John Cale - Fragments Of A Rainy Season

Double 180gm vinyl LP pressing, includes digital download. Fragments of a Rainy Season is the the first live John Cale album to feature him performing solo and "unplugged" - before that term became a mid-'90s buzzword. In contrast to the jaundiced punk truculence of Sabotage/Live (1979) or Even Cowgirls Get the Blues (1986), Fragments gives us Cale at his most melodic and moving, a mellowed and certainly a soberer man in a Yamamoto jacket and a lopsided haircut running through a selection of his prettiest songs, including his seminal take on Leonard Cohen's 'Hallelujah'. The album features versions of 'Paris 1919,' 'Dying On The Vine,' 'Chinese Envoy,' cover versions of the Elvis classic 'Heartbreak Hotel' and the aforementioned Leonard Cohen, and a suite of Dylan Thomas' works 'On A Wedding Anniversary,' 'Lie Still, Sleep Becalmed' and 'Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night.'

 
Tracks:
- Disc 1 -
1 A Wedding Anniversary
2 Lie Still, Sleep Becalmed
3 Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night
4 Cordoba
5 Buffalo Ballet
6 Darling I Need You
7 Ship of Fools
8 The Ballad of Cable Hogue
9 Dying on the Vine
10 Heartbreak Hotel
11 Paris 1919
12 Thoughtless Kind
- Disc 2 -
1 Fear
2 A Child's Christmas in Wales
3 Amsterdam
4 Broken Hearts
5 Guts
6 Waiting for the Man
7 Heartbreak
8 Leaving It Up to You
9 Fear
10 Paris 1919
11 Antarctica
- Disc 3 -
1 Chinese Envoy
2 Fear (Is a Man's Best Friend)
- Disc 4 -
1 Style It Takes
2 (I Keep a) Close Watch
3 Hallelujah