The Erykah Badu – Live album is embarrassingly enough an album I discovered pretty recently. I’m really glad I did though.
Erykah Badu - Live
While working on my new page design, I’ve been listening to a lot of good music on Spotify. Brad Mehldau, Kurt Rosenwinkel and Lee Kontiz to name a few of the top played ones. After doing a search on Erykah Badu though, I discovered an album with her that I had not heard before: Erykah Badu – Live. After finding it, I didn’t listen to anything else for a couple of days.
I saw Erykah Badu live for the first time at Stockholm Jazz Festival this summer, one of the best concerts I’ve ever been to and one of the true highlights from the festival. Hearing this album kind of takes me back again, since they really have managed to capture the live feel and the atmosphere of the concert on the album.
Live records are my favorite type of albums, it’s so great to be able to hear the interaction between the artist and the audience. Take the audience response to this amazing line of the song Tyrone for example:
Now everytime I ask you for a little cash, you say no but turn right around and ask me for some ass.
It’s also nice to hear how they play everything live, with eventual flaws still there. In this case the band backing her up is so good it’s ridiculous. Have a listen to the album, you won’t be disappointed.