Bob Dylan & The Band- Memphis, TN (01/23/74)

Bob Dylan & The Band
Mid-south Coliseum
Memphis, Tennessee
23 January 1974

Lineage: Master / Low gen tape > CD > EAC > FlacThere are two Ex but incomplete tapes of this show which when combined cover the full show. One is just the Dylan set, the other consists tracks 4-29. [from lk aud set]

LosslessBob entry: LB-2677.very close eac match to previous version; (did not listen to all of this one)*
* Previous version = LosslessBob LB-201: good to very good sound; d1t3 missing end; abrupt start d2t1 and then sound changes 0:3x; has strong hiss band on songs from d1t4 to d2t3;

Fix of LB-2677: Wave Repair 4.9.3 to fix micro gaps and clicks at indexes between all tracks and some clicks across > FLAC

01. / Most Likely You Go Your Way (And Iíll Go Mine)
02. Lay Lady Lay
03. Just Like Tom Thumb’s Blues //
04. / Rainy Day Women # 12 & 35
05. It Ain’t Me Babe
06. Ballad Of A Thin Man

07. Stage Fright (the Band)
08. The Night they Drove Old Dixie Down (the Band)
09. Goin’ to Memphis (the Band)
10. When you Awake (the Band)
11. I shall be Released (the Band)
12. Up on Cripple Creek (the Band)

13. All Along The Watchtower
14. Ballad Of Hollis Brown
15. Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door

01. // The Times They Are A-Changin’ ñ (solo)
02. Don’t Think Twice, Itís All Right ñ (solo)
03. Fourth Time Around ñ (solo)
04. Gates Of Eden – (solo)
05. Just Like A Woman ñ (solo)
06. It’s Alright Ma (Iím Only Bleeding) ñ (solo)

07. Rag Mama Rag (the Band)
08. This Wheel’s on Fire (the Band)
09. The Shape I’m in (the Band)
10. The Weight (the Band)

11. Forever Young
12. Something There Is About You
13. Like A Rolling Stone

14. Most Likely You Go Your Way (And Iíll Go Mine)

Note: Only performance of “Fourth Time Around” during the 1974 tour.

Robert Plant & Alison Krauss – Manchester, TN (06/15/08)

Robert Plant & Alison Krauss
06/15/08
Bonnaroo Music Festival
Manchester, TN

Rich Woman
Leave My Woman Alone
Black Dog
Sister Rosetta Goes Before Us
Through The Morning, Through The Night
So Long Goodbye To You
Fortune Teller
In The Mood
Black Country Woman
Bon Temps Roulez
Trampled Rose
Green Pastures
Down To The River
Nothin’
The Battle Of Evermore
Gone, Gone, Gone (Done Moved On)
One Woman Man

I’m one of the few people I know who didn’t particularly care for Raising Sand. I had high hopes for it, though as I think about it I’m not sure why (I’m not much for Led Zeppelin, I know very little of Robert Plant as a solo artist, and while I love Krauss’ voice, her songs I usually find to be lousy.) Perhaps it was the hype, or perhaps I dug the idea of an old rocker teaming with the bluegrass queen. Whatever the reason, the record never did it for me.

I like parts of it, some of the songs are good and intellectually I dig the match-up plus the use of old blues numbers, but at the emotional gut level it leaves me kind of flat. The brooding, dark production didn’t help either. Every song felt like death knocking at the door. Which was maybe the point, but it sure didn’t make me want to listen.

This concert though, I like a lot more. The dark production is still there, but less so. In a live setting the songs breath a little more, the Tennessee sun is allowed to shine just a bit. Or maybe they just scatter in a few uptempo songs.

I particularly like their take on a couple of old Zeppelin songs. Listen closely to “Black Dog” it is less godofthunder then the original but a lot more spooky.

Bruce Springsteen – Nashville, TN (08/21/08)

Bruce Springsteen
Sommet Center
Nashville, TN
08/21/08

Pretty nice audience recording. Recorded from side about
halfway up close to the stage. Free from audience chatter
and complete.

Recorded with Edirol R-09 with Church Cartoid Mics.

Despite what brucespringsteen.net says,
Darlingtonm County was not played.

Intro
Out in the Street
Radio Nowhere
No Surrender
Lonesome Day
Spirits in the Night
Good Rockin’ Tonight
Growin’ Up
I’m Goin’ Down
Held Up Without a Gun
Loose Ends
Youngstown
Murder Incorporated
She’s the One
Promised Land
Mary’s Place
I’m on Fire
The Rising
The Last to Die
Long Walk Home
Badlands
Girls in Their Summer Clothes
Thunder Road
Born to Run
I Fought the Law
Rosalita (w/Dave Bielanko of Marah)
American Land
Dancing in the Dark

This is my show. The one that moved me from a “fan” to a full-on drinker of the Springsteen Kool-Aid. They say it wasn’t even his best show. And I had lousy seats. Still, the man is an incredible performer and the show just knocked me down.

This is an audience recording so the sound isn’t the absolute best it could be, but it isn’t too bad and the energy just rolls right off. I’ve been thinking about making this little place in cyberspace more about the bootlegs which mainly means rolling out lots more free mp3s. As such I wanted to bring out this show since I attended it and loved it.