Evening in Austin [Live]

Kate Wolf

Product Details

• Audio CD (September 28, 1993)
• Original Release Date: 1989
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Live
• Label: Rhino / Wea
• ASIN: B00000334B
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #93,367 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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Editorial Reviews

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The intimate setting of the University of Texas facility where the Austin City Limits television show is taped proves the perfect venue for singer-songwriter Kate Wolf. Wolf shines whether stretching out on up-tempo numbers such as "Picture Puzzle" and "Like a River" or focusing on her trademark acoustic ballads. It's a comfortable performance, scattered with stories and gentle jokes. Nina Gerber adds extra instrumental spice and Tom Diamant throws in spot-on harmony. Recorded a year before her death, An Evening in Austin includes such Wolf favorites as "Give Yourself to Love," "Friend of Mine," and "The Redtail Hawk." It's equally effective as an introduction or an overview of a much-missed artist. --Alexandra Russell

Customer Reviews

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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars One of the best albums I have ever listened to., March 12, 1999

By A Customer

An evening in Austin was my favorite Kate Wolf Album. The songs are relaxing and catchy. An evening in Austin has all of my favorite Kate Wolf Titles. I am 13 years old and I went around for weeks after I heard Green Eyes played at a restaurant. It took me practically forever to find out that it was kate wolf, and I was amazed that so few people were farmiliar with her musoic, it is SO relaxing.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars My favorite album, August 5, 1998

By	[e-mail] (rural Minnesota) - See all my reviews

This is my favorite album to listen to in every mood. Kate Wolf's voice is true and honest. She sings mostly her own stuff and the mood goes from exuberent to pensive. This was recorded for the program "Live at Austin City Limits" and like all good live albums includes the audience as participent in the music. Kate Wolf is under-recorded as a songwriter, but this album highlights some of her best stuff.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Kate Live, Kate Live, Kate Lives, Kate Survives kate live, February 5, 2004

By	Tony Thomas (SUNNY ISLES BEACH, FL USA) - See all my reviews (TOP 500 REVIEWER)

Kate's "Red Tailed Hawk" will always be inscribed on my brain its beauty its realness, its aptness, and the reality of the golden rolling hills of California. So perfect and beautiful even though I never had a tape or LP or a CD of it until 12 years after it came out, until after we lost Kate. Still its power comes to me as it did in 1977 on an old radio sitting in an Oakland apartment, the signal fighting its way all the way up from KFAT ("because we need the bucks) down in Gilroy.

The vision of California that Kate weaves on all her records is preciseless, unique real, and a treasure even if much of it is sweetened myth.
Even if you have her regular recordings, Kate's live recordings are always so special, with extra nuances of the song she's giving to the audience that she's feeling a different moments. Kate was so wonderful and she still is here and all her great recordings.

I feel so bad that I lived in San Fransisco and Oakland and travelled up and down California and the West Coast in the late 1970s and early 1980s when Kate was doing her best work and only saw her sing once.

There is something to her voice that gets through to me, something pure. Now that I sing and play guitar and banjo and fiddle, I tend to listen to any singer or player that I hear trying to scope them out learn something, evaluate, figure out how to put what they do into my performance. Even though Kate plays the kind of music I have always wanted to play, I just sit there and listen to the song and receive its thoughts in my heart and mind. Part of Kate's magic is the superb arrangements and backup that gets from the musical genius Nina Gerber her main accompaniest. Nina is now out there solo alot. If you like guitar and this kind music check out Nina too.
Oh Kate, why didn't we realize how much of a golden treasure you were when you were among us. In her memory think of a performer you might miss like we all miss Kate--well that isnt fair because thats a big ideal to measure up to--how about someone you would miss half or a quarter as much as I miss Kate, and make sure you go see them while you can, and maybe bring a friend, bring two.