Rising Again is an expanded version of the 1990 live album

Live album

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 Rising

Rising (Donovan album)

Rising is the third live album, and twentieth album overall, from Scottish singer-songwriter Donovan. It was released on Permanent Records in 1990 . The live versions of Donovan's hits guaranteed that Rising would receive a release in both the United States and United Kingdom...

from Scottish

Scotland

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 singer-songwriter

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 Donovan

Donovan

Donovan Donovan Donovan (born Donovan Philips Leitch (born 10 May 1946) is a Scottish singer-songwriter and guitarist. Emerging from the British folk scene, he developed an eclectic and distinctive style that blended folk, jazz, pop, psychedelia, and world music...

. It was released in the UK

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 (Pilot PLO 59) on May 22, 2001.

History

Throughout the 1990s, numerous reissues and edited versions of Donovan's 1990 live album Rising appeared. None of these versions contained the original title or artwork, and many did not have the original track order. After over ten years of these releases, Pilot Records acquired the rights to the songs from Rising in the UK

United Kingdom

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.

Instead of simply reissuing Rising, Pilot Records recognized that the rights to the Mellow Records songs also gave them access to numerous unreleased live recordings recorded by Donovan in the 1980s. They titled the subsequent release of these tracks Rising Again in recognition of the original album, and added eleven previously unreleased tracks taken from the same concerts.

Repackaged versions

On November 12, 2002, Superior Records (Netherlands

Netherlands

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, Superior 540777) issued Donovan's album as Atlantis for the European continent market. The album featured a different cover. It should not be confused with Atlantis, the repackaged version of Rising

Rising (Donovan album)

Rising is the third live album, and twentieth album overall, from Scottish singer-songwriter Donovan. It was released on Permanent Records in 1990 . The live versions of Donovan's hits guaranteed that Rising would receive a release in both the United States and United Kingdom...

, released in 1994.

Album origins of tracks

The following is a list explaining the original releases of each song. Tracks that were previously unreleased are noted with *, followed by explanations of their origin.

Disc one

• "Jennifer Juniper" (from The Hurdy Gurdy Man
  The Hurdy Gurdy Man
  The Hurdy Gurdy Man is the sixth studio album and seventh album overall from Scottish singer-songwriter Donovan. It was released in the United States in October 1968 , but was not released in the UK because of a continuing contractual dispute that also prevented Sunshine Superman and Mellow Yellow...
  
  , released October 1968)
• "Catch The Wind" (from What's Bin Did and What's Bin Hid
  What's Bin Did and What's Bin Hid
  What's Bin Did and What's Bin Hid is the debut album from Scottish singer-songwriter Donovan. It was released in the United Kingdom four days after Donovan's 19th birthday on 14 May 1965, through Pye Records . Terry Kennedy, Peter Eden, and Geoff Stephens produced the album...
  
  , released May 14, 1965)
• "Josie" (from What's Bin Did and What's Bin Hid)
• "Hurdy Gurdy Man" (from The Hurdy Gurdy Man)
• "Sunshine Superman
  Sunshine Superman
  "Sunshine Superman" is a song written and recorded by Scottish singer-songwriter Donovan. The "Sunshine Superman" single was released in the United States through Epic Records in July 1966, but due to a contractual dispute the United Kingdom release was delayed until December 1966, where it...
  
  " (from Sunshine Superman
  Sunshine Superman (album)
  Sunshine Superman is the third album from Scottish singer-songwriter Donovan. It was released in the United States in September 1966. but was not released in the United Kingdom because of a contractual dispute. In June 1967, a compilation of the Sunshine Superman and Mellow Yellow albums was...
  
  , released September 1966)
• "Colours" (from Fairytale
  Fairytale (album)
  Fairytale is the second album from Scottish singer-songwriter Donovan. It was first released in the United Kingdom on October 22, 1965 through Pye Records . The U.S. version of Fairytale was released by Hickory Records in November 1965 with a slightly different set of songs...
  
  , released October 22, 1965)
• "There Is a Mountain" (single, released August 1967)
• "Mellow Yellow" (single, released November 1966)
• "Sadness" (from 7-Tease
  7-Tease
  7-Tease is the twelfth studio album, and fourteenth album overall, from Scottish singer-songwriter Donovan. It was released in the US in November 1974 and in the UK in January 1975.-History:...
  
  , released November 1974)
• "Universal Soldier" (from Universal Soldier, released August 15, 1965)
• "Cosmic Wheels" (from Cosmic Wheels
  Cosmic Wheels
  Cosmic Wheels is the tenth studio album, and eleventh album overall, from Scottish singer-songwriter Donovan. It was released in both the UK and the US in March 1973.- History :...
  
  , released March 1973)
• "Isle of Islay" (from A Gift from a Flower to a Garden
  A Gift from a Flower to a Garden
  A Gift from a Flower to a Garden is the fifth album from Scottish singer-songwriter Donovan, and marks the first double album of his career and one of the first box sets in rock music...
  
