Don Nix And Alabama State Troupers - Live In San Francisco 1967 - 2016
from AMG
The Alabama State Troupers was a big-band soul outfit formed by ex-Markey member Don Nix in 1971. Nix cut a solo album, entitled Living by the Days, for Elektra Records in 1971, and put together a touring group consisting of Lonnie Mack -- replaced by Furry Lewis -- Jeannie Greene, and the Mt. Zion Band and Choir. The group embarked on a national tour that took them across the South and West to California, initially to promote Nix's album, but the shows soon took on a life of their own, especially with Lewis -- a veteran bluesman with more than 40 years in the business.
Live in San Francisco is a bootleg real one recorded in october 1971 at Santa Monica Civic Auditorium.
01. Mary Louise
02. Living In the Country
03. Cowboy Song
04. Heavy Makes You Happy
05. Luka (I Been a Long Time Gone)
06. Will the Circle Be Unbroken
07. The Lord Be Right
08. Oh What a Mighty Time
09. I Saw The Light
10. Jesus On the Mainline
11. My Train's Done Come and Gone
12. Yes I Do Understand
13. Only the Children Know
14. Tuning
15. Like a Man
16. Flute Jam
One of the great, lost, legendary live albums in '70s rock finally sees a legitimate, full-length release with Real Gone Music's deluxe, two-CD issue of The Alabama State Troupers: Road Show. The brainchild of Elektra president Jac Holzman and Memphis music legend Don Nix, the 'Troupers were supposed to be a traveling roadshow highlighting the talents of various Southern musicians who were signed to Elektra, most prominently Nix, singer Jeanie Greene (best known for her work with Elvis and at Muscle Shoals), and guitarist Lonnie Mack. Days before the tour, Mack quit, having had a self-described Biblical vision telling him not to go, so Nix found quite the replacement: legendary bluesman Furry Lewis, whose solo set takes up the first side of the double album. The rest of the record features Nix and Greene with what amounts to be the backup group of your Southern R&B wet dreams; dubbed the Mt. Zion Band and Choir, it featured such stellar talents as guitarists Wayne Perkins and Tippy Armstrong, vocalists Marlin Greene and Brenda Patterson, keyboardist Clayton Ivey, bassist Bob Wray and other Muscle Shoals sidemen. Recorded at two October 1971 California performances, Road Show is kind of like the American version of Joe Cocker s Mad Dogs and Englishmen tour, a rollicking, boisterous and most of all soulful blend of gospel, R&B and rock in which one can hear the nascent stirrings of what would come to be known as Southern rock a little later in the decade.
CD 1
01. Furry's Blues
02. Brownsville
03. I'm Black
04. A Chicken Ain't Nothin' but a Bird
05. Will the Circle Be Unbroken
06. Amos Burke
07. Mighty Time
08. Jesus on the Mainline
09. Mary Louise
10. Yes, I Do Understand
CD 2
01. Opening
02. Living in the Country
03. Joa-Bim
04. Dixie
05. Heavy Makes You Happy
06. Iuka
07. Asphalt Outlaw Hero
08. Olena
09. My Father's House
10. Going Down
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The Alabama State Troupers - Live Troupers For The Lord - 2010
An other album only with GOSPEL SONGS from the Tour
01. Oh What A Mighty Time
02. Christian Cowboy
03. Jesus On The Mainline
04. I Been A Long Time Gone
05. Mary Louise
06. Living In The Country
07. Oh Yes I Do Understand
08. Let The Children Know
09. The Lord Be Right
10. My Train Done Come And Gone?
11. I Saw The Light
