Lucinda Williams - Live from Austin, TX

Lucinda Williams - Live from Austin, TX


Starring:Lucinda Williams
Studio: New West Records
Product Type: DVD

Editorial Review:
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A thrilling and often beautiful concert sitting unseen in a vault for a number of years, Lucinda Williams: Live from Austin, TX is the Louisiana-born singer-songwriter's complete, pre-edited performance from a 1998 appearance on Austin City Limits. With its 16 well-chosen songs, largely culled from Williams's most rewarding material since the 1980s, Live is indispensable for longtime fans and a great introduction to her unique artistry for the uninitiated. Williams's deceptively plain-spoken, sometimes conversational lyrics about losses and passages and elusive touchstones of happiness are marvels of instant resonance, transcending minimalist imagery and fragmentary refrains. Surrounded by a small, guitar army and sometimes hypnotic rhythm section, Williams fills out "Metal Firecracker" with a vintage folk-rock sound, raises the extraordinary "Drunken Angel" and "Greenville" to new heights, and delivers--with a voice as lovely as a bell--a stirring performance on "Sweet Old World." Lest we forget her appreciation of the Doors, "Joy" brings the show to a head with its gritty, shamanic blues and evocative promises ("I'm gonna go to West Memphis and find my joy") that make one want to jump with excitement. --Tom Keogh
Description
Track Listing
1 - Pineola
2 - Metal Firecracker
3 - Car Wheels On A Gravel Road
4 - Right In Time
5 - Drunken Angel
6 - Greenville
7 - Lake Charles
8 - Changed The Locks
9 - Joy
10 - Disgusted
11 - Jackson
12 - Sweet Old World
13 - Passionate Kisses
14 - Something About What Happens When We Talk
15 - Still I long For Your Kiss
16 - Can't Let Go
Lucinda Williams - Live from Austin, TX
Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
  • Great Austin Concert
  • Yowza Wowza
  • empty bottles and broken glass, busted down doors and borrowed cash
  • Raw talent
  • Lucinda, Lucinda, Lucinda!
 Lucinda Williams - Live from Austin, TX
Starring: Lucinda Williams
Manufacturer: New West Records
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD

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ASIN: B00081928M
Release Date: 2005-05-17

Amazon.com

A thrilling and often beautiful concert sitting unseen in a vault for a number of years, Lucinda Williams: Live from Austin, TX is the Louisiana-born singer-songwriter's complete, pre-edited performance from a 1998 appearance on Austin City Limits. With its 16 well-chosen songs, largely culled from Williams's most rewarding material since the 1980s, Live is indispensable for longtime fans and a great introduction to her unique artistry for the uninitiated. Williams's deceptively plain-spoken, sometimes conversational lyrics about losses and passages and elusive touchstones of happiness are marvels of instant resonance, transcending minimalist imagery and fragmentary refrains. Surrounded by a small, guitar army and sometimes hypnotic rhythm section, Williams fills out "Metal Firecracker" with a vintage folk-rock sound, raises the extraordinary "Drunken Angel" and "Greenville" to new heights, and delivers--with a voice as lovely as a bell--a stirring performance on "Sweet Old World." Lest we forget her appreciation of the Doors, "Joy" brings the show to a head with its gritty, shamanic blues and evocative promises ("I'm gonna go to West Memphis and find my joy") that make one want to jump with excitement. --Tom Keogh

Description

Track Listing
1 - Pineola
2 - Metal Firecracker
3 - Car Wheels On A Gravel Road
4 - Right In Time
5 - Drunken Angel
6 - Greenville
7 - Lake Charles
8 - Changed The Locks
9 - Joy
10 - Disgusted
11 - Jackson
12 - Sweet Old World
13 - Passionate Kisses
14 - Something About What Happens When We Talk
15 - Still I long For Your Kiss
16 - Can't Let Go

Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars Great Austin Concert.......2007-05-14

I really loved viewing this concert; Lucinda and her band are just awesome. Lucinda doesn't interact much with her audience, but definitely pleases everyone with her raunchy, heartfelt rockabilly self. I was surprised at her polished brunette-ness, but she still had the same old screaming-out-of-the-back-of-a-trailer house wail that makes her so lovably "real".

5 out of 5 stars Yowza Wowza.......2007-04-01

This is a great show. Lucinda goes through about an hour of rock and country. It's a great mix. Ballads, rockers, laments, yearning. She begins with "Pineola," a painful rendering of a suicide experienced by a family. It just gets better as it rolls along. "Car Wheels On a Gravel Road" is musical bliss with its electric mandolin and rising chorus. The corker of the show is "Changed the Locks." What a rocker. Lucinda is so convincing as she scorches through the vocals. The band sizzles with three guitar players, four counting Lucinda's, a set of drums, keyboards. Lots of stuff here. Great variety. I love watching this, and I really enjoy showing it to my friends and family that are unfamiliar with her work. Great stuff. Great show.

5 out of 5 stars empty bottles and broken glass, busted down doors and borrowed cash.......2007-03-25

What can you say about Lucinda Williams but Wow!

This is one of the very best concerts I have ever heard. Bar none. It's right up there with the best Dead concerts and the best of Dylan. It catches fire about the 3rd or 4th number and builds from there, one great tune after another. The last couple of numbers include instrumentals and guitar work that will knock your socks off.

She moves from blues to country, through folk and rock -- all seemlessly -- and with equal ease. But what exactly is Lucinda? A blues artist? A country singer? A writer of folk songs? A hard rocker? The answer is: all of the above -- and then some. Here's the truth: being an original, she is unclassifiable. One of a kind.

The songs are tender and sweet, raunchy and restless. They pull at your heart strings -- sung by a woman with the voice of an angel. She stays with you. The words linger because they are not just words -- but poetry. The more you listen the better they sound. Somehow she never gets old. I can't explain why. She simply is a musical phenomenon that must be experienced.

5 out of 5 stars Raw talent.......2007-03-14

I wasn't in the least disappointed by this DVD. My friends like girls with pretty voices but I prefer the raw natural talent of this woman and this DVD captures it.

4 out of 5 stars Lucinda, Lucinda, Lucinda!.......2007-01-11

Man, she has more talent than you can shake a stick at. She can pull it off live, too. This is a few years old, but it is vital. I 'Can't Let Go' of this one! That song alone is worth the price of admission! It cooks! She is a special songwriter who lets the songs do the talking on stage. She doesn't move much on stage, and you still can't take your eyes off her. That's 'cos she's the real thing, and you never get enough of the real thing.

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