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
Kick Out The Jams was the debut album by punk pioneers MC5 and it was recorded live in Detroit in October 1968.
I always smile because I remember the time when I was at school and we were invited to bring in albums and play them. One of my heavy metal friends brought this and played the title track with its famous cry at the start “Kick out the jams, motherf***er1”
It caused quite a stir.
The Woodstock Experience by Sly & The Family Stone was recorded in August 1969 at the world famous Woodstock festival.
I don’t understand the marketing but this is a two CD set. The first CD is the studio version of the Stand album, the second is the Woodstock recording. There is a series of these Woodstock albums including Santana, Jefferson Airplane, Janis Joplin and Johnny Winter.
It’s taken us a long time to get a live Sly & The Family Stone album because this was first released in 2009.
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Live Cream is live compilation album from blues rock group Cream that includes one short studio track.
Like Wheels Of Fire, it features songs from the Fillmore West and Winterland in San Francisco in March 1968.
Ummagumma is the first Pink Floyd live album recorded in 1969 with early psychedelic space rock classics.
It was a double LP with one LP live and the other recorded in the studio and featuring compositions by the individual members of the group. Only one song, Grantchester Meadows is really worthwhile.
Continue reading Pink Floyd Ummagumma 1969Led Zeppelin BBC Sessions includes an in concert performance of the band from April 1971 as well as live in the studio recordings and songs from gigs in 1969.
It’s often overlooked as a Led Zeppelin live album with much more attention given to:
How The West Was Won – 1972
The Song Remains The Same – 1973
The 2012 release of the reunion concert, Celebration Day has also drawn attention away from the BBC Sessions album. After all how many live Led Zeppelin albums do most fans need?
I think that’s a shame.
What we get on this album are:
Live At Woodstock is the most comprehensive recording of Jimi Hendrix performance at the Woodstock festival on August 18, 1969.
A previous album, simply called Woodstock was released five years earlier with fewer of the songs. Radical editing means that three of the musicians in the Gypsy Sun and Rainbows group were mixed out on the Live At Woodstock version.
Inglewood: Live in California is the only live album available from Deep Purple Mk1 which shows their progressive rock style.
Deep Purple at this stage consisted of:
Rod Evans – Lead vocals
Ritchie Blackmore – Guitar
Nick Simper – Bass, backing vocals
Jon Lord – Keyboards, backing vocals
Ian Paice – Drums
At Inglewood in October 1968, they supported Cream on their farewell tour.
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Live At Monterey is a reworking of the Jimi Plays Monterey recording of Jimi Hendrix live at the Monterey festival in June 1967 with the Jimi Hendrix Experience.
It’s the same set but with different mixing.
This concert is famous for the time during the last track – Wild Thing – Hendrix sets his guitar on fire and then smashes it. That explains the album covers.
My Rating – 28 out of 30 (9 + 10 +9)
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Jimi Hendrix Live At The Royal Albert Hall is a ten track CD given away by The Sunday Times recorded on February 24, 1969.
It features Hendrix playing with the Jimi Hendrix Experience.
This concert has been featured in earlier Jimi Hendrix live albums called Experience and More Experience.
The Sunday Times was sued by the company handling Jimi Hendrix estate because it caused a film version of the Royal Albert Hall concert to be delayed – Sunday Times avoids punitive damages.
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BB King recorded Live At the Regal in 1964 in Chicago and created one of the most famous and well regarded blues albums.
If you have an interest in the blues from rock artists like Eric Clapton, The Rolling Stones or Led Zeppelin and you want to delve back into the original masters, Live At The Regal is a great place to start.
My Rating – 28 out of 30 – this is one of the best live albums ever released
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