. (Although there were occasional covers of Beatles songs, at least.) Bob Dylan was also very missed. But then again, you can only do so much in two concerts containing about four hours each. 

I spent a long time putting this together. It was quite tricky. I was able to find all the songs from this, the first night, but only two and a half hours from the second night, even though that one probably lasted about four hours as well. The main source I used was an officially released DVD. But the longest version of that was only about three hours for both concerts combined. Plus, many of those were bonus tracks, which meant they were out of order and often had the starts and ends cut off.

Luckily for me, Wikipedia came through for me particularly well, with a list of all the songs performed in the correct order, including lots of details. You can see that, and more info about the concert, here:

25th Anniversary Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Concerts - Wikipedia 

From that, I was able to figure out the songs I was missing, and try to find them. It turns out four hours of highlights were shown on HBO the year the concert happened. That was longer than the DVD, so I found some extra songs there. Then I found an audience bootleg of the entire first day. That's why I was able to include all the songs. However, the sound quality of the songs from the audience bootleg was significantly poorer than the songs from the DVD and the HBO broadcast. But, luckily, I was able to clean things up quite a lot, by putting a lot of effort into audio editing. I ran all the audience boot sourced songs through two processes that I use in cases like this. For one thing, I used the MVSEP audio editing program to raise the volume of the lead vocals in contrast to the instruments. (That is such a common problem for concert bootlegs.) Then I also used MVSEP to wipe out the crowd noise during the songs, while keeping the cheers at the beginnings and ends of songs. In my opinion, that made the quality gap between the different sources a lot smaller, though still noticeable. ("Marrakesh Express" is an example of one of the audience boot sourced songs, and the songs just before and after it are not, if you want to make a comparison.)

However, I still had a lot of work to do. Another problem with the audience boot-sourced song is that the cheering at the ends of songs sounded quite different, with the sound of clapping of individual people near the taper more prominent. I mostly fixed this by copying and pasting cheering from the ends of DVD-sourced songs, and slathering it over the cheering of the audience boot-sourced songs. I also had a lot of transition issues. It was rare to have two songs in a row from the same source. I generally fixed that by patching in more generic cheering. Yet another problem was the banter between songs. The ones from the audience boot-sourced songs sounded really weak. So I did extra editing to pull the actual talking out from the background noise. 

I could go on and on. There were lots of little tweaks. But I'm hoping that the end result is this will sound like one coherent concert from one source, more or less, and you won't notice the "making of the sausage" with all the editing to get it to sound that way. It would be really great if this whole thing gets officially released one day, in top quality. But I'm not holding my breath waiting for that.

One thing that makes this concert special is all the collaborations. There are too many to count. Lots and lots of big names performing songs together, and usually the only time they ever did that for the songs. There were some interesting cover versions as well, as an attempt to have some inclusion of famous musician who died or otherwise didn't attend. Stevie Wonder singing the Michael Jackson song "The Way You Make Me Feel" and Paul Simon with Crosby and Nash singing "Here Comes the Sun" are just two examples of that.

This should particularly delight Bruce Springsteen fans. He dominated this first night, which his section of the concert lasting an hour and a half, easily the longest. And he assisted Jerry Lee Lewis on the first song of the night as well. (Plus, he showed up on the second night as well, as we shall see later.)

This album is four hours and eight minutes long.

01 talk (Tom Hanks)
02 talk (Jerry Lee Lewis)
03 Whole Lotta Shakin' Going On (Jerry Lee Lewis with Bruce Springsteen)
04 Woodstock (Crosby, Stills & Nash)
05 Marrakesh Express (Crosby, Stills & Nash)
06 talk (Graham Nash)
07 Almost Cut My Hair (Crosby, Stills & Nash)
08 talk (David Crosby)
09 talk (Bonnie Raitt)
10 Love Has No Pride (Bonnie Raitt & Crosby, Stills & Nash)
11 Midnight Rider (Bonnie Raitt & Crosby, Stills & Nash)
12 talk (Graham Nash)
13 talk (Jackson Browne)
14 The Pretender (Jackson Browne & Crosby, Stills & Nash)
15 talk (James Taylor)
16 Mexico (James Taylor & Crosby, Stills & Nash)
17 Love the One You're With (James Taylor & Crosby, Stills & Nash)
18 Rock and Roll Woman (Crosby, Stills & Nash)
19 talk (Graham Nash)
20 Teach Your Children (Crosby, Stills & Nash & Bonnie Raitt, Jackson Browne & James Taylor)
21 Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes (Paul Simon)
22 Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard (Paul Simon)
23 You Can Call Me Al (Paul Simon)
24 talk (Paul Simon)
25 Here Comes the Sun (Paul Simon with Crosby & Nash)
26 talk (Paul Simon)
27 The Wanderer (Dion & Paul Simon)
28 Late in the Evening (Paul Simon)
29 talk (Paul Simon)
30 Two People in the World (Little Anthony & the Imperials)
31 The Sound of Silence (Simon & Garfunkel)
32 Mrs. Robinson - Not Fade Away (Simon & Garfunkel)
33 The Boxer (Simon & Garfunkel)
34 Bridge Over Troubled Water (Simon & Garfunkel)
35 Cecilia (Simon & Garfunkel)
36 Blowin' in the Wind (Stevie Wonder)
37 talk (Stevie Wonder)
38 Uptight [Everything's Alright] (Stevie Wonder)
39 I Was Made to Love Her (Stevie Wonder)
40 For Once in My Life (Stevie Wonder)
41 Signed, Sealed, Delivered, I'm Yours (Stevie Wonder)
42 Boogie On Reggae Woman (Stevie Wonder)
43 talk (Stevie Wonder)
44 The Tracks of My Tears (Smokey Robinson & Stevie Wonder)
45 talk (Stevie Wonder)
46 Mercy Mercy Me [The Ecology] (Stevie Wonder & John Legend)
47 The Way You Make Me Feel (Stevie Wonder with John Legend)
48 talk (Stevie Wonder)
49 The Thrill Is Gone (B.B. King & Stevie Wonder)
50 Living for the City (Stevie Wonder)
51 Higher Ground - Roxanne - Higher Ground (Sting & Stevie Wonder)
52 Superstition (Stevie Wonder & Jeff Beck)
53 10th Avenue Freeze-Out (Bruce Springsteen)
54 talk (Bruce Springsteen)
55 Hold On, I'm Comin' (Bruce Springsteen & Sam Moore)
56 Soul Man (Bruce Springsteen & Sam Moore)
57 talk (Bruce Springsteen)
58 The Ghost of Tom Joad (Bruce Springsteen & Tom Morello)
59 Fortunate Son (John Fogerty & Bruce Springsteen)
60 Proud Mary (John Fogerty & Bruce Springsteen)
61 talk (Bruce Springsteen)
62 Oh, Pretty Woman (John Fogerty & Bruce Springsteen)
63 Jungleland (Bruce Springsteen)
64 talk (Bruce Springsteen)
65 A Fine, Fine Boy (Darlene Love & Bruce Springsteen)
66 Do Run Run Run (Darlene Love & Bruce Springsteen)
67 talk (Bruce Springsteen)
68 London Calling (Bruce Springsteen & Tom Morello)
69 Badlands (Bruce Springsteen & Tom Morello)
70 talk (Bruce Springsteen)
71 You May Be Right (Billy Joel & Bruce Springsteen)
72 talk (Bruce Springsteen)
73 Only the Good Die Young (Billy Joel & Bruce Springsteen)
74 New York State of Mind (Billy Joel & Bruce Springsteen)
75 Born to Run (Billy Joel & Bruce Springsteen)
76 [Your Love Keeps Lifting Me] Higher and Higher (Everybody)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/QU2h1WV1

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/7oTCzzonspG0GVX/file

The cover photo is from this exact concert. From left to right: John Fogerty, Darlene Love, Bruce Springsteen, and Sam Moore.

