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LN UK 77 is a double disc live album by the American singer and songwriter Larry Norman, Kickstarter-funded and independently released on Solid Rock Music in 2023. Both discs recorded during Larry Norman’s 1977 UK Tour. The first disc features Larry Norman acoustic solo while the second disc features Larry Norman backed by the Alwyn Wall Band (Alwyn Wall on rhythm guitar, Norman Barratt on lead guitar, Phil Holmes on keyboards, Tony Hudson on bass, and Nick Brotherwood on drums).
Bandcamp Promo, 2023
In 1977 Larry Norman was at the peak of his creative and performing abilities. Having just released his biggest selling album In Another Land, Norman embarked on an ambitious and lengthy world tour that included Australia, America, Europe, Israel, India, and Saudi Arabia among many other countries. For the UK leg of the journey he hired a mobile recording studio to capture several of his performances. Recordings that never saw the light of day. Until now.
After Larry passed away in 2008 his brother Charles began cataloging the thousands of photographs, master tapes, handwritten lyrics, and artwork Larry stored in his archives. A daunting task that took years. In 2019 Charles unearthed something long thought non-existent: the original 24-track tapes recorded in England 42 years earlier. He and several engineers at a Portland, Oregon recording studio meticulously restored, transferred, and digitized the tapes, and the result was stunning. Perfectly recorded concerts with a tight British backing band and Larry in top form interacting with the audiences and delivering like he seldom had before. Solid Rock is very excited to have finally brought this long-rumored artifact to near completion as a two CD box set, each CD in a six panel Digipack with eight page booklets containing liner notes, tour recollections from those present, and previously unseen photographs. Disc One is Larry in a solo acoustic set, while Disc Two features Larry with The Alwyn Wall Band featuring Norman Barratt on guitar. Disc Three (yes, there’s a third CD of alternate performances from other cities!) is also available.
Interested in vinyl? We hope to have limited edition LPs if enough people order them, along with some cool add-ons in each rewards category. The songs are all mixed and ready to go. All we need to do now is have them mastered for CD and vinyl, have them all pressed, and print the jackets, booklets, and full colour boxes for the set. That’s where you come in!
The Kilburn Gaumont Theater, London: This Saturday night Larry Norman has sold out the venue twice – a total of 8,000 people – and by British music business standards this is quite impressive. Not many British acts could do the same. The next night I saw a band that was currently riding high in Britain, at the smaller Drury Lane Theatre and they haven’t sold its 3,000 seats out even once. Their manager, himself formerly manager of The Who, saw Larry at the Royal Albert Hall in 1975 and was amazed to encounter this phenomenon of the Christian underground who could quietly fill up 5,000 seats without the rest of the music business knowing about it.
– Steve Turner, Nov. 26, 1977 [A quote printed in the CD booklet]
2CD tracklist:
Disc One – Solo
1-01. Introduction
1-02. UFO
1-03. Sweet Song of Salvation
1-04. Thank You England
1-05. Reader’s Digest
1-06. Pardon Me
1-07. Kiwis And America
1-08. The Great American Novel
1-09. Angry Preachers
1-10. Moses In The Wilderness
1-11. Nightmare #71
1-12. Be Careful What You Sign
1-13. The Outlaw
1-14. I Wish We’d All Been Ready
Disc Two – Band
2-01. Why Should The Devil …
2-02. I Hope I’ll See You In Heaven
2-03. Deep Blue
2-04. Talking – Rumors
2-05. Shot Down
2-06. Song For A Small Circle Of Friends
2-07. If God Is My Father
2-08. The Rock That Doesn’t Roll
2-09. Talking – Pressure
2-10. It’s Only Today That Counts
2-11. Let That Tape Keep Rolling
2-12. Talking – Encore
2-13. Rachael And Me
2-14. Strong Love, Strange Peace
Note: Also released as a 180g 12-inch vinyl double LP, funded through Kickstarter. Came with a third bonus CD disc, entitled The Clown Jewels (Six Days in the UK), featuring outtakes from the ’77 UK Tour recordings feat. The Alwyn Wall Band. (Bonus Disc Track List: UFO / Soul on Fire / A Shaggy Dog Story / If God Is My Father / I Hope I’ll See You In Heaven / Why Should The Devil… / Let Mistakes Keep Rolling / Deep Blue / Shot Down / H10 / Small Circle of Friends / The Rock That Doesn’t Roll / We Really Shouldn’t Worry / It’s Only Today That Counts.)
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