''Worcester, MA, 4/4/73'' is an

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by the country rock band the New Riders of the Purple Sage. It was recorded live at

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on April 4, 1973. It was released on May 20, 2003. It was the first of a series of albums that were released on the Kufala Recordings label in the 2000s and that contain complete New Riders concerts recorded in the 1970s.Live Archive Releases
at the NRPS official website Two members of the Grateful Dead sat in with the New Riders at the Worcester concert.

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played piano for the entire show, and

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sang lead vocals on the

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song "You Ain't Woman Enough", and backing vocals on the ballad "

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".''Worcester, MA, 4/4/73''
at The Best of Website The New Riders played nineteen original songs and six covers, a total of almost two hours of music.

Recording and sound quality

According to a statement on the back cover, the CD "was mastered directly from the original half track analog reel to reel tapes, recorded at 7.5 ips. While capturing the band at a fine point in time, the 30-year-old tapes may at certain points exhibit some imperfections due to the ravages of time."

Track listing

Disc one

#"I Don't Know You" ( John Dawson) – 3:48 #"Lochinvar" (Dawson) – 5:06 #"Rainbow" (Dawson) – 3:11 #"It's Alright With Me" (

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) – 3:51 #"Sailin'" (Dawson) – 3:01 #"Whatcha Gonna Do" (Dawson) – 3:04 #"California Day" (Torbert) – 2:53 #"Linda" (Dawson) – 3:33 #"Groupie" (Torbert) – 2:32 #"One Too Many Stories" (Dawson) – 6:07 #"Contract" (Torbert) – 3:59 #"Teardrops in My Eyes" (

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, Tommy Sutton) – 2:58 #"

" (

Danny Dill Horace Eldred "Danny" Dill (September 19, 1924 – October 23, 2008) was an American country music singer and songwriter. He was inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1975. Biography Dill, born in Clarksburg, Tennessee, got h ...

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) – 4:29 #" You Ain't Woman Enough" (

) – 3:24 #"Whiskey" (Dawson) – 3:30

Disc two

#"Dirty Business" (Dawson) – 10:08 #"Down in the Boondocks" (

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) – 3:36 #"

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" ( Gene Pitney, Cayet Mangiaracina) – 2:56 #"You Should Have Seen Me Runnin'" (Dawson) – 4:42 #"Portland Woman" (Dawson) – 6:57 #"Henry" (Dawson) – 4:37 #"Glendale Train" (Dawson) – 5:24 #"Last Lonely Eagle" (Dawson) – 6:19 #"Louisiana Lady" (Dawson) – 3:50 #"Willie and the Hand Jive" ( Johnny Otis) – 11:29

Personnel

New Riders of the Purple Sage

* John Dawson – rhythm guitar,

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* David Nelson –

lead guitar Lead guitar (also known as solo guitar) is a musical part for a guitar in which the guitarist plays melody lines, instrumental fill passages, guitar solos, and occasionally, some riffs and chords within a song structure. The lead is the featu ...

, vocals *

–

bass guitar The bass guitar, electric bass or simply bass (), is the lowest-pitched member of the string family. It is a plucked string instrument similar in appearance and construction to an electric or an acoustic guitar, but with a longer neck and ...

, vocals *

Buddy Cage Buddy Cage (February 18, 1946 – February 5, 2020) was an American pedal steel guitarist, best known as a longtime member of the New Riders of the Purple Sage.

– pedal steel guitar *

Spencer Dryden Spencer Charles Dryden (April 7, 1938 – January 11, 2005) was an American musician best known as the drummer for Jefferson Airplane and New Riders of the Purple Sage. He also played with Dinosaurs, and the Ashes (later known as the Peanut B ...

– drums,

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Additional musicians

–

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– lead vocal on "You Ain't Woman Enough", harmony vocal on "Long Black Veil"

Production

*Rob Bleetstein – producer *Mike Zasuly – recording *Rich Winter – mastering

Notes

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