Stevie Wonder - BBC Sessions, Volume 1- A Night of Wonder, Teddington Studios, London, Britain, 9-11-1995

Back in 2022, I posted a 2005 BBC concert by Stevie Wonder. I thought that was the only concert he did for the BBC. But it turns out he actually did two more (at least), that I recently found. So this one becomes "Volume 1," the 2005 one becomes "Volume 2," and I'll be posting one that took place after that as "Volume 3."

In retrospect, it's not surprising I came across the 2005 concert first, because it's one of the most popular Stevie Wonder bootlegs. But this one should be better known, because the sound quality and performance are just as good as the 2005. The one disadvantage is that it's somewhat shorter. But it's still over an hour long. 

This has made the rounds as a grey market bootleg under different names. But those usually don't mention that it came from a BBC source, which is probably why it took me a while to figure it out. (By the way, a grey market bootleg is one that is presented as if it's an official release, except it was done without the permission of the artist or the legit record company.) Most versions of this lacked three songs: "Tomorrow Robins Will Sing," "You and I," and "Overjoyed." But I found a version that had them and put them in the correct running order. I don't know if there were more songs performed that just didn't get broadcast.

Earlier in 1995, Wonder released the studio album "Conversation Peace." Three of the songs here come from that album: "Tomorrow Robins Will Sing," "Sensuous Whisper," and "Cold Chill." Note that later in 1995, he released a double live album, called "Natural Wonder." While this was a BBC special with the similar name "A Night of Wonder," the performances are totally different. All the songs on the official album come from concerts in Japan and Israel. Still, not surprisingly, many songs were performed in both. But he had such a deep discography that there are some songs on this one not on that album and vice versa.

This album is an hour and two minutes long.

01 talk (Stevie Wonder)
02 Master Blaster [Jammin'] (Stevie Wonder)
03 Higher Ground (Stevie Wonder)
04 talk (Stevie Wonder)
05 Tomorrow Robins Will Sing (Stevie Wonder)
06 talk (Stevie Wonder)
07 You and I (Stevie Wonder)
08 Overjoyed (Stevie Wonder)
09 talk (Stevie Wonder)
10 Sensuous Whisper (Stevie Wonder)
11 My Cherie Amour (Stevie Wonder)
12 Singed, Sealed, Delivered, I'm Yours (Stevie Wonder)
13 Sir Duke (Stevie Wonder)
14 I Wish (Stevie Wonder)
15 You Are the Sunshine of My Life (Stevie Wonder)
16 Superstition (Stevie Wonder)
17 talk (Stevie Wonder)
18 I Just Called to Say I Love You (Stevie Wonder)
19 talk (Stevie Wonder)
20 Cold Chill (Stevie Wonder)
21 Do I Do (Stevie Wonder)

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The cover photo is from this exact concert.

k.d. lang - BBC Sessions, Volume 2: In Concert, BBC Radio Theatre, London, Britain, 4-20-2011

I posted a k.d. lang BBC concert from 2008 here a couple of years ago. Now, I've found a second one. So that one is being retitled "BBC Sessions, Volume 1," and this one is "Volume 2."

I still am not very familiar with most music from lang's long music career. However, I was impressed with the previous BBC concert I posted, and I was impressed with this one too. She most definitely is a talented singer, with a great range.

This concert took place just a couple of weeks after the release of her studio album "Sing It Loud." Naturally, many of the songs here are from it. It mostly consisted of originals, but one exception was "Heaven" by the Talking Heads. That's also performed here.

This concert is unreleased. The sound quality is excellent. There were no problems.

This album if 56 minutes long.

01 talk (k.d. lang)
02 I Confess (k.d. lang)
03 Helpless (k.d. lang)
04 A Sleep with No Dreaming (k.d. lang)
05 talk (k.d. lang)
06 Hallelujah (k.d. lang)
07 The Water's Edge (k.d. lang)
08 talk (k.d. lang)
09 Matte Kudasai (k.d. lang)
10 Perfect Word (k.d. lang)
11 Western Stars (k.d. lang)
12 Habit of Mind (k.d. lang)
13 talk (k.d. lang)
14 Heaven (k.d. lang)
15 talk (k.d. lang)
16 Reminiscing (k.d. lang)
17 talk (k.d. lang)
18 Constant Craving (k.d. lang)

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The cover photo comes from this exact concert.

Richie Havens - BBC Sessions, Volume 3: In Concert, Glastonbury Festival, Worthy Farm, Pilton, Britain, 6-20-1982

Here's the third and probably last of BBC albums for folk singer Richie Havens. (I say "probably" since there's no telling what might eventually pop up.) It's a concert from 1982.

Back in the early 1980s, the annual Glastonbury Festival was a lot smaller and didn't have the reputation it had later. The BBC very rarely broadcast anything from the festival prior to 1985, but luckily this concert is an exception.

This is not the full concert, but we're lucky to have this much, because I found two separate parts and put them together. The first three tracks are from one source, and the rest are from another. I'm guessing one came before the other, and I don't know what happened in between. The first song of the second section, "Just like a Woman," started about halfway through the song. So I found a different live version, from 1976, and patched that in to complete it. That's why that one song has "[Edit]" in its title.

Everything here is officially unreleased. Havens played the whole concert in solo acoustic mode, as was his usual style then. If there was any banter between songs, nearly all of it got edited out, because there's only a little bit before the first song here.

This album is 53 minutes long.

