Your Favourite Live Recordings?

[Mimi]

Since I bought my first record 30 years ago (don't ask what it was :o it's too embarassing) I've always liked live recordings because of the atmosphere and the artists' comments.

Browsing my cd collection this afternoon I picked a live recording of Melissa Etheridge's 1988 show at the Roxy. Listening to it brought back memories of seeing her live for the first time at the Luxor in Cologne earlier that year.
Wonderful evening, great show and I enjoy listening to it right now.

My other live favourites are: (in no particular order)

"Working without a net" (Surprise! ;) )

Dar Williams' "Out there live" (Our Pirate Queen's favourite)

Joni Mitchell's "Miles of Aisles"

While & Matthews' "Blue Tapestry" (a compilation of songs by Joni Mitchell and Carole King)

Indigo Girls' "1200 Curfews"

Joan Baez' "Ring them Bells" and "From every Stage"

Simon & Garfunkel's "The Concert in Central Park" (spent all night in front of the TV as a teen of 14)

kd lang's "Live by Request"

Sally Oldfield "In concert"


So, what are yours? Let me know?

And: Are there any other live recordings by our Janis?


Mimi

[Darlene]

I would have to through all my LP to see which one's are live and they are all in storage so these are the only one I can remember....

-Our Very Own Janis's "Working without a Net" (one of the greatest live performances I have ever heard)
-Simon & Garfunkel's "The Concert in Central Park"
-Peter Paul and Mary, "PBS Live"
-VCR of Peter Paul and Mary and guests artists, "After All These Years" (The guests are some of the oldest folk legends around all aged, singing and in their glory)
-Joan Baez' , "Ring them Bells"
-Cat Stevens, "PBS Live"

[Mimi]

Please help me, Darlene, what is "PBS"?

Mimi

And I obviously forgot Gretchen Peter's "Trio" and Joan Baez' "Live Europe 83 - Children of the Eighties"

[Darlene]

Public Broadcasting Station is a free television station payed for by viewers. Educational Television - Sesame Street, Mr Rogers, Read Between The Lions etc,.. with some some great musical programs. I wish I had seen them all because they are live fund raisers for the station PBS. And they are taped and sold for a very large amount and used several times to help raise money
I know you are probably even more confused. I tried!:p
Peace, Darlene

[Mimi]

Sounds good, Darlene, I didn't know about PBS before. Next question: Tell me about "Read between the lions", a title that makes me curious.

Mimi

[Dee]

Janis Ian Live at Club Cafe also appeared on PBS. ;)

[david uk]

Working Without a Net- Janis (simply superb!)
Live in New York Sept 2001- Laurie Anderson
Gauguin (Thatre Mogaor 1990)- Barbara (French Singer)
Live at The Bassline Johannesburg- Colin Vearncombe
Live at The Union Chapel- Marc Almond
Acustico 2000- Mercedes Sosa
Living Proof- Sylvester (for you, Andrea!)


but Working Without A Net is by far the best- get it if you do not have it!

[Darlene]

Oh drool! Thanks Dee it is easier to not know that I missed it. but I will be looking for it again. They do sometimes repeat them if they think there is more money to be had.


by mimi :
"Read between the Lions",
Well it is actually one of my and my granddaughter favorite. I seem like this family of lions (mom, dad, brother, sister,) live in the library, well they are always in the library. Songs are sung, stories are told, and love for reading is taught. There are books all over, newspapers, magazines...all the things that are found in the library. There are also a lot of other lions and they learn lessons about friendship and getting along with other. It is a great program. I love it and the music is great!
Peace Darlene

[Mimi]

Sounds as if it would be my favourite program too, if I could see it over here! The idea seems similar to a German program called "Die Sendung mit der Maus" (The program with the mouse).
Sounds as if I knew those lions...

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This is Yehuda, one of seven brothers we are living with... they tell stories, read our books, tell jokes, comfort us, defend us, explain this crazy world for us... they are fun. Each of them has a very special character.

