Product Description
John Sebastian is known as the leader of The Lovin' Spoonful. Along with his fine solo work, he is also famous for his widely seen appearance at the legendary Woodstock festival in 1969. Our 3 CD set collects all five of his excellent Reprise albums. John B. Sebastian, Cheapo Cheapo Productions Presents Real Live, The Four Of Us, Tarzana Kid & Welcome Back. This package also contains his rare Reprise single, Give Us A Break/Music For People Who Don't Speak English. Musicians who appears on these albums include Stephen Stills, David Crosby, Graham Nash, Felix Pappalardi, Lowell George, Emmy Lou Harris, David Lindley, Ry Cooder, Phil Everly, Jeff Baxter, Dallas Taylor & Harvey Brooks.

CD 1
1. Red-Eye Express
2. She's A Lady
3. What She Thinks About
4. Magical Connection
5. You're A Big Boy Now
6. Rainbows All Over Your Blues
7. How Have You Been
8. Baby, Don't Ya Get Crazy
9. The Room Nobody Lives In
10. Fa-Fana-Fa
11. I Had A Dream
12. Mobile Line (Gonna Carry Me Away From The Bull Frog Blues)
13. Lovin' You
14. Fishin' Blues
15. Younger Girl
16. Did You Ever Have To Make Up Your Mind
17. Rooty-Toot
18. In The Still Of The Night
19. Teen Angel
20. Blue Suede Shoes
21. Ballad Of A Teenage Queen
22. Nashville Cats
23. Waiting For A Train
24. My Gal
25. Younger Generation
26. Darlin' Be Home Soon
27. Blues For Dad And JB's Happy Harmonica
28. Amy's Theme

CD 2
1. Goodnight Irene
2. Well, Well, Well
3. Black Snake Blues
4. I Don't Want Nobody Else
5. Apple Hill
6. Black Satin Kid
7. We'll See
8. Sweet Muse
9. The Four Of Us
10. Give Us A Break
11. Music For People Who Don't Speak English
12. Sitting In Limbo
13. Friends Again
14. Dixie Chicken
15. Stories We Can Tell
16. Face Of Appalachia
17. Wild Wood Flower
18. Wild About My Lovin'
19. Singing The Blues
20. Sportin' Life
21. Harpoon

CD 3
1. Hideaway
2. She's Funny
3. You Go Your Way And I'll Go Mine
4. Didn't Wanna Have To Do It
5. One Step Forward, One Step Back
6. Welcome Back
7. I Needed Her Most When I Told Her To Go
8. A Song A Day In Nashville
9. Warm Baby
10. Let This Be Our Time To Get Along

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I love my Rhino Handmade version of this (entitled Faithful Virtue: The Reprise Recordings). Looks like this may be missing the Woodstock and Winterland tracks from Disc 3 of that set.

I saw him live last month! He signed my copy of "Tar Beach" that I've had for about 20 years now! (I need to scan and post it.)

At the current price of $22.99, I might have to check this out. Sebastian is a little too much the happy hippy for me sometimes, but I've never heard these albums, just a few cuts.

The 1st lp was great as was the real live lp. The Tarzana Kid has Lowell George and John tackles Dixie Chicken. Can't be beat at this price.

I already have the original version of this set, but in other news, last night I found a nice clean vinyl copy of his "Cheapo Cheapo Productions Presents Real Live John Sebastian".

It was one of my late brother Kevin's favorite records, so it's a sentimental fave of mine.

Got my "Cheapo Cheapo Productions Presents Real Live John Sebastian".at JM Fields for $ 1.99 nearly 40 years ago - his version of Waiting For A Train turned me on to Jimmie Rodgers whom I knew of but had nothing. I believe there are two vinyl versions of the first lp - 2 different labels - got both of em still. I lost track of him after Welcome Back.

I'm a greatest hits type of Spoonful fan (20 ish songs probably, though I like those 20 songs ALOT). The only JS solo I've heard that I liked other than Woodstock was She's A Lady. I really don't like Welcome Back Kotter. Don't know if this is something I need to check out or not.

