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12/31/77 Winterland
SAN FRANCISCO, CA
Released: 2009
Label: Kufala
Producer: Rob Bleetstein
Mastered By: Jeffrey Norman at
Garage Audio, Petaluma, CA
Recorded By: Betty Cantor-Jackson
Photos: ©Bob Minkin
Band Personnel
John Dawson: guitar, vocals
David Nelson: lead guitar, vocals
Buddy Cage : pedal steel guitar
Stephen Love : bass, vocals
Patrick Shanahan : drums, percussion
The New Riders of the Purple Sage celebrated the last evening of 1977 in great style—performing a memorable New Year’s Eve concert at San Francisco’s Winterland with the Grateful Dead. This was the first time the New Riders were teamed up with the Dead for a gig in the Bay Area since the summer of 1974, and while emotions ran high, the music rises even higher.
The NRPS Archives and Kufala Recordings are pleased to present Winterland 12/31/77, a 2-disc recording which captures the New Riders performance that closed out a year filled with invigorating shows as well as the release of their Marin County Line album. The rhythm section of Stephen Love on bass and drummer Patrick Shanahan, both veterans of Rick Nelson’s Stone Canyon Band, assists the band’s core members John Dawson, David Nelson and Buddy Cage to elevating the music new heights. Love resurrects the NRPS favorite “Hello Mary Lou,” and contributes “Love Has Strange Ways,” which gives the band some ample room to stretch their musical wings.
A blazing concert from start to finish, 12/31/77 includes terrific renderings of “Fifteen Days Under The Hood,” “Henry,” “One Too Many Stories,” “Crooked Judge,” “Glendale Train,” “Dead Flowers” and an extended “Portland Woman” that fully captures the magic of Winterland.
The original 2-track master reels were recorded at 7.5 ips by Betty Cantor-Jackson and transferred and mastered by Jeffrey Norman at Garage Audio Mastering using the HDCD format for your sonic enjoyment.
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Tracks
Disc One
Hello Mary Lou (Pitney)
Little Old Lady (Wilbur)
Fifteen Days Under The Hood (Tempchin)
Love Has Strange Ways (Love)
Henry (Dawson)
Home Grown (Dryden)
One Too Many Stories (Dawson)
Red Hot Women and Ice Cold Beer (Coben)
Oh What A Night (Love)
Little Miss Bad (Dawson)
Disc Two
Jasper (Dawson/Nelson)
Louisiana Lady (Dawson)
T For Texas (Rodgers)
Portland Woman (Dawson)
Crooked Judge (Hunter/Nelson)
You Never Can Tell (Berry)
Glendale Train (Dawson)
Dead Flowers (Jagger/Richards)
Here's the original NRPS Unite newsletter sent out to fans right after this New Year's Eve show. Enjoy!
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3/17/73 S.U.N.Y.
STONYBROOK, NY
Released: 2007
Label: Kufala
Producer: Rob Bleetstein
Mastered By: Stephen Barncard
Recorded By: Bill Culhane
Band Personnel
John Dawson: guitar, vocals
David Nelson: lead guitar, vocals
Dave Torbert: bass, vocals
Buddy Cage: pedal steel guitar
Spencer Dryden: drums, percussion
Guest Musician
Ramblin'
Jack Elliott: vocals
March 17, 1973 and the New Riders of the Purple Sage are
in their prime performing another night of mystical psychedelic
cowboy rock and roll in the State University of New York
at Stonybrook gymnasium. With songs from the forthcoming
The Adventures Of Panama Red being debuted in their
infancy on this tour, this crowd of students and the infamous
Long Island NRPS heads were treated to an incredible night
of music and high times.
Stonybrook 3/17/73 is a 2-disc, full show
experience in all it’s time captured glory. Steel
guitarist Buddy Cage’s uniquely tasteful tune up of
“Amazing Grace” sets the tone for the intense
and long night ahead. John Dawson’s “One Too
Many Stories” and “You Should Have Seen Me Runnin’”
include early lyrics that changed once Panama Red was released.
With plenty of more favorites and jams on "Portland
Woman," "All I Ever Wanted" and "Willie
and the Hand Jive," we've also got Archive release
firsts of "Sweet Lovin' One" and "Crazy Arms."
The night gets topped off with Ramblin' Jack Elliott joining
in on the encores.
