Fats Domino: Live From Austin, TX - Austin City Limits CD Track Listing

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Fats Domino Live From Austin, TX - Austin City Limits (1986)
Originally Released July 25, 2006\nOriginally Recorded October 22, 1986\n\nAMG EXPERT REVIEW: "Walking to New Orleans" might be a more touching song post-Hurricane Katrina than it ever was in 1986. With thousands of New Orleanians displaced across the United States after the hurricane lay wreck across much of the gulf coast in August of 2005, the song offers comfort, though bittersweet, to those whom, even as the years pass, will still not be able to return to their homes. "Walking to New Orleans" accompanies "Blueberry Hill," "Ain't That a Shame" and other Fats Domino hits on Live from Austin, TX, released nearly a year after the devastation of Hurricane Katrina. Recorded live for Austin City Limits on October 22, 1986, Fats Domino's "Live from Austin, TX" is one of the best live recordings available from the artist. Released 20 years after it was recorded, Fats Domino fans should rejoice. From the nostalgic charm of the songs featured to the impeccable production quality, Live from Austin, TX is a treasure. Somehow, the album captures Domino's charismatic presence to the point where it seems to pluck his smiling, plump self up from his piano bench and put him right next to the listener. The heavy horn section in each song is a complement to Domino's rich vocals and Southern charm. Released post-Hurricane Katrina, the album perhaps has more meaning today. Fats Domino is an icon -- one among many -- of 20th century New Orleans music. Though some might say the food is king, music is essentially New Orleans' greatest export. Therefore, one of the most painful blows dealt by Katrina to the Big Easy was the displacement of thousands of musicians, many of whom had lived in New Orleans their entire lives and used the city as a Muse as well as a life blood. In Katrina's aftermath, many of the city's quintessential musical artists, like Irma Thomas and Doc Watson (as well as those lesser known outside the region), were forced to relocate throughout the United States. Domino stayed. In the days after the hurricane, the then-77-year-old musician had to be rescued from his home in New Orleans' Lower Ninth Ward; one of the areas hardest hit by flooding after levees failed. In 2006, Domino was chosen as a headliner for the first post-Katrina New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival. The event was remarkable, and the choice of Domino as the artist to be featured on the official festival poster extended the sense of pride felt by New Orleanians for their city. Unfortunately, when it came time for him to perform, it was announced that he was too ill. Instead, Lionel Richie was to take his place. Disappointment was as thick as the humidity, but Domino did take the stage, if only to wave to the audience. He might not be feeling up to performing live at this stage of his life, but thankfully Live from Austin, TX provides an exceptional listening experience that is not subject to natural disaster. -- Megan Frye\n\nAmazon.com Product Description\nThe Live From Austin, Texas series gets a taste of New Orleans on it latest release. Fats Domino, synonymous with New Orleans, rips it up on the Austin City Limits stage during this amazing performance. This Live From Austin, Texas performance includes all his classic songs from Blueberry Hill to I'm Walking and Ain't That a Shame. Also avalable on DVD\n\nAMAZON.COM CUSTOMER REVIEW\nClassic Domino Show Captured On DVD, August 9, 2006\nReviewer: Todd Baptista (Westport, MA USA)\nOriginally broadcast on PBS-TV's Austin City Limits in 1987, this performance is among Domino's finest on film, a 17-track fast-paced romp through his biggest hits and several seldom-heard classics. The sound and video transfer is excellent and Domino is in fine voice throughout. The band, including Dave Bartholomew, Lee Allen, Herb Hardesty, and the great, underrated bass Erving Charles, is the same dynamic lineup that toured extensively with Fats in the 1980s. \nFour songs have been added to the original lineup that was broadcast on TV- "I'm In Love Again"/"Honey Chile", "Three Nights A Week", "All By Myself", and "Let The Four Winds Blow" where the singer-pianist uncharacteristically blows the opening lyric lines. Two minor issues keep this from getting 5 stars. The compilers decided to move "Blueberry Hill" from second to 14th in the running order, but in doing so they leave Fats saying "I'm going to stick with songs starting with B" after "I'm Walkin'". It's trivial- but sloppy. Also, inexplicably, this DVD, at 50 minutes, does not include three songs from the original TV broadcast- "I'm Gonna Be A Wheel Someday", the frantic instrumental "Swanee River Hop", and the 11-minute "When The Saints Go Marchin' In"/"Sentimental Journey" finale that closed all of Domino's shows. The material could have easily fit onto the disc. Still, these minor quibbles should not stop fans from picking up this DVD as a fine example of Fats Domino and his band in concert.\n\nAMAZON.COM CUSTOMER REVIEW (DVD)\nThe King of New Orleans holds court in Austin, Texas!, August 27, 2006\nReviewer: Calvin Stout (Des Moines, Iowa - USA)\nThis DVD available performance is over 20 years-old and it still \nbrought tears of joy watching it. Fats Domino was 58 years old when he performed on Austin City Limits. It might as well have been 1949 or 1959. Fats is one of an extremly few, and I do mean extremely few, artists who sound in a live performance just as they do on their original recordings. Many of the great players who have been a part of Fats' recording career were on hand for this concert. Dave Bartholomew, Lee Allen, Freddie Kemp and the still "master of the sax" Herb Hardesty. \nFats and his crew were in top shape for this affair and they most obviously were having fun. Of course, in a 17 song concert \nthere were some great hits that had to be missed. Most notably absent were the top 10 hits "Valley Of Tears" and its flip side top 10 hit "It's You I Love". Also no time for "Whole Lotta Lovin' or "Be My Guest". But it was great to witness his perfomances of other top 20 classics "My Blue Heaven", "Let The Four Winds Blow", "My Girl Josephine" "Three Nights A Week" and the vastly undervalued "I'm Ready. Fats didn't forget the pre-"Blueberry Hill" hits either. "Poor Me", "All My Myself" and the top 10 hit "Ain't That A Shame" (Incorectly labeled "Ain't It A Shame" when it was released in 1955). \nYou don't even have to be a Fats fanatic, such as I, to enjoy this DVD 100%. If you've ever heard a Fats Domino song that should be enough motivation for you to pick up this DVD.\n\nHalf.com N/A
This rock cd contains 17 tracks and runs 47min 20sec.
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