Phenomenal concert. I’m trying to decide whether it was better than the Dar Williams show at the Cradle last year… If it’s not, it’s pretty darn close.<\/p>\n
I saw Vienna Teng and Marc Cohn in Carrboro earlier this evening. Great little venue with carpets on the walls to deaden the sound, no funky light show or stage antics, just a bunch of real musicians performing. It was cozy and great. Vienna Teng played “Gravity” first off… that being probably my favorite song of hers, I was on pins and needles the whole time, all the more since it was<\/i> the first song and my system hadn’t become accustomed to the musical atmosphere yet (You know how after a few songs things settle down and you tend to notice more subtleties? That was the principle at work). She played a few songs from her first album like “Unwritten Letter #1” and “Lullabye” and a bunch of stuff from her second including “Mission Street” and a fantastic rendition of “Harbor,” on which she ended her set.<\/p>\n
Both she and Marc Cohn had a great stage manner, good inter-song patter, and were uproariously funny in parts.<\/p>\n
Marc Cohn was great too. He played “Walking in Memphis” of course, but with more nuance since it was live, and had the amazingly pitch-perfect audience sing the last verse. Yeah, we ruled. Off his first album, he played “Ghost Train,” “Perfect Love,” “Dig Down Deep,” “True Companion,” and “Silver Thunderbird” (I enjoyed this greatly). I only have his first album, so I can’t name any of the newer stuff he played, but it sounded fantastic. He got into a dialogue with a pair of kids who were sitting with their parents on the front row, and personalized some of the later songs in his set for them. I really appreciate musicians who do that. Class act all the way. Wow, what a great show.<\/p>\n
Time for bed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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