This live double album was put together for the film of the same name by Lian Lunson, who also did the great I'm Your Man film and album a few years back. Like the Cohen piece, here a group of musicians who clearly love the work they're, um, working on have come together to celebrate. However, this time there's an elephant in the room, as Kate McGarrigle – the loaner of the music here, mother of Rufus and Martha Wainwright, sister of Anna and clear friend and inspiration to many – isn't here like she was for Cohen. With proceeds going to the Kate McGarrigle Foundation to help research a cure for the cancer that took her, the album includes guests expected and otherwise (comedian Jimmy Fallon turns up sweetly, by surprise), and it's quite wonderfully rough at times. The most emotional (read: sad) is McGarrigle's last work, Proserpina, which begins with what sounds like a home recording of her on piano (although she's not listed in the credits) and builds to a crisp new, all-in crescendo. But beyond this the famous matriarch's amazing mix of grace and biting reality is most impressive, delivered impeccably by Krystle Warren for I Don't Know, Rufus and Antony in I Cried For Us and Rufus and Emmylou Harris in I Eat Dinner. Martha Wainwright is the right mix of darling and daring with Tell My Sister and I Am A Diamond (Rufus jumps in on the latter), and the 'ensemble' (which includes all of the above as well as Teddy Thompson, Norah Jones and Peggy Seeger, among others) are joyfully chaotic in Love Over And Over. Yes, this is a sad record at its heart (remembering a musician and musician taken too soon), but there's also a great musical party to be had, too.
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