Live (live album) by Donny Hathaway

Live by Donny Hathaway
(Live album)
Year: 1972
Overall rank: 11,928th   Overall chart historyOverall chart history
Average Rating: 
76/100 (from 46 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top albums of 1972 (167th)
Award Top albums of the 1970s (1,705th)
Award Best albums of all time (11,928th)
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Live is ranked as the best album by Donny Hathaway.

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Average Rating: 
76/100 (from 46 votes)
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This album is rated in the top 5% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 76.1/100, a mean average of 76.8/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 76.8/100. The standard deviation for this album is 13.4.

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From 07/27/2022 00:33
If you check out anything by Donny Hathaway, choose this live album. Hathaway executes virtuosic renditions of his original songs and covers alike with his unreal Wurlitzer electric piano playing. He's backed by several ace musicians including bassist Willie Weeks, who gets a career-defining bass solo on closing track 'Voices Inside (Everything Is Everything)'. The rapturously enthusiastic audience also heightens the experience of this record. Listen to the Carole King cover 'You've Got a Friend' and listen to how the crowd almost drowns Hathaway out, in near perfect key. I say this about pretty much all of my favorite live albums, but this truly may be one of the greatest live albums of all time. At the very least it's a landmark recording in soul, right up there with James Brown's 'Live at the Apollo' and Sam Cooke's 'Live at the Harlem Square Club, 1963'.

Essential picks: What's Going On, The Ghetto, Little Ghetto Boy, Jealous Guy, Voices Inside (Everything Is Everything)
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