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THE FINAL DOOR

February 4, 2012 – 4:43 am

What’s left in the vault?

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THE DOORS
Morrison Hotel Outtakes 1969 [no label, 1CD]
Collection of outtakes from 1969 plus The Doors 1965 demos. Very good sound.

Only four out of the 17 tracks on this R.O.I.O. can be offered.

Morrison Hotel Outtakes came into our possession before the Doors released their 1997 4CD boxset of rarities. It has since been less of an outstanding bootleg with many of its tracks now officially released in 1997 and then in 2007 when the Doors released all their albums in 40th Anniversary editions together with the Perception box.

Surprisingly, there are still a number of gems to be had. Here are the really raw versions of The Spy (demo) and the studio recording of the 17-minute long Celebration Of The Lizard. There was probably only one take and this raw 17-minute version is probably what transpired before the studio guys took over. When compared to the official release, both songs appear to have been heavily remixed and polished for release. No edits, just a lot of repositioning of the sound to make them modern rock.

The Doors were never a polished band. Morrison thrived on “shock and awe”. Newbies to the Doors should pick up a copy of the just-released L.A. Woman 2CD reissue and all the other extra discs and videos.
- The Little Chicken

To the best of our knowledge, these versions remain unreleased officially.

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Track 01. Queen Of The Highway (instrumental) 5:09m (9.4MB)
02. Queen Of The Highway (jazz version) - Omitted +
03. Indian Summer demo - Omitted *
04. Push Push - Omitted #
05. Hyacinth House (demo at Robbie’s house) - Omitted +
Track 06. Blues Jam 6:40m (12.2MB)
Track 07. The Spy (demo) 3:54m (7.1MB)
Track 08. Celebration Of The Lizard 17:02m (31.1MB)

Doors demos from 1965
09. End Of The Night - Omitted +
10. Hello, I Love You - Omitted +
11. My Eyes Have Seen You - Omitted +
12. I Will Never Be Untrue - Omitted +
Mistakenly identified as a 1965 demo on the cover. This is live at Aquarius Theatre, Hollywood, 1969.
13. Go Insane - Omitted +
14. Summer’s Almost Gone - Omitted +
15. Moonlight Drive - Omitted +

Miscellaneous
16. Moonlight Drive (Sunset Sound Studios 1966) - Omitted +
17. Orange County Suite (Elektra Studios 1970) - Omitted +

+ All found on The Doors Box Set released Oct 28, 1997.
* found on the 2007 40th Anniversary reissue of The Doors debut album.
# found on the 2007 40th Anniversary reissue of The Soft Parade.

This is the best compilation of Doors rarities, the 4CD Doors Boxset. Buy it here.

The Doors celebrated the 40th anniversary of L.A. Woman with a 2CD reissue of the classic and final Doors album plus a DVD-Blu-ray of the story of L.A. Woman, Mr Mojo Risin’. Buy them here.

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NEIL YOUNG & CRAZY HORSE - STUDIO JAM 2012

February 3, 2012 – 11:13 am

NEIL YOUNG & CRAZY HORSE
Studio Jam 2012
Redwood Digital, Broken Arrow Ranch, Woodside, CA; January 2012. Streamed from Neil Young’s website.

On January 22, 2012, the following note was posted at neilyoungnews.thrasherswheat.org:

Neil Young has been recording with Crazy Horse. One album is complete and they are working on another.

This is the first time Neil Young has worked with the band since 2004. In 2008, Young was asked if he had any desire to work with Crazy Horse again and he said: “I’m not thinking about that right now. We’ll just see what happens. Something might happen. You never know. Or something else we don’t even know about could happen, and that would be really good, rather than go back. But if the vibe’s right to go back and grab what’s back there and yank it into the future, that’s a big job.”

On January 28, a 37-minute Neil Young jam session was streamed on Neil Young’s site. You can still listen to the track here.

Thanks to zoso58 and nadiar who split the track and shared them on the net. (Ideal for those who want to carry the tracks around but do not have the tools to capture the audio stream.)

