If I Could Only Remember My Name: The Music Of David Crosby
Llais Festival
BBC Hoddinott Hall
Millenium Centre
Cardiff
Wales
UK
11th October 2024
Lineage: SP-CMC-25s > SP-SPSB-11 Battery Box > Roland R-07 > 24Bit / 44.1 khz > amadeus pro > 16 bit / 44.1 khz > xld > FLAC
taper: rayrad
01. intro
02. Music Is Love *
03. Laughing �
04. Tamalpais High At About 3
05. Cowboy Movie ~
06. What Are Their Names
07. Traction In The Rain %
08. Song With No Words (Tree With No Leaves)
09. Orleans *
xx. I'd Swear There Was Somebody Here (removed - original recording)
11. chat
12. Everybody's Been Burned �
13. chat
14. Why *
15. chat
16. Guinnevere %
17. chat
18. Long Time Gone @
19. chat
20. The Lee Shore =
21. Wooden Ships
22. chat
23. Almost Cut My Hair $
24. chat
25. Things We Do For Love � �
26. chat
27. I Won't Stay For Long ~
28. Delta %
29. band + crews intros
30. chat
31. Carry Me =
Featured Performers:
* The Staves:
Jessica Stavely-Taylor - vocals
Camilla Stavely-Taylor - vocals
� Kris Drever - vocals / guitar
~ Mike Scott - vocals / guitar
% Liam � Maonla� - vocals
@ Margo Buchanan - vocals
= Zervas & Pepper:
Paul Zervas - vocals / guitar
Kathryn Pepper - vocals
$ Ed Harcourt - vocals / guitar / piano
� Michelle Willis - vocals
Band + Ensemble:
Kate St. John - vocals
Neill MacColl - guitar
Robbie McIntosh - guitar
Ben Nicholls - bass
Evan Jenkins - drums
Ernesto Marichales - percussion / congas
All featured performers sing as part of the ensemble,
except Ed Harcourt, who plays piano as part of the band
and Mike Scott, who appears on 05 & 27 only
Support the artists - buy the records - go to the shows:
www.thestaves.com
www.krisdrever.com
www.mikescottwaterboys.com
www.liamomaonlai.ie
www.margobuchananmusic.com
www.zervasandpepper.com
www.edharcourtmusic.com
www.michellewillis.ca
www.katestjohn.co.uk
www.barkinggreenmusic.co.uk/neill-maccoll
www.robbiemcintosh.co.uk
www.bennicholls.net
www.evandrums.online
www.ernestomarichales.com
so
if you were to put a gun to my head
(and please don't)
and demand i name my favourite record of all time
first, i'd have some kind of unwise debate with you on the sad patriarchal nature of fanboy list-makers
then i'd make absolutely sure with you that it was loaded
and then, assuming it was, i'd be forced, against every natural impulse, to choose
i would not be happy
(for many reasons)
but 'if i could only remember my name' would very likely be it
which means, of course, that the potential for crushing disappointment is dramatically high tonight
at five to seven, mrs rad and i are clutching each other's hands in some degree of pre-game panic
at a couple of minutes past, we are very, very happy indeed
as we got to (somewhat drunkenly) say to organiser and all round marvel, kate st john, afterwards, the one phrase ricocheting around our skulls beforehand was 'do not fuck this up'
and by god, they didn't
everybody involved seems transported to extra heights by the communal power of the experience
and communal it very much is
bar mike scott, everyone is on stage the entire night
moving between lead turns and the vocal ensemble
and looking altogether delighted to be any part of this thing whatsoever
when cros himself makes a seemingly celestial appearance - his inimitable multi-tracked vocal on the album's closer cascading through the room - you have to feel that he approves
(as this is the original recording, i've had to remove it from this upload)
despite its origins in grief and consequent thought-numbing abandon, this is some of the most beautiful music ever made
and it is, for sure, the beauty that takes the central role tonight
we made the journey from london out to wales especially for it
and were repaid a thousand times over
the collective (with a couple of alterations) are doing it all again at the barbican in february
if you're in london, you would be foolish to miss it
and, as you can, with this recording, try before you buy, there's no need for me to hold a gun to your head
enjoy
ray
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