Whenever the New Riders of the Purple Sage appeared on
Long Island, it was literally an event unto itself. NRPS
Stonybrook 3/17/73 is not only proof of
that, but we’ve done our best to present this evening
to you just as it was. Theres are pressed CDs, not CD-Rs
for your quality assurance.
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Tracks
Disc One
Amazing Grace Tuneup / Introduction
Teardrops In My Eyes (Allen/Sutton)
One Too Many Stories (Dawson)
Take A Letter Maria (R.B. Greaves)
School Days (Berry)
Portland Woman (Dawson)
It's Alright With Me (Torbert)
Rainbow (Dawson)
Hello Mary Lou (Pitney)
Lochinvar (Dawson)
She's No Angel (Ballman/Arnold)
You Should Have Seen Me Runnin (Dawson)
Long Black Veil (Wilkin/Dill)
Truck Drivin' Man (Fell)
Contract (Torbert)
Sweet Lovin' One (Dawson)
- Second Set -
Groupie (Torbert)
Sutter's Mill (Dawson)
I Don't Need No Doctor (Ashford, Simpson)
Disc Two
Henry (Dawson)
Crazy Arms (Mooney)
Glendale Train (Dawson)
All I Ever Wanted (Dawson)
Whiskey (Dawson)
Who Likes Louie Louie?
California Day (Torbert)
Louisiana Lady (Dawson)
Last Lonely Eagle (Dawson)
Dim Lights, Thick Smoke (Maphis, Fiddler, Lee)
Willie and the Hand Jive (Otis)
Encore (with Ramblin' Jack Elliott):
Connection (Jagger/Richards)
Honky Tonk Women (Jagger/Richards)
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6/13/75 ARMADILLO WORLD HQ AUSTIN,
TX
Released: 2005
Label: Kufala
Producer: Rob Bleetstein
Mastered By: Stephen Barncard
Recorded By: Onion Audio
Band Personnel
John Dawson: guitar, vocals
David Nelson: lead guitar, vocals
Skip Battin: bass, vocals
Buddy Cage: pedal steel guitar
Spencer Dryden: drums, percussion
Austin, Texas, 1975. The “Outlaw Country” movement
was reaching its peak with weekly musical meetings of hippies
and rednecks at the 1500 capacity Armadillo World Headquarters.
The New Riders had been making Austin a home away from home
for a few years by the time this middle night of a three-night
run of performances came about. Bassist Skip Battin had
been in the band for a full year now. Live at the Armadillo
was mastered directly off of the original 1/4 track reel
to reel recording and captures this night just as it was—in
all of its hot, sweaty, beer-soaked and smoke-filled glory.
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Tracks
Disc One
I Don't Know You (Dawson)
Panama Red (Rowan)
Lonesome L.A. Cowboy (Rowan)
Austin, Texas (Battin)
Instant Armadillo Blues (Dawson)
Teardrops In My Eyes (Allen/Sutton)
Dirty Business (Dawson)
Henry (Dawson)
Sutter's Mill (Dawson)
Dim Lights, Thick Smoke (Maphis, Fiddler, Lee)
Louisiana Lady (Dawson)
Strangers On A Train (Battin/Fowley)
Portland Woman (Dawson)
Disc Two
I'm Bringing Home Good News (Haggard)
You Angel You (Dylan)
She's No Angel (Ballman/Arnold)
My Dog Peaches (Dawson)
On The Amazon (Battin/Fowley)
Before The Next Teardrop Falls (Peters/Keith)
Over And Over (Dawson)
Whiskey (Dawson)
Crooked Judge (Nelson/Hunter)
I Will Never Make You Blue (Wakefield)
New Orleans (Guida/Royster)
La Bamba (Valens)
Glendale Train (Dawson)
Dead Flowers (Jagger/Richards)
Nadine (Berry) |
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8/27/72 TEMPLE MEADOW VENETA,
OR
Released: 2004
Label: Kufala
Producer: Rob Bleetstein
Recorded By: Bob Matthews & Betty Cantor
Mixed and Mastered By: Stephen Barncard
16-Track Transfer By: Jeffrey Norman
Band Personnel
John Dawson: guitar, vocals
David Nelson: lead guitar, vocals
Dave Torbert: bass, vocals
Buddy Cage: pedal steel guitar
Spencer Dryden: drums, percussion
August 27, 1972...the New Riders on the bill with the Grateful
Dead for what became one of the more legendary events of
this subculture’s history. Chuck Kesey (brother of
author and Merry Prankster icon Ken Kesey) put together
this benefit concert, which quickly became known as the
“Field Trip,” for the Springfield Creamery.