Mimi

[Roady]

Does my Club Cafe DVD count? If it does then it's at the top of my list. I love every song on it. I don't know how much editing was done-it doesn't matter but everything is absolutely perfect. I like "Ride Me Like a Wave" much better on the "Cub Cafe" than on "Breaking Silence." I have some trouble with sound descrimiation so with the loud background music in the "Breaking Silence" version, I can't hear the song well enough to enjoy it. No reflexion on Janis or the album just my old ears.

Of course I love "Working without a Net"!


I didn't buy music between the late 70's and until recently so don't remember what was live and not live. And I threw out all my LP's, 8 tracks, and most cassettes.

[Mimi]

Thanks for bringing us back to the topic, Roady! And yes, Club Café counts!

Talking about live DVDs I'd like to add:

Mary Chapin Carpenter: Live at Wolf Trap

k.d. lang: Live in Sydney

Melissa Etheridge: "Live... and alone" and "Lucky"

Mimi

[Oak Kitten]

Eva Cassidy - Live at Blues Alley

Oak

[Bat]

How about that Annie Lennox live show where she's wearing her Bright Red Plaid Suit with Hair to Match? I would love to have a copy of that show!!

[Roady]

Thank-you Oak!! My boss was telling me yesterday about a singer, who had died, that I should check out. Of course I forgot the name. Never would have remembered. But there it is in your post-pretty amazing.

[jenny]

...I just looked on ebay.... there is a copy of Annie live in central park.. she is wearing a plaid outfit on the cover... you have 8 hrs to check it out at 4.95.... I am still looking to find another copy or find the right one for you....
Jenny

[jenny]

amazon also has it .... hope that is the one you are looking for... it is only 12.95 on amazon.. not a bad price.. let me know if that was it.....
Jenny

[kiwi mike]

a very cold day....A Net"......Janis Ian. Yep, defiantly my favorite! But..Hmm..maybe not!! I have the double LP, "Rememder"...(which is now converted to CD)....and it's bloody marvelous!!

A couple of CD.s I particular like "Live".......
Bob Dylan Live, 1975...."The Rolling Thunder Revue."
The Band...."The Last Waltz."
The Live Adventures of Milke Bloomfield and Al Kooper.
Emerson, Lake & Palmer...."Works Live."
(No particular order...........except anything by Janis Live!)

Well, now i know that Mimi is now German, near Cologne ? I visited Koln, on 1998, and Bonn as well, to visit Beethoven's Birth-place. Actually, I'm a BIG "fan" of Beethoven........as well, like, over 20 CD's! And a lot of LP,s... Unfortunately, those are not Live!:mad:
( i saw Sir Simon Rattle, with Beethoven, 1998, London "Live"........do's this count? :p . Any way.....i took there photo's , at Bonn....a very cold day!
http://i166.photobucket.com/albums/u115/kiwimike_nz/MVC-020F.jpg....http://i166.photobucket.com/albums/u115/kiwimike_nz/MVC-007F.jpg ..... But for us, (Pat and Kiwi Mike) , it was a very special day!
Kiwi Mike

[Dee]

Oh drool! Thanks Dee it is easier to not know that I missed it. but I will be looking for it again. They do sometimes repeat them if they think there is more money to be had.

Could be Darlene. I have no idea what the terms of use were for Club Café on PBS.

[Mimi]

Eva Cassidy - Live at Blues Alley

Oak

Thanks for remembering me, Randy! A friend gave me a copy of this cd months ago, but I was too busy at that time to realize what treasure it is - I'm listening to it right now. And I like it! No, I ENJOY it!

