On a recent summer evening in downtown Raleigh, NC, Chatham County Line set up shop at a stately theater filled with hundreds of their most devoted fans and captured for the ages what they do best: gathering around a single microphone to play and sing their own songs.
The result, the two CD/LP audio and video collection Sight & Sound, is an essential document of one of the finest acoustic ensembles North Carolina has ever produced. In a state rich with bluegrass, folk and country legends, this quartet stands out for its left-of-center approach, bringing a rock 'n' roll sensibility to roots forms in a manner that appeals to traditional and contemporary camps alike.
Sight & Sound includes 20 tracks drawing from all five albums of the band's decade-long career. Nine songs appear on both the audio CD and the DVD; four are exclusive to the DVD, while the CD expands the collection with seven more tracks (including two taken from a Christmas-tour show in Atlanta).
Sight & Sound (CD/LP):
1. Alone In New York
2. Crop Comes In
3. Nowhere To Sleep
4. Birmingham Jail
5. By The Riverside
6. Route 23
7. Gunfight In Durango
8. Whipping Boy
9. Rock Pile
10. Speed Of The Whippoorwill
11. The Carolinian
12. Clear Blue Sky
13. Closing Town
14 Wildwood
15. Chip Of A Star
16. Let It Rock
Sight & Sound (DVD):
1. Crop Comes In
2. Gunfight In Durango
3. One More Minute
4. The Carolinian
5. Speed Of The Whippoorwill
6. Birmingham Jail
7. Clear Blue Sky
8. Closing Town
9. Blue Jay Way
10. Chip Of A Star
11. Let it Rock
12. Porcelain Doll
13. End of the Line
