love Marina and The Diamonds . . .great choice from Alice over at O My Soul (again!)
Alice has a birthday this week she shares and she sings and writes great songs too, check her out. HAPPY BIRTHDAY Alice!
Saturday, August 15, 2026
The Cure - Accuracy | HERBERG DE KELDER
The Cure - Accuracy
"What is the best time to have your Cure groove going, than now, when it’s red hot summer outside? Right? Right.”
HERBERG DE KELDER
Bonnie Raitt - Sprague Hall, Yale University, New Haven, CT, 12-2-1972 | ALBUMS THAT SHOULD EXIST
BUMP from Paul - ALBUMS THAT SHOULD EXIST (because he just posted a companion set for the support act to this Bonnie set from Maria Muldaur) that and the fact Paul describes it as one of the best BONNIE ROIOs ever!
Bonnie Raitt - Sprague Hall, Yale University, New Haven, CT, 12-2-1972
In some cases though, I'm able to offer something that's different from the usual concert recordings that float through cyberspace. The Kinks 1974 concert I just posted is one example, where I found some extra songs and made some sonic adjustments. This is another example, where my version of the concert is different.
First off, I should mention that this is one of the best Bonnie Raitt bootlegs of all time. It may well be my personal favorite. Both sets on one night were recorded as a soundboard, because it all was played live over the radio. So it stands out in terms of length and sound quality. Also, for the first couple of years of Raitt's career, she played her concerts acoustically (usually just herself and a bassist, though this concert also has a piano player join in), so it's neat to hear the songs done quite differently than the full band album arrangements. On top of that, she played lots of songs that never made any of her albums. (I'm including those on my stray tracks collections, including using a few songs from this very show.)
To make a long story short, if you like Bonnie Raitt's music, especially from her early years when she was more folky and bluesy and less poppy and commercial, you should listen to this.
Now, as to what I've changed, this is another case of "less is more." I've removed all the songs from the second set that were played in this first set. I generally dislike having two versions of the same song on one album, but that's especially true here where the songs only occasionally have solos to distinguish them. Additionally, all through the concert, Raitt was bedeviled by her guitar getting out of tune, so she had to tune it up at length after nearly every song. At once point, she was so exasperated that she asked out loud why her guitar was getting out of tune so quickly, and at another point she apologized to the crowd for all the time wasted with the tuning.
But you don't have to waste time listening to Raitt endlessly tuning her guitar between songs. I lopped off about twenty minutes of that in total. But I still kept all of the between song banter, of which there is a lot. If she was talking while tuning, I generally kept that, so you do get some tuning, but not much. Also, she sometimes spoke quietly between songs. I adjusted the volume so you can better hear those bits. I suspect she had a cold (she mentioned it was cold and snowy outside), because she coughed between songs some too. I removed most of the coughing.
I was able to make some other changes too. For instance, the version of "Bluebird" in the first set was bad due to the recording being wavery, so I simply used the version from the second set instead. I think it makes for a much better listen. There were still other fixes, but I think you get the gist. The bottom line is, I've cut out the fat and made some changes so you can focus on the songs and the entertaining between song banter. I think that if this concert was readied to be an official release (and it should be!), the producers would make the same kinds of edits that I did.
By the way, one curious aspect to this recording is that Raitt pretty much appears in one stereo channel, and all the other musicians (the bassist, piano player, and Maria Muldaur singing back-up vocals on the last three songs) are on the other stereo channel. It's extreme separation. I didn't make any changes (except to tweak the stereo balance for a couple of songs), but I thought I'd mention it.
After all the changes mentioned above, the concert is an hour and 46 minutes long. The unedited version is two and a half hours long.
