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2/16/2012

Jack Johnson - A Weekend At The Greek & Live In Japan (2005) Review

Jack Johnson - A Weekend At The Greek and Live In Japan  (2005)
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If you are a fan of Jack Johnson's music this is a great concert. He puts on an awesome performance with all of the best songs and also gives the audience a look into what goes on backstage and before the performance.

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2/15/2012

Indigo Girls: Live at the Roxy (2009) Review

Indigo Girls: Live at the Roxy (2009)
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I am a huge fan of the Indigo Girls. And I'll stick by my opinion that Amy Ray and Emily Saliers are the best American songwriters today. Therefore, I had been anxiously awaiting the release of "Live at the Roxy", their latest DVD concert release. I watched it last night on my wide screen TV and with the sound turned up satisfactorily loud. I have to say, the whole experience was like being there! The picture quality is crisp and excellent, and the sound is downright perfect. If you are also a fan, then this is the definitive concert release that you must own.
The set list starts out with a number of acoustic versions of their songs. I was particularly happy to hear the songs "Run", "World Falls" (which is my favorite IG song of all-time) and "Money Made You Mean". Early on in the concert, Brandi Carlile joins the girls on stage to add backup vocals. Note: As a special treat later on, you get to hear what Brandi sounds like when she performs one of her songs "Cannonball", and the girls take their turn on backup. I did notice that like their latest albums, the songs seem to alternate between Amy and Emily on lead vocals. No problem with that. They each have their own distinctive quality that makes each of them an outstanding performer.
Things start to rock when Three5Human joins the stage (Brandi Carlile remains as well) and the set list turns more electric. I like the acoustic stuff, but I also like it when the electric guitars come out. From this point on, the build up of energy continues all the way through the end of the show. The versions of "Closer to Fine" and "Tether" are absolutely awesome! The Bob Dylan cover, "Don't Think Twice" was also outstanding.
What can I say? This is one good show!

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Indigo Girls: Live at the Roxy demonstrateswhy the GRAMMY award-winning folk-rock duo Indigo Girlscontinue to draw capacity crowds over twenty years intotheir career.Captured in crystal-clear HD, their July 2007 show at the historic Roxy Theater in Atlanta, Georgia is a true testament to the songwriting and performance prowess of Emily Saliers and Amy Ray, whose successful careers began in 1988 in the small clubs of Atlanta and Athens, Georgia and quickly evolved into performances at venues as diverse as Lilith Fair, Red Rocks, the Newport Folk Festival, and headlining Madison Square Garden.Saliers and Ray are joined onstage at various points in the show by singer-songwriter Brandi Carlisle, who enhances the duo's famous harmonies on songs such as "World Falls" and"Galileo".Later in the show, the Girls are joined byAtlanta-based rock group Three5Human, whose guitarist TomiMartin has played with an impressive list of artistsincluding Michael Jackson, Madonna, Eric Clapton, Outkast,and TLC.Three5Human front-woman Trina Meade lends herstunning vocal pipes to Indigo Girls classics like "Closerto Fine" and the fan favorite cover of Gladys Knight's"Midnight Train To Georgia".Other numbers include "ShameOn You", "Pendulum Swinger", "Little Perennials", and "Tried To Be True", as well as three special bonus tracks. Tracklisting: 1. Pendulum Swinger 2. Shame On You 3. Run 4. Little Perennials 5. Hope Alone 6. World Falls 7. Lay My Head Down 8. Three County Highway 9. Wood Song 10. Money Made You Mean 11. Fill It Up Again 12. Dairy Queen 13. Last Tears 14. Tried To Be True 15. Let It Ring 16. Cannonball 17. Trouble 18. Rock And Roll Heaven's Gate (electric) 19. Closer To Fine 20. Don't Think Twice [Encore] 21. Tether [Encore] 22. Galileo [Encore] 23. Midnight Train To Georgia [Bonus Track] 24. Rock And Roll Heaven's Gate (acoustic) [Bonus Track] 25. Land of Canaan [Bonus Track]

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2/12/2012

Tommy Emmanuel - Live at Her Majesty's Theatre (2006) Review

Tommy Emmanuel - Live at Her Majesty's Theatre (2006)
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I love Tommy Emmanuel..but the previously released DVD in concert is much more to my liking...Tommy playing his great repetoire of standards and originals like nobody else in the world! This DVD has him singing too many songs and a guest female vocalist on at least 4 numbers....I allmost feel its misleading to not have her name on the front of the DVD!
There are many better singers in the world...few better guitarists...stop singing and play!

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1/20/2012

Four Bitchin' Babes - Meet the Babes (2001) Review

Four Bitchin' Babes - Meet the Babes (2001)
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We've been a fan of three of this Four Babes lineup - Debi Smith, Sally Fingerett and Megon McDonough -- as solo acts during the pre-Babe years, and now Camille West, more recently, through her hilarious work with the Babes. Although each performer is a terrific singer-songwriter musician (with ongoing, award-winning solo careers) with versatile, but unique styles, they actually benefit from the influence and the mix of the other three, especially on stage. This disc, recorded live at the Southern Theatre in Columbus, Ohio, highlights some of their best material, rotating through each performer as the soloist with the others as backup, and the occasional group effort. Their voices and 4-part harmonies are particularly sonorous (bitchin'?) here, with the added/inherent DVD benefit of being able to jump directly to songs, and they're just plain fun to watch, as always.
The drawbacks are (1) the mediocre camera work (VHS-like resolution; rapid cross-cutting between cameras, even when some are clearly out of position; rapid in/out zooming; odd/distorted image formation (in one of the side cameras) and some bizarre, unflattering low angles) and (2) unexceptional DVD sound quality, with little or no separation, and no surround information (even a little ambience). It almost sounds like the mikes were put in front of the PA speakers, rather than being fed through the mixing board. The sound isn't bad or distorted by any means, it's just sort-of flat compared to some other concert DVDs I have. (Yes, I checked my surround sound system and tried a variety of surround and non-surround settings!) Also, it would've been nice to have had the pre-song intros/banter given separate track numbers, so you could skip right to the beginning of the songs themselves, but that's a minor complaint. And...rapid cross-cutting is an unfortunate fact of life on too many concert videos, even the big-budget ones (like James Taylor's Beacon Theater DVD).
All told, the Four Bitchin' Babes' Meet the Babes DVD gets an A+ for the music, performances and all-around good fun, but a C for video and sound. It's not expensive, cheaper than a ticket, and enjoyable nonetheless, so it definitely rates a "buy." But see them anyway when they come through your town, and check out ...

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