Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. For All
2. Wash My Eyes
3. Never So Far
4. The Way My Baby Calls My Name
5. Spring and All
6. Slow Food
7. Ina Bell Sale
8. Tequila and Me
9. China
10. Introduction to �Kate�s Guitar�
11. Kate�s Guitar
12. Say a Little Prayer
13. You Really Got a Hold on Me
14. I Want My Country Back
15. I Shall Not Be Moved
16. Two Little Feet

Disc 2:

1. Introduction to �Lord I Have Made You a Place in My Heart�
2. Lord I Have Made You a Place in My Heart
3. Poet Game
4. Think About You
5. Where Is Maria
6. Lullaby
7. Almost Out of Gas
8. Livin� In a Prayer
9. Introduction to �Mose Allison Played Here�
10. Mose Allison Played Here
11. Rexroth�s Daughter
12. Vivid
13. Kind Hearted Woman Blues
14. Just By Myself
15. Your Town Now
16. Don�t Let Me Down

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #11524 in Music
• Released on: 2004-09-07
• Number of discs: 2
• Format: Live

Album Description
One of America’s greatest singer/songwriters returns with one of the finest "live" CDs of roots music ever made...recorded at northern California’s idyllic Kate Wolf Music Festival. The only artist to appear every year in the festival’s history, he has a strong emotional connection to the event and these stunning performances reflect it. 9 tracks are previously unrecorded and the other 20 are classics with all-new and surprising treatments. Proceeds from this project go to support Jugalbandi, a "Music and Arts as Education" program in northern California.

Amazon.com
Rare is the voice that is both as deep and as warm as Greg Brown's. Though the veteran troubadour boasts the most weather-beaten baritone this side of Johnny Cash, there's sunshine in the smile of his wry phrasing and a disarming playfulness in his work. This two-disc set includes recordings from six years of California's annual Kate Wolf Music Festival and, while it lacks the flow of a single performance, the easy intimacy that the Iowa bard enjoys with his audience offsets any disjointedness from track to track. The generous selection of material (more than two and a half hours) includes nine songs Brown has never recorded before. Highlights range from the sly sensuality of "The Way My Baby Calls My Name" and "Slow Food" to the social commentary of "I Want My Country Back" and the droll evocation of life's ironies in "Where Is Maria." The conviction he brings to Smokey Robinson's "You Really Got a Hold on Me" and the Beatles' "Don't Let Me Down" transforms familiar favorites into testaments of faith. --Don McLeese

Relix
"Exquisite...one of America’s best writers."

Customer Reviews

This is what music should sound like
Greg Brown's newest release has already embedded itself into my list of one of the best Cds I've ever listened to. I just saw Greg at the Hardly Strictly Bluegrass festival in San Francisco and was left with a warm fulfilling feeling that only great music can give you. Greg Brown has a way with words and has a voice that just takes you over. The fact that this CD was recoreded at different performances dosent take away from the continuity of the album, but im my mind adds to it. You can really get a feel for Gregs deep connection with Kate Wolf and the festival. I recommend "Kate's Guitar," "Lullabye," and "Two Little Feet."

It's a home run....
I bought this two days ago and haven't stopped listening to it. The set has 9 or 10 songs that have never been recorded, like 'Slow Food', which I heard Greg sing and have been waiting for him to record it. The set is very similar to Dream Cafe, Further In & Poet Game CDs. Serious Gregheads will no doubt add this to the collection. For me the cut that makes the whole disk is "Two little feet". Wow is all I can say! There isn't anything you can drink, smoke or snort that will make you feel better than Greg's music does. Greg is a genius songwriter, and his music satisfies some deep primal need we all have to feel satisfied and fulfilled inside, even though we may not know what we are looking for. You won't be dissapointed with this CD

Outstanding!
This cd is a staple in my diet of "soul food". I have had this cd for a year now and I can never play it enough. I have found a profound love for the message, meaning, and feeling of greg brown's music.