With just two studio albums under their belts, it’s an awfully impressive feat that Mumford & Sons can command an audience as big as the one that showed up at their 2012 stop at Colorado’s legendary Red Rocks amphitheater, but as evidenced by their 2011 Grammy awards performance, they manage to bring the same amount of energy to the stage as they do to the studio. They’ve been going at a steady clip since the release of their sophomore outing, “Babel”, which divided critics, yet managed to debut at the number one spot on both the U.K. and U.S. album charts. That a group specializing in a English folk could turn the heads of so many Yanks would be more surprising if their music wasn't also steeped in American bluegrass (almost every one of their songs eventually descends into an easy-to-clap-to hoedown) and this handsome little souvenir offers up a nice snapshot of their unexpected international dominion. Recorded live over two nights in 2012 during the folk-rockers' highly successful Gentlemen of the Road tour, this special collectors box, which is really more of a fancy, hardcover CD book, includes both the audio version and the DVD of the Road to Red Rocks film/documentary, the deluxe edition of the Markus Dravs-produced Babel, a classy collection of photographs that chronicles both the Red Rock show and the more intimate Gentlemen of the Road stopovers, the usual liner notes, and various other Mumford-inspired snacks, resulting in a truly "Deluxe" version of one of 2012's most financially successful releases.
Track listing
01. "Lovers Eyes" - 5:42
02. "Little Lion Man" - 4:27
03. "Below My Feet" - 4:44
04. "Roll Away Your Stone" - 4:42
05. "Lover of the Light" - 5:21
06. "Ghosts That We Knew" - 5:54
07. "Awake My Soul" - 4:23
08. "Whispers in the Dark" - 3:38
09. "Dustbowl Dance" - 4:56
10. "I Will Wait" - 4:45
11. "The Cave" - 4:15
Credits
Performer [Live From Red Rocks Is Performed By] – Mumford & Sons
Duchess Nell Catchpole - violin, viola
Ross Holmes - fiddle
Chris Allan - cello
Nick Etwell - trumpet, flugelhorn
Ephraim Owens - trumpet
Dave Williamson - trombone
Production
Engineer [Additional Mix Engineering] – Marco Martini
Executive-Producer [Executive Producers] – Marisa Clifford, Mike Mooney, Thomas Benski
Mixed By [Audio Mix] – Ruadhri Cushnan
Mixed By [DVD Audio Dubber] – David Wooley
Mixed By [Mix Assistant] – Daniel Moyler
Producer [Produced By] – Dan Bowen
Producer [Red Rocks Live Producer] – Ned Doyle
Production Manager [Production Managers] – Nicola Roberts, Yolanda Neri
Notes
Release: January 22, 2013
Genre: Indie Folk, Alternative
Length: 52:47
Label: Island Records
© 2012
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