Live at the Bijou Cafe [Original recording remastered]

Jesse Winchester | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (January 17, 2006)
• Original Release Date: 2006
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Original recording remastered
• Label: Wounded Bird Records
• ASIN: B000CC3S50
• In-Print Editions: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #294,420 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Editorial Reviews

Jesse Winchester is a sort of folk/rock singer/songwriter who issued numerous albums for the Bearsville label throughout the 70s & early 80s. Wounded Bird Records will be issuing his entire Bearsville output on CD start with his very first album, Jesse Winchester, and Live At The Bijou Cafe, which when originally released in 1976, was a radio-station-only album. This entire catalog will be digitally remastered. Jesse Winchester features Levon Helm & Robbie Roberson from The Band. Wounded Bird Records. 2005.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Ron from Tarzana, June 27, 2006

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thpaine (Los Angeles) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Live at the Bijou Cafe (Audio CD)

Jesse Winchester is a great artist, and for his part, this is a great album. Unfortunately, the company reissuing this and other Winchester albums, Wounded Bird Records, did a horrible job of remastering it. The sound is much too bassy and flat, with virtually no high end at all. It needs to be run through an equalizer to listen to it. The CD deserves 5 stars for Winchester's part, and 1 for Wounded Bird's part, which is why I gave it only 3. I've emailed Jesse about this problem and he responded with: "I'm afraid I have no control and no influence over the companies who release those records. I was not consulted or even informed by Wounded Bird. I haven't the money for a law suit....I'm very sorry about this. I wish there were something concrete I could do, but due to my own naivite as a young man and the unscruplous people I was doing business with, I have no artistic or financial control whatever over those recordings. We live and learn."

4.0 out of 5 stars Jesse Winchester, November 26, 2011

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This review is from: Live at the Bijou Cafe (Audio CD)

This showcases Jesse at or near the midpoint of his career. Song selection is great and the backup band is excellent.

4 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Yankee Lady Verifies Vermont Tradition, September 2, 2000

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Patty Roya (Montpelier, VT United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Live at the Bijou Cafe (Audio CD)

We are good ladies in Vermont - I can relate because I like to make homemade bread and make my man feel good...as long as the feeling is mutual. Jesse got to me in the 70's with "Yankee Lady." That's when I learned to play guitar and Yankee Lady was the first song I learned. It makes me feel good. Thanks Jesse. Patty from Vermont.