Not Necessarily Acoustic

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Not Necessarily Acoustic
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Live album by
ReleasedNovember 29, 1994
Genre Progressive rock
Label Thunderbird
Producer Steve Howe
Steve Howe chronology
The Grand Scheme of Things
(1993)
Not Necessarily Acoustic
(1994)
Homebrew
(1996)
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Not Necessarily Acoustic is a live album recorded on Steve Howe's first solo tour and released in 1994.

Contents

Track listing

All songs written by Steve Howe except where noted.

  1. "The Valley of Rocks" – 3:03
  2. "Heritage" – 2:32
  3. "Arada" (Federico Moreno Tórroba; arr. Howe) – 1:08
  4. "Country Mix - a. White Silver Sands b. Green Bay Polka c. Steel Guitar Rag d. Darling, Je Vous Aime Beaucoup e. Blue Steel Blues" (a. Charles "Red" Mathews, b. Traditional, c. Leon McAuliffe, Cliff Stone, Merle Travis, d. Anna Sosenko, e. Ted Daffan) – 2:57
  5. "Excerpts from Tales from Topographic Oceans " (Jon Anderson, Howe, Chris Squire, Rick Wakeman, Alan White) – 9:18
  6. "Bareback" – 2:42
  7. "Sketches in the Sun" – 2:58
  8. "Cactus Boogie" – 2:09
  9. "Second Initial" – 2:47
  10. "Corkscrew" – 3:45
  11. "The Glory of Love" (Billy Hill) – 1:14
  12. "Dorothy" – 2:10
  13. "Meadow Rag" – 2:26
  14. "Concerto In D. 2nd Movement" (Vivaldi; arr. Howe) – 2:34
  15. "Surface Tension" - 3:22
  16. "Masquerade" – 2:03
  17. "Mood for a Day" – 2:59
  18. "Swedish Rhapsody No. 1" (Hugo Alfvén) – 0:53
  19. "Whispering" (Vincent Rose, John Schoenberger, Richard Coburn) – 1:00
  20. "Roundabout" (Anderson, Howe) – 2:33
  21. "Ram" – 1:51
  22. "Clap" – 3:43

Personnel

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