Lucinda Williams - Live @ The Fillmore
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Artist: Lucinda WilliamsEdition: Music CD
Format: Live
CD Release Date: 2005-05-10
Music Label: Lost Highway
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
- 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
Music reviews of Live @ The Fillmore
Music Review: Lucinda Redux
Rating: 5 Stars
Lucinda's rough, boozy voice is the perfect instrument for her poetry of unrequited and obsessive love, loss, sorrow and guilt. Her backup matches the mood of every song - inventive, original and pulsing with electricity and virtuosity.
Like John Prine and Dylan her lyrics tell stories with laser insight. Like Janis Joplin, she turns herself inside out, hurling emotion without restraint. Like Delbert McClinton she integrates her powerful lyrics with musical accompaniment that socks it home. But Lucinda with guitarists Doug Pettibone and Tara Prodanick, Jim Christie on drums, are soul mates, soaring above them all in this rare, raw event.
Lucinda repeats some of the best songs from other albums. But this time, they're not done with the same tenderness. Her voice has become more desperate and ragged. Every cut has an edge. Like a wounded woman, stripped to her soul, alone in a dark room with hard booze in a dirty glass, drinking away the pain. Hurt and melancholy, she shares with us the bitter leftovers of rejection and abandonment.
The first disc of this two disc album starts with "Ventura," The morning after, with nothing but emptiness and regret, she longs for redemption. "I want to be swallowed up in an ocean of love." Hawaiian sound - slide guitar. Sweet, sad, spent.
By "Out of Touch" things heat up. The beat gets more insistent and driving. Hints of rebellion. Guitars on the loose. Then back to melancholy.
"Sweet Side" reveals a deeply compassionate understanding of character.
"Changed the Locks" Fury! Revenge! Opens with a threatening drum beat and guitars grinding, squealing, whining while Lucinda lays it down, her teeth gritted, in a heavy vengeful beat.
"Atonement", the last cut on disc one, honors ZZ Top. It starts with a strip club beat as Lucinda calls all sinners to the bible. Drum punches in the march to redemption. The guitars break loose, screaming, twirling, crying, pushing on. The beat is unrelenting. "Come on!" Lucinda bawls out.
On Disc Two things get going. Supersized sixties sound, Hendrix style - a stew of rock, blues, and country guitar - rich with vibe, slide and ride, wail and whine. Powerful counterpoint to Lucinda's raunchy vocals.
"Righteously" - pure sex. [...]. Audience gets turned on. Guitar ramps up, stretching, sliding, vibrating. Drum beat skips, rattles. Hot, hot, hot.
Then "Joy." Primal. Fierce. Raw. "I don't want you anymore. You took my joy." Against Lucinda's furious rant, the music is a bouncy, mellow rock. Mid way it starts to build a fever, then retreats back to the subtle rocking beat, fades down and murmurs a few notes. Lucinda cries out. Guitar rises up, gains speed, shakes it hard, retreats again to a slow drawl, lying in wait for Lucinda's final exhausted lament, then gently carries her off in a soft retreat.
"Real Live Bleeding." Old style. Like a Stones number. Bitter lyrics.
Those Three Days." A killer. Skin crawling heartbreak and loneliness embraced in elegant language.
"American Dream." Her rap number "Everything is wrong!". Military beat with a raoomp drum, sticks, and a smooth guitar glide.
The finale, "Words Fell." Slow. Country blues. Guitar wails like a soft wind. Beautiful lyrics. Words fall, like roses at her feet.
In this well balanced duo of lyrical and raucous, Lucinda is the musical mistress of anguish, anger, regret and love.
Description of Live @ The Fillmore
Grammy Award winner Lucinda Williams is releasing her first live album titled Live @ The Fillmore. It was recorded at the legendary Fillmore Auditorium in San Francisco CA in early 2004. The double album includes such favorites as "Joy", "I Lost It", "Essence" and "Blue", but Williams digs even deeper into her past with gritty versions of "Pineola" and "Changed The Locks". Other songs featured are from the highly-acclaimed, Grammy-Nominated 2003 release World Without Tears.Live @ The Fillmore features one of the best bands on the road today, with guitarist, pedal steel and background vocalist Doug Pettibone, anchored by Taras Prodaniuk on bass and Jim Christie on drums and percussion. Their performances of Williams' songs are an extraordinary balance of aggression and finesse that perfectly complement Williams' unique vocal style and songwriting.
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." --Don McLeese
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