2009 Mar 7 Madrid Spain Neu! Club

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

Jerry

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

2009 Mar 24 Nuremberg Germany Zentral Cafe at the K4

2009 Mar 30 London England Dingwalls

Unlike any other song JR has written.Incredibly moving.

2009 Jun 16 New York City USA Bowery Ballroom

A very clear audience recording, Jonathan with Tommy Larkins on drums.

2010 Feb 4 Jacksonville USA Jack Rabbits

2010 May 20 Long Beach USA DiPiazzas

For some reason a lot of people knocked this record when it came out. Why? I love it. In fact I think it's one of his strongest and most mature efforts

O Moon has grown on me but I'm still having a hard time connecting with it. Not a bad album but JR seems like he's in a holding pattern with the last few releases. None of them are bad but the last few albums seem a bit to similar to each other.

Wow...seems like only a few months ago.The song "I Was the One She Came For" is probably the most common song from this album to get stuck in my head.

These Bodies,I Was The One She Came For,We'll Be The Noise We'll Be The Scandal,The Bitter Herb,My Affected Accent are my favorites.

O Moon, Queen of Night on Earth (2010)

O Moon, Queen of Night on Earth

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

Jonathan with Tommy Larkins. A top notch recording which includes the new song 'The Door To Bohemia' and a great sounding 'Not So Much To Be Loved As To Love'.

2011 Mar 1 Philadelphia USA 1st Unitarian Church Basement

Bob taped this about 20 feet away from Jonathan

2012 Feb 26 Liverpool England The Kazimier

The high-e guitar string broke during "A Que Venimos..." and he happily continued playing for another song or two!

At the end JR, announced that there wasn't going to be an encore because he had "said all he wanted to say", and he did in a way that the audience understood. An interesting end to the night