Buffalo Tom (Bill Janovitz, Chris Colbourn and Tom Maginnis) formed at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst in 1984 – a breeding ground of post punk guitar bands like Dinosaur Jr. and Pixies. They thrived on college radio in the late 1980’s and toured extensively in Europe, the US, Australia and Japan. In 1992 the band recorded their third album Let Me Come Over withh a varied group of songs they had been developing at home and on the road – mixing their live power trio sound with some more acoustic based guitar ballads. The album’s single “Taillights Fade” would become their signature song.
2017 marks the 25th anniversary of this album, and to celebrate, Beggars Arkive will reissue on May 19th it together with a live album – in fact the first ever live release from Buffalo Tom. The show was recorded in early 1992 just prior to the release of Let Me Come Over at U.L.U. which stood for University Of London Union (and is now known as Student Central). The band mixed the live album at Q Division in Boston, and it was mastered at Abbey Road. The double LP contains 10 live tracks, and the cd + digital edition contains the entire show (17 songs).
Buffalo Tom have never really stopped making music or playing shows, and 2017 has seen them celebrating the album’s anniversary with commemorative live shows. For these shows, they have been performing two sets – the first being Let Me Come Over in full, and the second being favorites from throughout their career. They have also funded a new album via Pledge Music which will see release later this year.
UPCOMING LIVE DATES
May 13 – New York, NY – Bowery Ballroom
May 27 – Portland, ME – Port City Music Hall
May 26-28 – Boston, MA – Boston Calling Festival
June 6 – Brussels, Belgium – Ancienne Belgique
June 7 – Masstrich, Holland – Muziekgieterij
June 8 – Amsterdam, Holland – Paradiso
June 9 – London, UK – Islington Assembly Hall
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DOUBLE LP: Let Me Come Over + 10 live tracks (1-10) + download of full live show
LP1: Let Me Come Over
A1. Staples A2. Taillights Fade
A3. Mountains Of Your Head
A4. Mineral
A5. Darl A6. Larry
B1. Velvet Roof
B2. I’m Not There B3. Stymied B4. Porchlight
B5. Frozen Lake
B6. Saving Grace
LP2: Live from London ULU 1992
C1. Staples
C2. Taillights Fade
C3. Larry
C4. I’m Not There
C5. Velvet Roof
D1. Sunflower Suit
D2. Mineral
D3. Sally Brown
D4. Enemy
D5. Birdbrain
DOUBLE CD + DIGITAL ALBUM: Let Me Come Over + full live show (17 tracks)
Let Me Come Over
- Staples
- Taillights Fade
- Mountains Of Your Head
- Mineral
- Darl 6. Larry
- Velvet Roof 8. I’m Not There 9. Stymied 10. Porchlight
- Frozen Lake
- Saving Grace
- Crutch *cd/digital bonus track
Live From London, ULU 1992
- Birdbrain
- Staples
- Taillights Fade
- Impossible
- Enemy
- Larry
- Velvet Roof
- Fortune Teller
- Sally Brown
- The Bus
- The Crawl
- Mineral
- Sunflower Suit
- I’m Not There
- Bleeding Heart
- Skeleton Key
- Reason Why
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