01 talk (Richie Havens)
02 Nobody Left to Crown (Richie Havens)
03 The Last One (Richie Havens)
04 Just like a Woman [Edit] (Richie Havens)
05 No Opportunity Necessary, No Experience Needed (Richie Havens)
06 Here Comes the Sun (Richie Havens)
07 Younger Men Grow Older (Richie Havens)
08 Long Train Runnin' (Richie Havens)
09 Wild Night (Richie Havens)
10 Here Again (Richie Havens)
11 Zodiac (Richie Havens)
12 Freedom (Richie Havens)
13 You Are So Beautiful (Richie Havens)

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The cover image is from this exact concert. I took a screenshot of a low-res YouTube video. Then I used Krea AI to sharpen it up some.

Jimmy Cliff - BBC In Concert, Glastonbury Festival, Worthy Farm, Pilton, Britain, 6-24-2011

Here's reggae star Jimmy Cliff performing at the annual Glastonbury Festival in 2011.

It seems Cliff actually played the festival two other times, in 2003 and 2008. But I can't find any recordings of those. Maybe they'll turn up eventually. And this is the only BBC concert I can find from him, period. 

Also, it seems at least two more songs were played in this concert, "Treat the Youths Right" and "Save Our Planet Earth." But it seems this was all that got broadcast by the BBC, so it's all I have too. Furthermore, the last song, "One More," got cut off near the end. I added some applause from earlier in the show to hopefully give it a decent sounding finish.

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

This album is 44 minutes long.

01 Introduction (Jimmy Cliff)
02 You Can Get It If You Really Want (Jimmy Cliff)
03 Wild World (Jimmy Cliff)
04 World Upside Down (Jimmy Cliff)
05 Vietnam [Afghanistan Version] (Jimmy Cliff)
06 Rebel in Me (Jimmy Cliff)
07 Many Rivers to Cross (Jimmy Cliff)
08 I Can See Clearly Now (Jimmy Cliff)
09 Bongo Man - Rivers of Babylon (Jimmy Cliff)
10 talk (Jimmy Cliff)
11 One More (Jimmy Cliff)

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The cover photo comes from this exact concert.

Elvis Costello - BBC Sessions, Volume 2: In Concert, Hope and Anchor, London, Britain, 5-14-1980

Here's a 1980 BBC concert by Elvis Costello with his backing band at the time, the Attractions.

Costello has had a long and great music career. But he probably was at the peak of his popularity around the time of this concert. His fourth album, "Get Happy!!" had been released earlier in 1980. Those four sold well, and still are his highest rated albums according to the crowd-sourced rateyourmusic.com. So this consists of nothing but solid songs.

This album is unreleased. The sound quality is pretty good, but maybe a tad lower than the usual BBC standards. 

Some of the songs here are covers: "Help Me," "I Stand Accused," "One More Heartache," "Little Sister," and "(What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace, Love and Understanding." A few songs are missing, all towards the start of the show: "I Can't Stand Up for Falling Down" (another cover), "The Beat," "He'll Have to Go" (yet another cover), and "(I Don't Want to Go To) Chelsea."

This album is 56 minutes long.

01 talk (Elvis Costello)
02 Temptation (Elvis Costello)
03 Help Me (Elvis Costello)
04 I Stand Accused (Elvis Costello)
05 One More Heartache (Elvis Costello)
06 Secondary Modern (Elvis Costello)
07 talk (Elvis Costello)
08 Little Sister (Elvis Costello)
09 talk (Elvis Costello)
10 High Fidelity (Elvis Costello)
11 Lipstick Vogue (Elvis Costello)
12 Waiting for the End of the World (Elvis Costello)
13 talk (Elvis Costello)
14 Don't Look Back (Elvis Costello)
15 Girls Talk (Elvis Costello)
16 Watching the Detectives (Elvis Costello)
17 You Belong to Me (Elvis Costello)
18 talk (Elvis Costello)
19 Oliver's Army (Elvis Costello)
20 Mystery Dance (Elvis Costello)
21 [What's So Funny 'Bout] Peace, Love and Understanding (Elvis Costello)
22 Pump It Up (Elvis Costello)

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All I know about the cover photo is it's circa 1980.

Spirit - Boston Tea Party, Boston, MA, 10-11-969

Does the album cover here look familiar to you? If you answered "yes," you have a good memory, because I used this exact cover when I posted a Spirit concert back in 2020. All I've changed is the text at the bottom. But today I've deleted that concert from this blog, because it's part of the 1969 Texas International Pop Festival. I plan on posting the entire festival soon, so the Spirit set will be reposted as a part of that. I have a different cover for that version, taken from that festival, so I'm recycling this cover here.

I had previously mentioned there are almost no good live recordings of the original version of Spirit, which existed from 1966 to 1970. The only ones with excellent sound quality are the 1969 Texas International Pop Festival one mentioned above, and a 1970 Fillmore show that I've posted here. But now this concert too can be added to that very short list. It's an excellent sounding soundboard bootleg. I had come across this concert years ago, but I had decided not to post it because it had one major sonic flaw: the vocals were too loud. That's unusual, because I've come across dozens and dozens of concert recordings with the vocals too low, but almost not where they were too loud. And it wasn't just a little bit too loud. No, the vocals went way into to the red.

Back then, that was a killer for me. But since then, audio editing technology has improved. Using the UVR5 program, I split all the songs into two, then lowered just the vocal track to a reasonable level. Luckily, the vocals weren't so loud as to have gotten badly distorted, so this sounds perfectly fine now, about as good as a typical soundboard bootleg from the era.  