Picture by Per Ole Hagen - thanks!

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Track 01. Jam 18:48 (30.1MB)
Track 02. Cortez The Killer 18:11 (29.1MB)

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R.E.M. - BUFFALO 1984

February 3, 2012 – 4:39 am

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R.E.M.
Buffalo 1984 [no label, 2CD]
Live at the Salty Dog Saloon, Buffalo, NY; July 15, 1984. Good to very good audience recording.

R.E.M. might have disbanded in September 2011 but roots rock fans will continue to tap their feet to the group’s jingle jangle and chiming guitars. Many see 1987’s Document as the group’s breakthrough album but it was likely 1991’s Out Of Time, with hits such as Losing My Religion and Shiny Happy People, that made R.E.M. a huge band.

The group’s Chronic Town EP (1982) and the debut album Murmur (1983) made them cult favourites and Reckoning probably succeeded in helping to capture R.E.M.’s live feel in the studio.

Ira Robbins wrote in The Trouser Press Guide To ’90s Rock:

R.E.M. didn’t reinvent the wheel or demolish any stylistic barriers when the quartet popped its curly little head up from the collegiate fields of Athens, Georgia, at the beginning of the 1980s; the power-pop underground already had other Byrdsian bands with jangly guitars and mumbly singers. Of course, no other band had a mumbly singer with the potent artistic vision or charisma of Michael Stipe, or the unique brains/brawn extrovert/introvert art/rock chemistry of R.E.M. - two of the reasons by the group rose steadily through an uneven series of ’80s albums to stand as one of the world’s biggest and best-loved rock ‘n’ roll combos.

And this gig was still early days…

Thanks to Martine Holl for sharing the tracks at Dime.

Thanks also to: taper John (according to evr at Dime); leedsukmale (ticket stub) and gothic-addiction.blogspot (cover picture).

Martine noted: This is a pretty good AUD recording from the Reckoning Tour. According to the [R.E.M.] Timeline, it is missing most of the second encore, Batman Theme should merge into Second Guessing / Ghost Riders In The Sky / Carnival Of Sorts (Boxcars). This show has an incredibly fun middle part of the set, consisting solely of cover tracks… I envy those of you who were old and smart enough (and local) to be there!

Note from the Timeline: About a minute of the Dream Syndicate song ‘Medicine Show’ was played between Driver 8 and Sitting Still. Michael says thanks to the band for opening up and says that he does a great Steve Wynn (for money!) and that Steve Wynn does a pretty good Michael.

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Disc 1
Track 101. I Can Only Give You Everything (5.4MB)
Track 102. Radio Free Europe (6.0MB)
Track 103. Catapult (5.9MB)
Track 104. Driver 8 (7.3MB)
Track 105. Medicine Show (1.1MB)
Track 106. Sitting Still (5.8MB)
Track 107. Letter Never Sent (5.1MB)
Track 108. 7 Chinese Bros (6.6MB)
Track 109. Talk About The Passion (5.4MB)
Track 110. Pale Blue Eyes (4.6MB)
Track 111. So. Central Rain (6.3MB)
Track 112. Sharp Dressed Man (4.5MB)
Track 113. Every Word Means No (4.4MB)
Track 114. Secret Agent Man (5.3MB)

Disc 2
Track 201. Smokin’ In The Boys Room (4.4MB)
Track 202. Does Your Mother Know? (6.7MB)
Track 203. Tusk (5.3MB)
Track 204. Crazy (5.0MB)
Track 205. Gardening At Night (5.8MB)
Track 206. 9-9 (4.6MB)
Track 207. Windout (3.5MB)
Track 208. Old Man Kensey (7.3MB)
Track 209. Pretty Persuasion (5.7MB)
Track 210. Little America (5.7MB)
Track 211. Pills (3.4MB)
Track 212. California Dreamin’ (5.9MB)
Track 213. Batman (1.3MB)

Lineup:
Michael Stipe - vocals
Peter Buck - guitar
Mike Mills - bass
Bill Berry - drums

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ROY ORBISON - MELBOURNE 1967

February 2, 2012 – 4:37 am

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ROY ORBISON
Melbourne 1967 [no label, 1CD]
Live at the Festival Hall, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia; possibly January 26 and 27, 1967. Excellent radio (FM?) broadcast.

