Now Available: Chicago XXXIV: Live in ‘75

They’ve posed the query on multiple occasions in the past, but today we can comfortably respond Chicago’s oft-asked question, “Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is?” Yes, we do: it’s time to pick up a copy of Chicago XXXIV: Live in ’75.

Yes, we know, it’s reprehensible behavior for a record label to offer a self-promoting answer like that, and we apologize wholeheartedly. And now that we’ve done so, we’ll go ahead and tell you a little bit more about this release.

If it sounds familiar to you, then either you’re a diehard Chicago fan or you’ve just got a good memory, but this is not the first time we’ve released this album, which was recorded during the band’s three-night residency at the Capital Centre in Largo, Maryland from June 24 through June 26, 1975. Indeed, Live in ’75 was initially issued via our Rhino Handmade imprint back in 2011, and – as you might expect of an album by a band with as obsessive a fanbase as Chicago – it sold like hotcakes…and when Rhino Handmade items sell like hotcakes, that unfortunately means that they promptly go out of print, because they’re limited-edition releases to begin with - there are just a FEW of the first edition left here.

If you weren’t one of the lucky souls who picked up a copy of this collection back in ’11, then you’re probably extra-thrilled today, because you can finally remedy that situation: the two-disc, 24-track album now in general release for the first time, both on CD and in digital form.

Here’s the full track listing, so you’ll know what you’re getting into, but if you’re a fan of classic Chicago, you’re probably sold already:

Disc 1:

1. Introduction
2. Anyway You Want
3. Beginnings
4. Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is?
5. Call On Me
6. Make Me Smile
7. So Much to Say, So Much to Give
8. Anxiety’s Moment
9. West Virginia Fantasies
10. Colour My World
11. To Be Free
12. Now More than Ever
13. Ain’t It Blue?
14. Just You ‘n’ Me
15. (I’ve Been) Searchin’ So Long
16. Mongonucleosis
17. Old Days
18. 25 or 6 to 4

Disc 2:

1. Got to Get You Into My Life
2. Free
3. I’m a Man
4. Dialogue
5. Wishing You Were Here
6. Feelin’ Stronger Every Day