There has been some confusion about the date and location of this concert. The bootleg has been passed around with a date of May 1970 from Boston, as well as May 1970 from Seattle. But I looked into this, and found solid evidence that it actually comes from a three date stand at the "Boston Tea Party" venue in Boston on either October 11th, 12th, or 13th.

At first, I didn't know which of the three dates this concert was from exactly. But then I remembered that one song from this show was included on the 2022 deluxe edition of the band's "Twelve Dreams of Doctor Sardonicus" album. The liner notes showed that was from October 11th. I checked that version to the bootleg version, and they were identical, so the whole thing must be from the 11th. And no, I don't know why only that one song was officially released. Perhaps they also had trouble with the vocals, and that song was an exception since it was mostly instrumental. (That version includes a long drum solo, while I have included it as a separate track.) Maybe now the technology exists to fix the vocals, we can hope to see the full concert officially released someday.

The one snag about this recording is that it was missing the last song, "I Got a Line on You." One can tell it's the last song because the very last few seconds of the bootleg are the start of that song, and right before it gets cut off, you can hear the vocalist say "We're going home." I think it's a good assumption that means the concert is coming to an end. So since that song definitely got played at this concert, I found a different live version of it to fit there, from a French TV show appearance in early 1970. That didn't have any applause at the end, but I added in some from earlier in the concert to help it fit in. I carefully edited it to fit with the tiny portion that exists at the start from the bootleg, including the "We're going home" comment. That's why it has "[Edit]" in the title.

Finally, I've added in "1984" from an appearance on the German TV show "Beat Club" in January 1970 at the very end. I wasn't going to do that, but I did add it at the end of the Spirit set from the 1969 Texas International Pop Festival that I had previously posted, and if I didn't include it here, I wouldn't have anywhere else to put it. I also added some crowd noise at the end to help that one fit it as well.

This album is 54 minutes long.

01 It's All the Same (Spirit)
02 Fresh Garbage (Spirit)
03 talk (Spirit)
04 Jealous (Spirit)
05 It Shall Be (Spirit)
06 Poor Richard (Spirit)
07 talk (Spirit)
08 Groundhog (Spirit)
09 I'm Truckin' (Spirit)
10 New Dope in Town (Spirit)
11 Drum Solo [Instrumental] (Spirit)
12 Mechanical World (Spirit)
13 I Got a Line on You [Edit] (Spirit)
14 1984 (Spirit)

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I was unpleasantly surprised to find very, very few good photos of Spirit in concert from their peak years. I found one good one that from around 1969, but it was only in black and white. I wanted it to have a psychedelic look, so I took a psychedelic background and melded it into the photo. I like how the combo worked out.

Donovan - BBC Sessions, Volume 6: In Concert, Paris Theatre, London, Britain, 11-14-1981

Here is the sixth volume of Donovan performing for the BBC. This is a 1981 concert, with some solo acoustic, and some with a band.

Boy, did I get lucky with this recording! I had been aware of this recording for years. But when I posted the first five volumes of Donovan at the BBC, I avoided posting this one due to sound quality issues. There was a lot of hiss on it, and I wasn't sure how to get rid of it. (One can use noise reduction for that, but it degrades the music too, so I almost always avoid that.) So I decided to deal with this problem later. Recently, here in early 2025, I'm trying to finish off all the series of BBC albums for musical acts where I've posted some already, so I can get to new ones. I was just about to tackle this, when I noticed that someone posted a brand new version of this concert just two days ago, because the BBC recently re-broadcast it. This version had excellent sound quality, saving me the trouble of dealing with the earlier version. God bless the BBC!

In the late 1970s, Donovan's musical style fell out of favor, thanks to new musical trends like disco, punk, and new wave. He generally kept a low profile, living in the desert in California raising his family for a few years and not releasing much new music. This, apparently, was part of his first tour of Britain in six years. Thankfully, rather than trying to ape new trends, like going new wave with synths all over his music, he kept to his old style. This sounds like it could be from 1971 as easily as 1981. That may not have been the popular move to make at the time, but it looks smart in retrospect.

I believe this is entirely unreleased. 

This album is 56 minutes long.

01 talk (Donovan)
02 Sunshine Superman (Donovan)
03 talk (Donovan)
04 Jennifer Juniper (Donovan)
05 talk (Donovan)
06 Lelena (Donovan)
07 talk (Donovan)
08 Universal Soldier (Donovan)
09 Catch the Wind (Donovan)
10 talk (Donovan)
11 Love Is Only Feeling (Donovan with Astrella Leitch)
12 Lady of the Flowers (Donovan)
13 talk (Donovan)
14 Johnny Tuff (Donovan)
15 talk (Donovan)
16 Neutron (Donovan)
17 Hurdy Gurdy Man (Donovan)
18 Colours (Donovan)
19 Season the Witch (Donovan)
20 Mellow Yellow (Donovan)

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The cover photo is from 1981, probably from a TV appearance. But I don't know the details.

U2 - BBC Sessions, Volume 8: In Concert, Glastonbury Festival, Worthy Farm, Pilton, Britain, 6-24-2011

I screwed up with the album numbering for a BBC series yet again. But I'll keep on making changes until I get it right. Luckily, in this case, the screw-up only involves one album that I posted recently. There's a new "BBC Sessions, Volume 8" for U2, because I stumbled onto the Glastonbury Festival performance they gave in 2011, which was broadcast by the BBC.

