Table 216 – 8-person table parallel to the stage, house left section,
about 1/3 of the way back.
When we saw the James Hunter Six at Pearl Street Warehouse earlier this
year, I remember thinking that venue might not be ideal for relatively quiet,
acoustic acts. Janis Ian would not be an ideal performer to work there,
although at the Birchmere you could have heard a pin drop during her quieter
material (which was much of the 95-minute show, starting with a leisurely
version of her classic “Jesse”). The show worked well, however, as she mixed in
a fair amount of audience banter and some more uptempo material, including “The
Tiny Mouse”, “Married In London”, and “My Autobiography.” She did the latter
with some clever modifications to the original lyrics; it would never have
occurred to me that “Donald Trump” and “Forrest Gump” rhyme nicely. My favorite
was a tribute she did to Ella Fitzgerald near the end of her first set,
complete with a great guitar solo in the middle. She did get to “At Seventeen”
(although not “Society’s Child”), and borrowed from Livingston Taylor the idea
of doing “Somewhere Over The Rainbow” as an encore. (Great song, but maybe not
the best choice for an audience singalong.)
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