| No. | Title | Comments |
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| 1. | Roll Along Kentucky Moon (Jimmie Rodgers) | |
| 2. | Cold and Dark and Wet | |
| 3. | Goodwill | |
| 4. | Treat Each Other Right | |
| 5. | Rexroth's Daughter | |
| 6. | Loneliness House | |
| 7. | If I Had Known | Karen & Pete for rest of show |
| 8. | Skinny Days | With Harmonica |
| 9. | Who Do You Think You're Fooling? | |
| 10. | Kokomo | |
| 11. | Two Little Feet | |
| 12. | InaBell Sale | |
| 13. | Better Days | |
| 14. | Enough | |
| 15. | You Really Got a Hold on Me (Smokey Robinson) (encore) | |
| 16. | Wash My Eyes (encore) | Second Encore |
Reviews
| Review No.: | 1 |
| Last updated: | Friday, July 29, 2005 |
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June 9th
Notes: The Gravity Lounge was a great venue, smallish with general admission. It's a sort of coffee shop, book store hangout, with beer and wine, as well. We got there about an hour and a half early, were first in line, and got to sit first row center, about 3 ft away from a low platform stage, surrounded by shelves of books. Perfect. Had never seen Karen Savoca before and was chatting with her as she set out CD's before I realized who she was. Very sweet and friendly; she advised me to wait till I heard her before I bought one of her cd's. I'm not familiar with her catalogue, and the only song she played I recognized was Between Girl and Gone. Her singing was quieter and gentler than I expected and Pete accompanied very lightly. She played only either 4 or 5 songs, which surprised me. I would have enjoyed hearing more. They left, Greg came out and opened with two songs I'd never heard - Kentucky Moon and Wet, Cold, and Dark. Started talking politics and then quoted Sonny Boy Williams saying "Don't get me started talking or I'll tell you everything I know." Described himself as a full time gardener and part time performer. After Goodwill he talked a lot about re-recycling his clothes at the Goodwill store. Did a good version of Rexroth's Daughter - changed the last line to "I'm looking for Rexroth's Daughter and I hope she's looking for me." One of the people I was with asked me who was Ray Charles' daughter?, and I forgot to find out later if he was just kidding! On Skinny Days he did a harmonica accompaniment - when he tried it later on another song, he had it in upside down or something and after wrestling a little with it, threw it down and said he obviously wasn't much of a harmonica player. When he got ready to get K&P back he changed his story about their goat farm-ashram-yurt-bed and breakfast place to describing them as only performing to relieve the stress of their many many multi-national businesses, and heavy duty stressful -"entrepren prenoo ial entrepre u rial ,hell, I can't even pronounce it!" - businesses. Pete then came out with a beer at his ear like a cell phone. The audience loved Kokomo - I'd heard it only on a couple of older shows, though I read that he played it last week in Decorah. He played it the next night, too. The words change somewhat each time, but some of the lines are classics. He played Two Little Feet in response to a persistent shout from the back, and Enough at my timid little request. Did a very funny InaBell Sale - I'd never heard the line where the preacher describes her as the woman who puts the h in obitchuary. It was quite a relaxed show - he seemed in a very mellow mood, even though the guy at the door said he was an hour late for the soundcheck; he did, in fact, have to come in shortly before the door opened, in front of a line of people. Must not have worried him, though. Wish I could describe the playing better, but I don't know enough.("I don't know much about art, but...") Pete's accompaniment was much less involved and intense than Bo's except at a couple of points. Fashion report very dull: blue jeans, striped oxford style shirt - removed after a bit (not dull) - worn open over a white tank, caramel colored loafers, no socks, no earrings, no sunglasses. Beverage report better: Red Stripe and Guinness. More notes (if you haven't gotten tired of reading) Nancy R. |
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