This Moment: In Toronto with the Loose Band

This Moment: In Toronto with the Loose Band
Live album by Victoria Williams
Released	November 7, 1995 (1995-11-07)
Recorded	March 29, 1995
Venue	Bathurst Street Theater, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Length	69:02
Language	English
Label	Atlantic/Mammoth
Producer	Danny Greenspoon
Victoria Williams chronology
Loose (1994) This Moment: In Toronto with the Loose Band (1995) Musings of a Creek Dipper (1998)

This Moment: In Toronto with the Loose Band is a 1995 live album by American singer-songwriter Victoria Williams. It has received positive reviews from critics.

Reception

Editors at AllMusic rated this album 3 out of 5 stars, with critic Lindsay Planer writing that "This Moment is a precious and rare gift from a flower to her audience" and the album has "animated" versions of songs from Williams' three studio albums. Chris Molanphy of CMJ New Music Monthly wrote that "it's a joy to hear a show where audience and performer merge without cues" and continued that Williams "hugs these songs with her plaintive croon and infectious grace". A brief review in Entertainment Weekly opined "so what if this here butterfly often tips the sugar scales?" and rated these "16 sweet, subtle tales of dirt-road despair" a B. An evaluation in No Depression called out how the "instrumentation is beautiful" and speculated that this release is unlikely to win Williams new fans, but will satisfy her existing listeners. In a review of Williams' career for Trouser Press by Ira Robins, Wif Stenger, and Floyd Eberhard, the publication states that "the piano-based chamber-pop arrangements reach rarefied Joni Mitchell levels, and the album tilts dangerously toward the preciousness Williams’ best studio work (and guitar-based concerts) so easily resists".

Track listing

All songs written by Victoria Williams, except where noted.

1. "This Moment" (Mike Heron and Williams) – 3:51
2. "Graveyard" – 3:59
3. "Harry Went to Heaven" – 3:19
4. "Waterfall" – 3:21
5. "Polish Those Shoes" – 5:53
6. "TC" – 4:42
7. "Frying Pan" – 3:15
8. "Hitchhikers Smile" – 4:58
9. "Crazy Mary" – 6:31
10. "Lights" – 2:29
11. "Summer of Drugs" – 5:39
12. "Imagination" (Johnny Burke and James Van Heusen) – 3:22
13. "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes" (Otto Harbach and Jerome Kern) – 3:21
14. "Can’t Cry Hard Enough" (Marvin Etzioni and David Williams) – 4:41
15. "Sunshine Country" – 4:52
16. "Love" – 4:47

Personnel

Victoria Williams and The Loose Band

• Joey Burns – upright bass
• Dan Heffington – drums
• David Manfield – acoustic guitar, violin, pedal steel guitar
• Tim Ray – piano
• Andrew Williams – acoustic guitar
• David Williams – vocals
• Victoria Williams – electric guitar, vocals

Additional personnel

• Todd Fraracci – recording
• Danny Greenspoon – production
• Cory Hambleton – production assistance
• Tom Herbers – remixing at Paisley Park Studios, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States; digital editing at Wild Audio, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States; sequencing at Wild Audio, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
• Shane T. Keller – assistant engineering
• Gary Louris – sketch
• Marko Shark – photography
• Vic – paintings
• Doug Wild – digital editing at Wild Audio, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States; sequencing at Wild Audio, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States

See also

• List of 1995 albums

External links

• This Moment: In Toronto with the Loose Band at Discogs (list of releases)
• This Moment: In Toronto with the Loose Band at MusicBrainz (list of releases)