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Alabama 3: Outlaw Country Acid House Techno Blues comes to Liverpool
Posted by: ringverse on May 28, 2005 - 05:33 PM
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It's the morning after the night before, the night we took bedbloggers mum to the Alabama 3 gig in Liverpool for her 60th birthday...
And she loved it!
I have yet to see a poor show from Alabama 3, and they didn't disappoint last night.
The band played for almost two hours, but it felt like it was over in 2 minutes.
Covering material from all their albums there was something for everybody, and the crowd, flushed with the success of Wednesday's football, lapped it up.
Old favourites such as Mao tse Tung Said, Hypo Full of Love and U Don't Danse to Tekno had the crowd bouncing, Woke Up This Morning, the theme song from HBO's 'The Sporanos' never fails to get things going, and new numbers like Bruce Richard Reynolds and Terra Firma Cowboy Blues set the place on fire.
The Reverend Dwayne Love was straight enough to deliver a great performance, preaching to the masses in his own inimitable style; the congregation of the 'First Church of Elvis the Devine UK' is growing stronger all the time...
Larry Love's voice seems to have got even gravelly than last time I heard, giving Tom Waits or Captain Beefheart a run for their money, and Rock Freebase continues to take Blues Slide guitar to a new level.
The star of the show has to have been Zoe, aka Devlin Love. I've seen her sing with the Larry Love Showband a couple of times, and once seen and heard, she is never forgotten. Strutting the stage like Vaudevile bordello diva, she took the crowd by the scruff of the neck with R.E.H.A.B. and Honey in the Rock, and her performance of Up Above my Head was worthy of Sister Rosetta Tharpe herself ;)
If you have seen the band before, you can be assured that they are as stunning as ever on stage, if you haven't, you should.
The new A3 album Outlaw came out this week, along with the single Hello I'm Johnny Cash [streaming video], and has had mixed reviews among some fans on the message boards, but The Press and Media reviews have been overwhelmngly positive.
I think they have come up with the goods again.
The more I listen to it, the more I love it.
It has been a magnificently convoluted journey from the eclectic mix of 'County Acid House Techno Gospel Blues' that was Exile on Cold Harbour Lane, through the darker country tones of La Peste to the Techno beats of Power in the Blood and the pure acoustic blues genius of the Mashville volumes.
Outlaw is an altogether straighter album, rather than throwing everything in the melting pot for each song, they have got things a little tighter, and maybe more accessible to the unconverted?
I guess we should leave the last word to Larry[streaming Audio].
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