Her voice gives me the chills absolutely stunning 🥰

This recording is wonderfully earthy and I love it! It is also wonderful to see younger generations appreciating what I grew up with and took for granted. We were normalised to great music lol

One of the greatest live bass solos ever captured on vinyl. This is an example of a bunch of musicians slipping into a groove and staying there. That takes not only the technical ability to execute it, but the musicianship and trust to pull it off. Doesn't happen much anymore.

Finally someone reacted to this. The vocalization that Annie did at the end was originally done on guitar by Andy Powell of Wishbone Ash on the studio version

Just an incredible performance

I'd never heard this before. It's REALLY GOOD.

Jim, you are the first reactor that I know of that reacted to this version. Thank you for doing this and listening to requests

"Angelic" Perfect. And to think this was the encore and was after singing for 2 hours.

I can't say that I've been a particularly big fan of Renaissance, but this is new to me and I've got to say I really enjoyed it. I'll definitely be giving it a good few listens, I'm very impressed by this version

Fantastic! Only knew the studio version - long time favorite of mine - but this is incredible. Music like this keeps us going, like oxygen! (btw I am 67 years old...)

One of the most stunning singers - in ANY genre - of the 20th century. Met the band briefly after a gig in Minneapolis in '77. Jon Camp was an incredibly nice guy, and Annie was not only very sweet, but DROP-DEAD gorgeous. 🥰😍

Fyi Carnegie Hall is located on West 57th Street in Manhattan in New York City in the United States. It is one of the premier classical music venues in the world. A concert in Carnegie Hall is as prestigious as a concert at the Royal Albert Hall IMHO. I was lucky enough to sing there as a 7th grade school chorister in the Spring of 1974 and I have never forgotten it. The album Renaissance Live at Carnegie Hall was a favorite of mine during my teenage years. I literally played the groves off of it . Radio station stations WNEW- FM and WPLJ- FM played cuts off of it all the time especially Ocean Gypsy and the excerpt from the Song of Scheherazade. Both of those songs feature Annie Haslam at her angelic/ethereal best ❤😊.

Fabulous song ,great live album ,wonderful band .

Carnegie Hall is the premier music venue in NYC. Andrew Carnegie was one of the great robber-barons of the 1800’s. In addition to Carnegie Hall there is a Carnegie Mellon University. This music was the soundtrack to my life in the 70’s along with the band Kansas.

she has a five octive range.. amazing

Thanks, Jim. I was at the concert, and it was truly an amazing performance. as for a comparator for Jon Camp’s bass playing, I would suggest Chris Squire.

Renaissance was my very first concert back in 1975, the Scheherazade and Other Stories album was just released. Great band, I fell in love with them, this song was their encore. My older brother took me. Unfortunately none of my other friends had ever heard of them and they just didn't get it. Amazing band, the music just jelled and took you away.

As always with renaissance.......Brilliant.

Yep Carnegie Hall is in New York City. Chicago recorded a 4 lp box set there in 1971. I saw them on that tour in Las Vegas.

I love Renaissance. Great stuff! Play all you care to of them. I'm in.

What a F--cking gorgeous voice 😉😉😉😉😉😉😉😉😉😉

Very cool music! Renaissance is really an underrated band.

Keep in mind, this song was done as an encore. So Annie has just put two hours into her voice before she starts on this sojourn.

One of the things I loved about listening to Annie's voice is that, unlike all the opera singers with her range, she didn't feel the need to add vibrato to E V E R Y S I N G L E N O T E coming out of her mouth to show off her control (like they do) & I always appreciated that a lot. She'd add it when it was appropriate at the end of a sustained note, but never excessive...

I saw them live at Radio City in 1977. They ended the with Ashes Are Burning. Absolutely amazing!

Jim, This is an album that I bought at a good old fashioned record store. On another note I drove past Carnegie Hall for good chunk of my life driving the M57 and X30 respectively.

There were a few "rock" bass players that were my "idols" when I started playing bass...Chris Squire, Mike Rutherford and Jon Camp of Renaissance, that Rickenbacker sound

The best.

When you saw them live, she did not stand center stage. They put her off stage right and surrounded her by plexiglass so that there was no leakage over her microphone. I subscribed. Well done.

One of my favorite bands. I was able to see them twice. Try Nightwish a current symphonic metal band. Try Storytime from Wacken for a start.

A band I have neglected. Thanks for bringing this to my attention.

Oh live version. Great great album. Trying to imagine the awesome opener live with that superb air piano roll....and on vinyl.....did they pull it off???....well I won't find out yet because this is the title track.... Ok here goes 😎🥸

As you're enjoying Jethro Tull you will appreciate this. On Ian Anderson's solo tour he would bring out local musicians on stage. To my amazement he introduces Annie Haslam! They performed Northern Lights.

She nailing E6's

I remember renaissance doing the theme song for a childrens drama series called the paperlads.

It's an astonishing performance! There's a vid of them doing this in the RTL studio live too, in which she still sounds amazing. And what she does at @19:29 is amazing! Does she go up an octave or something?

Wow, that was even better than I expected, and I'm surprised that I hadn't heard it before. Annie's voice was the best I'd ever heard it. You need to get her on your show. We really were spoiled, Jim. And it was the spoiled child in us that made so much that came after disappointing and unacceptable. Folks that hear the music that came after, first, will harbor no such bias and are thus better able to accept the music on its own terms. But it may also damage the ear in the process. I saw Renaissance with Al Dimeola here in Charlotte, and had every other album they produced, surely. It was not an ideal paring. They started with Al, so Renaissance seemed sleepy in comparison. Here, look at a railroad flare. Now look at this candle. Better to start with silence and build. Nother great show for the books. Come on Annie! Give Jim that interview.

She's classically trained and has natural talent. Basically she can sing!!!

Please play the version of Running Hard on this album she sings 4 notes higher and it’s a really fast rocking Prog masterpiece but not as lengthy.

Superb version. The vocal gymnastics at the end are wonderful and I can confirm that she is still able to reach these notes at the age of ## having seen her live around 6 years ago. Simply wonderful. Shame about your muddy copy. I'm sure mine is much clearer (though is on CD)

Renaissance were always an album band. Was not till "Northern Lights" came out as a single I got curious and delved deeper. The old hit single never does any harm. lol.

They release a 2-CD compilation in the 90s...and it includes this version of Ashes are Burning. I don't know if it is remastered though. Pretty sure the sound quality is simply due to available tech of the day. Today's AI could probably clean it up a lot. Check it out to get a lot of their biggest tunes.

It reminds me a tad of the Fish

Regarding Annie's voice; I say she's the female version of Jon Anderson... or maybe Jon is the male version of Annie Haslam... either works... 🙂

Very popular in the USA not so much in the UK. I find that odd 🤷🏻🤦🏻

So Jim, how DO you get to Carnegie Hall??

I don’t know if it is the kind of music you cover but can I suggest you check out the only singer I would put just ahead of Annie and that is Sandy Denny

Hi Jim, I heard their Live in Japan record from 2001. You can hear she’s 27 years older than when the band started but she/they still sounds great. This record sounds good too but not great. Strange mixing or something. Musically it’s great of course.

THE version of Ashes... The original is inferior IMO

John Camp doing his best Chris Squire impression!