Aliveacoustic is a live album by Boston

Boston

Boston is the capital of and largest city in Massachusetts, and is one of the oldest cities in the United States. The largest city in New England, Boston is regarded as the unofficial "Capital of New England" for its economic and cultural impact on the entire New England region. The city proper had...

 rock and jazz

Jazz

Jazz is a musical style that originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States. It was born out of a mix of African and European music traditions. From its early development until the present, jazz has incorporated music from 19th and 20th...

 band The Slip. It was released in 2003 along with its companion album, Alivelectric

Alivelectric

Alivelectric is a live album by Boston rock and jazz band The Slip. It was released in 2003 along with its companion album, Aliveacoustic, on the band's own label, 216 Records. It was recorded at various shows during late 2002 and early 2003. The album is almost entirely instrumental...

, on the band's own label, 216 Records. It was recorded during a lightning storm on May 11, 2003 at Club Helsinki in Great Barrington, Massachusetts

Great Barrington, Massachusetts

Great Barrington is a town in Berkshire County, Massachusetts, United States. It is part of the Pittsfield, Massachusetts Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 7,104 at the 2010 census. Both a summer resort and home to Ski Butternut, Great Barrington includes the villages of Van...

 and features primarily vocal numbers on acoustic instruments, such as acoustic guitar

Acoustic guitar

An acoustic guitar is a guitar that uses only an acoustic sound board. The air in this cavity resonates with the vibrational modes of the string and at low frequencies, which depend on the size of the box, the chamber acts like a Helmholtz resonator, increasing or decreasing the volume of the sound...

, banjo

Banjo

In the 1830s Sweeney became the first white man to play the banjo on stage. His version of the instrument replaced the gourd with a drum-like sound box and included four full-length strings alongside a short fifth-string. There is no proof, however, that Sweeney invented either innovation. This new...

, and steel drum.

The song "Poor Boy" was later released in two different studio versions by The Slip's side project, Surprise Me Mr. Davis

Surprise Me Mr. Davis

Surprise Me Mr. Davis is an electro-folk band consisting of singer-songwriter Nathan Moore and the members of avant-rock band The Slip. They formed in 2003 in Boston while Moore was visiting The Slip at their apartment and the Blizzard of 2003 hit...

, on two different albums (2004's Surprise Me Mr. Davis and 2005's Only in Montreal EP). "Hunny" also appeared on Surprise Me Mr. Davis's self-titled album. "Song" is the only song to appear on both Alivelectric and Aliveacoustic.

Track listing

1. "Poor Boy"
2. "Seventy-Four"
3. "Before You Were Born"
4. "Hunny"
5. "Torque"
6. "Let the Morning In"
7. "Song"
8. "Through the Iron Gate"
9. "Lion on a Rock"