As I've mentioned elsewhere, I'm not that enthusiastic about new U2 music after the early 2000s. But if you feel the same, don't worry, because they only played two songs from their most recent album at the time, 2009's "No Line on the Horizon." (The two were "Get on Your Boots" and "Moment of Surrender," which are fine songs.) Instead, no doubt mindful of the fact they would be playing to a crowd of nearly 200,000 people, many of whom weren't big U2 fans already, they generally stuck to their greatest hits. Although I like the fact that they finished with "Out of Control," a relatively obscure songs from their debut album in 1980.

As U2 likes to do, they slipped in little snippets of other songs here and there. In two cases, I added those to the song titles, because they were fairly significant. I didn't do that for some of the shorter snippet. Those include bits of "Independent Women," "Can't Take My Eyes Off You," "Move On Up," "Rain," "She Loves You," "Love Will Tear Us Apart," and "Pretty Vacant."

The sound quality is excellent. I don't believe anything here has been officially released.

Oh, by the way, if you want to grab the renumbered volume, the former Volume 8 that is now Volume 9, here's the link:

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This album is an hour and 40 minutes long.

01 Even Better than the Real Thing (U2)
02 The Fly (U2)
03 Mysterious Ways (U2)
04 Until the End of the World (U2)
05 talk (U2)
06 One (U2)
07 Jerusalem - Where the Streets Have No Name (U2)
08 I Will Follow (U2)
09 talk (U2)
10 I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For (U2)
11 talk (U2)
12 Stay [Faraway, So Close] (U2)
13 Beautiful Day (U2)
14 Elevation (U2)
15 Get on Your Boots (U2)
16 Vertigo (U2)
17 Sunday Bloody Sunday (U2)
18 Bad (U2)
19 Pride [In the Name of Love] (U2)
20 With or Without You (U2)
21 Yellow - Moment of Surrender (U2)
22 Out of Control (U2)

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The cover photo is from this exact concert. As you can see, it was raining heavily.

Pete Townshend - Who Demos, Volume 9: 1979-1981: Empty Glass & Face Dances

The other day, I got a request to change something about Volume 8 in this series (which I did). That reminded me that I never quite finished this series off. So here's the next one, another collection of Pete Townshend's demos. There's just one more to go after this.

Townshend has made so many demos that I've created two different series for them. One series contains all the demos I could find of songs that weren't included on albums by the Who, or his solo albums. Then there's this series of demos for songs that did eventually make it to Who albums or solo albums. During this time period, Townshend was busy, putting out both 1980 solo album "Empty Glass" and the 1981 Who album "Face Dances." 

Five of the songs here made it to "Empty Glass" in different form. One, "Teresa," would later get on the 1982 album "It's Hard" with the title change to "Athena." I'm not quite sure why "Initial Machine Experiments" got on here instead of my other Townshend demos series, but oh well. The remaining six songs made it to "Face Dances."

Most of the versions here have been officially released. Generally, they came out on the compilations "Scoop," "Another Scoop," and "Scoop 3." Four of the songs that made it to "Empty Glass" were released as bonus tracks on that album. Finally, "Another Tricky Day" is unreleased.

This album is 59 minutes long.

01 I Am an Animal (Pete Townshend)
02 Initial Machine Experiments [Instrumental] (Pete Townshend)
03 Tough Boys [Rough Boys] (Pete Townshend)
04 And I Moved (Pete Townshend)
05 Did You Steal My Money (Pete Townshend)
06 Don't Let Go the Coat (Pete Townshend)
07 Gonna Get Ya [Long Version] (Pete Townshend)
08 Keep On Working (Pete Townshend)
09 Teresa [Early Version of Athena] (Pete Townshend)
10 You Better You Bet (Pete Townshend)
11 Another Tricky Day (Pete Townshend)
12 Cache, Cache (Pete Townshend)
13 How Can You Do It Alone (Pete Townshend)

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The cover photo was taken in New York City in November 1981.

The Animals - BBC Sessions, Volume 5: Sight and Sound, Golddigger's, Chippenham, Britain, 9-1-1983

I posted four volumes of the Animals performing for the BBC a while ago. I certainly didn't ever expect to see a fifth volume. But while looking for something else, I stumbled across this. Unlike the previous four, it's a concert (edited down quite a lot, no doubt). It took place during the band's 1983 reunion tour.

Normally, I wouldn't post this, because it's very similar to a live album I've already posted that took place only about a week later. All the songs played here were also played in that one. But I'm posting it for a few reasons. One, it seems very rare, at least as audio files, so I want to stop it from slipping into obscurity. (One can also find the video of it on YouTube, since it was broadcast on BBC TV.) Two, I managed to improve the sound quality by boosting the volume of the vocals in relation to the instruments. (Such a common problem, I've noticed.) And finally, this has excellent sound quality, and there's very little live Animals music available with this level of quality.

Note that Alan Price was part of this reunion tour. He sings one song here, "O Lucky Man."

This album is 48 minutes long.

01 It's Too Late (Animals)
02 Melt Down (Animals)
03 Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood (Animals)
04 My Favourite Enemy (Animals)
05 Tryin' to Get to You (Animals)
06 I'm Crying (Animals)
07 Bring It on Home to Me (Animals)
08 O Lucky Man (Animals)
09 The House of the Rising Sun (Animals)
10 talk (Animals)
11 We Gotta Get Out of This Place (Animals)

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The cover photo shows the band's lead singer Eric Burdon in 1983. I don't know additional details.

Aimee Mann - Hultsfred Festival, Hultsfred, Sweden, 10-15-2001

Really excellent sounding Aimee Mann concert recordings are very few and far between (and she's only released one live album), so when I found one this good, I post it straight away. This is either a soundboard or FM radio bootleg. Either way, it sounds as good as an official live album.

