“Lou Reed's new double-disc live release, recorded last year in Los Angeles, offers updates of several old favorites, with some more recent material sandwiched between.”
“Animal Serenade kicks off with the familiar three chords of "Sweet Jane" — but instead of opening his ninth live album with his best-known song, Lou Reed pauses to explain that the intro actually includes four chords, then moves right to his 1990 John Cale collaboration "Small Town." At sixty-four, Reed can do whatever he […]”