Jackson Browne - WLIR Ultrasonic Concert Series, Ultrasonic Recording Studios, Hempstead, NY, 10-9-1973

Here's Jackson Browne performing for the "Ultrasonic" radio concert series. This from 1973, which is quite early in his long music career.

This concert took place in October 1973, which was the same month as the release of his second album, "For Everyman." So naturally it mostly consists of songs from his first two albums. But it also consists of a song from his next album, "Walking Slow" from "Late for the Sky," plus a cover of the Chuck Berry classic "Sweet Little Sixteen." He performed this with his band, including David Lindley on guitar. He switched between playing guitar and piano.

The music here is unreleased. The sound quality is excellent. I did do some cleaning up, especially boosting the lead vocals on most of the songs, relative to the instruments. And I got rid of some hiss during the talking tracks.

This album is an hour and 19 minutes long.

01 talk (Jackson Browne)
02 Take It Easy (Jackson Browne)
03 talk (Jackson Browne)
04 Don't Lead Me On (Jackson Browne)
05 talk (Jackson Browne)
06 For Everyman (Jackson Browne)
07 talk (Jackson Browne)
08 Song for Adam (Jackson Browne)
09 talk (Jackson Browne)
10 Ready or Not (Jackson Browne)
11 talk (Jackson Browne)
12 Jamaica Say You Will (Jackson Browne)
13 talk (Jackson Browne)
14 Rock Me on the Water (Jackson Browne)
15 Doctor My Eyes (Jackson Browne)
16 These Days (Jackson Browne)
17 talk (Jackson Browne)
18 Redneck Friend (Jackson Browne)
19 Sweet Little Sixteen (Jackson Browne)
20 talk (Jackson Browne)
21 Looking into You (Jackson Browne)
22 talk (Jackson Browne)
23 Walking Slow [Instrumental] (Jackson Browne)
24 talk (Jackson Browne)
25 Under the Falling Sky (Jackson Browne)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/gbyEH1QD

alternate: 

https://bestfile.io/en/K6TVvQMUmV5k608/file

The cover photo is from an appearance on ABC TV in March 1974. 

Various Artists- MusiCares Tribute to Neil Young, Los Angeles Convention Center, Los Angeles, CA, 1-29-2010

So far, I've posted three MusiCares tribute concerts. I recently got a request to post this one honoring Neil Young sooner rather than later, so here it is. I still have five more to post after this, so look for those eventually as well.

Tons of talented stars showed up to sing their favorite Neil Young songs. There's a lot of great music here. Unfortunately, there's also some that's missing. This comes from a DVD of the event. Generally speaking, only a small crowd of the rich and famous attend these MusiCares concerts, so bootlegs of them are very rare. We know from media accounts that three songs were performed that weren't included on the DVD. Those are:

"Long May You Run" by Stephen Stills & Sheryl Crow 
"Comes a Time" by Emmylou Harris, Patty Griffin & Lucinda Williams
"A Man Needs a Maid" by Red Hot Chili Peppers

If anyone has any of those so I can add them, please let me know. I found a video of the Red Hot Chili Peppers song recorded on a cell phone and posted on YouTube, but the sound quality is terrible. I'm guessing a lot of the banter between songs was cut out as well. Actor Jack Black was the emcee, but he's not really heard at all in the recording.

Typically, the person honored in these tributes performs a couple of songs at the end of the concert. But while Neil Young was there, and gave a short speech, it seems he didn't perform any songs. 

Here's a good account of the concert by someone who attended:

https://tinnitist.com/2023/08/11/back-stories-neil-youngs-musicares-tribute-jan-29-2010/

And Rolling Stone Magazine published a bunch of photos from it, here:

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/musicares-person-of-the-year-tribute-to-neil-young-210831/red-hot-chili-peppers-2-19005/

This album is an hour and eight minutes long.

01 Down by the River (John Mellencamp & T-Bone Burnett)
02 Mr. Soul (Ozomatli)
03 Don't Let It Bring You Down (Jackson Browne)
04 Only Love Can Break Your Heart (Lady Antebellum)
05 Tell Me Why (Norah Jones)
06 Broken Arrow (Wilco)
07 Harvest Moon (Josh Groban)
08 Revolution Blues (Everest)
09 Cinnamon Girl (Dierks Bentley & Booker T. Jones)
10 Ohio (Ben Harper)
11 Rockin' in the Free World (Keith Urban, John Fogerty & Booker T. Jones)
12 The Losing End [When You're On] (Elvis Costello)
13 Lotta Love (Jason Mraz & Shawn Colvin)
14 The Needle and the Damage Done (Dave Matthews)
15 Heart of Gold (James Taylor)
16 Helpless (Elton John, Leon Russell, Neko Case & Sheryl Crow)
17 Human Highway (Crosby, Stills & Nash)
18 talk (Neil Young)
19 Rockin' in the Free World [Reprise] (Everyone)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/BNxSXgS9

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/UhnFSv0eArgOnvZ/file

The cover is from this exact concert. From left to right: Dave Matthews, Jason Mraz, Emmylou Harris, Elvis Costello, Shawn Colvin, and James Taylor.

Various Artists - Lowell George Tribute Concert, The Forum, Los Angeles, CA, 8-4-1979

Lowell George was the lead guitarist and a key songwriter for the band Little Feat throughout the 1970s. In 1979, the band split up due to creative differences, and George released a solo album. He announced plans to restart the band with a slightly different line-up. But on June 29, 1979, while on tour to support his solo album, he died of a heart attack related to an accidental heroin overdose. He was only 34 years old. Only a couple of months after his death, a tribute concert was held in Los Angeles to celebrate his life and his music. Here is what remains available from that concert.

I'm posting this album almost entirely due to the efforts of musical friend Lil Panda. A couple of days ago (as I write this in August 2025), he sent me this concert out of the blue. He'd found a video from the concert on YouTube. The sound quality was fundamentally good, but had issues. I asked him what he did to fix it, and this was his reply: "Phase correction, azimuth adjustment, de-clicking, music rebalance (different for almost every song... trial and error), the repair assistant (vocal work), and spectral repair." So, thanks to his work, this should sound much better than ever before.

Furthermore, I made some additional changes, since I'm more willing to make changes to bootlegs if I think it improves the overall recording. I noticed some minor drop-outs here and there, usually only a second or less of silence. I patched those up when I found them. That's why three of the songs have "[Edit]" in their titles. 

