Bob Dylan “The Wild Mountain Thyme” at the Isle of Wight Music Festival, August 31, 1969./ Bob Dylan & Joan Baez “The Wild Mountain Thyme” Savoy Hotel, London, May 4, 1965.

 

O My Soul

Bob Dylan “The Wild Mountain Thyme” at the Isle of Wight Music Festival, August 31, 1969.

Bob Dylan & Joan Baez “The Wild Mountain Thyme” Savoy Hotel, London, May 4, 1965.

Country Joe McDonald - BBC Sessions, Volume 2: In Concert, London, Britain, 5-4-1972 | Albums That Should Exist

 

Country Joe McDonald - BBC Sessions, Volume 2: In Concert, London, Britain, 5-4-1972

Paul says: Just yesterday, I posted "BBC Sessions, Volume 1" by Country Joe McDonald. But I already made a drastic change to it. After posting it, a commenter named SamApplePie sent me a bunch of BBC material by McDonald. I had most of it, but there was some studio session material from 1977 that I didn't have yet. So I split that album in two. I've just reposted "Volume 1," and it's a lot shorter than before. Don't worry, the rest of that material, and then some, will appear in a later volume. So if you downloaded that one already, I highly recommend you re-download it.

By the way, thanks to SamApplePie for that material. 

Now, let's get to this album. This is a short acoustic concert recorded for the BBC radio show "In Concert." It was an hour-long show, and McDonald shared the show with the band Brinsley Schwarz. I edited the first track, because the BBC DJ Alan Black mixed comments about McDonald with comments about Brinsley Schwarz. I just kept the McDonald bits. I also removed some audience noise in the background. So that's what that one track has "[Edit]" in its title.

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

This album is 35 minutes long. 

01 talk by Alan Black [Edit] 
02 The Limit 
03 talk 
04 Memories 
05 talk 
06 Colorado Town 
07 talk
08 The Man from Athabasca 
09 I'll Survive
10 I'm on the Road Again 
11 Only Love Is Worth This Pain 
12 Here I Go Again 
13 talk by Alan Black 
14 I-Feel-Like-I'm-Fixin'-to-Die Rag 

[all songs Country Joe MacDonald]

Pink Floyd - Live At Earls Court, London, UK 1994 | FLOPPY BOOT STOMP

 Pink Floyd - Live At Earls Court, London, UK October 20th 1994

(Gilmour, Wright and Mason)

FLOPPY BOOT STOMP

An XRay Special

Xray says:

Pink Floyd - Live At Earls Court

 London, UK October 20th 1994

Pink Floyd's last concert tour was the Division Bell Tour, which began on March 30, 1994, and concluded on October 29, 1994. This tour was their final performance as a band before their disbandment. 

Note Roger Waters does NOT appear on this recording

Pink Floyd  - Comfortably Numb - Earls Court London UK 1994

David Byrne - BBC Sessions, Volume 1: In Concert, London, Britain, 1994 | Albums That Should Exist

 David Byrne - BBC Sessions, Volume 1: In Concert, London, Britain, 1994

Paul Says: Here's a David Byrne solo concert he did for the BBC in 1994. I'm pretty sure this one hasn't been in public circulation at all until now.

This concert is a big mystery to me, because I couldn't find any information about it whatsoever! It's clear that it has to be from 1994, due to the song list, which closely matches other 1994 concerts. He was promoting his 1994 album, simply called "David Byrne," and played some songs from it that he never played before or since.

I got this from musical friend Progsprog. He's sent me quite a few other things that haven't been in public circulation (including some I still have to post), so this fits that pattern. But unfortunately, he knew absolutely nothing about where it comes from. So the location of London is a TOTAL GUESS, based on the fact that probably 90 plus percent of the BBC concerts I post have taken place in London. But that could very easily be wrong. If anyone knows anything about this mystery concert, please let me know and I'll update the information. I'm posting this here in hopes that someone will be able to help.

But the lack of info about the when and where of this concert doesn't take away the fact that the performance is very good. This was early in Byrne's solo career, so he played a good number of Talking Heads songs. 