As fellow Prankster Ken Babbs recalls, “no one ever
suspected it would become a historic event with an attendance
of 20,000 on the hottest day ever…they ran out of
water, the guitars warped in the heat and now everyone you
talk to was there on that all time greatest most spectacular
day.”
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Tracks
Truck Drivin' Man (Fell)
Rainbow (Dawson)
Lochinvar (Dawson)
Groupie (Torbert)
Stage Announcement - White Bird Tent
Whatcha Gonna Do (Dawson)
Dim Lights, Thick Smoke (Maphis, Fiddler, Lee)
Hello Mary Lou (Pitney)
Stage Announcement - Field Tripping
Whiskey (Dawson)
Stage Announcement - Salt Tabs & Blue Acid
Runnin' Back To You (Dawson)
I Don't Need No Doctor (Ashford, Simpson)
Linda (Dawson)
Louisiana Lady (Dawson)
Last Lonely Eagle (Dawson)
Willie and the Hand Jive (Otis) |
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12/5/72 BOSTON MUSIC HALL
BOSTON, MA
Released: 2003
Label: Kufala
Producer: Rob Bleetstein
Recorded By: Bill Culhane
Mastered By: Stephen Barncard
Band Personnel
John Dawson: guitar, vocals
David Nelson: lead guitar, vocals
Dave Torbert: bass, vocals
Buddy Cage: pedal steel guitar
Spencer Dryden: drums, percussion
Guest Musicians
Eric
Andersen: guitar, vocals
Our second Live Archive Series release finds the Riders
with their engines primed as they pull into the historic
confines of Tremont Street's Boston Music Hall. Eric Andersen,
who opened the show, guests on the evening's encores.
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Tracks
Disc One
Truck Drivin' Man (Fell)
Whatcha Gonna Do (Dawson)
Hello Mary Lou (Pitney)
Rainbow (Dawson)
Down In The Boondocks (South)
Portland Woman (Dawson)
She's No Angel (Ballman/Arnold)
School Days (Berry)
Henry (Dawson)
Long Black Veil (Wilkin/Dill)
Sailin' (Dawson)
Contract (Torbert)
Glendale Train (John Dawson)
Louisiana Lady (Dawson)
Disc Two
I Don't Know You (Dawson)
Sutter's Mill (Dawson)
Groupie (Torbert)
Whiskey (Dawson)
Last Lonely Eagle (Dawson)
Willie and the Hand Jive (Otis)
I Love To Sing My Ballad, Mama (But They Only Wanna Hear
Me Rock 'N' Roll) (Andersen)
Honky Tonk Women (Jagger/Richards) |
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4/4/73 CLARK UNIVERSITY WORCESTER,
MA
Released: 2003
Label: Kufala
Producer: Rob Bleetstein
Recorded By: Bill Culhane
Mastered By: Rich Winter
Band Personnel
John Dawson: guitar, vocals
David Nelson: lead guitar, vocals
Dave Torbert: bass, vocals
Buddy Cage: pedal steel guitar
Spencer Dryden: drums, percussion
Guest Musicians
Keith Godchaux: piano
Donna Jean Godchaux: vocals
This first release in our Live Archive Series captures
the band in their prime in the Spring of 1973 after a tour
opening for the Grateful Dead in various East Cost cities.
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Tracks
Disc One
I Don't Know You (Dawson)
Lochinvar (Dawson)
Rainbow (Dawson)
It's Alright With Me (Torbert))
Sailin' (Dawson)
Whatcha Gonna Do (Dawson)
California Day (Torbert)
Linda (Dawson)
Groupie (Torbert)
One Too Many Stories (Dawson)
Contract (Torbert)
Teardrops In My Eyes (Allen/Sutton)
Long Black Veil (Wilkin/Dill)
You Ain't Woman Enough (Lynn)
Whiskey (Dawson)
Disc Two
Dirty Business (Dawson)
Down In The Boondocks (South)
Hello Mary Lou (Pitney)
You Should Have Seen Me Runnin (Dawson)
Portland Woman (Dawson)
Henry (Dawson)
Glendale Train (John Dawson)
Last Lonely Eagle (Dawson)
Louisiana Lady (Dawson)
Willie and the Hand Jive (Otis) |
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