In addition, the video did something strange with the songs "Running on Empty" and "All That You Dream." If you watch the video, they're edited to seem complete, but in fact both of them were edited way down, to less than two minutes long each. By sheer luck, the only officially released performance from this concert is "All That You Dream," from the Little Feat album "Hoy Hoy," and it's the entire song. So I used that instead. For "Running on Empty," most of the song except for the first verse and some of the end was missing. I used a different live version of this song, from the 1979 No Nukes concerts that I've posted elsewhere on this blog, to fill in the missing part of the song. But there are some differences between the versions, so you might notice the edits. Still, I prefer that over having a weirdly short version. That's why that song has "[Edit]" in its title too.

In addition, I made another edit to all the songs. That's because the video usually cut the cheering at the ends of the songs short, to just a couple of seconds. It didn't sound right to me. So I did some copying and pasting of cheering from one song to another until all the songs had a decent amount of applause. 

I found a 1979 New York Times article about the concert, so I know a little bit about it. Here's the article link (though it may not work for you if you don't have a subscription):

https://www.nytimes.com/1979/08/06/archives/pop-coast-tribute-to-lowell-george.html 

According to the concert, the proceeds from the concert were given to George's family. The concert lasted almost three hours. In addition to the big names included in this album, some others also took part, like Michael McDonald of the Doobie Brothers, Eric Kaz, Craig Fuller, J. D. Souther, Ted Tempelman, and the Tower of Power. But the video here is less than an hour long, and a lot got cut out. Either their roles were cut entirely or they only had minor roles. For instance, Michael McDonald sang back up on one song here, and the Tower of Power horns played on a few of the songs. Generally speaking, Little Feat was the backing band. But I didn't include them in most of the song credits because that would have made the song names longer and I didn't know for sure who played on which song.

The article states that some big musical stars, like Bob Dylan and the Eagles, wanted to perform at the concert as well. However, the surviving Little Feat band members who organized the concert decided to keep it to just the other musicians who knew George well. There also was pressure to have more than one concert, since interest was extremely high, but they decided not to go that route either.

The concert was filmed and recorded with the idea of later releasing an album or film of it. But so far, only that one song mentioned above has been officially released, on a Little Feat album. I've read on social media that it is believed the rest of the film footage has been lost. So this is probably all we're ever going to get. I couldn't even find any information about what other songs were performed, though there must have been many since this is only about one-third of the entire concert.

Thanks again to Lil Panda for digging this up, improving it, and sending it to me. 

This album is 53 minutes long.

01 Tears, Tears and More Tears (Nicolette Larson)
02 Rhumba Girl (Nicolette Larson & Linda Ronstadt)
03 Oh Atlanta [Edit] (Little Feat with Bonnie Raitt, Linda Ronstadt & Nicolette Larson)
04 Runaway [Edit] (Bonnie Raitt with Michael McDonald)
05 Here, There and Everywhere (Emmylou Harris)
06 For a Dancer [Edit] (Jackson Browne)
07 Running on Empty [Edit] (Jackson Browne)
08 talk (Jackson Browne)
09 Your Bright Baby Blues (Jackson Browne)
10 Poor, Poor Pitiful Me (Linda Ronstadt with Nicolette Larson)
11 Blowin' Away (Linda Ronstadt & Bonnie Raitt)
12 All That You Dream (Linda Ronstadt with Nicolette Larson & Rosemary Butler)
13 Willin' (Linda Ronstadt with Emmylou Harris, Rosemary Butler & Nicolette Larson)
14 Dixie Chicken (Little Feat & Everyone)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/bLDhuADx

alternate: 

https://bestfile.io/dwuvGZGMKED7Jiy/file

I had difficulty finding any decent photographs from this concert. There's an entire video of it on YouTube, as mentioned above, but the image quality is very low-res. I eventually found one image I was okay with, which I used as the cover. From right to left, it shows Nicolette Larson, Jackson Browne, J.D. Souther, and Linda Ronstadt. Souther's prominent role is a bit ironic, since he doesn't feature in the actual music here, due to whatever songs he was in not making it to the video. It kind of looks like I edited the photo to squish everyone close together, but in fact that's how it was in the original.

The image was still in pretty poor shape, so I tried to use the Krea AI program to improve it. But I could only do so much, so it's still rough. I also couldn't change the lighting that turned most everything orange, though I tried to make it more colorful.

Jackson Browne - PBS Soundstage, WTTW Studios, Chicago, IL, 11-6-1976

Here's another episode of my newly favorite TV show, "PBS Soundstage." This one stars Jackson Browne in his 1970s prime.

In November 1976, Jackson Browne released the studio album "The Pretender." Frankly, as with many of these shows, I don't know if the date is the recording date or the broadcast date. But either way, this concert must have taken place before people in the audience were familiar with the album. It turned out to be a big hit, eventually selling over three million copies. It would be his second best selling album (behind "Running On Empty" released in late 1977). 

Maybe because "The Pretender" album was just coming out, he only played two songs from it, "The Fuse" and "The Pretender." "The Fuse" has "[Edit]" in the title because there was an emcee voiceover over the beginning. I got rid of that in the usual way for me, using the UVR5 audio editing program.

The last song, "Running on Empty," is not actually from the concert. But the bootleg I took this from had that at the end, and I enjoyed it, so I decided to keep it. It's one of my favorites from him. It was recorded in 1977 for the Saturday Night Live" TV show. That actually took place a few months prior to the release of the album it was on.

This album is an hour and two minutes long.

01 The Fuse [Edit] (Jackson Browne)
02 Rock Me on the Water (Jackson Browne)
03 Late for the Sky (Jackson Browne)
04 The Road and the Sky (Jackson Browne)
05 talk (Jackson Browne)
06 Farther On (Jackson Browne)
07 Fountain of Sorrow (Jackson Browne)
08 Before the Deluge (Jackson Browne)
09 Walking Slow (Jackson Browne)
10 I Thought I Was a Child (Jackson Browne)
11 The Pretender [Edit] (Jackson Browne)
12 Running on Empty (Jackson Browne)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/tBHFf3rS

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/90Z6wKKgWGIK74i/file

The cover image is a screenshot I took of a video of this exact concert. The image was very blurry and low-res, so I used the Krea AI program to sharpen it up.

Jackson Browne - BBC Sessions, Volume 5: In Concert, Glastonbury Festival, Worthy Farm, Pilton, Britain, 6-26-2010

Here is the fifth, and probably last, BBC album by Jackson Browne that I plan on posting. I say "probably" because I keep finding ones that I'd missed, and Browne has played so many thousands of concerts that he's the type where some things could get missed.

This concert is from the annual, massive Glastonbury Festival. The BBC broadcasts a great amount of material from Glastonbury most every year, but not everything. In this case, it's clear that this isn't the full show, but was edited down to an hour-long time slot. I found at least one other song on YouTube Browne did that wasn't included. (I didn't include it either, due to poor sound quality.) Normally, some missing songs isn't that big of a deal, but it's very likely that nearly all of the between-song banter was edited out too, and that's more of a bummer since that's a big part of his concerts.

But at least what we have here sounds great, despite being officially unreleased. I didn't have to make any audio edits. You can find the full video of this on YouTube (with the same edits).

