The sound quality is such a step down from everyone else here that I decided to not even include them as bonus tracks.īy the way, I'm not entirely sure what the exact date of this concert is. But unfortunately, the sound quality for those is poor, clearly coming from an audience bootleg that had been publicly available for years. A couple of the songs are different than the ones here, so I was tempted to add them as well. The super deluxe edition contains five songs recorded at another 1970 concert, at the Plumpton Racecourse in Britain in August 1970. The sound of these are virtually identical to the rest, with acoustic performances in front of small crowds.
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All three of those come from a French TV show recorded in Paris just one month earlier. So I've added three more songs at the end that also have just become available on the "Mona Bone Jakon" super deluxe edition. In fact, one more song from it was included on a deluxe edition of "Teaser and the Firecat" (with an incorrect date). It's a shame more weren't included, because the concert must have been longer than that. The Troubadour songs on the super deluxe release only add up to 28 minutes. In 19, it seems Stevens played all his concerts in acoustic format, always with second guitarist Alun Davies accompanying him. This recording sounds fantastic, so I'm sharing it here. It contains a previously unbootlegged and unknown concert recording of Stevens playing at the Troubadour in Los Angeles in December 1970. But recently (as I write this), a super deluxe version of his 1970 album "Mona Bone Jakon" was released. Even the bootlegs are scanty, with most of those from 1971 and almost nothing good from 1970, 1972 or 1973. There are surprisingly few publicly available Cat Stevens concert recordings from his prime early 1970s.