Les Amoureux (?) is similar to "The Lovers" ... but in French and with a much slower tempo

2007 Nov 30 Hollywood USA Safari Sams

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

Jerry

Unlike any other song JR has written.Incredibly moving.

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

2007 Dec 6 San Francisco USA Great American Music Hall

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

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

"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

A faulty recording here, the sound keeps dropping out from the left and right channels randomly, so not an easy listen.

2008 May 6 Milan Italy La Casa 139

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

2008 May 7 Paris France Le Nouveau Casino

2008 Jun 6 Los Angeles USA The Mint

I love it when JR writes songs about real people. Velvet Underground,Pablo Picasso,Walter Johnson, etc.

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

2009 Mar 7 Madrid Spain Neu! Club

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

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

2009 Mar 14 Murcia Spain Auditorio Victor Villegas

2009 Mar 24 Nuremberg Germany Zentral Cafe at the K4

2009 Mar 30 London UK Dingwalls

2009 Jun 16 New York City USA Bowery Ballroom

2009 Sep 22 San Francisco USA The Make Out Room

My own recording from pretty near the front of the audience, and about 10 or 12 feet from Jonathans guitar. An intimate venue with good acoustics.

2009 Oct 11 Manchester UK The Deaf Institute

A review of this show written by Alberto from the Jojoblog: http://jojofiles.blogspot.com/2009/10/big-mama-rome-25th-october-2009.html

2009 Oct 25 Rome Italy Big Mama

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

2010 Feb 4 Jacksonville USA Jack Rabbits

Mr. Sorrow:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXYjJG-kGR0

2010 Feb 14 New York City USA Williamsburg Music Hall

2010 May 18 Los Angeles USA The Smell

2010 May 20 Long Beach USA DiPiazzas

2010 May 21 Long Beach USA DiPiazzas

2010 May 22 Long Beach USA DiPiazzas

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

"Celestial" is in Spanish and English. "We'll be the Noise..." is in English and Italian. "If You Want To Leave Our Party" is in English and French

2010 Oct 24 Madrid Spain Casa de America

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

A pretty good recording but the sound levels were probably set a little too high so there's some crackle and distortion within some of the louder songs, more so at the beginning than the end of the tape. Overall a very good recording and most songs are unaffected.

2011 Feb 25 Chapel Hill USA Local 506

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

2011 May 14 Nashville USA The 5 Spot

2011 May 15 Nashville USA The 5 Spot

Creative Alliance at the Patterson. I recorded this and it was a cool show. It was in an auditorium kind of feel as there were chairs setup so everyone sat.

The opening act was not able to appear, so Jonathan started the show early which made the opening part of the concert more fresh or off-the-cuff (cool feel)

A pretty good two set show. With Tommy Larkins

2011 Oct 20 Baltimore USA The Patterson

Post about this song: http://jojofiles.blogspot.com/2008/06/stupenda-e-misera-citt.html

The unknown song (number 14) is the party song. Does anyone know a good name for it?

2011 Oct 28 Bloomington USA The Bishop

Bob taped this about 20 feet away from Jonathan

2012 Feb 26 Liverpool UK The Kazimier

2012 Mar 1 London UK The Tabernacle

2012 Mar 18 Murcia Spain 12 y Medio

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

2012 Jun 15 Asheville USA Grey Eagle

Thanks Geno for the setlist! "Parent Pushing Stroller" is a great funny new garage rocker. My Baby Love Love Loves Me is played super fast. This was a great show, tiny stage, JR was super funny and wandering all over the place!

2013 Feb 21 Bordentown USA Consolidated Fire Hall

Tracy

2013 Jun 26 Nashville USA The Stone Fox

Includes a fun new song "Honeymoon is Over".Jonathan was opening for Alejandro Escovedo