At the time of the concert, Browne didn't really have a new studio album to support. His most recent one, "Time the Conqueror," came out in 2008. Only one song from that was included here, "Off to Wonderland." But probably more were played but got cut by the BBC.

By the way, Browne played the Glastonbury Festival once before, in 1982 (as he commented in the one bit of banter that didn't get edited out). But that was before Glastonbury sets started to get played often on the BBC, so I don't have a good recording of that. (From what I can figure out, that started in 1985, but was still intermittent until the 1990s.)

This album is an hour and three minutes long.

01 Off to Wonderland (Jackson Browne)
02 talk (Jackson Browne)
03 Barricades of Heaven (Jackson Browne)
04 Fountain of Sorrow (Jackson Browne)
05 Bright Baby Blues (Jackson Browne)
06 I'm Alive (Jackson Browne)
07 Before the Deluge (Jackson Browne)
08 Doctor My Eyes (Jackson Browne)
09 The Pretender (Jackson Browne)
10 Running on Empty (Jackson Browne)
11 I Am a Patriot (Jackson Browne)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/vVYknxwH

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/iTwTmRo0Ixvbjh2/file

The cover photo comes from this exact concert.

Jackson Browne - BBC Sessions, Volume 4: In Concert, Cambridge Theatre, London, Britain, 10-24-1993

Yesterday, I posted a poll asking about which big name artists I should target as part of my big BBC project. But before I get to those, I want to make a concerted effort to finish off the BBC albums of some other big name artists in the next little while. Here's an example. I recently found two more Jackson Browne BBC concerts, with this one and one that comes after.

At the time of this concert, Browne's 1993 album "I'm Alive" was coming out. In fact, it would be released just two days later. The album was well received critically, and Browne naturally played a bunch of songs from it here. (Though note that this concert was almost certainly edited down from a longer concert to fit in an hour-long time slot.)

Listening this, what struck me is how rocking it is, overall. It's pretty different from his typical folky 1970s mode, but I like it.

Everything here is officially unreleased.

This album is 59 minutes long.

01 Doctor My Eyes (Jackson Browne)
02 talk (Jackson Browne)
03 World in Motion (Jackson Browne)
04 talk (Jackson Browne)
05 My Problem Is You (Jackson Browne)
06 talk (Jackson Browne)
07 Two of Me, Two of You (Jackson Browne)
08 Miles Away (Jackson Browne)
09 Too Many Angels (Jackson Browne)
10 For Everyman (Jackson Browne)
11 Sky Blue and Black (Jackson Browne)
12 talk (Jackson Browne)
13 The Pretender (Jackson Browne)
14 talk (Jackson Browne)
15 Before the Deluge (Jackson Browne)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/yqB6JGKW

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/4qDmLkoab0BO8Sq/file

The cover photo comes from a concert at the Shoreline Amphitheatre, in Mountain View, California, on October 11, 1992.

US Festival '82, Glen Helen Regional Park, San Bernardino, CA, 9-5-1982 - Day 3, Part 4: Jackson Browne

The fourth act presented here from Day Three of the 1982 US Festival is a set by the Grateful Dead.

We're getting to the end of the festival. It seems Day Three was a relatively short one, with only five major acts (plus the mysteriously obscure "Tommy and Brian"). There's only one act after this one.

In 1982, Browne was still a big star, although he was declining some due to changing musical trends. At the time of this concert, his last studio album was "Hold Out," released in 1980. That had been a long time for the standards of that era. However, he was enjoying a current hit with the song "Somebody's Baby." It didn't appear on any of his albums, but came out on the "Fast Times at Ridgemont High" movie soundtrack instead. It reached Number Seven on the U.S. singles chart, the highest charting song of his career. Naturally, he performed that song, but he only played two songs from his "Hold Out" album.

The sound quality of this set had the same problem as the vast majority of the festival. Namely, the source is an audience bootleg. So the quality could be better, but it's pretty decent thanks to the excellent sound system used for the festival. I tried my best to improve the quality with the UVR5 and MVSEP editing programs, as I did with most albums from this festival.

This album is an hour and 27 minutes long.

058 Lost in the Shuffle (Jackson Browne)
059 talk (Jackson Browne)
060 That Girl Could Sing (Jackson Browne)
061 talk (Jackson Browne)
062 For Everyman (Jackson Browne)
063 Knock on Any Door (Jackson Browne)
064 talk (Jackson Browne)
065 Somebody's Baby (Jackson Browne)
066 talk (Jackson Browne)
067 Tender Is the Night (Jackson Browne)
068 Cocaine (Jackson Browne)
069 The Crow on the Cradle (Jackson Browne)
070 Before the Deluge (Jackson Browne)
071 Boulevard (Jackson Browne)
072 talk (Jackson Browne)
073 Doctor My Eyes (Jackson Browne)
074 Running on Empty (Jackson Browne)
075 Sleep's Dark and Silent Gate (Jackson Browne)
076 talk (Jackson Browne)
077 The Pretender (Jackson Browne)
078 talk (Jackson Browne)
079 Hold On Hold Out (Jackson Browne)
080 Late for the Sky (Jackson Browne)

https://www.upload.ee/files/17509639/VA-1982USFstvlDay0304JcksnBrwne_atse.zip.html

alternate:

https://pixeldrain.com/u/x4Ht93AG

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/dCZVE15QYl09DxJ/file

The cover photo is from this exact concert.

Jackson Browne - VH-1 Storytellers, The Hit Factory, New York City, 4-18-1996

Here's yet another episode of the "VH-1 Storytellers" show. This time, it's Jackson Browne.

A couple of months before this episode, Browne released the studio album "Looking East." No doubt the songs selected for the show were taken from a longer concert, since that was the usual procedure for the concert. Whoever picked them only chose one song from the new album, "Barricades of Heaven." Pretty much all the other songs were from the 1970s.

As usual, the episode had the annoying habit of starting in the middle of the first song. But in this case, I was able to find a very similar sounding version of the first song, "Running on Empty," from a different 1996 concert. I merged the two versions together. That's why that song has "[Edit]" in its title. But really, I could have put "[Edit]" in most of the titles, because I had to do a lot of editing to make this more listening. As I'm doing for most of these Storytellers, I often had to add bits of applause at the ends of songs because those frequently were suddenly cut short in order to go to a commercial break on the TV show.

I believe all the performances here are officially unreleased.

This album is 45 minutes long.

01 Running on Empty [Edit] (Jackson Browne)
02 talk (Jackson Browne)
03 Rock Me on the Water (Jackson Browne)
04 talk (Jackson Browne)
05 Doctor My Eyes (Jackson Browne)
06 talk (Jackson Browne)
07 Rosie (Jackson Browne)
08 talk (Jackson Browne)
09 Barricades of Heaven [Lost Verse] (Jackson Browne)
10 Barricades of Heaven (Jackson Browne)
11 talk (Jackson Browne)
12 Something Fine (Jackson Browne)
13 talk (Jackson Browne)
14 The Pretender (Jackson Browne)
15 talk (Jackson Browne)
16 For Everyman (Jackson Browne)
17 talk (Jackson Browne)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/e8rXhdq3

alternate: 

https://bestfile.io/en/m8kvHwN9bVGrfV2/file

I could have taken a screenshot from a video of this concert, but that would have looked low-res and blurry. Instead, I used a photo from a concert that took place at the Greek Theater in Los Angeles, California, on September 14, 1996. Even that one was a bit rough though, so I used the Krea AI program to upgrade it.

