Lilith Fair: A Celebration of Women in Music is a series of three live compilation albums that collect performances from several years of the Lilith Fair festival tour.
Lilith Fair: A Celebration of Women in Music, Volume 1 | |
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Compilation album live by various artists | |
Released | April 28, 1998[1] |
Recorded | 1997 |
Venue | various |
Genre | various |
Length | 103:02 |
Language | English |
Label | Arista |
Producer | Terry McBride |
Compiler | Sarah McLachlan |
Lilith Fair: A Celebration of Women in Music, Volume 1 was released in 1998 and served as a fundraiser for Lifebeat and the Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network.[1] The recording was produced by Terry McBride and compiled over four months, going through recordings spanning the entire festival.[1]
Writing for The A.V. Club, Stephen Thompson called this compilation "a mixed bag of promising performers... and practitioners of pneumatic, white-bread girly music..., with precious few highlights worth owning".[2] Editors at AllMusic rated this album 3 out of 5 stars, with critic Stephen Thomas Erlewine writing that "while it doesn't dispel the notion that Lilith Fair was essentially a homogenous music festival, it does capture the feeling of the tour quite well, and it has some very good music" and it makes for "a nice souvenir" from the festival.[3] A review for Entertainment Weekly rated this release a B−, noting criticisms about genre, lack of diversity, and individual performances, wrapping up that "the ultimate lesson to be gleaned is dispiritingly simple: As an album, Lilith is only fair".[4]
Disc one
Disc 2
Additional personnel:
Lilith Fair: A Celebration of Women in Music, Volume 2 | |
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Compilation album live by various artists | |
Released | May 18, 1999 |
Recorded | 1998 |
Venue | various |
Genre | various |
Length | 66:20 |
Language | English |
Label | Arista |
Lilith Fair: A Celebration of Women in Music, Volume 3 | |
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Compilation album live by various artists | |
Released | May 18, 1999 |
Recorded | 1998 |
Venue | various |
Genre | various |
Length | 61:19 |
Language | English |
Label | Arista |
Lilith Fair: A Celebration of Women in Music, Volume 2 and 3 were released in 1999, alongside one another.
A review in Entertainment Weekly for the two discs by Beth Johnson rated them a B, calling them "a more compelling, less whiny, listen" than the first volume and praising the diversity represented in this music.[5][6]
Volume 2:
Volume 3: