1. The Snake (3:04)
2. I Can't Help Myself (Sugar Pie Honey Bunch) (3:04)
3. You Must Believe (3:20)
4. Uptight (Everything's Alright) (3:06)
5. Respect (1:46)
6. In the Midnight Hour (2:32)
7. Secret Agent Man (From the CBS TV Show "Secret Agent") (3:06)
8. Every Day I Have to Cry (2:42) Composed by Arthur Alexander
9. You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin' (5:59)
10. Foolkiller (3:23)
11. Run for Your Life (2:29)
12. You Dig (6:27)
13. C.C. Rider/Got My Mojo Working (5:04)
14. Sunny (2:27) Composed by Bobby Hebb
15. It's Too Late (3:45) Composed by Bobby Goldsboro
16. A Hard Day's Night (2:59)
17. When a Man Loves a Woman (4:00)
18. John Lee Hooker (15:55)
This posting pairs up two of the later LPs in the "Live Whiskey"series, 1966's And I Know You Wanna Dance and 1967's Whisky a Go-Go Revisited. Both albums play to Rivers' strengths as a tough, no-nonsense guitar player and passionate blue-eyed soul singer who knew how to rock the house and get the crowd up on its feet, though the 12 months that separated the two sets proved significant. And I Know You Wanna Dance is dominated by covers of RB hits of the day, ranging from Arthur Alexander's "Every Day I Have to Cry" to Stevie Wonder's "Uptight (Everything's Alright)," with Rivers and his band (including session greats Mickey Jones and Larry Knetchel) locked in tight on the tunes. The first half of Whisky a Go-Go Revisited follows a similar form, but side two was devoted to a 15-minute jam on "John Lee Hooker," and the stretched-out length of the performance and the call-and-response interplay between Rivers and Knetchel suggests they were aware of what was going on in the rock ballrooms in San Francisco, and if it wasn't quite Johnny's thing, it was certainly having its influence (and would also make its presence felt on his next few studio albums, though the guy never developed much of a taste for the trippy stuff). Fine listening, and good rockin' fun from an artist deserving of greater respect.
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