Some info on the Recordings from Texas Pop Festival

The recordings were made straight off the sound board. They've been sold for years as bootleg albums. Some of the albums include announcements from the stage, including Wavy Gravy and the police chief, and audience comments. Today, they are available as CDs, and occasionally as LPs, at such places as eBay.

The largest manufacturer is a company called Oh Boy. They've used the artwork from the Tom Bailey watercolor that adorned the programs and the poster sold at the festival. They've colored the art differently for each artist's CD. The insert is actually a miniature replica of the program from the festival, with every page identical. The only difference besides size is the coloring of the cover. That's really cool! If you bid on a CD on eBay or elsewhere, I would suggest you contact the seller, if that information isn't in the description, and ask if the multi-page insert is included. If it's a CD, be sure to ask if it is a CDR copy. There are lots of those. The CD will most likely still play just as well, so if you don't care about the accompanying graphics, a CDR is fine, but the price should be much lower than the ones with the graphics, especially the Oh Boy CDs with the miniature program inserts.

There are other versions of some of the artists' CDs. In fact, the Spirit CD is difficult to find on the Oh Boy label. The most common version is one call "Feedback Texas Style." That one has eight songs from the festival and ten from the album, "Feedback," that Spirit released in 1972, but has yet to be released on CD for some reason.

Besides the Oh Boy version, Janis's performance is sold under the name "Raise Your Hand," which was the first song she sang at the festival, and "Turn On Your Love Light," which contains some other performances. 

Johnny Winter's performance is also sold as "Johnny Winter Live" and White Lightning. 

Led Zeppelin's CD is sold a number of different ways including "Don't Mess With Texas." (Bet you never heard that phrase in 1969!) One version has a photo of Jimmy Page on the cover that is obviously from years later.

There's a box set of three albums that contains songs by artists who are not included on an album of their own. One artist on the box set, Lu Mitchell, did not play at the festival. She was merely an attendee one day there. She's a long-time Dallas folk musician who wrote a song about the media coverage of the festival, and someone decided to include it. The CD box set, if bought together as Oh Boy manufactured it, comes in and LP-sized box. and the replica of the program is full size.

The original LPs came in a plain, white album cover with the name of the band and "Live at Texas Pop Festival" stamped on the front with a rubber stamp. Later, the LPs came with transparent, colored records. Each artist had a different color. Janis' was pink; Sly's was yellow. Those show up on eBay occasionally, usually with a steep price tag. 

Unfortunately, Freddie King, Nazz and Shiva's Headband, as far as I can tell, didn't get put on any of the albums. Of course, the bands that played at the free stage and not at the main stage were not recorded.

The recordings available (as I've found them) are:
(CLICK ON THE ARTIST FOR THE PLAYLIST ON THE CD)

B.B. King
Chicago Transit Authority (Chicago)
Janis Joplin
James Cotton
Johnny Winter
Led Zeppelin
Rotary Connection
Sly & the Family Stone
Spirit
Ten Years After
Box Set #1: Grand Funk Railroad, Incredible String Band, Santana, Sweetwater
Box Set #2: Delaney & Bonnie & Friends, Tony Joe White, Herbie Mann
Box Set # 3: Canned Heat, Lu Mitchell, Sam & Dave

Playlists:

B.B. King
(Recorded Monday, Sept. 1- however, he played all 3 days)
(Playlist to come)

(B.B. talking)- (1:03)
1- (6:10)
2- (4:09)
(B.B. introduces band)- (:58)
3- (6:28)
4- (6:37)
5- (7:14)
6- (5:44)
7- (2:49)
8- (2:06)

Chicago Transit Authority
(Recorded Saturday, Aug. 30)

(Stage announcements) (0:11)

Come On Everybody Let Us Play For You (6:32)
(Piano intro interrupted by jet flyover) (1:44)
Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is? (3:13)
Cloudy Every Morning-Sun Don't Shine (7:05)
Beginnings (6:17)
7:25 or 6 to 4 (5:37)
We've Been Having Fun In Texas (0:55)
I'm a Man (7:18)

Janis Joplin
(Sometimes sold as "Turn On Your Love Light" or
"Janis Does Dallas"- performed with her newly formed band,
Full Tilt Boogie Band)
(Recorded Saturday, Aug. 30)

