“I was on my computer today and it occurred to me that we’ve played Colorado seven times in the last year,” Brandi Carlile (who has repeatedly packed venues around the state) said to the sold-out crowd Saturday night at the Paramount in Downtown Denver.
“I’m really touched that you came to see us after all these times. I carefully reviewed every set list to add new songs and I also reviewed all of our outfits and haircuts so most things about tonight will be different.”
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“That’s a love song,” Amy Speace laughed after playing the title song from her latest record, The Killer In Me, at Denver’s Swallow Hill. “I played that song for my therapist and she said it was the first truly codependent love song. I asked her if I could stop coming, she upped my sessions.”
The songwriter spent the evening joking about her roots, her old hometown of New Jersey and even Pete Seeger while playing tunes both new and old.
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Joined by Nederland’s own Great American Taxi (who also opened the show), Todd Snider returned to the Boulder Theater stage with songs from his two latest records, The Excitement Plan and Peace Queer.
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As students finished final exams and started preparing for the winter holiday, legendary keyboardist Ian McLagan (Faces, Small Faces) stopped by the University of Texas’ intimate Cactus Café to share songs and stories.
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“It’s so good to be back for another night,” Gillian Welch said as the Dave Rawlings Machine took the stage at Austin’s Parish Room Monday.
Their last show of the first tour and the second night at the venue, the five-piece band (also including Ketch Secor, Morgan Jahnig and Willie Watson of Old Crow Medicine Show) pulled out all the stops for a fantastic evening of music.
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Stopping by Austin’s Waterloo Records before the first of two shows at the Parish Room with Sarah Jarosz, Dave Rawlings and the rest of the Machine (Gillian Welch, Ketch Secor, Willie Watson and Morgan Jahnig) gathered around a single microphone to play a short set of songs from A Friend of a Friend.
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Austin-based Shelley King has a new record, Welcome Home (recorded with members of the Subdudes) and is keeping busy with various shows around Texas before she’ll embark on a tour of Japan in January.
Recently she sat down and chatted about the album, her musical background and being Texas State Musician 2008.
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