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jangle-poets-digest     Tuesday, October 31 2006     Volume 08 : Number 065



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  Re: [JP] Set List - Kennedys at The Winchester - 10/28/06   ["Rebecca Derr]

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Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2006 02:12:27 -0500 
From: "Rebecca Derry" <rederry@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [JP] Set List - Kennedys at The Winchester - 10/28/06 

Thanks to Frank for keeping a setlist.  (My scrawlings look more like 
"Rappa!  When I Go!?!  Feather!  Jesse!  ukeleles!")  But this was a really 
amazing show.  As usual, TK were dead on with the combination of new 
surprises and old favorites, and aside from gracefully fulfilling a request 
that was rather out of left field, they also managed to play almost all of 
my favorite Kennedys songs to hear live.  They were really jangly and in the 
groove musically, too. 

Some highlights: "Orange Blossom Special" was the best that I have heard it, 
ever.  "Feather in the Flame" (which, in over half a decade of Kennedys 
listening, I had never heard live) and "Jesse" back-to-back.  "When I Go," 
which I had resigned myself to never hearing live again and was as stunning 
as ever; their version is still the most emotionally gripping live for me, 
even more than Bryan Bowers's.  "Rappahannock" made me reminisce about Jeff 
requesting it at the GFP.  "Midnight Ghost," which is always amazing live, 
and "Run Red Lights" with Pete on uke, which is just so fun, even minus the 
duck walk.  Actually, everything on uke, because it's such an absurd 
instrument yet it sounds so good in his (and her) hands. 

It was also really great to more officially meet Frank and his wife and some 
of his friends.  Ohio represent. 

Cheers, 
~'becca 

PS: I still prefer male pronouns in "Gypsy Rose," though.  Then again, I go 
to a college where gender pronouns are often not infrequently on the less 
normative side... 


On 10/29/06, Frank Hartge <FrankHartge@wideopenwest.com> wrote: 
> 
> At The Winchester Tavern and Music Hall in Lakewood, a suburb of 
> Cleveland, we 
> again saw Pete and Maura play on Saturday, October 28th - a rare two 
> nights in 
> a row opportunity for Ohio Kennedys fans! It was great to see frequent 
> JanglePoets contributor Rebecca and her friends. A couple of friends of 
> mine 
> drove in from Madison, Wisconsin (700+ miles) to see the show. And what an 
> evening it was... 
> 
> Two openings singers - Adam Luhta, followed by Bill Toms. 
> 
> Pete and Maura then played an "on fire" 90 minute set, brimming with even 
> more 
> energy and joy than they usually exhibit, which, as we all know, is really 
> saying a lot! 
> 
> 1. Life Is Large 
> 2. Dharma Cafe 
> 3. Rappahannock 
> 4. Raging Eyes 
> 5. Gypsy Rose 
> 6. This Moment, with a very nice segue into 
> 7. River of Fallen Stars 
> 8. When I Go 
> 9. Midnight Ghost 
> 10. Wall of Death 
> 11. Half A Million Miles 
> 12. Ninth Street Billy 
> 13. Orange Blossom Special 
> 14. Stand 
> 15. Chimes of Freedom 
> 16. Feather in the Flame (my request) 
> 17. Jesse (Rebecca's request) 
> 18. Eight Miles High (Pete on ukulele) 
> 19. Not Fade Away 
> 
> - encore - 
> 
> 20. A Shot in the Dar movie theme (both on ukuleles) 
> 21. Minor Swing (both on ukes) 
> 22. Beethoven's 5th (Pete solo) 
> 23. Run Red Lights 
> 
> Perhaps it was the influence of being in the same vicinity as the Rock n 
> Roll 
> Hall of Fame and Museum, or maybe the early dose of winter wind and sleet 
> that 
> whipped through Cleveland. Whatever the cause, The Kennedys were ON 
> Saturday 
> night. More than once during the set Maura looked at Pete with an 
> expression 
> that seemed to us to say "where did THAT come from?" And Maura's playing 
> and 
> singing was inspired, too. That was my 18th Kennedys show over ten years. 
> I'm 
> sure they have played River Of Fallen Stars each time, and Saturday 
> night's 
> rendition was absolutely the most stunning ever. Truly a magical 
> experience. 
> 
> Next weekend...Clarkston, Michigan! 
> 
> Frank 

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