Jonathan and Tommy live in the studio (about 30 minutes long).

WFUV, Words and Music From Studio-A Interview (2002)

WFUV, Words and Music From Studio-A Interview

Jerry

2003 Mar 5 Madrid Spain Sala El Sol

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

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

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

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

2003 Oct 16 Indianapolis USA The Patio

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

Some tape cuts on "Girlfirend", "Maybe a Walk Home...", and "My Love For Her Ain't Sad"

2004 Apr 23 Santiago de Compostela Spain Sala Capitol

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

2004 May 5 Groningen Netherlands Vera

The instrumental is funky (Funky Goodtime?)

2005 Jun 9 Atlanta USA The Earl

2005 Jun 22 Akron USA The Lime Spider

Chiusa la festa, chiusa la sera (?) (in Italian, translates as 'ends the party, ends the night?')

Bajando, bajando por ceniza y mineral (?) is a new Spanish song, which may be titled &acirc;&#128;&#152;Bajo la tierra, en el subsuelo&acirc;&#128;&#152; - Under the earth, in the subsoil.

Part of this show was also broadcast on Madrid's Radio 3

2006 Oct 27 Madrid Spain Circulo de Bellas Artes

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

2007 May 19 Las Palmas de Gran Canaria Spain Teatro Felo Monzon

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

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

2007 May 26 Mondragon Spain Teatro Amaia

2009 Mar 7 Madrid Spain Neu! Club

2009 Mar 30 London UK Dingwalls

Unlike any other song JR has written.Incredibly moving.

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

2010 May 20 Long Beach USA DiPiazzas

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

2011 May 15 Nashville USA The 5 Spot

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

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

Jerry B

Love it. Hope it appears on the next album.

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