One Night: Live 1982 [Live]

Greg Brown, Greg Brown | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (May 18, 1999)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Live
• Label: Red House
• ASIN: B00000IWMM
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #149,503 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Essential, is all, February 21, 2001

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brad lonard (Sydney, Australia) - See all my reviews

This review is from: One Night: Live 1982 (Audio CD)

I never saw Greg Brown in 1982, but going from this record, it must have been quite an experience. His voice isn't quite the rumbling thundercloud it would later become -- in parts he sounds quite like Randy Newman -- but that wonderful Brown mix of humour (never at the expense of others) and poignancy is already in place. Sixteen songs, most of them unavailable on any other Brown release, and nearly all essential. 'Ella Mae' -- a song about Greg's grandmother that's also about the dignity of a well-lived life and how we live on in our children -- doesn't have a whiff of mawkishness or sentimentality about it, and damn near moves me to tears every time I hear it. 'Dream On' -- a beautiful example of Brown's shaggy-dog storytelling -- always provokes a grin too. That this disc was unavailable for years is a crime. Whether you're a long-time Greg Brown fan or don't know a thing about the man, you need this.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Troubadour For Our Times, May 18, 2000

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Phyllis Fisher "brazilian music lover" (Houston, Texas United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: One Night: Live 1982 (Audio CD)

Like another reviewer, I also stumbled on to Greg Brown's music by accident. There are really only a few men and women who can integrate their musical abilities with the life-stories they have to tell SO seemlessly that the listener finds it impossible to think of one without the other. Greg Brown is one of these artists. My husband and I love this CD because there is not a "bad" song in the bunch! Greg has the ability to make us laugh "Dream On", to make us wish for another time and place "Canned Goods", and to make us sad "Banjo Moon". His voice and guitar pull these emotions out of even the most cynical listener I've exposed to Greg's music. His imitation of Mr. Waits in "Waiting" is hilarious, and his story "On Records, The Sound Just Fades Away" reminds me that when I was a child, I also wondered what REALLY was going on in those radios to make the sound come out! He can also make the gentlest songs come out of that big baritone voice as in "Never Shine Sun". He has an amazing ability to modulate his voice to whatever is called for by the storyline in each piece of music which makes him his own master, and certainly not like anyone I have ever heard before. I am in the process of buying the rest of his CDs and can't wait to hear what I already have deduced, that here indeed is an artist of the highest caliber.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Back in circulation! Huzzah!, June 3, 1999

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This review is from: One Night: Live 1982 (Audio CD)

One night many years ago, a local FM station was playing "One Night" - I quickly slapped a cassette in and recorded what I could of it, including the radio announcer saying, "this is now out of print, so if you ever see it, get it." The cassette got played to death. Last week, the same station (WPKN, bless 'em!) was playing it again. I was thrilled to hear it again, and learned via Amazon that it was re-released. A must-have for Greg Brown fans. Thank you, Greg.