Needtobreathe announces two live album reissues

Live From the Woods Acoustic Live Vol 1 are out in late November

Needtobreathe has announced two live album reissues, Live From The Woods and Acoustic Live Vol. 1, will be released on November 22nd via Omnivore Recordings.

Since 1999, the Grammy-nominated southern rock band has quietly emerged as a dynamic force in music, from releasing their debut album with Atlantic Records in 2006 to finding themselves playing arenas and receiving nominations for multiple Grammy and Billboard Music Awards.

When their Rivers In The Wasteland album was released in 2014, it debuted at No. 3 on the Billboard 200 and topped the Billboard Rock Albums chart. Always an incredible and dynamic live act, the band recorded their September 13, 2014 performance at The Woods Amphitheatre at Fontanel in Nashville, Tennessee on that tour. Those recordings appeared the following year as Live From The Woods.

With 15 tracks spread across two LPs, and a double CD with two bonus tracks, Live From The Woods features material from across their young yet meteoric career. From the Grammy-nominated “Multiplied” to “Wanted Man” (interpolating Modest Mouse’s “Float On” on the live version) to “Brother” which cracked the Billboard Hot 100, Live From The Woods satisfies on every level. The release was another hit, landing on the Billboard 200, Top Alternative Albums, Rock Albums, and Digital Albums charts.

In 2017, Needtobreathe embarked on an acoustic tour, taking their catalog into a new dimension and their shows to a new level. Acoustic Live Vol. 1 was recorded on that run during 16 shows at 14 of the band’s favorite theaters nationwide, including Charleston Music Hall in Charleston, SC, Lincoln Theatre in Washington, DC, and the historic Ryman Auditorium in Nashville, TN.

The 12-song collection was produced by the band and mixed and mastered by the band’s Seth Bolt at his Plantation Studios in Charleston. It represents over a decade of music from the band, with songs spanning across five of their six studio albums––from tracks like RIAA gold-certified “Brother” and “Testify” to “Washed By The Water,” “White Fences,” and “Stones Under Rushing Water” featuring Drew and Ellie Holcomb, and “No Excuses” including portions of “House Of The Rising Sun” while “Oh, Carolina” mixes in The Who’s “Squeeze Box.”

Available on CD and double-LP featuring laser-etched Side 4 with the album’s cover art, Acoustic Live Vol. 1 is far more than some of Needtobreathe’s greatest hits performed live, it’s a new way to experience them.

Buddy Iahn
Buddy Iahn