Lucinda Williams - Live @ The Fillmore [2005] (2 x CD's)

LUCINDA WILLIAMS

Lucinda Williams - Live @ The Fillmore [2005] (2 x CD's)

If you want to hear the real raw talent of Lucinda Williams and her band, then Live album is just what the doctor has ordered. Most of the great Lucinda songs are on it, and yes it's definitely on the edgy side, especially Lucinda's voice.

Few artists take the sort of emotional risks that Lucinda Williams does. Pouring her all into songs of hurt, need, and desire, she turns every live performance into an adventure, as the first concert recording of her career attests. Coproduced by Williams, Live at the Fillmore showcases her raw wound of a voice and the rough edges of her band in all their unvarnished glory, as the music cuts across conventional categories of country, blues, folk, rock (and rap) to strike a distinctly personal chord. Even the pacing is risky. Whereas most artists plan their sets to hit hardest at the beginning and end, Williams inverts the dynamic, sustaining a mood of reflective melancholy for extended stretches that open and close the album, while building to an explosive climax in the middle. With the selection dominated by recent material, the first eight numbers are like a sweet ache, as the wistful country of "Ventura" and "Reason to Cry" and the folkish minimalism of "Lonely Girls" explore the fringes of emotional fragility. Then Williams and band flex their musical muscles, shifting into the bluesier side of her artistry on "Change the Locks" and "Atonement," extending the desperate intensity of "Joy" over almost eight minutes, and offering homage to Neil Young's Crazy Horse on "Righteously" and "Essence." Backed by the barbed-wire guitar of Doug Pettitbone over the bare-bones rhythms of bassist Taras Prodaniuk and drummer Jim Christie, Williams tells the crowd, "We got the mojo workin' tonight."

This is great music from one of the best singer/songwriters in the world, with great lyrics. Get acquainted with her style which is some alt-country mixed with some folk rock and bluesy stuff. This really is just a beautiful record. Such a poignant collection of songs delivered as if being sung for the first time. It has everything great about a live record; the immediacy, the clarity (and not to mention just some stunning guitar). Her voice, in the best Lucinda Williams way, alternates between being perfect and painful, but its always real and always hers. And she might just be a little drunk but that's okay! It keeps up the tradition, from Eric and the Dominoes, to the Allman Bros, to Miles Davis, of everything good about a record with "at the Fillmore" in the title. Love it. These songs are priceless treasures. (Amazon)

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Lucinda Williams - Live @ The Fillmore [2005] CD1
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Lucinda Williams - Live @ The Fillmore [2005] CD2
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Track Lists


CD1

01    Ventura    5:06
02    Reason to Cry    4:22
03    Fruits of My Labor    5:04
04    Out of Touch    7:21
05    Sweet Side    4:45
06    Lonely Girls    4:28
07    Overtime    4:16
08    Blue    4:22
09    Changed the Locks    4:07
10    Atonement    5:58

CD2

01    I Lost It    3:27
02    Pineola    4:04
03    Righteously    4:55
04    Joy    8:19
05    Essence    7:16
06    Real Live Bleeding Fingers and Broken Guitar Strings    4:57
07    Are You Down    6:29
08    Those Three Days    5:02
09    American Dream    5:23
10    World Without Tears    4:42
11    Bus to Baton Rouge    6:26
12    Words Fell    4:34
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