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LifeLines Live
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Track Listing
- Babylon/Oh Sinner Man
- Wanderin'/Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out
- 75 Septembers
- Deportee
- Times They Are a' Changin', The
- Old Enough(Ode to an Aging Rocker)
- Home Is Where The Heart Is
- Great Mandala (The Wheel of Life)
- Stewball
- For The Love Of It All
- Virtual Party
- House Of The Rising Sun
- Freedom Medley
- Kid, The
- Sweet Survivor
- River Of Jordan
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #53895 in Music
- Released on: 1996-08-06
- Number of discs: 1
- Format: Live
Customer Reviews
This CD expresses the best of folk music!
For all fans of Peter, Paul, & Mary, the live version of Lifelines is a wonderful display of folk music's purpose and soul. The special artists featured on this CD with p, p, & m are people who encouraged the group as they have grown. Along with these artists, p, p, & m selected younger artists who will hopefully carry on the great folk tradition. The songs on this CD cry out for love, acceptance, understanding, freedom, and peace--folk music's strongest elements. I love every song!! This is a great CD!
A mixed bag
Peter, Paul & Mary, as a vocal trio, really come alive before an audience. To my ears they always sound so much more vibrant in concert than in 95% of their studio recordings -- and I've heard most of them. (Two memorable exceptions: "The Peter, Paul & Mary Album" from 1967 and "No Easy Walk To Freedom" from 1986.) There is something so magical about their harmonies -- they are, as a group, greater than the sum of their individual parts.
This is one of their later CDs recorded in concert in 1996, and a companion piece to their "Lifelines" recording. The concert features guest appearances by a number of folk superstars -- Dave Van Ronk, Ronnie Gilbert, Odetta, John Sebastian, and Tom Paxton among them. But there is a flatness to many of the performances that is surprising given the program and participants.
I believe the recording really picks up steam when Odetta joins Mary Travers on "House of the Rising Sun." That track really makes you take notice: Odetta's vocal is amazingly powerful and effectively blends together with Travers. The album's highpoint is Buddy Mondlock's beautiful song, "The Kid," on which he joins PP&M. It is a beautiful performance and alone is worth the price of the CD.
Certainly not their best effort but the CD contains a couple of outstanding performances.
