Boston Music Hall, 12/5/72 is an
album by the
country rock band the
New Riders of the Purple Sage. It was recorded live on December 5, 1972, at the
Music Hall in
Boston, Massachusetts, and released on November 11, 2003. It was the second complete New Riders concert that was recorded in the 1970s and released in the 2000s as an album on the Kufala Recordings label.[3][4]
Eric Andersen was the opening act at the Boston show. He sat in with the New Riders for their encore — his own song "I Love to Sing My Ballad, Mama" and the
Rolling Stones' "
Honky Tonk Women".
According to a statement on the back cover, the CD "was mastered directly from the original half track analog reel to reel tapes, recorded at 7.5 ips. What you hear on the 30+ year-old tapes is the way it went down."