In a post last week, I lamented the inevitable gap between how many great albums come out and how many I’m actually able to listen to. I could probably spend the rest of 2018 posting about worthwhile stuff that I missed in 2017—though of course I won’t, because I’d rather try to keep up with this year’s onslaught. But before I move on, I’d like to give props to a pair of previously unissued live recordings by the great LA folk-rock singer Tim Buckley that dropped late in 2017. Venice Mating Call and Greetings From West Hollywood are both double albums on the Manifesto label (the first on CD, the second on vinyl) recorded during the same extended engagement that produced the stellar 1994 archival release Live at the Troubadour 1969.
