Release Date: 10 May, 2005
Audio CD
Tracks
- Ventura
- Reason To Cry
- Fruits Of My Labor
- Out Of Touch
- Sweet Side
- Lonely Girls
- Overtime
- Blue
- Change The Locks
- Atonement
- I Lost It
- Pineloa
- Righteously
- Joy
- Essence
- Real Live Bleeding Fingers And Broken Guitar Strings
- Are You Down
- Those Three Days
- American Dream
- World Without Tears
- Bus To Baton Rouge
- Words Fell
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Rating 3.5
No Middle GroundI love Lucinda and I love her music live much moreso than the studio albums, which to me ususally seem too reserved for my taste. As it is with Lucinda Williams herself, I find people will either love this release or consider it sub par to her studio stuff. Honestly, most live albums ARE subpar to the studio. As Live albums go I LOVE THIS ONE. It is raw, raspy, gritty, and wonderful, as is Lucinda herself. I would have loved to have more earlier cuts included but if these are the ones Lu chose, then that's a good enough endorsement for me. Like others have said, Buy the DVDI agree with most other reviewers who prefer the DVD just released of an Austin City Limits concert from 1998. The songs come mainly from her best cd, Car Wheels... That is the CD that introduced me to Lucinda (and my favorite). The DVD concert has much superior singing and more interesting music. Oddly though, when I first saw the Austin City Limits concert when it originally aired on TV I didn't really like it because Lucinda seems a little distant as she sings, rarely cracking a smile or showing much emotion. Still, after the last 2 albums of dark, somber songs I find it refreshing. I am in the process of recording the DVD audio to CD so I can take it with me. Back to the Fillmore concert. There are some gems on these 2 albums. I really like the versions of "World without Tears" and "These Three Days".
I personally hope she goes back to more story songs.Lucinda Live Gets 5 out of 5Rough, raw, uncut and unpolished, but absolutely outstanding. This gets 5 out of 5 from any real Lucinda fan. |
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