Matthew Sweet - 4/23/2024 - Ludlow Garage, Cincinnati (Clifton), Ohio. Good show. Big finish!
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A month ago I saw the San Francisco Symphony (conducted by Esa-Pekka Salonen, choral direction by Jenny Wong, piano by Jean-Yvette Thibaudet) at Davies Symphony Hall do Scriabin’s Prometheus, The Poem of Fire and Bartók’s Duke Bluebeard’s Castle. |
@slaw - Hey Steve! How was Lucinda? I've seen her, and Buick 6, many times. Some great, some not so great... |
@dweller - Actually, never heard of Saving Escape. However, I see they are scheduled to play at MOTR Pub on Feb. 24. I'll check them out and see if I may be interested in going to see them. |
@reubent - What? No Saving Escape? Young Cincinnati band who put on a great show. Kala's pipes (lead singer) and known far and wide. |
2024 concert schedule here in Cincinnati is heating up. Here's a few I'm planning to attend in spring of 2024... Also hope to see a show or two at Read Rocks or near Golden, CO where my son is attending university. Guided by Voices Wussy Carbon Leaf Shovels and Rope Proxima Parada Can't wait to see who's playing this summer and fall.... |
As always, Iris put on a great show. Other than a couple of shows with John Prine she's always been solo when I've seen her, but this time she had a couple of talented young women on bass, guitar and vocals backing her. She seems to be completely over the stage shyness she used to experience and was very talkative and funny throughout the show. Lucinda is probably my third favorite artist behind the Dead (vet of 100+ shows) and Dylan (first show in 1966). She's so genuine and as real as it gets, and she's one of the most underrated songwriters of the last few decades. I've seen her dozens of times, most memorably at the Ryman in Nashville a few years back when she on her Car Wheels 25th anniversary tour. Lots of special guests including Emmylou, Buddy Miller and Jim Lauderdale among others. That LSD tour was one of the few where I didn't catch any of the shows unfortunately. |
@bander - Really sorry to hear regarding the sound at the Joan Osborne show. We saw her last year at Ludlow Garage in Cincinnati and it was fantastic. Her vocal performance was very good, as was the accompaniment. Overall, it was a fantastic show. Didn't hurt that we were front row in a 325 seat room... |
It was a long time ago. So long ago I am not even sure I remember which was the last. But I am thinking that in the cold months of '03 I drove up tho Philadelphia on kind of the spur of the moment to see Steve Earle at The Living Arts Theater. @ezwind , I am an Iris fan also. But I've only seen her a couple of times. My concert going days kind of died with 9/11. I used to love Lucinda! I saw her an even dozen times. First time was in '99 at a little 500 seat general admission venue and we were first row center. She was touring Car Wheels. She was my hero back then and I wasn't the same for days after seeing that one. I think the last time I saw her might have been at the TLA in Philly in the summer of '02 . . . I am not positive. I was doing some you tube searches on her a while back ago and I saw that her and Dwight Yokam and Steve Earle were doing shows together . . . calling it LSD. That would have been something I would have changed my life in order to see back about 25 years ago. |
Tedeschi/Trucks Band at Red Rocks a couple of weeks ago. First time seeing a show there and it was a good one. I didn’t do a head count but they have at least 10 or 12 people in the band and they put on a great show. Derek has matured beautifully as a guitar player since his days as a child prodigy and then with the ABB. And I didn’t realize before just how good a singer and guitar player Susan is. My wife and I were supposed to see Lucinda Williams opening for Big Thief a couple of days later at RR. The show was delayed a couple of hours due to rain and lightning in the area (quite a light show!). We were soaked and cold after waiting in line for well over an hour and finally decided to leave before they eventually let everyone in. Big time bummer. Up next is Iris Dement at the tiny Kate Theater in Old Saybrook CT in a couple of weeks. Have seen Iris five or six times, including one (or two maybe?) with John Prine. She’s an all-timer. |
Well fellas, did I see a great one last night! Kelly Willis, Brennen Leigh, and Melissa Carper, doing a set as a trio on the stage at Mississippi Studios in Portland Oregon. Kelly and Brennen playing acoustic guitars, Melissa an upright bass almost as big as herself, and all three singing solo and in perfect 3-part harmony. And I mean per-fect! I’ve been a fan of Kelly for decades, and just recently discovered Brennen (her 2022 album Obsessed With The West is a Country Swing project, produced by Ray Benson of Asleep At The Wheel, who serve as her backing band. This Year’s Ain’t Through Honky Tonkin’ Yet was produced by Chris Scruggs, and features a guest appearance by Marty Stuart on mandolin. Both are available on both LP and CD). Melissa I had not yet known about. All three have roots in the South and Midwest, and I believe crossed paths in---where else?---Austin Texas, Texas. The set was the three of them each singing a song of their own composition, one after the other. Mississippi Studios is an excellent sounding room (capacity 250), as is the Studios’ sound system and the ears of the mixing engineer; not too loud, not too bright or boomy (though the bottom string of the bass was vibrating the walls of the room pretty strongly). Their was lots of humour, and great stories about the origins of each song. Plus, the sight of three chicks in cowboy hats and boots was pretty hot 😉 . They are making their way across the U.S.A., so catch them if you can. Last night tickets were only twenty bucks, less than I paid for a double shot of Johnnie Walker Black! |
@rpeluso: As is Jackson, whom I have somehow never heard live. Gotta do that before he or I die. Iris is very charming live, with lots of self-deprecating humour. Her piano playing is somewhat reminiscent of that of Randy Newman, with those New Orleans chord voicings. And my gawd, what a voice! Monday night is Kelly Willis, Brennen Leigh, and Melissa Carper at Mississippi Studios. Hmm, all chicks.😉 Speaking of which, this time Iris had two accompanying musicians along; a redhead playing a beautiful Gretsch 5120 plugged into a Fender Deluxe Reverb---great tone!, and another young woman playing an electric upright bass And I couldn’t help but noticed that the audience was about 3/4 female. I’m not complaining.😉 |
Iris DeMent tonight at The Aladdin Theater in Portland, OR. She closed the show with this fantastic song:
https://youtu.be/FikZwgj89HI?t=1
Harmony vocal sung by Emmylou Harris, dobro played by Jerry Douglas.
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@carlsbad2 excited…going to see Mr. Isaak this Thurs. at the Uptown in Napa. One of my favorites since the 90’s. |
Just finished 17 days on a bicycle with the last week being an organized ride with concerts every night. I intended to see 5 of them but long days and heat reduced that to 3, and one of those was cancelled. Spin Doctors sounded ok and it was fun to hear their hits. Lynyrd Skynyrd put on a great show with singing mostly by Johnny Van Zant, three guitars (including Rick Medlocke of Blackfoot, Mark "Sparky" Matejka, and Damon Johnson of Thin Lizzy and Alice Cooper), Pete Keys on keyboards and drumming by Michael Cartellone (Damn Yankees). The back up singing by Carol Chase and Stacy Michelle was also solid. They played all the favorites and included heartfelt tributes to USA, our military, police, first responders, and all the former band members including recently passed Gary Rossington. The encore of course was Free Bird. Unfortunately, the Bush concert was cancelled at the last minute due to a storm with high winds.
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