Lilith Fair: A Celebration of Women in Music

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Lilith Fair: A Celebration of Women in Music is a series of three live compilation albums that collect performances from several years of the Lilith Fair festival tour.

Contents

Volume 1

Lilith Fair: A Celebration of Women in Music, Volume 1
Compilation album liveby
various artists
ReleasedApril 28, 1998 (1998-04-28) [1]
Recorded1997
Venuevarious
Genre various
Length103:02
LanguageEnglish
Label Arista
Producer Terry McBride
Compiler Sarah McLachlan

Lilith Fair: A Celebration of Women in Music, Volume 1 was released in 1998 and served as a fundraiser for Lifebeat and the Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network. [1] The recording was produced by Terry McBride and compiled over four months, going through recordings spanning the entire festival. [1]

Writing for The A.V. Club , Stephen Thompson called this compilation "a mixed bag of promising performers... and practitioners of pneumatic, white-bread girly music..., with precious few highlights worth owning". [2] Editors at AllMusic rated this album 3 out of 5 stars, with critic Stephen Thomas Erlewine writing that "while it doesn't dispel the notion that Lilith Fair was essentially a homogenous music festival, it does capture the feeling of the tour quite well, and it has some very good music" and it makes for "a nice souvenir" from the festival. [3] A review for Entertainment Weekly rated this release a B−, noting criticisms about genre, lack of diversity, and individual performances, wrapping up that "the ultimate lesson to be gleaned is dispiritingly simple: As an album, Lilith is only fair". [4]

Disc one

  1. "Mississippi" (Paula Cole) by Paula Cole – 4:51
  2. "Scooter Boys" (Amy Ray) by Indigo Girls  – 3:27
  3. "Sur Tes Pas" by Autour de Lucie  – 3:25
  4. "Been It" (lyrics: Nina Persson and Peter Svensson, music: Svensson) by The Cardigans  – 4:06
  5. "I Want" (Dayna Manning) by Dayna Manning – 4:45
  6. "Four Leaf Clover" (Abra Moore) by Abra Moore – 4:31
  7. "Falling in Love" (Lisa Loeb) by Lisa Loeb – 4:36
  8. "Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner" (Shannon Worrell) by September '67  – 4:14
  9. "El Payande" (Susan Urban) by Lhasa de Sela  – 3:59
  10. "Eternal Flame" (Susanna Hoffs, Tom Kelly, and Billy Steinberg) by Susanna Hoffs – 3:16
  11. "Rock in This Pocket (Song of David)" (Suzanne Vega) by Suzanne Vega – 4:09
  12. "Ladder" (Eric Bazilian, Rick Chertoff, Rob Hyman, and Joan Osborne) by Joan Osborne – 4:16
  13. "Building a Mystery" (Pierre Marchand and Sarah McLachlan) by Sarah McLachlan – 4:25

Disc 2

  2. "Water Is Wide" (traditional) by Sarah McLachlan, Indigo Girls, and Jewel  – 4:18
  3. "Going Back to Harlan" (Anna McGarrigle) by Emmylou Harris  – 5:04
  4. "Wash My Hands" (Meredith Brooks, Larry Dvoskin, and Shelly Pelken) by Meredith Brooks – 5:18
  5. "Cain" (Patty Griffin) by Patty Griffin – 3:49
  6. "I Don't Want to Think About It" (Kenneth Harrison) by Wild Strawberries  – 4:02
  7. "What Do You Hear in These Sounds" (Dar Williams) by Dar Williams – 3:52
  8. "Trouble" (Shawn Colvin, John Leventhal, and Tom Littlefield) by Shawn Colvin – 4:08
  9. "Lama Dorje Chang" (Yungchen Lhamo) by Yungchen Lhamo – 3:05
  10. "The One" (Tracy Bonham) by Tracy Bonham – 4:38
  11. "Charm" (Tony Berg, Jon Brion, Paul Cantelon, Angela McCluskey, and Scott Roewe) by Wild Colonials  – 3:22
  12. "Hold Me Jordan" (Tara MacLean) by Tara MacLean – 5:04
  13. "Periwinkle Sky" (Victoria Williams) by Victoria Williams – 2:36

