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.)

Friday, September 23, 2022

Straight No Chaser – Maryland Theatre (Hagerstown), 9/20/2022

Row N, Seats 301-302 – left-hand section, 13 rows back, on the aisle. Sightlines and sound were both excellent.

 

It’s been over four years since the last time we saw SNC, but the ensemble certainly hasn’t lost its touch. I’m surprised they’ve never put out a live DVD – while I enjoy listening to the one CD of theirs that I own, you miss a lot without the choreography, background screen imagery, and general craziness of their live shows. As usual, their musical timeline was quite long, going as far back as Sam Cooke’s “Twistin’ The Night Away” and extending all the way up to Dua Lipa’s “Levitating”, which still gets plenty of airplay on Top 40 radio stations. It was a particularly big evening for Bill Withers fans, as their first set included both “Lovely Day” and a medley of “Use Me” and “Ain’t No Sunshine”. I even enjoyed their take on a couple of songs (“Fix You” and “Shut Up and Dance”) that I don’t especially like.

 

Highlights:

Movie Theme Medley (just prior to intermission)

Proud Mary (just after intermission)

Bridge Over Troubled Water

Lovely Day

Closing Time (their current mic-free encore)

 

Setlist

 

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