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Lucinda Williams - Live @ The Fillmore Audio CD

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Lucinda Williams Band: Lucinda Williams
Title: Live @ The Fillmore
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Release Date: 2005-05-10
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 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 11: I Lost It 12: Pineloa 13: Righteously 14: Joy 15: Essence 16: Real Live Bleeding Fingers And Broken Guitar Strings 17: Are You Down 18: Those Three Days 19: American Dream 20: World Without Tears 21: Bus To Baton Rouge 22: Words Fell

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


Simply awful
Lucinda sounds drunk or stoned. I'm grateful I found this at my local library so I could listen to it before buying it -- I mean NOT buying it. She's off key, her phrasing and pacing is bad, and the whole thing is painful to listen to. Like the other thumbs down reviewers, I have no idea why anyone thought this concert should have been made available commercially. Save your money and stick to her studio recordings.


Lucinda Williams "Live at the Filmore" 2 Disc CD
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. SIMPLY OUTSTANDING!!! This is one of the greatest "Live" album double cd's that I am aware of.

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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Will The Real Lucinda Please Stand Up
First, on the Hank Williams tribute album, "Timeless", where she did a cover of his classic tale of love's trials and tribulations "Cold, Cold Heart". I first heard the compelling nasally slow draw (in the good sense) voice of Lucinda Williams on tribute albums. I mentioned in a review of that CD that very seldom did anyone cover a Hank Williams song better than he did himself. I noted the exception of Lucinda on that rendition of "Cold, Cold Heart". I also made the same statement on her cover of Mississippi John Hurt's "Beulah Land" on his tribute album. Finally, I noted the fine job that she did on a duet with John Prine on "Wedding Bells" on his "In Spite Of Ourselves" cover album of country classics.

That said, although I have high, very high regard for Ms. Williams' cover work I am more ambivalent about her own albums. This album under review is such a case. I do not understand what is driving her on some of these songs. She, obviously, can write thoughtfully of love, lost, the cruel nature of the world, her family and other subjects but for the most part that feeling I got from the above-mentioned efforts is missing here. A few do, however, stand out. "Lonely Girls", "Blue", "Bus To Baton Rouge" and "Words Fell" clearly rise to the occasion. As I say, the rest is so-so and suffer a little from trying to cross-over to some kind of country `hip-hop' format.
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Raw, evocative and stirring
Be advised, however, that it is un-processed, and doesn't have the polish of a studio recording. ``Live at the Fillmore'' is my favorite Lucinda Williams album, which puts it on top of a tall stack of excellent performances. That, in my opinion, is its strength; Williams comes out sounding half drunk, but that works wonders as she reaches down to her emotional core and delivers soul piercing renditions of familiar songs.


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