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

Jerry

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

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

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

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

Another great show from the UK spring tour... and the last recording of a run of four successive nights from different cities.You can clearly hear, across the four nights, a couple of new songs being developed and worked on...  'Older Girl' and 'For drama we have the seasons'.

2004 Apr 11 Bristol UK The Fleece and Firkin

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

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

An absolutely spot on recording with extremely crisp and clear sound, right up there with Caesars Tampa 92 for sound quality and one of the best sounding shows we have.

2004 Jun 5 Atlanta USA Echo Lounge

"Springtime in New York" is cut (the end of the tape)

2007 May 26 Mondragon Spain Teatro Amaia

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

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

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.

2009 Mar 30 London UK Dingwalls

Unlike any other song JR has written.Incredibly moving.

2010 May 21 Long Beach USA DiPiazzas

2010 May 22 Long Beach USA DiPiazzas

2012 Mar 1 London UK The Tabernacle

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