Richard Betts, Vassar, & co - Acoustic Set | Ultrasonic Studio 1974

"Blue Sky"
"Pony Boy"
"I Saw the Light"
"Hard Time Blues"
I believe this is the whole show, includes "Come On In My Kitchen" arrangement that the ABB would resurrect nearly 20 years later. Worth downloading:


@porkchopbob Yes all great stuff. I'm a huge Dickey fan. Dickey grabbed me as much as Duane did, the whole band did, in early 1970 the first time I saw them. Dickey had his ups and downs but he deserves the big house, boat, lake and island he has in his retirement. He earned all of it.
There was talk of the Winterland show being released as a live album in early 1975 but it didn't happen. Dickey has two studio albums that were never released. The second one has Warren on it but apparently as a background singer. The first one had one track, Nancy, to finally come out on the 1989 Dreams box set.
Is this an official release from 2014 of the Winter land album or is it a bit of a Bootleg?

Looks as if Dickey had Goldie on that fall 1974 solo tour. I saw one show in 1974 but I'm a black on which electric guitar he played. Can't remember. He played some acoustic guitars and that Dobro Duane used on Little Martha. Gregg gave Dickey that after Duane died and it's on the cover of Highway Call. He was still on the sunburst with zebras that summer with the ABB. But those B&W pics looks like Goldie perhaps.
Dickey said he found Goldie in a Manhattan pawn shop in 1974. It's a 1957 and probably my favorite guitar. Jimmy Herring has a custom Strat with two big humbuckers I really like and that guitar has a great tone. But Goldie is hard to top.

@robertdee it's a boot of the Winterland show.
Here are rough versions, possibly demos, of Dickey's mid-80s Nashville album.

@porkchopbob Oh fantastic. I've never heard anything on it. Thanks brother!!
I think Warren said Dickey called to ask if he would play slide, lead and sing on a rock and roll album. That Dickey was shelving the other album and actually Warren said he wouldn't say anything at the time but Warren didn't think it worked.
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