Live at Martyrs' (album)

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Live at Martyrs'
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Live album by
ReleasedMay 16, 2000
RecordedAugust 12–14, 1999
Genre Rock
Length47:25
Label Messenger Records
Producer John Alagía
Chris Whitley chronology
Dirt Floor
(1998)
Live at Martyrs'
(2000)
Perfect Day
(2000)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
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Entertainment Weekly B+ [3]

Live at Martyrs' is the fifth album by singer-songwriter and guitarist, Chris Whitley and his first live album. The performance is a compilation of songs from Whitley's first four albums ( Living with the Law (1991), Din of Ecstasy (1995), Terra Incognita (1997), and Dirt Floor (1998)), a previous collaboration, and two songs that would later appear on Rocket House (2001).

Contents

It was produced by John Alagía and recorded over three consecutive nights in August 1999 at Martyrs' in Chicago, Illinois. It was co-mixed and co-engineered by Alagía and Jeff Juliano (assisted by Ken Helie) at Shelter Island Sound in New York City.

Whitley released the album independently and sold the CDs at his shows a year before the Messenger Records release.

Track listing

All tracks written by Chris Whitley unless otherwise noted.

  1. "Dirt Floor" – 2:11
  2. "Long Way Around" – 4:01
  3. "Firefighter" – 2:27
  4. "God Thing" – 2:32
  5. "Poison Girl" – 3:13
  6. "New Machine" – 3:03
  7. "Living with the Law" – 3:43
  8. "WPL" – 2:52
  9. "The Model" (Karl Bartos, Ralf Hütter, Emil SchultKraftwerk) – 3:01
  10. "Home is Where You Get Across" – 3:22
  11. "From One Island to Another" – 2:53
  12. "Serve You" – 3:21
  13. "Narcotic Prayer" – 3:51
  14. "Big Sky Country" / "Gasket" – 6:55

Personnel

References

  1. Swihart, Stanton. "Live at Martyrs'". AllMusic. Retrieved August 3, 2017.
  2. Christgau, Robert. "Chris Whitley". Robert Christgau.
  3. Scherman, Tony (June 1, 2000). "Live at Martyrs'". EW.com. Retrieved August 3, 2017.