Oh, and since I had previously posted a 2002 BBC concert by Byrne, I just renamed that to "BBC Sessions, Volume 2." That meant changing the album cover art and so forth. So here's an updated link to that one:

https://albumsthatshouldexist.blogspot.com/2025/01/david-byrne-bbc-four-sessions-union.html

This album is 55 minutes long.

01 A Long Time Ago 
02 talk 
03 [Nothing But] Flowers
04 This Must Be the Place [Naive Melody]
05 Stay Up Late 
06 Strange Ritual 
07 talk 
08 Back in the Box
09 Once in a Lifetime 
10 Angels
11 talk 
12 Buck Naked 
13 Psycho Killer 
14 Burning Down the House 

I too struggled to find evidence of the tour for the launch of his eponymous album and it is listed as 'Inconstant Motion' which produced nothing. His website shows three gigs at The Empire in London in 19-21st Sept so maybe it was one of these. I found someone selling a ticket from back that same year on 24th May (which seemed odd as he launched the new solo album with a world tour (sort of) and that was at the London Palladium (sic) although he was in London to do the show Later With Jools Holland, BBC Television Centre, London, England on May 25, 1994 that gig is not listed on his website. 

Acoustic - David Byrne - My Love is You 1994

Ian and the Blockheads - Sweet Gene Vincent - Christmas Eve 1982 @The Dominion Theatre, London

 The Guvnor

Ian and the Blockheads -  Sweet Gene Vincent - Christmas Eve 1982 

@The Dominion Theatre, London

The SONGWRITER’S CIRCLE: Joe Ely, Lyle Lovett, John Hiatt - Bush Hall, London UK 2010 | Albums That Should Exist

 Lyle Lovett, John Hiatt & Joe Ely - Songwriters' Circle, Bush Hall, London, Britain, 10-15-2010

Paul says: American singer-songwriter Joe Ely died yesterday, December 15, 2025, of age-related issues. He was 78 years old. It so happens that I'm not very familiar with his music. I've heard good things, but there's just so much music out there, I haven't gotten to everything I'd want to. So I hadn't planned to post anything to mark his passing. But it also just so happens that I had an episode of the BBC TV show "Songwriters' Circle" in which Lyle Lovett, John Hiatt, and Joe Ely took turns performing their songs. I figured this was the ideal time to post that, so here it is.

Okay, getting to the content of this album already, if you look at the cover image, you can probably tell that all three singer-songwriters here had long careers by the time they appeared on this show in 2010. Joe Ely's first album (with the Flatlanders) is from 1972, John Hiatt's first album is from 1974, and Lyle Lovett's first album is from 1986. They all are influenced by folk and country, so their styles fit well together.

As is the usual format for the show, each of them took turns performing songs, then they came together to all perform the last song. However, there were some instances where they backed each other on guitar or backing vocals. I only included that in the song credits if it was significant, such as "Thing Called Love," a Hiatt song where Lovett also had a prominent singing role. 

The music is unreleased, and the sound quality is excellent. 

This album is an hour and two minutes long. 

01 talk (Joe Ely)
02 Billy the Kid (Joe Ely)
03 Thing Called Love (John Hiatt & Lyle Lovett)
04 talk (John Hiatt & Lyle Lovett)
05 If I Had a Boat (Lyle Lovett)
06 talk (Joe Ely)
07 My Baby Thinks She's French (Joe Ely)
08 talk (Joe Ely & John Hiatt)
09 Master of Disaster (John Hiatt)
10 She's No Lady (Lyle Lovett)
11 talk (Joe Ely)
12 All that You Need (Joe Ely)
13 talk (John Hiatt)
14 Drive South (John Hiatt)
15 talk (Lyle Lovett)
16 Simple Song (Lyle Lovett)
17 Honky Tonk Masquerade (Joe Ely)
18 Have a Little Faith in Me (John Hiatt)
19 My Baby Don't Tolerate (John Hiatt, Lyle Lovett & Joe Ely)
20 Old Dusty Road [Goin' Down the Road Feelin' Bad] (John Hiatt, Lyle Lovett & Joe Ely)

In tribute to Joe Ely

The Incredible String Band - BBC Sessions, Volume 6: In Concert, Paris Theatre, London, Britain, 11-23-1972 | Albums That Should Exist

 

The Incredible String Band - BBC Sessions, Volume 6: In Concert, Paris Theatre, London, Britain, 11-23-1972

Paul says: Once again, here's a BBC album by the Incredible String Band. It's a short concert from 1972.

