Concert review
Jeffrey Foucault with Eric Heywood; Josh Harty opening
High Noon Saloon, June 14th, 2006
Note: truepenny took some much deserved time off from scribbling in her notebook and did not record set lists for this show. Neither accuracy nor completeness are implied, intended, or even really possible.
Josh Harty
Set List
Harty is still fairly new to me as the only other time I've seen him is opening for Peter Mulvey at Cafe Montmartre. Yes, this means that the set list here is wildly inaccurate. Bluesy acoustic guitar, gospel influenced song writing, and a beautiful voice make Harty someone I'm really looking forward to hearing more from. Musically, this show was just as good as the other, however, he looked somewhat nervous before the show and he seemed a little uncomfortable on stage. Although his web site doesn't mention it anywhere, Harty does have a second CD due out this summer.
Harty's introduction to Minna Miller where he mentioned that his father is a minister generated one of the better audience/performer interactions of the night:
Audience Shouter: What kind of minister?
Josh Harty: The Godly kind. [starts the song]
Jeffrey Foucault
Set List
I'm pretty sure I've remembered the songs performed, but extra sure that I've not got them in the right order. The first three are right, and easy to remember as they're the title tracks from Jeff's three CDs. The last five are right, I think. The Tom Petty cover and the audience request were done back-to-back and solo (Heywood took a Union Smoke BreakTM).
In the years since heresluck first dragged us out to see Jeff Foucault, he's become a truly wonderful performer. Hanging out with Peter Mulvey has been very good for him. Hanging out with David Goodrich has been even better for his guitar playing. Jeff still tends to mumble some of his stage patter, but now he does his mumbling into the mic.
Eric Heywood contributed backing work with pedal steel, electric mandolin, and electric guitar. Perhaps the best of the instrument-only support musicians that I've seen playing with Jeff, Heywood spent most of his time on the pedal steel. He added some very lovely work to Northbound 35 and reprised his efforts from the studio on songs off Ghostrepeater. There was a bit too much pedal steel in the mix for the first song, but that got damped down later (not sure if that was Heywood or the sound-guy-who's-name-I-should-remember-but-don't).
Most of Jeff's amusing comments require too much context to reproduce here, but there was this.
Introducing Mesa, Arizona:
JF: This next song is called Mesa, Arizona. It's about....Mesa, Arizona.
High Noon Saloon, June 14th, 2006
Note: truepenny took some much deserved time off from scribbling in her notebook and did not record set lists for this show. Neither accuracy nor completeness are implied, intended, or even really possible.
Josh Harty
Set List
- What About You
- Minna Miller
- I'm Gonna Have a Little Talk
- Reason
- Trouble
- (others--maybe two more?--that must be from his forth-coming album)
Harty is still fairly new to me as the only other time I've seen him is opening for Peter Mulvey at Cafe Montmartre. Yes, this means that the set list here is wildly inaccurate. Bluesy acoustic guitar, gospel influenced song writing, and a beautiful voice make Harty someone I'm really looking forward to hearing more from. Musically, this show was just as good as the other, however, he looked somewhat nervous before the show and he seemed a little uncomfortable on stage. Although his web site doesn't mention it anywhere, Harty does have a second CD due out this summer.
Harty's introduction to Minna Miller where he mentioned that his father is a minister generated one of the better audience/performer interactions of the night:
Audience Shouter: What kind of minister?
Josh Harty: The Godly kind. [starts the song]
Jeffrey Foucault
Set List
- Ghostrepeater
- Stripping Cane
- Miles from the Lightning
- Americans in Corduroys
- Train to Jackson
- Northbound 35
- I Dream an Old Lover
- One for Sorrow
- The Apartment Song (Tom Petty cover)
- Bluest Blade (audience request)
- One Part Love
- Tall Grass in Old Virginny
- Mesa, Arizona
- Appeline
- 4 and 20 Blues
- encore: I Still Miss Someone (Johnny Cash cover)
I'm pretty sure I've remembered the songs performed, but extra sure that I've not got them in the right order. The first three are right, and easy to remember as they're the title tracks from Jeff's three CDs. The last five are right, I think. The Tom Petty cover and the audience request were done back-to-back and solo (Heywood took a Union Smoke BreakTM).
In the years since heresluck first dragged us out to see Jeff Foucault, he's become a truly wonderful performer. Hanging out with Peter Mulvey has been very good for him. Hanging out with David Goodrich has been even better for his guitar playing. Jeff still tends to mumble some of his stage patter, but now he does his mumbling into the mic.
Eric Heywood contributed backing work with pedal steel, electric mandolin, and electric guitar. Perhaps the best of the instrument-only support musicians that I've seen playing with Jeff, Heywood spent most of his time on the pedal steel. He added some very lovely work to Northbound 35 and reprised his efforts from the studio on songs off Ghostrepeater. There was a bit too much pedal steel in the mix for the first song, but that got damped down later (not sure if that was Heywood or the sound-guy-who's-name-I-should-remember-but-don't).
Most of Jeff's amusing comments require too much context to reproduce here, but there was this.
Introducing Mesa, Arizona:
JF: This next song is called Mesa, Arizona. It's about....Mesa, Arizona.