Leslie West Live!

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Leslie West Live!
Live album by
Released1993
Genre Rock
Length48.56
Label Blues Bureau International
Producer Leslie West, Paul Orofino
Leslie West chronology
Dodgin' the Dirt
(1993)
Leslie West Live!
(1993)
As Phat As It Gets
(1999)
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Leslie West Live! is a live album by Leslie West, released in 1993. [2] The album features a track from West's debut solo album, Mountain, four tracks recorded by Mountain and one by West, Bruce and Laing. Additionally, apart from the "Intro Guitar Solo", there are two previously unreleased tracks, Jimi Hendrix's "Voodoo Chile" and Don Nix's "Goin' Down".

Contents

Track listing

  1. "Intro Guitar Solo" 1.34
  2. "Never in My Life" 5.53
  3. "Theme for an Imaginary Western" 6.50
  4. "Third Degree" 7.46
  5. "Voodoo Chile" 6.58
  6. "Goin' Down" 4.46
  7. "Baby I'm Down" 1.36
  8. "Nantucket Sleighride" 7.31
  9. "Mississippi Queen" 6.02

Personnel

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