I'm especially happy to find this, because it took place after the release of what I consider her two strongest albums, the "Magnolia" soundtrack in 1999, and "Bachelor No. 2" in 2000. And checking just now, I see the crowd-sourced ratings at rateyourmusic.com also give those two albums her highest ratings. Every song is a winner.

There's not much banter between songs, but this seems to have been all she said. At one point between songs, she mentioned she just didn't feel like saying much.

This album is 55 minutes long.

01 One (Aimee Mann)
02 Choice in the Matter (Aimee Mann)
03 Sugarcoated (Aimee Mann)
04 talk (Aimee Mann)
05 How Am I Different (Aimee Mann)
06 Save Me (Aimee Mann)
07 That's Just What You Are (Aimee Mann)
08 talk (Aimee Mann)
09 Red Vines (Aimee Mann)
10 Susan (Aimee Mann)
11 Ghost World (Aimee Mann)
12 Long Shot (Aimee Mann)
13 talk (Aimee Mann)
14 Calling It Quits (Aimee Mann)
15 talk (Aimee Mann)
16 Wise Up (Aimee Mann)
17 Deathly (Aimee Mann)

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The cover photo is from the Rock Werchter Festival in Werchter, Belgium, on June 30, 2001.

Joan Baez - BBC Sessions, Volume 3: In Concert, Dominion Theatre, London, Britain, 5-22-1993

When I posted a "BBC Sessions, Volume 2" album by Joan Baez a few weeks ago, I noted that I probably was missing some other BBC concerts she did. That's still true, but at least I found this one since then. It took place in 1993. 

When I've thought about Baez, I've generally considered her a folk singer in her 1960s and 1970s heyday. But after listening to this, plus another BBC concert I've found from the 1990s, I'm more impressed with her later material. She didn't start out a songwriter, but she eventually grew into being a pretty good one. For instance, her big 1975 hit "Diamonds and Rust" was written by her. And she had good taste in cover versions. So although I wasn't familiar with most of these songs, I thought they were pretty good.

This remains officially unreleased. The sound quality is solid, although this was sourced from relatively low quality mp3s. I edited them a bit, but I couldn't improve things much.

This album is 53 minutes long.

01 Love Is Just a Four-Letter Word (Joan Baez)
02 talk (Joan Baez)
03 Isaac and Abraham (Joan Baez)
04 talk (Joan Baez)
05 Amsterdam (Joan Baez)
06 talk (Joan Baez)
07 Play Me Backwards (Joan Baez)
08 talk (Joan Baez)
09 Strange Rivers (Joan Baez)
10 talk (Joan Baez)
11 Welcome Me (Joan Baez)
12 There but for Fortune (Joan Baez)
13 talk (Joan Baez)
14 Edge of Glory (Joan Baez)
15 Diamonds and Rust (Joan Baez)
16 talk (Joan Baez)
17 I'm with You (Joan Baez)
18 talk (Joan Baez)
19 Forever Young (Joan Baez)

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The cover photo is from the Central Park Summerstage concert in New York City in August 1993.

Dave Berry - BBC Sessions (1965-1967)

I mentioned some weeks back that I'm making it a point of posting the BBC sessions of some less popular 1960s musical acts, since nobody else seems to be doing it and it fits into my larger big BBC project. Tim Rose, Chris Farlowe, and the Ivy League are some recent examples. Here's another one, Dave Berry.

Berry was a star in Britain and some European countries from about 1963 to 1966. He never had success on the charts in the U.S. His biggest hits were "The Crying Game," "Little Things," and "Mama," all featured here. He's also known for the original version of "This Strange Effect," which was written by Ray Davies of the Kinks but not released by the Kinks at the time. It barely scraped into the Top 40 in Britain, but it was a Number One hit in the Netherlands. His star faded suddenly in 1967, when musical tastes drastically shifted with the rise of psychedelic music. So it's not surprising the last BBC session here is from early 1967.

Everything here is officially unreleased. But the sound quality is excellent, since all but one of the songs come from acetates of the "Top of the Pops" BBC radio show, which survived in pristine condition. The one exception to that is "The Crying Game." That's my favorite song sung by Berry (it also was a hit by Boy George in the 1990s), so I was disappointed to see that no BBC session of him singing it survived. So I had to resort to using a version he sang on the TV show "Shindig!" I believe this had live vocals over the instruments from the record. There were a few minor gaps in that recording, but I patched them up with some audio editing. That's why that song has "[Edit]" in its title.

There are a bunch of other songs with "[Edit]" in their titles too. That's due to the usual problem at the time of BBC DJs talking over the music. (I'm looking at you in particular, DJ Dave Matthew.) As I usually do, I wiped out the talking while keeping the underlying music using the UVR5 audio editing program.

Berry wasn't in the top tier of 1960s artists by any means, but if you like British Invasion music, you should like this. Although these are all BBC versions, I think this also basically works as a "best of" for him.

This album is 52 minutes long.

01 Little Things (Dave Berry)
02 Cadillac (Dave Berry)
03 I've Got a Tiger by the Tail (Dave Berry)
04 The Crying Game [Edit] (Dave Berry)
05 Southern Love (Dave Berry)
06 This Strange Effect (Dave Berry)
07 It Ain't Me, Babe [Edit] (Dave Berry)
08 Roll Over Beethoven (Dave Berry)
09 I'm Gonna Take You There (Dave Berry)
10 Just Don't Know [Edit] (Dave Berry)
11 Now [Edit] (Dave Berry)
12 If You Wait for Love (Dave Berry)
13 Hidden [Edit] (Dave Berry)
14 Mama (Dave Berry)
15 Understand Your Man (Dave Berry)
16 My Heart Skips a Beat [Edit] (Dave Berry)
17 Stranger (Dave Berry)
18 God Bless the Child [Edit] (Dave Berry)
19 It's Gonna Be Fine [Edit] (Dave Berry)
20 Forever (Dave Berry)
21 It's So Easy (Dave Berry)

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The cover photo is from 1965.

