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May 11, 2021 by Simon Sweetman
Bonnie Raitt: Rainbow Room Blues – Philly Broadcast ‘72
Bonnie Raitt Rainbow Room Blues: Philly Broadcast ‘72 Smokin’ Badger Yet another in the tumbling pile of live bootlegs taken from radio station broadcasts. These unofficial albums sometimes feel truncated and have patchy sound – even then they’re interesting. But sometimes you really feel like a jackpot’s been hit – as with this brilliant live […]Archive
April 14, 2021 by Simon Sweetman
Bob Dylan: The Best of The Bootleg Series
Bob Dylan The Best of The Bootleg Series Columbia / Legacy We used to talk about Bob’s Never Ending Tour 10 years, 20 years, 30 years, only Covid could postpone it. And somewhere in there another anniversary started to pile up. The Bootleg Series. A three volume set of rarities was boxed-up to blow minds […]Archive
April 6, 2021 by Simon Sweetman
Little Feat: Meanest Blues of All (Live 1973)
Little Feat Meanest Blues of All (Live 1973) Second Line This bootleg has been knocking around in various forms ever since there was digital music – and probably in some shape or form before that. Most recently it’s being credited to Lowell George solo rather than the band Little Feat but make no mistake this […]Archive
March 28, 2021 by Simon Sweetman
Neil Young: Young Shakespeare
Neil Young Young Shakespeare Reprise Neil Young is really cleaning out his closet of late – another big box-set from his archives (Vol. II) finally arrived after many years of chat. And Way Down In The Rust Bucket was very recently released too. That’s a Crazy Horse gig from 1990.Archive
March 5, 2021 by Simon Sweetman
Neil Young & Crazy Horse: Way Down In The Rust Bucket
Neil Young & Crazy Horse Way Down In The Rust Bucket Reprise This version and era of Crazy Horse is well-represented by official live albums – but Neil Young fans have loved passing around a bootleg of this particular show, now available officially as part of the never-ending story that is Neil Young’s Archives.Archive
February 21, 2021 by Simon Sweetman
Sun Ra: Haverford College, Jan. 25, 1980 (Solo Rhodes Piano)
Sun Ra Haverford College, Jan. 25, 1980 (Solo Rhodes Piano) Enterplanetary Koncepts Sun Ra has become shorthand for a kind of controlled chaos – exploratory in the extreme. Herman Poole Blount – aka Le Sony’r Ra or “Sun Ra” was a person, but Sun Ra wasn’t just a musician, Sun Ra was a kind of […]Archive
February 15, 2021 by Simon Sweetman
The Tremeloes: Moonlight Hour (Live 1970)
The Tremeloes Moonlight Hour (Live 1970) Hatbox The Tremeloes, probably Dagenham’s second finest. Which, given the number of good things that either came from or went to Essex is not bad really. Of all the British beat-groups that still get remembered The Tremeloes are nearly one.Archive
February 9, 2021 by Simon Sweetman
Leonard Cohen: The Moon’s Too Bright
Leonard Cohen The Moon’s Too Bright: Los Angeles ’93 Syndicated Broadcast Second Line In 1993 Leonard Cohen embarked on his first tour since 1988 – he had the album The Future out and he had songs on the soundtrack to Natural Born Killers. In short: he was back on boogie street.Archive
January 31, 2021 by Simon Sweetman
Billy Cobham: Live in Montreux (Live 1987)
Billy Cobham Live in Montreux (Live 1987) Lo-Light Records / Billy Cobham Billy Cobham – what a fucking player. He spun my head right around – that single disc greatest hits of his solo records, man. What a life-changer. When it comes down to it, so much of fusion leaves me cool but I could […]Archive
October 22, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
Black Flag: Everything Is Broken (Live 1984)
Black Flag Everything Is Broken (Live 1984): The Full 1984 Radio Tokyo Studios, Los Angeles Broadcast Taurus Records These bootlegs pop up on the streaming sites and then they’re taken down. You grab them while you can. The timing of this one is sublime, as I’ve been recently devouring Black Flag’s catalogue like I’m a […]Archive
September 14, 2020 by Simon Sweetman