Saturday Night Live - SUTC keepin the Stills thing goin
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Live at Shepherds Bush 2008
With so many artists retreading their catalogs with concert performances of classic albums, Stephen Stills' career-spanning live set provides a different proposition. Rather than take his audience back to a single point in time, he takes them on the musical journey he mapped out for himself with Buffalo Springfield, CSN(&Y), Manassas, and various solo releases. The set list focuses primarily on the years 1966 through 1973, but reaches to Stills' last solo album, 2005's Man Alive! for "Wounded World" (segued here with Joe Walsh's "Rocky Mountain Way") and draws in a cover of Tom Petty's recent Mudcrutch song "Wrong Thing to Do."
The show is split into solo acoustic and electric band sets, and rather than following a strict timeline, Stills has arranged the songs into a program that makes for a good show, with crowd-pleasing favorites placed strategically among the deeper album cuts. The solo tunes show Stills to still be a powerful acoustic picker (both finger and flat-pick), and though his singing voice is rough in spots, the song introductions and storytelling are incredibly engaging. Best of all, the disc provides generous helpings of between-song continuity and gives you a good sense of how the show felt as a whole. This is a document of a live concert performance rather than a cleanly edited set of live songs.
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Comments (4)
Indeed..you should send one of the harem over to the computer on Monday and have 'em write one of Mr. Stills' outfits into the band poll. The snub was unconscionable.
This is really cool, I've been listening to stills alone like crazy, he's one bad man. I just secured 1000 gigabytes of storage space with filefactory for free, it just seems to good to be true, now my great great grandchildren will be able to make music. From one bearded guy to another, thanks again man
Excellent post Rummy. Enjoyed every minute of your Still journeys.
I am enjoying this.......I will have to check out your previous Stills posts I am doing it backwards)
I'm loving the Rocky Mt. Way cover!