I continue to think that the Indigo Girls are underappreciated these days. I especially enjoy their music from the late 1980s and early 1990s. I wanted to hear something new (for me) from them, so I considered live recordings. There's a great 1995 official live album called "1200 curfews," so I went looking for something a little earlier than that. There are tons of bootlegs (which you can find at http://www.lifeblood.net), but I was surprised how few there are with excellent sound quality. Luckily, I found this one, which stands above the rest from that time period due to the fact that it was professionally recorded and broadcast on the radio.
That's the good news. The bad news, especially for me, is that whoever recorded it off the radio seems to have stopped the recording during the applause after every song. This was done way back in the day to save tape, though it's a bit strange to still be happening in the 1990s. Anyways, the good news is that whoever did that almost always recovered in time to record the banter between songs. But it was a pain for me because for virtually every song I had to find applause from other songs and patch that in at the end, to make the cheering long enough. The good news is that's done, and things should sound normal now.
There were a couple of additional problems though. For the songs "he History of Us" and "Closer to Fine," there were short sections in the middle that were missing. So I had to find other live versions of those songs and patch in the missing spots. That's why those two have "[Edit]" in their titles. (Although technically every song show have that since they all were edited for the applause problem.)
The result is a really nice concert, in my opinion. This was a full band show, with some players coming and going, depending on the song, and some songs done just as an acoustic duo. All the expected well known songs were played, but also some interesting rarities, including a couple that were unreleased at the time, such as "No Way to Treat a Friend" and "The Ballad of Squeaky Fromme."
The sound quality still isn't as good as "1200 Curfews," but that's a grab bag from all sorts of sources, including some studio tracks, whereas I prefer hearing a concert from start to finish.
This album is an hour and 42 minutes long.
01 talk (Indigo Girls)
02 Secure Yourself (Indigo Girls)
03 World Falls (Indigo Girls)
04 talk (Indigo Girls)
05 Hammer and a Nail (Indigo Girls)
06 talk (Indigo Girls)
07 Love's Recovery (Indigo Girls)
08 Pushing the Needle Too Far (Indigo Girls)
09 talk (Indigo Girls)
10 Crazy Game (Indigo Girls)
11 talk (Indigo Girls)
12 No Way to Treat a Friend (Indigo Girls)
13 talk (Indigo Girls)
14 Southland in the Springtime (Indigo Girls)
15 talk (Indigo Girls)
16 Watershed (Indigo Girls)
17 The Ballad of Squeaky Fromme (Indigo Girls)
18 talk (Indigo Girls)
19 The History of Us [Edit] (Indigo Girls)
20 Land of Canaan (Indigo Girls)
21 talk (Indigo Girls)
22 Center Stage (Indigo Girls)
23 talk (Indigo Girls)
24 Tried to Be True (Indigo Girls)
25 1 2 3 (Indigo Girls)
26 talk (Indigo Girls)
27 You and Me of the 10,000 Wars (Indigo Girls)
28 Kid Fears (Indigo Girls)
29 Prince of Darkness (Indigo Girls)
30 Welcome Me (Indigo Girls)
31 talk (Indigo Girls)
32 Left Me a Fool (Indigo Girls)
33 Closer to Fine [Edit] (Indigo Girls)
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The cover photo was taken in Spain in October 1991. In the original photo, Amy Ray (dark hair) and Emily Saliers (light hair) were standing at least ten feet apart. I used Photoshop to bring Saliers much closer.
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