Elvis & The Sugarcanes, Boston (MA), April 20, 2010

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just a lackey wrote:Color of the Blues
First performance since 1982!

http://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/inde ... 01_Atlanta

The new song identified as "Lancaster Station" and "forgotten man" is presumably "Jimmie Standing In The Rain."
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Since you put me down, it seems i've been very gloomy. You may laugh but pretty girls look right through me.
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AWESOME WHOA BABY account from blackbeannachos on listserv:

No list report from the Boston show last night? Well, I can offer my
somewhat uninformed commentary. By uninformed I mean, I've listened to
SP&SC one whole time, two days prior, and I'm lucky I can name Jim
Lauderdale, much less point him out on a stage. Jerry who? Bald
mandolin dude who?

Anyway. First, thanks hugely to Alfonso for the tickets. I wasn't sure
I was going to be free last night until a couple of weeks ago, so it
was fortunate to grab them. The Orpheum looked pretty darn full, at
least orchestra level.

Next, based on earlier posts about this tour, I expected some
Imposters to be there. Whoops! The lack of a keyboard rig and a drum
kit tipped me off before the show started, though. I haven't been a
huge fan of EC's recent musical meanderings, but the show was
definitely great and I'm glad I went, lack of rawk or no.

The setlist is already on the Wiki, I see, which is fortunate because
I tried to cadge the lighting person's list after the show and was
rebuffed. I am in dire need of help identifying many of the songs! It
was pure hoedown pretty much all the way through. I really enjoyed the
countryfication of "New Amsterdam" and the revamped EDIWTB was most
cool. With this lineup, you sure can see that EC was thinking about
country all the way back to MAIT. (Of course, I still claim credit for
his recent return to it, obviously after hearing a certain cover of
"My Science Fiction Twin".)

Highlights: the aforementioned New Amsterdam, Blame It on Cain, the
new Slow Drag w/Josephine, Condemned Man sounds awesome. I also really
enjoyed Crooked Line. Somehow it sounded as though Emmylou were there
singing, even though she wasn't.

And now a brief rant about the jackass I mention in the subject, just
because I have to get this off my chest. The dude directly behind us
was the most obnoxiously loud drunken slob I've ever witnessed. Any
song he knew, he sang along with raucous inaccuracy. "Nooo AmsterDAM
it's become much too MUCH!!! WOOOO!!!" If he didn't know the song, he
would actually bellow out noises that imitated the instruments
playing, I kid you not. He whistled over Elvis's whistle solo in, er,
I forget which song it is; he yelled banjo twanging noises during
every one of Jerry Douglas's solos; he out-El-Mocamboed the El Mocambo
guy on a very tender and lovely rendition of "Indoor Fireworks", for
chrissakes. It was like being serenaded by a genetic experiment mixing
The Nuge with a golden retriever marinated in a case of Bud Light.
Absolutely mind-blowingly awful to be near him. At a rock show, where
the music's loud, I can be mellow about that kind of stuff, even if it
is super distracting. But for this show, where there's not even a drum
set, good grief did it stick out. Ugggh.

To end on a positive note, though: great show. WOOOOOOOOOO! YEAH BABY
OH YEAH THIS IS FRIGGIN AWESOME WHOA
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migdd wrote:AWESOME WHOA BABY account from blackbeannachos on listserv:

he out-El-Mocamboed the El Mocambo guy
:D

To end on a positive note, though: great show.

WOOOOOOOOOO! YEAH BABY
OH YEAH THIS IS FRIGGIN AWESOME WHOA
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Since you put me down, it seems i've been very gloomy. You may laugh but pretty girls look right through me.
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