Donovan - In Concert: Complete 1967 Anaheim Show
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Music CD Cover Artist: Donovan Brand: DONOVAN Edition: Music CD Format: Import CD Release Date: 2006-06-19 Music Label: EMI Import Soundtracks: Music CD 1
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Free Music Notes for In Concert: Complete 1967 Anaheim Show Album
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Hit: 5 Stars
When it comes to many and more live albums, it's easy to take 'em or leave 'em. But there's always been something exceptionally warm and intimate about Donovan's live performances. It may simply be due to the purposeful clarity of the music as composed and the clarion quality of Donovan's voice, but there's an immediacy and sense of touch that becomes more and more rare as bands and their "shows" get bigger and bigger.
This CD offers the complete concert and the performance has thankfully been remastered with a great deal of respect for the original sound. The very brief liner notes call attention to the fact that even the reverb you'll hear is that of the performance space -- no indulgence in additional tinkering or sweetening was applied. And frankly, none is needed. Which means you're hearing the sort of music that actually lives in the performers' abilities and in-the-moment interactions, not the over-rehearsed recreation of a studio recording designed to support some silly dance routine. (In such cases, I guess the dance routines are so important because the music itself is usually so profoundly incapable of holding the attention of so many 21st century fans. Either that or the height of musical expression was somehow realised on the old Carol Burnett Show during the June Taylor Dancers' segments and I just failed to recognize it as such...).
As the next in the line of these Donovan remasters, the decision to present the entire performance is the right one, especially given the intimate nature of so many of these songs and their place in the early Donovan canon. And -- as you must already know -- the performance itself is both dear and great stuff, gratefully restored and greatly appreciated.