What is your favorite live version of Sara?

[David]

I like the album track the best. It's a major orchestrative win for the band. It's like one of those giant landscape paintings from the eighteenth century that you can gaze at for hours. The abstract hum of the vocals is more important to the song's meaning than the content of the lyrics. Stevie's singing is her most mature studio vocal—it's a Thomas Hardy vocal. But of all the live performances, I like the 1979–1982 period. It's a different "Sara" in those years from Irvine, Memphis, Detroit, etc. So I'll just say the 1980 "Live" album.