Dave is…
At Jason Isbell solo acoustic at City Winery.
This one almost slipped under the radar. A solo acoustic performance as the opening act at an unusual venue for some cat named Joseph Arthur. But pouring over the concert listings every week paid off.
The show as good. The set was far too short for my tastes, only an hour, but I’d never seen him to a solo acoustic performance before. He played Goddamn Lonely Love, Danko/Manuel, a number of tracks off the 400 Album and debuted a few new ones, all of which were pretty solid.
But the Joseph Arthur guy did not do it for me and City Winery, while a nice space, isn’t my kind of venue. A sit down dinner-theater type joint, its pricey and limits you to conversing just with your table mates. Luckily ours were pretty cool, but there were other tables where the people just yakked it up the whole set.
But it’ll work for my fix till the Truckers hit town in April.
Ooh, I’d love to see Danko/Manuel. Just found out he’s allegedly playing in Springfield in July!
A buddy of mine called me about that. Playing Taste of Downtown, so right outside on the street. I have to come back to Spfld the week before for a wedding and am thinking about sticking around then and studying the bar at home for a week so I can see the show. If I do that we will have to meet up for it and get a beverage.
Right on.
oh – I meant to say, the Truckers show in Chicago last week was really great, although they didn’t do the new one I most wanted, Drag the Lake. Set started with two new ones plus a bonus track we don’t have, and I was starting to get a kind of bad feeling, but they got more and more into it and hit Your Daddy Hates Me, Ronnie & Neil, Marry Me, Dead, Drunk & Naked, Guitar Man Upstairs, Tornadoes, Carl Perkins, People on the Moon, Women Without Whiskey, Zip City, Sinkhole, Shut up and Get on the Plane, Hell No I Ain’t Happy, and Let There Be Rock – 27 songs total, probably seven of those were encore, and about two and a half hours all told. We were happy.