They can't be famous; I never heard of 'em.

Saw Joe Craven and Howard Levy last night. Just incredible...seriously.  I'm gratified to have had the opportunity to see them together...each famous musicians in their own right.
 

 

 
Awesome. I met Howard in Telluride when he was still with Bela Fleck & the Flecktones!

Saw Joe Craven and Howard Levy last night. Just incredible...seriously.  I'm gratified to have had the opportunity to see them together...each famous musicians in their own right.
 

Yeah by 1980 the Rumour were no more (until this year). 80 to now were solo albums except for one GP & the Shot, which was all studio guys except for Brinsley Schwarz.

have the rest carked it?

Jealous as all hell, would love to see GP.
Edit: hey, were they always called that???  cripes.

Graham Parker and the Rumour last night at the Birchmere.

Exellent show.  One of the better shows I've seen in a while.

He's lost some of his bite, but he's a quality performer with lots of audience interaction. And the band is solid.

They have a new CD out, and apparently are featured in the new movie  This is 40.

They seemed to really be enjoying themselves.

I'd recommend seeing them.

   

That album was on sale after the show last night, along with the CD. 

Funny comments about the album cover on FB: 

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• GP describes it as looking like 'gay christian rock' in a interview in Uncut - he had little to do with the design, he says. 
• He said that it was designed for the This is 40 movie and that the guy who did it was an old hippy...

  
  

 

Graham Parker and the Rumour last night at the Birchmere.

Exellent show.  One of the better shows I've seen in a while.

He's lost some of his bite, but he's a quality performer with lots of audience interaction. And the band is solid.

They have a new CD out, and apparently are featured in the new movie  This is 40.

They seemed to really be enjoying themselves.

I'd recommend seeing them.

   

Edit:  If I get a little time — and the muse hits — I'll write a bit more.  

that was awesome!

I've wanted to see Steve Earle for 3 decades but our schedules never worked out. True to form, he had a concert scheduled close to us (2 hours north)... and we were going to be in Jackson Hole that day (5 hours south). So we woke up in the Tetons (I was up around 6 a.m. starting a fire for coffee), struck camp, had breakfast with the HobieJoes, sent them on their way and started the beautiful drive home about noon. We didn't ever buy tickets because so much could happen it just seemed too risky, but we made some snack stops along the way, picked up a hitch-hiking Yellowstone employee from somewhere in China whose roommates had headed to Cody without him and stopped at my office to pick up a photo of one of the band members along the way, just in case we got to meet him. 4:30 we got home, took showers, schlepped the kids over to grandma's house, I went online to order tickets. At this point I was prepared—maybe even hoping—to be disappointed. How could this show not be sold out? Well it wasn't. I ordered the will call tix, made us both some coffees and we started driving again. Got to Billings, found a parking spot close enough, 10 minutes to showtime, ran into the pizza joint around the corner from the theater, ordered a pie to tide us over. I went to use the facilities and they're shared with the public's facilities of the venue, but on my way back thru the maze of doors I did a Hello Cleveland and wound up nearly onstage. Seriously. Opening act Chris Masterson was headed onstage and if I hadn't recognized him I probably would have gone further before going "uh oh." I turned around and a nice guy asked what I was looking for, I said the pizza! and he thought for a minute I was looking for catering, but then remembered there was an unmarked door around there that led to a pizza parlor. Roadie guy and I opened a couple more doors and finally said Ah ha! and we laughed about that. Turns out it was Steve's bassist, Kelly Looney, not a roadie. Woops! 
 
We mowed down the pizza, walked into the venue (at this point we could have just sat down and watched the show without tickets—memo for next time) but I got us our wristbands and we went in and... wow there were a few kids there but not many... this crowd was extremely AARP-heavy. Which meant nothing to us until we found out that the promoter expected us to find a seat and siddown. No thank you. We tried various spots until bouncers didn't make us move, but we were in a very nice spot, off to the side, but at least we could stand up and the sound in this place is great. Steve came on and this isn't really a concert review and Justine will post some photos later, but it was a very good show. Would have been great if we'd been able to stand down front with some other fans but hey. About halfway through he did some of his old stuff but for the most part it was from the later part (past 15 years or so) of his career and it was all great. Turns out Chris Masterson (the opening act) is also in Steve's band, and that was cool how he transitioned from his own style to something else for Steve's set. Encore for Steve's set, they did some songs from the album they'll be releasing in February— he played one where the protagonist's town is dying and in the chorus he admits he's thinking of burning down the WalMart... then he introduces the next song by saying, "by the way: the theme of the new album seems to be Don't try this at home. Especially this one..." ...and he launches into what I'm going to characterize as a sort of update of Copperhead Road that introduces meth to the story.

After the show, there was a meet & greet at the merch table but they announced that they'd be a few minutes before they came out so I ran to the car and got my photo and Steve's book, Doghouse Roses. When I got back Justine was standing next to a friend of ours, an art instructor from the college and his old college friend who was in town and we stood there laughing and bs-ing for another half an hour before the band came out but when they did they were very cool to talk to. Justine had Steve sign his book to Charlie & Augusta and Chris and his wife (also in the band) and Steve all had a good laugh at my photo (he got your good side! says Steve). Chris signed it, we talked about his shoes for a minute... years ago I had sent the photo to the shoemaker who put it on the company site and also sent it to Chris, so he recognized the photo from then.

Anyway, we made it, made it home, the kids are back in our house and wow, are Justine and I ever going to sleep a lot today