Must-Have Live Albums from Legends Like Ry Cooder, Grateful Dead & More! 🎶✨
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Get ready for an unforgettable Record Store Day 2025 with a stellar lineup of exclusive live album releases from music’s biggest icons. Fans can finally experience historic performances like Ry Cooder’s The Main Point – Live 1972, Elvis Costello’s Kings of America Live at Royal Albert Hall, and the Jerry Garcia Band’s Don’t Let Go: Orpheum Theatre 1976. Grateful Dead devotees will love the first-ever vinyl release of their Beacon Theatre, NY 6/14/76 show, while collectors can grab rare sets from Joni Mitchell, Sly & The Family Stone, and The Talking Heads. Whether you're into blues, rock, jazz, or funk, this year’s RSD exclusives deliver legendary live energy straight to your turntable. Don't miss your chance to own these timeless performances—available only on April 12, 2025! Visit Record Store Day .com for complete details. Here's what they had to say about a few releases.
Ry Cooder
The Main Point - Live 1972
DETAILS
Event: RECORD STORE DAY 2025
Release Date: 4/12/2025
Format: LP
Label: Rhino
Quantity: 3000
Release type: RSD Exclusive Release
The first-ever archival release from Warner's vaults featuring the legendary songwriter, composer, and producer Ry Cooder. This collection includes a rare solo performance recorded at The Main Point in Bryn Mawr, PA, on November 19, 1972. While one track from this performance appeared on a Warner promotional release in 1972, this marks the first time the entire set will be available. On Black Vinyl.
Tracklist
1. Police Dog Blues
2. Comin’ in on a Wing and a Prayer
3. Someday Baby Blues
4. Tattler
5. Vigilante Man
6. F.D.R. in Trinidad
7. Ditty Wah Ditty
8. Jesus on the Mainline
9. Goin’ to Brownsville
Elvis Costello
Kings Of America Live At Royal Albert Hall
DETAILS
Event: RECORD STORE DAY 2025
Release Date: 4/12/2025
Format: 2 x LP
Label: Third Man Records
Quantity: 2000
Release type: RSD Exclusive Release
Seventeen-song concert recorded on January 27, 1987 at The Royal Albert Hall in London in the company of James Burton, Jim Keltner, Jerry Schiff, Benmont Tench and T-Bone Wolk. Newly mixed from multitrack tapes.
Tracklist
1. The Big Light *
2. Only Daddy That’ll Walk The Line *
3. Our Little Angel *
4. It Tears Me Up *
5. I’ll Wear It Proudly *
6. Lovable *
7. Riverboat *
8. Sally Sue Brown/36-22-36 *
9. American Without Tears *
10. Brilliant Mistake *
11. What Would I Do Without You *
12. Your Mind Is On Vacation /Your Funeral, My Trial *
13. Pouring Water On A Drowning Man *
14. Payday *
15. That’s How You Got Killed Before *
16. Sleep Of The Just *
17. True Love Ways *
Jerry Garcia Band
Don't Let Go: Orpheum Theatre, San Francisco - May 21, 1976
DETAILS
Event: RECORD STORE DAY 2025
Release Date: 4/12/2025
Format: 4 x LP
Label: Round Records
Quantity: 4000
Release type: 'RSD First' Release
Recorded live at San Francisco's Orpheum Theatre on May 21, 1976, this release captures the Jerry Garcia Band with Grateful Dead bandmates Keith & Donna Jean Godchaux, plus John Kahn and Ron Tutt. Driven by infectious grooves, soulful harmonies, and heavy doses of improv, this show reveals the band’s boundless creativity. Highlights include an exploratory “Don’t Let Go,” a funky “That's What Love Will Make You Do,” plus extended jams on “After Midnight” and “Lonesome and a Long Way from Home.” This 4 LP set is released for Record Store Day 2025.
Tracklist
SIDE A:
1. Sugaree
2. They Love Each Other
SIDE B:
3. That's What Love Will Make You Do
4. Knockin' on Heaven's Door
SIDE C:
5. Sitting in Limbo
6. Mission in the Rain
SIDE D:
7. Don't Let Go
SIDE E:
8. After Midnight
9. Strange Man
SIDE F:
10. Tore Up Over You
SIDE G:
11. I'll Take a Melody
12. They Way You Do the Things You Do
SIDE H:
13. My Sisters and Brothers
14. Lonesome and a Long Way from Home
Grateful Dead
Beacon Theatre, New York, NY 6/14/76
DETAILS
Event: RECORD STORE DAY 2025
Release Date: 4/12/2025
Label: Rhino
Quantity: 5500
Release type: RSD Exclusive Release
Upper-echelon live Dead! The complete live performance from the Beacon Theatre in New York, NY on June 14, 1976, is available now for the first time on vinyl. This bonafide classic performance features reimagined versions of “Might As Well,” “Lazy Lightning” >” Supplication,” “Samson and Delilah,” “Crazy Fingers,” “Help On The Way” > “Slipknot!” > “Franklin's Tower,” and new arrangements of “Dancing In The Street” and “Cosmic Charlie.”
