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"11/12/13: Live in Melbourne"
With singers and songwriters this involving
and accomplished, a voice and a guitar will more than do. As
two of Nashville's least compromising artists, Kieran Kane and
Kevin Welch have mastered what it takes to make less count for
more. On Welch's "While I Was Loving You," Kane provides
percussion by squeaking his strings; on Kane's "If I Could
Be There," the two sing over thumped guitars; and on the
O'Kanes classic "When We're Gone, Long Gone," they
harmonize like long lost friends. On these last two nights of
their first Australian tour, they swap new and familiar songs
with a no-frills intensity, nearly every performance transcending
previous incarnations. John Hiatt's "Train to Birmingham"
will never sound truer than in Welch's deeply scarred reading,
while Kane's "Town This Size" now sounds like a pure
country classic waiting to happen. In letting some of their finest
songs speak for themselves, Kieran Kane and Welch have made a
record of Spartan grace and understated but clear conviction.
--Roy Kasten |
Customer review from Amazon
Reviewer: Amy Beth Hale from Tennessee
That quote is from the, well, let's
call them liner notes of this CD. It really fits this CD well,
this quote, because you feel like you are there. Experiencing
every song and every breath with these two fabulously talented
singer-songwriters. From "Something 'Bout You" to "When
We're Gone, Long Gone" and every song in between, this CD
shows the talent of these two. Kevin's rendition of the John
Hiatt song "Train to Birmingham" may well be my favorite
on this disc but every song is delivered perfectly. This album
is ideal for savvy Americana fans as well as fans of those "writers
nights" experienced in a listening room in Nashville. It
showcases not only their songwriting skills but also their ability
to deliver a stunning and meaningful performance as an artist.
This album is truly simple in some ways but terribly complex
in others and to write a review of such an album is a diffcult
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