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Friday, November 19

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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