LIVE

LIVE Artist: Delbert McClinton
Label: New West
Category: Music


Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
Format: Live
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 2


UPC: 607396604821
EAN: 0607396604821
ASIN: B0000C8UJW


Release Date: 2003-10-21

LIVE


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Tracks:

  1. Old Weakness
  2. Leap Of Faith
  3. I'm With You
  4. I Wanna Thank You Baby
  5. I Wanna Love You
  6. Smooth Talk
  7. Maybe Someday Baby
  8. Don't Want To Love You
  9. New York City
  10. Squeeze Me In
  11. I've Got Dreams To Remember

Tracks:

  1. Why Me?
  2. Rebecca Rebecca
  3. Back To Louisiana
  4. When Rita Leaves
  5. Livin' It Down
  6. Giving It Up For Your Love
  7. B-Movie Boxcar Blues
  8. Fine And Healthy Thing

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  1. Cost of Living
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  3. One of the Fortunate Few
  4. Live from Austin
  5. Room to Breathe

Amazon.com

This double-disc, 19-song concert recording, which serves as a fittingly funky retrospective of McClinton's 30-year career, is as close to the definitive Delbert as can be imagined. And, oddly enough, his third and best live album was an inadvertent one--a Norwegian radio broadcast captured a festival set too hot to confine to the airwaves. Here, the Texas honky-tonk blues hero dynamically delivers the core of the live McClinton experience, including an energetic rendition of his 1980 breakout hit "Givin' It up for Your Love," a testifying take on Otis Redding's "I've Got Dreams to Remember," and a rambunctious (and extended) reading of his own "B Movie Boxcar Blues." But <I>Live</I> also fills in around the edges with surveys of McClinton's early influences: "Rebecca Rebecca," a slow-burning, stream-of-consciousness blues medley, features Kevin McKendree recycling some sparkling Otis Spann piano lines while the album closer, the vintage rockabilly romp "Fine and Healthy Thing," offers a great guitar getaway by Rob McNelley. <I>--Michael Point</I>

Album Description

Recorded in Bergen, Norway, Delbert McClinton LIVE is a two CD set that captures the energy of the man's legendary stage show. Yes, he gave John Lennon some pointers on playing the harmonica and has had his songs covered by the likes of Emmylou Harris, The Blues Brothers, Vince Gill and Garth Brooks, but what's truly extraordinary is Delbert's voice and his ability to drive audiences into a frenzy, often playing for up to three hours straight. <P>Delbert McClinton LIVE is his first live album in fourteen years and his first double live collection. It contains favorites from the Grammy award-winning Nothing Personal including "When Rita Leaves" and "Livin' It Down" and from '02's Grammy nominated Room To Breathe such as "Smooth Talk" and "Don't Want To Love You." Other Delbert staples include "Giving It Up For Your Love" and the Otis Redding gut-wrencher, "I've Got Dreams To Remember."

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Delbert at his best.......2007-04-12

This is a great addition to anyone's music collection. I have seen Delbert many times and he only improves with age. His voice has so much soul and rhythm it is unbelievable. He is Blues to the bone. This is a must have for any Delbert Fan!!!!!!!!!!

5 out of 5 stars Awesome Blues.......2006-06-24

If you only want to buy two Delbert CDs; then this has to be one and Room To Breathe should be the other one. If you are disappointed in either of these offerings then you have no soul!

4 out of 5 stars honky tonkin'.......2006-03-19

For some, the claim to fame of venerable Texas rocker Delbert McClinton is that he gave harmonica tips to a young John Lennon - who put the advice to good use on early Beatles' hits such as Love Me Do and I Should Have Known Better. To others, that is a mere footnote in a recording career that stretches back to 1960 and, on the strength of his vigorous performance here, shows no sign of fatigue. McClinton, who just turned 63, is one of those Texas musicians whose brew of country, blues, rock and soul defies categorisation (Doug Sahm and Roy Head are others, consider too Barbara Lynn, and the Vaughan brothers deserve mention). This double album documents a single 2003 performance at Norway's Bergen Blues Festival. Originally intended only as a radio broadcast, it is a high-energy career review. McClinton and his six-piece band (rhythm section and two horns) mix newer songs with long-in-repertoire nuggets such as B-Movie Boxcar Blues, Giving It Up for Your Love and Otis Redding's I've Got Dreams to Remember (19 songs in all). This set drips honky tonk sweat. (This review appeared in The Age newspaper, Melbounre, Australia.)

3 out of 5 stars A FINE ALBUM But Didn't Meet My Expectation.......2005-08-17

I purchased this recently after reacquainting myself with DM's work through a couple of studio works. I have never seen him perform live, and might feel differently if I had. I will see if this CD set grows on me over time, but my initial reaction to it is that it's just Okay.

5 out of 5 stars Energy to spare.......2005-08-10

Great band. They sound like a larger group than Delbert's "Live From Austin" record from the 1980's and that group had a lot more members.

Delbert, as always, is there to please. You can't pin him down to one type of music--I call it Texas/country rhythm-and-blues. He does it better than anyone else. Hell, there really ain't nobody else doing this!

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