With the Yardbirds' appearance in the Pittsburgh Blues Festival coming up at Hartwood Acres on Sunday, I'm looking forward to seeing a band that's been one of my favorites since the mid-'70s, even though it had been defunct for several years at the time.

True, the 2006 version isn't quite the Yardbirds of Clapton, Beck and Page. But it does feature half the surviving original members, and they'll be playing some songs I've always wanted to hear live.

Here are some of my favorite tunes of theirs and where you can find them:

"A Certain Girl," "I Ain't Got You," "I'm Not Talking," "For Your Love," "Got to Hurry" (Eric Clapton's "Crossroads" 4-CD compilation)
"Too Much Monkey Business," "Smokestack Lightnin'" ("Five Live Yardbirds")
"Heart Full of Soul," "Still I'm Sad," "Train Kept a-Rollin'," "I'm a Man," "Shapes of Things," "You're a Better Man Than I" ("Jeff Beck: The Yardbirds Years")
"Lost Woman," "Over Under Sideways Down," "The Nazz Are Blue," "Hot House of Omagarashid," "Turn Into Earth," "Happenings Ten Years Time Ago," "Psycho Daisies" ("Roger the Engineer")
"Beck's Bolero" (Jeff Beck: "Truth")
"Stroll On" ("Blow Up" soundtrack)
"Puzzles," "Glimpses," "White Summer," "Think About It" ("Little Games Sessions & More")
"Dazed and Confused" ("Cumular Limit")
"Please Don't Tell Me 'Bout the News," "My Blind Life," "An Original Man" ("Birdland")

PS: Check out my article about the Yardbirds in today's Observer-Reporter.