Live Albums Recorded In The 1960s
Live albums weren’t that common in the 1960s although Live At The Apollo helped to turn James Brown into a major star.
Blues rock group Cream helped to promote live recordings by including a live LP in Wheels Of Fire.
The death of Jimi Hendrix has caused a lot of his live recordings to be released as live albums.
In recently years we’ve also seen the release of archive recordings made at historic festivals like Woodstock in 1969.
You can look at the Best Live Albums blog by year:
Live albums from 1960
Live albums from 1961
Live albums from 1962
Live albums from 1963
Live albums from 1964
Live albums from 1965
Live albums from 1966
Live albums from 1967
Live albums from 1968
Live albums from 1969
Live Albums Recorded In The 1960s by Artist
Joan Baez In Concert – In Concert Part 2
The Beatles Live At The BBC 1962 to 1965 – On Air – Live At The BBC Volume 2 1962 to 1965 – Live At The Hollywood Bowl –
Tony Bennett At Carnegie Hall The Complete Concert
Bennett & Brubeck The White House Sessions Live 1962
Chuck Berry Live At The Fillmore Auditorium 1967
Mike Bloomfield The Live Adventures of Mike Bloomfield and Al Kooper
The Blues Project Live At The Cafe Au Go Go 1965 – Live At Town Hall 1967
James Brown Live At The Apollo 1962 – Live At The Apollo 2 – James Brown The James Brown Show – Say It Live And Loud
The Dave Brubeck Quartet Live At Carnegie Hall
Tim Buckley Dream Letter Live In London
The Paul Butterfield Blues Band East West Live 1966 1967
The Byrds Live At Fillmore February 1969 – Avalon Ballroom San Francisco November 2nd 1968
Canned Heat Live at Topanga Corral
Captain Beefheart Live 1966-67
Johnny Cash At Folsom Prison – At San Quentin
Ray Charles Live In Concert
Gene Chandler Live at the Regal 1965
James Cleveland Peace Be Still
Eddie Cochran & Gene Vincent Live Rock N Roll Rebels
Joe Cocker Live At Woodstock
John Coltrane Live At The Village Vanguard – Offering Live At Temple University – Newport 63 – A Love Supreme Live In Juan-les-Pins France 1965 – Afro Blue Impressions 1963 – Live At Birdland 1963
Sam Cooke Live At The Harlem Square Club – Sam Cooke At The Copa
Count Basie The Complete Roulette Live Recordings of Count Basie and His Orchestra 1959-1962
Country Joe & The Fish Live Fillmore West 1969
Cream Wheels Of Fire – Live Cream Volume 2 – Goodbye
Miles Davis Quintet Live In Europe 1967 The Bootleg Series Vol. 1 – Bitches Brew Live 1969 1970 – Miles Davis In Europe 1963 – In Person Friday & Saturday Nights at the Blackhawk Complete 1961 – My Funny Valentine 1964 – The Complete Live At The Plugged Nickel 1965
Deep Purple Inglewood Live in California –
Delaney And Bonnie On Tour With Eric Clapton 1969
Sandy Denny Live At The BBC 1966 to 1973
Eric Dolphy Live at the Five Spot Vol 1 1961 – Live at the Five Spot Vol 2 1961
The Doors In Concert (American Nights) – Live At The Bowl ’68
Duke Ellington 70th Birthday Concert 1969 – Live At Cabaret L’Alcazar 1969
Bob Dylan Live in New York Gaslight Cafe 1961 – In Concert Brandeis University 1963 – Live 1964 Concert At Philharmonic Hall – Live 1966 The “Royal Albert Hall” Concert
Bill Evans Sunday At The Village Vanguard – At Shelly’s Manne Hole 1963 – Live at Town Hall 1966
Fairport Convention Live At The BBC 1968 to 1974
Ella Fitzgerald Mack The Knife The Complete Ella in Berlin 1960 – Ella In Hollywood 1961
Ella Fitzgerald Duke Ellington The Stockholm Concert 1966
Fleetwood Mac Shrine 69
Aretha Franklin Aretha In Paris
Graham Bond Organisation – Live At Klooks Keek 1964
Judy Garland Judy At Carnegie Hall
Grateful Dead Live Dead – Live at the Fillmore East 2-11-69 – Two from the Vault 1968
Merle Haggard Okie from Muskogee Live 1969
