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Live from Austin, Texas (2007)
  
The Knee Plays (2007)

Release date
  
2 October 2007

Genre
  
Alternative rock

Artist
  
David Byrne

Label
  
New West Records

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Released
  
October 2, 2007 (2007-10-02)

Recorded
  
November 28, 2001 (2001-11-28)

Producer
  
Cameron Strang, Gary Briggs, Jay Woods

Similar
  
David Byrne albums, Alternative rock albums

Live from Austin, Texas is a live album released by rock musician David Byrne, released on New West Records on October 2, 2007 on CD and DVD. The songs were recorded during Byrne's 2001 tour in support of Look into the Eyeball at a date for the KLRU television show Austin City Limits. Except for the first 4 songs the quartet was accompanied by the Austin-based tango string sextet Tosca.

Contents

The album not only includes songs from his solo work, but also several Talking Heads songs and a Whitney Houston cover, "I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me)."

Track listing

All tracks written by David Byrne except as indicated.

  1. "(Nothing But) Flowers" (David Byrne, Chris Frantz, Jerry Harrison, Tina Weymouth) – 4:50
  2. "God's Child (Come Dance with Me)" – 4:35
  3. "And She Was" (Byrne, Frantz, Harrison, Weymouth) – 3:39
  4. "Once in a Lifetime" (Byrne, Brian Eno, Frantz, Harrison, Weymouth) – 7:14
  5. "The Great Intoxication" – 4:10
  6. "Marching Through the Wilderness" (Byrne, John Pacheco) – 4:19
  7. "The Revolution" – 2:24
  8. "This Must Be the Place (Naive Melody)" – 5:50
  9. "What a Day That Was" – 6:51
  10. "Desconocido soy" – 2:56
  11. "Like Humans Do" – 4:15
  12. "Life During Wartime" (Byrne, Frantz, Harrison, Weymouth) – 6:30
  13. "I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me)" (George Merrill, Shannon Rubicam) – 5:07

Personnel

  • David Byrne – Vocals and guitar
  • Paul Frazier – bass guitar and vocals
  • Mauro Refosco – percussion, percussion programming, and mallets
  • David Hilliard – drums
  • String sextet Tosca (tracks 5–13)
  • Leigh Mahoney – violin
  • Lara Hicks – violin
  • Jamie Desautels – violin
  • Stephanie Ames Asbell – viola and vocals
  • Ben Westney – cello
  • Sara Nelson – cello

    • Songs

    1(Nothing But) Flowers4:51
    2God's Child4:36
    3And She Was3:40

    References

    Live from Austin, TX (David Byrne album) Wikipedia
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