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Jack Ingram - Live Wherever You Are
- Feel-good live hits by a guy who can’t help but let you know that he’s an icon. It’s all harmless country rock and there’s not much I can say about it, good or bad. That the first track features Mr. Ingram introducing his songs is not so much a bother, but the need to include a flattering live introduction to the band as well as Ingram’s personal introduction to several of the songs seems a little masturbatory to me. Ingram’s isn’t the only band to pull this stuff, but it’s no less annoying when he does it. This band rises above the others, in my humble opinion, not through the power of Ingram’s voice, but through the guitar accompaniment.
All that said, I did enjoy “Biloxi,” Ingram’s tribute to the little Mississippi town famous for its political corruption, crappy gambling barges and more recently known as the “city besides New Orleans” to get stuck in the mud during the Katrina disaster. The song avoids any mention of the disaster and the post-hurricane relief efforts or lack thereof and instead concentrates on the town’s past culture: gambling and general rot. The disaster is left as an understood factor between Ingram and the audience and it’s a pretty song in that live environment. The rest of the stuff, all played out as personal moments in Ingram’s humble, heartland life—“Let me tell you about this girl I met in Dallas,” he says as an intro to the song, “Barbie Doll”—just doesn’t leave me with any desire to suddenly see the south he’s so intent on singing about.
Reviewer: Alexander Rogers
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Reviewer's Rating: 5.5
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Added: 14-May-2006
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