Lucinda WilliamsLive at the Fillmore

Warts-and-all and close enough that the band sounds like it's set up in your living room. Williams' voice swings from plaintive calm to full-throated rage across the set. 'Changed the Locks' snarls with angry electric guitar that bites harder than any studio take. 'Essence' pulls back into hushed, smoky intimacy. Recorded over three nights at the Fillmore in San Francisco in November 2003, twenty-two tracks deep. The rockers hit you in the chest. This is the band caught sweating.