I'm posting this due to the poll from some months back about which musical acts had the greatest demand for more BBC albums. I'm still having a hard time getting into the music of this group, but I only have one more album to go and then I can post albums from others chosen in that poll. 

This is all from one concert. However, only some of the tracks have been officially released, specifically: tracks 2, 6, 10, and 12. Those all appeared on the "Across the Airwaves" BBC compilation. But a bootleg source fills in the gaps and has the same sound quality. Actually, the vocals were low in all the unreleased songs, but I fixed that using the UVR5 program, so you shouldn't notice a difference in the sourcing now.

This album is 38 minutes long.

01 talk 
02 I Know That Man 
03 talk 
04 My Father Was a Lighthouse Keeper 
05 talk
06 The Circle Is Unbroken
07 talk 
08 Turquoise Blue 
09 talk 
10 The Old Buccaneer 
11 talk 
12 Black Jack David 
13 talk 
14 Jigs Medley [Instrumental] 

(all songs Incredible String Band) 

Robyn Hitchcock - Three Kings, Clerkenwell, London, Britain, 8-8-2004 (The White Album) | Albums That Should Exist

 

Robyn Hitchcock - Three Kings, Clerkenwell, London, Britain, 8-8-2004 (The White Album)

Paul says: A few days ago, I posted a Robyn Hitchcock concert from 1996 that consisted entirely of songs Bob Dylan performed in a famous 1966 concert. That reminded me that I have some other albums of Hitchcock performing entire albums by others in concert that I haven't posted yet. I've been slow to post some of these because they come from audience bootlegs and the sound quality is merely good, not excellent. But with improving sound editing technology, there's a lot one can do. So I've fixed this one, and now it's good to go.

From 2003 until 2011, Hitchcock held a benefit concert most years at the small Three Kings club in London, and each time he performed one of his favorite albums by some other musical act, from start to finish. This, the second such concert, was his version of the classic "White Album" by the Beatles in 1968. Usually, he played some extra songs at the end of the concert. But since this was a double album, he just played every song from the White Album, in order, and nothing else.

Hitchcock was backed by a small band that included Kimberley Rew and Morris Windsor, two members of his 1970s band the Soft Boys. They were occasionally joined by others, for instance on "Revolution 9" (where backing tapes were also used).

I only have a limited number of editing techniques that I know, but they were pretty useful for this album. First, I ran every song through the MVSEP program to remove the crowd noise during songs, while keeping the cheering at the ends of songs. Then, I ran all the songs through MVSEP again, this time boosting the vocals relative to the instruments. I think these edits made a big difference. Now, this sounds more like a soundboard than an audience bootleg, though it still sounds far from pristine.  

This album is the hour and 48 minutes long. 

01 Back in the U.S.S.R. 
02 Dear Prudence
03 Glass Onion 
04 talk
05 Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da
06 talk 
07 Wild Honey Pie 
08 The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill 
09 While My Guitar Gently Weeps 
10 talk 
11 Happiness Is a Warm Gun
12 talk
13 Martha My Dear 
14 I'm So Tired 
15 Blackbird
16 talk 
17 Piggies 
18 Rocky Raccoon 
19 talk 
20 Don't Pass Me By 
21 talk 
22 Why Don't We Do It in the Road
23 talk 
24 I Will 
25 talk 
26 Julia
27 Birthday 
28 Yer Blues
29 Mother Nature's Son 
30 talk 
31 Everybody's Got Something to Hide Except Me and My Monkey 
32 Sexy Sadie
33 talk 
34 Helter Skelter 
35 Long, Long, Long 
36 Revolution 1
37 talk 
38 Honey Pie 
39 Savoy Truffle 
40 talk 
41 Cry Baby Cry 
42 Revolution 9 
43 Good Night 
44 talk 