Audio features Plangent Processes tape restoration and speed correction and has been mastered for vinyl by Jeffrey Norman. The album is produced for release by Grateful Dead archivist and legacy manager, David Lemieux.
5LP, 180-gram Vinyl, Limited Edition of 7,600 worldwide
John & Yoko, The Plastic Ono Band, Elephant's Memory
Power To The People - Live at the One-To-One Concert, New York City, 1972
DETAILS
Event: RECORD STORE DAY 2025
Release Date: 4/12/2025
Format: EP
Label: UMR/Apple
Quantity: 3000
Release type: RSD Exclusive Release
Power To The People - Live at the One To One Concert, New York City, 1972
John & Yoko/Plastic Ono Band with Elephant’s Memory and Special Guests
On August 30, 1972, John Lennon and Yoko Ono, along with the Plastic Ono Band, Elephant’s Memory, and special guests, headlined two historic One to One Benefit Concerts at Madison Square Garden in New York City. These performances, held before a combined audience of 40,000 people, raised over $1.5 million to support schoolchildren with special needs. These were John Lennon’s final and only full-length solo concerts after leaving The Beatles.
Produced by Sean Ono Lennon and mixed and engineered from the original tapes by Paul Hicks and Sam Gannon, this extremely limited-edition EP features four tracks from the afternoon and evening concerts, including three previously unreleased performances. Available exclusively for Record Store Day 2025, the EP is pressed on 180g yellow vinyl.
Tracklist
A1 - Well Well Well (Live from Madison Square Garden, New York, 1972) 5’36
A2 - Instant Karma! (We All Shine On) (Live from Madison Square Garden, New York, 1972) 3’36 B1 - Cold Turkey (Live from Madison Square Garden, New York, 1972) 5’54
B2 - Don’t Worry Kyoko (Mummy’s Only Looking For A Hand In The Snow) (Live from Madison Square Garden, New York, 1972) 4'44
The Meters
Live At Great American Music Hall, San Francisco
DETAILS
Event: RECORD STORE DAY 2025
Release Date: 4/12/2025
Format: 2 x LP
Label: SING Inc.
Quantity: 3500
Release type: 'RSD First' Release
Live At Great American Music Hall, San Francisco is the classic double live album that The Meters always deserved but have never had…until now. Recorded in 1975 when the classic lineup of Art Neville, Leo Nocentelli, George Porter Jr., Joseph "Zigaboo" Modeliste and new arrival Cyril Neville was at the peak of its powers, the live set draws heavily on the band’s then-most recent album Rejuvenation and previews its successor, Fire On The Bayou – commonly regarded by fans and critics alike as The Meters’ two best albums. Yet Live At Great American Music Hall, San Francisco digs in even deeper, extending the jams close to 20 minutes with the band absolutely burning across this nine-song set. Several selections from this show appeared on a mysterious, unauthorized and highly coveted 1981 bootleg LP titled The Meters At Rozy’s. Live At Great American Music Hall, San Francisco presents the full set, properly sequenced and mastered, for its first official release. Pressed on Mardi Gras colored vinyl.
Tracklist
1. A Minor (Middle Of The Road) (19:16), 2. Mardi Gras Mambo (1:44), 3. Chicken Strut (4:40), 4. Wildflower (6:26), 5. Down By The River (6:52), 6. People Say (5:13), 7. Just Kissed My Baby (8:17), 8. Jock-A-Mo/Brother John (4:04), 9. Hey Pocky A-Way (5:32)
Joni Mitchell
Live 1976
DETAILS
Event: RECORD STORE DAY 2025
Release Date: 4/12/2025
Format: 3 x LP
Label: Rhino
Quantity: 3600
Release type: RSD Exclusive Release
Side One: This Record Store Day 2025 release features Joni Mitchell’s live performances from around the country, as she set out with the L.A. Express on a national headline tour at the start of 1976. Culled from hours of unreleased content into a 3LP offering on 140g black vinyl, this album is a breakout of material from the JMA Vol 4. box set that will be on vinyl for the first time.
