Live at the Cafe Carpe explained

Live at the Cafe Carpe
Type:Live album
Artist:Redbird
Cover:RedbirdLiveattheCafeCarpe.jpg
Released:January 25, 2011
Recorded:December 2008
Genre:Americana, folk
Length:52:40
Label:Signature Sounds
Prev Title:Redbird
Prev Year:2003

Live at the Cafe Carpe (or more completely Live at the Cafe Carpe: Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin, December 2008 & 2009) is a live recording by Redbird (Jeffrey Foucault, Kris Delmhorst and Peter Mulvey), released in 2011.

Reception

Writing for Allmusic, critic William Ruhlman wrote that of the album, "In putting together a repertoire to play to live audiences, the trio sometimes risks coming off as a novelty act, however, as they get laughs for "What Made Milwaukee Famous (Has Made a Loser Out of Me)" and the group-written "Phonebooth of Love." Such numbers serve as light entertainment and changes of pace in a show, but don't work as well on repeated listenings of a disc. Still, the singers in Redbird have a workable concept for their group..."

Track listing

  1. "I'm Beginning to See the Light" (Duke Ellington, Don George, Johnny Hodges, Harry James) – 2:56
  2. "Strangers" (Kris Delmhorst) – 3:18
  3. "What Made Milwaukee Famous (Has Made a Loser Out of Me)" (Glenn Sutton) – 3:10
  4. "Come All Ye Fair and Tender Ladies" (Traditional) – 5:37
  5. "For the Turnstiles" (Neil Young) – 4:47
  6. "Ships" (Greg Brown) – 3:20
  7. "Snowed In" (David Goodrich) – 4:12
  8. "Let the Mermaids Flirt with Me" (Mississippi John Hurt) – 3:01
  9. "Silver Wings" (Merle Haggard) – 3:58
  10. "Ooh La La" (Ronnie Lane, Ronnie Wood) – 3:33
  11. "Phonebooth of Love" (Delmhorst, Jeffrey Foucault, Goodrich, Peter Mulvey, Barry Rothman) – 4:21
  12. "Stewart's Coat" (Rickie Lee Jones) – 3:58
  13. "Sad, Sad, Sad, Sad (And Far Away from Home)" (Mulvey) – 2:54
  14. "4 & 20 Blues" (Foucault) – 3:35

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