| Live From the Fall | |
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| Live album by | |
| Released | July 2, 1996 |
| Recorded | Fall 1995 |
| Genre | Rock |
| Length | 141:24 |
| Label | A&M |
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| Source | Rating |
| Allmusic |   link |
| Entertainment Weekly | D link |
| Rolling Stone |  link |
Live From the Fall is American jam band Blues Traveler's first full-length live album, released on July 2, 1996 (see 1996 in music). It presents highlights of the band's autumn 1995 tour on two discs.
">" indicates a segue directly into the next track.
Abbreviated titles (one or two words each) are used in the liner notes to indicate the songs on this disc.
"Closing Down the Park" is a song about the Tompkins Square Park Riot. No studio recording of it has ever been released outside of a demo.
A studio version of "Regarding Steven" is included on the CD single for "Run-Around."
The performance of "Alone" contains a previously-unreleased bridge section which later became part of the song "Traveler Suite" from Decisions of the Sky .
The "Go / Low / Go / Run" medley includes snippets from the following non-Blues Traveler songs: "Linus and Lucy," "Tequila," "Loser," "Inchworm," and "La Bamba."
"Sweet Talking Hippie" and "Imagine" are included on the same track, but both are standalone performances without a segue from one to the other.
"Sweet Talking Hippie" includes a snippet from the "Galop Infernal," composed by Jacques Offenbach for the operetta Orpheus in the Underworld .
| Region | Certification | Certified units/sales |
|---|---|---|
| United States (RIAA) [1] | Platinum | 1,000,000^ |
^ Shipments figures based on certification alone. | ||
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John Popper is an American musician and songwriter, known as the co-founder, lead vocalist, and frontman of the rock band Blues Traveler.
Travelers and Thieves is Blues Traveler's second album, released on A&M Records in 1991. The album was released in two different versions: an album-only version, and an extremely limited two-CD pressing. The bonus disc was called On Tour Forever. On iTunes the album is listed only as Travelers due to the full name being split across two drawings, one on the cover and one inside the CD liner notes.
"Sweet Emotion" is a song by the American rock band Aerosmith from the band's third album Toys in the Attic. It was released as a single on May 19, 1975. The song began a string of pop hits and large-scale mainstream success for the band that would continue for the remainder of the 1970s. The song was written by lead singer Steven Tyler and bassist Tom Hamilton, produced by Jack Douglas and recorded at Record Plant studio.
Straight On till Morning is the fifth album by American jam band Blues Traveler. It was released in July 1997. The title of the album, and the accompanying cover art, are from the directions to Neverland, as given by Peter Pan in J.M. Barrie's Peter Pan (1904/1911): "Second star to the right and straight on 'til morning." It is the last of the band's albums to feature bassist Bobby Sheehan, who died of a drug overdose in 1999.
"Curbside Prophet" is a song by Jason Mraz. It was released as part of his first major studio album, Waiting for My Rocket to Come, which is one of the lyrics of this song. Mraz credits rap group Jurassic 5 as being part of the inspiration for the story of his travels across the U.S. in pursuit of a music career.
Blues Traveler, the eponymous debut album from Blues Traveler, was released on A&M Records in 1990. The album features "jam structures on basic blues riffs" focused around the harmonica playing of band leader John Popper, which writer William Ruhlmann said gave the band a more focused sound than that of the Grateful Dead.
Save His Soul is the third studio album by American jam band Blues Traveler, released on April 6, 1993, by A&M Records.
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Brendan Colin Charles Hill is an English-born American musician, best known as the drummer of the jam band Blues Traveler.
"Run-Around" is a song by American rock band Blues Traveler, featured on their fourth studio album, Four (1994). The song was the band's breakthrough hit, peaking at number eight on the US Billboard Hot 100 and number 13 on Canada's RPM Top Singles chart. It won the band's first Grammy Award in 1996, for Best Rock Vocal Performance by a Duo or Group.
Truth Be Told is American jam band Blues Traveler's seventh studio album, released on August 5, 2003.
Thaddeus Arwood "Tad" Kinchla is an American musician, who is the bassist for the jam band Blues Traveler.
Travelogue: Blues Traveler Classics is a compilation album by American rock band Blues Traveler, released in 2002. It is composed of the band's greatest hits from before they were dropped by A&M Records.
North Hollywood Shootout is American jam band Blues Traveler's tenth studio album, released on August 26, 2008, and produced by David Bianco, a 1996 Grammy winner. In a notable departure from previous Blues Traveler releases, the album includes a spoken word piece featuring Bruce Willis.
A jam band is a musical group whose concerts are characterized by lengthy improvisational "jams." These include extended musical improvisation over rhythmic grooves and chord patterns, and long sets of music which often cross genre boundaries. Most jam band sets will consist of variations on songs that have already been released as studio recordings. Jam bands are known for having a very fluid structure, often having one song lead into another without any interruption.
25 is a compilation album by American rock band Blues Traveler celebrating their 25th anniversary. It was released on March 6, 2012. The album's first disc is a greatest hits retrospective and the second contains a mix of rarities, including b-sides, a demo, unreleased studio tracks, and a remix of "Run-around".
