- Audio CD (May 8 2001)
- Number of Discs: 2
- Format: Import, Live
- Label: Signature
- ASIN: B00005BGKE
- Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
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Track Listings
| Disc: 1 | |||
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| 1. Intro | |||
| 2. Freight Train | |||
| 3. 105 | |||
| 4. Mighty Big Car | |||
| 5. White Trash | |||
| 6. Good Enough | |||
| 7. Livin' Out On the Road | |||
| 8. Carter | |||
| 9. Time To Get A Gun | |||
| 10. Flowers In The Dell | |||
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| Disc: 2 | |||
| 1. Pretty Good Guy | |||
| 2. John Deere | |||
| 3. Carmelita | |||
| 4. Benchseat Baby | |||
| 5. Spookin' The Horses | |||
| 6. Crazier | |||
| 7. Big Hair | |||
| 8. I Like Trains | |||
| 9. Rodeo Boy | |||
| 10. Crashin' & Burnin' | |||
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Product Description
From Amazon.com
In their inimitable 1958 Wayne touring bus, stuffed with flea-market couches and a propane stove, Fred Eaglesmith and the Flying Squirrels have spent the last decade descending from Canada to play any venue that will have them. These two discs generously capture the fury and fun of their live gigs, despite the track fade-outs and the absence of Eaglesmith's hilarious between-song storytelling. The set includes the previously unrecorded (for good reason) novelty tunes "White Trash," "Big Hair," and "How's Ernie?" yet another car song "Benchseat Baby," but also "John Deere" and "Carmelita," rare gems that stand with the best of Eaglesmith's working-class portraits. He growls and snarls through every line, while his cohorts--including human salvage yard Washboard Hank, distortion-pedal-loving mandolinist Willie P. Bennett, and harmony vocalist and bassist Ralph Schipper (whose last show the set documents)--rock like punks on a mission. --Roy Kasten
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4.0 out of 5 stars
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This review is from: Ralph's Last Show: Live in Santa Cruz (Audio CD)
Just what you probably think you don't need--yet another two-disc thematic song suite on an indie label. "Ralph's Last Show" (named for the bandmate whose green card has since expired) sounds like the worst sort of treacle in theory--songs about trains, old cars, old loves, even, so help me, one about an old dog. In reality these are beautifully observed, sometimes sweet, often hilarious songs written by a journeyman Canadian folkie whose voice has just the right amount of road- (if not world-)weariness in it. All that and an Appalachian murder ballad that sounds more authentic than anything Gillian Welch has thus far come up with.Docked a notch only for spreading two 40 min. sets across two cds when both would've easily fit on one.
5.0 out of 5 stars
Torn between 4 and 5 stars.,
By A Customer
This review is from: Ralph's Last Show: Live in Santa Cruz (Audio CD)
FOUR car songs, three train songs, a tractor song, and a bunch of awesome non-machinery songs too... I'd label it country/folk with an edge, with tons of fiddling in the background. Unless you hate that kind of music, what's not to like?Well, it comes in a cardboard sleeve with no lyric sheets, and parts of it wouldn't play in my finicky old CD player, probably because the CDs got a little warped in transit because of the cheesy packaging. (The lyrics are pretty clear in the songs, so not having a lyric sheet isn't a crisis. The songs I could play on the old player were good enough to justify purchasing a new CD/DVD player the day after I got the CD, which plays both disks just fine.) "Flowers in the Dell" is a little creepy. And after a while the album's overall vocal and musical roughness got on my nerves, so I had to play something else for a bit. Still, it's an amazing album, too good to knock down a whole star. But if 4.5 was an option, it'd be that.
5.0 out of 5 stars
Torn between 4 and 5 stars.,
By serns (Long Beach, CA USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Ralph's Last Show: Live in Santa Cruz (Audio CD)
FOUR car songs, three train songs, a tractor song, and a bunch of awesome non-machinery songs too... I'd label it country/folk with an edge, with tons of fiddling in the background. Unless you hate that kind of music, what's not to like?Well, it comes in a cardboard sleeve with no lyric sheets, and parts of it wouldn't play in my finicky old CD player, probably because the CDs got a little warped in transit because of the cheesy packaging. (The lyrics are pretty clear in the songs, so not having a lyric sheet isn't a crisis. The songs I could play on the old player were good enough to justify purchasing a new CD/DVD player the day after I got the CD, which plays both disks just fine.) "Flowers in the Dell" is a little creepy. And after a while the album's overall vocal and musical roughness got on my nerves, so I had to play something else for a bit. Still, it's an amazing album, too good to knock down a whole star. But if 4.5 was an option, it'd be that.
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