Live at Raji's

Background

Containing songs from throughout the band's career, it is the last album released before the band broke up, and came out as a double album on the heels of their last studio album, Ghost Stories. The album was incorrectly reported to have been recorded after Ghost Stories; in fact, the recordings were made (straight to digital 2-track) on 31 January 1988, before Ghost Stories was recorded. The show took place at Raji's, a Los Angeles club, "in front of a delirious hometown audience".

The album was produced by Elliot Mazer, and was re-released in an expanded edition, with the original running order, in 2004. This re-release was reviewed in No Depression, the reviewer praising "Cutler's jagged, eight-legged leads" and compared the album to Neil Young's Live Rust and Warren Zevon's Stand in the Fire; "Raji's is the Syndicate's Television-meets-the-Velvet-Underground sound pushed as far as it would go. It was also the end of an era."

Original 1989 edition

1. "Still Holding on to You" (Steve Wynn) - 4:15
2. "Forest for the Trees" (Steve Wynn) - 4:25
3. "Until Lately" (Steve Wynn) - 7:09
4. "That's What You Always Say" (Steve Wynn) - 4:47
5. "Burn" (Steve Wynn) - 5:52
6. "Merrittville" (Steve Wynn) - 7:46
7. "The Days of Wine and Roses" (Steve Wynn) - 8:22
8. "The Medicine Show" (Steve Wynn) - 8:51
9. ""Halloween" (Karl Precoda) - 6:55
10. "Boston" (Steve Wynn) - 7:35
11. "John Coltrane Stereo Blues" (Karl Precoda, David Provost, Kendra Smith, Steve Wynn) - 12:11

Disc 1

1. "See That My Grave Is Kept Clean" (Blind Lemon Jefferson) - 4:53
2. "Still Holding on to You" (Steve Wynn) - 4:15
3. "Forest for the Trees" (Steve Wynn) - 4:25
4. "Until Lately" (Steve Wynn) - 7:09
5. "That's What You Always Say" (Steve Wynn) - 4:47
6. "When You Smile" (Steve Wynn) - 3:44
7. "Burn" (Steve Wynn) - 5:52
8. "All Along the Watchtower" (Bob Dylan) - 2:39
9. "Tell Me When It's Over" (Steve Wynn) - 3:52

Disc 2

1. "Merrittville" (Steve Wynn) - 7:46
2. "The Days of Wine and Roses" (Steve Wynn) - 8:22
3. "The Medicine Show" (Steve Wynn) - 8:51
4. "Halloween" (Karl Precoda) - 6:55
5. "Boston" (Steve Wynn) - 7:35
6. "John Coltrane Stereo Blues" (Karl Precoda, David Provost, Kendra Smith, Steve Wynn) - 12:11

Personnel

Production