Live @ The Fillmore
Live album by
Lucinda Williams
ReleasedMay 10, 2005
RecordedNovember 20–22, 2003
GenreAmericana, alternative country,
country rock, folk-rock,
heartland rock, blues rock
Length115:36
LabelLost Highway
ProducerLucinda Williams
Taras Prodaniuk
Lucinda Williams chronology
World Without Tears
(2003)		 Live @ The Fillmore
(2005)		 West
(2007)

Live at the Fillmore (stylized as Live @ The Fillmore) is a live album by American singer-songwriter Lucinda Williams, her eighth album overall, released on May 10, 2005, by Lost Highway Records.

Recorded in November 2003 during a three-night stand in San Francisco,[1] the double album was met with critical acclaim, and debuted at No. 66 on the Billboard 200.[2]

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic73/100[3]
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic link
Blender link
Pitchfork Media(7.3/10) link
Rolling Stone link

At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications, the album received an average score of 73, based on 12 reviews.[3] Critic Robert Christgau rated it highly for the live performance, but criticized it for only containing album tracks, including 11 from her previous album, 2003's World Without Tears. In his written review, Christgau stated "There's no point questioning Lucinda Williams's talent, or her perfectionism. Of course her first live album sounds dandy. There isn't a bad song or performance on it. Unfortunately, there isn't a new song or performance on it either".[4]

AllMusic rated the album 4 out of a possible 5 stars, writing "as Williams searches through the nooks and crannies of her songs, you sense she's discovering things that she didn't expect to find, and it's a tremendous thing to hear," concluding that she "is an artist who writes from her soul, and she's thoroughly unafraid of letting her passion show when she sings. If that makes for strained technique, it also results in very real art, and this album offers a privileged glimpse of a singular songwriter in full flight".[1]

Track listing

All tracks written by Lucinda Williams.[5]

Disc one

  1. "Ventura" – 5:06
  2. "Reason to Cry" – 4:22
  3. "Fruits of My Labor" – 5:04
  4. "Out of Touch" – 7:21
  5. "Sweet Side" – 4:45
  6. "Lonely Girls" – 4:28
  7. "Overtime" – 4:16
  8. "Blue" – 4:22
  9. "Changed the Locks" – 4:07
  10. "Atonement" – 5:58

Disc two

  1. "I Lost It" – 3:27
  2. "Pineola" – 4:04
  3. "Righteously" – 4:55
  4. "Joy" – 8:19
  5. "Essence" - 7:16
  6. "Real Live Bleeding Fingers and Broken Guitar Strings" – 4:57
  7. "Are You Down" – 6:29
  8. "Those Three Days" – 5:02
  9. "American Dream" – 5:23
  10. "World Without Tears" – 4:42
  11. "Bus to Baton Rouge" – 6:26
  12. "Words Fell" – 4:34

Digital Bonus EP (released to digital retailers on August 23, 2005)

  1. "Passionate Kisses" – 2:53
  2. "I Just Wanted to See You So Bad" – 2:19
  3. "Still I Long For Your Kiss" – 4:57
  4. "Metal Firecracker" – 3:41

Personnel

  • Lucinda Williams – vocals, acoustic and electric guitar
  • Doug Pettibone – lead guitars, pedal & lap steel guitars, mandolin, harmonica, background vocals
  • Taras Prodaniuk – bass, background vocals
  • Jim Christie – drums, percussion, keys

Charts

Chart performance for Live at the Fillmore
Chart (2005) Peak
position
Australian Albums (ARIA)[6] 110
Dutch Albums (Album Top 100)[7] 69
Italian Albums (FIMI)[8] 46
Swedish Albums (Sverigetopplistan)[9] 43
US Billboard 200[2] 66

References

  1. 1 2 Live @ The Fillmore - AllMusic review
  2. 1 2 "Billboard 200 > Lucinda Williams". Billboard. Retrieved 2021-10-02.
  3. 1 2 "Reviews for Live @ the Fillmore by Lucinda Williams". Metacritic. Retrieved October 2, 2021.
  4. ↑ www.robertchristgau.com
  5. ↑ Live @ the Fillmore (booklet). Lucinda Williams. Lost Highway Records. 2005.{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)
  6. ↑ "Lucinda Williams chart history". Retrieved 2021-10-02 – via imgur.com.
  7. ↑ "Dutch Charts > Lucinda Williams". Dutch Album Top 100. Retrieved 2021-10-02.
  8. ↑ "Italiancharts.com – Lucinda Williams – Live @ the Fillmore". Hung Medien. Retrieved October 28, 2022.
  9. ↑ "Swedish Charts > Lucinda Williams". Sverigetopplistan. Retrieved 2021-10-02.
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