  , released December 1967)
• "Trucking Your Blues Away" (released as "Keep on Truckin'" on What's Bin Did and What's Bin Hid)
• "Wear Your Love Like Heaven" (from A Gift from a Flower to a Garden)
• "Love Will Find A Way" (no studio version released, live version from Rising
  Rising (Donovan album)
  Rising is the third live album, and twentieth album overall, from Scottish singer-songwriter Donovan. It was released on Permanent Records in 1990 . The live versions of Donovan's hits guaranteed that Rising would receive a release in both the United States and United Kingdom...
  
  , released November 1990)
• "The Pee Song" (from H.M.S. Donovan
  HMS Donovan (album)
  HMS Donovan is the ninth studio album, and tenth album overall, from Scottish singer-songwriter Donovan. It marks the second album of Donovan's children's music, after the For Little Ones portion of A Gift from a Flower to a Garden...
  
  , released July 1971)

Disc two

• "Sailing Homeward" (from Essence to Essence
  Essence to Essence
  Essence to Essence is the eleventh studio album, and thirteenth album overall, from Scottish singer-songwriter Donovan. It was released in both the UK and the U.S. in December 1973.-History:...
  
  , released December 1973)
• "Mr. Flute Man"* (no studio version released)
• "Laleña" (single, released October 1968)
• "Young Girl Blues" (from ellow Yellow)
• "Young But Growing" (no studio version released, live version from Rising)
• "Stealing" (no studio version released, live version from Rising)
• "Season of the Witch" (from Sunshine Superman)
• "Atlantis" (from Barabajagal
  Barabajagal
  "Barabajagal" is a song by Donovan released by Donovan in 1969. It was later used as title track to the album Barabajagal. The instrumentation is provided by the Jeff Beck Group....
  
  , released August 11, 1969)
• "Colours" (from Fairytale
  Fairytale (album)
  Fairytale is the second album from Scottish singer-songwriter Donovan. It was first released in the United Kingdom on October 22, 1965 through Pye Records . The U.S. version of Fairytale was released by Hickory Records in November 1965 with a slightly different set of songs...
  
  , released October 22, 1965)
• "To Susan On The West Coast Waiting" (from Barabajagal)
• "Catch The Wind" (from What's Bin Did and What's Bin Hid)
• "Make Up Your Mind to Be Happy" (released as "Life is a Merry-Go-Round" on Essence to Essence)
• "Happiness Runs" (from Barabajagal)

Disc one

1. "Jennifer Juniper" – 2:00
2. "Catch The Wind" – 3:41
3. "Josie" – 3:24
4. "Hurdy Gurdy Man" – 6:04
5. "Sunshine Superman
   Sunshine Superman
   "Sunshine Superman" is a song written and recorded by Scottish singer-songwriter Donovan. The "Sunshine Superman" single was released in the United States through Epic Records in July 1966, but due to a contractual dispute the United Kingdom release was delayed until December 1966, where it...
   
   " – 3:53
6. "Colours" – 2:51
7. "There Is a Mountain" – 3:06
8. "Mellow Yellow" – 3:24
9. "Sadness" – 2:49
10. "Universal Soldier" (Buffy Sainte-Marie
    Buffy Sainte-Marie
    Buffy Sainte-Marie, OC is a Canadian Cree singer-songwriter, musician, composer, visual artist, educator, pacifist, and social activist. Throughout her career in all of these areas, her work has focused on issues of Indigenous peoples of the Americas. Her singing and writing repertoire includes...
    
    ) – 2:44
11. "Cosmic Wheels" – 3:42
12. "Isle of Islay" – 2:27
13. "Trucking Your Blues Away" (Blind Boy Fuller
    Blind Boy Fuller
    Blind Boy Fuller was an American blues guitarist and vocalist. He was one of the most popular of the recorded Piedmont blues artists with rural Black Americans, a group that also included Blind Blake, Josh White, and Buddy Moss.-Life and career:Fulton Allen was born in Wadesboro, North Carolina,...
    
    ) – 2:22
14. "Wear Your Love Like Heaven" – 2:17
15. "Love Will Find a Way" – 2:44
16. "The Pee Song" – 1:43

Disc two

1. "Sailing Homeward" – 3:27
2. "Mr. Flute Man" – 2:11
3. "Laleña" – 3:13
4. "Young Girl Blues" – 5:05
5. "Young But Growing" (traditional; arranged by Donovan) – 3:42
6. "Stealing" (traditional; arranged by Donovan) – 4:17
7. "Season of the Witch" – 3:39
8. "Atlantis" – 3:05
9. "Colours" – 2:21
10. "To Susan On The West Coast Waiting" – 1:39
11. "Catch the Wind" – 2:40
12. "Make Up Your Mind to Be Happy" – 5:27
13. "Happiness Runs" – 5:33

External links

• Rising Again - Donovan Unofficial Site