Mp3s: The Broken West in Boston
Posted on August 22, 2007 at 10:57 am | No Comments
And here’s another prime example of a band whose album sparked my interest, but whose live show sealed the deal. I was duly impressed by The Broken West‘s Merge Records full-length debut, “I Can’t Go On, I’ll Go On…”, enough to make sure I arrived in time to see them open for the Long Winters back in late March, but can’t say I really “got it” until I saw them run through their material on stage. Their set of finely-constructed, rootsy pop songs was too short by far, so hopefully they’ll be back soon for a headlining gig of their own. Here’s their seven-song performance…
Live at Great Scott
in Allston, Massachusetts
on Thursday, March 29th, 2007
01. Down In The Valley
02. So It Goes
03. Big City
04. Slow
05. Hale Sunrise
06. On The Bubble
07. Brass Ring
Some not-broken Broken West links…
Their official site, Wikipedia entry, MySpace page, and Merge Records page. Audio: Mp3s – “Down In The Valley“, the spotlit track from “I Can’t Go On, I’ll Go On…”. The band also made an excellent live track available for download on their MySpace page, but given how unreliable MySpace is for grabbing files, here it is: “Big City” (live in Seattle, 4/17/07). So Much Silence also has live Mp3s of the band’s performance at SxSW earlier this year. Video: A Broken West YouTube search results in lots of nice live clips. No official videos from the band so far. The band has many upcoming live dates, but unfortunately none near Boston. Listen to all ‘Nac-hosted tracks on the Hype Machine.
the footnote… If anyone has an issue with these Mp3s being made available, just let me know (my contact info in the ‘nac faq). Live sets recorded with a Sony ECM-719 mic and a Sony MZ-RH10 minidisc, converted to .wav and then edited to 192kbps Mp3s. Files are made available for a limited time, and are not reposted once removed.
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