Various Artists - Children of the Americas Radiothon, United Nations Building, New York City, and Palace Theatre, Los Angeles, CA, 11-12-1988

Here's another big benefit concert with a bunch of different famous musical acts. But this one was unusual in a couple of ways. For one, it was held in two locations simultaneously and broadcast live over the radio. And for the other, it's quite an odd selection of acts. I like all of them, but it seems pretty random to me to have, say, Pat Benatar followed by Al Stewart, then followed by Midnight Oil, and so on, which is what happened here. But hey, it's all good music, with excellent sound quality.

This benefit concert certainly had a good cause, which was to fund non-profits helping poor children in Latin America. This was the second annual concert for this cause. I don't know anything about the first concert or subsequent ones. But we know about this one because it was broadcast live on the radio, and a bootleg recording of it survives.

I made many, many edits to make this listenable. The concert took the form of a radiothon, which is just like a telethon, except for the radio instead of TV. And if you're familiar with telethons at all, you know they're notorious for constantly asking for donations. That's what happened here. Between acts, and even during acts, there were emcees giving pleas to donate, with the donation phone number in particular repeated endlessly. Even the musical artists would sometimes mention the phone number between songs. I got rid of all that because it's all moot now, with the number obviously no longer working. I stripped this down to just the music and the banter relevant to the music.

I also did some edits to make this flow better. Oftentimes, as soon as a song wound end, the emcee's voice would come on with more pleas for donations. So I would patch in some more applause to give the songs a decent sounding ending. I didn't bother marking those edits with "[Edit]" in the song titles, 'cos I did it so much.

Some of the acts performed at the Palace Theatre in Los Angeles. Those were Jackson Browne, Midnight Oil, and Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young (CSNY), plus earlier appearances by Graham Nash and David Crosby. All the other acts performed at the United Nations Building in New York City. Note that the crowd in Los Angeles sounds much larger than the one in New York City. I'm guessing only a few dozen were allowed into the United Nations Building for this, based on the clapping one can hear.  

The star attraction here was CSNY. They put out a new album in 1988, "American Dream," but Neil Young decided not to take part in a tour to support it. However, he did take part in a very limited number of concerts with CSN around this time. There was the Bridge Benefit in 1988 (which I have also posted here), the Bridge Benefit in 1989, and this. (There also were a couple more in 1987 and 1990 and 1991, if you want to go that far.)

It's quite possible that there was more to these two concerts that what was heard here. For instance, there was no introduction to the CSNY set, and I doubt they started with the new song "This Old House." It also seems odd that Midnight Oil would have been recruited but only played less than ten minutes of music. I'm guessing this is just the stuff that made it to the radio broadcast, and while music was broadcast from one location, we were probably missing the music taking place at the other location. If anyone has any more of it, please let me know.  

This album is two hours and 25 minutes long.

01 Teach Your Children (Graham Nash)
02 talk (Emcee)
03 I Love L.A. (Randy Newman)
04 Dixie Flyer (Randy Newman)
05 Sail Away (Randy Newman)
06 talk (Randy Newman)
07 Political Science (Randy Newman)
08 Short People (Randy Newman)
09 talk (Randy Newman)
10 I Want You to Hurt like I Do (Randy Newman)
11 talk (David Crosby)
12 Crow on the Cradle (Jackson Browne & Graham Nash)
13 talk (David Crosby)
14 talk (Jackson Browne)
15 Lives in the Balance (Jackson Browne with David Crosby & Graham Nash)
16 talk (Jackson Browne)
17 My Personal Revenge (Jackson Browne with Sangre Machuwa)
18 talk (Jackson Browne)
19 Fruita Almarga [Bitter Fruit] (Jackson Browne)
20 talk (Jackson Browne)
21 Lene Verde [Instrumental] (Jackson Browne with Sangre Machuwa)
22 talk (Graham Nash)
23 Rock Me on the Water (Jackson Browne with David Crosby & Graham Nash)
24 Powerful Stuff (Fabulous Thunderbirds)
25 talk (Fabulous Thunderbirds)
26 Look at That, Look at That (Fabulous Thunderbirds)
27 talk (Fabulous Thunderbirds)
28 She's Tough (Fabulous Thunderbirds)
29 talk (Fabulous Thunderbirds)
30 Wrap It Up (Fabulous Thunderbirds)
31 talk (Pat Benatar)
32 All Fired Up (Pat Benatar)
33 Run Between the Raindrops (Pat Benatar)
34 talk (Pat Benatar)
35 Let's Stay Together (Pat Benatar)
36 talk (Emcee)
37 Antarctica (Al Stewart)
38 talk (Al Stewart)
39 Princess Olivia (Al Stewart)
40 The Year of the Cat (Al Stewart)
41 talk (Graham Nash)
42 Wealth Is Virtue (Midnight Oil)
43 The Dead Heart (Midnight Oil)
44 This Old House (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
45 Love the One You're With (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
46 talk (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
47 Name of Love (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
48 talk (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
49 Tracks in the Dust (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
50 talk (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
51 Don't Say Goodbye (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
52 talk (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
53 Southern Cross (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
54 talk (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
55 Long Time Gone (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
56 talk (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
57 My Country 'Tis of Thee (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young with J. D. Souther)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/DQZ2b6A2

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/z8t3Ajl7bhZ3NZF/file

I found the cover image from some promotional art related to this concert. It's a drawing of all the major stars that took part. In the top row, from left to right: Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young. In the bottom row, from left to right: Jackson Browne, Pat Benatar, Peter Garrett of Midnight Oil, and Randy Newman. The banner at the top was in the original, but I changed the text there, and added more text at the bottom. 

I couldn't find any actual photos from this concert, so I'm lucky to have found this.

Jackson Browne with David Lindley - The Main Point, Bryn Mawr, PA, 9-7-1975

Here's a really epic Jackson Browne concert. It was nearly three hours long! The sound quality is great, and the performance is too. So if you're a fan of his music, you should get this.

Furthermore, this concert has been a popular bootleg for many years, but it now sounds much better than ever before. It was broadcast live on a local radio station as it happened. But even though it took place in a small club, there was a lot of crowd noise through the songs.

Last week (I'm writing this in February 2024), I noticed that my sometimes musical associate Lil Panda recently posted this concert at a bootleg sharing website. I recently showed him the technique of reducing the crowd noise through new AI technologies. (He uses the program X-Minus.) You may recall I used this technique to improve an Elliott Smith concert boot a few weeks ago. Not only did he use this to improve this concert, but he's been using it to improve a bunch of other recordings. So I hope we'll see more good work from him, and that others will start using it more as well.

Anyway, that helped a lot, but I noticed there still was a low buzzing sound through nearly the entire concert. Since this was an acoustic concert with no bass player, I was able to use another technique: I broke the songs into four tracks (vocals, drums, bass, and other) and then simply eliminated the bass track. This got rid of most of the buzz, though not all of it. 

