Included with the live audio disc is a twelve song video culled from the same night appearing on the new DVD Plus format.  Jeffrey Gaines Live is the first full-length album ever released in the U.S. as a DVD Plus, which incorporates the audio portion of the show on one side of the disc and the video segment on the other side.  Exclusively featured on the DVD is Gaines’ chart-topping rendition of Peter Gabriel’s classic “In Your Eyes,” complete with a roof-raising sing-along from everyone in the audience.  “They just got completely into it,” recalls Gaines, “I just played a little lighter so I could enjoy that moment myself because it was simply amazing to hear them all singing along.”

Raised in Harrisburg, PA by parents more inclined to spin soul classics by Aretha and Otis than the New Wave and Brit Rock blasting from their son’s room, a teenaged Gaines began playing guitar in several local garage bands covering The Who, The Kinks, and The Jam.  He soon decided to set out on his own and quickly landed a record deal in 1992, releasing Jeffrey Gaines, the first of his five studio releases.  The album garnered four stars from The Philadelphia Inquirer, describing Gaines as “…an ethereal soul...insistent, impassioned, full of self-knowledge.”  1994’s Somewhat Slightly Dazed, and 1998’s Galore followed suit.  Interview Magazine called Gaines’ music “soul-searching” and “refreshingly free of jargon, sentiment or cliché.”

In 2001, Gaines released Always Be (Artemis) to both critical and commercial praise.  Featuring his emotional interpretation of “In Your Eyes” and his own soaringly beautiful “Always Be,” the album hit #5 on R&R Callout America CHR/Pop list, also reaching #45 on the Billboard Heatseekers Chart.  The New York Post proclaimed Always Be as “a dozen-song mix…that completely illustrates the depth he is capable of.”