Christine Lavin, Sometimes Mother Really Does Know Best - 1h 13m 24s

Tracks & Durations

1. Strangers Talk To Me In Colorado Springs On A Thursday Night	2:31
2. Rocky Mountain... H	0:33
3. Wind Chimes	4:26
4. You should have seen the frightened looks on your faces	0:23
5. What kind of ridiculous glamour trajectory am I on?	3:00
6. What Was I Thinking?	2:57
7. Martha Stewart... Victoria's Secret... Bob Dylan... Pachelbel?	0:44
8. The Tacobel Canon	1:11
9. Steve... you are so buste	1:03
10. A Question Of Tempo (When I'm Under Pressure)	1:46
11. Planet X	7:35
12. Planet? Planot? Goofy?	2:35
13. Who are the braniacs in the house tonight?	2:36
14. Bernice, Carol, and tonight's crowd compete for the Science Prize	7:37
15. You Look Pretty Good For Your Age	5:46
16. Art Jensen, Mr. Colorado Springs, your life will never be the same	2:56
17. Flashback to 1956: How do you spell 'Cassiopeia'?	1:29
18. D of all baseball fans	1:29
19. Ballad of A Ballgame	7:41
20. Tadium	9:18
21. Sometimes Mother Really Does Know Best	5:37

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Review

The hilarious Christine Lavin literally shines in live performance as she straps on a miner's headlamp and twirls her glowing batons. But the real sparkle comes from Lavin's sung and spoken wit - this singer-songwriter-guitarist regales and involves her fans with riotously acute original songs, comic monologues, quizzes, contests, and, in this case, her quest to identify Mr. Colorado Springs in the audience at the 2003 benefit concert captured on this CD.

"Sometimes Mother Really Does Know Best" is the award-winning Ms. Lavin's seventeenth album in a recording career that stretches back to 1981. Some songs here have appeared on her previous CDs, but never like this! One of Christine's signature compositions, "What Was I Thinking?," resurfaces with updated needling of Martha Stewart, while the affectionately rueful "You Look Pretty Good for Your Age" is wrapped around Christine's search for Mr. Colorado Springs. Five other favorites are captured "live" for the first time, including the tropical ordeal of "Wind Chimes and the anthem of the uncoordinated, "Ballad of a Ballgame." There are also three new songs here.

At least half the fun of this CD comes from Christine's giddy but incisively sarcastic song intros and a half-dozen comic monologues. "What kind of a ridiculous glamour trajectory am I on?" conveys her outrage at being mistaken for an ex-nun and a lunch lady; "Bernice, Carol, and tonight's crowd compete for the science prize" is a quiz that involves such brain teasers as "How many roads MUST a man walk down before they call him a man?"

Armed only with a guitar, a Boomerang sampling device that multiplies and delays her vocals into harmonies and swirling rounds, a wry, mocking self-awareness and boundless insight into contemporary culture, the Christine Lavin live experience is just as funny when heard at home, as preserved on this disc. Lighten up and laugh for almost 75 minutes!

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