A Celebration of Women in Music

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 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

1. "Mississippi" (Paula Cole) by Paula Cole – 4:51
2. "Scooter Boys" (Amy Ray) by Indigo Girls – 3:27
3. "Sur Tes Pas" by Autour de Lucie – 3:25
4. "Been It" (lyrics: Nina Persson and Peter Svensson, music: Svensson) by The Cardigans – 4:06
5. "I Want" (Dayna Manning) by Dayna Manning – 4:45
6. "Four Leaf Clover" (Abra Moore) by Abra Moore – 4:31
7. "Falling in Love" (Lisa Loeb) by Lisa Loeb – 4:36
8. "Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner" (Shannon Worrell) by September '67 – 4:14
9. "El Payande" (Susan Urban) by Lhasa de Sela – 3:59
10. "Eternal Flame" (Susanna Hoffs, Tom Kelly, and Billy Steinberg) by Susanna Hoffs – 3:16
11. "Rock in This Pocket (Song of David)" (Suzanne Vega) by Suzanne Vega – 4:09
12. "Ladder" (Eric Bazilian, Rick Chertoff, Rob Hyman, and Joan Osborne) by Joan Osborne – 4:16
13. "Building a Mystery" (Pierre Marchand and Sarah McLachlan) by Sarah McLachlan – 4:25

Disc 2

14. "Water Is Wide" (traditional) by Sarah McLachlan, Indigo Girls, and Jewel – 4:18
15. "Going Back to Harlan" (Anna McGarrigle) by Emmylou Harris – 5:04
16. "Wash My Hands" (Meredith Brooks, Larry Dvoskin, and Shelly Pelken) by Meredith Brooks – 5:18
17. "Cain" (Patty Griffin) by Patty Griffin – 3:49
18. "I Don't Want to Think About It" (Kenneth Harrison) by Wild Strawberries – 4:02
19. "What Do You Hear in These Sounds" (Dar Williams) by Dar Williams – 3:52
20. "Trouble" (Shawn Colvin, John Leventhal, and Tom Littlefield) by Shawn Colvin – 4:08
21. "Lama Dorje Chang" (Yungchen Lhamo) by Yungchen Lhamo – 3:05
22. "The One" (Tracy Bonham) by Tracy Bonham – 4:38
23. "Charm" (Tony Berg, Jon Brion, Paul Cantelon, Angela McCluskey, and Scott Roewe) by Wild Colonials – 3:22
24. "Hold Me Jordan" (Tara MacLean) by Tara MacLean – 5:04
25. "Periwinkle Sky" (Victoria Williams) by Victoria Williams – 2:36

Additional personnel:

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:

1. "Fire on Babylon" (Sinéad O’Connor and John Reynolds) by Sinéad O’Connor – 7:28
2. "Never Know" by Angélique Kidjo – 4:52
3. "Life" by Queen Latifah – 5:28
4. "Island" by Heather Nova – 5:09
5. "New Thing Now" by Shawn Colvin – 3:46
6. "Angel" (Sarah McLachlan) by Sarah McLachlan with Emmylou Harris – 5:58
7. "The Sea" (Paul Godfrey, Ross Godfrey, and Skye Edwards) by Morcheeba – 5:19
8. "I Do" (Lisa Loeb) by Lisa Loeb – 3:45
9. "Sway" (Bic Runga) by Bic Runga – 3:14
10. "In the Ghetto" (Mac Davis) by Natalie Merchant with Meshell Ndegeocello – 4:13
11. "Miles from Our Home (lyrics: Michael Timmins, music: Greg Clarke, Brodie Lodge, and Timmins) by Cowboy Junkies – 4:19
12. "Meat Hook" by Tracy Bonham – 3:14
13. "Elmo" by Holly McNarland – 5:41
14. "Trampoline" by Wild Strawberries – 3:52

Volume 3:

1. "Soul Record" (Ndegeocello) by Meshell Ndegeocello – 5:21
2. "Naked Eye" (Jill Cunniff, Kate Schellenbach, and Vivian Trimble) by Luscious Jackson – 4:16
3. "Never Said" (Liz Phair) by Liz Phair – 3:38
4. "Onion Girl" (Laura Harding and Jeff Hull) by Holly Cole – 4:20
5. "Kiss Me (Matt Slocum) by Sixpence None the Richer – 3:17
6. "Luka" (Suzanne Vega) by Suzanne Vega – 3:20
7. "Black & White" (Sarah McLachlan) by Sarah McLachlan – 4:48
8. "Underneath a Red Moon" (N’Dea Davenport and Colin Wolfe) by N’Dea Davenport – 3:33
9. "Not an Addict" (Gert Bettens and Sam Bettens) by K’s Choice – 5:02
10. "Get Out the Map" (Emily Saliers) by Indigo Girls – 3:23
11. "Little Black Girl" (Rebekah) by Rebekah – 4:06
12. "Deeper Well" (Emmylou Harris, Daniel Lanois, and David Olney) by Emmylou Harris – 5:59
13. "Surrounded" (Chantal Kreviazuk) by Chantal Kreviazuk – 5:14
14. "Spit of Love" (Bonnie Raitt) by Bonnie Raitt – 5:01

• List of 1998 albums
• List of 1999 albums