J.D. Souther
Troubadour Nightclub
West Hollywood, California
April 8, 1976
KWST-FM Broadcast Recording - Master Reel
Flac Level 8 & MP3 320kbps
Cover Art Included
Rest In Peace J.D. Souther 11/02/1945-09/17/2024
Source: KWST-FM (Over The Air Antenna) > Phillips AH-6731 > TEAC 2300 @ 3 3/4 ips
Transfer (Dec. 2014): Revox B77 > Korg mr2000-s @ 1 bit, 5.6 MHz DSD
Mastering: AudioGate (24-96) > Adobe Audition 3.0 (clean up, track splits) > AudioGate Aqua (16-44) > TLH (flac16 level 8)
"Off Air" Master Reel to Reel Recorded By Kevin Webber
CD 1
01 Kite Woman
02 Don't Cry Now
03 Faithless Love
04 Thief In The Night
05 Mexico
06 Silver Blue
07 Jesus In 3/4 Time
08 Simple Man, Simple Dream
09 Your Turn Now
CD 2
01 The Fast One
02 White Wing
03 Midnight Prowl
04 Door Swings Open
05 Black Rose
06 Band Intros
07 Banging My Head Against The Moon
-- -Encore Call-
08 Border Town
09 Trouble In Paradise
Total Playing Time CD1: 38mn 52sc
Total Playing Time CD2: 45mn 23sc
Total Playing Time Both CDs: 1hr 24mn 15sc
Personnel
J.D. Souther (R.I.P.) - vocals, guitar
Ira Ingber - guitar
Fred Palmer - bass
Dean Hagen - drums
Greg Leroy - guitar
Vince Melamed - keyboards
With all the politics and natural disasters in the news I didn't hear that Singer/Songwriter Un-Official Eagle J.D. Souther passed away until yesterday. I found out by surfing for bootlegs and the site had a post saying the same I'm saying. I just found out about it. All I have found is that he died September 17, 2024 at his home, he was 78.
It really has been the story for ages that the singer songwriter that influences others in a scene never attains the same heights as those he influences. Gary "US" Bonds, Del Shannon, Mitch Ryder and Frankie Miller for example never attained the heights of Bruce Springsteen, Tom Petty, John Cougar Mellencamp, or Bob Seger for example who were influenced by them. I actually had this discussion recently with a friend and he said Bob Dylan influenced a lot of people in the 1960s and he's world famous (not in quotes because I'm not sure of the actual words it was a Stoner conversation). To which I replied Bob Dylan was influenced by Woody Guthrie or else he would have been a Little Richard style rocker. I read in one of the many biographies about him (I read only one book about him in the1980s) that he used to play the piano and jump around singing like Little Richard. Something that as a pot smoking teenager I couldn't imagine but think about it.
Back to J.D. Souther, look at the song writing credits of your favorite California Sound Country Rock artist's albums. Most likely J.D. Souther's name is on there. As a writer or co-writer. Linda Ronstadt, Chris Hillman, Glenn Frey, Don Henley, The Eagles, James Taylor all recorded songs written by or co-written with J.D. Roy Orbison had J.D. Souther do the vocal arraignments for his Black And White Night video concert (that one I read on Wikipedia)...Roy "Freaking' Orbison (wow)!! John David Souther was a big part in The California Sound's take over of the 1970's Before I end this I also want to point out that J.D. Souther was inducted into the Song Writer's Hall Of Fame.
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Your full insight comments are much appreciated. Will download this concert for sure.
ReplyDeleteAnd please continue with your stories. I love reading those over the Atlantic ocean, somewhere not far from the Eiffel tower.
All the best over there,
Derek
You're very welcome Derek and all the best over there from Detroit!
DeleteDave
thanks for this,saw his last show in wilmington 9-12
ReplyDeleteYou are very welcome!
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@Just Dave - thanks for the Neil from Farm Aid 2006! And incredibly, I found the missing track in SBD quality on youtube and was able to rip the adio using MediaHuman You Tube Cinverted so now I have the whole set! Thanks again!!!
ReplyDeleteFantastic!!! I will keep looking for more of what is on your list!
DeleteDave
Thanks for posting this show. As you explain, a great but often overlooked singer songwriter. Don't forget Jackson Browne as another So Cal musician who covered his songs!
ReplyDeleteI should not have left out Jackson Browne. He is a awesome song writer. To have a writer of that caliber record one of your songs is a sign that you definitely have talent!
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ReplyDeleteYou're welcome!
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Thank you JustDave. I'm not up on the other JD's solo career, but am looking forward to hearing this one!
ReplyDeleteYou're welcome Gman. If you like Glenn Frey, Jackson Browne, The Eagles or the 1970s "California Sound" you will most likely enjoy J.D. Souther as well. It's that great blend of Country & Rock n' Roll that fooled all of us FM radio Rock n Rollers into listening to what the Country Music Org finally recognizes as Country Music. Funny that when you think of it. Anyway it's some really good music.
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Thank you for this wonderful show! Here's Interview with the man here - https://www.npr.org/sections/world-cafe/2015/09/17/441153829/jd-souther-on-world-cafe?sc=embed&f=441153829. Need to hear that Taiwanese Hip-Hop cover of "You're Only Lonely"!! Like others Mr. Souther's music was resonating in my ears way before I learned of his name. An error I quickly fixed by devouring his solo work. thanks again!
ReplyDeleteHad to come back and drop this Quote from JD from Variety "First of all, because there were no true southern Californians in that group except Jackson Browne, and he was from Orange County. Glenn is from Detroit, Henley’s from Texas, I’m from Texas, Linda’s from Arizona, Waddy (Wachtel) was from New York, Kooch (Danny Kortchmar) was from New York, James (Taylor) was from outside Boston, and Warren Zevon was from Mars. It was a really incredibly diverse bunch of people that moved there from everywhere else. The common denominator is that we were all hungry at the same time. We were all playing these open-mic nights at the Troubadour, hoot nights, and we became friends and had a real shared ethic about music being good, and about its being good being more important than it being temporarily popular. We tried to write songs that we felt would last a long time. At least that was my motivation."
ReplyDeleteAlso Sharing this playlist (not mine) - RIP - https://open.spotify.com/playlist/570xuV7usmXXQSaJHdbzWE?go=1&sp_cid=2b8897d8d9d8ff17bc0b36225ef31216&utm_source=embed_player_p&utm_medium=desktop&nd=1&dlsi=9c39cf8f5edc464e
I love it "Warren Zevon was from Mars", so much great music came out of that scene. Just so many talented people feeding off of each others energy.
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