Rachel Sweet - 1979-06-24 - Seattle, WA (FM)

Rachel Sweet 

and the Fingerprintz 

1979-06-24

Paramount Theater

Seattle, WA

FM Broadcast

320 kbps

Artwork Included

 

01. KISW Intro (signal trouble)  

02. Truckstop Queen (signal trouble) 

03. Something Goin On In My Head

04. Foul Play

05. Stranger In The House

06. Spellbound

07. B-A-B-Y

08. Wildwood Saloon

09. Nerves

10. Cuckoo Clock

11. Who Does Lisa Like

12. Connection 

13. Rachel Says Goodnight

14. KISW Outro

Rachel Sweet - 1979-06-24 - Seattle, WA (FM)

As the decade of the 1970s came to a close, punk and new wave music, which had been the province of underground and college radio stations, began to make its way onto more mainstream stations such as WNEW-FM in New York. The first time I heard the then 18 year old Rachel Sweet on WNEW, I had to run out and buy her debut album, Fool Around. The disc became a staple on the turntable (yes - it's that old!)in my college dorm room. Part new wave, part early 60's girl group in sound, the album featured songs such a B-A-B-Y, Wildwood Saloon, I Go to Pieces and Sad Song. In the summer of 1979, I got to see Rachel in Central Park as the lead in for Eddie Money. This FM Broadcast captures Rachel during that tour, in Seattle, on June 24, 1979, 44 years ago this very day. Unfortunately that would be the last time I saw Ms. Sweet live, though I did make a real effort to catch a 2nd show, only to have the rock gods intervene. In early 1980, tickets went on sale for Jerry Garcia at the Capitol Theatre, with Rachel Sweet as his lead-in. While my roomies weren't huge Garcia fans, they all agreed we should get tickets so we could see Rachel. And, so I did! The show was scheduled for March 1, 1980. A week before the concert, however, came the announcement that Robert Hunter had replaced Rachel Sweet as the lead-in. No explanation was ever provided, but I'm guessing there was concern that the Dead Head audience may not have appreciated Ms. Sweet.