Live
by Donny Hathaway
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Live is ranked as the best album by Donny Hathaway.
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The tracks on this album have an average rating of 81 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| 02/01/2026 16:21 | sweetness | 1,127 | 79/100 | |
| 01/02/2026 03:35 | Exist-en-ciel | 11,934 | 70/100 | |
| 05/02/2025 17:19 | jlsfourth | 1,209 | 71/100 | |
| 05/08/2024 20:23 | LosWochos | 47,382 | 75/100 | |
| 01/11/2024 21:14 | Fevernova | 3,163 | 82/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 4% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 76.2/100, a mean average of 77.0/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 77.0/100. The standard deviation for this album is 13.1.
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If you check out anything by Donny Hathaway, choose this live album. Hathaway executes virtuosic renditions of his original songs and covers alike with his unreal Wurlitzer electric piano playing. He's backed by several ace musicians including bassist Willie Weeks, who gets a career-defining bass solo on closing track 'Voices Inside (Everything Is Everything)'. The rapturously enthusiastic audience also heightens the experience of this record. Listen to the Carole King cover 'You've Got a Friend' and listen to how the crowd almost drowns Hathaway out, in near perfect key. I say this about pretty much all of my favorite live albums, but this truly may be one of the greatest live albums of all time. At the very least it's a landmark recording in soul, right up there with James Brown's 'Live at the Apollo' and Sam Cooke's 'Live at the Harlem Square Club, 1963'.
Essential picks: What's Going On, The Ghetto, Little Ghetto Boy, Jealous Guy, Voices Inside (Everything Is Everything)
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