A live album places just a little bit more of a burden than usual on its playout track – this is the final moment of the night, something to see you on your way with a smile and make you think of all that’s been good and right and proper about the last hour or two. I think this is probably my favourite live album, and I’ve been listening to it a lot again in the last few days after posting the second to last track (which I’ve just reposted in a tidier and altogether more crisp version instead of the ‘ripped from cassette’ one that was there before) and I think this is a perfect final song.
Like most of the album it’s mainly her and her guitar, although the band are there in the background making sure things tick along, but with just a guitar she comes up with a wonderfully swinging singing dance-a-long. A bit like Council Meetin’ it really is difficult to keep still, it demands a physical response from you. And it’s yet another song about dancing and I’ve always had a thing about songs about dancing, just have, there you go.
And on top of all of that you get another one of her wonderful little intros before the song itself, and, I say again, it’s worth buying the album for these alone.
December 1, 2008 at 3:10 pm
i love nanci griffith. : )