Lead vocals, guitar: Paul Thorn
Drums: Jeffery Perkins
Bass: Doug Kahn
Keyboards: Michael Graham
Electric guitar: Bill Hinds
Disc 1
1. Long Way From Tupelo >> banter “..My washing machine’s tore up back home..”
2. Are You With Me
3. Double Wide Paradise
4. banter ‘…first job at McDonalds..’
5. Mood Ring
6. Banter ‘…laundry..’
7. I’m Still Here
8. Crutches
9. banter ‘if they don’t come back, they’re off doing it with somebody else..’
10. Every Little Bit Hurts
11. Better Days
12. Hammer and Nail
13. banter ‘…musicians leaving stage…’
14. Temporarily Forever Mind
15. banter ‘…she came just to toy with my emotions…’
16. I Bet He Knows
Disc 2
1. banter >>Honky Tonk Neanderthal
2. Everybody Wishes
3. banter ‘…it appears as if everything is fine, but it aint…’
4. Pimps and Preachers
5. banter
6. Black Rainbow
7. What Have You Done to Lift Somebody Up
8. Weeds In My Roses
9. banter …introducing the band…
10. Aint Love Strange
11. banter (during the show, the audience has been taking up a collection to help Paul out with his washing machine! Here an audience member presents the collection bucket to Paul…)
12. I Have a Good Day
13. Lovers Vacation
14. Mission Temple Fireworks Stand
15. crowd noise…calling for encore…
16. Burn Down The Trailer Park
17. Rise Up
stolen placeholder pic until Art hooks me up with his cell phone pic from the show
It was a hot show: hot as hell inside the lower level of Stubb’s in Austin, Davy’s tea was hot, and of course the music was hot, with Davy burning up the strings and melting faces all night long.
Each time I listen to the recording of the show I am blown away all over again.
Here’s some samples:
What In the World (Rory Gallagher)
Commotion (Creedence Clearwater Revival)
Coming Up For Air
Walk On Hot Coals (Rory Gallagher)
New song…unknown title…?
Downloads of the entire show should be up over the weekend.
Guitar/mandolin/vocals: Ryan Bingham
Guitar: Corby Schaub
Drums: Matthew Smith
Bass: Elijah Ford
Disc 1
1. Roadhouse Blues
2. Dollar a Day
3. Hard Times
4. Day Is Done
5. –crowd noise
6. Tell My Mother I Miss Her So
7. Sunrise
8. Dylan’s Hard Rain
9. Boracho Station
10. Southside Of Heaven
11. Endless Ways
12.-crowd noise-
Disc 2
1. Change Is
2. –crowd noise-
3. Hey Hey Hurray
4. –crowd noise-
5. Bluebird
6. –crowd noise-
7. Sunshine
8. Bread and Water
9. –crowd noise calling for encore-
10. Ever Wonder Why
11. A Long Way From Georgia
12. Sweet Louisiana
13. Wishing Well>> White Freight Liner Blues
Taylor Hicks
The Roxy Theatre, Los Angeles, California
March 18, 2009
source: SP-CMC-20>SP-SPSB-9>Edirol R-09
location: back of the floor, center, a few feet from the soundboard.
conversion: R09>audacity (gain)>CD Wave>FLAC Frontend
taper: T&Jam (tandjam@hotmail.com)
Guitar: Josh Smith
Sax: Brian Gallagher
Percussion: Luis Conte
Drums: Gary Novak
Organ: Tim Carmen
Pedal Steel Guitar: Jay Leach
Bass: Michael Mennell
Disc 1
1. The Distance
2. Give Me Tonight
3. Heaven Knows
4. The Maze (tags: Inner City Blues/Warm Love/Be young, Be Foolish, Be Happy)
5. crowd noise –banter- “This is where it all starts: Right here at the Roxy Theatre..”
6. Hide Nor Hair
7. Nineteen
8. Gonna Move (tag: Old Weakness)
9. Woman’s Gotta Have It
10. crowd noise
11. I Live On a Battlefield
Disc 2
1. The Deal
2. Seven Mile Breakdown (harp)
3. –banter- “a nice manly voice”
4. The Right Place
5. banter>>Once Upon a Lover
6. What’s Right Is Right
7. Soul Thing (tags: Mama Said/Eastbound and Down)
8. crowd noise –calling for encore-
9. encore: My Sweet Lord
Last night I saw Taylor Hicks at the Roxy in Los Angeles. (March 18, 2009)
I loved it. It was my favorite TH performance. He brought his A+++ game. Great music. It was the best vocals I’ve ever heard from him, and that’s saying something.
The crowd was pretty cool, the venue was cool, the band was great, and like I said, Taylor seriously BROUGHT IT.
And that encore…remember Taking It to the Streets? Remember how he just rocked that song out and we all shouted ‘HELL YES!’ at the end? Well, that’s how he rocked out My Sweet Lord. It was electric. I wish you could have seen it.
