Donny Hathaway - Live
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Artist: Donny HathawayBrand: HATHAWAY,DONNY
Edition: Music CD
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Import, Live
CD Release Date: 1994-03-16
Music Label: Atco Records
Soundtracks:
- What's Goin' On
- The Ghetto
- Hey Girl
- You've Got A Friend
- Little Ghetto Boy
- We're Still Friends
- Jealous Guy
- Voices Inside (Everything Is Everything)
Music reviews of Live
Music Review: This is the bar-none BEST live album EVER released!
Rating: 5 Stars
Donny Hathaway is my all-time favorite singer. Hands down. Of all the would-be poets and soul singers that emerged in the '70s, none of them that I've listened to seem to sing with as much heart and soul as Donny, and that should be all I need to say. However, as incredible and masterful as all his studio albums are, there's just nothing like hearing him play live, as well as hearing an audience that is obviously just as moved, shaken and overjoyed about seeing him play as you are about hearing him. Caught partly at the Troubadour in Hollywood and partly at the Bitter End in New York, this recording is one of the greatest moments in music history. With Donny singing his heart out, playing the hell outta his piano and organ, and an incredible backing band that included bassist Willie Weeks, it was bound to be somethin' special, but if you could jus' hear the crowd's ecstatic reaction, oh, MAN! Donny had a small, but loyal fanbase, but the adoration they had for him was monumental. Donny opens his set with his own interpretation of Marvin Gaye's 'What's Goin' On', reciting the words as if he were preaching a sermon to a churchful of worshippers. Marvin's jazzy laid-back testament of hope and love has always been meaningful, but it takes on a new vibe of spirited gut-bucket SOUL when Donny sings it. He follows that up with an extended version of his R&B hit 'The Ghetto', stretchin' it out for over twelve minutes. Donny and the band lay on the funk thick, making his famed instrumental, which was a lament for the inner-city, a dark, dank, moody, but ultimately celebratory anthem. The BEST part is in the last refrain when he gets the ladies an' gents to sing the hook, an' EVERY SINGLE person in the audience seems to be singin' in unision. I mean, fa'real, he brought the house down with this number right here. You won't understand 'till you hear it, and feel the goosebumps it gives you. With the audience as hype as ever, on their feet, ready for more, Donny follows up his crowd-pleaser with 'Hey Girl', a nice, simple love song, taken at a steady pace, jus' to keep things moving. Then he calms things down even more, moving into Carole King's popular 'You've Got a Friend', which he originally recorded as a duet with Roberta Flack. Once again, the audience sings along with the hook as Donny gives it the definitive soul treatment. It gets no better. After that number which was another big crowd-pleaser, he downtroddens the mood by taking on the popular standard 'Little Ghetto Boy'. He sings the sad and dour words with the passion and urgency that the song calls for, speaking directly to the ghettos and borroughs across the nation, and hoping, if anything, to make a difference. Next, he keeps the tempo downbeat, with the bluesy and remorseful 'We're Still Friends', then gives a brief and lively interpretation of John Lennon's 'Jealous Guy'. He ends the set with another extended funk istrumental 'Voices Inside (Everything is Everything)', letting his backing band share the spotlight and keeping the groove goin' for over thirteen minutes. It's somethin' else, fa'real.What makes this just as good, if not better, than his studio albums is that aside from hearing the awesome power in his voice, you can hear what an amazing, and I mean AMAZING instrumentalist he was, somethin' you only see flashes of on his albums. Hearing his improvisations on those instrumentals, particularly on 'The Ghetto' where he's jus' GOIN' OFF on that organ jus' made me gape in awe. I slept on this for a long time, even as a Donny Hathaway fan, but I gotta say if you have not yet picked this up, DON'T WAIT another minute. This is one of the baddest and best soul albums out there, and the bar-none BEST live album of ALL TIME, in my opinion. 'Nuff said? Oh, I think so.
Description of Live
Japanese pressing of his top 20, 1972 album for Atco, pressed in a miniature lp style gatefold sleeve, recorded live atthe Troubadour in Hollywood & at the Bitter End in New York. Eight tracks, including covers of 'What's Goin' On', 'You've Got A Friend'Pop CDs
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