Paul says: Whilst he prepares to go on holidays! : "For some reason, I’ve noticed that there aren’t many Jeff Beck concert recordings with really excellent sound quality. So I was especially pleased to see that when there was a big leak of soundboard recordings from the Capitol Theater in Port Chester back in April 2026, two of those are Jeff Beck concerts. Here is the first one I’m posting.
This concert was part of a tour to support his 2016 studio album “Loud Hailer.” It got good reviews, but the sales were disappointing. A lot of the songs on the album had vocals. I was pleasantly surprised to discover a song called The Ballad of the Jersey Wives,” which was performed in this concert, concerns the widows of the 9/11 victims and their search to find out what really happened in the events related to that terror attack. I didn’t know Beck wrote or cowrote those kinds of songs.
Some of the songs performed in the concert or instrumentals. Other others are sung by vocalist Rosie Bones, And still, others are sung by vocalist Jimmy Hall. You can see which is which in the song list.
A friend of musical associate Lil Panda was the one who split a single audio file into separate songs. I made a little change of boosting the volume of the applause between songs. That was too low, as is often the case with soundboard recordings.
You sound quality is excellent. But note that the recording is mono, not stereo, just like virtually all the others from the Port Chester leak. "
This album is an hour and 23 minutes long.
01 The Revolution Will Be Televised 02 Freeway Jam [Instrumental] 03 Stratus [Instrumental] 04 Live in the Dark (Jeff Beck with Rosie Bones) 05 The Ballad of the Jersey Wives (Jeff Beck with Rosie Bones) 06 The Pump [Instrumental] 07 Morning Dew (Jeff Beck with Jimmy Hall) 08 A Change Is Gonna Come (Jeff Beck with Jimmy Hall) 09 Even Odds [Instrumental] 10 Cause We've Ended as Lovers [Instrumental] ] 11 O.I.L. [Can't Get Enough of That Sticky] (Jeff Beck with Rosie Bones) 12 Scared for the Children (Jeff Beck with Rosie Bones) 13 You Never Know [Instrumental] 14 Rollin' and Tumblin' (Jeff Beck with Jimmy Hall) 15 Superstition (Jeff Beck with Jimmy Hall) 16 Right Now (Jeff Beck with Rosie Bones) 17 A Day in the Life [Instrumental] 18 talk (Jeff Beck with Jimmy Hall)
(All tracks Jeff Beck except where noted)
Jeff Beck - Freeway Jam - Port Chester, New York - October 8, 2022. Anika Nilles on drums. Rhonda Smith on bass, and keyboardist Robert Adam Stevenson
"I’d call this album Bluegrass related. This was supposed to be one of Clarence White’s last projects before going on to play in the Byrds. Rusty Dean was a name that Gary Paxton used on occasion. “
Musicians:Gary Paxton, Gib Guilbeau, Gene Parsons, Clarence White, Wayne Moore, and more.
Howlin' Wolf performs "I'll Be Back Someday" from the American Folk Blues Festival.
Sam Phillips:
"When I heard him, I said, ‘This is for me. This is where the soul of man never dies’. He was about six foot six, with the biggest feet I’ve ever seen on a human being. Big Foot Chester is one name they used to call him. He would sit there with those feet planted wide apart, playing nothing but the French harp, and I tell you, the greatest show you could see today would be Chester Burnett doing one of those sessions in my studio. God, what would it be worth to see the fervor in that man’s face when he sang. His eyes would light up and you’d see the veins on his neck, and buddy, there was nothing on his mind but that song. He sang with his damn soul."
