Essential Montreux

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Essential Montreux
Essential Montreux - Gary Moore.jpg
Live album by
Released16 June 2009
Recorded7 July 1990 - 6 July 2001
Genre Hard rock, blues, blues rock
Length366.27
Label Eagle Rock
Producer Claude Nobs - Montreux Sounds / Terry Shand and Geoff Kempin - Eagle Rock
Gary Moore chronology
Bad For You Baby
(2008)
Essential Montreux
(2009)
Live at Montreux 2010
(2011)
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Essential Montreux is a special edition, five CD box-set, by Northern Irish, blues rock guitarist and singer, Gary Moore. The box-set features five out of the six performances Gary Moore made at the Montreux Jazz Festival. His live performances at Montreux that feature in this box-set are Live at Montreux 1990, 1995, 1997, 1999 and 2001.

Contents

There are in total, sixty songs between the 5 cds with an approximate total playing time of six hours.

Track listing

Disc 1: Live at Montreux 1990
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."All Your Love (I Miss Loving)" Otis Rush 4:05
2."Midnight Blues"Moore6:27
3."You Don't Love Me" Willie Cobbs 3:49
4."Texas Strut"Moore12:59
5."Moving On"Moore2:54
6."Too Tired" Johnny "Guitar" Watson, Davies, Bihari3:49
7."Cold Cold Feeling" Jessie Mae Robinson 8:16
8."Farther Up the Road" Don Robey, Joe Medwick Veasey 5:27
9."King of the Blues"Moore6:27
10."Stop Messin' Around" Peter Green, C.G. Adams 4:32
11."The Blues Is Alright" Little Milton Campbell7:18
12."The Messiah Will Come Again" Roy Buchanan 10:34

Recorded at the Montreux Jazz Festival, 7 July 1990

Disc 2: Live at Montreux 1995
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."If You Be My Baby"Adam, Green5:53
2."Long Grey Mare"Green3:14
3."Oh Pretty Woman"A.C. Williams5:05
4."I Loved Another Woman"Green6:18
5."Merry-Go-Round"Green5:38
6."The Stumble" Freddie King, Sonny Thompson 3:20
7."Need Your Love So Bad"Mertis John Jr, Little Willie John 8:07
8."You Don't Love Me"Cobbs5:13
9."Key to Love"Mayall2:22
10."All Your Love (I Miss Loving)"Rush4:16
11."Since I Met You Baby"Moore3:27
12."The Blues Is Alright"Campbell8:55
13."Stop Messin' Around"Adams, Green6:20
14."Jumping at Shadows" Duster Bennett 4:37

Recorded at the Montreux Jazz Festival, 16 July 1995

Disc 3: Live at Montreux 1997
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."One Good Reason"Moore3:09
2."One Fine Day"Moore4:18
3."Cold Wind Blows"Moore6:40
4."I've Found My Love in You"Moore8:25
5."Always There for You"Moore6:15
6."Oh Pretty Woman"A.C. Williams4:38
7."Walking by Myself" Jimmy Rogers 4:16
8."Business as Usual"Moore13:18
9."Out in the Fields"Moore/Lynott7:50
10."Over the Hills and Far Away"Moore6:21
11."Parisienne Walkways"Moore/Lynott11:14

Recorded at the Montreux Jazz Festival, 9 July 1997

Disc 4: Live at Montreux 1999
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Walking by Myself"Rogers4:14
2."Since I Meet You Baby"Moore3:38
3."Need Your Love So Bad"John, John7:22
4."Tore Down"Thompson4:00
5."You Don't Love Me"Cobbs4:43
6."All Your Love (I Miss Loving)"Rush4:32
7."Still Got the Blues (For You)"Moore6:35
8."Too Tired"Watson, Davies, Bihari4:24
9."The Sky Is Crying" Elmore James 11:34
10."Farther Up the Road"Robey, Veasey6:21
11."Fire" Jimi Hendrix 3:09
12."Parisienne Walkways"Moore/Lynott11:31

Recorded at the Montreux Jazz Festival, 7 July 1999

Disc 5: Live at Montreux 2001
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."You Upset Me Baby" B.B. King, Bhari3:21
2."Cold Black Night"Moore4:19
3."Stormy Monday" T-Bone Walker 7:14
4."Oh Pretty Woman"A.C. Williams4:41
5."All Your Love (I Miss Loving)"Rush5:14
6."Still Got the Blues (For You)"Moore7:16
7."Too Tired"Watson, Davies, Bihari9:51
8."How Many Lies"Moore7:27
9."Fire"Hendrix3:56
10."Enough of the Blues"Moore8:05
11."The Prophet"Moore7:14

Recorded at the Montreux Jazz Festival, 6 July 2001

Personnel

Live at Montreux 1990

Live at Montreux 1995

Live at Montreux 1997

Live at Montreux 1999

Live at Montreux 2001

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References

  1. Freeman, Phil. Essential Montreux at AllMusic