(Stage announcements by Wavy Gravy) (5:26)

Raise Your Hand (5:14)
As Good As I've Been (6:52)
Try (6:24)
Maybe (3:46)
To Love Somebody (4:57)
Summertime (4:38)

James Cotton
(Playlist & Date to come)

(Stage Announcement) (:44)

1- (6:04)
2- (8:49)
3- (2:50)
4- (3:05)
5- (2:40)
(Cotton talking)- (1:48)
6- (4:18)
7- (3:27)
8- (11:02)
9- (12:57)
10- (3:56)

Johnny Winter
(Recorded Monday, Sept. 1)

(Introduction) (0:06)
Mean Town Blues (9:35)
Black Cat Bone (4:56)
Mean Mistreater (12:45)
Talk to Your Daughter (7:05)
Look Up (5:24)
I Can Love You Baby (2:49)

Led Zeppelin
(Sometimes sold as "Don't Mess with Texas")
(Recorded Sunday, Aug. 31)

Sweet Baby  (2:57)
I Can't Quit You Baby  (5:58)
Dazed & Confused  (15:07)
You Shook Me  (10:44)
How Many More Times/Bye Bye Baby  (21:56)
Communication Breakdown  (4:51)

Rotary Connection
(Recorded on Saturday, Aug. 30)

Lady Jane (5:31)
Rotary Connection (Incl. Ruby Tuesday) (10:28)
Stormy Monday (14:48)
Let Me Hide In Your Sunshine (8:21)
Let Them Talk (14:24)

Sly and the Family Stone
(Recorded Monday, Sept. 1- they were the last band)

M'Lady  (7:08)
Sing a Simple Song  (5:32)
You Can Make It If You Try  (6:24)
Stand  (10:14)
Everyday People  (3:12)
Dance to the Music  (8:19)
I Want to Take You Higher  (9:52)

Spirit
(Recorded Monday, Sept. 1)
(the playlist varies for this album depending on the manufacturer;
this album is sometimes called "Feedback Texas Style" and includes
cuts from the album "Feedback"; I've listed only the songs from the festival)

Fresh Garbage (9:09)
It Shall Be (2:25)
Ice/I'm Truckin' (8:31)
Groundhog Day (4:07)
Policeman's Ball (2:02)
Mechanical World (9:25)
I Got a Lin On You (2:51)
Aren't Ya Glad? (4:07)

Ten Years After
(Recorded Monday, Sept. 1)

Good Morning Little School Girl (7:20)
I Can't Keep From Cryin' Sometimes (18:00)
Hobbit (10:13)
Spoonful (6:57)
I'm Goin' Home (11:30)

Box Set #1

Grand Funk Railroad:
Are You Ready? (3:51)

Incredible String Band:
Waiting For You (7:34)
Black Jack Davy (4:25)

(Audience comments)

Santana:
Evil Ways (6:25)
You Just Don't Care (5:22)
Shades of Time (5:05)
Jingo (3:36)
Treat (3:25)
Soul Sacrifice (9:52)

(Police Chief Adams speaks to audience)

Sweetwater:
What's Wrong? (14:57)
Why Oh Why (3:46)

Box Set #2

(Audience comments)

Delaney & Bonnie & Friends:
Get Ourselves Together (3:18)
Ghetto (6:04)
When the Battle Is Over (4:41)
I Can't Take It Much Longer (3:18)
Things Get Better (3:45)

Tony Joe White:
Polk Salad Annie (5:50)
Aspen Colorado (3:25)
Elements & Things (4:58)
Roosevelt & Ira Lee (5:19)
Hard To Handle (3:56)

Herbie Mann:
Tangier (14:46)

Box Set #3

(Stage announcement)

Canned Heat:
Bullfrog Blues (7:01)
Rollin' & Tumblin' (12:35)
(Bob Hite speaks to the audience while Larry fixes his bass) (2:58)
You Can't Do No Better (9:28)

Lu Mitchell:
(Not recorded at the festival- written about the festival)
Lewd & Loose in Louisville (3:13)

Sam & Dave:
Instrumental Intro (5:02)
Take What I Want (5:38)
I've Been Lonely Too Long (10:31)
May I, Baby (10:52)
Soul Man (6:06)