John Prine - Ebbets Field Denver CO USA - 4-2-1974 | Albums That Should Exist

 John Prine - Ebbets Field, Denver, CO, 2-4-1974

Paul says: Here's a concert by singer-songwriter John Prine. It's one of many concerts I'm posting from the Ebbets Field radio broadcasts.

I'm enjoying (and thus prioritizing) posting these Ebbets Field concerts for several reasons. 1) Most albums I post have issues, requiring a lot of tinkering to get things fixed to my satisfaction. That's much less the case with these broadcasts. That's probably a reflection of how well they were recorded in the first place. 2) Most of these are very rare and hard to find, with the exception of a small number. So I'm pleased to reveal these to a wider audience. 3) When I look at the concerts that took place in this venue, I'm really impressed. I find myself wishing I could have attended the vast majority of them.  I've long felt the late 1960s and early 1970s were a peak of musical creativity in general, so that's part of it. But I also think the people who booked the music acts for this venue must have had very good musical taste.

Speaking of how rare these Ebbets Field broadcast bootlegs are, I was only able to find this one on YouTube. So I converted it to audio and chopped it into mp3s. 

At this time of this concert, Prine had released three albums. He was touring to promote the third one, "Sweet Revenge." According to the crowd-sourced ratings at rateyourmusic.com, that album gets the highest ratings of all his albums other than he debut. So this is a good point to hear a concert from him.

The music is unreleased. The sound quality is excellent. 

This album is 53 minutes long.

01 Spanish Pipedream
02 talk 
03 The Accident [Things Could Be Worse] 
04 talk 
05 Sweet Revenge
06 talk
07 Illegal Smile 
08 talk 
09 Illegal Smile [Reprise]
10 talk
11 Donald and Lydia 
12 Sam Stone 
13 talk
14 Dear Abby 
15 Rocky Mountain Time 
16 Pretty Good 
17 Hello in There 
18 talk
19 Grandpa Was a Carpenter 
20 talk 
21 Christmas in Prison
22 Paradise
23 talk
24 My Mexican Home 

(all songs John Prine )

Now we’re talking! 

I struggled for the longest time to listen to any John Prine after his death from his last bout of cancer and the after effects of COVD-19  hit him when he was at his lowest (one of the first we lost to the epidemic) as I have mentioned before and only recently been able to listen to the later work. This however is a joy and an earlier set from 1974 so full of the early classic songs from Spanish Pipedream to Paradise

Enjoy! I know I did 

Nearly . . well 1978

John Prine live - Fish and A Whistle

or even earlier . . . . .fine quality too

John Prine Performs “Illegal Smile” In 1972 Underground News Broadcast

Fiona Apple - Capitol Theater, Port Chester, NY, USA 10-10-2012

 Fiona Apple - Capitol Theater, Port Chester, NY, 10-10-2012

Paula says: A few days ago, I made an announcement about a recent leak of dozens of soundboard concerts from a venue in Port Chester, New York. I'm going to wait a little bit to post much more of that music. For one thing, I see some people are breaking the single sound files into songs and/or converting the mono into some stereo separation. That will save me some drudge work. Also, I'm waiting to get more feedback on the poll request I made. But here's one that I felt inspired to fix and post sooner rather than later. It's a Fiona Apple concert from 2012.

The reason I was keen on posting this is because there is a surprising lack of live recordings from her with impressive sound quality. There are a few soundboard-level recordings from the first few years of her music career, in the 1990s. But after that, I believe it's been nothing but audience boots. So this is really welcome, because it's a true soundboard. 

I took the single sound file and chopped it into mp3s. I didn't attempt to fix the mono problem. The audience applause is pretty low in the mix. For some of the songs, I boosted the applause volume.

One reason there aren't a lot of great concert recordings from her is because she hasn't toured that much, so there haven't been many recording opportunities. For instance, I don't believe she's performed in public since 2020 (I'm writing this in 2026.) Her last big tour, so far, was in 2012, supporting the album "The Idler Wheel..." So naturally there a lot of songs here from that album. She ended the concert with a cover of "It's Only Make Believe" by Conway Twitty.

This album is an hour and 25 minutes long. 

