Southern Pacific
1987-xx-xx
San Diego, CA
Recorded at San Diego Wild Animal Park
Westwood One Presents 87-11

Show 87-11 for broadcast the week of March 9, 1987. Info on group members at the bottom.

I got this from a site called Voodoo Wagon (http://voodoowagon.blogspot.com) and it was posted several years ago.
I did not create this am sharing to include in the Live From Gilley's/Westwood One Presents collection I am posting.
I do not have this one on vinyl and I do not know the lineage of this one. I got it in FLAC and am posting as
I got the files. I tested them and they came up clean and lossless. There was no checksum file, so I made one.

01. Westwood One Presents 87-11 Intro - Jim Duncan - Reno Bound
02. Perfect Stranger
03. I Go To Pieces
04. Commercial - Sears
05. Commercial - Ford Lifetime Service Guarantee
06. A Girl Like Emmylou
07. Don't Let Go Of My Heart
08. Road Song
09. Commercial - Maxwell House Coffee
10. Commercial - Lay's Potato Chips
11. Westwood One Presents 87-11 Break - Jim Duncan
12. Lodi
13. Pink Cadillac
14. Westwood One Presents 87-11 Break - Jim Duncan
15. Commercial - Rolaids - Davey Johnson, Mets Manager
16. Commercial - Sears
17. Blueberry Wine
18. Thing About You
19. Westwood One Presents 87-11 Break - Jim Duncan
20. Commercial - Alka Seltzer Plus
21. Commercial - Ford Lifetime Service Guarantee
22. Commercial - Rolaids - Davey Johnson, Mets Manager
23. Tulsa Time
24. Westwood One Presents 87-11 Outro - Jim Duncan

While the disc label says "Live From Gilley's," the show was recorded
at the San Diego Wild Animal Park, and the cue sheet lists it as a "Westwood
One Presents" show.

The same set was repeated in 1988 as L 88-16, which also used the Gilley's disc label
with the Westwood One Presents cue sheet. Sometime between LG 87-11 and L 88-16, they
dropped the "G" from the disc label code.

Southern Pacific was a country rock band working from 1983 to 1991, based in California,
with drummer Keith Knudsen and guitarist John McFee as the core members who played on all
of their four albums. Knudsen had been in the Doobie Brothers (1974-1982), while McFee
played with Van Morrison, Steve Miller, and Elvis Costello, and was a member of Clover with
Huey Lewis. They were named after the railroad company (which later evolved into Sprint,
the telecommunications company).

Their original bass player was session giant Jerry Scheff, who was replaced by Stu Cook from
Creedence Clearwater Revival as of their second album. David Jenkins (from Pablo Cruise) joined
in 1987 for their third album. I'm not sure if Jenkins is on this live recording, as it doesn't
have any material from that third LP.

As might be expected of a country band formed by rock musicians in California, the music is
country-rock or country-pop and not traditionalist hard country. Southern Pacific tackle covers
of Peter & Gordon's British Invasion hit, "I Go To Pieces," Tom Petty's "A Thing About You," and
rock out on Bruce Springsteen's "Pink Cadillac." "Tulsa Time," a hit on the rock charts by Eric
Clapton and on the country charts by Don Willams also makes an appearance.

And as also might be expected, they had trouble finding an audience: it was the old "too rock for
the country audience, and too country for the rock audience" problem.

Of note on this recording is their cover of Creedence Clearwater Revival's "Lodi," which never
appeared on a Southern Pacific album. With Stu Cook in the line-up, a countrified Creedence
cover was a good idea.

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