Veteran Bay-area rockers Hot Tuna breezed through the setlist that could have been written on a napkin in 1971. No complaints though as we got to view Hesitation Blues, I Know You Rider and some other Tuna jams. G.E. Smith, Jorma, Barry Mitterhoff, Casady, and Skoota Warner rounded out the band. Show ended promptly at 11pm. I'm hoping that Shubert policy was the cause for no encore and not the graying rockers. Didn't Hot Tuna play at Winterland until 4am?
Saturday, July 24, 2010
Hot Tuna w/ Steve Earle 7/23/10 Shubert Theater New Haven
Show started promptly at 8pm. Entered to Steve Earle doing Devil's Right Hand. Geat set with inter-song banter from Earle. He certainly has been around the block and back. Stints in jail, multiple failed marriages, heroin addiction et.al., you get his meaning when he says to be genuine as a folk singer, you have to live the songs. Pancho and Lefty off the the 2009 Townes release was great. Galway Girl, Nashville Blues, Cocaine Cannot Kill My Pain, and the poignant Poor Boy Fighting A rich Man's War were all superb. Earle played much harmonica, some bozouki, and mandolin.
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My favorites by Steve Earle were City of Immigrants and Can't Remember (if We Said Goodbye)...beautiful! Hoping to run into him on Bleecker Street someday.
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