The Guess Who - HSBC Arena, Buffalo, NY, 9-9-2001

The Guess Who first broke up in 1975. This is a concert from a reunion tour in 2001.

Normally, I'm not a fan for albums by musical acts long past their glory years. But this is an exception. One key reason is that the two main creative forces in the original band, lead singer Burton Cummings and lead guitarist Randy Bachman, didn't actually stay together that long. Bachman left the band in 1970. Then he went on to big success with his band Bachman-Turner Overdrive, even having a Number One single in the U.S. in 1974 with "You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet." Their reunion in the early 20002s featured Cummings and Bachman together for the first time since 1970 (outside a couple of early reunion shows), which meant Bachman got to play lead guitar on all the Guess Who songs he missed after 1970, and some Bachman-Turner Overdrive hits got incorporated into the set list.

Furthermore, while Cummings and Bachman may not have looked as fit as they were back in the 1970s, their singing and playing was top notch. Furthermore, the rest of the band consisted of members from the 1970s. The one major holdout was Jim Kale, who was the bassist from the band's origin until 1972. In the 1980s, he noticed that the name "The Guess Who" had never been trademarked in the U.S., and he scooped that up for himself without consulting other band members. Then he created a touring group using that name. Not surprisingly, this pissed off Cummings, Bachman, and others. So while Kale didn't take part in the reunion tours, he got a percentage of their profits by allowing them to use the Guess Who name. (In 2024, after many years of legal battles, Cummings and Bachman finally reclaimed the band name.)

This soundboard bootleg sounds great, as good as an official live album. However, note that there is a similar official live album called "Running Back Thru Canada." It was recorded a year earlier at a concert in Winnipeg, Canada. But while the set list is pretty similar, there are unique songs on both. I'm a big enough Guess Who fan to have both that and this.

This album is an hour and 30 minutes long.

01 talk (Guess Who)
02 Shakin' All Over (Guess Who)
03 Guns, Guns, Guns (Guess Who)
04 Hand Me Down World (Guess Who)
05 talk (Guess Who)
06 These Eyes (Guess Who)
07 talk (Guess Who)
08 You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet (Guess Who)
09 Clap for the Wolfman (Guess Who)
10 Glamour Boy (Guess Who)
11 Lookin' Out for Number One (Guess Who)
12 No Sugar Tonight - New Mother Nature (Guess Who)
13 Let It Ride (Guess Who)
14 talk (Guess Who)
15 Undone (Guess Who)
16 talk (Guess Who)
17 American Woman (Guess Who)
18 Laughing (Guess Who)
19 Bus Rider (Guess Who)
20 No Time (Guess Who)
21 talk (Guess Who)
22 Share the Land (Guess Who)

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The cover photo shows Randy Bachman (left) and Burton Cummings (right) at the Radio and Records Convention in Beverly Hills, California, in 2001. They were further apart, but I moved them closer together in Photoshop.

Supertramp - Reitstadion Riem, Munich, Germany, 7-23-1983

I recently got a request to post more Supertramp music, so here you go. I very much would have liked to post a BBC concert from the last tours with Roger Hodgson, who wrote and sang the majority of the band's hits (with Rick Davies writing and singing the rest). However, I can't find any BBC concerts from those tours in 1979 and 1983, so probably they didn't happen. The 1979 tour is already well represented with the official live album "Paris." But there's no such album from the 1983 tour. So this bootleg serves that role.

Here's what Wikipedia has to say about Hodgson leaving Supertramp:

"In 1981, Hodgson moved his family from Los Angeles to northern California, where he built a home studio and began contemplating solo recordings. The rest of Supertramp remained in Los Angeles and the geographic separation created a rift between them and Hodgson; feuding was virtually non-existent, but the group harmony was lost. Hodgson felt increasingly constrained in the group context, and during the [1983 tour] he made the decision to leave Supertramp. He has denied any real problems in his relationship with Davies as speculated."

If you listen to the banter between songs in this recording, at one point Hodgson told the crowd that this was his last concert with Supertramp. That wasn't actually true, since the tour continued for a couple more months. Probably, he said something like that at every concert, meaning this was the last time people in that location would hear him with Supertramp. The rest of the band continued without him (though that's a bit like Pink Floyd continuing without Roger Waters). He never did get back with them for a reunion tour or anything like that.

The sound quality here is excellent, as good as an official live album. This is probably the best sounding bootleg from this tour. There were no problems for me to fix.

This album is an hour and 37 minutes long.

01 Crazy (Supertramp)
02 Ain't Nobody but Me (Supertramp)
03 talk (Supertramp)
04 Breakfast in America (Supertramp)
05 Bloody Well Right (Supertramp)
06 It's Raining Again (Supertramp)
07 Put on Your Old Brown Shoes (Supertramp)
08 talk (Supertramp)
09 Hide in Your Shell (Supertramp)
10 Waiting So Long (Supertramp)
11 talk (Supertramp)
12 Give a Little Bit (Supertramp)
13 From Now On (Supertramp)
14 The Logical Song (Supertramp)
15 Goodbye Stranger (Supertramp)
16 Dreamer (Supertramp)
17 Rudy (Supertramp)
18 Fool's Overture (Supertramp)
19 talk (Supertramp)
20 School (Supertramp)
21 Crime of the Century (Supertramp) 

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The cover photo shows the band on the German TV show "Auf Los Gehts Los" in 1983.

