VA - Songs of Big Star Live Nov. 2021

Various Artists

The Songs of Big Star 

St. Ann & the Church 

     of the Holy Trinity

Brooklyn, N.Y.

Nov. 7, 2021

audience recording (sound quality: VG++)

ROB SEZ: This was billed as "Songs of Big Star"— a one-of-a-kind acoustic, orchestrated performance featuring Chris Stamey (The dB's), Jody Stephens (Big Star), Mike Mills (R.E.M.), Ira Kaplan (Yo La Tengo), Brett Harris, Charles Cleaver, and Skylar Gudasz (Big Star's Third Live), Crispin Cioe (Uptown Horns) & the Occasional String Quartet. And it all happened in the stunning setting of St. Ann's Church in Brooklyn. When Chris declared a couple of years ago that "Big Star's Third Live" was over, I never thought I'd see something like this again. The performance starts off a little slow, as if the musicians are taking a while to get back in the groove. Stay with it, though, because they definitely find it several songs into the concert. The taper was Lucca. BIG THANKS to him! FYI: the NZ music series continues next week...

01 music intro

02 spoken intro

03 I'm In Love with a Girl 

04 The India Song

05 Kanga Roo

06 Watch the Sunrise

07 Dream Lover 

08 O My Soul

09 Daisy Glaze

10 Night Time

11 Take Care

12 For You 

13 You and Your Sister

14 intermission

15 September Gurls

16 Back of a Car

17 In the Street

18 Jesus Christ

19 February's Quiet 

20 Thirteen

21 Way Out West

22 Holocaust

Songs of Big Star in Brooklyn, earlier this month.
That's Chris on the right.

23 Thank You Friends

24 There Was a Light

25 You Get What You Deserve

26 Give Me Another Chance

27 The Ballad of El Goodo

28 O Dana

29 Femme Fetale [Velvet Underground]

30 I Am the Cosmos [Chris Bell]

31 Don't Go Back to Rockville [R.E.M.]

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