Richard Thompson - BBC Sessions, Volume 6: In Concert, Town and Country Club, London, Britain, 8-18-1991 | Albums That Should Exist

 Richard Thompson - BBC Sessions, Volume 6: In Concert, Town and Country Club, London, Britain, 8-18-1991

Paul says: Months ago, I posted a poll about posting more albums from people's favorite musical acts. I've been distracted by a lot of things since then, including new polls, but I want to keep going back to that. So here's another BBC album from one of the top voters from that poll, Richard Thompson.

This is a concert from 1991, the year Thompson released the studio album "Rumour and Sigh." It got a lot of critical acclaim, and I believe its probably his best solo album. This concert heavily leans into that album, with eight songs out of the 11 songs coming from it. Note also this was performed with a full band.

There was one problem with this recording, and that was the very common problem of the lead vocals being too low in the mix. So, as usual, I fixed that with the use of the UVR5 audio editing program.

The music here is unreleased, and the sound quality is close to excellent.

This album is 58 minutes long. That means the BBC edited down a longer concert to fit in an hour-long radio show slot.

01 Read about Love 
02 Backlash Love Affair 
03 Gypsy Love Songs 
04 talk 
05 Keep Your Distance
06 talk 
07 Tear Stained Letter 
08 talk 
09 1952 Vincent Black Lightning
10 talk 
11 I Misunderstood 
12 I Feel So Good
13 Valerie 
14 Mystery Wind 
15 Mother Knows Best

Rolling Stones - Hyde Park Festival, London, UK 1969 | so many roads (to ease my soul)

Rolling Stones - 1969-07-05 - Hyde Park Festival, London, UK (SBD)

Rolling Stones

1969-07-05

Concert for Brian Jones

Hyde Park

London, UK

Soundboard Recording

01. Eulogy For Brian Jones

02. I'm Yours and I'm Hers

03. Jumping Jack Flash

04. No Expectations

05. Mercy Mercy

06. Stray Cat Blues

07. I'm Free

08. Down Home Girl

09. Love in Vain

10. Loving Cup

11. Midnight Rambler

12. Satisfaction

13. Honky tonk Woman

14. Street Fighting Man

15. Sympathy For The Devil

Speedy says:

On July 3, 1969, Brian Jones was found unconscious at the bottom of a swimming pool at his home. By the time doctors arrived, it was too late, he was dead, the first of many 1960’s rock icons to die way too young. Brian was 27, the same age as Jim Morrison, Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin were when they were to die in the next few years. Perhaps those around him should have seen that the end was near. Brian had been abusing drugs for years, causing his health to fail and rendering him unable to contribute to the Stones’ recent albums. He was at odds with Jagger and Richards over the band’s future direction, wanting to remain more blues focused. Those twin issues fueled each other, causing Brian to spin out of control and resulting in his being asked to leave the Rolling Stones on June 8, 1969. His life ended less than a month later. Two days after his death, the Rolling Stones played an outdoor festival in Hyde Park in London. Also on the bill were Third Ear Band, King Crimson, Screw, Alexis Korner's New Church, Family, and The Battered Ornaments The show had been scheduled weeks earlier, so the Stones decided to keep the date and turn it into a tribute to their former guitarist. Before the Rolling Stones' set, Jagger read excerpts from Adonais, a poem by Percy Shelly about the death of his friend, John Keats. Stagehands released hundreds of white butterflies as part of the tribute. The band opened with a song by Johnny Winter, I'm Yours and I'm Hers, that was one of Jones' favorites. This soundboard captures that historic set from July 5, 1969, 56 years ago today. 

