Shuffle #91 (September 17, 2016)

The Mary Ellen Carter – Schooner Fare

Good Intentions – Lyle Lovett

Charlie Don’t Surf – The Clash

My Old Friend – John Hiatt

This Is My Song – Petula Clark

Steady On – Shawn Colvin

I Ain’t Got No Home – Bruce Springsteen

Soldier Boy – The Shirelles

High & Dry – Jamie Cullum

KT Tunstall w/ Conner Youngblood – Lincoln Theatre, 9/14/2016

Tunstall, who’s largely faded from the public eye despite releasing some excellent material since her breakout with “Black Horse & The Cherry Tree” and “Suddenly I See” 10 years ago, kicked off her North American tour with a bang Wednesday night, less than a week after the release of her latest album KIN. Her vocals were somewhat lost in the mix during the first two songs of her 100-minute performance, but she recovered nicely to deliver an energetic and engaging performance for the rest of the evening along with her three bandmates, with a solo mini-set in the middle.

 

Highlights – final song of her main set (“The Healer”) followed by her encore (cover of Springsteen’s “State Trooper”), “Everything Has Its Shape” (from the new CD), and the concluding “Suddenly I See” … clever interpolations in the middle of “Black Horse & The Cherry Tree” (“Seven Nation Army”) and “Hold On” (“Walk Like An Egyptian”) … “Invisible Empire” and “Feel It All” from her previous album … great cover version of “The Boys Of Summer” … “Maybe It’s A Good Thing” from KIN

 

Young multi-instrumentalist Conner Youngblood opened with a half-hour set, playing some guitar and keyboard parts himself and accompanied by a rhythm track (which was at times too repetitive and overbearing for my taste).

Serendipity #62

Harvest For The World – The Isley Brothers

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yz_OsEISBGo

Heard 9/12/2016 around 5:45, at Potbelly (Rockville)

September 11, 2016 – Nationals 3, Phillies 2 – Nationals Park

http://m.nationals.mlb.com/news/article/200761468/anthony-rendon-gio-gonzalez-lead-nationals/

 

Attendance: 31,805

Game Time: 2:49

Weather: 84 degrees, partly cloudy

Wind: 9 mph

Umpires: Home Plate - Chris Segal, First Base - Paul Emmel, Second Base - Larry Vanover, Third Base - David Rackley

 

Notes – to our surprise, the game moved along quickly with efficient efforts from both Gio Gonzalez and Adam Morgan; the game had reached the bottom of the seventh before we had to leave for the second half of our split doubleheader … Nats took the lead in the first when Turner singled and scored on Murphy’s double … Phillies tied it in the top of the seventh on a Tommy Joseph HR … Nats took the lead with two in the bottom of the seventh … Freddy Galvis led off the top of the eighth with a homer on Koda Glover’s first (and only) pitch of the afternoon to cut the lead to 1, but Perez, Treinen, and Melancon shut the visitors down the rest of the way … Roman Quinn made his major league debut in CF for the Phils, going 0-3 with a walk … impressive and moving pregame ceremony in recognition of the 9/11/2001 terrorist attacks

September 10, 2016 – Nationals 3, Phillies 0 – Nationals Park

http://m.nationals.mlb.com/news/article/200618874/bryce-harper-homers-as-nationals-beat-phillies/

 

Attendance: 36,152

Game Time: 3:05

Weather: 88 degrees, partly cloudy

Wind: 4 mph

Umpires: Home Plate - David Rackley, First Base - Chris Segal, Second Base - Paul Emmel, Third Base - Larry Vanover

 

Section 111, Row JJ, Seats 15-18 – full original crew was here for the first time since Opening Day, nice lower-level seats on the aisle down the left-field line, out of the sun

 

Notes – biggest crowd of the series, for the Oktoberfest beer stein giveaway … came down early and stopped by TaKorean before the game … another pitcher’s duel, with both starters putting up goose eggs (Scherzer struggled with high pitch counts early but lasted into the seventh, while Jerad Eickhoff for the Phils needed only 82 pitches to get through six before leaving for a pinch-hitter … Phils center fielder Odubel Herrera kept the shutout going in the bottom of the fourth by throwing out Robinson trying to score from second on a Lobaton single … Nats finally broke the stalemate in the eighth when lefty specialist Patrick Schuster entered for Philadelphia with one on, promptly giving up a walk to Murphy and a 3-run blast to Harper