Label: Madacy 2 Label Group
Category: Music
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Format: Live
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 2
UPC: 056775136826
EAN: 0056775136826
ASIN: B00005BC8W
Release Date: 2001-04-24
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Artist: Don McLean
Label: Madacy 2 Label Group Category: Music Average customer rating:
Format: Live Media: Audio CD Number Of Discs: 2 UPC: 056775136826 EAN: 0056775136826 ASIN: B00005BC8W Release Date: 2001-04-24 |
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Better than I expected.......2001-05-04
Still, I was fairly pleasantly surprised, despite was has to be one of the all-time worst album covers. If that's the most flattering photo they could find of Don, heaven help him. The design is awful too.
You get 2 CDs, so it's a lot of music, and Don is clearly enjoying himself, and is in pretty good voice. I enjoyed the less familiar songs more than the old favourites (he does a whole lot of each) because I know the originals too well and his performance of them now is a little variable. Nanci Griffith helps out on a couple of songs, but she seems curiously unlike herself. You probably need to see the video. She doesn't really add anything to `And I Love You So', but `Raining in Your Heart' is nice.
I especially like Don's rendition of `Tulsa Time/Deep In The Heart Of Texas', which seems to suit his voice pretty well. In fact, it's the newer material that often sounds best, which is curious, because the studio versions are dreadful, plodding affairs.
For those whose like that sort of thing (and I do), Don's left in all the asides, the mistakes, the in-between-song banter, and so on. He even does `Castles in the Air' twice because they didn't get it right the first time! "If he wants me to do it again he'll have to sing it himself," he remarks to the audience.
Having also ordered Don's new Marty Robbins CD, I was disappointed to find that the Marty Robbins song Don does here is easily the worst on the album. And Don's voice is not so good these days. Inevitably he's lost that vocal athleticism that was a trademark of his younger days, but he now seems to have also lost the smoothness that he developed later on. But at least he doesn't sound almost `doped' like on one or two recent albums. His annoying habit of delivering each line of a song a split second too late, then catching up, remains. When did he start doing this? It's irritating.
But on the whole, Don McLean's fans will probably appreciate this album.
An enjoyable listen.......2001-05-01
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