Random laryngitis post #1

Alternate Title: why he always deserves chocolate chip cookies

I got the new Luke Doucet live record yesterday. I listened to it three times back to back and wished for an excuse for a road trip so as to listen to it properly in a car on a long windy country road. I love it because it's Luke and he's brilliant and this is no exception. He may in fact be my favorite singer/songwriter out there - and he's most assuredly my favorite guitar player.

But it's almost too clean... it comes very close to losing the feel of a live record. Now I don't know if this is testament to his talent or simply a fact of the recording process in this age of computer editing and such... The crowd bit between songs seem awfully polite and mild mannered - and having been to one or two of his shows, I know for a fact that the audience tends to cheer harder and longer and with more whoops and whistles...

But it's a great album! He has made me finally fall in love with Pedro. It was a slow process but I fell with an almost audible clunk when the first notes of this version came through the speakers. And there's a Tom Waits cover I just love... and he finally recorded Annie Lu... and ... oh I should just stop. I love the record ok? Everyone should buy it.

End of rant.