Another Day, Another Time: Celebrating the Music of "Inside Llewyn Davis" is out now on Nonesuch Records. The two-disc collection captures a one-night-only concert held at New York City’s Town Hall in 2013 to celebrate the music of the Coen brothers film Inside Llewyn Davis, featuring live performances by icons and rising stars of folk and Americana. They sang "in pitch perfect tone that left an oft-awestruck audience silently stunned," says the Los Angeles Times, "then vocally thrilled." The Independent on Sunday says it's "as excellent as you would expect with surprising collaborations and stately performances breathing new life into old songs and old fire into new ones."
A one-night-only concert was held at New York City’s Town Hall last fall, to celebrate the music of the Coen brothers film Inside Llewyn Davis. The evening was filmed for a documentary that was broadcast by Showtime last winter, and now Nonesuch Records releases a live recording of the concert, Another Day, Another Time: Celebrating the Music of “Inside Llewyn Davis,” out now. The concert, documentary, and live album were produced by Inside Llewyn Davis writer/director/producers Joel and Ethan Coen and soundtrack producer T Bone Burnett. (Nonesuch also released the film’s soundtrack.) Another Day, Another Time is available now at iTunes, Amazon, and in the Nonesuch Store, where CD and vinyl orders included a download of the complete album at checkout. Get a taste of the concert film in the trailer below.
"Fans of the Coen brothers' amused, affectionate portrait of the 1960s Greenwich Village folk scene—and of banjo-playing, guitar-plucking Americana in general—will relish this recording of a 2013 New York concert celebrating the music of the movie Inside Llewyn Davis," says the Associated Press of this "highly enjoyable" album.
The album earns a perfect five stars from The Daily Mail and four stars from MOJO, which says "The players excel and surprise in unpredicted settings," and from the Evening Standard, which says the "performances are often joyous," exclaiming: "An extraordinary four minutes of Gaelic music by Rhiannon Giddens, of the Carolina Chocolate Drops, must have been worth the price of admission alone."
The Independent on Sunday gives the album four stars as well, calling it "a killer concept ... featuring a glittering array of talent, established and nascent." Reviewer Simmy Richman writes: "The result: as excellent as you would expect with surprising collaborations and stately performances breathing new life into old songs and old fire into new ones. Highlights: plentiful." Richman concludes: "Another day, another time? Never to be repeated, more like."
Whether or not you've seen the film Inside Llewyn Davis, you can "enjoy this as an album in its own right," says Drowned in Sound reviewer Aaron Lavery, who calls it an "extremely listenable snapshot of alt-country."
As T Bone Burnett explains, “Inside Llewyn Davis was filled with live performances of some of the folk songs that had survived the McCarthy hearings. Some of the songs were a hundred years old; some had just been written but sounded a hundred years old. In order to get attention for a film that was not exactly on the beat we decided to throw a concert featuring the actors and musicians who had performed in the movie and on the soundtrack. We also invited members of the extraordinary community of musicians who have coalesced around this old music—and have kept it alive in the wake of the most recent technological revolution—to join us that night. We asked them to perform an old song and one of their new songs.
He continues, “Several new stars emerged from their performances that evening—The Secret Sisters, Lake Street Dive, The Milk Carton Kids, Rhiannon Giddens, and Punch Brothers all proved themselves as good as the best as they took the stage next to Hall of Famers Joan Baez and Elvis Costello, and established younger artists like The Avett Brothers, Colin Meloy, Marcus Mumford, Conor Oberst, Willie Watson, Gillian Welch, and Jack White.” In fact, T Bone Burnett has since produced albums by both Punch Brothers and Rhiannon Giddens, which will be released shortly after Another Day, Another Time.
Huffington Post called Another Day, Another Time “one of those only-in-New-York events,” while Rolling Stone said it was “a bustling salute to the sounds and the idea of Sixties folk music,” and continued, “For all the formality of the night, which was exceedingly well-paced and organized, the concert recalled a time when one or two people, bearing one or two unplugged instruments, could be as enthralling as the greatest rock or EDM track.”
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