Thanks to JJ who shared these tracks on the net in 2006. It’s unfortunate that the last track in the second show (Too Soon To Know) is cut off, otherwise it would have been a great set. Just listen to the crowd… and you thought Beatlemania was only reserved for the Fab Four.

This is what JJ noted:

This comes from an Australian radio broadcast, as the announcement at the end of the show gives away. A friend of mine was able to transfer the concert from Reel to WAV for me, and very kindly allowed me to post it here!

Trivia: The Big Show tour with Roy Orbison, The Walker Bros and The Yardbirds plays Melbourne Festival Hall, supported by Johnny Young and The Mixtures. After the show a custom-made Gibson Les Paul loaned to Yardbirds guitarist Jimmy Page for the tour by Keith Richards is stolen, as well as a Fender guitar belonging to Mixtures guitarist Laurie Arthur.

Front cover from therockingipsy.blogspot.com. Thanks!

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Show 1 (possibly January 26, 1967)
Track 01. Crying (missing first few seconds) (4.6MB)
Track 02. Dream Baby (3.7MB)
Track 03. Running Scared (6.9MB)
Track 04. Mean Woman Blues (3.8MB)
Track 05. Leah (4.4MB)
Track 06. Communication Breakdown (4.0MB)
Track 07. Too Soon To Know (3.9MB)
Track 08. Pretty Woman (5.4MB)

Show 2 (possibly January 27, 1967)
Track 09. Only The Lonely (4.2MB)
Track 10. Crying (4.6MB)
Track 11. Dream Baby (3.6MB)
Track 12. Running Scared (6.6MB)
Track 13. Mean Woman Blues (3.7MB)
Track 14. Leah (4.3MB)
Track 15. Communication Breakdown (4.0MB)
Track 16. Too Soon To Know (cut off) (2.9MB)

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OUR SONGS

February 1, 2012 – 4:37 am

Troubadours, minstrels, singer-songwriters.

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GORDON LIGHTFOOT
The Skip Weshner Tapes 1968-1970 [no label, 1CD]
Recorded at Skip Weshner’s studio at KRHM-FM in Los Angeles, 1968 and 1970. Very good to excellent FM stereo.

The discovery in this set is Gordon Lightfoot’s attempt to sing Elton John’s Your Song. He plays it casually, the way a fan would. It sounds like Lightfoot had just bought the album which was released in the US in July 1970. Back then everyone was a fan and it was unclear just how long rock ‘n’ roll could run. It was as much about your artistry as it was about having fun.

Then there are beautiful versions of Minstrel Of The Dawn and The Last Time I Saw Her (two versions). There are two versions of Lightfoot attempting Kris Kristofferson’s Me And Bobby McGee. In case you’re wondering, Janis Joplin’s angst-fueled version first appeared in January 1971, almost a full year after Lightfoot recorded his gentler version. Lightfoot flubs his second attempt though.

These sessions recorded by DJ Skip Weshner have that ring of authenticity. Weshner never interrogates. Neither does he “sell” his guest. It’s more a conversation between two friends. Ordinary people doing extraordinary jobs. Those days are long gone replaced by shock jocks who cuss nonstop for their ratings.

For the complete shows with the conversations between Skip and Gordon Lightfoot, you can find it at the Dime site [click here]. You have to be a member to use the site. And you also must be familiar with bittorrent.

We’ve selected just the songs played by Gordon Lightfoot for your listening. A big thanks to dajchance for sharing this rarity from his collection.

