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Live from the American Ballroom | 
 enlarge | Artist: Donna The Buffalo
Label: Donna the Buffalo
Category: Music
List Price: $25.98
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Rating:  6 reviews
Sales Rank: 40941
Format: Live
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 2
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
UPC: 616895312328
EAN: 0616895312328
ASIN: B00005YJDI
Release Date: January 15, 2002
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Condition: Factory sealed and in perfect condition. 6C
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| Tracks:
Disc 1
| • | In This Life | | • | Tides Of Time | | • | America | | • | Family Picture | | • | Riddle Of The Universe | | • | If You Only Could | | • | Seems To Want To Hurt This Time |
Disc 2
| • | Standing Room Only | | • | Ancient Arms | | • | Come To Life | | • | Revelation Two-Step | | • | Push Comes To Shove | | • | Living In Babylon | | • | Conscious Evolution | | • | There Must Be |
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| Editorial Reviews:
Amazon.com
Donna the Buffalo--hard to categorize, but easy to love--are meant to be heard live. The six-member group thrives on jams and grooves, blending, bending, and veering from Appalachian country to Cajun, reggae, zydeco, folk, and roots rock often in the same song (check out the nearly 13-minute "Conscious Evolution"). Frequently compared to the Grateful Dead, DTB evoke Jerry Garcia and pals, both musically and with their rabid, nomadic fan base (the Herd). But in mixing tribal celebration with spiritual, social, and political issues, the band, which travels the country in a 1960 tour bus, recalls so many other hippie-era ensembles that this two-CD 2001 concert recording might as well have been cut at the Fillmore in '68. Jeb Puryear's electric guitar hearkens, at times, to the plaintive scorching of Big Brother & the Holding Company, and yet the group also knows the importance of melody, as on "Family Picture," where Tara Nevins anchors the lyrics and rides them over a driving beat and a riff so infectious you'll be reaching for the repeat button. Two discs might be stretching things a bit, but put on a tie-dyed T-shirt and light up a smoke, and you'll be clamoring for space on that bus. --Alanna Nash
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| Customer Reviews:
 Great live show July 4, 2008
Leslie Clement (Antioch, CA)
If you're a Deadhead you should love Donna the Buffalo. This is a great jam band with wonderful musicians that play really well together and enjoy each other's company. Apparently they are huge on the East Coast, but have yet to make it out here to the Left Coast.
Great energy, good vocals and a wonderful crowd presence make this a "must have" for those who enjoy this genre of music.
 Good times, only fair musicianship May 24, 2006
The Lyricologist
Donna The Buffalo is good times music. No matter what your mood, put on some DTB and you're gonna smile and feel like shufflin' around the floor. In particular, Tara Nevins is a fine fiddler and a singer in a vein similar to a young Emmylou Harris.
DTB are some of the best songwriters in the jamband scene, they write songs with great hooks and they can sure mine a beat. Unfortunately, what doesn't come across as their strong suit on this release is their relatively limited ability to stretch out and jam. If you're looking for great instruemental solos, this one is likely to leave you lacking.
Normally, I prefer live releases over studio discs by any given artist on any given day, but this one just didn't do it for me. DTB has three excellent(!) studio releases in "Rockin' In the Weary Land", "Positive Friction", and "Life's a Ride", all of which get more listens (and smiles!) from me than this one.
Sure, listening to this you can tell the audience was having a party - but their studio albums will have you dancin' and grinnin' even more than this one.
The music of DTB absolutely WILL make you happy, but I'd start with their other releases first. 2 1/2 stars.
Happy, happy tunes August 6, 2004
Ryan McNabb (Ooltewah, TN USA)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
I really, really like Donna the B. This is the band that brought me out of my post Garcia blues, the first band that wrote songs that were so engaging I played the discs over and over again. I wore out, literally, Positive Friction and bought a second copy. This double live LP is less good, but still definitely worth owning. The recording is a little lifeless from a technical standpoint, but then it's live, and maybe they didn't have the best sound that day. Or those days. But be that as it may, this is wonderful, happy jam music, highly recommended. I know they aren't the Dead, not by a mile, nor do they wish to be, but this music made me perk up my ears when nothing else did.
2 Live CD's, 1 Accordion, 1 Washboard. March 6, 2004
Brett Lemke (www.maximumink.com)
Donna The Buffalo provides a young-blooded backcountry twist to the American South. Their new double-album "Live From The American Ballroom" illustrates their ability to capture an audience, and shows how an accordion and washboard can truly make a band unique. "Live" was recorded during Donna The Buffalo's spring tour of 2001, incorporating country melodies and rhythms against rock and a touch of Zydeco. "Ancient Arms" and "Come To Life" stand alone against the rest of the album. The lineup features Jim Miller on guitar/banjo, Richie Stearns on organ, Jed Greenberg on bass, and Tom Gilbert on drums. Tara Nevins and Jeb Puryear take care of writing the material, adding their expertise on guitar and fiddle/washboards respectively. "Live Form The American Ballroom" will satisfy the hayseed hippie in anyone regardless of age. The band's official website lays the foundation for the music, providing links to their mp3's and breakdowns of the equipment and set materials. Check it out at www.donnathebuffalo.com
Not as great as i would expect July 31, 2002
3 out of 12 found this review helpful
I was at Bonnaroo when I first heard the sounds of the acordian as I was passing by one of the many stages, I asked who it was and becuase of the busy schedule of the festival could not stick around so I later came to buy the CD here on Amazon and was not as impressed I was was hoping.I will give them some credit on thier instrumentation, the acordian, wash board and fiddle, all played by Nevans,acompanied by keys drums bass and two guitars, give the group some flavor, but they don't do much with it. The melody lines are bouncy and cheerful for the most part but they never go anywhere with the jams, and you end up getting only the repetitive arodian melodies stuck in your head wich might also be due to poor mastering.Nevans vocals are sweet sounding but almost too sweet, a mix between Sarah Mclachan and Edie Brickell, which is good i just have a hard time rocking out to such a sweet female voice. As far as the other lead vocalist which I think is one of the guitar players, he has kind of a Bob Dylan sounding voice but again isn't mixed well and is just plain hard to understand. Don't get me wrong, seeing them live could very well be a good time and as far as the CD goes will be good backround music to beer and cards on a Saturday night, but unless I hear something different coming from the buffalo this will be the last CD of donna's I buy.
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