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Artist: Sister Hazel
Label: Rock Ridge Music Category: Music Average customer rating: Format: Live Media: Audio CD Number Of Discs: 2 UPC: 677516102520 EAN: 0677516102520 ASIN: B00015HV6K Release Date: 2004-01-20 |
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Album Description
Recorded during their 2003 summer tour of the Southeast, this double-live-CD captures Hazel in their element and features selections that span the band's entire career, including radio hits, "All For You", "Change Your Mind", and "Your Mistake", along with fan favorites, "Swan Dive", "Thank You", and "Just Remember".Customer Reviews:
An Amazing Album.......2005-12-16
EXCELLENT Album!.......2005-04-21
I was there! .......2004-12-02
LIVE and kicking!.......2004-03-20
-I've heard the artist live and loved it
-There's some intangible about their live collection
that I can't get anywhere else
I live not far from Gainesville, the band's college-town home, and have had the opportunity to enjoy them many times in different settings. I wasn't at either of the sessions used for "Live*LIVE!"....September 2003 performances at The House of Blues in Orlando and an appearance at The Masquerade club in historic Ybor City, a
long-time music venue in Tampa.
But the key to Sister Hazel's live performances is their connection with the audience. There's a band charisma that nearly leaps off the stage, that you sometimes can't feel in their studio albums (although all three have been superb).
The sets from Orlando are relatively free of crowd noise other than opening and closing applause, but the Tampa sets feature a rowdy back-up group in the audience who know all the words and sing at will. The only song that is overwhelmed by this is the first disc's "All for You", SH's biggest hit to date. It has been, over the years, stupefied by too much radio airplay, so you almost welcome a new version with "crowd sing".
Best of the tunes?
Disc One:
"Life Got In The Way" - a great opener, gets everyone's juices flowing....
"I wanted us to be the one that poets write their books about"....
"Just Remember" - hot guitar jams lead in and surround the song-- some great a capella voice harmonies by Block/Copeland offset a middling set of lyrics on this crowd pleaser
"Come Around" Block's voice is unmistakable and distinctive on this love song. Some of the lyrics on "Come Around" are visual poetry...
Disc Two:
"Your Winter"(also featured on the soundtrack of the movie "10 Things I Hate About You") and "Killing Me Too" are two of my favorite Sister Hazel songs. Quieter, and more introspective, both allow Block's plaintive upper register to shine through. Somehow the romantic insecurities that come through seem like Block's own. Perhaps they are. In "Killing Me Too", there's a surprise build up and crescendo at song's end that demonstrates just how well these boys play music.
"Sword and Shield" (recorded in Tampa), also graces disc 2. It's a departure from most of the S&H songs in theme - it is strangely and compellingly not contemporary in lyrics. It feels like it may have been written with a sound track in mind, although I don't think it appeared with any film. Copeland's harmonies are particularly haunting on the song, which features not only unique lyrics, but a more insistent beat.
There's really nothing not to like on the 2 disc set. One of my prior favorites, "Champagne High" sounds like less of a song because the band misses the back up vocals from Indigo Girl Emily Salier that appeared on the studio version.
College bar-band, maybe, by origin, but they've transcended far beyond that medium to one of the richest sounds of the south. Great music to sing along to when you're driving!
CHAMPAGNE HIGH.......2004-02-27
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