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The Behnke GardeNews Holiday 2005
Beltsville: 301-937-1100 • Potomac: 301-983-9200

Eva Cassidy’s Day Job
by Larry Hurley, Perennial Specialist

Many of you are familiar with the music of Eva Cassidy, who died of cancer in November of 1996. At the time she died, she
was just making a name for herself in the Washington area, having completed a CD with Chuck Brown, and a concert
CD, “Live at Blues Alley.” Her music has grown in popularity. Listeners of the BBC included her version of “Somewhere Over
the Rainbow” among the 100 best songs of the 20th century, and Amazon.com recently reported that Eva’s CD’s are their
overall number 5 best seller in music for the last 10 years. Few of you know that Eva Cassidy worked full or part-time
at Behnke Nurseries for fourteen years at our Largo, Maryland nursery, between 1981 and 1995. With the sale of the Largo
property and the move of the greenhouses to Lothian this year, it seems like a good time to recollect Eva’s years at Largo.
When I started at Largo in 1984, Eva worked for the “Growing” department, as a transplanter. She performed general
greenhouse work; watering, transplanting seedlings; pinching and tying poinsettias, and all of the other various things that
greenhouse staff do. My recollection is that she was a petite blonde, very quiet and shy, and very hard working. Eva’s sister Anette, was also working part-time at the nursery while she completed a nursing degree, and her mother Barbara divided her time between transplanting at Largo and working in the Christmas Shop at Beltsville.
Eventually, Eva transferred to the Woody Plants production department (the first woman on the crew), which gave her a chance to work outside and get more exercise. In those days, our peat moss came in 6 cubic foot bales, loose on a semi. They were unloaded by hand, and stacked in a warehouse. We looked like a bunch of ants. Including Ant One, me, uttering to myself and dragging a bale, and Ant Two, Eva, with a bale of peat as big as she, balanced on her shoulder, climbing
up a mountain of bales. She was only 5’ 2”, but loaded truckloads of trees right alongside the guys.
In addition to toughening up physically, I think being the only woman on a crew of nurserymen toughened her up mentally as well, and perhaps gave her more confidence to perform. (How much worse could an audience be?) Nursery work is hard and dirty, and not particularly glamorous. It includes a lot of potting, watering, weeding, and moving heavy plants around, in all weather. An excellent incentive to further develop talents like singing!
Her supervisor, Dave Nizinski, gave her some additional duties, including woody plant propagation. She made a lot of
cuttings, especially leyland cypress.
Many of you have plants in your gardens that were originally produced by Eva.
After her initial cancer surgery, she made an effort to stay covered up while in the sun, and did more indoor work. She did some data entry (computers were definitely not her first love) and I remember many a conversation with Eva that
included the question: “Did you remember to log in?” She also used her artistic talents to make some of the signs we had around the nursery.
As she became busier as a musician, she moved to a parttime position at the nursery, and eventually, she left to devote
herself full-time to her career. It was only a few months before the cancer reappeared, and she died just as she was becoming a “name” in the Washington music scene. There are still a few of us “old timers” here who worked with Eva Cassidy.
Whenever I hear one of her songs, I think of the young woman transplanting in the greenhouse, and I feel so very sad.

Yes, Roady, you should check Eva's music out! And there's a abc Nightline show about her on youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sd9pWLrjyUg

Mimi


P.S.: Once again this MB is very inspirational to me!

[Mimi]

a very cold day....A Net"......Janis Ian. Yep, defiantly my favorite! But..Hmm..maybe not!! I have the double LP, "Rememder"...(which is now converted to CD)....and it's bloody marvelous!! Kiwi Mike

Well, how can I get a copy of this legendary live recording "Remember"? :confused: I've been looking for it on the internet to find a used copy, vinyl or cd, but without any success so far. :(


Well, now i know that Mimi is now German, near Cologne ? I visited Koln, on 1998, and Bonn as well, to visit Beethoven's Birth-place. Actually, I'm a BIG "fan" of Beethoven........as well, like, over 20 CD's! And a lot of LP,s... Unfortunately, those are not Live!:mad:
( i saw Sir Simon Rattle, with Beethoven, 1998, London "Live"........do's this count? :p . Any way.....i took there photo's , at Bonn....a very cold day! Kiwi Mike

Yes, Mike, I'm living quite near to Cologne, at Düsseldorf, Cologne is about 40 kilometres from here. But I've lived here for only two years now.
I can say that I grew up with classical music because my father is a "harddie fan" of it and I have lots of classical cds and vinyls beside my singer songwriter collection. I really adore Bach's musique. For it is of a timeless beauty and goes straight to the heart.

