447 - Van Duren - New, Archival Concert: Chemical Fire - Van Duren Live 1978

Memphis native Van Duren has a gift for creating melodic rock with an unique edge.  His 1978 album, Are You Serious? is perhaps the greatest album you’ve never heard.  He played with members of the legendary band, Big Star, and formed his own great group, Good Question.  More recently, he’s issued some fine albums with Vickie Loveland, under the Loveland Duren moniker.  And, he was the subject of the documentary, Waiting: The Van Duren Story, which is available to stream now on Amazon Prime. Van Duren’s latest offering is a live concert, broadcast over the radio, entitled Chemical Fire: Van Duren Live 1978 - available digitally for the first time at Duren's Bandcamp site: vanduren.bandcamp.comWe chat the odd circumstances surrounding this recording.  For instance, the fact that the audience was in one room and the band was in another!  There were also no fixes, this is Duren and band, live as it happened on the radio.