Description
Restless in Manhattan ’72 is an acoustic live album by the American singer and songwriter Larry Norman, independently released on Norman’s own label Solid Rock Records in 2003. The album features a solo performance in New York recorded in 1972.
It’s a shame that the release of this concert from New York City in the summer of 1972 comes amidst a bundle of other live releases as this is easily one of the best live solo releases Larry has ever issued. It’s also one of the few recent releases to come with a great CD booklet with liner notes and memories of the Jesus Movement era from Larry complete with great photos from the period. Apparently this is a soundboard recording from cassette which was painstakingly digitally cleaned up by a fan after the original tape was found by one of their friend’s cleaning out their stuff. Long standing fans will enjoy hearing Larry’s vocals on this one as he sounds almost angelic on the more reflective songs just like he did on the live tracks from ‘Bootleg’ and ‘Street Level’ and more thought and care is invested in his guitar playing (eg, compare the live version of «Moses» here with the same song on other live albums and you’ll see what I mean). Some songs like «Blue Shoes White» and «Righteous Rocker» soon dropped out of Larry’s stage repertoire so it’s nice to hear them here. [Dougie Adam, Cross Rhythms, March 2004]
CD tracklist:
01. Intro / Prayer
02. U.F.O.
03. The Vicissitudes Of Religion
04. Why Should The Devil (slow)
05. One Way (played on guitar)
06. Up In Canada (slow)
07. Blue Shoes White
08. Culture and Christ
09. Song For A Small Circle Of Friends
10. Miracles (rock ballad version)
11. Is There Something More?
12. Pianissimo Ridiculouso
13. You Knew What You Were Doing
14. Center Of The Universe
15. Diamonds
16. Strong Love Strange Peace
17. Why Don’t You Look Into Jesus
18. Righteous Rocker, Holy Roller #1
19. I Wish We’d All Been Ready
20. Prayer
Notes: Available at Bandcamp: https://larrynorman.bandcamp.com/album/restless-in-manhattan
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