John Stewart The Complete Phoenix Concerts (CD)

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1-CD with 28-page booklet, 18 tracks. Playing time approx. 77 mns. Thanks to DJ Bill Campton,... more

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John Stewart: The Complete Phoenix Concerts (CD)

1-CD with 28-page booklet, 18 tracks. Playing time approx. 77 mns.

Thanks to DJ Bill Campton, John Stewart's music was big in Phoenix in 1974, so producer Nik Venet had Stewart take a band there and record a 'live' album of hits and some new songs at the Phoenix Symphony Hall in March 1974. Backed by a hot band from Los Angeles, Stewart proved himself a crowd-pleaser, and the resultant 18-song album is a looser and more animated country rock collection than Stewart's studio albums. Titles include Wheatfield Lady, Kansas Rain, Roll Away The Stone, July You're A Woman, Cody, Freeway Pleasure und Let The Big Horse Run.

It was such a scene. Nik Venet once again - living on the edge with Nik Venet.
Phoenix had always been terrific to me. There was a disc jockey there, Bill Campton, who was a big fan. He was the top jock in town and played my records as if they were hits, so for the people of Phoenix they were hits. I was bigger than Elton John in Phoenix at that time. I could sell out the biggest auditorium there overnight. They bought my albums, turned out in their thousands and went bonkers. It's an example of the power of radio. That people don't know what they like, they like what they know.

Nik Venet said, "Let's go to the place where they love you the best and record a live album. We'll rehearse it, we'll go in, we'll record two days, no problem." I usually went out with just bass and drums so it was quite an adjustment to make. We rehearsed for four days, which wasn't enough, we should have had more. I'd been out on the road and just got in from Denver - got in that day and began re-hearsals a few hours later, after which we flew to Phoenix. There wasn't a lot of time to spare.

We had two gigs arranged. Recorded the first night, everything went wrong and we got nothing at all, absolutely nothing. That left us with one night to record a double album. One night, one take on every song. We were a little anxious! Anyway, just for protection, we went in that afternoon and recorded some stuff without the audience being there. But it was alright on the Saturday evening.

We went in and luckily we got what we got, though the organ wasn't plugged in so the organ you hear is leakage into another guy's mike. It was totally crazy but out of some twenty-four tunes we managed to get twenty which were usable. There were no overdubs, absolutely none. Nik said, "It's a live album, warts and all. You're not going to, fix it." If he'd let me do that I'd be fixing it still...

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Interpret: John Stewart
Album titlle: The Complete Phoenix Concerts (CD)
Genre Country
Label Bear Family Records
Preiscode AH
Artikelart CD
EAN: 4000127155184
weight in Kg 0.115

Stewart, John - The Complete Phoenix Concerts (CD) CD 1
01	Wheatfield Lady	John Stewart
02	Kansas Rain	John Stewart
03	You Can't Look Back	John Stewart
04	The Pirates Of Stone County Road	John Stewart
05	The Runaway Fool Of Love	John Stewart
06	Roll Away The Stone	John Stewart
07	July, You're A Woman	John Stewart
08	The Last Campaign Trilogy	John Stewart
09	Oldest Living Son	John Stewart
10	Little Rode And A Stone To Roll	John Stewart
11	Kansas	John Stewart
12	Cody	John Stewart
13	California Bloodlines	John Stewart
14	Mother Country	John Stewart
15	Cops	John Stewart
16	Never Goin' Back	John Stewart
17	Freeway Pleasure	John Stewart
18	Let The Big Horse Run	John Stewart