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- Cert:
- Cat.no: 5997929
- Running time: 123 minutes
- Year: 2004
- Pressing: 2004
- Region(s): 2, PAL
- Sound: Dolby Digital 5.1
- Languages: English
- Widescreen: 1.78:1
- Disc Format: DVD 9
- Price: £17.99
- Rating: 6/10
- Booklet: Credits and colour photographs
- Extras: Bonus Out-take tracks, Music Videos, Mini-documentaries
Put your feet up and enjoy a relaxing evening in the presence of Norah Jones and her guests.
Shes come a long way since her debut album Come Away With Me in 2001.Her quadruple platinum follow-up, Feels Like Home, showed greater writingskills, and was re-released in September with a DVD showing snippets of herperforming in Teatro Nuevo Alcala, Madrid in March. This DVD builds on that,proving shes not only grown in confidence, but also in stature.
Filmed at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville Texas on 8th & 9th August 2004,she dips into tracks from both best-selling albums. Demure songbird Jones isresponsible for opening the flood gates of contemporary Jazz artists having aflourishing career like Katie Melua, and Jamie Cullum, who soon followed inher footsteps.
Though not strictly Jazz, she blends it with a unique fusion of Country musicand lightweight ballads. Backed by her superb and multi-talented HandsomeBand, they add some real beef the studio recordings. You could say why notjust listen to the CDs? Then you would miss out on Miss Jones really comingalive as a blossoming performer, from rehearsal takes, concert footage toworking with Dolly Parton.
Musical highlights include the introduction of Dolly, as she almost steals theshow on Creepin In – a real country blast. Friend Richard Julian joinsher in a great cover of John Prines Thats The Way That The World Goes Round,then Gillian Welch and David Rawlings, both Country specialists, form a brillianttrio with Jones on the Townes Van Zandt classic Loretta.
The bonus out-take tracks are from rehearsal sessions and concert, which Ifound annoying. Why take them out and the put them in such a disjointed format?Mini-documentaries 24 Hours on the Handsome Bus gives us an insightto life on the road and the logistical setting up for a gig: lights, sound etc.Robbie and Adams Guitar Tour is nothing more than the two musicianstalking about their own instruments.
The full list of tracks included are :
1. What Am I Too You?
2. Sunrise
3. Those Sweet Words
4. In The Morning
5. Carnival Town
6. Thats The Way That The World Goes Round
7. Humble Pie
8. Dont Miss You At All9. The Long Way Home
10. Dont Know Why
11. Creepin In
12. The Prettiest Thing
13. Moon Song
14. Above Ground
15. Loretta
16. Life Is A Carnival
Elly Roberts passed away in 2011, but he was a man who was so passionate about all types of music and loved meeting his musical heroes, such as Mick Hucknall at a book signing at the Trafford Centre, Manchester in 2007.
A former teacher and also a music journalist, DJ and radio presenter on local community station Calon FM, plus appearances on BBC Radio Wales, BBC Radio Cymru and BBC Radio 2, Elly started doing reviews for DVDfever.co.uk in 2004 and he did the majority of the CD and concerts reviews on the website.
I know also that he loved getting away for the summer to Spain and I hope that wherever he is now he is enjoying the hot sunshine and, as one of his friends has said on his Facebook page, that he is interviewing his musical heroes.