Mark Kozelek - Little Drummer Boy Live (Dig)
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Artist: Mark KozelekEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Limited Edition
CD Release Date: 2006-11-28
Music Label: Caldo Verde
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
- Trucker's Atlas
- Salvador Sanchez
- Cruiser
- Katy Song
- Little Drummer Boy
- All Mixed Up
- Moorestown
- Unlit Hallway
- Duk Koo Kim
- Four Fingered Fisherman
- Lily and Parrots
- Carry Me Ohio
- Bubble
- Mistress
- Michigan
- Void
- Down Colorful Hill
- Rock 'N' Roll Singer
- Glenn Tipton
- Tiny Cities
Music reviews of Little Drummer Boy Live (Dig)
Music Review: Excellent, definitive.
Rating: 4 Stars
If you follow the career of Mark Kozelek, you may be weighing the pros and cons of picking up another live documentation of the gifted songwriter's catalog. Indeed, the mood of a Kozelek live show mirrors his proper releases quite closely. Additionally, there is a lot of live stuff out there already. This is his second "Christmas Live" disc (the first, White Christmas, was also a limited edition cd put out on Sub Pop a few years back)...and right on the coattails of a Tiny Cities reissue (from his band Sun Kil Moon) which included a seven-song live disc. Add in the fact that the guy is heavily bootlegged and there is a trove a stuff spanning his career as a solo artist and with his two bands (Red House Painters and Sun Kil Moon) floating out there on the internet and you might consider passing Little Drummer Boy Live up. I wouldn't if I were you.
This is the definitive documentation of Kozelek live. Although his records are intimate, quiet ventures -much like his performances- they, and Kozelek's voice were made for the live performance. This set is head and shoulders above 'White Christmas' for its sheer breadth of songs (it has 20 songs to White Chistmas' paltry 13) and the addition of Painters' guitarist Phil Carney to the performances. Carney's quiet, and at times idiosynchratic accents to Kozelek's morose musings elevate every performance he appears on...and pushes "Du Koo Kim" from incredible to absolutely tanscendent...
The sterility of the recording booth is been pulled from Kozelek's songs and exchanged for the warm, natural tones of the live performance. Another artist this proved true for was Townes Van Zandt, whose quiet tunes came alive in front of audiences...., even though I own most of his studio recordings, when I want someone to hear Van Zandt for the first time...I always end up reaching for 'Rear View Mirror' or 'Live At The Old Quarter.' Kozelek's trembling voice on the Cars cover "All Mixed Up" is true, beautiful, the way it should be and never would be on a studio recording.
Of course, being Kozelek, the listener is introduced to different interpretations of their favorites. I remember seeing the Painters in Toronto and not recognizing anything they played until a good 1 to 2 minutes into the song. Most times this works for Kozelek. The trudging chord progressions of "Salvador Sanchez" are replaced with Carney and Kozelek plucking out the pretty melody from the structure of the song and putting it in the foreground with amazing results. Not every song benefits from this strategy..."Lily and the Parrots" languishes and drags in its new arrangement...but most of the time, Kozelek breathes new life into the familiar, the favorites, and the forgotten..."Bubble" and "Katy Song" are absolutely fantastic...and have made me shelve the Sun Kil Moon records in favor of some old Red House Painters discs this week...
Two new tracks, "Moorestown" and "Unlit Hallway" are included on the release...though Kozelek has been batting them around live for a while now...I guess they are here to seal the deal for Kozelek completists, but they stand on their own surrounded by some of the strongest selections of Kozelek's career. "Moorestown" fares better...this must be destined for his next proper release...
The record is a limited edition affair...with purportedly only 10,000 pressed in N. America...which will make it pretty easy to get for at least a while...but there really isn't any reason to wait...
Description of Little Drummer Boy Live (Dig)
Mark Kozeleks follow up to Sun Kil Moons Tiny Cities is a limited edition live two disc set that features live versions of Red House Painters and Sun Kil Moon favorites.
On his first-ever live album, singer-songwriter Mark Kozelek pulls everything together. Limited to 10,000 budget-priced copies, with two unreleased tunes on board, it's obviously targeted to fans, though it's a judicious, career-spanning effort that careens through the debauched sometime-genius's work with the Red House Painters, Sun Kil Moon, and on his own. This record's so darn good it might belong, like Richard Thompson's Small Town Romance and Cheap Trick's Live at Budokan, to that weird variant of live album which supplants a greatest-hits type collection as the perfect introduction to an artist. These sparse, emotional versions often sound better than the originals, thanks in part to his longtime collaborator, guitarist Phil Carney. Kozelek not only covers the Christmas favorite the album's named after--which is sweet, but his otherwise released take on "White Christmas" is even better--but also includes typically superb reworkings of songs by AC/DC, Modest Mouse, and the Cars. --Mike McGonigal
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