Paul Butterfield from Plain & Fancy and the Rockestaria! Live at Winterland 1973 (2014 reissue) / The Butterfield Blues Band Live 1970 | MARIOS SPECIALs

The Butterfield Blues Band - Live (1970 USA, 2005 issue)

 Tracks

1. Everything Going to Be Alright - 10:08
2. Love Disease - 4:01
3. The Boxer - 6:38
4. No Amount of Loving - 5:53
5. Driftin' and Driftin' - 13:43
6. Intro to Musicians - 1:45
7. Number Nine - 10:10
8. I Want to Be With You - 3:55
9. Born Under a Bad Sign - 5:44
10.Get Together Again - 6:29
11.So Far, So Good - 9:17

Musicians
*Paul Butterfield - Vocals, Harmonica, Piano
*Ralph Wash - Vocals, Guitar
*Brother Gene Dinwiddie - Vocals, Saxophone, Tenor, Soprano Saxophone
*Rod Hicks - Vocals, Fretless Bass
*Trevor Lawrence - Baritone Saxophone, Background Vocals
*Steve Madaio - Trumpet, Background Vocals 
*Ted Harris - Piano, Keyboards 
*George Davidson - Drums

Paul Butterfield's Better Days - Live At Winterland Ballroom (1973 USA, 2014 issue)

Tracks
1. (Stuck In The) Countryside (Paul Butterfield) - 8:10

2. Buried Alive In The Blues (Nick Gravenites) - 3:48
3. Small Town Talk (Bobby Charles, Rick Danko) - 5:21
4. New Walkin Blues (Robert Johnson) - 6:18
5. Broke My Baby's Heart (Ronnie Barron) - 7:18
6. Highway 28 (Rod Hicks) - 4:41
7. Please Send Me Someone To Love (Percy Mayfield) - 5:21
8. He's Got All The Whiskey (Bobby Charles) - 14:11
9. Nobody's Fault But Mine (Nina Simone) - 7:57

Better Days
*Paul Butterfield - Vocals, Harmonica, Keyboards
*Geoff Muldaur - Vocals, Guitar, Keyboards
*Amos Garrett - Electric Guitar, Vocal
*Ronnie Barron - Vocals, Piano, Organ
*Billy Rich - Bass
*Christopher Parker - Drums

New Walkin' Blues - Paul Butterfield's Better Days | The Midnight Special

 Born Under A Bad Sign - The Paul Butterfield Blues Band- 1978 Rockpalast

Jason Isbell - Capitol Theatre, Port Chester, NY, 5-20-2015 | Albums That Should Exist [+ John Prine, and Amanda Shires 2016]

 

Jason Isbell - Capitol Theatre, Port Chester, NY, 5-20-2015

One thing I like about posting albums from the April 2026 Capitol Theatre, Port Chester soundboard leak is that it forces me to discover music that I previously never heard. This is a good case in point. This is a concert by singer-songwriter Jason Isbell with his backing band, the 400 Unit. I'd heard good things about him, but I'd never really heard his music. Now I have, and I was impressed. Maybe you will be as well.

Here's the into to his Wikipedia entry:

"Michael Jason Isbell is an American singer-songwriter. Considered one of the best contemporary songwriters in his genre, he is known for his honest, emotional lyrics. Isbell began his career as a member of Drive-By Truckers for six years, from 2001 to 2007. His first album with his backing band, the 400 Unit, was released in 2009.

"In 2013, Isbell released his solo commercial breakthrough, 'Southeastern,' which debuted at No. 23 on the Billboard 200 and appeared on Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time. The album was later certified gold. Southeastern also featured his signature song, 'Cover Me Up,' which won Song of the Year at the Americana Music Honors & Awards. ... Isbell has earned praise from artists such as John Mayer, Bruce Springsteen, David Crosby, and Zach Bryan. He has won six Grammy Awards out of ten nominations."

Here's a link to the rest of the entry:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jason_Isbell 

This concert took place a couple of months prior to the release of his 2015 album "Something More Than Free." So there are some songs from that one. All the songs are written by Isbell except the last one, a cover of Neil Young's "Like a Hurricane." 

Like most music from this leak, I had to work with a single mono audio file. So I chopped that into individual mp3s. Other than that, I didn't have problems here. The one alteration I made is boosting the volume of the applause at the ends of songs when I could. It wasn't super low, like it is sometimes with soundboards, but it did benefit from getting boosted.

This album is two hours and two minutes long. 

