Adam and I had the good fortune of being able to catch an Alison Krauss & Union Station show last night. It was so good that when I logged onto the computer this morning, the first thing I did was go to their website and see where they were playing tonight.
These guys have been playing together as a band for 16 years now. And man, did the audience benefit from that and the obvious love these folks have for each other. You just don't get the kind of performance that we did from these manufactured groups popping up today. There were no egos on that stage, just a bunch of people enjoying each other and what they are doing.
At one point, the entire band - with the exception of dobro genius, Jerry Douglas - left the stage and Jerry played a few solos. You can bet I'm going to itunes and downloading a few tracks of his today. He told a funny story behind the first tune, "Little Ro Ro" - was inspired by Jerry's son's high school friend who aspired to be a hip hop star, although his name was Pierre Michaelson...He knew he had to change his name to try to make it in the biz and Jerry was there when the teen decided on Little Ro Ro.
The only bad thing I can say about the show is that it was one of those venues that you can't just get up and dance...but man did we bust out some serious toe stompin'! Catch 'em if they come to a city near you. For serious.
6 comments:
can always count on you for good tunes.
for serious.
oh yeah, for serious. oh, mag, they were pretty 'for serious' about the no camera policy...even on phone cameras...sorry, no pics.
That sounds like a toe stopping good idea......for serious....HA!HA!HA! Guarantee I will use that one in the future.
did adam get in trouble for using his camera phone?
No, he got scared off from theat when a little girl in front of us got yelled at by security for snapping a shot.
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