Album Description

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.

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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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Discs and Tracks

Disc 1
  1 - Ventura
  2 - Reason To Cry
  3 - Fruits Of My Labor
  4 - Out Of Touch
  5 - Sweet Side
  6 - Lonely Girls
  7 - Overtime
  8 - Blue
  9 - Change The Locks
  10 - Atonement

Disc 2
  1 - I Lost It
  2 - Pineloa
  3 - Righteously
  4 - Joy
  5 - Essence
  6 - Real Live Bleeding Fingers And Broken Guitar Strings
  7 - Are You Down
  8 - Those Three Days
  9 - American Dream
  10 - World Without Tears
  11 - Bus To Baton Rouge
  12 - Words Fell

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Come For Lucinda, Stay For Doug        Rating:

I'm a Lucinda fan and love her song-writing. But, let's face it, her voice can be a bit of an acquired taste for some, and she is particularly vocally ragged on a few of the numbers on this 2-disc set (such as on "Atonement"). But the absolute treasure on this album is Doug Pettibone's guitar playing, which is nothing short of stunning. Except for a couple of songs where, as I said, I think Lucinda should have cleared her throat with a couple of shots of Jack Daniel's, she's in generally good form, but Pettibone is superb throughout and well worth the price of admission.

Absolute best Lucinda Williams CD you can buy        Rating:

This is it, don't hesitate, its great from start to finish. Awesome guitar work and it accompanies Lucinda's singing style so well. Lucinda live !!!!!!!!!! . . . enough said.

Lucinda Williams "Live at the Filmore" 2 Disc CD        Rating:

SIMPLY OUTSTANDING!!! This is one of the greatest "Live" album double cd's that I am aware of. It can only be compared to "the Allman Brothers Band - "Live at Filmore East" back in the days of the late Duane Allman, and "One More from the Road" by Lynyrnd Skynyrd recorded at Atlanta's Fabulous Fox Theatre back in the days of the late Ronnie Van Zant.

It consists of 10 live songs on disc 1 and 12 live songs on disc 2. This one has been reviewed alot,so I'll just point out some songs that really stood out for me:

Disc one: "Fruits of my Labor", "Sweet Side", "Lonely Girl, and "Changed the Locks" (This is one is very, very, very GOOD!!!!).

Disc 2: "I Lost it", "Pinola", Rightously, "Joy", "Real Live Bleeding Fingers", "world without Tear", and "Bus to Baton Rouge".

THIS IS A TRUE MASTERPIECE, AND I HIHGLY RECOMMEND IT!!! THANKS AND GOD BLESS!!!

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