Now, cool it this is for Brian

“Peace, peace! he is not dead, he doth not sleep —

He hath awakened from the dream of life —

‘Tis we, who lost in stormy visions, keep

With phantoms an unprofitable strife,

And in mad trance, strike with our spirit’s knife

Invulnerable nothings. — We decay

Like corpses in a charnel; fear and grief

Convulse us and consume us day by day,

And cold hopes swarm like worms within our living clay.

The One remains, the many change and pass;

Heaven’s light forever shines, Earth’s shadows fly;

Life, like a dome of many-coloured glass,

Stains the white radiance of Eternity,

Until Death tramples it to fragments. — Die,

If thou wouldst be with that which thou dost seek!

Follow where all is fled!”

Percy Bysshe Shelley’s poem Adonais 

Great historic moments in Rock ’n’ Roll  . . . .this one is seminal

Ronnie Lane - BBC Sessions, Volume 2: In Concert, London, Britain, 4-23-1974 | Albums That Should Exist

Ronnie Lane - BBC Sessions, Volume 2: In Concert, London, Britain, 23 April 1974

Paul says: About six months ago, I posted the first volume of Ronnie Lane performing for the BBC. I kinda lost track of this series for a bit, but I'm back with Volume 2. The first volume was all studio sessions, whereas this is all live material, most of it coming from one concert. Two more volumes are planned.

The first twelve tracks all come from one concert, which took place in London on April 23, 1974. It's from "BBC In Concert," which is probably the early 1970s TV show of that name that I've posted a bunch of albums from. These tracks all were released as part of the album "You Never Can Tell."

But there are a few tracks after that. "What Went Down (That Night with You)," is unreleased, and comes from the British TV show "Rock On with Kid Jensen" in late 1974. 

The remaining tracks, 14 through 19, all come from the same concert, which took place in Victoria Palace in London on March 16, 1975. However, different tracks come from different albums: "Just a Moment," "How Come," and "Kuschty Rye: The Singles." I'm guessing somewhere in the record company vaults a full concert recording exists, but only bits and pieces are being released from time to time.

By the way, note that for track 10, "I Believe in You," Lane basically let another musical act, Gallagher and Lyle, take over for one song. At the time, they were mainly known as a songwriting duo, but they would have some hits of their own in 1976. 

This album is 58 minutes long.

01 Last Orders Please 
02 talk 
03 Done This One Before 
04 talk
05 Flags and Banners
06 Tell Everyone
07 talk 
08 How Come 
09 talk 
10 I Believe in You 
11 Debris 
12 Ooh La La 
13 What Went Down [That Night with You] )
14 talk
15 From the Late to the Early - How Come
16 Sweet Virginia 
17 talk
18 You're So Rude
19 Stone [Evolution]

 

Ooh La La - Ronnie Lane’s  Slim Chance 1974

Roll On Babe - Ronnie Lane 1974

Early Faces! | The Small Faces - Baby, Please Don't Go (Marquee Сlub, London, UK, 22 March 1966)

 Small Faces performing 'Baby Please Don't Go' live at the Marquee Club on the 22nd March 1966.

A bit rough n ready but I hadn’t seen this before! Trying to find the full version but it cuts off . . . . . 

a bit more but still fades out . . . . . . 

Happy 82nd birthday to the great Taj Mahal!

Taj Mahal - Corinna (The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus, London, UK 1968)

"I’m interested in passing along something positive from generation to generation. I just didn’t really want those voices to be lost out there, and those styles of music. Personally, I didn’t care whether or not it was a career to make money. I would be just as happy being a farmer playing on playing on the weekend or at night when I got done with work, because the music really was, for me, my personal therapy. I wasn’t really out to try to win over the world. 

I’m taking my signal from some American musicians, but I take my deeper signal from musicians from another continent, born in a musician clan and class, who have been musicians for generations.

When I was in Africa in 1979, we visited 13 countries as musical ambassadors from the United States. I remember one of the conversations, when a guy came up to me, an African brother, who said, “My brother, tell me, what do you do?” And I said, “Oh, I play music.” He says, “Yes, yes, I knew that. But what do you do?” [laughs]

We went back and forth with this like a couple, three times. And then I realized what he was asking me, and I said, “I’m a farmer.” He says, “Oh, good, good, good.” Music is like breathing there."

