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Chris Whitley - Living with the Law
Posted on 5/21/19 at 6:19 pm
Posted on 5/21/19 at 6:19 pm
Spent some time listening to this while driving around today and it was like visiting an old friend. Definitely one of my favorite albums of all time but I hadn’t listened to it in a while. Even though it was critically praised when it was released in 1991, it seems like it has been forgotten over time and the 90s are more remembered for grunge, hip hop, and some really shite pop music.
It’s up there IMO with the best albums of that decade. I remember Chris Leblanc telling me he opened up for him once in Baton Rouge and Whitley was “really heavy into the substance vibe” and that surely had to be a contributing factor to his early death.
To me, this album is a got damn masterpiece and Whitley was insanely talented. Contributors included Malcolm Burn and Daniel Lanois (and it was recorded at Lanois’ house in New Orleans).
Phone Call from Leavenworth
Big Sky Country
Living with the Law
Poison Girl
Dust Radio
It’s up there IMO with the best albums of that decade. I remember Chris Leblanc telling me he opened up for him once in Baton Rouge and Whitley was “really heavy into the substance vibe” and that surely had to be a contributing factor to his early death.
To me, this album is a got damn masterpiece and Whitley was insanely talented. Contributors included Malcolm Burn and Daniel Lanois (and it was recorded at Lanois’ house in New Orleans).
Phone Call from Leavenworth
Big Sky Country
Living with the Law
Poison Girl
Dust Radio
This post was edited on 5/21/19 at 6:22 pm
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Posted on 5/21/19 at 6:22 pm to Mister Completely
He was supremely talented and dogged by the dope
His daughter Trixie is cool and Lanois basically raised her
It's a great album
His daughter Trixie is cool and Lanois basically raised her
It's a great album
Posted on 5/21/19 at 6:24 pm to JuiceTerry
Terry - we probably won’t ever agree on politics but we definitely do on this.
And you’re right, Trixie is very gifted too.
And you’re right, Trixie is very gifted too.
Posted on 5/22/19 at 3:23 pm to Mister Completely
One of my all time favorite albums, it’s a creative masterpiece. His vocal phrasing and tonal control was impressive. And all laid against the bare starkness of his gritty as hell guitar. I don’t think it’s possible to do that specific thing he did any better. What an American original he was.
Posted on 5/22/19 at 4:19 pm to Mister Completely
I almost responded in the Keith thread about Chris being a much better musician who made more interesting music. Then I saw this thread and figured I would piss less people off by stating my opinion here.
Posted on 5/23/19 at 6:59 am to Lsupimp
Almost cliché, he died young and broke as hell. Even though I didn’t necessarily like the direction he took with “Din of Ecstasy” and some of the follow up albums, I respect his decision to make the music he wanted to make and not do a couple of “Living with the Law” redux albums to appease Sony.
When John Mayer and Vernon Reid are among some of your biggest fans, I’d say you did something right.
When John Mayer and Vernon Reid are among some of your biggest fans, I’d say you did something right.
Posted on 5/23/19 at 7:52 am to Zappas Stache
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I almost responded in the Keith thread about Chris being a much better musician who made more interesting music. Then I saw this thread and figured I would piss less people off by stating my opinion here.
Watch Chris Whitley cover Robert Johnson’s “Hellhound on My Trail” at the RRHOF. Delta blues legend and “the only guitarist known to have learned to play directly from Robert Johnson” Robert Lockwood Jr told one of Whitley’s crew “tell that boy he plays like 3 men.”
I enjoyed Keith for what he was...but if you want to compete Whitleys, Keith couldn’t hold Chris’s jock.
Hellhound on My Trail
This post was edited on 5/23/19 at 7:59 am
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