Christine Lavin One Wild Night In Concert CD

Christine Lavin has forged a long and rich career by turning the most mundane, ordinary events into quirky little folk songs, and while she's produced nearly a dozen solo albums over the years, it has been her vibrant and offbeat live performances which have fueled her cult popularity. ONE WILD NIGHT, which was recorded in one night at the Blue Moon Coffeehouse in Bloomington, Illinois, captures the atmosphere and spirit of Lavin's concerts, including audience reactions and Lavin's giggly between-song chatter.

From a lost pair of eyeglasses in "Oh No," to an old woman's long-ago love affair in "The Kind of Love You Never Recover From," to killing a bug in "Great Big Bug," Lavin covers all topics with energy and wit, as well as an uncanny ability to rhyme. ONE WILD NIGHT is especially appealing for its lightheartedness, with none of the overwrought sincerity that occasionally threatens to inundate her studio albums.

In 1984, Christine quit her day job at Bellvue Hospital to pursue a career in music full-time. Since then she has recorded nine solo original albums, produced six compilations showcasing songs by dozens of her favorite singer/songwriters, and is part of three Four Bitchin\' Babes albums. She has published one solo songbook, two group compilations, has won two New York Music Awards, three ASCAP composer awards, a NAIRD Award for Folk Album of the Year and the Kate Wolf Memorial Award, given yearly by the World Folk Music Association.Her concert career has taken her all over the U.S., Canada, Australia, and Germany, and for two years during her travels she was the folk correspondent for Public Radio International\'s World Cafe. For the first three months of 1997, she hosted the weekly three-hour radio program, Sunday Breakfast on WFUV-FM in New York City. She has also written for The Washington Post.One Wild Night In Concert was recorded live at the Blue Moon Coffeehouse in Bloomington, Illinois. When she heard the tape, Christine knew it was the kind of disc her audiences have been asking for. She is the consummate perfomer, at her most creative and personable onstage, her songs ranging form poignant to hilarious, with lyrics so clever that one may at first overlook her skillful and effortless guitar work. This album captures much of what makes Christine Lavin one of the most popular performers on the folk circuit, capable of turning new listeners into enthusiastic fans within the course of one song. Released on christinelavin.com records in May 1998, available nationally through Prime CD in September 1998.