David Crosby - King Biscuit Flower Hour (Live)

Songs:  Tracks in the Dust, Guinnevere, Compass, In My Dreams, Drive My Car, Lady of the Harbor, Oh Yes I Can, Monkey and the Underdog, Delta, Déjà Vu, Night Time for the Generals, Wooden Ships, Almost Cut My Hair, Long Time Gone.

Type of Music:  Folk/Rock   

Comments:

The King Biscuit Flower Hour was a famous One Hour Live Show that went on Air on hundreds of Rock Radio stations in the U.S.A. No Musical Style was too outrageous. Literally from the Beach Boys to Motörhead. The Show was first broad casted in 1973. Special Guests were Blood Sweat & Tears and Bruce Springsteen. The show ran until deep in the nineties. There are some 16.000 reels of concert tape and some of the best have been released on CD. Just to name a few: Humble Pie, Deep Purple, Greg Lake, America, Canned Heat, 10CC, Steve Forbert,Greg Kihn, John Sebastian, Romantics and…….David Crosby. One of the main characteristics of the series is the awesome sound quality. It´s really like you were there and during the acoustic set it´s almost if David is singing directly to you. Excellent!!! 

David was promoting his Oh Yes I Can album at the time. The performance in question was recorded on April 8, 1989 at the Tower Theatre in Philadelphia. For David it was his return to stage after 10 years of drugs and alcohol addiction. On this specific night David and the band performed extremely tight and convincing.

The Concert is divided in an acoustic part consisting of the first four songs with just David and his acoustic guitar, followed by the electric set. 

David and the band play songs from his above mentioned solo record as well as older work from the Crosby Stills & Nash Albums.

Most songs from Oh Yes I Can sound much more inspired than the versions on the studio album with the possible exception of Monkey and the Underdog. The CSN material sounds good but I do miss Stephen´s guitar and Graham´s harmony vocals from time to time. It does give us the chance however to hear the songs performed David´s way. Sometimes that means that he´s deviating a bit too much from the original musical lines. But that´s my only tiny bit of criticism on an otherwise splendid performance. 

Rating: ******** (8 out of 10)