I can’t give much more of a recap because I am running on very little sleep and…I just can’t. I’m beat.
The recording should be up in a few days, but here’s some samples while you wait:
The clouds crack and growl
Like some great cat on the prowl…
-Winter Birds
On a rainy November 3rd, I went to see Ray LaMontagne at Oakland’s beautiful Paramount Theatre. The night was full of anticipation and excitement both because of the historic election that was coming the next day, and because we were about to hear Ray sing. At quiet moments between songs, people in the crowd yelled out refereneces to Obama like “Change is coming!” and the song request “Jolene!” in about equal parts. It was a happy night.
The theater was beautiful. It was a beautiful show. We had beautiful seats. Ray was beautiful.
I don’t know what else to say, except that “Gossip in the Grain” is a great album, and if you get the chance to see Ray live I really hope you do. He casts a spell and you just fall in…
Here’s the set list with some samples of my recording of the show:
1. You Are the Best Thing
2. Hold You In My Arms
3. Let It Be Me
4. I Still Care For You
5. Empty
6. Henry Almost Killed Me
7. Narrow Escape
8. Meg White
9. Burn
10. Winter Birds
11. Hey Me, Hey Mama
12. You Can Bring Me Flowers
13. Shelter
14. Trouble
-encore-
15. Three More Days
16. Jolene
-second encore-
17. Gossip In The Grain
Downloads to follow in a few days…(except for the two dudes in the second row who talked through ‘Empty.’ No downloads for you!)
Oh, and I’ll just come right out and say I’d love some comments on this one…either on this recording, or on the album “Gossip in the Grain” or on Ray or whatever…Please share your thoughts!
The place turned out to be nothing but a little bar with a stage and two tiny audience spaces: one on the floor and one on a balcony above the stage. Both audience spaces were hardly larger than the stage itself. The guy at the door said that the place sold out…120 tickets.
Being in that place was more like being on the stage with the band than being in the audience. Very cool.
They opened with Outside Woman Blues. There was a problem with the amp and another had to be brought in before the next song. And that’s kinda how the night went: It was a night of blistering music in a small space with some technical problems that, to me anyway, just lent more charm to the evening.
I also have to say that I have never met a nicer bunch of people than the fans I met at this show.
And the show was great. I will never forget the blur of Davy’s hands on the guitar that night… it was something else. Amazing. The real deal.
Set list, with some audio samples from the show, recorded by yours truly:
1) Outside Women Blues (Cream)
2) Heavy On My Head
3) Riding With The King (John Hiatt)
4) Gotta Leave
5) Almost Cut My Hair (Crosby, Stills and Nash)
6) Tear Down The Walls (new original song)
7) Come Home (It seems Davy kicked so much ass on this song he actually injured himself. Somebody in the audience has the bloody guitar pic to prove it…)
8 ) Hoochie Coochie Man (Willie Dixon)
9) Back Door Slam (Robert Cray)
10) Country Girl (new original song)
11) Won’t Let It happen (new original song)
12) It’ll All Come Around
13) What In The World
Encore:
14) Been Down So Long>>unknown>>Red House
Downloads of the show in Flac or MP3 will be along soon.
Also, do go see my friend Boolz for a download of the Denver BDS show that happened earlier in the week!
Lyle Lovett
August 1, 2008
Saratoga Mountain Winery
Set list in bold, with some comments and a few audio samples from the show.
This was my favorite Lyle Lovett and his Large Band concert ever. The large band wasn’t quite as large this time around, and you know, I liked it better. I guess it’s true …size isn’t everything!
He started right on time. He was wearing a nice cream colored suit, dressed for church, as was everyone on the stage.
I dropped into my seat about ten seconds before the first notes of his first song…
Church – A great song with a gospel sound, but not a gospel song. I thought to myself how I wish he would do some gospel type music in his show. I love it, but when I’ve seen Lyle in concert previously, he didn’t perform as much of it as I would like. Little did I know I would get my wish in spades later in the evening. Anyway, with Church opening the night, everybody had a smile on their face.
I Will Rise Up Make It Happy
No Big Deal - This song features the type of vocals and lyrics that first hooked me on Lyle.
Private Conversation If I Were The Man You Wanted Truck Song
Then came some banter (“Make a note: pick up some shorts”) – hahahaha. The audience says he is hilarious. This Old Porch
Cowboy Man – Texas swing with a classical cello intro. You don’t hear that every day.
Penguins – I’ve always liked this song, but thank goodness in the banter he said he wrote this song to make fun of someone who had penguins all over their home. Now I can enjoy it without the confusion that always troubled me. Cute as a Bug Give Back My Heart
Long Tall Texan - This one I have a real soft spot for. I had never heard him sing it live before this, but I’ve worn out my mp3 of this song. I love how he says, “Oh lor,’ oh lor’ …Is that your hat?” I was pretty happy he sang it. Too bad about the feedback.
