Music Review // Twilight Muse "Collabs: Live at Garcia's at The Cap"

This album is rock, roll, blues and a whole lot of soul.   Throughout these live songs, Twilight Muse can give you not only the vibe of how they sound but how they would sound live.  In terms of music, the live experience always seems to be better than the recorded one and as such during this album we hear the singer say: "Holy fucking shit, right?" to the live crowd.  This also happens to be during the first track when none other than John Popper is doing a guest spot on harmonica.

From "I Will Survive" to "Who Do You Love" and with "Lady Marmalade" in between, Twilight Muse plays the songs that you know but in ways which you might not have thought possible before.  This is a collection of sounds somewhere between a jam band just going in there and having fun and one of the most technical groups of musicians you will ever hear playing together.  With names like George Porter Jr, Robert Randolph, Sierra Green and G. Love making guest spots on here as well this entire album just feels like a giant collective experience.

I often ttink about the days when music wasn't recorded and in order to hear someone play you had to go out and see them live.  While we cannot go back to those days for numerous reasons we might be able to get closer to them simply having these shared live experiences released and then even to have a video come out as well to further the experience.  Listening to music when it is recorded is one thing, but to share that live experience adds a whole other level to it.  

What Twilight Muse has done here is something many other artists cannot do because they have created an album which works on three different levels.  First off, you have the familiarity of this bringing you in with the cover songs.  You're going to recognize the songs and so you're going to feel more compelled to stick around.  But having this be a live album is also going to give you a certain sense of energy, while the third aspect is the collaborations because you might even have found this through an artist other than Twilight Muse.  There are many reasons to listen to this album and the more you listen to it, the more it will feel like it's been with you all along.