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Sat. Feb. 25, 2012
Ferguson Center, Newport News, VA (CNU)Red Hook Summer Score >
???* >
China Doll >
‘Bird Music’** > China Doll
Lost in the Snow >
???*** > Lost in the Snow
Hooray for Tom
The Valley Road
Where’s the Bat
Simple Prayer
The End of the Innocence
Love Me Still
Nobody There but Me
20/20 Vision**** >
Night on the Town
The Way It Is
Black Rats of London
Sneaking Up on Boo Radley >
Catenaires^ > Sneaking Up on Boo Radley
Mandolin RainEncore:
I Can’t Make You Love Me^^
The Don of Dons
Soon Enough*Gyorgy Ligeti composition
**Olivier Messiaen music
***song from “Camp Meeting”
****Jimmy Martin cover song
^Elliot Carter composition
^^Bonnie Raitt cover songGreat show last night! My first time seeing BH solo. Full house. He seemed especially chatty last night. I don’t know if this is normal, or just because it was a hometown show. He took great pains to point out some of the more obscure classical/jazz interludes that he played during some songs, and of course the usual humorous references to the audience requests. The set was heavy on SCKBSTD (Stranger?) tunes, which have grown on me a lot. I think it’s actually the best batch of songs he’s written in a long time. Love Me Still and Night on the Town were other personal highlights for me last night. I’m sure Bruce enjoyed sleeping at home last night!
I should also mention that friend & promoter Bill Reid was in the audience last night, as well as Bobby Hornsby.
You beat me to it, but thanks for posting and great points! Great show all around, Bruce was truly in his element as always . . . SCKBSTD was indeed a popular theme of the night and he did mention will be performed this summer in Philadelphia, he isn’t at all happy with the name change . . . I think STRANGER is not a good name either! The highlights for me well of course The Way It Is- where he really put on quite a show and took us all on quite an amazing ride into the pure talents of his solo piano skills, Mandolin Rain in the Ricky Skaggs/BH treatment was stellar, 20/20 Vision/A Night on the Town was pretty powerful too, and as BH mentioned Soon Enough a song that has yet to be officially released and or recorded has become one of the newest and most popular songs by request and a great one to close with- won’t replace the Show Goes on for me, but Soon Enough is a pretty powerful song! Bruce was indeed glad to be back at the Ferguson (since 2007 with Ricky and 2005 Solo) and very excited to be less than 20 miles from home- time to rest it up for a few days and head back out on the Road!!! Great show Bruce!!!
Sounds like Bruce had a great time as well. From his Facebook page:
“Saturday night at Ferguson Center in Newport News was one of my favorite performances of the tour. I hope to retain,if not surpass,that level at my remaining solo shows. -bh”
And I thought the Durham concert was outstanding-if this one was even better (and it sounds as if it was), it must be one for the record books.
Hope it is released on nugs.net…..
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