Row L, Seat
106 (further back than usual, but dead center)
Nice show!
Main level was pretty full (did have 3 empty seats next to me). Slightly
smaller combo on stage even than I had expected, just Madeleine, plus two other
wonderful musicians on guitar and upright bass, who also contributed harmony
vocals on a few songs. (Sort of thought they might have someone on keyboards.)
Started with
“Take These Chains From My Heart” (popularized by both Hank Williams and Ray
Charles) and “Between The Bars”. Several songs in, paid tribute to the late
Allen Toussaint with a politely funky version of “Everything I Do Gonna Be
Funky (From Now On)”, followed by a few songs with just Madeleine and her
acoustic guitar. Other highlights included “Don’t Cry Baby” and Randy Newman’s “Guilty”.
Really
kicked it into gear at the end, concluding with three tracks from her
breakthrough Careless Love album:
Leonard Cohen’s “Dance Me To The End Of Love”, “Don’t Wait Too Long”, and the
title track. They then encored with the final cut from that CD, “This Is Heaven
To Me”. No intermission – whole show ran just under 90 minutes, meaning that I
actually made it home around 10:00.
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