Joe Ely - Live Shots
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Artist: Joe ElyEdition: Music CD
Format: Live
CD Release Date: 2007-11-20
Music Label: American Beat
Soundtracks:
- Fingernails - Joe Ely, Ely, Joe
- Midnight Shift - Joe Ely, Ainsworth, Jimmie
- Honky Tonk Masquerade - Joe Ely, Ely, Joe
- Honky Tonkin' - Joe Ely, Williams, Hank [1]
- Long Snake Moan - Joe Ely,
- I Had My Hopes Up High - Joe Ely, Ely, Joe
- She Never Spoke Spanish to Me - Joe Ely, Hancock, Butch
- Johnny's Blues - Joe Ely, Ely, Joe
- Fools Fall in Love - Joe Ely, Hancock, Butch
- Boxcars - Joe Ely, Hancock, Butch
- Crazy Lemon - Joe Ely, Ely, Joe
- Not Fade Away - Joe Ely, Holly, Buddy
- Treat Me Like a Saturday Night - Joe Ely, Gilmore, Jimmie
- Wishin' for You - Joe Ely, Hancock, Butch
Free Music Notes for Live Shots
Free Music Review: A classic!!!
Hit: 5 Stars
This was my introduction to Joe Ely back in 1981. I'd read a review of Live Shots in Rolling Stone magazine which commented very favorably on the album and included an observation that it featured traditional country music instruments such as accordian and pedal steel guitar. I bought it without hearing a cut, figuring it was worth the punt. It sure was. Believe the other 5 star reviews, this is a ripping record and one of my all-time top 10.
I took it home, dropped the needle and was greeted with Reese Wynans' boogieing piano and 'Fingernails' opening line, "I keep my fingernails long so they click when I play the piano..." Joe's crack road band roars into life and one of the great live albums is off and rockin'.
I must have left the room at some point on side one, but then I heard something that made me go back to the stereo and start 'Long Snake Moan' all over. It was Lloyd Maines' steel guitar, played like I'd never heard it: overdriven and wailing, Duane Allman meets Buddy Emmons! His playing on that and several other cuts is not trad country, but it soars! Jesse Taylor on lead guitar takes great solos also and the guitar and steel harmony lines on 'Johnny's Blues' are electrifying.
The songs are great, the playing inspired and the live energy is palpable. I have most of Joe's releases, and there is not a dud among them, but this was my first experience of his music and it still sounds as dynamically fresh and vibrant as it did all those years ago.
If you like seriously rootsy, rocking country music, you will not be disappointed with 'Live Shots'.
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Recorded in the U.K. in 1980 when Ely was opening for The Clash, Live Shots is a frenzied shot of live rock & roll, west Texas style, with the fierce electric and pedal-(steel)-to-the-metal guitars of band members Jesse Taylor and Lloyd Maines. Although not as accomplished a live set as his later Live at Liberty Lunch, Live Shots remains the best document of Ely's rock-out phase; a driving, relentless cover of "Not Fade Away" particularly stands out. The quieter ballads are what'll bring you back, though, especially moving versions of Jimmie Dale Gilmore's "Treat Me Like A Saturday Night" and Ely's own "Honky Tonk Masquerade." --David CantwellCountry Music CDs
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