Interview By Josef Woodard  / Downbeat

Taj Mahal sits on the veranda of his home in Topanga Canyon, Los Angeles, December 

Photographer: Baron Wolman

Albums That Should Exist | Richard Thompson (feat Zara Phillips) Home Concerts the last one

Richard Thompson - The Fairport Convention Era - Home Concert, London, Britain, 9-27-2020

Paul says : In 2020, the worst year of the Covid pandemic, Richard Thompson performed a few home concerts that were broadcast over the Internet. I could be wrong, but I believe I've already posted all but one of them at this blog. Here, finally, is the last one. 

Richard Thompson was a member of Fairport Convention from 1967 to 1971, the most celebrated years of the band's long musical history. For this solo acoustic home concert, he decided to perform just songs from his Fairport Convention era. I'm not aware of any other concert where he had this exclusive focus, this this is a special treat for both Richard Thompson solo and Fairport Convention fans.

The reason I've never posted this before is because when the concert happened, it was one of those "pay to view" deals. I don't want to deny Thompson of a revenue stream, especially considering it's become increasingly hard for musicians to make a living. But I figure enough time has passed, and I checked the download page for this, and it's defunct. There's no way to pay for it. (By the way, if anyone has any more of these types of "pay to view" shows from artists that are also expired, please let me know so I can help share them.) 

Thompson performed the concert with just his acoustic guitar. Because it was in his home, there was no audience. However, his girlfriend Zara Phillips, who is a talented musician in her own right, joined him near the end of the concert to sing song harmony vocals. He largely played the songs in chronological order of the years the songs were recorded. However, he saved up some harmony one for the end with Phillips.

This concert is especially interesting because Thompson only sang on a minority of songs when he was in Fairport Convention, since the band had other sings, especially Sandy Denny. But in this concert, he sang some songs in public for the very first time that were sang by Denny and others, in order to show off a full picture of the band in that era. He also played a few songs from his first solo album, "Henry the Human Fly" from 1972, apparently since he linked that with the Fairport years in his mind.

There's a lot of interesting banter between songs. In recent years especially, Thompson has an annoying habit of coughing quite a lot when he's on stage. (I'm guessing this is related to a stuttering problem he's had his whole life.) So I edited out most of the coughs.

This album is an hour and 28 minutes long.

01 talk 
02 Jack O'Diamonds
03 talk 
04 One Sure Thing
05 talk (Richard Thompson)
06 She Moves through the Fair 
07 talk 
08 Who Knows Where the Time Goes 
09 talk 
10 Reynardine
11 talk 
12 Matty Groves
13 talk 
14 The Deserter
15 talk 
16 Crazy Man Michael
17 talk
18 Sir Patrick Spens
19 talk
20 Sloth 
21 talk
22 Now Be Thankful 
23 talk 
24 Roll Over Vaughan Williams
25 talk
26 The Poor Ditching Boy 
27 talk (Richard Thompson with Zara Phillips)
28 I Still Miss Someone (Richard Thompson with Zara Phillips)
29 talk (Richard Thompson with Zara Phillips)
30 Gone, Gone, Gone (Richard Thompson with Zara Phillips)
31 talk (Richard Thompson with Zara Phillips)
32 Poor Will and the Jolly Hangman (Richard Thompson with Zara Phillips)
33 talk (Richard Thompson with Zara Phillips)
34 Genesis Hall (Richard Thompson with Zara Phillips)
35 talk (Richard Thompson with Zara Phillips)
36 Meet on the Ledge (Richard Thompson with Zara Phillips)
37 talk (Richard Thompson with Zara Phillips)

I paid for mine but as Paul explains it is now unavailable so we figure it’s fair game 

Song of The Day :: The Beatles "I've Got A Feeling" (Take.2) | Facebook find no 137

 "I've Got A Feeling" (Take 2) Live on The Roof Of The Apple Corps Building, Savile Row, London, UK 1.30.1969 |

(should play now . . . . . . 🙄)