- Professor Red

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Track 01. Bitter Green [edited, 1968-04-01] (3.5MB)
Track 02. Talking In Your Sleep [edited, 1970] (5.0MB)
Track 03. Your Song [edited, 1970] (3.1MB)

1969-08-09 Skip Weshner Show, KRHM-FM Radio Studio, Los Angeles, California
Track 04. Minstrel Of The Dawn [edited] (5.8MB)
Track 05. Looking At The Rain [edited] (5.3MB)
Track 06. Sit Down Young Stranger [edited] (5.3MB)
Track 07. Cobwebs & Dust [edited] (6.2MB)
Track 08. Me And Bobby McGee [edited] (5.3MB)
Track 09. The Last Time I Saw Her [edited] (7.5MB)
Track 10. The Seabird Song [edited] (5.0MB)

1969-08-09 Skip Weshner Show, KRHM-FM Radio Studio, Los Angeles, California
Track 11. Cobwebs & Dust [unedited] (6.4MB)
Track 12. Me And Bobby McGee [unedited] (5.3MB)
Track 13. The Last Time I Saw Her [unedited] (7.8MB)
Track 14. The Seabird Song [unedited] (5.1MB)

NOTE: The fan who assembled this set edited the songs from the full shows so that you could just listen to the songs without interruption. We did not do the editing.

One of his early hits, The Last Time I Saw Her, was from his 1968 album, Did She Mention My Name? Get it here.

Lightfoot’s cover of Me And Bobby McGee can be found on his hit album from 1970, Sit Down Young Stranger. Buy it here.

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LYNYRD SKYNYRD - CAPE COD 1976

January 31, 2012 – 4:33 am

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LYNYRD SKYNYRD
Cape Cod 1976 [Dan Lampinski Tapes, 1CD]
Live at the Cape Cod Coliseum, South Yarmouth, MA; August 27, 1976. Very good audience recording.

Thanks to Dan Lampinski for taping the show and to djscomics who shared the tracks on Dime. Thanks also to Kev & Carl.

Lynyrd Skynyrd were opening for Jeff Beck and the Jan Hammer Group.

Nocaster posted this comment on the net:

What a great band Skynyrd were in the ’70s. They weren’t “evolving”, they weren’t changing with the trends or the styles of the day, they were staying honest and true to the southern rock that pulsed through their veins, staying loyal to their fans who were both feeding off of and giving back that loyalty. Southern rock never had a finer spokesman than the Lynyrd Skynyrd Band.

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Track 01. Workin’ For MCA (7.5MB)
Track 02. I Ain’t The One (6.4MB)
Track 03. Saturday Night Special (spliced) (8.9MB)
Track 04. Searching (6.9MB)
Track 05. Travellin’ Man (7.3MB)
Track 06. Gimme Three Steps (7.7MB)
Track 07. Call Me The Breeze (9.8MB)
Track 08. T For Texas (15.5MB)
Track 09. Sweet Home Alabama (11.1MB)
Track 10. Freebird (spliced) (21.2MB)

Lineup:
Ronnie Van Zant - vocals
Allen Collins - guitar
Gary Rossington - guitar
Steve Gaines - guitar
Billy Powell - keyboards
Leon Wilkeson - bass
Artimus Pyle - drums

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NEIL YOUNG - LOS ANGELES 1971

January 30, 2012 – 4:37 am

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NEIL YOUNG
I’m Happy That Y’all Came Down [no label, 1CD]
Live at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles, CA; February 1, 1971. Good to very good audience recording.

This double-LP, from Rubber Dubber Records, made its mark before bootleg CDs caught on and  Neil Young collectors probably owned either a copy of the vinyl or the tracks on cassette or CD.

How do you like your cake? With the cream on top and oozing from the sides when you take a bite? Some of us like cake for cake’s sake. When Neil Young walked on stage at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion on February 1, 1971 in Los Angeles, he was alone without his superstar bandmates Crosby, Stills and Nash. Just his trusty harmonica, guitar and a grand piano. This was to be the first of many solo tours. This one was called A Journey Through The Past.

As was his way in the early days, Young peppered his hour-long performances with only original songs and daringly so with new songs he’d yet to record. He brimmed with confidence that his songs were enough to keep people interested. Just a glance at the setlist for this evening - Old Man, Cowgirl In The Sand, Sugar Mountain, Don’t Let It Bring You Down - showed songs that he continued to play up till the present. This evening he even included Ohio, about the four students shot dead on campus during a student demonstration against America’s war in Vietnam.

