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