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changing the
words on the first verse to "One toot over the line." They were having a lot
of fun, and seemingly using this concert as a celebration of the end of what was, at
the time, a 12 year musical partnership.
I much
prefer the 1971
Lost Live Album bootleg for hearing
Brewer & Shipley covering their key songs in their performing prime, but
this live bootleg has quite a few songs that the duo had not yet recorded
when they performed their 1971 show. Their 20 song set included:
"Black Sky", "Crested Butte", "How Are You", "Brain Damage", "Yankee
Lady", "Tied To The Wings of An Angel", "On The Road in Kansas," and, two
wonderful B&S original songs that have never been released. It included a very funny original
song titled "Eugene" about a character whose excessive living is about
to catch up with him. But what I treasure the most about this
bootleg is an
unreleased original song titled "Bringin' 'Em Back Alive," presumably about
veterans coming home from the Vietnam war. It has hauntingly poignant
lyrics that could have just as easily been written for soldiers coming back
from the current war, or it could even have been written as analogy to Brewer &
Shipley's coming home from the excesses of ten years living on the road.
Whatever the intended connotations, it is a great "missing" song from
Brewer & Shipley.
At the close
of the show, Brewer and Shipley thank the fans for their support with a
possible hit at the end of their musical partnership: "It has
been our pleasure playing for all you people for the last 11 years. We
love you. Goodnight!" Luckily for all of us,
Brewer & Shipley reformed that musical partnership in 1987 and are still
adding to their musical legacy.
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