Greatest hits live.
Chris Conway's best loved songs - live with a great band, and
featuring special guest Vikki Clayton on 2 tracks. 79
minutes with all the classics - the moving ballads, the mad
space songs, some Celtic, some blues, jazz, even some theremin
electronica - it's all here
background
I
have often been asked for a live recording of songs away from
all the big studio production. I also have wanted an album which
contained all the songs I tend to play live a lot as audience
buying a CD will want any number of songs which are spread across
10 studio albums.
The perfect occasion to record this came at my 20th Anniversary
Concert, celebrating 20 years professionally in music. I ran through
a lot of my songs from all eras - I had a great band and Vikki
Clayton guesting.
So here it is - a single disk crammed full (79mins) with all of
the songs you might catch me sing at a concert.
influences
David
Crosby, John Sebastian, Alan Stivell, Paul Kantner, Country Joe
McDonald, Jesse Colin Young, Buffy Sainte-Marie, James Taylor,
Jimmy Webb
Call Of The Wild, Carousell - Just Be Real, Long Day's Waiting - Just Be Real album with Dan Briton
Coming In To Land, I Want Something- Flying Home album
CC's
fave track -Three Headed Girl
reviews
R2
Magazine - Dave White CD review
Celebrating
twenty years of music making with a special anniversary concert
in the aurtumn of 2009 at leicester's premier roots venue, The
Musician, Chris Conway recorded the fun and released the results
both as a double CD, and here as a selected highlights disc
subtitled "Greatest Hits Live". That you've probably
never heard Conway's music and that he's never yet scored a
genuine chart-topper is typical of the man's gentle humour,
though no reflection on the consistantly high quality of
his material.
A writer and performer of classy, West Coast-style singer-songwriter
fare, the Amercian, now domiciled in Blighty also boasts several
other strings to his bow, and some of these are reflected across
this nineteen track selection; there';s his love of science
fiction (and tha aformentioned sense of humour) in his tonsil
twisting Alien Salad Abduction, a mild obsession with spooky
horro-flick-soundtrack instrument of choice - the Theremin,
not to mention his skills as a multi-instrumentalist, evidence
of which can be heard throughout. Don't let another 20 years
go by without joining in the celebrations.
R2
Magazine - Jeremy Searle concert review
CHRIS
CONWAY
The Musician, Leicester
For
the celebration of his twenty years as a professional musician,
Chris Conway has rounded up friends and associates from all
stages and phases of his career and his set list and instrumentation
is equally wide-ranging. Filk (science fiction-based folk music,
a genre in which Conway is very successful), Irish diddley diddley
folk and plain old singer-songwriter pieces all makes regular
appearances, though his more-esoteric electronic leanings are
kept down to a single excursion on theremin.
Lyrics
of the likes of ‘Carousel’ and ‘Train Of Thought’ act as a
powerful and thought-provoking counterpoint. The gig is
being filmed for a DVD, which leads to much entertaining hamming
it up, staged entrances and applause from the large and warm
crowd.
Highlights
include special guest Vikki Clayton, Conway’s playing of two
whistles at once tour de force on his own ‘Rainbow Real’ and
the reliably silly and entertaining ‘Alien Jellyfish Song’. Yet it’s not only a measure of Conway’s professionalism that
it all does ultimately come together, but also of the esteem
in which he’s held that the crowd don’t drift off as the clock
approaches midnight. It feels more like a gathering of old
friends than a commercial gig, and that can only be a good
thing.
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