Blues Traveler - Live: What You and I Have Been Through
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Artist: Blues TravelerEdition: Music CD
Format: Live
CD Release Date: 2002-10-22
Music Label: Reincarnate Music
Soundtracks:
- Star Spangled Banner
- Slow Change
- Reach Me
- Sadly A Fiction
- Carolina Blues
- Pattern
- Back In The Day
- Rage
- Lost Me There
- All Hands
- The Path
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Free Music Review: Nice for fans, but rather superfluous
Hit: 3 Stars
The second of Blues Traveler's live albums, this seems to be sort of a desperate stopgap release. The title seems to refer to a number of recent traumas for the group -- 9/11 (hence, "The Star-Spangled Banner"); the death of original bassist Bob Sheehan; John Popper's health issues; and the loss of their record contract after the failure of the "Bridge" album.
Still, if nothing else, this CD proves that the group has survived with their musicianship intact. Unlike "Live from the Fall", none of the group's sprawling jams are documented. However, a bunch of the songs, such as "Rage", "All Hands" and "The Path" are extended, allowing lots are opportunity for solos. Popper's harmonica is more prominent on the songs from "Bridge" then it was on the studio versions. Funk influences show up here, an element the band hadn't explored all that much before. Guest Carl Young adds some cool sax riffs to "Rage"
You do have to credit the band for not pandering to its audience with the song selection (At the end of "All Hands", the track fades just as the band strikes up "Runaround"!). The five songs from "Bridge" are looser and less slick than the originals, so that is a plus. Besides our National Anthem (an impassioned, mournful harmonica solo), there are two other songs that have never appeared before on a BT CD -- "Pattern", which Popper also did live with his side project, Frogwings; and "The Path", a track from an unfinished album which the band only released through its website. The contains the weakest points of the album -- stupid attempts at rap by someone calling himself "RadioActive", and the track fades out before it's done.
Still, you do get the feeling that the band just put out the CD to keep themselves in view. It's a solid release, but not necessarily representative of their best live or studio work. Other albums would be a better starting point for new fans, but try this out if you like what you've heard on "Straight on Till Morning", "Bridge" or "Live from the Fall".
Live: What You and I Have Been Through Poster
Neither their first live album nor a comprehensive career retrospective, Blues Traveler's Live--What You and I Have Been Through is best described as a concert snapshot of the crew's sixth studio album, Bridge, with a few extras. Five songs--"Rage," "Reach Me," "All Hands," "Lost Me There," and "Sadly a Fiction"--are adapted from Bridge, while 1990's Blues Traveler and '96's Straight on Till Morning provide "Slow Change" and "Carolina Blues," respectively. Harp player John Popper's wildly interpretive read of the "Star Spangled Banner" locates the recording as New York, post-9/11, and while the group's fans will welcome these readings--Blues Traveler is nothing if not a quintessentially live band--the set's selective track listing suggests more complete works are in store. --Kim HughesPop Music CDs
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