Don McLean - BBC Sessions, Volume 3: In Concert, Royal Albert Hall, London, Britain, 10-15-1973

Here's another album of singer-songwriter Don McLean performing for the BBC. This time, it's another acoustic concert, just like "Volume 2" was.

If you look at the BBC website, there's a page for this concert that shows a 45 minute concert. This is not that. Unfortunately, that link is dead and probably has been for years. However, I was able to cobble together enough for an album from other sources. No doubt there's a lot of overlap with that BBC broadcast, but it's possible some songs here are from the part of a longer concert that didn't make the 45 minute broadcast version.

Beware, because the sound quality varies a lot, due to different sourcing. The best sounding songs are tracks 6, 7, and 8. These are the only officially released ones, from the archival collection "Favorites and Rarities." Of the rest, a couple of the songs came from YouTube. Those have the poorest quality. But most of the rest came from a Don McLean super fan, who sent me some mp3 files downloaded off McLean's official website years ago. They have since been taken down, so that was a really fortunate save.

The same month this concert took place, McLean released the studio album "Playin' Favorites." Up until that point, his albums consisted of original songs, but this album was entirely made up of cover versions. One of them is included here, "Mountains O' Mourne." But he also played a couple of covers he didn't put on album at the time, "And Her Mother Came Too" and "Yonkers Girl."

Hopefully someday the BBC will rebroadcast this show, as they sometimes do and/or someone else will step forward who recorded it. In the meantime, this version will have to suffice. I have no idea about the song order, since this came from different sources and I couldn't find a definitive set list. So I just made up an order. 

This album is 37 minutes long. 

01 Winterwood (Don McLean)
02 Great Big Man (Don McLean)
03 Respectable (Don McLean)
04 Over the Waterfall - Babylon (Don McLean)
05 talk (Don McLean)
06 Mountains O' Mourne (Don McLean)
07 And Her Mother Came Too (Don McLean)
08 Yonkers Girl (Don McLean)
09 American Pie (Don McLean)

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The cover photo is from this exact concert.

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