Jimi Hendrix Live At The Royal Albert Hall – Live At Monterey – Live At Woodstock – Live At Winterland
The Holy Modal Rounders Live in 1965
John Lee Hooker Live At The Café Au Go-Go – John Lee Hooker Live At Newport 1960 & 1963
Humble Pie Live At The Whisky A-Go-Go ’69
Ian & Sylvia Live At Newport 1963 & 1965
The Incredible String Band Live At The Fillmore 1968
Iron Butterfly Fillmore East 1968
Etta James Rocks The House
Jefferson Airplane Bless Its Pointed Little Head –
Live At The Fillmore East
Waylon Jennings The Restless Kid Live At JD’s 1965
Janis Joplin Live at Winterland ’68 – In Concert – Live At The Carousel Ballroom
Albert King Live Wire Blues Power – Wednesday Night In San Francisco – Thursday Night In San Francisco
BB King Live at the Regal – Live & Well
King Crimson Epitaph Volumes 1 & 2
The Kinks At The BBC (Box Set) 1964 to 1994 – The Kinks At The BBC (Double CD) 1964 to 1977 – Live At Kelvin Hall 1967
Alexis Korner R&B From The Marquee – R&B From The Roundhouse To The Ealing Club To The Marquee – Alexis Korner’s Blues Incorporated Live At The Cavern
Led Zeppelin Live In Paris 1969 – BBC Sessions
Jerry Lee Lewis Live At The Star Club, Hamburg
Little Richard Greatest Hits Live
John Mayall Plays John Mayall Live At Klooks Kleek – Primal Solos – The Diary of a Band – The Turning Point – John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers Live In ’67
MC5 Kick Out The Jams
Steve Miller Live at the Carousel Ballroom
Charles Mingus At Antibes – Right Now Live at the Jazz Workshop 1964 – The Complete Town Hall Concert 1962 – The Great Concert Of Charles Mingus 1964
The Miracles Recorded Live On Stage 1962
Joni Mitchell Through Yellow Curtains 1966 to 1968
Moby Grape Live 1966 to 1969
Thelonious Monk Live At The It Club
Mountain Live The Road Goes Ever On
The Move Live At The Fillmore 1969
Rick Nelson In Concert At The Troubadour 1969
The Nice Five Bridges 1969
Robert Nighthawk Live On Maxwell Street 1964 – And This Is Maxwell Street 1964
Gram Parsons Live at the Avalon Ballroom 1969
Pentangle Sweet Child
Peter Paul & Mary In Concert 1964 – Live in Japan 1967
Esther Phillips Burnin’ Live at Freddie Jett’s Pied Pier LA 1969
The Pretty Things Live At The BBC 1964 to 1975
Pink Floyd Ummagumma
Charley Pride In Person 1968
Quicksilver Messenger Service Happy Trails – Live At The Fillmore June 7 1968
Lou Rawls Live
Otis Redding Live In Europe – In Person At The Whisky A Go Go – Live in London And Paris
Cliff Richard Live At The ABC Kingston 1962
Smokey Robinson And The Miracles Live! 1968
The Rolling Stones Get Yer Ya Ya’s Out – Got Live If You Want It – The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus
Santana Live At The Fillmore 1968 – The Woodstock Experience
Pete Seeger We Shall Overcome Complete Carnegie Hall Concert 1963
Simon And Garfunkel Live from New York City 1967 – Live 1969
Frank Sinatra Sinatra At The Sands
Sly & The Family Stone The Woodstock Experience – Live At The Fillmore East October 4th & 5th 1968
Spencer Davis Group Live Anthology 1965 – 1968 – Mojo Rhythms & Midnight Blues The Live Album Vol 1 Sessions 1965-1968
Steppenwolf Early Steppenwolf Live at The Matrix San Francisco 1967
The Supremes At The Copa 1965
The Temptations Live
Ten Years After Undead
13th Floor Elevators Live Evolution Lost 1967
Various Artists Apollo Saturday Night 1964
Velvet Underground Live 1969
Muddy Waters At Newport
The Who The Kids Are Alright 1965 to 1978
Sonny Boy Williamson & The Yardbirds Live In London
Jackie Wilson at the Copa 1962
Johnny Winter The Woodstock Experience
Woodstock Music From The Original Soundtrack And More
The Yardbirds – Five Live Yardbirds – Live Yardbirds Featuring Jimmy Page
Neil Young Sugar Mountain Live at Canterbury House – Neil Young Live at the Riverboat
