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Yes Legends Jon Anderson and Rick Wakeman To Release Live Album
Wednesday, 09 November 2011 Written by Elliott Batte
Yes Legends Jon Anderson and Rick Wakeman To Release Live Album

Jon Anderson and Rick Wakeman (pictured), two of Yes’ legendary original members, have revealed that they’ll be releasing a live follow-up to 2010’s ‘The Living Tree’ on November 28th.

ImageThe remarkable success of ‘The Living Tree’ saw the duo embark on a successful tour of the country, and now the pair will follow on from that release with a CD that was recorded along the way and comes housed in a sleeve design by Mark Wilkinson, who was also responsible for the design of the artwork for 'The Living Tree'.

Having worked together on and off since 1971's groundbreaking YES masterwork 'Fragile', Jon Anderson and Rick Wakeman have traveled similar musical paths that have eventually and happily led their careers back together again. The duo began performing live together in the UK in 2006 playing both classics from the YES catalogue and selected tracks from the pair's individual solo releases.

In 2009, Anderson and Wakeman recorded the highly anticipated album 'The Living Tree' which garnered rave reviews worldwide. By 2010, it was announced that Jon Anderson and Rick Wakeman were to tour together once more at the end of the year.

The wildly successful tour featured material from their time with YES, but more importantly material from the duo's new CD 'The Living Tree'. A collection of live highlights from the tour were compiled and overseen by Jon and Rick for the upcoming release 'Anderson / Wakeman - The Living Tree in Concert Part One'.

“The live recordings have a unique feel, the way we perform the show, it's as though all the songs 'old and new' were written just a few months ago, all very timeless,” says Jon. “For many years Jon and I have felt it was really important to record all we do,” Rick added, “whether for general release or just personal purposes, the decision being very much that of quality.

“We were so happy with the way that the live music was happening that we felt this was a must to record and put out a mixture of the music, both old and new, as a record of where we are at, at this moment, and also perhaps giving a hint as to where we can go on to. Music for us is progressive in all genres, and this album is yet another stepping stone in that quest.”

The tracklisting for the live album can be seen below.

And You & I
Living Tree (Part 1)
Morning Star
Long Distance Runaround
The Garden
Living Tree (Part 2)
Time and a Word
Just One Man
23/24/11
Southside of the Sky
House of Freedom
The Meeting
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