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Personnel: Lucinda Williams (vocals, acoustic guitar, electric guitar); Doug Pettibone (guitar, lap steel guitar, pedal steel guitar, mandolin, harmonica, background vocals); Jim Christie (keyboards, drums, percussion); Taras Prodaniuk (bass guitar, background vocals).
Recording information: Fillmore West, San Francisco, California (11/20/2003 - 11/22/2003).
Never one to tread the expected path, Lucinda Williams followed her big breakthrough album, CAR WHEELS ON A GRAVEL ROAD, with a pair of low-key records full of sad, quiet, fragile songs (interrupted by the occasional barn-burner). LIVE @ THE FILLMORE concentrates heavily on those latter two releases, unleashing all the intense, burning emotions that lay at their core, making plain the inherent frisson lurking below the surface of such ostensibly laconic tunes as "Lonely Girls" and "Righteously." Meanwhile, songs that already had plenty of bite in their studio versions are pumped up to an even more electrifying, visceral level (a bold, crunching "Changed the Locks;" the roaring, bluesy "Joy"). The debt Williams and her band owe to Neil Young & Crazy Horse is illuminated on "Are You Down," and, elsewhere, a spoken intro finds the singer laying bare her affection for ZZ Top. Clearly, revelations of all kinds abound on this double-disc concert document.
What the critics say...
Rolling Stone (p.79) - 3 stars out of 5 - "She and her impeccable three-piece band give her songs' meticulously recorded original versions a run for their money..."
Uncut (p.102) - 4 stars out of 5 - "[T]he intensity builds relentlessly until, by the second disc, she's working overtime..."
Mojo (Publisher) (p.99) - 4 stars out of 5 - "Sorrowful, fierce, heartbreaking and unhistrionic..."
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