Rising (Donovan album)


Rising is the third live album, and twentieth album overall, from British singer-songwriter Donovan. It was released on Permanent Records in 1990. The live versions of Donovan's hits guaranteed that Rising would receive a release in both the United States and United Kingdom. Rising was retitled The Classics Live in the United States, 25 Years in Concert in Europe and Atlantis in the UK for marketing reasons. Since the release of Rising, there have been many reissues of the songs from the album under many different titles.
Rising was supposedly recorded sporadically from 1982 through 1986 at various live concerts during different world tours. However, after careful research the songs on the album came from are revealed as a U.S. tour in 1971 and from the Cambridge Folk Festival of 1981.

History

Although Donovan's albums had all but disappeared from the British and American markets by the early 1980s, his live appearances still attracted large audiences. Donovan toured constantly throughout this time, performing throughout North America and Europe.
The setlists from these shows features a mixture of Donovan's international hits from the 1960s and relatively more obscure tracks from his later albums. Like most of Donovan's live performances, there is sparse instrumentation accompanying Donovan's vocals, including flute, acoustic guitar, bass. Rising features two traditional songs and one original song that were not released on any previous Donovan album.
In 2001, Rising was expanded to a two-CD set as Rising Again.

Track listing

All tracks by Donovan Leitch, except where noted.
"Young But Growing", "Stealing" and "Love Will Find a Way" are previously unreleased compositions. All recordings previously unreleased except for "Sadness" and "Universal Soldier"

Original album

The vinyl release has 15 tracks, the CD release has 18 tracks
  1. "Jennifer Juniper" – 2:25
  2. "Catch the Wind" – 2:50
  3. "Hurdy Gurdy Man" – 6:04
  4. "Sunshine Superman" – 3:57
  5. "Sadness" – 2:56
  6. "Universal Soldier" – 2:49
  7. "Cosmic Wheels" ' – 4:05
  8. "Atlantis" – 3:06
  9. "Wear Your Love Like Heaven" – 2:17
  10. "To Susan On the West Coast Waiting" – 1:39
  11. "Colours" – 2:29
  12. "Young Girl Blues" – 5:01
  13. "Young But Growing" ' – 3:41
  14. "Stealing" – 4:10
  15. "Sailing Homeward" – 3:04
  16. "Love Will Find a Way" – 2:44
  17. "Laléna" – 3:16
  18. "Make Up Your Mind" – 5:28

    Further song information

Mixed by Richard Nathan

Release history

A list of reissues
RegionDateTitleLabelCatalog
UKNovember 1990RisingPermanent RecordsPERM LP 2 / PERM CD 2 / PERM MC 2
USNovember 1990The Classics LiveGreat Northern Arts, Ltd. GNA 61007-002
Netherlands199125 Years in ConcertDino MusicDNCD 1253 /DNLP 1253
1994Donovan in Concert Digimode Entertainment
Belgium1994In ConcertAll At OnceHP 93432
UK1994Atlantis K Point Gold1621.1009-2
July 10, 2001Colours: Live in ConcertMusic Deluxe6
April 7, 1998The Very Best of DonovanArtful RecordsArtful 5
Germany1995LiveMastertoneCD 10045
August 19, 1997PerformanceBeacon51584
October 21, 1997Greatest Hits: Acoustic LiveLaserlight Records12976
November 3, 1998Cosmic WheelsMastertone Records8354