Raw and remarkable
Sara is the rare performer who somehow manages to sound even better live than she does on CD. It's almost as if she holds back a little bit in the recording studio, but onstage she really lets loose. This CD and DVD are proof of how strong and pure her voice really is. There's no fancy mixing or post-production here; I saw this tour the night after it was filmed, and she really does sound this remarkable live.
The "Brave Enough" tour was Sara alone onstage with a handful of instruments, telling stories, cutting up with the audience, and playing a mix of new songs, reworked classics and covers. Speaking of the covers, Sara has a knack for taking a beloved song and making it her own. "Hollywood Reporter" even said that her cover of "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road" is "so spine-tingling that -- blasphemous as this might seem -- it might eclipse any rendering of it that Elton himself has ever done." Another highlight of the show is "I Just Want You," a tender, ukulele-backed tune...
PLEASE RELEASE ON BLU-RAY ASAP with UNCOMPRESSED AUDIO! SUCH A GEM! AUDIOPHILES WILL GO CRAZY!
ANYONE - PLEASE LISTEN - THIS MUST BE RELEASED AS A BLU-RAY ASAP - UNCOMPRESSED AUDIO
This is one of the best recordings in recent times. Simple, pure, open, airy, spacious...wonderful.
PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE release this recording on Blu-ray...do not make us wait! It will sell like CRAZY to anybody who loves music and appreciates quality.
Sara Bareilles is Brave Enough and more!
You might say that Sara Bareilles had me at "Love Song" her catchy and first No. 1 hit. But my admiration for her work grew with each release, from "Little Voice" to "Kaleidoscope Heart" to her latest release "The Blessed Unrest". She reeled me in for the kill with her latest single "Brave", a song she says she wrote in part to support a friend of hers who recently came out as a lesbian. As a gay man, I found her especially brave to stand up for the gay community.
"Love Song" and "Brave" are both included here, as glorious stripped down versions, packed full of energy and love for the Atlanta audience who has come to see her. The bond between singer and audience at the Variety Playhouse is palpable. The audience even gets a lovely song Bareilles has written just for them and never recorded on any other record, the heartfelt "I Just Want You".
Bareilles has a stage presence like no other, though you must watch the DVD to fully appreciate it, as the CD is edited...
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