{"product_id":"donny-hathaway-live-rhino-reserve","title":"Donny Hathaway - Live (Rhino Reserve)","description":"\u003cp\u003eDonny Hathaway's Live returns as a Rhino Reserve pressing, and few soul records capture a room this completely, the crowd as vital as the rhythm section.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eReleased in 1972, the album gathers performances recorded the year before at two intimate venues, The Troubadour in Los Angeles and The Bitter End in New York. Hathaway had already made his name with Everything Is Everything and his self-titled second album, and these shows proved that his voice, his electric piano and his instincts as an arranger were even more potent in front of an audience.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe opening take on Marvin Gaye's What's Going On is pure communion, the audience clapping and singing along as if they had rehearsed it for weeks. The Ghetto stretches into a hypnotic, percussion-driven groove, and his reading of Carole King's You've Got a Friend becomes a joyous call and response with the whole room. On Jealous Guy, he pulls John Lennon's ballad into warm gospel-soul territory.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBassist Willie Weeks gets plenty of space to shine, and the band locks in with the kind of looseness that only comes from players listening hard to one another.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMore than fifty years on, it stands among the great live albums in any genre, a document of an artist at his warmest and most free.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Alliance Entertainment","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67768838488354,"sku":"603497809332","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1020\/2080\/8994\/files\/Donny_Hathaway-Live_Rhino_Reserve.jpg?v=1794377260","url":"https:\/\/soulfulvinyl.com\/products\/donny-hathaway-live-rhino-reserve","provider":"Soulful Vinyl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}