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50 Greatest Live Albums of All Time: Donna Summer’s ‘Live & More Encore!’ (1999)

May 13, 2018 Quentin Harrison

Editor’s Note: The Albumism staff has selected what we believe to be the 50 Greatest Live Albums of All Time, representing a varied cross-section of genres, styles and time periods. Click “Next Album” below to explore each album or view the full album index here.

DONNA SUMMER | Live & More Encore!
Epic (1999)
Selected by Quentin Harrison

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Live and More hit the block as Summer's popularity was entering the stratosphere in 1978. For anyone that lobbied the insult of Summer being nothing more than a “slip of a disco singer,” Live and More stood as a form of sweet revenge, an averment that she could produce outside of a studio environment. However, 21 years removed from Live and More, Summer's versatility as a vocal entity was not nearly as celebrated as it should have been.

Her second post-Mistaken Identity (1991) stopgap project and second live album overall, Live and More Encore! is an abbreviated version of a VH-1 concert of the same name recorded at New York City’s Hammerstein Ballroom on February 4, 1999. For the fans that had stayed faithful to Summer, it was business as usual; but for a generation removed from her magic, Live & More Encore! showed the legend where she shone brightest: on a live stage. Summer is in good form throughout the abridged selection of tunes on Live & More Encore!, which included three new songs amid her classic cuts. Live & More Encore! was the first offering from her then-recently inked deal with Epic Records and taken as a live vehicle, the LP could not have been more victorious for her.

[Excerpt taken from Quentin Harrison's book ‘Record Redux: Donna Summer.’]

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