Taj Mahal - Ebbets Field, Denver, CO, 5-16-1973, Early & Late Show | Albums That Should Exist

 A TAJ MAHAL TWOFER from PAUL AT ATSE

Taj Mahal - Ebbets Field, Denver, CO, 5-16-1973, Early Show

Paul says: The recent flood of posts from the Ebbets Field radio broadcasts continues. Here's Taj Mahal. I'll be posting both the early and late shows he did the same night.

This concert was in solo acoustic mode. Mostly, he played guitar. But he also played a little banjo, as well as an African instrument known as the kalimba (also known as the mbira). On the cover image, he can be seen playing a banjo.

His most recent album at the time was "Recycling the Blues and Other Related Stuff," released in 1972. He has an instrumental on that album simply called "Kalimba," which is how I know the name of that song. (I had to figure out most of the song titles, since the bootleg I took the music from was bad with titles.) "Cakewalk into Town" and "Corrina" are the only other songs he played from that album. 

The music here is unreleased. The sound quality is excellent. But I did do a fair amount of audio editing in the Audacity program to improve things. Some parts were too loud, sometimes the vocals were too low, and so on.

This album is 51 minutes long. 

01 Banjo Rag [Instrumental] 
02 talk 
03 Kalimba [Instrumental] thumb piano
04 Cakewalk into Town 
05 Big Legged Mammas Are Back in Style
06 Going Up to the Country, Paint My Mailbox Blue 
07 Ain't Nobody's Business But My Own 
08 Fishin' Blues 
09 Straight Shootin' Blues 
10 Ain't Gwine Whistle Dixie [Any Mo'] 
11 Done Changed My Way of Living 
12 Corrina, Corinna

Taj Mahal - Ebbets Field, Denver, CO, 5-16-1973, Late Show

Paul adds: The album I just posted is Taj Mahal performing at Ebbets Field in Denver on May 16, 1973, for the early show. This is the same, except it's the late show. The two shows have very similar set lists. (And both were broadcast on the radio, which is why they have such excellent sound quality.) Normally, I wouldn't post two concerts that are this similar. But I figure these are quite obscure. I had a difficult time finding them. So I want to post both, to bring them back into wider circulation.

The main difference between this show and the early show is the last two songs, which were only performed in this show. Plus, the last four songs in the early show weren't performed here. So if you want everything without multiple versions of songs, I suggest you save the early show, then add the last two songs from this late show to the end.

By the way, in case you didn't notice, I recently changed the font type and color for the Ebbets Field concerts I've been posting. The first seven or so had a yellow color. But there were some troublesome issues with that font. So when I found another sixty (!) or so concerts from this venue, I decided to use an easier one. I also found a little logo from the venue showing the baseball stadium in New York City that the venue was named after. I decided to stick that on all the albums from that venue. Since that logo was mainly in green, I changed the font color to green. In recent days, I went back and reposted all the yellow ones to the new color scheme, so they'll all be consistent. 

This album is 54 minutes long.

01 talk 
02 Kalimba [Instrumental] 
03 talk 
04 Banjo Rag [Instrumental] 
05 Cakewalk into Town
06 Going Up to the Country, Paint My Mailbox Blue 
07 Ain't Nobody's Business but My Own
08 talk
09 Big Legged Mammas Are Back in Style 
10 Fishin' Blues 
11 Sweet Home Chicago 
12 Linin' Track Blues