John Sebastian was featured in a story about Martin guitars on "CBS Sunday Morning" yesterday. Very informative, though his singing voice is kind of rough now.

I'd wanted to see John Sebastian perform live for years, and just before Christmas he played an small outdoor gig at the Florida Scrub-Jay Trail in Clermont, Florida, which is about as far into the middle of nowhere I've ever traveled to see a concert...I figured he'd do his solo show which I've heard on several releases besides "Cheapo Cheapo...", but then, a day or two before the show, a note went up on Facebook that Steve Boone--the original bass player for the Lovin' Spoonful--would be playing with him.

This...seemed huge. Sebastian has always been the one to resist the idea of a Spoonful reunion--they reformed in the late '70's to appear in the film "One Trick Pony", and performed as a quartet at their induction into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame in 2000--but then Yanovsky died, and Sebastian pointedly declined to play with Boone and Joe Butler in the version of the Spoonful that has toured for the past few years. Why the sudden change of heart?

My best guess is that he invited Boone because it was a such a small, remote gig--again, this was at a nature preserve, an outdoor concert on a tiny stage on a pleasant, but dark December evening--December 20th, the night before the winter solstice. Sebastian took the stage at 8PM, kicked the show off with a solo version of "Satisfied", and proceeded to introduce Boone. The rest of the show was then devoted to going through pretty much the entire Spoonful songbook, Sebastian taking time between song to explain (and play) the various songs from which he borrowed various ideas for Spoonful songs.

Maybe it's me--if Sebastian and Boone had been taking this show to every state fair in the country for the past couple of decades, the show might have been less genuine, or at least seemed less genuine, but the history these two guys shared was palpable. Boone didn't speak on the microphone, but the show was intimate enough to where we could hear him anyway; at one point, they both laughed over the fact that the sound system at the show was better than the one used by the Spoonful when they played the Rose Bowl. One of their closing songs was "Summer In The City" (does Sebastian ever sing that one live? Or even in public? In private?) yet while the idea of a couple of old guys with acoustic guitars trying to recreate such an epic, rocking single in the middle of God's country for a crowd of probably less than a hundred people might seem cloying, it was just really, hugely, cool. And historic. Remember--Boone is not only the guy who played the middle eight bass part on that single, he co-wrote the song.

I'm not quite sure why the Spoonful aren't as revered as some of the other Sixties bands. Part of it might be due to the fact that they broke up and stayed broken up, but I also thought that part of it was that they were so talented, none of their songs sounded particularly alike. Even though I have now heard John Sebastian himself explain the chronology and evolution of the Spoonful's catalog, and where the songs came from, they seemed to lack an identifiable song formula, a "sound". This seems especially remarkable in that they churned out five albums and two soundtrack albums (including ten top-40 singles) in something like three years. It may seem odd, but I've always compared them to Faith No More--another band that recorded wildly disparate songs that didn't quite allow the band to be associated with any particular genre.

Anyway--it was a magical night, far exceeding my expectations, despite the fact that Sebastian did not perform, as I had assumed he would, "Welcome Back", "Mobile Line" or any of his other solo stuff. Frankly, I'm not sure that his solo show could top what I saw. I know, I'm also that one person who wishes Pete Townshend had stuck it out with his solo career rather than waste years of his life on reunion tours with Roger Daltrey, and I can't see much entertainment value in paying a thousand dollars to see Mick Jagger sing "Jumpin' Jack Flash" for the four thousandth time--but again, this is what made the comparatively casual Sebastian/Boone reunion so special.

I discovered the Spoonful probably twenty years ago via one of those $5 K Mart compilation cassettes that contained about fifteen minutes of music on each side of the cassette, and I played that cassette to death back in the days when the original Spoonful albums were not readily available on CD. It was amazing to see Boone and Sebastian bring those songs back to life. Truly historic.

I saw him many years ago doing a solo electric guitar/vocal show at a 3,000 seater in Seattle. My memory is that it was ok, not great, but ok.