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Twice Upon a Time
The Kingston Trio
Twice Upon a Time
Genres: Folk, Pop
 
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'Twice Upon a Time', an 18-song CD culled from the same 1966 series of live performances that produced the group's legendary 1969 double-album 'Once Upon a Time!' Return with Nick Reynolds, Bob Shane and John Stewart to th...  more »

     
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All Artists: The Kingston Trio
Title: Twice Upon a Time
Members Wishing: 2
Total Copies: 0
Label: Collector's Choice
Release Date: 2/12/2008
Album Type: Enhanced
Genres: Folk, Pop
Style: Traditional Folk
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPCs: 617742088120, 0617742088120

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'Twice Upon a Time', an 18-song CD culled from the same 1966 series of live performances that produced the group's legendary 1969 double-album 'Once Upon a Time!' Return with Nick Reynolds, Bob Shane and John Stewart to the Sahara Tahoe for some memorable songs and very funny patter that wouldn't fit on the original release. The CD also includes a dynamic bonus video of the Trio performing Bob Dylan's 'Tomorrow Is a Long Time'. Re-captured in brilliant stereo sound by Grammy-nominated audio wiz Ron Furmanek, the Kingston Trio's 'Twice Upon a Time' more than holds its own as a companion disc to 'Once Upon a Time'.
 

CD Reviews

The ALTERNATE Sahara-Tahoe Show
J. C. Hulett | Los Angeles, CA USA | 12/12/2007
(4 out of 5 stars)

""Once Upon a Time" was a two-record concert album of the Kingston Trio in the big showroom at the Sahara Tahoe, up there in the piney woods beside the big Sierra lake. It went on sale under the Tetragamatron label (Bill Cosby's record company) in 1969, three years after it was recorded.



"OUAT" has finally been reissued on cd. But this cd isn't that 1969 recording. Rather, this is a new concert disk, recorded during the same stand (July 1966), and now released for the first time.



Unlike it's big older brother, "Twice" has no overdubbing or echo-chamber polish. It's just the raw, unadulterated tape of one ST show that demonstrates -- yet again -- the Kingston Trio's amazing consistency in live performance: belting out material from a decade's worth of records, giving new twists to old jokes, and interacting energetically with an appreciative audience.



Even on the multiple false starts and screwups of "Thirsty Boots" (a terrific song never released during the Trio's original, ten-year run), they never cease to be entertaining. John Stewart makes an exasperated exit, Reynolds complains that "somebody in the front row is tittering at me!" and the audience never stops laughing.



The Kingston Trio, forty years after its 1967 breakup, is becoming the "Grateful Dead" of the early and middle 1960s: a steady flow of never-heard concert recordings crops up on Amazon and Collectors Choice, giving the original group a new, 21st-century lease on life.

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Disappointing
GRJ | Puyallup, WA USA | 10/14/2008
(2 out of 5 stars)

"I was big trio fan "in the day". I have purchased much of their newly released material that has been recovered from the archives. In my opinion, little of it has been worth the cost - "Twice Upon A Time" is no exception. I feel like I've been fleeced.



The propective buyer needs to consider that there was probably a good reason some of this stuff never got published when it was first recorded.



The Kingston Trio could be a great act - just purchase the old "College Concert" and "Back In Town". They could produce some wonderful music. Their version of "The First Time" on the New Frontier album is the finest I've ever heard. But in these recent releases of old material, they needed to pay more heed to quality control.





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