Old Material 1984-1986 | ||||
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Compilation album by Spirit of the West | ||||
Released | 1989 | |||
Recorded | 1984-1986 | |||
Genre | Folk | |||
Length | 40:14 | |||
Label | Stony Plain Records | |||
Producer | Spirit of the West with Barney Bentall and Ron Obvious | |||
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Old Material 1984–1986 is a 1989 album by Spirit of the West.
It was the band's final release for Stony Plain Records. Side one of the album includes five tracks from their out-of-print 1984 album Spirit of the West, and side two presents a 1986 live performance from the Vancouver East Cultural Centre.
The live performance showcases a band already quite skilled at the crowd-pleasing sense of showmanship that would become their trademark, especially when John Mann flubs the beginning of "General Guinness" from laughing too hard at the clownish antics of bandmates J. Knutson and Geoffrey Kelly. In parts of the show, the volume of audience applause would seem to suggest a crowd at least twice the size of the audience actually present.
All songs by Mann, Kelly and Knutson, except where otherwise noted.