Outlasting the Blues / Power of Love [Original recording reissued]

Arlo Guthrie | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (September 26, 2000)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Original recording reissued
• Label: Koch Records
• ASIN: B00004X0FE
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #134,088 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Power of Love

2. Oklahoma Nights

3. If I Could Only Touch Your Life

4. Waimanalo Blues

5. Living Like a Legend

6. Give It All You Got

7. When I Get to the Border

8. Jamaica Farewell

9. Slow Boat

10. Garden Song

11. Prologue

12. Which Side

13. Wedding Song

14. World Away From Love

15. Epilogue

16. Telephone

17. Sailing Down This Golden River

18. Carry Me Over

19. Underground

20. Drowning Man

See all 21 tracks on this disc

Customer Reviews

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14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Arlo's Best, October 6, 2000

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T. Mueller (Ventura, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Outlasting the Blues / Power of Love (Audio CD)

This cd contains two albums, one from 1979, the other from 1981(I think). The former, Outlasting The Blues, is my favorite Arlo album. He really hit his stride with this one. His song Prelude is simply beautiful, and his version of Pete Seeger's Sailing Down My Golden River is perfect. His band, Shenandoah, is in top form. Don't miss this one! Arlo is one of those artists whose mission is to generate goodwill. We need more like him.

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5.0 out of 5 stars The Great Songs That Never Made Radio, August 23, 2003

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Gord Wilson "alivingdog.com" (Bellingham, WA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Outlasting the Blues / Power of Love (Audio CD)

It seems like a million years ago when Arlo Guthrie played the northwest university I was attending after making Outlasting the Blues with Shenandoah. The audience was pretty much split between fans of Alice's Restaurant who figured Guthrie had probably followed Janis, Jimi and the rest of the rockers into the great beyond, and the more aware crowd who showed up for "City of New Orleans." No one was ready for the very much alive and not tamed by radio Guthrie or the ch-ch-changes he'd been through. The big news was he'd become a monk, in the same Franciscan lay order as John Michael Talbot, from the country rock band, Mason Proffit. So along with the Arlo crowd pleasers, from "Comin' into Los Angeles" to "I Don't Want a Pickle" and "Alice's Restaurant," he previewed songs from this incredible rock masterpiece, songs of vision and power, notably, "Which Side Are You On?" So, for all the old 'sixties icons who had "sold out," (whatever that means), some were still searching. They included Paul Stookey of Peter, Paul and Mary, whom Bob Dylan advised to read the Bible, and like Dylan, Stookey embarked on his own spiritual search. One of his best-known concert songs is an Arlo-Guthrie-penned tune that appeared on his Paul And album, "Gabriel's Mother's #16 Talking Highway Blues." Other bands also later covered songs from Outlasting the Blues.

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Two-Fer, December 7, 2008

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This review is from: Outlasting the Blues / Power of Love (Audio CD)

This combines the last two of the major label releases by Arlo Guthrie. I have to echo the other reviewer--Outlasting the Blues is Arlo's best album. Great singing, tight playing and some of his best songwriting, together with well chosen cover tunes. Koch did a great job squeezing two LPs onto one CD. Rickie Lee Jones duets on one song on Power of Love. Call it folk-rock or singer songwriter, but either way it doesn't get better than this two-fer. This went out of print way too quickly.