Disease - Allison Crowe live (08/03/08)

"Once more shifting genres, moods, and techniques, 'Disease,' one of Allisons own creations, is a passionate look into the dark side of human connectedness manifest in a song played with operatic ferocity (the thumping is Allison stomping her feet - this aint a 'People Who Need People' sort of song)." ~ Allan Showalter, 1HeckofaGuy blog ( http://1heckofaguy.com )

Allison Crowe's song, "Disease", is stimulating social commentary. (Serving to inspire an online discussion of 'great art' and the nature of its creation - http://www.fuckdecaf.org/2004/11/great-art.html#comments ) While unchanged lyrically, the song has grown more steeled musically through its life and release. This live recording, on Allison's album, "Little Light", is distinct from the earlier version heard on "Live at Wood Hall".


"Power-house intense" is how one international reviewer describes "Little Light", noting "the energy of 'Disease' can easily provide electricity to a small country for a decade."

"To sing is to love and affirm, to fly and soar, to coast into the hearts of the people who listen, to tell them that life is to live, that love is there, that nothing is a promise, but that beauty exists, and must be hunted for and found," wrote Joan Baez, musician and plenty more, when she was near the same age Allison Crowe is now.

't'is high purpose, evermore today, "as we replace marble with plastic".

Here is the song, captured in its raging glory, serendipitously on International Women's Day, March 8, 2008, also a fun date of Turtle Recording Studios 20th Anniversary Party in White Rock, B.C., Canada - by Engineer and Producer, Turtle's Larry Anschell (Pearl Jam, Sarah McLachlan, Bif Naked+) with Brad Graham Co-Engineer.

Play it loud! You can even hear Allison stomping her feet on this recording. Enjoy ( :

NB there is no video footage of this performance - the still photo is of song lyrics for Disease in Allison's handwritten journal.

http://music.allisoncrowe.com/track/disease-08-03-08

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[RevivingRichelle]

brilliant!

[NinaFrida]

I shivered all over the first time I heard this. It was like listening to my inside. How is it possible to play another persons soul? Allison did it. I'm stunned. Wow.