Live at The Belly Up

Live at the Belly Up
Live album by The Jayhawks
Released	February 10, 2015
Recorded	January 11, 2015 at The Belly Up, [Solana Beach, CA]]
Genre	Rock
Label	Belly Up Live
Producer	Belly Up Live
The Jayhawks chronology
Mockingbird Time (2011) Live at the Belly Up (2015) Paging Mr. Proust (2016)

Live at the Belly Up is a digital-only live album recorded in January 2015 by The Jayhawks, released on February 10, 2015 as an exclusive download from the Belly Up Live website.^[1] The album went into wider digital release in April 2015^[2] including a high-resolution audio version.^[3]

Background

Live at the Belly Up is a live document of a typical The Jayhawks 2014/2015 live show, recorded professionally by the in-house team at the Belly Up Club in Solana Beach, CA.^[4] At 20 songs with a running time of 80 minutes it contains almost the entire January 11, 2015 show.^[5] The lineup for this show is the entire 1997 touring lineup of the band with the addition of John Jackson on mandolin. This lineup began playing shows in June 2014 in support of the 2014 reissues of the Sound of Lies (1997), Smile (2000) and Rainy Day Music (2003) albums.^[6] The setlist concentrates on songs from those three albums, supplemented by older Jayhawks material, an old country cover^[7] that The Jayhawks originally released a studio version of on the b-side to the "Bad Time" single (1995)^[8] and two songs from the Golden Smog catalog.^[9]

Track listing

All songs by Gary Louris except where noted

1. "The Man Who Loved Life"
2. "Ain't No End" (Marc Perlman, Louris, Mark Olson)
3. "Big Star"
4. "Trouble" (Perlman, Louris)
5. "Angelyne"
6. "Take Me With You (When You Go)" (Olson, Louris)
7. "Looking Forward to Seeing You" (Johnson)
8. "Somewhere in Ohio" (Perlman, Louris, Tim O'Reagan, Bob Ezrin)
9. "Smile"
10. "Tampa to Tulsa" (O'Reagan)
11. "Waiting For the Sun" (Olson, Louris)
12. "Blue" (Olson/Louris)
13. "I'm Down to My Last Cigarette" (Harlan Howard, Billy Walker)
14. "Settled Down Like Rain" (Olson, Louris)
15. "Save It For a Rainy Day"
16. "Tailspin"
17. "I'd Run Away" (Olson, Louris)
18. "Sound of Lies"
19. "All the Right Reasons"
20. "Until You Came Along" (with Trapper Schoepp & The Shades)

Personnel

• Gary Louris – electric guitar, harmonica, vocals
• Marc Perlman – bass, vocals
• Tim O'Reagan – drums, percussion, vocals
• Karen Grotberg – keyboards, vocals
• Kraig Johnson – acoustic & electric guitars, keyboards, vocals
• Jessy Greene - violin, vocals
• John Jackson – mandolin, acoustic guitar

References

1. "New Digital Live Album Now Available".
2. "The Jayhawks Belly Up To Demand For Live Album". March 25, 2015.
3. "Live at the Belly Up".
4. "Belly Up Live".
5. "The Jayhawks January 11, 2015 setlist @Setlist.FM".
6. "The Jayhawks Hitting The Road In 2014".
7. "Second Hand Songs: I'm Down To My Last Cigarette".
8. "Discogs: The Jayhawks - Bad Time (1995)".
9. "Golden Smog - Weird Tales (1998)".