Johnny Rivers was no stranger to live albums by the time he released this 1973 show taped at the close of a European tour. His first four albums were all recorded live at the Los Angeles club the Whisky A Go-Go in the mid-'60s, and from those albums five singles went into the national Top Ten. After 1967, Rivers' recording career basically dried up for five years, until he returned to the Top Ten with a cover of Huey "Piano" Smith & the Clowns' "Rockin' Pneumonia and the Boogie Woogie Flu." He was probably hoping that another live album would rekindle some of that earlier magic on the LP chart, but it wasn't to be: Last Boogie in Paris failed to land in the Top 100.
It's not that it was a bad album, not by any means: Rivers still had a gift for making just about any song he covered his own, and for this tour he backed himself with some of the finest musicians the West Coast had to offer, dubbing them the L.A. Boogie Band for the occasion. Although he had scored hits with some of his own compositions by this time, Rivers' stock-in-trade was still the cover versions.
The show is sung and played in an engaging, professional manner -- Rivers' guitar playing rocks; he was always underrated in that department. John Lee Hooker, the last cut on the album, is a Rivers-penned tribute to the bluesman.
Tracklist:
1. Sea cruise (Huey “Piano” Smith) 2:39
2. Over the line (Patti Dahlstrom, Michael Omartian) 4:02
3. Barefootin’ (Robert Parker) 3:34
4. Summer rain (James Hendricks) 3:57
5. Long tall sally (Robert "Bumps" Blackwell, Enotris Johnson, Little Richard ) 3:28
6. Walkin 'Blues (Traditional Blues) 5:15
7. Take me in your arms (Lamont Dozier, Brian Holland, Eddie Holland ) 4:16
8. John Lee Hooker (Johnny Rivers) 10:42
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