The Clash - Lyceum Ballroom, London, Britain, 1-3-1979

The Clash is one of my favorite bands, and I really enjoy hearing live recordings from them, but only when the sound quality is excellent. So I'm posting this bootleg, even though it's pretty similar to another one I've already posted, because live Clash that sounds this good needs to get more attention.

The other concert I've posted already that's pretty similar is from the Agora in Cleveland, Ohio, on February 13, 1979. That's only a month after this concert, so the set lists are fairly similar. But there are enough differences to make both worthwhile.

Note that this concert is just three days into 1979. So while the Clash's big release that year was the "London Calling" double album, that came out at the very end of the year, so there's nothing from that here. Instead, the Clash's second studio album "Give 'Em Enough Rope" had just been released two months earlier, in November 1978, so the set list heavily relied on that.

This bootleg is a soundboard, one of probably only a handful by the band that sound this good. But I've managed to improve the sound quality a little more. The lead vocals were a low in the mix, not by a lot, but I boosted them up to the right level using the MVSEP audio editing program. On a couple of songs, the vocals tended to drop in and out, maybe because the singer was getting too far from the microphone at times. So I went through those line by line and boosted the quiet parts. Some lines were just too quiet to fix, but I improved a lot of them. That's why "(White Man) In Hammersmith Palais" and "Complete Control" have "[Edit]" in their titles.

This album is an hour and four minutes long.

01 Safe European Home (Clash)
02 I Fought the Law (Clash)
03 talk (Clash)
04 Jail Guitar Doors (Clash)
05 Drug-Stabbing Time (Clash)
06 talk (Clash)
07 City of the Dead (Clash)
08 Clash City Rockers (Clash)
09 Tommy Gun (Clash)
10 [White Man] In Hammersmith Palais [Edit] (Clash)
11 talk (Clash)
12 English Civil War (Clash)
13 talk (Clash)
14 Stay Free (Clash)
15 Cheapskates (Clash)
16 Julie's in the Drug Squad (Clash)
17 talk (Clash)
18 Police and Thieves (Clash)
19 Capital Radio (Clash)
20 Janie Jones (Clash)
21 Garageland (Clash)
22 Complete Control [Edit] (Clash)
23 London's Burning (Clash)
24 White Riot (Clash)

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The cover photo is from the "Tribal Stomp II" concert in Monterey, California, in September 1979. I darkened some parts of it to give it more of a nighttime feel.

David Bowie - BBC Sessions, Volume 14: In Concert, Maida Vale Studios, London, Britain, 9-18-2002

Here's yet another David Bowie BBC album. And even now, I'm still not done, with one more to go.

This album is about an hour long, and there are many cases when the BBC takes a longer concert and edits it down to fit an hour-long time slot. But this isn't such a case. I found a review of this concert that confirms this is the entire show. From that article, I also found out that the concert was done mainly for the BBC radio broadcast, with only about 100 people in the audience.

The concert took place three months after the release of Bowie's album "Heathen," so naturally he played some songs from it. But he also played a couple of rarities, along with the usual classic hits. Most interestingly, he performed "The Bewley Brothers." This song first appeared on his 1971 album "Hunky Dory." But apparently, he'd never performed it in concert before, due to lots of hard to remember lyrics. He did it here with a lyric sheet in hand. According to setlist.fm, this was the first time he'd played it in concert, and he only played it four more times after this. 

I believe everything here is unreleased. The sound quality is excellent.

This album is 59 minutes long.

01 talk by Jonathan Ross (David Bowie)
02 Sunday (David Bowie)
03 talk (David Bowie)
04 Look Back in Anger (David Bowie)
05 talk (David Bowie)
06 Cactus (David Bowie)
07 talk (David Bowie)
08 Survive (David Bowie)
09 talk (David Bowie)
10 5.15 The Angels Have Gone (David Bowie)
11 talk (David Bowie)
12 Alabama Song [Whisky Bar] (David Bowie)
13 talk (David Bowie)
14 Everyone Says 'Hi' (David Bowie)
15 talk (David Bowie)
16 Rebel Rebel (David Bowie)
17 talk (David Bowie)
18 The Bewlay Brothers (David Bowie)
19 talk (David Bowie)
20 Heathen [The Rays] (David Bowie)
21 talk (David Bowie)

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The cover photo comes from this exact concert.

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)

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

Donovan, Buffy Sainte-Marie & Roger Cook - Songwriters' Circle, Porchester Hall, London, Britain, 10-14-2011

I recently got a couple requests to post a BBC album by Buffy Sainte-Marie. I looked, and it seems there's only a couple of songs here and there, not nearly enough for an album. However, I remembered I have this, and I've been trying to make a point of posting more of these interesting "Songwriters' Circle" concerts. So here you are, with Donovan, Buffy Sainte-Marie, and Roger Cook.

As usual, this BBC TV program brought together three talented and famous singer-songwriters, and had them take turns performing their own songs in solo acoustic mode. In this case more than most episodes of this show, I feel the three musicians liked each other and the music they made. One can hear this with some of the between-song banter, as well as they way they supported each other on some songs with backing vocals and such. In the case of Donovan and Buffy Sainte-Marie, their musical connection went way back, because Donovan covered Sainte-Marie's song "Universal Soldier" in 1965 and had a hit with it, which was the first big commercial success for both him and Sainte-Marie.