And while I was at it, I noticed occasional sharp spikes in the drum track during songs, which didn't make sense since there was no drumming either. I checked each one, and found they were usually due to plosives in the singing. That means the loud popping of P sounds. Singers try hard to avoid this, but Browne was popping his P's all over this concert, for some reason. But I just eliminated those spikes and got rid of most of those.

This concert sounded very good already, since it was professionally recorded to start with, but after what Lil Panda and I did to it, it sounds even better, in my opinion. Even if you have this already, you should get this new version.

Now, let me discuss this musical content. In 1975, Browne had released three excellent studio albums, but he still wasn't a big star. Notice he was still playing a small club. (His popularity would surge with his 1976 and 1978 albums.) Starting in 1972, he began musically collaborated with David Lindley, and Lindley would tour with Browne nearly all the time until around 1980, when he started his own solo career. The only two people on stage at this concert were Browne and Lindley. Lindley really added a lot, because he had many talents, playing over 40 different instruments. He alternated between different instruments here, especially violin and lead guitar. 

Lindly also essentially did his own solo set in the middle of this concert. He took the spotlight for tracks 13 through 19, all instrumentals. I labeled all the songs the same in this concert for consistency's sake, but I was tempted to label those songs "David Lindley with Jackson Browne" instead of the other way around.

Another interesting aspect of this concert is that Browne sang three songs by Warren Zevon: "Mohammed's Radio," "Werewolves of London," and "Hasten Down the Wind." At the time, Zevon was essentially an unknown in the music world. He'd released one obscure solo album in 1970, but that was long forgotten by 1975. His solo career would essentially start in 1976 with the released of his album "Warren Zevon." Browne produced this album. I don't know the exact timing, but I'm guessing Browne knew these Zevon songs well enough to play them in concert because he was right in middle of producing that album.

What's interesting though is that one of those Zevon songs was "Werewolves of London." You can hear the crowd loved it. Yet it wasn't included on Zevon's 1976 album, for some reason. Instead, it was released on his next one, in 1978. It went on to be a big hit for him, and his signature song.

Browne has long been criticized for being too sober and serious, kind of the stereotype of the earnest, mellow, and politically correct singer-songwriter. Naturally, he played a lot of his serious original songs here. But he also showed a different side, mostly through a selection of playful and rocking cover songs, such as "Do You Wanna Dance," "Sweet Little Sixteen," "Run Boy Run," and "Runaway." He even played an obscure cover song, "You Asshole You," that made the audience laugh. Other covers included "Come All Ye Fair and Tender Ladies," "Your Sweet and Shiny Eyes," "Long Distance Love," and "Cocaine." (That last one would appear on his blockbuster 1978 album "Running on Empty.")

Due to its length, sound quality, performance, and song selection, this is probably the ultimate 1970s Browne concert recording.

This album is two hours and 47 minutes long.

01 Come All Ye Fair and Tender Ladies (Jackson Browne with David Lindley)
02 Take It Easy (Jackson Browne with David Lindley)
03 talk (Jackson Browne with David Lindley)
04 Your Sweet and Shiny Eyes (Jackson Browne with David Lindley)
05 talk (Jackson Browne with David Lindley)
06 Long Distance Love (Jackson Browne with David Lindley)
07 talk (Jackson Browne with David Lindley)
08 Fountain of Sorrow (Jackson Browne with David Lindley)
09 Jamaica Say You Will (Jackson Browne with David Lindley)
10 talk (Jackson Browne with David Lindley)
11 Mohammed's Radio (Jackson Browne with David Lindley)
12 talk (Jackson Browne with David Lindley)
13 Fiddlin' Around [Instrumental] (Jackson Browne with David Lindley)
14 talk (Jackson Browne with David Lindley)
15 True Arkansas Traveler [Instrumental] (Jackson Browne with David Lindley)
16 talk (Jackson Browne with David Lindley)
17 I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry [Instrumental] - Instrumental (Jackson Browne with David Lindley)
18 talk (Jackson Browne with David Lindley)
19 Reel of the Hanged Man [Instrumental] (Jackson Browne with David Lindley)
20 talk (Jackson Browne with David Lindley)
21 For Everyman (Jackson Browne with David Lindley)
22 The Times You've Come (Jackson Browne with David Lindley)
23 talk (Jackson Browne with David Lindley)
24 Song for Adam (Jackson Browne with David Lindley)
25 Cocaine (Jackson Browne with David Lindley)
26 talk (Jackson Browne with David Lindley)
27 You Asshole You [You Just Want Meat] (Jackson Browne with David Lindley)
28 Werewolves of London (Jackson Browne with David Lindley)
29 talk (Jackson Browne with David Lindley)
30 Late for the Sky (Jackson Browne with David Lindley)
31 talk (Jackson Browne with David Lindley)
32 For a Dancer (Jackson Browne with David Lindley)
33 talk (Jackson Browne with David Lindley)
34 Hasten Down the Wind (Jackson Browne with David Lindley)
35 Doctor My Eyes (Jackson Browne with David Lindley)
36 These Days (Jackson Browne with David Lindley)
37 talk (Jackson Browne with David Lindley)
38 Before the Deluge (Jackson Browne with David Lindley)
39 talk (Jackson Browne with David Lindley)
40 Do You Wanna Dance (Jackson Browne with David Lindley)
41 Run Boy Run (Jackson Browne with David Lindley)
42 Redneck Friend (Jackson Browne with David Lindley)
43 Sweet Little Sixteen (Jackson Browne with David Lindley)
44 Pipeline [Instrumental] - Runaway (Jackson Browne with David Lindley)
45 Your Bright Baby Blues (Jackson Browne with David Lindley)

https://www.imagenetz.de/joL5J

alternate:

https://pixeldrain.com/u/QPMCuAc4

second alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/dEM2NCE67VLKSrW/file

For the cover, I wanted a photo of Browne and Lindley together in the 1970s. But I found surprisingly few. This was really the only decent color one I came across. I don't know the details, but it looks to be from the 70s.

No Nukes Concerts, Madison Square Garden, New York City, 9-21-1979 to 9-23-1979: Jackson Browne

The seventh album I'm posting of the 1979 No Nukes concerts features Jackson Browne.

As I explained previously, some of these albums consist of more than one set put together so they'll hopefully sound like one set. This is another one of those. The first four tracks come from the September 21st concert at Madison Square Garden, and the rest come from the September 23rd concert, also at Madison Square Garden.

Generally speaking, just about everything in all these No Nukes albums come from soundboard bootlegs. But the first four songs here, the ones from September 21st, are an exception. They're from an audience bootleg. I found some bootlegs with other songs, including additional Jackson Browne songs, but they didn't sound good enough to my ears for inclusion. However, these tracks did. I suppose that's probably due to the fact that these are semi-acoustic in nature. The full band songs on the audience boot generally sounded like a mess. But note those first four tracks still do sound rougher than the rest.

Browne had two special guests. Graham Nash helped sing harmonies on "The Crow on the Cradle." That wasn't so unusual, as Nash has sung with Browne many times. But the other guest was definitely more unusual. Floyd Westerman was a Native American musician, activist, and actor. (He died in 2007 at the age of 71.) Browne basically gave Westerman center stage and had him sing the lead vocals on one original song.

