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Fine night in the Cardinals’ Triple A ballpark last evening. . .
Richard Thompson played five songs starting at 5:30. Three were off his new record, followed by a jammin’ “Tear Stained Letter” and a finale I didn’t recognize. The necktied chap to his left was working hard on rhythm, the scholar and gentleman Taras Produniak.
My Morning Jacket played about an hour fifteen minutes; the highlight was midset, Jim James’ “hero” John Prine was brought on stage as the band did “All The Best.”
Wilco played a bit over an hour, including my favorite Uncle Tupelo song, “New Madrid.”
Among the Master’s selections for the evening were “High Water Everywhere [for Charlie Patton]”; “Tangled Up in Blue”; “She’s the One” (I think this is the right title, you know, the one Lu and Doug do on Doug’s first record); “A Hard Rain’s Gonna Fall”; “Simple Twist of Fate”; “Blind Willie McTell”; “all Along the Watchtower”; “Ballad of a Thin Man” (encore). Most were in arrangements not instantly recognizable. He looked lithe and lively, but said nothing to the audience, not even introducing the band. We suspect Charlie Sexton was up there, looked like it anyway. Go ye Sexton Brothers.
@tonyg wrote:
Awesome night Stoger. The Dylan tune is “She Belongs to Me”. Close enough. 😀
Thanks: should have known that, Tony. Lu was in a good mood 😀 when their version of it was cut, no ?
She was indeed. Apparently she sings on 2 songs on the new CD.
That was Charlie Sexton. Rolling Stone reports the guitarist for the previous 27 shows of the tour, Duke Robillard, departed after the June 30 show and last night was Charlie’s first. According to RS:
“It’s unclear why Robillard is off the tour, but late last month he posted this cryptic message on Facebook: “For sale: Bob Dylan CD and record collection, slightly used.” He later wrote, “I will be selling a lot of guitars and amps soon. I’ll keep you posted.”
The last time I saw Bob was at the Palladium a few years ago and Charlie had also suddenly just replaced the guitarist. Apparently if you are a guitarist in a band and you see Charlie Sexton coming, best to pick up your things and go. 8)
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