I've posted a lot of Donovan's music at this blog already, with more planned to come, so I don't feel the need to introduce him. Sainte-Marie was one of the most famous female singer-songwriters in the 1960s and 70s. But while she had some success with her own songs, for instance "Soldier Blue" reached the Top Ten in Britain and many other countries in 1971, she's had more success with others covering her songs. The most prominent example of this is "Up Where We Belong." She started it, and it was finished off by two professional songwriters. A duet version by Joe Cocker and Jennifer Warnes reached Number One in the U.S. singles chart in 1982, and was one of the biggest hits of the year.

I'm writing this in 2025. In recent years, Sainte-Marie has faced controversy because she prominently identified as Native American for her entire music career, but a 2023 investigation by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) concluded that this wasn't true, and she is of English and Italian descent. She has since stated, "My mother told me that I was adopted and that I was Native, but there was no documentation as was common for Indigenous children at the time," and "I don't know where I'm from or who my birth parents are, and I will never know." She hasn't attempted to settle the dispute by publicly posting DNA results.

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

Buffy Sainte-Marie - Wikipedia

Roger Cook never had a successful music career of his own. However, he was an extremely successful professional songwriter, writing dozens of hits from the 1960s to the 1980s, often in partnership with Roger Greenaway. I would say more, except I plan on posting his hits in my "Covered" songwriter series. So I'll wait for more of an explanation there.

Here's his Wikipedia page:

Roger Cook (songwriter) - Wikipedia

This unreleased concert has been available as a video on YouTube, but I haven't seen it as an audio bootleg. I found a high quality version of the video and converted that to audio, and broke it into mp3s.

This album is 58 minutes long.

01 Sunshine Superman (Donovan)
02 talk (Buffy Sainte-Marie)
03 Until It's Time for You to Go (Buffy Sainte-Marie)
04 talk (Roger Cook)
05 Something's Gotten Hold of My Heart (Roger Cook)
06 talk (Donovan)
07 Catch the Wind (Donovan)
08 talk (Buffy Sainte-Marie)
09 Codine (Buffy Sainte-Marie)
10 talk (Roger Cook)
11 You've Got Your Troubles (Roger Cook)
12 talk (Donovan)
13 Colours (Donovan)
14 talk (Buffy Sainte-Marie)
15 Little Wheel Spin and Spin (Buffy Sainte-Marie)
16 talk (Roger Cook)
17 Talking in Your Sleep (Roger Cook)
18 talk (Donovan)
19 Lalena (Donovan)
20 talk (Buffy Sainte-Marie)
21 I'm Gonna Be a Country Girl Again (Buffy Sainte-Marie)
22 talk (Roger Cook)
23 I Believe in You (Roger Cook)
24 talk (Donovan)
25 Mellow Yellow (Donovan)
26 talk (Buffy Sainte-Marie)
27 Up Where We Belong (Buffy Sainte-Marie)
28 talk (Buffy Sainte-Marie)
29 Universal Soldier (Buffy Sainte-Marie)
30 talk (Roger Cook)
31 I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing (Roger Cook)

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The cover photo is from this exact concert. It's a screenshot I took from a YouTube video, so the quality isn't the best. I improved it slightly with the Krea AI program.

The Style Council - BBC Sessions, Volume 3: In Concert, Glastonbury Festival, Worthy Farm, Pilton, Britain, 6-22-1985

Here's yet another renumbering screw-up. I keep finding things mainly through people sharing music via SoulseekQT. Some are on my wanted list, but most I just stumble upon. Like this one. It turned out Paul Weller's 1980s band the Style Council played the annual Glastonbury Festival one time, in 1985. That also happened to be the first year the BBC broadcast some sets from the festival, including this one.

The Style Council never made much of a commercial impact in the U.S., but they were big in Britain. They actually hit their commercial peak the very same month of this concert, when their 1985 album "Our Favourite Shop" reached Number One in the British album chart. So naturally, this concert featured lots of songs from that album. In fact, ten of the songs here were from it.

The sound quality is excellent, as you'd expect from a BBC recording. I don't think any of this has been officially released.

I mentioned above that I had to renumber the Style Council concert that came after this. If you want the renumbered Volume 4, with updated cover art and such, here's the link:

https://albumsthatshouldexist.blogspot.com/2023/02/the-style-council-bbc-sessions-volume-3.html

This album is 57 minutes long.

01 Internationalists (Style Council)
02 Homebreakers (Style Council)
03 Come to Milton Keynes (Style Council)
04 talk (Style Council)
05 See the Day (Style Council)
06 The Lodgers [Or She Was Only a Shopkeeper's Daughter] (Style Council)
07 The Whole Point II (Style Council)
08 Our Favourite Shop (Style Council)
09 talk (Style Council)
10 Long Hot Summer (Style Council)
11 [When You] Call Me (Style Council)
12 Walls Come Tumbling Down (Style Council)
13 Money-Go-Round (Style Council)
14 Strength of Your Nature (Style Council)
15 It Just Came to Pieces in My Hands (Style Council)
16 The Stand Up Comic's Instructions (Style Council)
17 The Big Boss Groove (Style Council)

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The cover photo is from this exact concert. I happened to find a few. I decided to go with a rather unusual one for variety's sake, instead of just showing a close-up of lead singer Paul Weller or something like that. (Weller is the guy on stage with a raised fist.)