Saturday, August 20, 2016

LesterFest 2016!

8/13/16
River Dog Outpost
Rome, GA

If there's one thing I love, it's playing music on or around my birthday.  I got super anxious about charging a cover, since they'd not done it before at this place.  The first people who were asked to pay, turned around and left.  But an hour later the place was packed.  Phew!  They ended up having their best night of sales ever.  Joe and Sam worked up some strings charts, we all rehearsed a bunch.  Lillian came in the night before to rehearse, nailed it.  I played a solo set to kick it off.


Prologue >
Fantastic (Existential Crisis?  What Existential Crisis?)
Too Fast For You >
That Which We Are, We Are
Brief Encounter (4th & Broad) >
The Boy With The Thorn In His Side >
Brief Encounter (Raleigh)
Midnight Afternoon

Joe played a couple of our old ones, and a couple of newer ones he wrote with my lyrics.  I sang harmony on one.  Sam joined us for a couple.

Anything At All*
Southways Serenade**

*APL: gtr., voc.; Joe: Violin; Sam: viola
**Joe switches to viola

Tina & The Goose blew it out for an hour or so, then The Briars took the stage, joined by Joe, Sam, and Lillian for the first two.

I Would Be Your Slave*
Take Me With U**
Downstream
Wasn't Really
Desperate Teresa
I'll Just Fall
Seemin'ly
Friend Of The Devil
Just Like Heaven
Saturday
Six Days On The Road***

*Joe: violin; Sam; viola
**add Lillian Shaw, voc.
***w/Mike Tappan:  gtr., voc.

K!d Dynamite blew it out for the end.  Rah!