Best live album you've ever heard?

Hi Marty:

"In Their Own Words" was for a time a monthly show at the Bottom Line and each month, for the most part, featured a new cast of songwriters. There was also a touring group of ITOW songwriters just after the show first premiered at the Bottom Line (1991). If memory serves me, Marshall Crenshaw, Richard Thompson, and Don Dixon (Marti Jones' husband) formed the core of that touring group. After about 35 or so Bottom Line shows, Vin Scelsa (WNEW & WFUV DJ and show moderator) called it a day (very bad case of stage fright) and the show limped along with a new moderator for a while longer and then stopped altogether. There were ultimately 2 CD's of ITOW show performances released in the 1993-4 timeframe.

Regards, Rich

Rich,

How did I ever manage to miss that?!

Crenshaw, Thompson and Dixon all fall on my very, very short list of favorites.

Thanks for the update - but it would have been a bit more useful 15 years ago!

Marty

In re Richard Thompson at St Ann's

Are you referring to an early/mid '90's show with Mitchell Froom on keys and Danny Thompson on acoustic bass?

That was a wonderful show -BUT - I have to admit that I still prefer the "plugged in" performances. Nothing like RT the guitar hero.

One great live album ... try Acoustic Alchemy's "Sounds of St. Lucia" ... great beginning-to-end CD, and "Flamoco Loco" (7:54), to cite just one track, will put a big smile on your face!

Thelonious Monk Quartet with John Coltrane - Live at Carnegie Hall - a highpoint of Western music if there ever was one.