J. J. Cale - Ebbets Field, Denver, CO, 2-13-1975 | Albums That Should Exist

 J. J. Cale - Ebbets Field, Denver, CO, 2-13-1975

Paul he say: Here's a concert by the king of the mellow Tulsa groove, J. J. Cale. It's rather short, but the sound quality is excellent, since it comes from an FM radio broadcast.

I've been trying to resist, because I have too much good music to post already. But yesterday I finally gave in and collected all the concerts from this venue, Ebbets Field, in Denver, Colorado, that I could find. It's a remarkable treasure trove of music because from 1973 to 1977, dozens of concerts from this venue were broadcast on a local radio station, and the professional recording of them was better than usual for that era. I kept finding more and more. I've already posted six, but I found about another 50! So you can look forward to seeing a lot more of those here in the near future.

There are a few I can't find that I'm pretty sure exist, because excerpts from their recordings have been posted here:

https://colomusic.org/music/ebbets-field-rarities-1973-1977/

If anyone has the Ebbets Field concerts from the following, please let me know:

Joan Armatrading
Jesse Colin Young
John Fahey
Loudon Wainwright III
Eric Andersen
Wet Willie
Minnie Riperton
Beau Brummels
Dr. Hook 

I'm happy to say I've found the vast majority of the other concerts mentioned on that webpage. Those should all get posted here eventually, knock on wood.

Anyway, back to Cale. One nice thing about this concert is that it's one of the earliest live recordings of him available. I've only come across one that's from earlier, and that's a strange one from 1971 that is almost entirely instrumental. So this could be the first "normal" concert recording that's publicly available. Another nice thing, at least for me, is that his music sounds more lively than usual. 

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

This album is 38 minutes long.

01 talk 
02 Louisiana Women 
03 talk
04 Lies 
05 Nowhere to Run
06 Mo Jo 
07 Call Me the Breeze 
08 Woman I Love 
09 Bringing It Back [From Mexico] 
10 talk 
11 Magnolia 
12 After Midnight 

all songs J.J.Cale