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Live at the mauch chunk opera house4/15/2023 ![]() I take it that fiddler and mandolinist Jeremy Penner is hired hand, not official member. ![]() Among the founders, Ruth Moody and Nicky Mehta remain, joined now by the sole American, Heather Masse, originally of Maine and now of Brooklyn. For all I know, I may have been right about all this.īased in Winnipeg, the Jennys have passed through a series of personnel changes since their 2004 recording debut. I grudgingly allowed as how some talent was in evidence, but went on to advance the grumpy hypothesis that inasmuch as the Jennys are young, their music is arguably best appreciated within a demographic that I personally left, mmm, a while ago. I complained about everything from the Jennys's name (it struck me as pointless to parody a country singer's name if you're not a country band) to the production (too glossy) to the music (way too pop for a self-described folk group). Returning to it now, I can only surmise that on the day in question, sour humor had enveloped me and laid claim to esthetic assessment. In this space on 26 August 2006, I reviewed the Wailin' Jennys' previous (and second) Red House disc, Firecracker, more dyspeptically than delightedly. Live at the Mauch Chunk Opera House, however, doesn't sound like one of those. ![]() Ordinarily, live albums exist because an act needs income-generating "product" - the cynical industry term - out there while he, she or it tries to figure out what his, her or its next "real," which is to say studio, album is going to be.
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