01 talk
02 Love Me like a Man
03 talk
04 That Song about the Midway
05 Going Down to Louisiana - Rollin' and Tumblin'
06 talk
07 You Got to Know How
08 Nothing Seems to Matter
09 Big Road
10 talk
11 Write Me a Few of Your Lines - Kokomo Blues
12 Special Delivery Blues
13 talk
14 Too Long at the Fair
15 Women Be Wise
16 talk
17 Love Has No Pride
18 talk
19 Walk On By
20 talk
21 Blender Blues
22 talk
23 Can't Find My Way Home
24 Any Day Woman
25 talk
26 Under the Falling Sky
27 talk
28 I Ain't Blue
29 talk
30 Bluebird
31 talk
32 Walking Blues
33 talk
34 Since I Fell for You
35 Do Right Woman, Do Right Man (Bonnie Raitt with Maria Muldaur)
36 talk
37 Baby What You Want Me to Do (Bonnie Raitt with Maria Muldaur)
38 talk
39 I Know (Bonnie Raitt with Maria Muldaur)
(all tracks Bonnie Raitt except where stated otherwise)
Maria Muldaur - Sprague Hall, Yale University, New Haven, CT, 12-2-1972 | Albums That Should Exist
Maria Muldaur - Sprague Hall, Yale University, New Haven, CT, 12-2-1972
One other reason I posted this is because it turns out that it was the opening act for a Bonnie Raitt concert I posted at this blog ages ago. You can find that here:
Bonnie at Sprague Hall ’72 here
Given that Muldaur was the opening act, it now makes sense that she joined Raitt for the last three songs in Raitt's set. I have the impression that Muldaur and Raitt are friends, and their musical paths have crossed many times over the years. Also note that she was backed by two musicians, with David Nichtern on guitar and Freebo on bass. I believe Freedo played bass in Raitt's set as well.
This concert took place near the very start of Muldaur's solo career. She had been a professional singer since the early 1960s, mostly as part of Jim Kweiskin and the Jug Band. Then she married Geoff Muldaur in 1969, and put out two albums with him. However, they got divorced in 1972, around the time their second album came out. So Maria launched her solo career with some touring in late 1972, then released her first solo album in 1973. That would contain the big hit "Midnight at the Oasis." At this time, she must have been relatively unknown.
This album is 49 minutes long.
01 talk
02 Me and My Chauffeur Blues
03 talk
04 Richland Woman Blues
05 talk
06 Earl's Crab Shack
07 talk
08 Lover Man [Oh, Where Can You Be]
09 talk
10 My Blues
11 talk
12 When I Was a Cowboy
13 talk
14 I Never Did Sing You a Love Song
15 talk
16 The Day Is Past and Gone
17 talk
18 Nobody's Fault but Mine
19 talk
20 Honey Babe Blues
(all tracks Maria Muldaur)
Friday, August 14, 2026
Bob Dylan - 1994-08-14 - Woodstock 94, Saugerties, NY (SBD) | so many roads
Bob Dylan - 1994-08-14 - Woodstock 94, Saugerties, NY (SBD)
Bob Dylan1994-08-14
Woodstock 1994
Winston Farm
Saugerties, NY
Soundboard Recording
01. Jokerman
02. Just Like a Woman
03. All Along the Watchtower
04. It Takes A Lot To Laugh
05. Don't Think Twice
06. Masters Of War
07. It's All Over Now Baby Blue
08. God Knows
09. I Shall Be Released
10. Highway 61 Revisited
11. Rainy Day Women #12 & 35
12. It Ain't Me Babe
Speedy says:
I've seen Bob Dylan on 3 occasions - with the Grateful Dead serving as his back up band for a set in 1987 (after the Dead played 2 sets of their own!), as a headliner in 1989, and as the lead in band for the Dead in 1995, their last tour before Jerry Garcia passed away.Today's post captures Bob Dylan in 1994 making up for missin out on the most famous rock festival in history. Twenty five years after the original festival, rock royalty came together once again at Woodstock in August 1994. That 25th anniversary concert was originally scheduled for August 13 and 14 and billed as “2 more days of peace and music”, borrowing from the 1969 concert’s promotional posters. A 3rd day was eventually added on August 12. Interestingly, many of the artists who played Woodstock 1994 did not perform at the original festival, such as the one and only Bob Dylan. This soundboard recording captures Dylan on August 14, 1994, 32 years ago today, performing before an audience of 350,000. Despite the rain and mud, conditions similar to those in 1969, the crowd was mostly well behaved and embodied the spirit shown by those who attended the original Woodstock.
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