List of concerts at Rickwood Field

This is a List of concerts at Rickwood Field, including music-only events which took place at the historic ballpark:

• April 28, 1962: Sam Cooke, B. B. King, Gladys Knight & the Pips, The Drifters, Dee Clark, Solomon Burke, Barbara George, and the Sensations
• July 27, 1963: James Brown with the James Brown Big Band, The Brownies, The Famous Flames, Johnny & Bill, Tammy Montgomery, The Dev L's Den, The Poets, Bobby Byrd and others (promoted by J. Earle Hensley)
• September 22, 1964: The Drifters, The Tams, Betty Everett, Chuck Jackson, Solomon Burke, Jerry Butler, and Patti LaBelle
• August 11, 1972: Shower of Stars with the Osmonds, the Heywoods and Jan Baker
• May 18, 1973: Johnny Winter, Foghat and Brownsville Station
• June 12, 1973: Wet Willie, Savoy Brown, Cactus, Manfred Mann's Earth Band, and Blue Öyster Cult
• June 29, 1973: Edgar Winter Group
• July 29, 1973: Humble Pie with Lee Michaels
• September 20, 1973: Earth, Wind & Fire, Head to the Sky tour, with Tucky Buzzard and Uriah Heep
• July 12, 1974: Lynyrd Skynyrd
• August 24, 1974: Mountain
• July 4, 1975: Lynyrd Skynyrd, Nuthin' Fancy tour
• July 16, 1976: Lynyrd Skynyrd, Gimme Back My Bullets tour with Outlaws
• July 23, 1976: KISS, Destroyer tour with Bob Seger, Kansas and U.F.O.
• July 22, 1985: The Bach Boys
• June 6, 1987: Kool City Jam with Zapp & Roger, and Rebbie Jackson

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Context

Neighborhood complaints led the Park & Recreation Board to request promoters limit the sound volume at concerts in 1971, and to prohibit rock concerts at the ballpark entirely in 1973. That prohibition was later lifted.

References

• Rickwood Field, Birmingham, AL at setlist.fm