Sci Fidelity Records
2008
With Moseley, Droll & Sipe (Live)
About This Album
Keller Williams is usually put in the category of "jam band," even though for the better part of his career he has performed alone, creating tape loops to accompany himself. The exceptions to this lonely journey include his albums Grass, a bluegrass collaboration with the Keels, and Dream, which features a raft of guest musicians. But Live is really the first true jam band effort from Williams in the sense that it actually is performed by a jam band, here credited as "Keller Williams with Moseley, Droll & Sipe." That's bassist Keith Moseley, guitarist Gibb Droll, and drummer Jeff Sipe, and this quartet is very much a jam band and very much in the tradition of jam band progenitor the Grateful Dead. That comes across on this album not only in the music, but also in the sprawling length: containing two CDs, each running more than an hour, plus a 90-minute DVD that doesn't overlap with any of the material on the CDs, this package runs more than three-and-a-half hours. Then, too, there are the visuals on the DVD, which is a professional, if rudimentary effort in video terms, taken directly from the feed used on a screen shown to patrons of the shows. There seem to be only a couple of cameras in use, and they tend to stay fixed on particular simple shots of the players, although psychedelic special visual effects, rather like the geometric patterns available on the average computer CD player, break things up.
Track List

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