Best Live Albums of All-Time
Top Ten Live Albums
The live-album concept is simple. Studio recordings are most often where a songs are molded and coaxed into their final form. While the studio is a creative place, it can become a sterile environment. Once an artist takes those songs on the road, they begin to take on lives of their own. The live album is a document that ….this road traveled song.
1) Sinatra At The Sands
https://songwhip.com/frank-sinatra/sinatra-at-the-sands
2) Allman Bros Live at The Fillmore 1970
3) Woodstock
The moment of creation; the birth of the modern music festival and a record of who was who at the peak of rocknroll’s creative era. Hendrix, Santana, Crosby Stills Nash and Young
4) Jimi Live At Monterey
https://songwhip.com/jimi-hendrix/live-at-monterey
Having recently returned from a U.K tour that had other famous guitar players selling their Fender Stratocasters after hearing and seeing him play, Jimi Live At Monterey was Hendrix’s first gig in the U.S. as leader. It’s a blistering record of a man and a trio in their prime.
5) The Last Waltz
https://songwhip.com/the-band/the-last-waltz
recorded and filmed in 1978, The Band , who played very important roles in Rock’s history is another take on the rock-doc format. Guests include….
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7)Donny Hathaway live
https://songwhip.com/donny-hathaway/live
Donny Hathaway’s talents as an arranger, keyboard player and vocalist are showcased here in this live recording culled from two live shows , side one from The Troubador In Hollywood Ca, and side two from The Bitter End in Greenwich Village NYC, in 1971 and released in 1972. The album soulfully covers ‘what’s Going On” and “You’ve got a friend” and produces his own hits “ The Ghetto” and “Voices Inside My Head”.
8) Live Dead 1970
https://songwhip.com/grateful-dead/live-dead
9) Bob Marley Live 1975
https://songwhip.com/bob-marley-and-the-wailers/live
10) Keith Jarrett – Still Live
https://songwhip.com/keith-jarrett-trio/still-live
In 1986 Keith Jarrett, Gary Peacock and Jack DeJohnette toured fourteen cities over a twenty-six day span. Still Live was recorded in the middle of this tour in Munich on May ___ and released on vinyl …… It’s record of a trio in their prime, searching, taking chances, pushing the standard repertoire far beyond what the Brill buildings’ writers original intentions. There is true genius on this album, a phrase often associated with Mr Jarrett and for good reason.