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Anne returns to So Cal next week to begin a great week of Anne Music!! I’m sure there will be lots of tunes from her new record to be. So Cal FF members should consider turning out for one of these shows:
May 24 United Church of Christ San Luis Obispo
May 25 Castoro Cellars Templeton
May 26 Berkeley
May 28 Mill valley
May 29 Winters
May 30 Zoey’s Ventura
May 31 McCabe’s Santa Monica
June 1 San DiegoThe full list is here:
http://annemccue.fanbridge.com/tourdates/Bitchin show from Anne tonight, the first of the Golden State Tour. David Olney, accompanied by Sergio Webb, opened and were also great. They are also from Nashville. Much colder up here than in my Ventura Country hang, good thing I brought a jacket. The setlist:
Empty Bed Blues (cover, Bessie Smith I think)
Milkman’s Daughter
Lonesome Child
Bright Light of Day
Spring Cleaning in the Wintertime *
Little White Cat *
Long Tall Story *
Voodoo Chile
HangmanSay Bye Bye
* From the new album being recorded while she is out here
I brought a friend who had never seen Anne. They want to go tomorrow too. I talked to Anne after the show with 2 fistfuls of drinks for us both, at which point she told me she gave up drinking a year and a half ago. Ruh roh.
Castoro Cellars tomorrow.
@tonyg wrote:
Bitchin show from Anne tonight, the first of the Golden State Tour. David Olney, accompanied by Sergio Webb, opened and were also great. They are also from Nashville. Much colder up here than in my Ventura Country hang, good thing I brought a jacket. The setlist:
Empty Bed Blues (cover, Bessie Smith I think)
Milkman’s Daughter
Lonesome Child
Bright Light of Day
Spring Cleaning in the Wintertime *
Little White Cat *
Long Tall Story *
Voodoo Chile
HangmanSay Bye Bye
* From the new album being recorded while she is out here
I brought a friend who had never seen Anne. They want to go tomorrow too. I talked to Anne after the show with 2 fistfuls of drinks for us both, at which point she told me she gave up drinking a year and a half ago. Ruh roh.
Castoro Cellars tomorrow.
well done, tony: and more booze for you, look at it that way. Yes, the opener is a bessie smith tune with the lyric “My girlfriend Lu”–though I wrongly assumed anne had subbed that name on her live album version. IN fact, it’s original to the smith version. good to hear that three from the new project were done. maybe the kazoo was trotted out for the last tune? david Olney wrote one song covered by emmylou on wrecking ball; I have seen him in a Jackson house concert. good times–and may we follow this tour vicariously via you.
David Olney was the opener. He played about 45 minutes. He was really good. I chatted with he and Sergio after the show; they were both very nice. The show was very poorly attended. Maybe about 50 people sitting in a church with the music set up on the altar (of Christ). Many of the people were elderly church members and near death. Anne played an hour at most, maybe less. The Bessie Smith tune was played with a slide on her acoustic guitar. Hangman was played on a lap steel and Say Bye Bye on her red ukulele. The rest of the show was half acoustic and half electric.
I went to Breakfast at the IHOP next to the hotel around 9 this morning and John Prine walks in alone and is seated at the table across from me. He played at Cal Poly SLO last night. I decided not to bother him, unless my mere existence did. He had 3 eggs over easy, hash browns, toast with white bread, and coffee, not that I was paying any attention, but in the name of good reportage, and that of the publics right to know, I include that here.
I have to find a place to watch the Bruins-Rangers game this afternoon since the hotel doesn’t carry NBCSN, after which I will make the 30 mile trip to Paso Robles and wine country.
@tonyg wrote:
David Olney was the opener. He played about 45 minutes. He was really good. I chatted with he and Sergio after the show; they were both very nice. The show was very poorly attended. Maybe about 50 people sitting in a church with the music set up on the altar (of Christ). Many of the people were elderly church members and near death. Anne played an hour at most, maybe less. The Bessie Smith tune was played with a slide on her acoustic guitar. Hangman was played on a lap steel and Say Bye Bye on her red ukulele. The rest of the show was half acoustic and half electric.
I went to Breakfast at the IHOP next to the hotel around 9 this morning and John Prine walks in alone and is seated at the table across from me. He played at Cal Poly SLO last night. I decided not to bother him, unless my mere existence did. He had 3 eggs over easy, hash browns, toast with white bread, and coffee, not that I was paying any attention, but in the name of good reportage, and that of the publics right to know, I include that here.