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Don’t Cry a Tear
More banter – Lyle says that growing up Lutheran and going to Lutheran school influenced his taste in music. Just for fun, here’s some banter:
South Texas Girl - a beautiful, amazing song. A song that happens to mention Sid Lasher. When Lyle was growing up, Sid Lasher was a TV weather man in Texas who conveyed extra facts and information about the towns on his weather maps. Kinda like I am telling you about Sid Lasher in the middle of a concert recap. All Down Hill From Here You Were Always There - haunting, beautiful, heartbreaking song that I dedicated a post to a few months ago.
Keep it in Your Pantry - Funny bluegrass song. Aways a hit! Not on an album yet, I don’t think.
Up in Indiana - love this bluegrass tune
Happy Birthday, Mitch – aww! Lyle sings Happy Birthday to Mitch Watkins (guitar). If I Had a Boat - crowd favorite. Poetic. Lots of people in the audience know the words and you can hear some singing along.
She’s No Lady - Classic Lyle
North Dakota
My Baby Don’t Tolerate - Yeah I love this song! Turn it up!
That’s Right, You’re Not From Texas - crowd favorite. Lots of fun.
Ok… if you’ve ever seen Lyle perform you know that compared to some other artists, he doesn’t move around a bunch. It is as if he won’t allow a little bits of music to take detours to his fingers to snap, or his legs to dance or his body to sway. Instead he stays still and channels it all through is voice.
But over the years, I’ve started to notice all the little movements he does make. For example, there were a few points in the show that were really magical, and one of them I could see coming before it happened, because of the way he moved…
By the way he put his guitar down. By the way he stepped to the mic. By the way he tensed up and held his hands, by the way he set his feet…oh lord I thought…this is going to be good. And it was. And it kept getting better and better. And better.
I’m Gonna Wait > I’m Going To The Place
(It really is too bad that the couple sitting next to me left one song before the above numbers to beat the traffic. Big mistake.)
Ain’t No More Cain - bringing it back down to close the show… Wow. Perfect.
-encore- Soldier in the Army of the Lord - And one more for the road!
ETA: I found some of my recording of the 06-17-07 show at the Saratoga Mountain Winery. This is the Derek Trucks Band with Susan Tedeschi. I recorded this one before I had the RO9…I just used my camera.
All audio from John Butler (sans trio) performance April 22, 2008, San Francisco, The Fillmore.
Well, first I missed the opener, Mama Kin, because I’m always, always late. But that’s another story.
I did make it in time to see John come out and say hello, pay respect to the Native Americans and start the show with:
High For a Living
Then, John talked about asking his wife to marry him and told a little story about his father-in-law and then he sang:
Daniella
Next, John introduced “Brother Michael” who came on stage with him for:
Treat Yo’ Momma
“Treat Yo’ Momma” went on for a long time and built really beautifully to a special treat. I thought it was great… I love the long, meandering guitar that sounds kind of Middle Eastern or something. The really cool quiet part..I loved it. The people TALKING really pissed me off and kinda killed my buzz for a while that night, but listening back I can enjoy the performance more…
Check it out:
Next song:
Thank You
And the crowd was really bad. I’m sorry, they were. I’ve seen reports from other fans who were there who said the crowd was very respectful. Um, no. At least not at this point. They were quite rude, actually. The good news is that the crowd did get much better later.
Next:
Good As Gone
Better Than
He chatted about why he learned Danny Boy (for his grandma)…
Danny Boy
And then came the surprise:
Spring
And “Spring” absolutely melted into:
Ocean
Ocean had something like a 2 minute musical intro. And Ocean was, of course, fantastic. The feeling…the feeling of being in the crowd and just, I don’t know, being there in the music with so many other people…it’s just great. 14 minutes of joy.
*sigh* no recording can ever capture it just right…but do stay for the whole thing if you can…
There is nothing like the roar of that crowd after that song ends…the overall live experience is something not to be missed…
Now he brings our Mama Kin to sing with him:
Mellow Mood
Beau-t-ee-ous. Ya, mon.
Goodbye Mama Kin, hello again Brother Michael and here comes the coolest version of:
Gov Did Nothin
Loved the piano…
The crowd was feelin’ good by now and the room was loving it.
This is a good time being had by many, many people:
Pick a Part
Zebra
Call and response fun!
Fire in the Sky
We need to heal all this pain so we can live again…
AMEN.
encores:
Loosing You
A duet with Mama Kin. I love this song. That is all.
Funky Tonight
…and another great John Butler show comes to an end…
Part 3 will be along in a bit with a flac download of my recording if anyone should want it…please be patient!
(photo credit: soulkaren)
Ya, mon.
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