Top 10 Live Albums


What are your top 10 live albums?

Mine in no particular order are:

1.  Live at the Fillmore East - The Allman Brothers

2. Band of Gypsies - Jimi Hendrix 

3.  Live at Leeds - The Who

4.  Welcome Back my Friends to the Show that Never Ends - Emerson, Lake and Palmer 

5.  Skull and Roses - the Grateful Dead 

6. Live Rust - Neil Young

7. Listener Supported - Dave Matthews Band

8. Live in Japan - Deep Purple

9.  Jeff Beck with the Jan Hammer Group Live - Jeff Beck

10.  The Song Remains the Same - Led Zeppelin 

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Wow, so much less work when so many great recordings have already been covered. A few to add:

Lew Tabakin, Trackin’

The Pentagon

Humble Pie, Rockin’ the Fillmore

Pink Floyd, Delicate Sound Of Thunder

Mary Chapin Carpenter, One Night Lonely

Harry James, The King James Version

Shawn Colvin, Live (There are two records with this title. Both good, the later, recorded at Yoshi’s, the better one, IMHO)

Allison Krauss and Union Station, Live (She is going back on the road again this year after a very long hiatus.)

Jethro Tull, Bursting Out

Joni Mitchell, Shadows and Light

Allman Brothers Band, Play All Night

Rickie Lee Jones, Naked Songs

 

Some of my favorites still in rotation after all these years -

  1. Crosby Stills Nash & Young - 4 Way Street
  2. Procol Harum - Live in Concert w/ Edmonton Symphony Orchestra
  3. Elton John - Live with Melbourne Symphony Orchestra 
  4. Harry Chapin - Greatest Stories - Live
  5. Roxy Music - The High Road
  6. Don McLean - Solo 
  7. Kris Kristofferson & Lou Reed - ‘The Bottom Line Archive Series
  8. Metallica - S&M
  9. Bill Staines - Bridges
  10. Sinatra - At the Sands w/ Count Basie 

Rich 

Bob Dylan - Live 1966 “The Royal Albert Hall” Concert

Joe Cocker - Mad Dogs and Englishmen 

Van Morrison - It’s Too Late to Stop Now 

John Coltrane - The Complete 1961 Village Vanguard Recordings 

Les McCann and Eddie Harris - Swiss Movement 

The Allman Brothers Band - At Fillmore East

The Velvet Underground - 1969 Velvet Underground Live With Lou Reed

The Band - Rock of Ages

Nirvana - Unplugged In New York 

The Who - Live At Leeds