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Lucinda Williams
Live @ the Fillmore
Release Date: 2005 05 10
Label: MG
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Lucinda Williams has earned a reputation for her meticulous approach to making albums, but a careful listen to her work suggests that she isn't trying to make her music sound perfect, she just wants it to sound right, and she isn't afraid to spend the extra time waiting for the charmed moment to get caught on tape. This attitude seems to be borne out in her first-ever concert album, Live The Fillmore, which manages to sound carefully considered, and a model of "warts and all" authenticity at the same time. Recorded during a three-night stand in San Francisco, the album captures Williams' band in superb form -- Doug Pettibone's guitars, Taras Prodaniuk's bass, and Jim Christie's drums merge into a tight and emphatic groove machine that can match Williams's many moods, whether she's quietly contemplative on "Blue," rocking out hard on "Changed the Locks," or howling the blues on "Essence," while the deeply resonant recording and mix gives them the royal treatment. Williams herself is a slightly more complicated matter here -- her performance is deeply into the spirit, so much so that sometimes her melismatic wanderings and broad phrasing sound like they're verging on caricature. But this is clearly a recording of a performance, and by the time we get to the end of disc two, the broad strokes have coalesced into something quite remarkable; as Williams searches through the nooks and crannies of her songs, you sense she's discovering things that she didn't expect to find, and it's a tremendous thing to hear. Lucinda Williams is an artist who writes from her soul, and she's thoroughly unafraid of letting her passion show when she sings. If that makes for strained technique, it also results in very real art, and this album offers a privileged glimpse of a singular songwriter in full flight. Mark Deming, All Music Guide

Tracks:

	Title	Composer	Time
1	Ventura	Williams	5:06
2	Reason to Cry	Williams	4:22
3	Fruits of My Labor	Williams	5:04
4	Out of Touch	Williams	7:21
5	Sweet Side	Williams	4:45
6	Lonely Girls	Williams	4:28
7	Overtime	Williams	4:16
8	Blue	Williams	4:22
9	Changed the Locks	Williams	4:07
10	Atonement	Williams	5:58
11	I Lost It	Williams	3:27
12	Piñeola	Williams	4:04
13	Righteously	Williams	4:55
14	Joy	Williams	8:19
15	Essence	Williams	7:16
16	Real Live Bleeding Fingers and Broken Guitar Strings	Williams	4:57
17	Are You Down	Williams	6:29
18	Those Three Days	Williams	5:02
19	American Dream	Williams	5:23
20	World Without Tears	Williams	4:42
21	Bus to Baton Rouge	Williams	6:26
22	Words Fell	Williams	4:34

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