The White Broken Line
Live Recordings (2006)
Juliana Hatfield
- Hotels
- Get In Line
- Oh
- Necessito
- Somebody Is Waiting For Me
- Rats In The Attic
- Choose Drugs
- Ten-Foot Pole
- My Sister
- Down On Me
- My Protégée
- Slow Motion
- Because We Love You
+ ‘hidden’ acoustic track
The long awaited official live album released on Juliana’s own Ye Olde Records label.
A collection of recordings by Tom Dube collected from various live shows between 2002-2005. Full band performances, largely concentrating on the 21st century releases but with the ubiquitous My Sister included perhaps for the casual fan.
A ‘hidden’ track finally surfaces on a Juliana cd - a beautiful acoustic version of Because We Love You and is included at the end of the last track. Thankfully, the song plays soon after the end of the album proper without the common wait of several minutes of silence. As an acoustic track on an electric album, it can be excused because as a ‘bonus’ it works.
Ms Hatfield no doubt has a reason for the somewhat limited tracklisting (by modern standards this is a bit short for a live cd) and the choice and order of songs is rather haphazard with some sloppily edited fade outs.
But nevertheless with the plethora of unofficial bootlegs circulating for many years, it’s a treat to have a professionally recorded document of the Juliana Hatfield live experience. The recording sounds raw and responds well to being played at high volume.
Some beautiful versions of the Beautiful Creature songs and the established standard My Sister sounds reinvigorated.
DOWNLOAD LINKS:
The album was originally a limited edition cd in November 2006, with a reissue in 2007. In May 2009 it was finally available as a digital download from these and other stores: