UPC: 603497834174
Label: RHINO
Format: CD
Release Date: September 27, 2024
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Chicago is releasing a historic concert that has been newly re-mixed from the original multi-track tapes by founding member and trumpeter Lee Loughnane and engineer Tim Jessup. This 26-track live collection was recorded on September 16, 1971, about a week after the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts opened in the nations capital. For more than 50 years, the concert has remained unreleased except for the performance of Goodbye, which debuted in 2018 on CHICAGO: VI DECADES LIVE.

The show explores all three studio albums that Chicago released since their 1969 debut. The songs span a range of styles, underscoring the bands ability to blend genres seamlessly. The band would begin recording CHICAGO V a few days after the Kennedy Center performance. Released in July 1972, the album marked a significant evolution in the bands sound and would become Chicagos first No. 1 album. To get ready for the studio, Loughnane says the band road-tested some new songs in D.C. Case in point: we did Saturday In The Park for the first time at the Kennedy Center show. Youll notice that we hadnt yet decided on who would sing the lead vocal. Also, Robert hadnt written Part 2 of Dialogue yet.

TRACK LIST:

Disc One
Tune Up & Band Introduction *
Dialogue *
Loneliness Is Just A Word *
Poem For The People *
A Hit By Varse *
Lowdown *
Goodbye
Beginnings *

Ballet For A Girl In Buchannon
Make Me Smile *
So Much To Say, So Much To Give *
Anxietys Moment *
West Virginia Fantasies *
Colour My World *
To Be Free *
Now More Than Ever *

Disc Two
Fancy Colours *
It Better End Soon *
1st Movement
2nd Movement (Flute Solo)
3rd Movement (Guitar Solo)
4th Movement (Preach)
5th Movement
Saturday In The Park *
Mother *
In The Country *

Disc Three
A Song For Richard And His Friends *
Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is? (Free Form Intro) *
Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is? *
Im A Man *
Free *
25 Or 6 To 4 *

* Previously Unreleased