01 talk 
02 Fast as You Can
03 talk 
04 On the Bound
05 Shadowboxer
06 Paper Bag 
07 Anything We Want 
08 Get Gone 
09 Periphery 
10 Sleep to Dream 
11 Extraordinary Machine 
12 talk
13 Werewolf 
14 Left Alone 
15 I Know 
16 Tymps [The Sick in the Head Song]
17 Every Single Night
18 Daredevil
19 Not about Love 
20 It's Only Make Believe 

Nick Drake - Strange Face [First Sound Techniques Session] {The Making of Five Leaves Left) | jt1674

  . . .for my ole pal and ex-colleague Phil who we have been talking about Sound Techniques studio with

[he knows ya know . . . . . . ]

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Patti Smith Group - 25th Floor [Easter] |jt1674

 

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George Harrison - I’d Have You Anytime (demo) | jt1674

 

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Slim Harpo - Buzz Me Babe | It Began As A Mistake

 Buzz Me, Babe

Slim Harpo 

Buzz Me Babe - Slim Harpo

1960

Swampy, slow-burning blues with a sly sting

Slim Harpo delivers a fine example of his signature swamp blues sound here: sparse, hypnotic, and rhythmically loose.

It began as . . . . .  found this classic bluesmaster over at Sonic Surprise . . . . we like it

The Beatles - I Need You [HELP!] | TWILIGHT ZONE

 The Beatles - I Need You

"I Need You" is a song by the Beatles and appears on the album Help!. It is the second George Harrison song the band released after two albums without any songwriting contribution from Harrison. The song was performed in their second film, Help! and is the second video produced showing George Harrison singing lead vocal on a song.

"I Need You"

Song by the Beatles from the album Help!

Released  6 August 1965

Birthdays : KIM GORDON

 Happy birthday to Kim Gordon, born in Rochester, New York on this day in 1963

Sonic Youth - Kool Thing

(turn it up!)

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Billy Gibbons on Jimi | Don’s Tunes

 

Photo: Stefan Sappert

Billy Gibbons was still in his teens when he founded Houston, Texas psych-blues band The Moving Sidewalks, and secured a booking to support The Jimi Hendrix Experience at shows in Fort Worth and Houston in February 1968. The Moving Sidewalks were required to play a 40-minute set each night in their contract, and Gibbons quickly realised that the only way that his band could stretch their set to the required length was by including the two Jimi Hendrix covers they regularly played at gigs, his 1967 singles Foxy Lady and Purple Haze. It's not as if Hendrix would notice, right?

Wrong.

"I'll never forget the opening night, we played Foxy Lady and were going into the intro to Purple Haze, and I happened to look over to the side of the stage, and there in the shadows was Jimi Hendrix with his arms folded, grinning.

"When we walked off stage, he grabbed me and said, I like you. You've got a lot of nerve. Later, there was quite a bit of panic as we tried to get hotel rooms. We were escorted to the far end of the hallway. But Jimi said, 'Hey, take the room across the way'."

Asked by writer David Fricke what lessons he took from his time with Hendrix, Gibbons noted that the Seattle-born guitarist "was doing things with the electric guitar that had not even been thought of, that it was not designed for."

"I was playing a Stratocaster, another thing that endeared me to him," he recalled. One night, in the hotel, he said, 'Come check this out.' He was taking the spring off the whammy bar, cutting two [coils] off the spring so you could really push the bar down - just dive bomb."

"There was the string-bending - how he got that effect in Foxy Lady - and that powerhouse backing of Mitch Mitchell on drums and Noel Redding on bass. Jimi often said, 'Man, isn't it great? I can go from here to the stratosphere, knowing that l've got a rock-solid wall supporting those excursions. Nobody loses the beat. Nobody loses the sense of where the music is going.' From that, I had Dusty and Frank doing much the same, offering a rock-solid foundation: going through the changes but hammering the tonic. That lives on today."

By Paul Brannigan

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Grateful Dead - China Cat Flower [Dick’s Picks Vol 28] | jt674

  . . . .aww Grateful Dead and I don’t mind China Cat Flower but in terms of singers poor Jerry is WAY down the list: Pigpen, Donna, Phil, Bob, Brett, Vince, heck even Robert Hunter before wimpy nasal whine Garcia! just me . . . never was much of Dead head! Noodles and choogling anyone?

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