Album Notes

Worcester, MA 04/04/1973

After wrapping up a Spring tour opening for the Grateful Dead in various cities on the East Coast, the New Riders kept their tour bus wheels rolling into Clark University in Worcester on this April evening, despite a massive snow storm. The Dead's Keith Godchaux sits in the entire evening on piano, making this show a real treat with his honky tonk riffs and fills. Donna Jean Godchaux also gets into the act, singing background on "Long Black Veil" and lead vocals on the Loretta Lynn classic, "You Ain't Woman Enough." This is the New Riders in their prime, and features classic, jammed out versions of "Dirty Business," "Portland Woman" and " Willie and the Hand Jive."