Greg Brown

Friday, August 28, 2009
UW-La Crosse: Cartwright Center
La Crosse, Wisconsin

Notes:
35th Annual Great River Folk Festival

No. Title Comments
1. Cold and Dark and Wet   
2. Laughing River   
3. Skinny Days   
4. Kokomo   
5. Driftless   
6. Treat Each Other Right   
7. Ballad of Pretty Boy Floyd (Woody Guthrie)   
8. What Happened? (Merle Haggard)   
9. Fat Boy Blues   
10. Blues Go Walking   
11. The Train Carrying Jimmie Rodgers Home   
12. Blue Yodel No. 1 (T for Texas) (Jimmie Rodgers)   
13. You Drive Me Crazy (encore)   

Reviews
Review No.: 1
Source: canubike (AT) aol.com
Last updated: Friday, February 12, 2010
A torrential downpour greeted the crowd making its way to
the Cartwright Center on the University of
Wisconsin-Lacrosse campus this past Friday for the opening concert of the 35th annual Great
River Folk Festival featuring Greg Brown.



About 20 minutes before the show was to start the rain let
up and the room filled with people—those new to Greg and those who were well
into the double digits on the number of his shows they saw. The woman three
seats to my right told me how, when she lived in southeastern Iowa, she would babysit Greg and how they
would sing.



Greg came on stage wearing the usual sunglasses and looking
like he could fit in with the casual crowd in a plain white shirt and dark
slacks that could have come from Lands End. He wore no hat showing that he still
had his hair at 60. His patter between the tunes was largely at the beginning
of the set, with commentary about the rain, playing at the Bodega in LaCrosse some years
ago, and how things have changed on 4th
Street. By the end of the show, we heard the music
and no commentary.

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