Released on 23.8.2024 on Gimme Recordings Via Plastic Head
Catalogue Number GR038
The Lion's Share broadcast from San Anselmo, CA, recorded for live transmission by KPFA FM Berkely is
one of the great treasures prized by Van Morrison collectors. Featuring early and late shows, the
broadcasts of both sets only reached the San Francisco Bay area, which on the night of the concert, 15th
February 1973, was rocked by a winter storm, limiting the reach even further.
• Performing cuts from, what was at the time, his most recent studio album, St. Dominic’s Preview, and from
the yet to be released, Hard Nose The Highway, Van also peppered both set with numbers from
Moondance, His Band & The Street Choir and Tupelo Honey.
• Covers were present-a-plenty too, with the first set beginning with evergreen, ‘Since I Fell For You’, and
penultimately featuring a one-time performance of Fred Neil’s ‘Everybody’s Talking’. Hank Williams ‘Hey
Good Looking’ gets an airing as well. Set two has versions of Johnny Mathis’s ‘Misty’, ‘The White Cliffs Of
Dover’ and Willie Dixons, ‘I Just Want To Make Love To You’.
• The two sets have not previously been available on vinyl but this new two-instalment set changes that as it
now features both early and late shows of this rarely heard 1973 concert.