In case you're curious, here's the Wikipedia page about Westerman:

Floyd Westerman - Wikipedia

Browne was at or near his peak of popularity in the late 1970s. His 1977 album "Running on Empty" sold seven million copies in the U.S. alone. But these concerts took place nearly two years since he'd released any new music. He already had his mind on his next album. The song "Hold Out" here is from the album he would release in mid-1980, "Hold Out." Additionally, two songs I didn't include due to sound quality issues ("Disco Apocalypse" and "Hold On Hold Out") would also appear on that album.

Two of Browne's songs appeared on the official "No Nukes" album: "The Crow on the Cradle" and "Before the Deluge." However, as is often the case with these albums, those songs were played multiple nights, so I don't know if these are the exact same versions. Everything else is unreleased.

This album is 42 minutes long.

01 talk (Jackson Browne)
02 The Pretender (Jackson Browne)
03 Hold Out (Jackson Browne)
04 talk (Jackson Browne)
05 The Crow on the Cradle (Jackson Browne with Graham Nash)
06 talk (Jackson Browne)
07 Running on Empty (Jackson Browne)
08 talk (Jackson Browne)
09 talk (Floyd Westerman)
10 How Long Have You Been Blind (Floyd Westerman with Jackson Browne)
11 Before the Deluge (Jackson Browne)
12 talk (Jackson Browne)
13 The Road and the Sky (Jackson Browne) 

https://www.upload.ee/files/17318139/VA-NONUKS1979MdisnSqurGrdnNwYrkC__9-21___9-23-1979_JcksnBrwneatse.zip.html

alternate:

https://pixeldrain.com/u/QRQtsaKj

The cover photo comes from one of the No Nukes concerts. However, as usual, I don't know which one exactly. I sharpened it some with the Krea AI program.

A Conspiracy of Hope, Giants Stadium, East Rutherford, NJ, 6-15-1986, Part 2 - Little Steven, Bob Geldof, Stanley Jordan, Joan Armatrading & Jackson Browne

This is Part 2 of the final show of the 1986 "A Conspiracy of Hope" tour. If you want more information on the concert in general, read the write-up for Part 1. Here are just some basic facts about the songs and artists in this part.

Little Steven (Steven van Zandt), was a guitarist in Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band from the early 1970s. However, he left that band to pursue a solo career in 1984, right before Springsteen became a superstar with his "Born in the U.S.A." album. He didn't have much commercial success as a solo artist, and later rejoined the E Street Band. But he did gain a lot of prominence in 1985 with his anti-Apartheid song "Sun City." I believe John Waite and Darlene Love joined him for his set here, but they only sang backing vocals.

Bob Geldof was the lead singer for the Irish band the Boomtown Rats. But he became more famous in the 1980s for his activism. He helped form the group Band Aid, and co-write their song "We Are the World." Then he organized the 1985 Live Aid concert. I believe he was backed up by Little Steven & the Disciples of Soul for his set here.

Stanley Jordan, a jazz guitarist, was an unusual addition to this concert. He released his debut album was released the year before this concert. It was a sensation, setting records on the jazz charts, due to his unique guitar playing style. He performed all the songs here alone on stage.

I've posted albums by Joan Armatrading and Jackson Browne at this blog before. They're famous enough that I hopefully don't need to describe them. Browne was arguably the most famous of the artists in this album, so it makes sense that his set was the longest of the four here, at 30 minutes. Note that the last song he performed, "I Am a Patriot," was actually written by Little Steven.

This album is an hour and 18 minutes long.

021 Los Desaparecidos (Little Steven & the Disciples of Soul)
022 Sanctuary (Little Steven & the Disciples of Soul)
023 Native American (Little Steven & the Disciples of Soul)
024 talk (Bob Geldof)
025 In the Pouring Rain (Bob Geldof)
026 talk (Bob Geldof)
027 Redemption Song (Bob Geldof)
028 talk (Stanley Jordan)
029 All the Children [Instrumental] (Stanley Jordan)
030 The Sound of Silence [Instrumental] (Stanley Jordan)
031 Eleanor Rigby [Instrumental] (Stanley Jordan)
032 Steppin' Out (Joan Armatrading)
033 Turn Out the Light (Joan Armatrading)
034 I Can't Lie to Myself (Joan Armatrading)
035 Love and Affection (Joan Armatrading)
036 For Everyman (Jackson Browne)
037 Soldiers of Plenty (Jackson Browne)
038 talk (Jackson Browne)
039 Lives in the Balance (Jackson Browne)
040 Till I Go Down (Jackson Browne)
041 For America (Jackson Browne)
042 talk (Jackson Browne)
043 I Am a Patriot (Jackson Browne)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/uJpsNCe2 

alternate: 

https://bestfile.io/en/NdmmuokuuDu0D0o/file

The cover photo of Jackson Browne comes from this exact concert.

California Jam, Ontario Motor Speedway, Ontario, CA, 4-6-1974, Part 3: The Eagles

The third act at the 1974 California Jam was the Eagles. (And yes, I know that, technically, their name is just "Eagles.")

Unfortunately, this is a short set, consisting of just five concise songs. I assumed there was a lot more that didn't get recorded, but I found a setlist that shows they only played one more song as an encore, "Tequila Sunrise." One has to keep in mind that although the Eagles would be massively popular later, they still weren't that big at the time of this concert. In fact, their first huge hit, "The Best of My Love," came out on album one month before this concert. But it wasn't released as a single until late 1974 and wouldn't become a Number One hit until 1975. This concert was key to exposing the band to a larger audience, especially through the TV broadcast.

One interesting thing about the Eagles set is that Jackson Browne performed as a de facto member of the band for the whole set. This is because band member Don Felder had to miss the concert due to the birth of a son around the same time. Browne was already a friend of the band, and co-wrote their hit song "Take It Easy." He alternated between keyboards and guitar, and sang backing vocals.

The sound quality of this set was the roughest of all the music I found from this festival. The bass and drums were way too loud. So I used the audio editing program UVR5 to lower the bass and drums way down in the mix. It sounds a lot better now. However, I think it's likely there was so banter between songs that got edited out of the version I found.

This album is only 18 minutes long, the shortest set by far from this festival. Note that the track numbering continues from the numbering of the previous set, in case you want to put all the tracks in one folder to be heard as one massive listen.

16 James Dean (Eagles)
17 Blackberry Blossom [Instrumental] (Eagles)
18 Midnight Flyer (Eagles)
19 Already Gone (Eagles)
20 Take It Easy (Eagles)

https://www.upload.ee/files/15571497/CalifrniaJmOntrioMtorSpeedwyOntarioCA__4-6-1974_03Egles.zip.html

The cover photo comes from this exact concert. I believe that's Jackson Browne in the blue shirt on the far right of the image.

Jackson Browne - Rockpalast, Grugahalle, Essen, Germany, 3-15-1986

I've posted three Jackson Browne BBC albums, all from the 1970s. As far as I know, he didn't perform for the BBC in the 1980s. But I have this concert done for the German TV show "Rockpalast" that nicely fills that gap. 

