Love Tractor - Athens, GA 2016

Athens Popfest

Georgia Theatre

Athens, GA

Aug. 13, 2016 

PLAYING THE DEBUT ALBUM LIVE,

IN ITS ENTIRETY

    
audience recording (sound quality VG+; really impressive sound quality for an audie)

01 Buy Me a Million Dollars

02 Sixty Degrees Below

03 Motorcade

04 Festival

05 Cowboysongs

06 Cutting Corners

07 Fat Birds

08 Tropical

09 Paint (Your Face and Stand 

     In a Corner) 

10 Wheel of Pleasure

11 Seventeen Days

Love Tractor - then (above) and now, with Bill Berry

12 Hairy Beat

13 Chilly Damn Willy

14 Fun to Be Happy

15 Pretty

16 Neon Lights

ALL THANKS & EFFUSIVE PRAISE to Sloan Simpson, who recorded, mixed & mastered this (front of house mix by Ashley Dennis). As a rule, I don't re-blog recent recordings still available elsewhere. But I'm making an exception here because this performance is great and the recording is exceptional. Go check out the amazing collection of recordings Sloan has posted at his Southern Shelter site.

Love Tractor:

Mark Cline - guitar, bass, vocal

Mike Richmond - guitar, vocal

Armistead Wellford - bass, guitar,

                                clarinet, vocal 

Jay Gonzalez - guitar, keyboard

Bryan Poole - guitar, keyboard 

Joe Rowe - drums

            
with:

Kevin Dunn - guitar, keyboard

Andrew Carter - drums (former LT drummer)

MP3@320

Love Tractor says its early albums will soon be re-released. Learn more about Love Tractor at the 
band's FB page or Reverbnation page.

Love Tractor – Iowa City 1989 & 1983 bonus

Polo Club

Iowa City, Iowa

KRUI-FM broadcast

1989-XX-XX        

FM broadcast (sound quality VG+)

Repercussion: Mitch Easter produced the 1989 Love Tractor album Themes from Venus, and members of Love Tractor were some of the pioneers of the Athens, GA indie music scene, along with B-52s, Pylon and (of course) R.E.M.
 

What kind of photos would you expect

 from a group named “Love Tractor”?!?

BIG THANKS to the taper, original uploader and those who posted the videos from which I ripped the audio...

01 Nightclub Scene

02 Neon Lights

03 Themes from Venus

04 Venice

05 Festival

06 Beatle Boots

07 brief station ID

08 Sixty Degrees Below

09 Cartoon Kiddies

10 Hey Mess

11 Nova Express

12 Outside With Ma

Atlanta Arts Festival

Atlanta, GA

May 17, 1983

VHS audio rip (sound quality VG-)

13 Buy Me a Million Dollars

14 Paint

15 Tropical

Athens, GA

1983-XX-XX

VHS audio rip (sound quality VG-)

16 Sharp Dressed Man*

           *Track 16 with Peter Buck and Mike Mills of R.E.M.

Any help identifying tracks 5 & 15 will be appreciated…

MP3@320

Alt. Link

This is Love Tractor's original lineup. The band re-grouped
some years ago and remains active today.

Love Tractor:

Mark Cline

Mike Richmond

Kit Swartz

Armistead Wellford

(Andrew Carter may have played in place of Kit S. for 1989 show)
  

Learn more about Love Tractor and its music at AllMusic, the band's MySpace site, or blog.