Search - John Renbourn :: BBC Live in Concert

Short and mixed up

C. H Smith | Bowling Green, Kentucky United States | 12/24/2003

(3 out of 5 stars)

"To begin with, this collection of eight live recordings, while it *does* feature John Renbourn, actually consists of one piece by Renbourn and Stefan Grossman (his frequent collaborator) from 1978, and seven by the John Renbourn Group (Renbourn + McShee, Molyneux, Roberts, and Sathe) from 1980. Second, the cuts are both seriously out of order, and beyond this sometimes have the wrong times attached to a particular track. Last but not least, the total program time is under 36 minutes, which is unforgivable at a time where 80 minutes of program will fit on a CD. The program itself is interesting, but sounds an awful lot like the studio versions of the same material. Sound quality is excellent. 'Even at the low price, however, kinda hard to recommend against the competition."