This is the quick report because it's the middle of the night....
Good show. Yeah, it's the first in a while and did have to acknowledge that the voice isn't what it was but it's still unmistakably him. He picked from all over but was largely on songs from albums from Endless Wire forward. He of course included many of the hits and tried to touch as many bases as posiible - opened with Cotton Jenny followed by Carefree Highway. I wasn't keeping a setlist so just off the top of my head he did Ribbon of Darkness, Early Morning Rain, Edmund Fitzgerald, Never Too Close,Sea of Tranquility, Triangle, Old Dan's Records, Beautiful, Shadows... I'll try more when I'm awake. Very sorry that he didn't do Canadian Railroad Trilogy or Don Quixote. Of course about a hundred other songs.
And, this is a first for someone who has been listening to him from the beginning - I finally met him! Hung around after the show long enough that he did come out, autographed my old cover of "Sit Down Young Stranger (Yeah - vinyl before the name change) and my CD cover of Summer Side of Life. I has brought my CD cover for Don Quixote but it is missing at the moment. I've got a picture of us but I have to figure out uploading it. It's great - he's as short as I am!
He was very nice to talk to. Would have gotten more in but I had competition - but all were very nice. I mentioned I knew how to play almost as many of his songs as he did and he got talking about how he started learning maye 80 of other peoples song before he started trying his hand at it. It was really great - like talking to an old friend - for good reason!
Never connected with DAvid and I had teh wrong row number for me!
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