EXCEPTIONAL 1973 BROADCAST FROM VAN THE MAN The Lion's Share broadcast from San Anselmo, CA, recorded for live transmission by KPFA FM Berkely - a listener funded station that signed on the air April 15, 1949 as the first Pacifica Radio station, and which remains the flagship station of the Pacifica Radio Network - is one of the great treasures prized by Van Morrison collectors. Featuring early and late shows, the broadcasts of both sets only reached the San Francisco Bay area, which on the night of the concert - 15th February 1973 - was rocked by a winter storm, limiting the reach even further. Performing cuts from, what was at the time, his most recent studio album, St. Dominic’s Preview, and from the yet to be released, Hard Nose The Highway, Van also peppered both set with numbers from Moondance, His Band & The Street Choir and Tupelo Honey. Covers were present-a-plenty too, with the first set beginning with evergreen, ‘Since I Fell For You’, and penultimately featuring a one-time performance of Fred Neil’s ‘Everybody’s Talking’. Hank Williams ‘Hey Good Looking’ gets an airing as well. Set two has versions of Johnny Mathis’s ‘Misty’, ‘The White Cliffs Of Dover’ and Willie Dixons, ‘I Just Want To Make Love To You’. Midway through the late set, Van namechecks his band as; Brother Jack Schroer on saxophone, Jeff Labes on piano, Doug Messenger on guitar, Marty Davidson on bass and Rick Schlosser on drums. The two sets have not previously been released but this new 2CD set changes that as it now features both early and late shows of this rarely heard 1973 concert.