I have to find a place to watch the Bruins-Rangers game this afternoon since the hotel doesn’t carry NBCSN, after which I will make the 30 mile trip to Paso Robles and wine country.
I meant ukulele instead of kazoo of course. Tony, I was too shy to approach John Prine in Nashville once; he was on sidewalk outside Rotier’s restaurant, having just emerged, as I prepared to enter. Can’t tell you his dietary choices, though I would have predicted whole wheat or rye this morn (isn’t “toast with white bread” a bit redundant 😀 )? As for the elderly parishioners/concertgoers, just be glad that’s finally a room in which the median age was lowered rather than raised after you entered it. And would this Aussie Catholic girl have bleeped a word out of “Stupid” if she had played it, a la what the Americana compilation record did to the version on Roll?
I’m at a place where I can’t get Tennis Channel or ESPN2 for the French Open, so I feel your sports pain.
@tonyg wrote:
I went to Breakfast at the IHOP next to the hotel around 9 this morning and John Prine walks in alone and is seated at the table across from me. He played at Cal Poly SLO last night.
According to a post on Facebook this afternoon from Holly Williams, she opened for Mr. Prine last night in San Luis Obispo. That also would have been a great show to see (her new album is simply fantastic). Too bad you couldn’t clone yourself, tonyg… 😉
Tom
Actually I did clone myself but it didn’t work out. Too much Tony.
Great show tonight at Castoro Cellars in Templeton, just outside of Paso Robles. Big crowd, which I think brought out the best in all the performers. Same format as last night, except David Olney and Sergio Webb earned an encore so their set time was 55 minutes. Sergio wailed on the guitar. Anne played for an hour. The setlist:
I Want You Back
Cars Hiss By My Window (Doors)
Lonesome Child
Milkman’s Daughter
Empty Bed Blues (Bessie Smith)
Bright Light of Day
Spring Cleaning in the Wintertime
Little White Cat
Voodoo Chile /Who Do You Love
HangmanSay Bye Bye
Homeward bound for me tomorrow, Anne heads north to Berkeley and Winter. Then Ventura on Thursday. 😀
Wicked great show at Zoeys in Ventura last night. Both acts played for an hour before a packed house. Sergio Webb continues to blow my mind with his guitar playing. David Olney switched up his set list significantly from last week. Anne was great as always. The setlist:
Cares Hiss By My Window (Doors)
I Want You Back
The Mermaid Song (new song)
Bright Light of Day
Spring Cleaning in the Wintertime (new song)
Milk Man’s Daughter
Almost Too Late (new song)
Empty Bed Blues (Bessie Smith)
Lonesome Child
Roxanne (Police)
Blue Sky Thinking (new song, not sure of the title)
Voodoo ChileSay Bye Bye
Mega awesome show last night at McCabe’s. Anne was with her band all night, save the encore. Full house and Anne looked quite happy rockin out with her fellers: Dusty Wakeman on bass, Carl Byron on piano, electric piano, and accordion, and Dave Raven on drums.
Anne wraps up her California tour tonight in San Diego, alone, before returning to LA Sunday to record some more of her new album. Sadly, this was my last night on the tour. David Olney and Sergio Webb played an hour and were brought back for an encore. I highly recommend catching these guys somewhere. The setlist:Driving Down Alvarado
I Want You Back
Motorcycle Dream
Blue Sky *
Bright Light of Day
Spring Cleaning in the Wintertime *
Milkman’s Daughter (false start)
Stupid
Milkman’s Daughter
Little White Cat *
As The Crow Flies (Tony Joe White)
HangmanSay Bye Bye
* New Song
Anne broke a string while starting up Milkman’s Daughter and played Stupid while her guitar was being strung, a convenience of playing in a guitar shop. Many of Anne’s friends from her open mic days at McCabe’s were at the show. It was nice to see Cindy Wasserman (sorry Paul).
I was truly blessed to be able to see and listen to Anne 4 nights of the past 8 or so. Great songs, great voice, great guitar playing. Why is she not a star?
Thanks Tony, though I didn’t get the Wasserman?Paul element of this. A heavier Roll-Koala set to be sure, what with the LA band there, but new songs still–sounds like a great tour capper for you. I guess the “blue sparkly” guitar was not the sub during “Stupid?” She used to play that song on the blue one much.
Good day.
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