The Rain Is No Match For Bruce and His Fans
Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band
September 3, 2012
Citizens Bank Park, Philly PA
3 hours and 30 mins
The Boss came out shredding on this rainy night in Philly. More so than usual, Bruce picked up his Telecaster and showed his electric guitar ‘chops’ as he ripped through the first 5 songs of the night. This was highlighted by a killer intro to ‘Prove It All Night’ that really set the mood of the night. He was also, at times, on a more serious note, really focusing on working in dual themes of “ghosts” and “working”. Overall a great show and a wonderful crowd. Glad to see the Boss and the E Street Band still love to perform and didn’t miss a beat without Clarence; although he is dearly missed. They are on fire right now and playing some of the best shows in years. Check em out if you can. Rock on.
Setlist:
1. Factory (acoustic)
2. Adam Raised A Cain
3. Streets Of Fire
4. Prove It All Night (sick intro)
5. Something In The Night
6. We Take Care of Our Own
7. Wrecking Ball
8. Death To My Hometown
9. My City Of Ruin
10. Spirit In The Night
11. Does This Bus Stop at 82nd Street
12. It’s Hard To Be A Saint In The City
13. Frankie
14. Jack Of All Trades
15. Atlantic City
16. Darlington County
17. Mona >
18. Shackled And Drawn
19. Waiting On A Sunny Day
20. The River
21. Lonesome Day
22. Badlands
23. Thunder Road
Encore:
24. We Are Alive
25. Born To Run
26. Dancing In The Dark
27. Jungleland
28. Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out > Clarence Clemons Tribute (Silence by the band) > Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out
29. American Land
The Gourds Melt The Face Off NYC
The Boys really tore it up this week in NYC. The place was packed, the band was stoked, they got down and dirty. The band broke out some deep tracks, rolling through “Pickles” and “Honduras”. I was not disappointed. The Gourds continue their east coast run at Johnny D’s outside of Boston last night and head on up to Charleston, RI for the Rhythm and Roots Fest this weekend.
The Gourds
Mercury Lounge, NYC
8/29/12
Setlist:
1. Everybody’s Missing the Sun (Nils Lofgren)
2. Pickles
3. Tomb of Nefertari >
4. Lament
5. Pine Island Bayou
6. Illegal Oyster
7. Cracklins
8. Jenny Brown > I Can’t Stand It (Lou Reed)
9. Your Benefit
10. Blankets
11. Eyes of A Child
12. Honduras
13. All The Labor
14. Haunted
15. Drop What I’m Doing
16. Two Sparrows
17. All In The Pack > Sheena Is A Punk Rocker (The Ramones) > All In The Pack
18. Lower 48
Encore
19. Mr. Betty
20. Pill Bug Blues
21. Caldonia
22. Werewolves of London (Warren Zevon)
23. Ants On The Melon
24. Maria
25. Michoacan (Doug Sahm)
26. Take Me Back To Tulsa (w/ Patrick Sweany rockin guitar)
27. Waxy’s Dargle
Goin’ To A Party At The Shady Groove: Podcast #70
These are the fine audio tracks that were included in this weeks podcast:
Joe Pug – Speak Plainly, Diana ++ Chris Kasper – Ain’t No Saint ++ Lucinda Williams – Can’t Let Go ++ Justin Townes Earle – Move Over Mama ++ Alabama Shakes – Goin’ To A Party ++ Booker T. Jones – Progress (feat. Jim James) ++ John Hiatt – Memphis In The Meantime ++ Stevie Wonder – Boogie On Reggae Woman ++ Bob Marley – Mellow Mood ++ Grateful Dead – Shakedown Street ++ Elvis Costello & The Attractions – Pump It Up ++ Wilco – A Shot In The Arm ++ The Beach Boys – God Only Knows ++ G. Love & Special Sauce – This Ain’t Living ++ Doug Sahm – Juan Mendoza ++ The Gourds – Piss & Moan Blues.
What’s In A Track Number? Shady Groove Podcast #69
Howdy, all you Shady Groovers out there. Though I’d try something new on this weeks podcast. Here we explore the art of track selection on albums. Each song on this podcast is selected in succession in terms of track number on its own given album. For example, track #1, Floating Bridge by Gregg Allman, is the 1st track on Low Country Blues, California Stars is track #2 on Billy Bragg and Wilco’s Mermaid Avenue, and so on and so forth. My hope was that it would “flow”, like listening to an album the whole way through. Let me know what you think.
Podcast 69 included these finely tuned and well-placed musical tracks:
Gregg Allman – Floating Bridge ++ Billy Bragg and Wilco – California Stars ++ Leon Russell – Make You Feel Good ++ Alabama Shakes – Rise To The Sun ++ Brother Josephus – O Moses ++ Michael Kiwanuka – Bones ++ Elvis Costello – (The Angels Wanna Wear My) Red Shoes ++ Boz Scaggs – Loan Me A Dime ++ The Black Keys – So He Won’t Break ++ Bob Dylan & The Band – Apple Suckling Tree ++ Cake – I Bombed Korea ++ Mark Mothersbaugh – Piranas Are A Very Tricky Species ++ The Jimi Hendrix Experience – Bold As Love ++ The Gourds – Pushed Her Down
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Audio Vino: Shady Groove Podcast #68
Wine and song. So many similarities. So many good times. Both are better when shared with others but can also be graciously enjoyed on one’s own. Songs tend to ‘taste’ better when drinking wine and wine seems to ‘sound’ better when listening to your favorite tunes (See what I did there).
There is obviously a long and wonderful history of the interweaving of these two arts, and always being the historian, Shady Groove sought to find the best songs about wine. Many songs did not make the list. One, because its only an hour podcast, two because some of the songs are just not that good. We may have to do another Audio Vino podcast in the future, we’ll just have to wait and see. Anyway, enough rambling by me. Lets get to the music.
These were the deliciously baccanalian audio tracks that were included in this weeks’ Audio Vino Podcast:
Eric Burdon & War – Spill The Wine ++ Delbert McClinton – Two More Bottles Of Wine ++ Tom Paxton – Bottle Of Wine ++ The Band – Strawberry Wine ++ The Rolling Stones – Sweet Virginia ++ Jerry Lee Lewis – Drinkin’ Wine, Spoo-Dee-O-Dee ++ Muddy “Mississippi” Waters – Champagne & Reefer ++ The Gourds – Cracklins ++ Derek & The Dominos – Bottle Of Red Wine ++ Merle Haggard – Wine Takes Me Away ++ UB40 – Red Red Wine ++ Willie Nelson – Yesterday’s Wine ++ The Gourds – Out On The Vine ++ Lambert, Hendricks and Ross – Gimme That Wine ++ The Reverend Peyton’s Big Damn Band – Two Bottles Of Wine ++ The Gourds – When Wine Was Cheap
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