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Dave Alvin and The Guilty Men, FitzGerald’s - Berwyn, IL – July 3, 2006
The crowd for Dave Alvin shows is usually pretty peaceful, but by the second song of the night, a couple (that’s a man with what I presumed to be his woman) got thrown out of the bar by Bill FitzGerald’s brother. The alcohol had been flowing for many hours in mass quantities at The American Music Festival. Late in the gig, Bill FitzGerald almost had to throw another guy out who was getting a bit too close to pianist Joe Terry.
Chris Gaffney was not with Dave for this show, nor was Bobby Lloyd Hicks. Bobby has been replaced on drums by a guy from Chicago named Steve McGallion (sp?). Chris is currently on tour with his band The Hacienda Brothers. Joe Terry and Gregory Boaz are still with Dave on keyboards and bass respectively, as is Chris Miller on guitar and steel guitar.
Most of the time that Dave played “Ashgrove” in the last two years, he has made it part of a medley preceded by “Somewhere in Time,” but this night he played it by itself.
During “Marie Marie,” Dave brought out a guy to play harmonica who Dave credited with giving him his start in music. The story goes that this guy is the one who suggested to older brother Phil Alvin that Dave be allowed to play guitar for a wedding gig that Phil had gotten. Frank Farello (sp?)
Dave paid tribute to Gary the sound engineer in saying that in all the years he played there, Gary has never asked Dave to turn down his guitar. And as a guitar player, I can tell you from first hand experience that’s important!
For the first encore, Dave played another tune from his newest album, Brian Wilson’s Surfer Girl. Then at the end of that, he broke into his Zydeco hit, Marie, Marie.
For the second of the two encores Dave asked for requests. I was yelling for “Wanda and Duane” and one or two other people were as well, however “Romeo’s Escape” won out. This was just as well because Dave did a very inspired version of it. In the part about the cowgirl taking the guy home, Dave paid tribute to two fallen Beat Farmers friends by singing that she “took Buddy Blue and Country Dick home.”
That song became a medley as Dave segued into Willie Dixon’s “Mellow Down Easy” that Little Walter made famous, thereby paying tribute to the Chicago blues. Frank Farello had an extended harmonic solo on that one which ended up being the last song of the night. At a few minutes past 1:30 in the morning and after four days of The American Music Festival, the audience was pretty well satisfied.
The whole show was about two hours in total. The set list looks kind of short, but a lot of the songs were long versions.
Out in California
Sinful Daughter
Redneck Friend
Abilene
Blind Love
Between The Cracks
Out of Control
Trouble Bound
Dry River
Ashgrove
Fourth of July
Encores:
Surfer Girl
Marie, Marie -> So Long Baby, Goodbye
Romeo’s Escape -> Mellow Down Easy
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Photos by PolkDog:
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polksalad69 |
quote: Barney Fife wrote:
Photos by PolkDog:
was it guitar heroes day at the fest or what??? before Dave closed the fest...
Dale Watson
Jon Dee Graham
Bill Kirchen & Lisa P
John Mooney
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quote: Barney Fife wrote:
Dave Alvin and The Guilty Men, FitzGerald’s - Berwyn, IL – July 3, 2006
Out in California
Sinful Daughter
Redneck Friend
Abilene
Blind Love
Between The Cracks
Out of Control
Trouble Bound
Dry River
Ashgrove
Fourth of July
Encores:
Surfer Girl
Marie, Marie -> So Long Baby, Goodbye
Romeo’s Escape -> Mellow Down Easy
Where's "American Music" (among others)? |
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quote: nanatod wrote:
Where's "American Music" (among others)?
good catch, he didn't play it |
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quote: polksalad69 wrote:
good catch, he didn't play it
Yeah, that's rather rare that he wouldn't play it, but you have to figure with the way the "Dave Alvin Catalogue" has expanded in the last few years, you are not going to hear some of those gems as often. Heck, Dave doesn't do the Jubilee Train->Do-Re-Mi->Promised Land medley anymore.
I'm in California right now. I spent the night in Bakersfield Friday and then went to Buck Owens' Crystal Palace and Museum and spent about an hour there. There were tons of photos to see and some cool guitars and other stuff. Then I went up the fabled Highway 99 through the San Joaquin Valley on my way to Sequoia National Park Saturday afternoon. Now I'm in the LA area - went to Hollywood tonight and saw the walk of stars. Haven't been to Dave's hometown of Downey yet, but did see the sign for "the 605 Freeway" that he sings about in "Wanda and Duane."
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