As a fan of a wide variety of popular (and not-so-popular) music from the 1950s (and sometimes even earlier) up through the present, one of my bucket list projects for years has been to put together a list of my 100 favorite songs of all time. At some point I decided that, once I got around to figuring that out, I could put it out on a blog, for the infinitesimally small proportion of the Internet world that might be interested. So, here we are. While the Top 100 will be a major focus, I also plan to post on a variety of other musical (and occasionally non-musical) topics, in which you may or may not be interested. (If a particular posting doesn’t ring your bell, you’re only a few clicks away from a dancing cat video on YouTube.)

Monday, September 25, 2017

Ari Hest w/ Ken Yates – AMP, 9/24/2017


Great “VIP” seats, at the rear of a table in the front row, near the center
 
Although Ari Hest featured strong singing and guitar work (excepting his three-song detour to the piano mid-set) throughout his 70-minute show, he saved most of the best for the end, finishing the main set with “I’ve Got You”, and then encoring with “Heart Of A Lion” from his recent album Natural and a nice cover of Paul Simon’s “Still Crazy After All These Years”. My other favorite was “The Weight” (a Hest original, not the Band tune), which appears most recently on his Grammy-nominated Silver Skies Blue duet album with Judy Collins.
 
Ken Yates, a Canadian singer-songwriter who’s played a number of house concerts in this area, provided a 40-minute opening set whose most memorable songs included “Huntsville”, “Keep Your Head Down”, and “Roll Me On Home.”

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