Behold the Lilies of the Field is missing the first few seconds on this recording

Camina y ven pa? la loma is a Spanish song from Cuba by Ciro Rodriguez

2003 Mar 7 Barcelona Spain Sala Razzmatazz 3

Doesn't seem to get played much anymore, but I love this song

Jerry

How is JR able to point out things that rarely get pointed out in such a lucid way?

A pretty good show but sometimes the microphone picks up too much of the near distance sounds, for example clapping, and then loses the recording level for a few seconds afterwards.

"When Harpo Played His Harp" is in spanish

2003 Mar 8 Vitoria Spain Sala Azkena

She's not so scary she's got all of my records! 

The term "Vampire Girl" has entered into my natural dialect because of this song

A super sounding show and a pretty long concert. Jonathan does quite a few French songs tonight, as well as a French version of 'Not in my Name'.

C'etait Toujours Toi means "It Was Always You"

2003 Mar 14 Paris France Cafe de la Danse

Just a few crackles during 'Springtime in New York' but otherwise all okay.This is one of the few recordings we have that includes 'Not in my Name', a short verse on the pending American/British attack on Iraq, he didn't choose to do it when we saw him in Liverpool a week later.

"Life is unpredictable" surely was "in che mondo viviamo". Weird that lots of these shows I went to and I had no idea any recording of any of them existed till now.

2003 Mar 16 London UK Shepherds Bush Empire

2003 Mar 25 Hamburg Germany Schlachthof

2003 Mar 30 Munich Germany Orangehouse

2003 Oct 16 Indianapolis USA The Patio

It's weird when JR get's political...but it happens so rarely that you know it's a subject that means a lot to him

Ace sounding show with plenty of new songs too, I'm not yet sure of the titles so I've had to take a bit of a guess for now. The new songs sound great by the way!

2004 Apr 8 Glasgow Scotland The Renfrew Ferry

The first of two recordings that we made ourselves during the Spring 2004 tour, the other one was at the next night's show, 'Night and Day Cafe', Manchester: both nights were excellent and featured a clutch of new songs, some of which, hopefully, will find their way on to Jonathan's next official CD.Tonight's show is in a small pub-type venue with a pretty tightly packed audience, well pretty tightly packed where we were anyway, of probably about 150 people, tops. There's a little bit of conversation picked up on this one, but not too much, and it sounds fine.Tonight's highlight is a great sounding 'Let her go into the Darkness' with the full boyfriend/girlfriend argument done in all five languages... English, Spanish, French, Italian, and Hebrew... great fun!A bit of special show for me too, coz it's the first one that I could take my daughter to: she's now just old enough to start going to see shows, so I was really pleased to be able to take her to a Jonathan one, and Yes, she had a great time too! her words afterwards were... 'I enjoyed it loads...take me again!!'

2004 Apr 9 York UK Fibbers

Another of our own recordings, done from right near the front of stage...came out pretty good too... another small pub-type venue, but a little larger than the night before.

2004 Apr 10 Manchester UK Night and Day Cafe

"That Summer Feeling" is cut due to tape flip

2004 Apr 20 Madrid Spain Sala El Sol

2007 May 19 Las Palmas de Gran Canaria Spain Teatro Felo Monzon

Jonathan performing this in someone's backyard!: http://vimeo.com/1385299

"The Springtime of the Lovers" is in French and English

2007 Dec 6 San Francisco USA Great American Music Hall

Unlike any other song JR has written.Incredibly moving.

"I Was Dancin' in the Lesbian Bar" has lots of dancing and guitar flips

The show starts with a fragment of "Egyptian Reggae"

2008 Mar 1 Athens USA 40 Watt Club

2008 Mar 15 Omaha USA The Waiting Room

Recording levels seem to have been set too low - a pretty quiet recording.

2008 May 7 Paris France Le Nouveau Casino

Chris

This track list is slightly incorrect. Jonathan played Behold The Lilies Of The Field between No One Was Like Vermeer and Older Girl.

2008 Oct 10 Chapel Hill USA Local 506

I think this is JR's best album since I'm So Confused.

My mother is in a nursing home so the song As My Mother Lay Lying has special meaning for me.

Because Her Beauty Is Raw & Wild (2008)

Because Her Beauty Is Raw & Wild

45 minute interview broadcast on RNE3 (Radio Nacional de Espa&ntilde;a 3) just before the start of Jonathan and Tommy's latest European tour. The conversation is mainly in Spanish and the following few songs performed live in the studio.

Como Lo Oyes, RNE3 (2009)

Como Lo Oyes, RNE3

The recording stop's at "You Can Have a CellPhone..."

2009 Mar 14 Murcia Spain Auditorio Victor Villegas

2009 Jun 16 New York City USA Bowery Ballroom

2010 Oct 2 San Francisco USA Golden Gate Park Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival

Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival

"Si el Sexo hay que Planificar" is more of an improvisation with a couple of sentences in Spanish

2010 Oct 13 Paris France La Boule Noire

GREAT primitive version of Bohemia here. Even with the poor sound quality of this recording (I recorded this) you can hear JR trying new things out on the cuff

This show might have bad sound quality, but it means a lot to me. That version of Bohemia haunts me

2011 Feb 24 Asheville USA Grey Eagle

What could be said about this song? For me it's the epitome of Jonathan Richman

JojoBlog post for the song with a live performance: http://jojofiles.blogspot.com/2011/11/door-to-bohemia.html

I hope that Bohemia shows up on the next album but aren't there quite a few excellent JR songs that never appeared on any of his albums?

Some unreleased recent songs: Mr. Sorrow, Bohemia, Her Love Is From Somewhere Else, Hard Time Saying Goodbye, Italian Party Song, Hebrew Party Song (barbeque), Keith Richards. There's even a few that I'm missing

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