![]() He had also just lost his longtime contract with Columbia Records and that marks the end of what he shared with the world, in terms of new studio recordings. And, Tom, this recording is just a few years before Thelonious Monk stops performing altogether. And, Tom, our last live record that we're going to talk about captures an artist at the end of his career, and that's Thelonious Monk from 1969.īLOCK: And this is a concert in Paris at the Salle Pleyel. So that's Donny Hathaway live at The Bitter End in 1971. We don't know what we didn't get.īLOCK: OK. He ends up having only three studio records and the live record that were issued during his lifetime. But he very quickly stops writing and the stuff in the studio that follows is a lot of instrumental stuff. The record "Donny Hathaway & Roberta Flack" came out in '72. He had hits with Roberta Flack after this. ![]() (SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "I LOVE YOU MORE THAN YOU'LL EVER KNOW")īLOCK: And, Tom, this album, 1971, came eight years before Donny Hathaway died. But he also does John Lennon's "Jealous Guy." And he does a wonderful version of the Blood, Sweat & Tears hit "I Love You More Than You'll Ever Know." In 1971 if you were singing R&B and soul music, you couldn't escape Marvin Gaye and "What's Going On," and he does a magic version of that song. And interesting covers, I mean, sort of obvious, I guess. That's what's represented on this box and it's just wonderful to hear.īLOCK: And, Tom, he's doing a lot of cover songs on this live collection, right? This is, of course, Carol King's "You've Got A Friend." What else? Those who really love Donny Hathaway might know some of that material appeared in 1972 on the album called "Donny Hathaway: Live." And they had a lot of material left over. It's called "Never My Love," four CDs and one of those four is this live show from New York, from the Greenwich Village Club, The Bitter End, in October of 1971. (SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "YOU'VE GOT A FRIEND")ĬORNISH: And, Tom, this is Donny Hathaway from a new box set. Let's listen to a recording from one year later, 1971, another artist at a turning point, and it's the late R&B and soul singer Donny Hathaway. It changes the tone of the tune, I think.īLOCK: So that's "Neil Young: Live at the Cellar Door" solo in 1970. But he's thought very carefully about how to translate what he usually hears and what he'd written to the piano, and it kind of works. MOON: He's not at all an accomplished pianist. He does his song "Cinnamon Girl" on this live album on piano. And using a very straightforward melody to express vulnerability, which, of course, his voice just takes you to that immediately.īLOCK: Oh, yeah, that haunting high sound of his. A song like "Tell Me Why" there, very, very earnest. He's thinking very small, both in terms of the instrumentation and also in terms of the songs are simple. And this is him kind of orienting himself to a different scale entirely. With Buffalo Springfield and CSNY, he was playing arenas and big places. Essentially, it was for his purpose of getting used to being a completely solo performer.īLOCK: Such a great intimate feeling for these songs, Tom, I mean, just Neil Young, either on guitar or on piano on some of the songs. He booked three nights at the Cellar Door, which was this little, tiny, almost a shoebox of a room. Tom, welcome back.īLOCK: And, Tom, we hear Neil Young here performing in 1970, at the small club in Washington, these are warm-up dates for a gig he's about to do at Carnegie Hall. And joining me to talk more about them is our music critic, Tom Moon. They show musicians at turning points in their careers. Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young are on the way out, and Neil Young is going solo.īLOCK: This recording, "Live at the Cellar Door," is one of three live albums from three different artists, all from about the same time period and all recently released. His folk rock group Buffalo Springfield has dissolved. UNIDENTIFIED MAN: We'd like to welcome to our stage, Neil Young.īLOCK: It's the fall of 1970, Neil Young takes the stage in a small club in Washington, D.C.īLOCK: And his career is turning in a new direction. ![]() From NPR News, this is ALL THINGS CONSIDERED.
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