Hamilton Leithauser to release Live! at Cafe Carlyle album

Hamilton Leithauser by Josh Goleman

Hamilton Leithauser has revisited his residency at Café Carlyle in New York at the start of this year for the release of a live album on September 4th.

As the Walkmen frontman has noted on social media, thanks to the coronavirus pandemic these shows have proved to be his only live appearances of the year – despite releasing one of its best albums in the form of The Loves Of Your Life. “I didn’t realize at the time that the five shows I played in January at Café Carlyle would be the only live shows I would do in 2020,” he’s written.

“I’m glad I recorded one of them. I found the tapes a few months later during this quarantine and realized I wanted to share a bunch of them with a wider audience. The band was awesome, and it’s the closest thing to playing live I have right now, so it really was a fun thing to put together.”

 

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I didn’t realize at the time that the 5 shows I played in January at Café Carlyle would be the only live shows I would do in 2020. I’m glad I recorded one of them. I found the tapes a few months later during this quarantine and realized I wanted to share a bunch of them with a wider audience. The band was awesome, and it’s the closest thing to playing live I have right now, so it really was a fun thing to put together. I’ve only ever played most of these songs 4-5 times, so we were really still learning them that night. Playing live is such a big part of my life, and I don’t know when I’ll actually be able to do it again, so in the meantime, I hope this record might transport the listener for 30 minutes to a small, candle-lit cafe table in an overcrowded room while my band is ripping it up.⁣ ⁣ Very excited to announce that those tapes make up Live! at the Café Carlyle LP, which will be yours on Friday, September 4 with an exclusive 3D version of the album only on @amazonmusic HD. Vinyl is available to pre-order now.⁣ ⁣ To celebrate this release, we will be doing a one-time live stream record release party at @levonhelmstudios in Woodstock, NY which will air on Saturday, September 12. You can pre-order the album and purchase tickets to the live stream now at the link in bio.

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