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More Bad Company is on the way from Rhino!

On April 29, the label will release the band’s first-ever official live album: Live in Concert 1977 & 1979.  This 2-CD set from the original line-up of Paul Rodgers, Mick Ralphs, Simon Kirke and Boz Burrell includes more than two-and-half hours of unreleased music, all culled from 24-track tapes in the band’s archives. The label notes that the “music heard on this live collection features absolutely no enhancements or overdubs, nothing but the band as they performed live on the night of the concert[s].”  Though only a CD edition is scheduled for April, Live in Concert will be issued on vinyl as two individual 2-LP sets later in 2016.

Live in Concert 1977 & 1979 boasts two previously unreleased concerts, with one additional bonus track taken from the group’s June 26, 1979 show in Washington, DC.   The first disc captures the band’s May 23, 1977 show at the Summit House in Houston, Texas, recorded during the tour for the Burning Sky album. After opening with the title track from the current LP, Rodgers and Company went on to play selections from all of the band’s previous albums: Bad Company (1974), Straight Shooter (1975) and Run with the Pack (1976).  Fan favorites “Shooting Star,” “Ready for Love,” “Good Lovin’ Gone Bad” and “Feel Like Makin’ Love” are all included.

The set’s second disc jumps to March 9, 1979 for a gig in London promoting the Desolation Angels album.  Bad Company performed several songs from Desolation at the Empire Pool show including “Rock ‘n’ Roll Fantasy,” “Gone, Gone, Gone” and “She Brings Me Love.” The group also performed a number of tracks from earlier albums that weren’t part of the 1977 concert, such as “Run With the Pack,” “Rock Steady” and “Can’t Get Enough.”  Rhino’s release is rounded out by a March 9, 1979 performance of “Hey Joe” from Washington, DC’s Capitol Center.

Bad Company’s Live in Concert: 1977 & 1979 arrives from Rhino/Swan Song on April 29, just as the band is about to kick off its current American tour.  Dates are scheduled as of this writing from May 12 to July 3!  You can pre-order the upcoming release at the links below!

Bad Company, Live in Concert: 1977 & 1979 (Swan Song/Rhino, 2016) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada)

CD 1: Live at The Summit, Houston, Texas (5/23/77)

1. “Burnin’ Sky”
2. “Too Bad”
3. “Ready For Love”
4. “Heartbeat”
5. “Morning Sun”
6. “Man Needs Woman”
7. “Leaving You”
8. “Shooting Star”
9. “Simple Man”
10. “Movin’ On”
11. “Like Water”
12. “Live For The Music”
13. Drum Solo
14. “Good Lovin’ Gone Bad”
15. “Feel Like Makin’ Love”

CD 2: Live at The Empire Pool, Wembley, London (3/9/79)

1. “Bad Company”
2. “Gone, Gone, Gone’
3. “Shooting Star”
4. “Rhythm Machine”
5. “Oh, Atlanta”
6. “She Brings Me Love”
7. “Run With The Pack”
8. “Evil Wind”
9. Drum Solo
10. “Honey Child”
11. “Rock Steady”
12. “Rock ‘n’ Roll Fantasy”
13. “Hey Joe”*
14. “Feel Like Makin’ Love”
15. “Can’t Get Enough”

* Recorded at Capitol Center, Washington, DC (6/26/79)