TO HELL AND BACK: LIVE IN EUROPE 1994
(NOTE: "TO HELL AND BACK" is also available as a concert video.)
[CD, Glitterhouse, GRCD 356, 1995]
Track Listing
Set One:Satisfied Mind
Polly
The River People
Promised
Buffalo Ballet
Will You Miss Me When I'm Gone?
Loom of The Land
Set Two:
Good Luck Morning
Firetrap
Bordertown
Grand Theft Auto
Jack Candy
Pass Me On Over
Snake Mountain Blues
Tracks 1-7 are semi-acoustic and 8-14 are electric.
Liner Notes
The show documented herein was recorded at the Garage (London), during the final days of our 9-week, 1994 European tour. The road we had followed to London was both neon and blurry (as all roads are), and it literally took us to Hell and back (Hell being the actual name of a sleepy town in Norway). It was a road littered with both strangeness and kindness (as all roads are) and some of the more memorable stops included: Athens (big crowds and big hearts), Lublijana (a nighttime show in an ancient amphitheater) and Nevers, France (where a Neil Young look-alike named "Cortez" grabbed my guitar so that he could do the final solo on "Hurricane").Throughout the tour, we billed the show as "An Evening with the Walkabouts," and each night we played two very contradictory sets. The opening set was mostly made up of semi-acoustic renditions of songs from our folk album "Satisfied Mind." It started out slow and ended even slower. The headlining set was electric and much more ragged. It was the sound of the five of us trying to prove that we were actually a rock band, and that what had come earlier in the evening had only been a disguise. Some nights it even worked. On this CD you will find parts of both of these sets.
Finally, nothing found herein would have been possible without the efforts of Cheryl at K7, Ruud at Paperclip, Rembert at SubPop Europe and our friend/tour manager/sound person Luc Wouters. Ultimately, however, this document is dedicated to those of you who came to the shows. We will be forever impressed with your generosity and participation.
Chris Eckman; Summer 1994
This was a limited edition CD, with 1000 copies, available by mail-order only through Glitterhouse.
Credits
Personnel:Chris Eckman
Carla Torgerson
Michael Wells
Terri Moeller
Glenn Slater
24-track sound recording, digitally mastered.
Mixed by Luc Wouters
Also available as a 75-minute video release by Studio K7, Leipziger Str. 54, 10117 Berlin.
Special thanks to Studio K7.
Cover design by Marc Schilkowski