He also sang The Needle And The Damage Done, a painful reminder to himself of the dangers of drugs. And some say his simple-minded I Am A Child. Although how could anyone think of Young as simpleton when his other songs, Tell Me Why and See The Sky About To Rain, all showed he understood just how important love and compassion were. That sometimes these child-like qualities sure beat brainpower and intellectual smugness.

There he is, captured on someone’s portable reel-to-reel deck somewhere from the front rows, changing from guitar to piano, chatting with the audience and slowly singing his songs with quiet power. The kind of power that’s found in truthfulness.

1971 was a long time ago. Who would have thought we would still care for Neil Young’s music? The person who recorded this show loved the music enough to make the effort. These days you can buy an expensive hi-fi system for the price of a front-row seat to watch a show of dubious quality. But crackles and all, this bootleg, taken from a Rubber Dubber original vinyl, is the real journey through the past. The cake, so to speak, not the cream that melts away anyway. - Michael Cheah

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Track 01. On the Way Home (5.6MB)
Track 02. Tell Me Why (3.9MB)
Track 03. Old Man (6.8MB)
Track 04. Journey Through The Past (5.5MB)
Track 05. Cowgirl In The Sand (6.6MB)
Track 06. Heart Of Gold (6.8MB)
Track 07. A Man Needs A Maid (8.8MB)
Track 08. Sugar Mountain (17.4MB)
Track 09. Don’t Let It Bring You Down (5.2MB)
Track 10. Love In Mind (3.2MB)
Track 11. The Needle And The Damage Done (6.7MB)
Track 12. Ohio (6.0MB)
Track 13. See The Sky About To Rain (5.4MB)
Track 14. I Am A Child (5.7MB)
Track 15. Dance, Dance, Dance (3.1MB)

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GINGER BAKER AND FRIENDS - SOLANA BEACH 1988

January 28, 2012 – 4:33 am

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THE GINGER BAKER BAND
Solana Beach 1988 [Countdown Factory, 2CD]
Live at the Belly Up Club, Solana Beach, CA; December 1, 1988. Very good to excellent soundboard.

Drummer Ginger Baker may be best known for his work with Cream and Blind Faith but he has never stayed within the rock orbit. He was played with avant artistes such as Bill Laswell, and jazz stalwarts such as Art Blakey, Charlie Haden and Fela Kuti.

Music writer George Varga remembers this Solana Beach gig:

In 1988, former Cream drummer Ginger Baker gave his first San Diego area performance in 20 years at the Belly Up. It was a clumsy, bumbling “classic-rock” set better suited for the soundtrack to a bad acid trip. “We’ve got some problems up here,” bassist Tim Bogert said, after Baker nearly took out an audience member’s eye by smashing off the wing nut from one of his cymbal stands with a drum stick.

The set may be loose but it’s far from being the ramshackle show it has been made out to be. For instance, ignore the first 3:21 mins (”teething” problems?) of Aiko Biaye and the track ends up being a scorching display. And especially for Cream and Blind Faith fans, this is a slice of rock history.

Thanks to the person who shared the tracks on the net in 2005.

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Disc 1
Track 101. White Room - false start (2.4MB)
Track 102. White Room (8.0MB)
Track 103. Born Under A Bad Sign (11.3MB)
Track 104. Drum Solo (10.9MB)
Track 105. Aiko Biaye (17.9MB)
Track 106. Outside Woman Blues (8.5MB)
Track 107. Gates Of The City (10.3MB)

Disc 2
Track 201. Do What You Like (10.9MB)
Track 202. Sitting On Top Of The World (8.5MB)
Track 203. Spoonful (16.0MB)
Track 204. Toad (26.0MB)

Lineup:
Ginger Baker - drums
Tim Bogart - bass, vocals
Alan White - drums
Walter Trout - guitar
Michael Monarch - guitar

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THE DAY THE MUSIC DIED PART 2

January 27, 2012 – 4:33 am

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DON McLEAN
Manchester 1975 [no label, 1CD]
Live at the Hard Rock Cafe, Manchester, UK; May 25, 1975; Excellent FM broadcast.

