Live Music
More live music last night, this time our favorite singer/songwriter, Susan Werner, at the World Cafe Live in West Philly.
If I were to be considered anybody's "groupie" it would be her. She's a wonderful writer and has a very personable demeanor in her act. She's also "from" Philly (actually Iowa, but lived much of her young adult life here), and can quip that she knows her Norristown from her Narberth, etc. (I have a bootleg of her singing a Septa song from early on).
Her latest album is "The Gospel Truth," a series of agnostic gospel songs. Standouts include "Sunday Morning" when she remembers what it was like to go to church every week; and "Probably Not," a very bouncy agnostic anthem.
The World Cafe Live is a fairly new venue, and it's laid out very well. It's a great space to see performers in one regard. But they serve *dinner*!!! So even during the show, waiters are whisking plates of french fries or bowls of mussels up and down the aisles. I don't mind drinking, but the eating is really not terribly appetizing (and it's basically TGIFriday's sort of food). Thumbs way down. And I don't much like the atmosphere of dinner theatre.
But the show was great! Worth picking up some of her albums (I'd recommend Live At The Tin Angel, her second album)
If I were to be considered anybody's "groupie" it would be her. She's a wonderful writer and has a very personable demeanor in her act. She's also "from" Philly (actually Iowa, but lived much of her young adult life here), and can quip that she knows her Norristown from her Narberth, etc. (I have a bootleg of her singing a Septa song from early on).
Her latest album is "The Gospel Truth," a series of agnostic gospel songs. Standouts include "Sunday Morning" when she remembers what it was like to go to church every week; and "Probably Not," a very bouncy agnostic anthem.
The World Cafe Live is a fairly new venue, and it's laid out very well. It's a great space to see performers in one regard. But they serve *dinner*!!! So even during the show, waiters are whisking plates of french fries or bowls of mussels up and down the aisles. I don't mind drinking, but the eating is really not terribly appetizing (and it's basically TGIFriday's sort of food). Thumbs way down. And I don't much like the atmosphere of dinner theatre.
But the show was great! Worth picking up some of her albums (I'd recommend Live At The Tin Angel, her second album)