Mimi

P.S.: Janis, Beethoven and Bach in one post - that's fun - and it's ok!

[aabram]

Of Janis, "Working Without A Net", "Remember" and my other favourite?

Wishbone Ash "Live Dates"

[Darlene]

Thanks Mimi for the info on Eva Cassidy. Her voice is fabulous and it is so sad that she had to die at the beginnings of the height of her career. She never saw the fame that her talent had won! So sad!
Peace, Darlene

[Mimi]

So true, Darlene. Reading about of Eva Cassidy made me think of another great singer who died too early as well: Sandy Denny - and isn't it a strange coincidence (?) that Eva recorded Sandy's wonderful "Who knows where the time goes"?

Mimi

[aabram]

I saw Fairport Convention live during the 1980s... Oh, what memories..... :)

[Mimi]

Randy, I have to confess that I had a musical affair today with another singer than Janis and you are to blame for this, this time it's not Redjack:

I listened to Eva Cassidy all day, Live at Blues Alley, Imagine and Songbird. Another great discovery - thanks for the inspiration!

Mimi :)

[Amy in Vermont]

Eva Cassidy - Live at Blues Alley

Oak


That is a truly amazing recording. What a terrible shame we lost Eva so young!

[Oak Kitten]

Yes, I did not discover Eva Cassidy until after she died. Her parents live in the local area, and some of the people in my neighborhood knew her. What was truly bizarre is that when I wanted to get some of her music books, I had to go through Amazon.com UK to order them - I couldn't get them in the U.S.!

Apparently she developed quite a following in Europe, and the U.S. lagged behind. I think that has changed recently.

Oak

[Mimi]

After "Live at Blues Alley" had made me curious this morning I went to the library round the corner. They have an amazing music department there and found two more of Eva's cds, "Imagine" and "Songbird". Obviously there are fans in Germany too. It's so sad she had to go so young.

Mimi

[kiwi mike]

If you are interested in a copy of "Remember".......
my e-mail , is...... delphi7@ihug.co.nz....

Kiwi Mike

[aabram]

Hi Mike....I already have Remember..... :) Mimi and I are coming to an arrangement. Oh and one more word...Is it really wise to post an email address????? (In view of the spambots, you understand)

[Agnes]

- On s'était dit by Patrick Bruel
- Live from the ends of the earth by Dougie MacLean
- WWAN by Janis
- Live 2000 by Celtus
- Concert in Central Park by Simon & Garfunkel

[aabram]

Oh, and one more thing....if Live At The Club Cafe counts (which I've just been assured it does), well I've loved that ever since I got it last May :)

[Spence]

HARRY CHAPIN Greatest Stories Live
...every song on here blows away his studio versions.

GEORGE BENSON Weekend in L.A.
...especially his "Greatest Love of All"... best version of anybody's.

[DaveM]

"Working Without A Net" (of course)

"Natalie Merchant: Live In Concert"

"Simon And Garfunkel: Live From New York City, 1967"

"Is There Anybody Out There? The Wall Live", Pink Floyd at the top of their game.

"Live Rust"--Neil Young

The Eagles: "Hell Freezes Over"

Eric Clapton: "Unplugged"

Eric Clapton: "24 Nights"

[kiwi mike]

Hi there................Yes, i enjoy J.S.Back. A few CDs, a few LPs, and a lot of Classical Music.....like, all mixed up......often Back!
I had 5 weeks' on holiday, and Pat and i, went to Austria, for 1 several days. We had a pause, just sitting down for a while, to Stevan's Domn.?. (Cathederal...?) A man sat down, and plaide on the Organ. Wow! So powerfull! I felt vibrations throught my whole body. Awesome! It was Bach!
I have never forgoted it.....evev 12 years ago.

Kiwi Mike

[Mimi]

Hi Mike,
yeah, Bach is GREAT! I love his music, oratorios, cantatas, Concerts! Fantastic!

Mimi

[Bat]

Bach is indeed timeless. I've often wanted to hear the 5th Brandenburg played with bass and traps, the third movement is the original Boogie Woogie piano piece.