Sunday, August 19, 2007

The Hold Steady - Live at Fingerprints

For a band characterized by its loud hard rock guitar and vocals that can come off as pretty aggressive at times, it may seem out of place for them to release an album of their acoustic set played live at Fingerprints in Long Beach, California. What makes this release even stranger is the addition of an accordion, which actually doesn’t seem as strange once you hear how good it sounds paired with Craig Finn’s stories of teenage escapades. The track list includes “Cattle and the Creeping Things” from their second album, Separation Sunday, three songs from 2006’s Boys and Girls in America (“Chips Ahoy”, “You Can Make Him Like You” and” Citrus”) and the B-Side “You Gotta Dance (With Who You Came to the Dance With)”.

One thing I hate about bands is that when they play live, a lot of the time they merely recreate exactly the song the way it was played on the album. This is definitely not true of The Hold Steady based on the live footage I have seen and obviously they sound pretty different on this acoustic EP. Craig Finn fiddles around with the lyrics, extending and switching around the words when he sings (speaks?). The front man also offers some amusing between song banter, introducing and talking about the songs which are always a great thing to include in live albums. Guitarist Tad Kubler keeps the rhythm going on the acoustic guitar while a lot of the lead guitar and keyboard parts are played by the accordion manned by keyboard and harmonica player Franz Nicolay.

All in all this live EP gives fans of the Hold Steady to hear a different take on some of their great songs and a B-Side you maybe never heard before.

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