01 talk
02 Stockholm 
03 Flying Over Water 
04 talk 
05 Tour of Duty 
06 Dress Blues 
07 talk
08 24 Frames 
09 talk
10 Decoration Day 
11 Go It Alone
12 talk 
13 Different Days 
14 talk 
15 Live Oak 
16 Alabama Pines 
17 talk 
18 Traveling Alone 
19 Songs that She Sang in the Shower
20 Cover Me Up 
21 Relatively Easy 
22 Codeine
23 Elephant 
24 talk 
25 Something More than Free 
26 Never Gonna Change 
27 Outfit 
28 talk 
29 Danko-Manuel 
30 Like a Hurricane 

all tracks Jason Isbell 

Jason Isbell ‘Decoration Day’ Live at The Capital Theater Port Chester May 20 2015 

A year later . . . . this was how I found Drive By Trucker Jason Isbell

John Prine, Amanda Shires, Jason Isbell, "In Spite of Ourselves” Ryman Auditorium, 

11 March 2016

Jason Isbell - Danko/Manuel | Live From Austin City Limits TV

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers - Breakdown OGWT 1978 | jt1674

 

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Bob Dylan and the Band - Knockin' on Heaven’s Door [The 1974 Live Recordings] | jt1674

 

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Bob Dylan - Man In The Long Black Coat - Hamburg 10/18/03

 For Dell  . . . . mostly!

Bob Dylan - Man In The Long Black Coat - Hamburg 10/18/03

Mickey Baker "Rock With A Sock” 1993 | TWILIGHTZONE

 Mickey Baker "Rock With A Sock" 1993

...Baker's best work, though, was recorded as half of the duo Mickey & Sylvia...

..Their hit "Love Is Strange," as well as several other unknown but nearly equally strong tracks, featured Baker's keening, bluesy guitar riffs, which were gutsier and more piercing than most anything else around in the late '50s. Mickey & Sylvia split in the late '50s (though they recorded off and on until the middle of the next decade), and Baker recorded his best solo album, the all-instrumental The Wildest Guitar. In 1961, he took the male spoken part (usually assumed to be Ike Turner) on Ike & Tina Turner's first hit, "It's Gonna Work Out Fine." Shortly afterwards he moved to France, making a few hard-to-find solo records and working with a lot of French pop and rock performers, including Ronnie Bird, the best '60s French rock singer. He recorded only sporadically after the mid-'60s. Mickey Baker died at his home in Montastruc-la-Conseillère, France on November 27, 2012, at the age of 87...to be continued... - by Richie Unterberger

track listing:
1 Guitar Mambo - Mickey Baker 2 Riverboat - Mickey Baker 3 Love Me, Baby - Mickey Baker 4 Oh, Happy Day - Mickey Baker 5 Where Is My Honey - Mickey Baker 6 I'm Tired - Mickey Baker 7 Stranger Blues - Mickey Baker 8 I Wish I Knew - Mickey Baker 9 Down To The Bottom - Larry Dale 10 You Better Heed My Warning - Larry Dale 11 Midnight Hours - Larry Dale 12 Please Tell Me - Larry Dale 13 Shake Walkin' - Mickey Baker 14 Greasy Spoon - Mickey Baker 15 Bandstand Stomp (Ho, Ho, Ho) - Mickey Baker 16 Rock With A Sock - Mickey Baker 17 Old Devil Moon - Mickey Baker 18 Guitarambo - Mickey Baker 19 Spinnin' Rock Boogie - Bill Hendricks & His Orchestra 20 Chloe - Mickey Baker 21 Ghost Of A Chance - Mickey Baker 22 The Man I Love - Mickey Baker 23 Bobi - Mickey Baker 24 Hello, Stranger - Mickey & Sylvia 25 My Love - Mickey & Sylvia 26 Woe, Woe Is Me - Mickey & Sylvia 27 Can't Get You On The Phone - Mickey & Sylvia 28 I'll Always Want You Near - Mickey & Sylvia

Mickey Baker - Rock With a Sock

Mickey Baker - Guitar Mambo

Mickey Baker - Down To The Bottom

ADVERT BREAK : "MonaLisa Twins play Beatles & more Vol. 4" is OUT NOW!

 

ISSUE #250 • October 2026

"Daydream Believer" - The Monkees Cover "MonaLisa Twins play Beatles & more Vol. 4" is OUT NOW! We just released a new album! MonaLisa Twins play Beatles & more Vol. 4 has been many years in the making and is the fourth compilation album of our studio covers. This one brings together songs we've recorded from 2019 right up to now. Till There Was You, Lola, Africa, Nowhere Man ... so many of our most popular YouTube videos haven't had an album to call home yet, until now! To celebrate the release, we've also uploaded a brand-new video for our version of The Monkees' "Daydream Believer". It's such a catchy tune! The album features 14 studio recordings of some of our favourite covers and you can now get it on CD or as a Digital Download from our website. We've also created a matching Coaster Set to go along with the release, which you can get together with the album as a Bundle at 10% off. As always, you can get your CD signed by becoming an MLT Club Member. It's one of the perks of joining our paid fan club on our website (similar to Patreon). You can join by clicking HERE, or you'll also find the option to sign up during checkout. Watch "Daydream Believer" & Order Album We can't believe that this is our 14th album! We recorded several brand-new cover songs specifically for it, 6 of which have not been shared to our YouTube channel yet! Lots of Beatles, Kinks, Simon & Garfunkel, David Bowie, ... If you pick up a copy or some merch - THANK YOU! It means a lot to us and helps us stay independent and keep making music :) Stay groovy, Mona & Lisa