The 1980s weren't a great decade for Jackson Browne albums, especially compared to the 1970s. He fell victim to the same problem that hit many musical artists from his earlier era, namely, succumbing to the production trends of the time, such as over use of synthesizers and overly loud drumming. But it often happens that those choices were pushed by the producer and/or record company, so they didn't show up nearly as much in concert. That's the case here. Browne obviously was trying for a more lively, rocking sound, and one can definitely hear that. But there's a more organic sound that has weathered the test of time then some of his album versions.

The concert is unreleased, but the sound quality is excellent. And unlike his BBC performances I've posted, this is a full concert. His 1986 album "Lives in the Balance" had been released the month before, and he naturally played seven out of the eight songs from that. But he mixed in a good number of songs from the earlier parts of his career.

Normally, I have a particular fondness for songs done in an acoustic format. But with Browne, that gets to be a bit samey after a while. I think I actually prefer it when he rocks out like this. He's never released a normal live album (although he has released two live albums of acoustic versions). If he ever does release one, I think it would be hard to top this.

This album is an hour and 30 minutes long.

01 talk (Jackson Browne)
02 Boulevard (Jackson Browne)
03 Tender Is the Night (Jackson Browne)
04 In the Shape of a Heart (Jackson Browne)
05 Candy (Jackson Browne)
06 talk (Jackson Browne)
07 Downtown (Jackson Browne)
08 For Everyman (Jackson Browne)
09 talk (Jackson Browne)
10 Lawyers in Love (Jackson Browne)
11 talk (Jackson Browne)
12 Soldiers of Plenty (Jackson Browne)
13 talk (Jackson Browne)
14 Black and White (Jackson Browne)
15 Late for the Sky (Jackson Browne)
16 Lives in the Balance (Jackson Browne)
17 talk (Jackson Browne)
18 Lawless Avenues (Jackson Browne)
19 talk (Jackson Browne)
20 For America (Jackson Browne)
21 The Pretender (Jackson Browne)
22 talk (Jackson Browne)
23 Running on Empty (Jackson Browne)
24 Doctor My Eyes (Jackson Browne)
25 For a Rocker (Jackson Browne)

https://www.imagenetz.de/ic7o7

alternate:

https://pixeldrain.com/u/6qA9xErS

second alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/nrs9hHa7ofB8mMA/file 

The cover photo comes from this exact concert. For his name at the top, I used the lettering from his "Late for the Sky" album.

Jackson Browne - BBC Sessions, Volume 3: In Concert, Merriweather Post Pavilion, Columbia, MD, 8-20-1978

I discovered that Jackson Browne did a third concert for the BBC in 1978. But I researched it, and I couldn't pin down the exact date or location. A lot of copies of this bootleg claim it took place in Shepherd's Bush Empire in London. However, I dug deeper, and discovered that Browne never even was in Europe in 1978, and the set list is clearly from that year. So I dug deeper still, using an archives.org version of a defunct Jackson Browne fan site that had extensive and accurate set lists for every concert. I found out that this concert actually took place in Columbia, Maryland. 

My theory is that it was first broadcast on one or more radio stations in the US. Then it was broadcast by the BBC later, and that version got bootlegged. That led to the assumption that it took place in London, since the vast, vast majority of BBC concerts do. But every now and then, the BBC would rebroadcast concerts from elsewhere, perhaps in cases where an artist they wanted to feature wasn't available to tour in Britain. I've posted some albums like that, such as a BBC concert of a 1982 Marshall Crenshaw show that actually took place in New York and was first broadcast there. So I hope this post fixes the confusion and inaccuracy about this recording.

Anyway, as far as the music goes, it's an excellent sounding concert. In 1977, Browne released the album "Running on Empty." It was his most successful album of his career by far, selling seven millions copies in the US alone. So naturally this contains a lot of songs from that album, with some older favorites like "Doctor My Eyes" and "These Days" making up about the other half.

Unfortunately, the BBC version was edited down, probably to fit into an hour-long time slot. Very little banter survived the cuts, and the album is only 55 minutes long. On the plus side, I might have missed something, but as far as I can tell, this is the only soundboard or FM quality recording known from his 1977 and 1978 tours to support "Running on Empty."

01 The Fuse (Jackson Browne)
02 Here Comes Those Tears Again (Jackson Browne)
03 Rock Me on the Water (Jackson Browne)
04 talk (Jackson Browne)
05 Cocaine (Jackson Browne)
06 talk (Jackson Browne)
07 Rosie (Jackson Browne)
08 Doctor My Eyes (Jackson Browne)
09 These Days (Jackson Browne)
10 Running on Empty (Jackson Browne)
11 Love Needs a Heart (Jackson Browne)
12 Nothing but Time (Jackson Browne)
13 The Load Out (Jackson Browne)
14 Stay (Jackson Browne)

https://www.upload.ee/files/15179062/JacksonB_1978_BBSessionsVolme3InConcrtMerriweathrPostPavilion__8-20-1978.zip.html

I don't know any details of the cover photo, except that it's from a 1978 concert.

Jackson Browne - BBC Sessions, Volume 2: Old Grey Whistle Test, BBC Television Theatre, London, Britain, 12-7-1976

In the early and mid-1970s, Jackson Browne's popularity had been slowly but steadily growing. He wasn't well known in Europe though, since he'd never toured there. But in 1976, he did his first European tour, to promote his latest album, "The Pretender." This isn't from a BBC radio show, it's from the BBC TV show "The Old Grey Whistle Test," so that was a big promotional boost for him. This recording is rather short due to limits on TV time, but I presume he brought his A-game to make the best out of it.

One slightly odd aspect of this show is that singer-songwriter Warren Zevon was the supporting act for Browne's European tour, and he was generously given a spot in this show. He sang his song "Mohammed's Radio," with Browne helping on backing vocals.

This sound quality is the usual BBC high quality. But there was on problem. The last song, "The Pretender," faded out about three and a half minutes into it, and it's a seven-minute-long song. I assume that's because Browne had a certain allotted amount of TV time to perform and he went over it. So I found a different version of the song also with high quality, from 1976 (taken from a concert in Amsterdam), and I patched that in to finish the song off. That's why that song has "[Edit]" in its title.

This concert is 48 minutes long.

01 talk (Jackson Browne)
02 Something Fine (Jackson Browne)
03 talk (Jackson Browne)
04 For Everyman (Jackson Browne)
05 talk (Jackson Browne)
06 Fountain of Sorrow (Jackson Browne)
07 talk (Jackson Browne)
08 The Only Child (Jackson Browne)
09 talk (Jackson Browne)
10 For a Dancer (Jackson Browne)
11 talk (Jackson Browne)
12 Mohammed's Radio (Warren Zevon & Jackson Browne)
13 talk (Jackson Browne)
14 The Pretender [Edit] (Jackson Browne)

https://www.upload.ee/files/17362727/JACKSNBRWN1976BBSessonsVlum2OldGryWhitleTst__12-7-1976_atse.zip.html

alternate:

https://pixeldrain.com/u/VrEx3BSw

The cover photo is from an unknown concert in 1976.