Reviews of concert recordings not commercially released

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• Bootleg Country: Robert Earl Keen - Live at the Strawberry Festival, 2000

  — It was the first time I'd ever paid money to see someone I didn't know.

  REVIEW in Music by Mat Brewster

• Bootleg Country: Tom Waits - Live in Hamburg, 1977

  — It took me nearly a decade, but I finally get Tom Waits. This show is the reason why.

  REVIEW in Music by Mat Brewster

• Bootleg Country: Bob Dylan - Live in the '90s

  — The greatest living songwriter performs during his mid-career slump and still knocks it out of the park.

  REVIEW in Music by Mat Brewster

• Bootleg Country: Ryan Adams - 06/03/05

  — Damn Sam, I love a bootleg that rocks.

  REVIEW in Music by Mat Brewster

• Bootleg Country: Pete Seeger And Big Bill Broonzy - 10/25/56

  — Masters of folk and blues play together. The results will change your life.

  REVIEW in Music by Mat Brewster

• Bootleg Country: Nanci Griffith - 11/29/98

  — Nanci Griffith playing her favorite songs with her favorite people.

  REVIEW in Music by Mat Brewster

• Bootleg Country: Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers - 10/28/06

  — Tom Petty gets no respect. Find out why, inside.

  REVIEW in Music by Mat Brewster

• Bootleg Country: John Prine - 09/12/99

  — Bootleg Country is back and badder than ever.

  REVIEW in Music by Mat Brewster

• Bootleg Country: Otis Redding - 1967

  — I don't know much, but I know I love Otis Redding.

  REVIEW in Music by Mat Brewster

• Bootleg Country: William Shatner 1977

  — Captain Kirk gets jiggy with it.

  REVIEW in Music by Mat Brewster

• Bootleg Country: Paul Simon - 02/14/87

  — How a cheap record player taught me about serious music.

  REVIEW in Music by Mat Brewster

• Bootleg Country: Gillian Welch - 09/17/03

  — If there really are angels, and they really do sing, then they must sound like Gillian Welch.

  REVIEW in Music by Mat Brewster

• Bootleg Country: REM - 06/09/84

  — Rediscovering an old bootleg, for the first time.

  REVIEW in Music by Mat Brewster

• Bootleg Country: Lyle Lovett - 01/27/92

  — Best bootleg ever.

  REVIEW in Music by Mat Brewster

• Bootleg Country: Lou Reed - 12/16/72

  — This is what rock is supposed to be. Two guitars, bass and drums. No frills, all rock.

  REVIEW in Music by Mat Brewster

• Bootleg Country: Jimmy Buffett - 09/04/99

  — The son of a son of a sailor drinks margaritas in his beach house on the moon.

  REVIEW in Music by Mat Brewster

• Bootleg Country: Nirvana - 10/31/91

  — Nirvana just doesn't do it for me anymore.

  REVIEW in Music by Mat Brewster

• Bootleg Country: U2 - 08/28/93

  — The reason U2 are the greatest rock band in the universe.

  REVIEW in Music by Mat Brewster

• Bootleg Country: Grateful Dead - 11/22/72

  — There would be no Bootleg Country without the Grateful Dead. See how it all began.

  REVIEW in Music by Mat Brewster

• Bootleg Country: Frank Sinatra - 05/22/68

  — Old blue eyes gets bootlegged, with sweet results

  REVIEW in Music by Mat Brewster

• Bootleg Country: Alison Krauss and Union Station - 09/02/05

  — Entering the world of trading bootlegs, I had no idea what I was getting into.

  REVIEW in Music by Mat Brewster

• Bootleg Nation: The Rolling Stones 02/24/73

  — The Stones before they retired for the fifth time.

  REVIEW in Music by Mat Brewster

• Bootleg Country: David Nelson Band Recorded 07/21/01

  — My obsession with live concert recordings; reviewed one show at a time.

  REVIEW in Music by Mat Brewster