Dane County Coliseum, Madison, WI, Feb. 9, 1976
1. HELP ME The Music Hall, Boston, MA, Feb. 19, 1976
2. LOVE OR MONEY 3. FREE MAN IN PARIS 4. FOR THE ROSES Side Two: 1. COLD BLUE STEEL AND SWEET FIRE 2. BIG YELLOW TAXI 3. SHADES OF SCARLETT CONQUERING Nassau Coliseum, Uniondale, NY, Feb. 20, 1976
4. FOR FREE Side Three: The Music Hall, Boston, MA, Feb. 19, 1976
1. Intro to Coyote/Don Juan’s Reckless Daughter 2. COYOTE/DON JUAN’S RECKLESS DAUGHTER Dane County Coliseum, Madison, WI, Feb. 9, 1976
3. JUST LIKE THIS TRAIN The Music Hall, Boston, MA, Feb. 19, 1976
4. SHADOWS AND LIGHT Side Four: 1. IN FRANCE THEY KISS ON MAIN STREET Cameron Stadium, Duke University, Durham, NC Feb. 7, 1976
2. TRAVELING (HEJIRA) The Music Hall, Boston, MA, Feb. 19, 1976
3. EDITH AND THE KINGPIN 4. TALK TO ME Side Five: 1. HARRY’S HOUSE/CENTERPIECE 2. Intro to FURRY SINGS THE BLUES 3. FURRY SINGS THE BLUES 4. TROUBLE CHILD 5. RAINY NIGHT HOUSE Side Six: Cameron Stadium, Duke University, Durham, NC Feb. 7, 1976
1. DON’T INTERRUPT THE SORROW The Music Hall, Boston, MA, Feb. 19, 1976
2. RAISED ON ROBBERY 3. THE JUNGLE LINE 4. TWISTED
Tracklist
Side One: Dane County Coliseum, Madison, WI, Feb. 9, 1976
1. HELP ME The Music Hall, Boston, MA, Feb. 19, 1976
2. LOVE OR MONEY 3. FREE MAN IN PARIS 4. FOR THE ROSES Side Two: 1. COLD BLUE STEEL AND SWEET FIRE 2. BIG YELLOW TAXI 3. SHADES OF SCARLETT CONQUERING Nassau Coliseum, Uniondale, NY, Feb. 20, 1976
4. FOR FREE Side Three: The Music Hall, Boston, MA, Feb. 19, 1976
1. Intro to Coyote/Don Juan’s Reckless Daughter 2. COYOTE/DON JUAN’S RECKLESS DAUGHTER Dane County Coliseum, Madison, WI, Feb. 9, 1976
3. JUST LIKE THIS TRAIN The Music Hall, Boston, MA, Feb. 19, 1976
4. SHADOWS AND LIGHT Side Four: 1. IN FRANCE THEY KISS ON MAIN STREET Cameron Stadium, Duke University, Durham, NC Feb. 7, 1976
2. TRAVELING (HEJIRA) The Music Hall, Boston, MA, Feb. 19, 1976
3. EDITH AND THE KINGPIN 4. TALK TO ME Side Five: 1. HARRY’S HOUSE/CENTERPIECE 2. Intro to FURRY SINGS THE BLUES 3. FURRY SINGS THE BLUES 4. TROUBLE CHILD 5. RAINY NIGHT HOUSE Side Six: Cameron Stadium, Duke University, Durham, NC Feb. 7, 1976
1. DON’T INTERRUPT THE SORROW The Music Hall, Boston, MA, Feb. 19, 1976
2. RAISED ON ROBBERY 3. THE JUNGLE LINE 4. TWISTED
Sly & The Family Stone
The First Family: Live At Winchester Cathedral 1967
DETAILS
Event: RECORD STORE DAY 2025
Release Date: 4/12/2025
Format: LP
Label: High Moon Records
Quantity: 3250
Release type: 'RSD First' Release
Sly & The Family Stone were true pioneers on so many levels: black/white, male/female, rock/soul, the act shattered all preconceptions of what popular music could be and would go on to become one of the most groundbreaking and influential artists the world has ever witnessed.
