NAZARETH - Nazareth It's Naz ('Snaz) House Full Live 2CD 2011 Remaster MP3@320

NAZARETH - Nazareth It's Naz ('Snaz) House Full Live 2CD 2011 Remaster FLAC

Digitally remastered and expanded two CD edition of this 1981 album from the Scottish Hard Rockers including 10 bonus tracks. One of Britain's hardest working bands, Dunfermline's Nazareth are road warriors par excellence. With additional guitarist Billy Rankin and keyboard maestro John Locke on board, Nazareth produced this potent live document during their 1981 North American tour. This version is augmented by bonus tracks drawn from the Seattle leg of the tour plus two further studio cuts by this new incarnation of the group. Whether you call Nazareth's first live album It's Naz or Snaz (sometimes 'Snaz, thanks to the somewhat ambiguous sleeve art), there is no denying its presence. On its release in 1981, they had been operating professionally for 13 years and were at the peak of their considerable powers. 29 tracks. Salvo. 2011.



Nazareth It's Naz ('Snaz) House Full Live 2CD 2011 Remaster



CD01 = 73:21

CD01 01 - Telegram

CD01 02 - Razamanaz

CD01 03 - I Want To Do Everything For You

CD01 04 - This Flight Tonight

CD01 05 - Beggar's Day

CD01 06 - Every Young Man's Dream

CD01 07 - Heart's Grown Cold

CD01 08 - Java Blues

CD01 09 - Cocaine

CD01 10 - Big Boy

CD01 11 - Holiday

CD01 12 - Dressed To Kill

CD01 13 - Hair Of The Dog

CD01 14 - Expect No Mercy

CD01 15 - Shapes Of Things



CD02 = 61:34

CD02 01 - Let Me Be Your Leader

CD02 02 - Love Hurts

CD02 03 - Tush

CD02 04 - Juicy Lucy

CD02 05 - Morning Dew

CD02 06 - Java Blues (Live In Seattle)

CD02 07 - Cocaine (Live In Seattle)

CD02 08 - Big Boy (Live In Seattle)

CD02 09 - Holiday (Live In Seattle)

CD02 10 - Let Me Be Your Leader (Live In Seattle)

CD02 11 - Dressed To Kill (Live In Seattle)

CD02 12 - Hair Of The Dog (Live In Seattle)

CD02 13 - Morgantau (German Version Of Morning Dew)

CD02 14 - Crazy (A Suitable Case For Treatment)



Personnel:

Dan McCafferty: vocals

Manny Charlton: guitar

Billy Rankin: guitar, backing vocals

John Locke: keyboards

Pete Agnew: bass guitar, backing vocals

Darrell Sweet: drums, backing vocals



CD Review: Nazareth - S'naz

First published Sunday 3 April 2011 in Music Reviews by Martin Hutchinson



S’NAZ or It’s Naz depending on how you look at it, was originally released in September 1981 and was Nazareth’s first live album.



Just after the release of their last studio album Fool Circle , second guitarist Zal Cleminson left and with a North American tour looming the band decided to recruit not just another guitarist, but a keyboard player to fill out the stage sound.



So, with Billy Rankin on guitar and John Locke on keyboards, the band went out on tour.

The ensuing double album was recorded at just one gig and not cherry-picked from various dates along the way.



The show recorded was in Vancouver during May 1981 and has Nazareth at the top of it’s from.

Almost incessant touring throughout the previous decade had sharpened the band to the n’th degree and it is readily apparent on this CD, with is part of Salvo / Union Square music’s ongoing reissue plan of all the Nazareth albums.



All the band’s show-stoppers are included in the set: Telegram, Razamanaz, This Flight Tonight, Hair Of The Dog and the searing Love Hurts all serve to show how potent this band from Dunfermline was – and still is.



Great musicianship from the two new band members who fitted in nicely with the classic line-up of drummer Darrell Sweet, guitarist Manny Charlton, bassist Pete Agnew and singer Dan McCafferty – whose throat-shredding vocals make you instinctively reach for the Strepsils.



Of particular note are Java Blues and Cocaine, which has the band at it’s gut-wrenching best.



There are some bonus tracks with this reissue, starting with seven more live tracks from the tour, but this time from the Seattle gig.



And the 2CD set ends with a couple of studio tracks, Morgantau, which is the German version of Morning Dew; and Crazy, which featured in the soundtrack of the film Heavy Metal.