Acoustic Evening With Al Stewart [Extra tracks, Import, Live]

Al Stewart | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (December 4, 1997)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Extra tracks, Import, Live
• Label: EMI Import
• ASIN: B000007W4O
• Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #432,767 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Year of the Cat

2. On the Border

3. Laughing into 1939

4. Night Train to Munich

5. Roads to Moscow

6. A Small Fruit Song

7. The Candidate

8. Intro/The Year of the Cat

Customer Reviews

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32 of 35 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Not a new recording, August 30, 1998

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D. Plentus "webmaster of dylancover.com" (MA, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Acoustic Evening With Al Stewart (Audio CD)

Despite the title, this is not a new live recording by Al Stewart. It is a compilation of both live and studio acoustic tracks from throughout his career, from 1970's "Zero She Flies" through "Between The Wars." "Intro/Year Of The Cat" is from a promotional-only radio station album, so it may be rare to US fans, though it was on the UK reissue of "Russians & Americans."

17 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Odd Collection Of Acoustic Tracks, Most Previously Released, April 4, 2002

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Eric R. Last "misterrockobscurities" (San Bruno, CA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Acoustic Evening With Al Stewart (Audio CD)

.... This album of various acoustic recordings is a mixture of live and studio material spanning his entire career, from 1970 ("A Small Fruit Song") to two songs from his import-only 1995 album "Between The Wars". In between are 2 live songs ("Year Of The Cat" and "On The Border") from "Rhymes In Rooms" and 1 ("Roads To Moscow") from 1981's "Live/Indian Summer". Also included are "The Candidate" from "Russians & Americans", and, finally, the live "Intro/Year Of The Cat", which clocks in at over 9 minutes. The "Intro" is a very nice piano segment that teases with hints of "Year Of The Cat" before finally launching into the song. It sounds like it might have been performed with the same band as on "Indian Summer". The back cover of the CD attributes "Intro/Year Of The Cat" to the album "Russians & Americans", but it isn't on my copy of that album. Another ... says that in fact this song originally was from a promo-only radio station album, and that it later appeared as a bonus track on a UK reissue of "Russians & Americans". The overall effect of listening to this rather odd compilation is not unlike hearing an unplugged concert, but I was disappointed, as I already had all but one of these songs in my collection.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Bait & Switch!, July 13, 2007

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Bogus Exception (Norwich, Connecticut United States) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Acoustic Evening With Al Stewart (Audio CD)

Boy, for this pricetag was I disappointed!

They sucker you in with the the title, but then you find out everything is a copy from other albums.

It isn't an evening, and some tracks aren't even live, or even mostly accoustic! It looks like a "Greatest Hits" album based on who knows what. What on earth is the 2:09 studio track "The Candidate" doing on there, anyway?

Sheesh.