The First Family: Live at Winchester Cathedral 1967 is an unprecedented live performance by the original Family Stone line-up, recorded just prior to their signing to Epic Records, and a full year before their chart breakthrough with “Dance To The Music.” This fascinating recording explicates Sly Stone’s genius on a tremendously exciting and atmospheric set of vintage soul covers, peppered with the arrangements, motifs and intoxicating energy that would soon become familiar during the group’s ascent. Interest in Sly is high with the documentary directed by Questlove, but to experience the full impact of the Family Stone’s legendary abilities from the start, this historic document is required listening. 12" LP Deluxe RSD edition with gatefold sleeve and lavish 24-page booklet.
Tracklist
1. I Ain’t Got Nobody
2. Skate Now
3. Show Me
4. What Is Soul
5. I Can’t Turn You Loose
6. Baby I Need Your Loving
7. Pucker Up Buttercup
8. Saint James Infirmary
9. I Gotta Go Now (Out On The Floor) / Funky Broadway
Talking Heads
Live on Tour
DETAILS
Event: RECORD STORE DAY 2025
Release Date: 4/12/2025
Label: Rhino
Quantity: 8000
Release type: RSD Exclusive Release
Live On Tour was recorded at the Agora in Cleveland on December 18, 1978 and published as a promo LP for radio broadcast in 1979. Recorded on the More Songs About Buildings and Food tour, the promo release was never officially released commercially to the public. This is the first official release of the full show, fully remastered from the original analog tapes and features one previously unreleased track. 2LP set cut at 45rpm.
Tracklist
A1. THE BIG COUNTRY (LIVE AT THE AGORA, CLEVELAND, OH, 12/18/78)* A2. WARNING SIGN (LIVE AT THE AGORA, CLEVELAND, OH, 12/18/78)* A3. THE GOOD THING (LIVE AT THE AGORA, CLEVELAND, OH, 12/18/78)* B1. ARTISTS ONLY (LIVE AT THE AGORA, CLEVELAND, OH, 12/18/78)*
B2. THE GIRLS WANT TO BE WITH THE GIRLS (LIVE AT THE AGORA, CLEVELAND, OH, 12/18/78) B3. ELECTRICTY (DRUGS) LIVE AT THE AGORA, CLEVELAND, OH, 12/18/78) C1. NEW FEELING (LIVE AT THE AGORA, CLEVELAND, OH, 12/18/78)*
C2. FOUND A JOB (LIVE AT THE AGORA, CLEVELAND, OH, 12/18/78) C3. THANK YOU FOR SENDING ME AN ANGEL (LIVE AT THE AGORA, CLEVELAND, OH, 12/18/78)* D1. PSYCHO KILLER (LIVE AT THE AGORA, CLEVELAND, OH, 12/18/78)* D2. TAKE ME TO THE RIVER (LIVE AT THE AGORA, CLEVELAND, OH, 12/18/78)*
The 13th Floor Elevators
Houston Music Theatre, Live 1967
DETAILS
Event: RECORD STORE DAY 2025
Release Date: 4/12/2025
Format: LP
Label: LMLR
Quantity: 4000
Release type: RSD Exclusive Release
Originally intended to be the band’s second LP, now released for the 1st time on a mono mix, meticulously restored to its intended form. Recorded in the ultra-modern Houston Music Theatre complete with a revolving stage in 1967, this was originally intended to be the band’s second LP. It’s now released for the first time in a mono mix, meticulously restored to its intended form. The 13th Floor Elevators, led by Roky Erickson’s blistering vocals and Tommy Hall’s otherworldly electric jug, were in their prime, and this performance solidified their place as pioneers of the psychedelic sound. Includes fiery renditions of the band’s signature tracks "You're Gonna Miss Me" and "Reverberation". This recording has never been released on vinyl before and the Record Store Day 2025 deluxe vinyl package includes an OBI side strip, cardboard jacket, printed inner sleeve and Blue and Black Marble Effect vinyl.
Tracklist
(I've Got) Levitation | Roller Coaster | Fire Engine | Reverberation (Doubt) | Don't Fall Down | Tried To Hide | Splash One | You're Gonna Miss Me | Monkey Island | Kingdom Of Haven | She Lives (In A Time Of Her Own)
Yes
Live at the Rainbow,London, England12/16/1972
DETAILS
Event: RECORD STORE DAY 2025
Release Date: 4/12/2025
Format: 3 x LP
Label: Rhino
Quantity: 3500
Release type: RSD Exclusive Release
Available for the first time on vinyl, from an exploration into Yes' fifth studio album Close To The Edge. Including a complete live show recorded at The Rainbow in London on December 16, 1972, with standout tracks such as “And You and I”, “I’ve Seen All Good People”, and “Roundabout”.
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