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| Hannibal | | DVD Release Date:
| November 23, 1999 | | Average Customer Rating:
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15 of 15 found the following review helpful:
 Great celebration of a remarkable career.Dec 04, 1999
By Robert Borgen
"Film Fan"
If you're a fan of the McGarrigles -- or Loudon Wainwright -- or even Rufus Wainwright -- you'll love this DVD. A "live" recording of their great album "McGarrigle Hour" this features songs that range from Stephen Foster to the best of the duo's 20+ year career...also some beautiful songs by Loudon Wainwright and his children Rufus & Martha. This might be the best textbook on harmony that you could find. Also nice interview clips and 4 "bonus" songs from a 1981 Concert. A beautiful collection.
8 of 8 found the following review helpful:
Finest HourMay 01, 2002
This DVD presents the extraordinary musicianship, smart lyrics and heart-piercing harmonies of Kate and Anna McGarrigle, one of the finest singer-songwriter teams of the past thirty years. With no need for "flash" effects, smoke, strobes or hyped-up lighting because there's real talent on stage, this is just a presentation of brilliant singing and playing, pure and simple. The sound and picture quality are very good but the performances themselves, by the McGarrigles, Rufus and Martha Wainwright, Loudon Wainwright III and more are incredible. Having grown up in a large extended family in which we might break out in an impromptu song fest on weekends, I found the "family" feel of this concert to be especially moving and touching. Songs by Cole Porter, Stephen Foster and the McGarrigles -- does it get any better?
9 of 10 found the following review helpful:
The Mcgarrigle HoursApr 14, 2000
By C. McVey
"Book Lover"
This DVD is a complete joy to watch! Everyone in it does an excellent job. The harmonizing of this family is beautiful! It is well worth the cost, and I enjoy viewing it again and again. I too, as the first reviewer, had went though three copies trying to get it to play on my new Toshiba DVD player. I learned that my player needed a software upgrade. I returned it to the dealer, who exchanged my player. Only then, did the Mcgarrigle Hour play. It was worth all the inconvience, though, because this is what DVD should be.
7 of 8 found the following review helpful:
A Video Perfect for Fans of the McGarrigles and Wainwrights!Dec 26, 2000
By Esinam Bediako
If you haven't heard of the McGarrigle Sisters, you're not alone. I'm honesly a little too young to have known about the music of the McGarrigle Sisters or Loudon Wainwright. As a matter of fact, I only found out about the folk singers because I love the music of their son, Rufus Wainwright. I figured that if his music was so original, his parents must be great musicians, too. I was right. The McGarrigle Hour VHS was highly entertaining. The video, which is a live performance of the songs from The McGarrigle Hour compact disc, features Kate and Anna McGarrigle and their family and friends, including folk singer Loudon Wainwright (Kate's ex-husband) and their children Rufus and Martha Wainwright (who are up-and-coming stars in their own rites), and Emmylou Harris and Lind Rondstadt. I'd like to give the video the full five stars, but the video isn't perfect for everyone. If you're not already a fan of the McGarrigles or Wainwrights, or you're not open to music that is not mainstream, you may not thoroughly enjoy this video. Your best bet it to sample the CD version first if you're not a brave music listener. For fans of the McGarrigles and Waiwnrights, though, this video is exciting to watch. It's always nice to put a face with the voices and names, and the video gives you a nice family feeling. The fact that McGarrigle may not be a household name shouldn't let you miss out on this highlight of the McGarrigle Sisters' and some great American songs that will leave you with that warm and fuzzy feeling.
3 of 3 found the following review helpful:
The McGarrigles-And A Cast Of ThousandsAug 14, 2009
By Alfred Johnson
This commentary was used to review the CD version of "The McGarrigle Hour". The only added comment necessary is the addition of other musicians like Linda Rhonstadt and Emmylou Harris make this more of a harmonic delight than the already great harmonies on the CD.
Over the past period this writer has reviewed the music of Loudon Wainwright III, the late Utah Phillips, his very much alive old friend Rosalie Sorrels and now the McGarrigle Sisters, Kate and Anna, (including, when appropriate, their family and kin musical entourage). What joins this reviewer and this gathering of folk giants together is one person and one place, Lena and Café Lena's coffeehouse in Saratoga, New York. That place was (and today continues to be on a lesser scale) the Mecca in upstate New York for the gathering of much folk talent, folk wisdom and just plain whimsy, including the talents of most of those mentioned above.
I know Saratoga and its environs well and if New York City's Greenwich Village and Cambridge's Harvard Square are better known in the 1960s folk revival geography that locale can serve as the folk crowd's summer watering hole (and refuge from life's storms all year round). From the descriptions of the café `s lifestyle and of the off-beat personality of Lena, as presented in a PBS documentary about her and the place many years ago, it also was a veritable experiment in ad hoc communal living). Thus, I know the names and work of the McGarrigles well. For those not so fortunate, and to bring the younger crowd up to date, Kate McGarrigle is Rufus Wainwright's mother (and Loudon Wainwright, of course, is his father). That will tell much about Rufus' pedigree.
But back to Kate and Anna. Of course they came out of Canada, like compatriots Joni Mitchell and Neil Young, and placed their stamp on a late portion of the folk revival, particularly with their beautiful harmonies, their great instrumental versatility and their songwriting replete with many memory-induced songs from their old country (including some very nice traditional songs in French). Those memory songs, perhaps, are their trademark-covering and creating a certain kind of folk music that is very traditionally driven without being maudlin as many of the very early songs in the North American Songbook tended to be. And their lyrics and melodies backed by a wide range of instruments from the banjo to the fiddle blend very nicely together.
I will give one example, the one that caught my ear long ago before I knew much of Lena and Café Lena. The McGarrigle song "Mendocino" (out in Pacific California) is written in honor of Lena. Lena, as mentioned above, was very troubled in many ways, although something of a fairy godmother to the upstate New York folk scene. One single line of "Mendocino" captures Lena's turmoil very concisely- "never had the blues from whence I came, in New York state I caught`em". That line in combination with the almost ethereal melody line that evokes the spray of the ocean gives just the right sense about the plight of that troubled lady. This is the kind of thoughtful presentation that dominates their working ethos. Listen up.
Kate and Anna McGarrigle (and friends, family, etc) have gone all out to give an entertaining radio-like hear at many parts of the American (or better, North American) Songbook. Old Tin Pan Alley tunes, Cole Porter and Irving Berlin, some Broadway numbers, traditional folk numbers, late 1950s rock and so on. Oh ya, some Kate and Anna McGarrigle too. Sticks outs here- of course the above-mentioned "Mendocino", Berlin's "What'll I Do", Stephan Foster's "Gentle Annie", the Sonny James classic "Young Love" and an incredible group harmony on "Johnny's Gone To Hilo". Nice stuff here.
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