Rising (Donovan album)

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Rising

Live album by Donovan
Released	November 1990
Recorded	1971 – 1981
Genre	folk
Length	62:01
Label	Great Northern Arts, Ltd. (UK)
Producer(s)	Unknown
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Celtia (unreleased)	Rising (1990)	The Classics Live (1990)

Rising is the third live album, and twentieth album overall, from Scottish singer-songwriter Donovan. It was released in the UK (Great Northern Arts, Ltd. GNA 61007-002), in the US as The Classics Live (Permanent Records PERM LP 2) in November 1990, and in the Netherlands as 25 Years in Concert (Dino Music DNCD 1253). Rising was supposedly recorded sporadically from 1982 through 1986 at various live concerts during different world tours. However after careful research the songs on the album came from are revealed as a U.S. tour in 1971 and from the Cambirdge Folk festival of 1981.Although vinyl copies of the album exist, Rising is the first Donovan album to initially be released on CD.

1 History
2 Album origins of tracks
3 Track listing
- 3.1 Original album

[edit] History

Although Donovan's albums had all but disappeared from the British and American markets by the early 1980s, his live appearances still attracted large audiences. Donovan toured constantly throughout this time, performing throughout North America and Europe. According to the Rising liner notes, Donovan's friend Pat recorded many of these performances for Mellow Records however this is unlikely due the fact is was recorded before they were in contact.

The setlists from these shows features a mixture of Donovan's international hits from the 1960s and relatively more obscure tracks from his later albums. Like most of Donovan's live performances, there is sparse instrumentation accompanying Donovan's vocals, including flute, acoustic guitar, bass. Rising features two traditional songs ("Young But Growing" and "Stealing") and one original song ("Love Will Find a Way") that were not released on any previous Donovan album.

The live versions of Donovan's hits guaranteed that Rising would receive a release in both the United States and United Kingdom. Rising was retitled The Classics Live in the United States and 25 Years in Concert in Europe for marketing reasons. Since the release of Rising, there have been many reissues of the songs from the album under many different titles. In 2001, Rising was expanded to a two CD set as Rising Again.

[edit] Album origins of tracks

The following is a list explaining the original releases of each song. Tracks that were previously unreleased are noted with *, followed by explanations of their origin.

"Jennifer Juniper" (from The Hurdy Gurdy Man, released October 1968)
"Catch The Wind" (from What's Bin Did and What's Bin Hid, released May 14, 1965)
"Hurdy Gurdy Man" (from The Hurdy Gurdy Man)
"Sunshine Superman" (from Sunshine Superman, released September 1966)
"Sadness" (from 7-Tease, released November 1974)
"Universal Soldier" (from Universal Soldier, released August 15, 1965)
"Cosmic Wheels" (from Cosmic Wheels, released March 1973)
"Atlantis" (from Barabajagal, released August 11, 1969)
"Wear Your Love Like Heaven" (from A Gift from a Flower to a Garden, released December 1967)
"To Susan On The West Coast Waiting" (from Barabajagal)
"Colours" (from Fairytale, released October 22, 1965)
"Young Girl Blues" (from Mellow Yellow, released March 1967)
"Young But Growing"* (no studio version released)
"Stealing"* (no studio version released)
"Sailing Homeward" (from Essence to Essence, released December 1973)
"Love Will Find A Way"* (no studio version released)
"Laleña" (single, released October 1968)
"Make Your Mind Up" (released as "Life is a Merry-Go-Round" on Essence to Essence)