I usually have to get used to the Sisters' definitively 60s-based folkie vocal precision (a bit dainty sometimes, no matter how expressive) all over again after not listening for a while, but the MC4 have an arrestingly rich harmonic blend right off---maybe it helps that this set is mostly live---and the effect continues when the McG.s are way up front, confidently reaching out to the audience, though never oversinging---well, "This Train" does sound like something from A Mighty Wind, but that's "This Train," unless maybe Woody G. sang lead: he couldn't chirp if his life depended on it, and wouldn't anyway---also, "Dark as a Dungeon" zips by like most others, too fast to register in this case, but otherwise they do slow down when appropriate, which is not too often. Really good range of material, too.
― dow, Sunday, 8 January 2023 20:53 (one year ago) link