Rating: 5/5
Review:
A brilliant live album
This is a terrific album. Many of Mary Gauthier's finest songs are here in excellent, stripped down but very powerful versions and they really add something to the studio versions, which is by no means the case with a lot of live albums.
The small band are terrific and there is some quite amazing fiddle work from Tania Elizabeth. Mary Gauthier herself gives phenomenally powerful performances both on guitar and in her vocals. Blood Is Blood, for example, is quite stunning, and it amazes me that she has the emotional strength to keep giving so much of herself in performance. (And the guts to introduce and sing Karla Faye as she does in Texas, incidentally.)
I often find with live albums by artists whose music I love that, although I'm glad to have heard them and am pleased to own them, I don't play them nearly as much as the studio albums. Not with this one. It's a real gem - superb, honest performances, very well recorded. Very warmly recommended.
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