1996 May 12 Amsterdam Netherlands The Milky Way

The second version of "The Girl Stands Up to Me Now" is performed with a new arrangement

1996 Jul 24 Manchester UK Manchester University

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

With Tommy Larkins, Nick Augustine, and Dan Eisenberg

1996 Oct 9 Montreal Canada Club Soda

A full band recording but not a good one - with a bit of a muffled sound and far too much bass. 

1996 Oct 11 Boston USA The Paradise

The songs themselves are fine but I think that the big band sound may be a bit over the top at times. But like all JR albums there's still a lot to love here.

Half of this album (the first and last parts) are among the best of JR's work...but the other half of this album (the middle part) is my least favorite of his work

Surrender. Maybe Jonathan's best set of lyrics?

Surrender to Jonathan (1996)

Surrender to Jonathan

1997 Mar 12 New York City USA Mercury Lounge

A nice short interview at about 30 minutes long. 'Surrender to Jonathan' has just been released, and besides being interviewed about this, Jonathan is also playing a few songs live in the studio.

KCRW - Morning Becomes Eclectic (1997)

KCRW - Morning Becomes Eclectic

The first of three great sounding recordings from Japan.

1997 May 26 Kyoto Japan Taku-Taku

A very clear recording including several new songs.   

1997 May 30 Ebiso Japan

With 'The Falcons'... Tommy Larkins (Drums) Nick Augustine (Bass) and Dan Eisenberg (Organ).

1997 Aug 13 Copenhagen Denmark Cafe Rust

Set 2 starts with the second version of "Let Her Go Into the Darkness"

1998 Aug 6 New York City USA Knitting Factory

A slightly muffled sound here: it does though include a couple of songs unique to this show.

Superb show. Did "Since She Started To Ride" after someone shouted "Go Country Jonny!". After that funny request he did another song, and afterwards remarked how he liked how informally he was addressed! ("very  familiar of them!") He then played the song with these twangy country guitar licks that I had never heard him play before

1998 Dec 6 San Francisco USA Slims

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

The first few seconds of this sound a little strange but the tape soon perks up. 'Velvet Underground' is the highlight for me on this one, Jonathan throws in some great sounding snatches of 'Sister Ray' and 'What goes on...' probably the best version of 'Velvet Underground' I've yet heard.

1999 Feb 18 London UK Jazz Cafe

Not a bad recording but with a couple of silent points on a few of songs it's rated as 'good' only. 

2000 Feb 22 Baltimore USA Fletchers

2000 Nov 4 London UK The Forum

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

2002 Feb 23 Columbus USA Little Brothers

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

This is a great show, with a great unknown song "Mystery of the Summer Night"

2004 Jun 4 Huntsville USA Flying Monkey Arts

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

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

2005 Jun 22 Akron USA The Lime Spider

2006 Oct 15 Cambridge UK The Junction

2006 Oct 16 London Union Chapel

2006 Dec 16 Sacramento USA Marilyns on K

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