| Rising | |
| Type: | live |
| Artist: | Donovan |
| Cover: | CD_Donovan_Rising.jpg |
| Released: | November 1990 |
| Recorded: | 1971–1981 |
| Genre: | Folk |
| Length: | 62:01 |
| Label: | Permanent Records (UK) |
| Producer: | Patrick Hehir |
| Prev Title: | Lady of the Stars |
| Prev Year: | 1984 |
| Next Title: | One Night in Time |
| Next Year: | 1993 |
Rising is the third live album, and twentieth album overall, from Scottish singer-songwriter Donovan. It was released on Permanent Records in 1990 (LP and CD). The live versions of Donovan's hits guaranteed that Rising would receive a release in both the United States and United Kingdom. Rising was retitled The Classics Live in the United States, 25 Years in Concert in Europe and Atlantis in the UK for marketing reasons. Since the release of Rising, there have been many reissues of the songs from the album under many different titles.
Rising was supposedly recorded sporadically from 1982 through 1986 at various live concerts during different world tours. However, after careful research the sources of these recordings are found to be a U.S. tour in 1971, concerts in Osaka in 1973, and the Cambridge Folk Festival of 1981.
Although Donovan's albums had all but disappeared from the British and American markets by the early 1980s, his live appearances still attracted large audiences. Donovan toured constantly throughout this time, performing throughout North America and Europe.
The setlists from these shows features a mixture of Donovan's international hits from the 1960s and relatively more obscure tracks from his later albums. Like most of Donovan's live performances, there is sparse instrumentation accompanying Donovan's vocals, including flute, acoustic guitar, bass. Rising features two traditional songs ("Young But Growing" and "Stealing") and one original song ("Love Will Find a Way") that were not released on any previous Donovan album.
In 2001, Rising was expanded to a two-CD set as Rising Again.
All tracks by Donovan Leitch, except where noted.
"Young But Growing", "Stealing" and "Love Will Find a Way" are previously unreleased compositions. All recordings previously unreleased except for "Sadness" and "Universal Soldier" (see )[1]
The vinyl release has 15 tracks, the CD release has 18 tracks
Mixed by Richard Nathan
A list of reissues[2]
| Region | Date | Title | Label | Catalog | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UK | November 1990 | Rising | Permanent Records | PERM LP 2 (LP)/ PERM CD 2 (CD) / PERM MC 2 (MC) | |
| US | November 1990 | The Classics Live | Great Northern Arts, Ltd. (New York City) | GNA 61007-002 | |
| Netherlands | 1991 | 25 Years in Concert[3] | Dino Music | DNCD 1253 (CD)/DNLP 1253 (Vinyl LP) | |
| 1994 | Donovan in Concert (last two tracks missing) | Digimode Entertainment | |||
| Belgium | 1994 | In Concert[4] | All at Once | HP 93432 | |
| UK | 1994 | Atlantis [5] | K Point Gold | 1621.1009-2 | |
| 10 July 2001 | Colours: Live in Concert | Music Deluxe | 6 | ||
| 7 April 1998 | The Very Best of Donovan | Artful Records | Artful 5 | ||
| Germany | 1995 | Live | Mastertone | CD 10045 | |
| 19 August 1997 | Performance | Beacon | 51584 | ||
| 21 October 1997 | Greatest Hits: Acoustic Live | Laserlight Records | 12976 | ||
| 3 November 1998 | Cosmic Wheels | Mastertone Records | 8354 |