Additional personnel:

Volumes 2 and 3

Lilith Fair: A Celebration of Women in Music, Volume 2
Compilation album liveby
various artists
ReleasedMay 18, 1999 (1999-05-18)
Recorded1998
Venuevarious
Genre various
Length66:20
LanguageEnglish
Label Arista
Lilith Fair: A Celebration of Women in Music, Volume 3
Compilation album liveby
various artists
ReleasedMay 18, 1999 (1999-05-18)
Recorded1998
Venuevarious
Genre various
Length61:19
LanguageEnglish
Label Arista

Lilith Fair: A Celebration of Women in Music, Volume 2 and 3 were released in 1999, alongside one another.

A review in Entertainment Weekly for the two discs by Beth Johnson rated them a B, calling them "a more compelling, less whiny, listen" than the first volume and praising the diversity represented in this music. [5] [6]

Volume 2:

  1. "Fire on Babylon" (Sinéad O’Connor and John Reynolds) by Sinéad O’Connor – 7:28
  2. "Never Know" by Angélique Kidjo  – 4:52
  3. "Life" by Queen Latifah  – 5:28
  4. "Island" by Heather Nova  – 5:09
  5. "New Thing Now" by Shawn Colvin  – 3:46
  6. "Angel" (Sarah McLachlan) by Sarah McLachlan with Emmylou Harris  – 5:58
  7. "The Sea" (Paul Godfrey, Ross Godfrey, and Skye Edwards) by Morcheeba  – 5:19
  8. "I Do" (Lisa Loeb) by Lisa Loeb – 3:45
  9. "Sway" (Bic Runga) by Bic Runga – 3:14
  10. "In the Ghetto" (Mac Davis) by Natalie Merchant with Meshell Ndegeocello  – 4:13
  11. "Miles from Our Home (lyrics: Michael Timmins, music: Greg Clarke, Brodie Lodge, and Timmins) by Cowboy Junkies  – 4:19
  12. "Meat Hook" by Tracy Bonham  – 3:14
  13. "Elmo" by Holly McNarland  – 5:41
  14. "Trampoline" by Wild Strawberries  – 3:52

Volume 3:

  1. "Soul Record" (Ndegeocello) by Meshell Ndegeocello – 5:21
  2. "Naked Eye" (Jill Cunniff, Kate Schellenbach, and Vivian Trimble) by Luscious Jackson  – 4:16
  3. "Never Said" (Liz Phair) by Liz Phair – 3:38
  4. "Onion Girl" (Laura Harding and Jeff Hull) by Holly Cole  – 4:20
  5. "Kiss Me (Matt Slocum) by Sixpence None the Richer  – 3:17
  6. "Luka" (Suzanne Vega) by Suzanne Vega – 3:20
  7. "Black & White" (Sarah McLachlan) by Sarah McLachlan – 4:48
  8. "Underneath a Red Moon" (N’Dea Davenport and Colin Wolfe) by N’Dea Davenport – 3:33
  9. "Not an Addict" (Gert Bettens and Sam Bettens) by K’s Choice  – 5:02
  10. "Get Out the Map" (Emily Saliers) by Indigo Girls  – 3:23
  11. "Little Black Girl" (Rebekah) by Rebekah – 4:06
  12. "Deeper Well" (Emmylou Harris, Daniel Lanois, and David Olney) by Emmylou Harris – 5:59
  13. "Surrounded" (Chantal Kreviazuk) by Chantal Kreviazuk – 5:14
  14. "Spit of Love" (Bonnie Raitt) by Bonnie Raitt – 5:01

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  2. ↑ Thompson, Stephen (March 29, 2002). "Various Artists: Lilith Fair: A Celebration of Women in Music". Music >> Reviews. The A.V. Club . Retrieved November 12, 2023.
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