The shutdown of Megaupload; and other cyberlockers such as Filesonic and Fileserve becoming pale shadows of what they once were, music fans will once again recall the immortal words of Don McLean.

But the lyrics to McLean’s Bronco Bill’s Lament are no less poignant and apt for these times:

Well you may not recognize my face, I used to be a star,
A cowboy hero known both near and far.
I perched upon a silver mount and sang with my guitar,
But the studio of course,
owned my saddle and my horse…

All the voyeurs and the lawyers who can pull a fountain pen,
And put you where they choose,
With the language that they use,
And enslave you till you work your youth away,
Oh god how I worked my youth away.

Thanks to Otto who shared these tracks on the net in 2010.

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Track 01. Bronco Bill’s Lament 3:22 (5.4MB)
Track 02. Empty Chairs 3:38 (5.8MB)
Track 03. La La Love You 4:26 (7.1MB)
Track 04. American Pie 10:03 (16.1MB)
Track 05. Homeless Brother 4:16 (6.8MB)
Track 06. Respectable 4:04 (6.5MB)
Track 07. The Legend Of Andrew McCrew 6:20 (10.1MB)
Track 08. Babylon 5:00 (8.0MB)
Track 09. This Little Light Of Mine 2:58 (4.7MB)
Track 10. Vincent 4:04 (6.5MB)

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JOHNNY CASH - THE FINAL SHOW 2003

January 26, 2012 – 4:33 am

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JOHNNY CASH
Virginia 2003 [no label, 1CD]
Live at the Carter Family Fold, Hiltons, Virginia; July 5, 2003. Excellent soundboard.

The strain showed but it was still a solid performance. Johnny Cash was a trouper right until the end.

The Wikipedia reported:

June Carter Cash died on May 15, 2003, at the age of 73. June had told Johnny Cash to keep working, so he continued to record, completing 60 more songs in the last four months of his life, and even performed a couple of surprise shows at the Carter Family Fold outside Bristol, Virginia. At the July 5, 2003 concert (his last public performance), before singing Ring Of Fire, Cash read a statement about his late wife that he had written shortly before taking the stage:

“The spirit of June Carter overshadows me tonight with the love she had for me and the love I have for her. We connect somewhere between here and heaven. She came down for a short visit, I guess, from heaven to visit with me tonight to give me courage and inspiration like she always has.”

Cash died of complications from diabetes at approximately 2 am CT on September 12, 2003 while hospitalized at Baptist Hospital in Nashville - less than four months after his wife. He was 71. It was suggested that Johnny’s health worsened due to a broken heart over June’s death. He was buried next to his wife in Hendersonville Memory Gardens near his home in Hendersonville, Tennessee.

Thanks to Blindopolis for sharing the tracks on Demonoid.

Thanks to JTT for the screenshot.

For those who are keen, they can search out the DVD featuring Johnny Cash’s last performances at the Carter Family Fold on June 21 and July 5, 2003 respectively. And some fans have reported that they could only watch it once, it was too painful to watch it again.

Click on the highlighted tracks to download the MP3s (sample rate of 224 kbps). As far as we can ascertain, these tracks have never been officially released on CD.

Please Do Not Hammer The Links. Due to the size of some of the files, please be very patient when downloading the tracks. It could be that the server was very busy. The tracks should still be around. Please try again later. Kindly email us at mybigo@bigozine.com if you encounter persistent problems downloading the files.

Track 01. Intro (Janette Carter) (4.0MB)
Track 02. Folsom Prison Blues (5.4MB)
Track 03. I Walk The Line (4.8MB)
Track 04. Sunday Morning Coming Down (8.2MB)
Track 05. Ring Of Fire (7.1MB)
Track 06. Angel Band (7.3MB)
Track 07. Big River (4.2MB)
Track 08. Understand Your Man (7.8MB)

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