Richard Thompson / The Bayou, Washington, D.C. Nov. 7, 1988 WHFS-FM re-broadcast
another Thomo Treat from draftervoi
Richard Thompson The Bayou Washington, DC November 7, 1988
WHFS-FM rebroadcast on an unknown date
A Draftervoi Special
Early Show: 01 Richard Thompson - Don't Tempt Me 02 Richard Thompson - Gypsy Love Songs 03 Richard Thompson - Valerie 04 Richard Thompson - WHFS-FM Break 05 Richard Thompson - Long Dead Love 06 Richard Thompson - When The Spell Is Broken 07 Richard Thompson - Waltzing’s For Dreamers 08 Richard Thompson - Here Without You 09 Richard Thompson - Turning Of The Tide 10 Richard Thompson - WHFS-FM Break 11 Richard Thompson - Wall Of Death 12 Richard Thompson - Jennie 13 Richard Thompson - WHFS-FM Break 14 Richard Thompson - band intros 15 Richard Thompson - The Angels Took My Racehorse Away 16 Richard Thompson - Jerusalem On The Jukebox 17 Richard Thompson - We Gotta Get Out Of This Place 18 Richard Thompson - Pharaoh 19 Richard Thompson - Can't Win (fades out)
Late Show: 01 Richard Thompson - A Bone Through Her Nose 02 Richard Thompson - Shoot Out The Lights 03 Richard Thompson - Two Left Feet 04 Richard Thompson - Al Bowlly's In Heaven 05 Richard Thompson - Pharaoh 06 Richard Thompson - Instrumental 07 Richard Thompson - Ghosts In The Wind 08 Richard Thompson - Intro to the polkas 09 Richard Thompson - Pepper In The Brandy, The Seven Coloured Linnett 10 Richard Thompson - Can't Win 11 Richard Thompson - I Still Dream 12 Richard Thompson - A Man In Need 13 Richard Thompson - Nearly In Love 14 Richard Thompson - Tear-Stained Letter 15 Richard Thompson - Crash The Party 16 Richard Thompson - WHFS-FM Outro
Draftervoi says:
"More cassettes from my box of tapes I got in trade years and years and years ago.
I usually like to feather in these tapes because they're not master copies; as mentioned they're several generations down the line and not up to my exacting standards. Plus, I want to leave days open for the other authors to put up their posts, too.
However, we had a special request from a member of Our Beloved Voodoo Wagon Audience, one JPB in DC,who writes, "Any chance you have the November 1988 show at the Bayou, broadcast on WHFS? I recall it being a great show (I was there for both sets), with Clive Gregson and Christine Collister doing excellent opening sets."
Well, here in the Voodoo Wagon Secret Orbital Satellite Headquarters, we aim to please, so JPB in DC, this one's for you!
In return, JPB in DC, please tell us something about the Bayou. What was it like as a club?"
Richard Thompson Band at the Bayou 1988
rckrtcrg1 theoutube poster says:
A few songs from a broadcast on WHFS a week or so after the Nov 7 1988 concert at the Bayou in Georgetown (DC). Clive Gregson and Christine Collister opened for him and were part of his band.
And there are no clothes upon the clothesline And there are no sheets upon the bed And there are no agents to decipher, darling All the thoughts that go on in your head
here an early version that perfectly illustrates Leonard’s song writing process. They often sounded completely different and were written and re-written until recording ( and afterwards too in many cases - see ‘Hallelujah' who’s definitive version is really an arrangement by John Cale that being the version that Jeff Buckley based his version on and recorded and has since gone on to influence all subsequent versions being covered by all and sundry but the original was very VERY different . . . .and I still very much doubt anyone singing it today has any full understanding of what it is they are singing (Cale and Buckley notwithstanding!) It is said he re-wrote it over and over and was given to turning up at recording sessions with great sheaves of re-written pages. sic!
The version at The Isle of Wight is also vastly different to this early demo and as distinct from the recorded album version as it’s possible to be . . . . .there is another version here recorded live dedicated to the then newly elected POTUS Ronald Reagan in 1980!
Live at The Isle of Wight
Leonard Cohen - Diamonds In The Mine, Dedicated To New US President Ronald Reagan - Eppelheim: Nov 5, 1980