Guy Clark - Dublin Blues

 Guy Clark - Dublin Blues

Johnny Rivers - Rewind • Realisation (1967-68) | Plain & Fancy [[Rockasteria]

 Johnny Rivers - Rewind • Realisation (1967-68) 

With a big, clean production, and quality L.A. session musicians, Rewind is a great collection of blue-eyed soul and rock. The album's two Motown covers, "Baby I Need Your Loving" and "Tracks of My Tears," are more similar to tributes than attempts to outshine the originals. Rivers sounds like a well-adjusted Southern hipster on tracks like "The Eleventh Song," which makes him sound like a cooler version of Sonny Bono. "Rosecrans Boulevard" showcases superb vocal harmonies and horn playing. 

The most interesting track would have to be "Sidewalk Song/27th Street," which is pretty mediocre as a song, but are the bizarre sound clips possibly attacking commercialism? No one really knows. Produced by Lou Adler, arranged by Jimmy Webb, featuring Joe Osborne on bass, Larry Knechtel on piano, and Hal Blaine on drums, this record is a solid, tight recording, with excellent production and inventive arrangements provided by Webb. 

by Zach Curd

Not a concept album, but a song cycle depicting life in southern California in the late '60s, Realization is a fine cycle to catch a ride on. It's also a serious surprise -- when psychedelia reared its head in 1967, the results were frequently disastrous for those performers who'd been specializing in straight-ahead rock & roll, and few had rocked harder or more straight-ahead than Johnny Rivers. Instead of jumping on a bandwagon that had nothing to do with where he was musically, he hijacked the sounds of psychedelic rock -- much as the Temptations did at Motown -- and took it where he was going. 

Acting as his own producer for the first time, Rivers opened up a slightly gentler side to his work that's equally valid and a lot more interesting, if not quite as exciting as his rock & roll classics. After a few sonic digressions as a lead-in, "Hey Joe" gets going, carrying listeners into Rivers' gorgeous rendition of James Hendricks' "Look to Your Soul." His own achingly beautiful "The Way We Live" follows, and then comes Hendricks' "Summer Rain," which turned into Rivers' last big hit of the 1960s. And then he has the temerity to take "A Whiter Shade of Pale" and make it prettier and harder -- but less spacy -- than the Procol Harum original; from there he plunges into blue-eyed soul on "Brother, Where Are You." 

The surprises continue right through to the rather delicate, introspective reading of "Positively Fourth Street" at the close, Rivers succeeding in evoking a vast array of thoughts and emotions. For his trouble, helped by the two hits, he was rewarded with a Top Five charting album, and one that has continued to find new admirers across the decades. 

by Bruce Eder

Tracks
1. The Tracks Of My Tears (Warren "Pete" Moore, Smokey Robinson, Marvin Tarplin) - 3:00
2. Carpet Man (Jimmy Webb) - 3:05
3. Tunesmith (Jimmy Webb) - 3:12
4. Sidewalk Song / 27th Street (Jimmy Webb) - 2:27
5. It'll Never Happen Again (Tim Hardin) - 3:28
6. Do What You Gotta Do (Jimmy Webb) - 2:22
7. Baby I Need Your Lovin' (Brian Holland, Edward Holland, Jr., Lamont Dozier) - 3:10
8. For Emily, Wherever I May Find Her (Paul Simon) - 2:53
9. Rosecrans Boulevard (Jimmy Webb) - 2:34
10.The Eleventh Song (Jimmy Webb) - 2:21
11.Sweet Smiling Children (Jimmy Webb) - 2:14
12.Hey Joe (Billy Roberts) - 4:33
13.Look To Your Soul (James Hendricks) - 3:11
14.The Way We Live (Johnny Rivers) - 3:09
15.Summer Rain (James Hendricks) - 3:52
16.Whiter Shade Of Pale (Gary Brooks, Keith Reid) - 5:39
17.Broker Where Are You (Oscar Brown, Jr.) - 3:37
18.Something's Strange (James Hendricks, Johnny Rivers) - 3:28
19.What's The Difference (Scott McKenzie) - 2:48
20.Going Back To Big Sur (Johnny Rivers) - 3:28
21.Positively 4th Street (Bob Dylan) - 5:03

Musicians
*Johnny Rivers – Vocals, Guitar
*Larry Knechtel – Piano
*Mike Deasy Sr. – Guitar
*Joe Osborn – Bass
*Mike Deasy Jr. – Vocals
*Hal Blaine - Drums,  Percussion
*James Burton - Guitar
*James Hendricks - Rhythm Guitar
*Marty Paich - Horn, Strings

Johnny Rivers - Positively Fourth Street [Dylan cover]

John Martin - I’d Rather be The Devil |jt1674

  . . . . .speaking of the Devil . . .we were I swear! Another Christian shibboleth (well Abrahamic invention at best Islam and Judasism all recognise the need for the baddy in black. . . in the form of a fallen Angel! Superstitious primitive mumbo jumbo of course . . . . . morning all!

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