Release the Stars

...than anything he'd done before. "Rufus Does Judy at Carnegie Hall" (2006) was a live recreation of a 1961 Judy Garland concert, and "Release the Stars" (2007) fifth in a string of lushly orchestrated pop albums. Now he's doing something...

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...of live recordings from his August 27, 2007 performance at Pabst Theater in Milwaukee, Wisconsin in support of his previous studio album, Release the Stars (2007). Documentary film director Albert Maysles recorded a film of the same name...

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...role-playing early on in Milwaukee at Last!!! As the audience at the Pabst Theater applauds his grandiloquent version of opener "Release the Stars", he declares, with mock humility, "Thank you. I wasn't expecting that." Of course he was...

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...Last!!! falls neatly into the latter category, a live record that serves to illustrate the strengths of Wainwright's last release from 2007, Release the Stars. The most exciting part about Wainwright's musical identity has always been the...

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Does Judy! Judy! Judy!) capturing his celebrated Judy Garland tribute performance at the London Palladium in 2007. His previous album, Release the Stars, went Gold in Canada and the U.K. After his successful global tour in support of...

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An aural souvenir of Wainwright's 2008 tour supporting Release the Stars, Milwaukee at Last!!! leans heavily on the latest material, although the singer/songwriter allows a few detours into his Noel Coward repertoire and traditional Irish...

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...witnessed Edie Beale waltzing down her filthy living room steps, it's really electrifying. That night was smack in the middle of the Release the Stars tour, so I was a well-oiled machine at that point. Ready to give Judy to the public, you...

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The best way to experience Rufus is in concert, and this double-disc live album captures him in all his campy glory from the 2007 tour for "Release the Stars. '' The Avett Brothers, "I and Love and You'' (Sony). Four words: We love this...

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...released through Geffen Records on May 15, 2007. Pet Shop Boys' Neil Tennant was the executive in charge of production , and the album was mixed by producers Marius de Vries and Andy Bradfield. Wainwright's most commercially...

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...and Brokeback Mountain, and recently wrote three songs for Disney's animated Meet the Robinsons. advertisement His 2007 album Release the Stars reached number two in the UK. Mr Wainwright, a recovering drug addict, is the son of...

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