Frank Zappa You Can’t Do That On Stage Anymore Vol 1 – 1969 to 1984
Live albums by the decades – 1950s – 1960s – 1970s – 1980s – 1990s – 2000s – 2010s
The Doors In Concert is a compilation album of The Doors live in concert between 1968 and 1970 and includes their first live album, Absolutely Live together with Alive She Cried and some extras.
In the UK it is also known as American Nights.
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After the success of Live Cream, the recording vaults from 1968 were raided again to create another live album by super group Cream.
In Person At The Whisky A Go Go is a live album by soul legend Otis Redding. It was recorded at the Whisky A Go Go club in Los Angeles, early in 1966 before he’d made his reputation with a white audience at the Monterey festival.
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At The Copa is a live album by soul singer Sam Cooke. It was recorded at the Copacabana night club in New York in 1964.
He died on December 11th, 1964 so this is the last live recording we have of Sam Cooke.
This has a very different sound and feel to Live At The Harlem Square Club.
You can’t take the soul out of Sam Cooke but the emphasis here is on singing ballads.
Rocks The House is the first live album by blues and soul singer Etta James. It was recorded in September 1963 at the New Era Club in Nashville, Tennessee.
I find that some of her later recordings were drowned in strings but here you get to listen to a young, raucous Etta James backed by a small R&B band in an intimate club.
Live In Europe is the first live album released by Otis Redding, recorded in March 1967 on his European tour less than seven months before he died in a plane crash on December 10th, 1967
Live/Dead is the first official live album released by the American rock band, Grateful Dead. It was recorded between January and March 1969 and was released in November 1969.
This is the last albums featuring Tom Constanten on the organ.
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The Bootleg Series Vol. 4: Bob Dylan Live 1966, The “Royal Albert Hall” Concert is a controversial live album by Bob Dylan.
It is one of the most famous live recordings ever made as one disgusted fan of Bob Dylan’s electric rather than acoustic songs yells out “Judas” before Like A Rolling Stone. Listen out for it and you”ll also hear Dylan’s instruction to his band to “play it fucking loud”.
And they do.
Feelings were still running high although the electric Bob Dylan first appeared on the Bringing It All Back Home album, released in March 1965.
For many years it was bootlegged and became known as the Royal Albert Hall recording but it is widely known that the Judas heckling comes from the concert at the Manchester Free Trade Hall in May 1966.
Bob Dylan started to issue a series of official bootlegs and this album appeared legally in 1998.
The group backing Bob Dylan in this concert were known at the time as The Hawks but they became better known later as The Band.
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Velvet Underground with Lou Reed Live 1969 was a live double album that has since been reissued as two separate CDs, part 1 and part 2.
Two new songs were added when this spilt occurred with Heroin added to part 1 and I Can’t Stand It on part 2.
The “cheeky” album sleeve always catches my eye.
Velvet Underground Live 1969
Wheels of Fire is a double album by Cream with one LP recorded in the studio and the other capturing the live Cream experience in March 1968 in California.
Cream were a very different band live compared to the studio as it gave the great instrumentalists – Eric Clapton, Jack Bruce and Ginger Baker – a chance to stretch out and show off their talents.
