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 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

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

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

A great show this!We recorded this one ourselves from a great position, in the centre and about 15 feet out from the stage. The recording came out nicely and Jonathan plays quite a few new songs. He also has a really funny new section mid way through "Let her go into the darkness", involving four languages, great stuff!

2003 Mar 20 Liverpool UK Liverpool University

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

2003 Mar 25 Hamburg Germany Schlachthof

2003 Mar 30 Munich Germany Orangehouse

Fault with recording (loud and annoying crackle) with: Abu Jamal, 19 in Naples, Springtime in New York, Pablo Picasso, My Baby Love, Love Loves Me. All the others are okay

2003 Oct 3 Atlanta USA The Variety Playhouse

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

A pretty good show this, with quite a lively audience and a pretty long one. The sound for the first 30 seconds is a bit off but from there on the recording sharpens up and the sound is pretty good for the rest of the night. Like I said it's a pretty long one this - at about one and three quarter hours and with several encores... Jonathan has has said in the past how much he enjoys playing to Spanish audiences.. this is a good example why... the rapport's great here!

In "She Cracked", the beginning is cut due to a tape flip

2004 Apr 24 Bilbao Spain Kafe Antzokia

I received a few short extracts from this one a while back - just 3 or 4 songs in total and of pretty poor quality really; the taper wasn't happy with it either - and had been hoping that someday a better recording would  turn up? Well, it now turns out that there was someone else there taping, and he got the full show. So, here's a complete copy...

2004 May 2 Amsterdam Netherlands De Melkweg

2004 May 5 Groningen Netherlands Vera

Great recording made by P3 Live (Swedish Radio)

2004 May 8 Gothenburg Sweden Tragarn

"I Love the World", "That Summer Feeling", and "Not So Much to be Loved as to Love" are clipped

2004 May 10 Stockholm Sweden Mondo

A good show this one, Jonathan's quite talkative and speaking mainly in Spanish throughout the evening.

2004 Oct 1 Segovia Spain Centro Cultural Caja Segovia

Jonathan & Tommy did three consecutive nights at the Jazz Cafe this is the 2nd one and the whole concert's here. The recording from the following night is incomplete.

2004 Oct 5 London UK Jazz Cafe

This show and the ones directly below and above it were recorded by the same taper... they're all high quality recordings, each of them but, of the three, this one sounds the best, to my ears anyway. The atmosphere is just better somehow, so the performance has moved up a notch... What are the highlights?Well 'El Joven se Estremece', and 'Joy over Sorrow' are both sounding terrific tonight...

2004 Nov 5 Chicago USA Double Door Lounge

I grin from ear to ear each time I hear The World Is Showing It's Hand.

The bus fumes from the diesal motor. My two-year-old mind could only applaud that odor.

Not So Much To Be Loved As To Love (2004)

Not So Much To Be Loved As To Love

2005 Jan 28 San Francisco USA Great American Music Hall Tsunami Relief Benefit

Tsunami Relief Benefit

2005 Apr 2 Munich Germany Feierwerk (Hansa 39)

2005 Apr 13 Valladolid Spain Cafe Espana

Yo Tengo Una Novia is cut at the beginning

2005 Apr 14 Madrid Spain Sala Arena

Has a bit of a muffled sound but includes a few unrecorded songs.

The beginning is cut from "Her Mystery..."

2005 Apr 17 Castellon Spain Sala Van Van

Chris

2005 Jun 10 Huntsville USA The Crossroads

2005 Jun 11 Athens USA 40 Watt Club

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

"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

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

2008 May 7 Paris France Le Nouveau Casino

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

2009 Mar 24 Nuremberg Germany Zentral Cafe at the K4

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

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

2010 Feb 14 New York City USA Williamsburg Music Hall

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

Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival

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

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

2011 May 14 Nashville USA The 5 Spot

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