This is the full album before it was "mixed" for release.  It is raw. It is pure. The poetry of Chris' lyrics are more legible.  The tones are what we were listening to in the studio. The actual release mystified people. It never represented the recording.  It never represented the genius of where Chris could, and did, take the blues and rock paradigms. The album is one of rock's Greatest Misses.  

There are some alternate versions, and a different sequence.  Mostly I am posting this because of the decades of conversation with Whitley fans who don't enjoy the album.  How can you convince someone that "really, it's a milestone and a classic" when the only thing they have heard is a watered down commercial release that has little to do with the actual work that was done?  I hope this spurs conversation about this classic!

Chris Whitley-Din Of Ecstasy

25 years of the Good Friday Agreement

Coffee Shop - Miss You

Guest:

Lars Lih is a scholar who lives in Montreal, Canada. He has written extensively on Russia’s revolutionary history and the early Soviet period. He’s the author of several books including Bread and Authority in Russia, 1914-1921, Lenin Rediscovered: What is to be Done? In Context, and co-editor with Oleg Naumov and Oleg Khlevniuk of The Stalin-Molotov Letters, 1925-1936. His most recent book is Lenin published by Reaktion Books.

Lenin and the Bolsheviks

In which Cam loses track of time and goes a bit 80s

stand up comedian, activist and writer Kate Willett talks about how the death of her boyfriend, standup comedian Raghav Mehta pushed her to support medicareforall, fall in love with his friends she used to hate and turned into a Bernie Bro. Plus what she saw while canvassing in Iowa and New Hampshire, and what it's like being yelled at by Leftists online and liberals on the line, which is worse, how to convert liberals to the cause, why she likes bernie's yelling and what she wants people to know about Raghav. Check out Kate's piece at Elle https://www.elle.com/author/224656/kate-willett/

In which Cam loses track of time and goes a bit 80s

Campbell Umbers

Related tracks