Best Of Live

Performer: Donovan
Distributor: Phantom Import Distributi

Notes: Personnel: Donovan (vocals, guitar, harmonica); Peter Mark (viola); Paul Horn (flute, clarinet, saxophone); Danny Thompson (bass). Recorded live at Carnegie Hall, New York, New York; the Royal Festival Hall, London, England and the Royal Opera House, Sydney, Australia. This live Donovan album of fairly recent vintage is not at all bad, despite its misleading title; it's certainly nowhere near as embarrassing as those faux-Animals records Eric Burdon keeps making. Donovan's in relaxed good humor and fine voice throughout, and the simple but far from spartan arrangements, going back as far as his early folk hits "Colours" and "Catch the Wind" and covering pretty much all of his best-known songs, wisely resist the temptation to try to update the material. This is probably not a good starting point for the curious, but it's far more than mere hardcore fan material.

He began as a Guthrie/Dylan-style folkie, but soon Donovan Leitch adopted a more psychedelic flower-power stance. His knack for sunny, wistful pop songs produced a batch of giant 1960s hits. His fragile manchild voice and image made him a hippie pinup boy, but there was a deep wellspring of emotion behind songs like "Catch the Wind" and "Colours." By the '70s, Donovan had largely dropped off the radar, but he made a resounding comeback in the '90s with the spare, affecting, Rick Rubin-produced SUTRAS.

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