New York dates added!!!

JONATHAN RICHMAN - 2010 TOUR DATES
3-Oct Hardly Strictly Bluegrass 2010 San Francisco, CA, US
6-Oct London, England Luminaire
8-Oct London, England Amersham Arms (early curfew: 10pm)
9-Oct London, England Monto Water Rats
11-Oct London, England Tabernacle
13-Oct Paris, France La Boule Noire
14-Oct Toulouse, France La Dynamo
15-Oct Angouleme, France La Nef Club
16-Oct Bordeaux, France Le Krakatoa
19-Oct Poiters, France Le Confort Moderne
20-Oct Clermont-Ferrand, France La Cooperative De Mai
21-Oct Montpelier, France La Secrete Place
1-Nov Bowery Ballroom, NY, NY
2-Nov The Bell House, Brooklyn, NY

"More Surprises" Compilation

Hello Jojo Land,

I made a compilation with live songs from 1975-1985.

Some of the songs I got through dimeadozen.org, and some through trades.

There's some rare gems here!

Reviews!

Snippets from reviews I have painstakingly gathered from all across the internet, just for you!

Singing in Spanish, Italian, French and English, Richman effortlessly entertained a hypnotised audience of all ages. He displayed his usual positive presence, spontaneous dance offs, and charismatic performance style with random crowd banter, then returning to his set like a kid too excited to stand still. Higlights include Mr Sorrow (my favorite), Pablo Picasso (of course), and a few of my favorites off A Qué Venimos Sino a Caer.

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think the genius of Richman boils down to his ability to cover the entire emotional spectrum in a single stanza. We aren’t bombarded with jokes in that Adam Sandler stand-up musician kind of way, and we aren’t drowning in serious melancholy. Instead he manages to deliver verbose and hilarious narratives in the same breath as real life lessons. Last night’s “When We Refuse to Suffer” exemplified this coupling brilliantly: one moment he croons, “We turn the air conditioning on and we’re so happy that we’ve avoided bugs and sweat,” and the next he pulls away from the mic to conclude, “No more refusal to feel.” We laugh and we think – and he’s moved on before we have a chance to take ourselves seriously in either regard (the next song was about formaldehyde).

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He throws in short songs about still learning about sex at age 59, and both men and women scream. He sings in French, Spanish, you name it. More screaming. His shows end quickly because he doesn’t “want to wear out his welcome,” but I truly don’t think that’s possible.

When you live in a big city like San Francisco, your friends and family will constantly remark on how wonderful it must be to live in such a great city. And when they talk about this, they’re talking about Fisherman’s Wharf and Chinatown. When we talk about living in a great city, we talk about other things. And one of things we San Franciscans should be talking about is the fact that Jonathan Richman is a San Francisco treasure.

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Also, am I just losing my tiny mind, or is Jonathan generally in Long Beach in the beginning of September? Wishful thinking, I am sure, because I will be down there, but it seems it is not to be :(

Picture stolen from the writer of the first review.