ARTiST: Shawn Mullins
ALBUM: Live At The Variety Playhouse
BiTRATE: 193kbps avg
QUALiTY: EAC Secure Mode / LAME 3.97 Final / -V2 --vbr-new / 44.100Khz
LABEL: Vanguard Records
GENRE: Folk/Rock
SiZE: 99.13 megs
PLAYTiME: 1h 07min 23sec total
RiP DATE: 2008-11-22
STORE DATE: 2008-10-27
Track List:
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01. Beautiful Wreck 4:15
02. All In My Head 4:37
03. The Ballad Of Kathryn Johnston 4:08
04. Anchored In You 3:26
05. Santa Fe 4:40
06. Ballad Of Billy Jo McKay 3:11
07. Fraction Of A Man 2:41
08. Home 3:15
09. Lonesome, I Know You Too Well 2:28
10. Twin Rocks, Oregon 4:19
11. The Gulf Of Mexico 3:47
12. Shimmer 5:16
13. Cabbagetown 4:51
14. Cold Black Heart 4:56
15. Lullaby 4:56
16. House Of The Rising Sun 6:37
Release Notes:
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Shawn Mullins plays his hometown, Atlanta, GA, in this show performed prior to
the release of his 2008 album Honeydew. He previews several songs from that
album, both in the six-song solo set that starts things off and in the nine-song
band set that follows. The new songs fit in well with old favorites, since they
are more story-songs told from the songwriter's wry point of view and sung in
his resonant, soft-spoken tenor. Mullins, dressed in T-shirt, flannel shirt, and
jeans (he adds a sailor's cap for the band set), exudes a warm, comfortable
feeling that allows him to take on politics in the new "For America" (not, he
insists in an interview in the extras, an "antiwar song," but certainly not a
pro-war one, either) and the opposite sex in "Beautiful Wreck" (also presented
in a music video). Mullins may have only scored one real hit, "Lullaby" (he
laments in the interview that he probably should have called it "Rock-A-Bye," a
repeated word from the chorus, since nobody ever knows what the name of the song
is), but he has many catchy songs, and the highlights of his career are present
on this winning performance.