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What on earth was Williams and her record company thinking when they put this disaster out as a *double* CD? Her voice destroys literally every single song, the set list (as others have pointed out) has no pacing or any kind of logic, and if this if these are the best tracks from three nights of performing, then the others must have been unendurable.
Williams is toast. She sounds smacked out of her head on this record, and the simple fact that this was even released indicates that the people who are managing her don't expect anything better in the near future and are trying to cash in while she's still able to perform at all.
RstJ
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I love Lucinda and I love her music live much moreso than the studio albums, which to me ususally seem too reserved for my taste. As it is with Lucinda Williams herself, I find people will either love this release or consider it sub par to her studio stuff. Honestly, most live albums ARE subpar to the studio. As Live albums go I LOVE THIS ONE. It is raw, raspy, gritty, and wonderful, as is Lucinda herself. I would have loved to have more earlier cuts included but if these are the ones Lu chose, then that's a good enough endorsement for me.
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I agree with most other reviewers who prefer the DVD just released of an Austin City Limits concert from 1998. The songs come mainly from her best cd, Car Wheels... That is the CD that introduced me to Lucinda (and my favorite). The DVD concert has much superior singing and more interesting music. Oddly though, when I first saw the Austin City Limits concert when it originally aired on TV I didn't really like it because Lucinda seems a little distant as she sings, rarely cracking a smile or showing much emotion. Still, after the last 2 albums of dark, somber songs I find it refreshing. I am in the process of recording the DVD audio to CD so I can take it with me. Back to the Fillmore concert. There are some gems on these 2 albums. I really like the versions of "World without Tears" and "These Three Days".
I personally hope she goes back to more story songs.
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Rough, raw, uncut and unpolished, but absolutely outstanding. This gets 5 out of 5 from any real Lucinda fan.
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4.5 stars
"The perfect man" A poet on a motorcycle. You know the kind who lives on the edge, the free spirit. But he's also got to have the soul of a poet and a brilliant mind. So, you know good luck." -Lucinda Williams in her own words-
Lucinda's new and first "live" album was recorded November 20-22 at San Francisco's legendary Fillmore Auditorium last year during her World Without Tears tour. It features twenty-two tracks from Williams' twenty-five-plus-year career. Included in the set list are "Change the Locks," from 1988's Lucinda Williams and later recorded by Tom Petty; "Pineola," a poignant song about a family friend's suicide from 1992's Sweet Old World, and interestingly enough Lucinda William's fathe, Prof. Miller Williams, found the friend's body, how poignant is that?; and "Those Three Days," from Williams' most recent studio album World Without Tears.
Disc One:
Ventura
Reason to Cry
Fruits of My Labor
Out of Touch
Sweet Side
Lonely Girls
Overtime
Blue
Change the Locks
Atonement
Disc Two:
I Lost It
Pineola
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
"Lonely Girls" and "Righteously" are the best known songs of Lucinda, and they speak of Lucinda's world. Lucinda was born 50 odd years ago in Louisiana. Her father was a poetry professor and her mother a pianist. They traveled all over the US and South America for her fathers work. Lucinda hung on her to music that was her friend. She went to college at The University of Texas at Austin and began her musical career. She sang with Townes Van Zandt and met George Jones a friend of her fathers. She worked her way through the business and with her beauty, wit and fabulous voice she finally made a name of herself. This CD is a compilation of her tunes, and were hand picked by Lucinda. Lucinda Williams is a true poet and her voice brings her music to life.
Highly recommended. prisrob
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