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Soundspike Music Store - Before the Amplifiers-Live Acoustic
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List Price: $11.98
Our Price: $8.14
Your Save: $ 3.84 ( 32% )
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
Manufacturer: Rock Ridge Music
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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0677516116923
Format: Live
Label: Rock Ridge Music
Manufacturer: Rock Ridge Music
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Rock Ridge Music
Release Date: 2008-06-17
Studio: Rock Ridge Music
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Spotlight customer reviews:
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Customer Rating:
Summary: Still a killer band
Comment: Sister Hazel has always been one of my personal favorites and they don't disappoint with this acoustic album....the guys are amazing live, their harmonies are flawless and instrumentation is sick.....still one of the best bands out there, plugged in or acoustic, doesn't matter, they rock....
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Summary: Fantastic
Comment: This CD is one of the best so far from a band that is one of the best live acts I've ever seen (and I've seen most of the best). Ryan Newell....best guitarist you never heard of. If you do nothing else, buy and download Strange Cup of Tea...Ryan's solo is worth the full album price. Man-crush...most definitely.
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Summary: Sister Hazel - Before the Amplifiers
Comment: Sister Hazel is a great band and has put out many great albums. This acoustic live set brings a different sound to some of their classics songs. The cd brings you to the intimate environment in which they were recorded. Great compilation of songs. It is great to have Hold On and Starfish on a Live album.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Excellent
Comment: This is an excellent show of Sister Hazel's talent. The tracks are a great mix of the best Sister Hazel songs through the years. The recording offers insight on who the members of Sister Hazel are and where their inspiration comes from, without taking away from the music. A great buy. Could easily serve as a greatest hits album.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Refreshing!
Comment: You know, I own every single Sister Hazel CD, and my favorites are still the first couple. I like the newer CDs, and I like many of the newer songs, but as a whole, I think the first couple of albums were stronger. I also love acoustic treatments of rock songs. I've heard many of these songs in what you would call "acoustic" formats before at live shows, but usually it was limited to Ken Block and a guitar...more of a solo breakout song while the band regroups backstage before the encore than an actual "acoustic" band set.
This CD takes songs that I've become extremely familiar with and changed them in subtle ways that show a maturity in the playing and singing of the band members that's never really existed before. Ken often throws his voice all over the place and turns a single syllable into 4 or 5 by changing notes a lot at the end of a phrase. On this set, he's singing it more "straight" than I've ever heard.
On this version of their stage staple "Happy," for example, the chorus that usually goes "Happy, I'm happy, but that ain't good enough for you" turns into "happyyyyyyy, that ain't good enough for you."
OK, so when you type it, it doesn't look like a big change, but after hearing it the same way hundreds of times at shows and on CD, to have it suddenly change to something that I honestly feel is much, much better is a revelation. That little part of the song had always annoyed me just a bit, but I overlooked it because it's such a great song in general. To hear it simplified and "fixed" all of the sudden after all this time is great.
There are many such moments on this disc. It is worth 9 dollars. Actually, i'd say it is worth 50 dollars. So buy the CD and buy a couple tickets to a show. Hopefully some of the changes they made for this set have been carried over into the live performance. It will be worth it to find out.
Enjoy!
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Editorial Reviews:
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This 16-song retrospective is a stripped down review of the band's rich past with a glance into the future. Featuring rich vocals, honed melodies, and defined instrumentation, "BTA" offers much to not only the band's core fan base (the HazelNuts), but also to those yet to be converted.
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