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I forgot to mention that Mother Maybelle Carter was also on the bill when I saw Booker (Bukka) White in '68. History! Dan
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Leo Kottke in Missoula Montana mid 1970s.
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Too many to list them all so here is the concert that left me completely spellbound and in a dream until I suddenly came back to earth two hours after it ended.
Simon and Garfunkel Royal Albert Hall 25 April 1970. Two guys, one guitar (actually Paul had four on stage) Bridge Over Troubled Water top of the charts on both sides of the Atlantic. Standing ovations after every song and after 7 encores, last one with the house lights on (A Most Peculiar Man) and nobody leaving, the promoter got on the stage to ask everyone to leave. The RAH management were imposing a huge penalty for not clearing the audience from the hall on time. Utter magic. They played a second concert two weeks later and it happened again. I was there again but I knew what to expect. Shout out to Don McLean at the same venue 15 October 1973. One man with a guitar and a banjo. Evening ending with the house lights on and DM reeling off banjo tunes. Another magical evening. Lots more but S&G still stands out.
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Alex DeGrassi in 1977 for Seattle's Bumbershoot Festival. I became a fan for life after about ten seconds.
Michael Hedges in 1986. Just prior to his move into singing, he was 100% amazing guitar that night. Chris Thile in 2015. He played mandolin and sang beautifully and not once did I wish for another musician to be playing. Near the end, he was a cappella singing a song involving trains, when a train went by the theater blowing it's horn. Sent shivers up every creature who owned a spine.
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Cahalen Morrison & Eli West at The Corner Store in Washington, DC. It was a little row house with the front room cleared out and I was pretty much in Eli’s lap.
Eric Bibb & Guy Davis sharing a bill at BlackRock Center for the Arts in Germantown, MD during a snow storm. Peter Rowan with The Travelin’ McCourys and Tony Rice at Strathmore in North Bethesda, MD. Arlo Guthrie, Steve Martin & The Steep Canyon Rangers, and Emmylou Harris at the Red Rocks Amphitheater in Denver, CO. My wife and I based a summer vacation around that trip because we love the Steep Canyon Rangers. Arlo was the surprise hit of the night with just a chair and 2 guitars. What a story-teller. Emmylou was epic, but how do you follow Steve Martin? You don’t.
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I came to say cahalen Morrison and Eli West @ wintergrass. You beat me to it!
Another big shout out to Caitlin Canty, saw her once at wintergrass with a pedal steel player and once with just her and Noam pikelny. Both shows were phenomenal.
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The Irish Rovers in 1974 and Stompin Tom Connors in 1973.
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Forgot to mention Richard Thompson in my earlier post. I’ve seen him play a number of acoustic sets and two all-acoustic shows that were as good as anything I’ve seen...
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Most memorable was Joni Mitchell (Blue tour) at Symphony Hall Boston. Others are Alex Degrassi at Pasim and Al DiMeols, John Mclaughlin, Paco DeLucia acoustic super trio also is Boston.
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Saw Tommy Emmanuel twice. Incredible player. I think he is more gifted than any electric player just by virtue that acoustic is harder to play than electrics.
But the most memorable for me was seeing Pete Huttlinger in a small venue in San Antonio twice. Great player but an even better person. He was so personable. Erin was with him and she’s just as good a person as Pete. We lost a great one in Pete. |
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Neil Young April 27, 1999 in E.J. Thomas Hall at Akron University.
It was a complete “out of body experience.” The place only seats around 2500 and we were about ten rows back from the stage. He played a ton of stuff I had never heard. The man was just amazing, really, jaw-dropping. https://www.concertarchives.org/conc...6-e0ded0dd3916
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The Del McCoury Band at a small record store event, 5 feet from the band. Knoxville TN
Monte Montgomery, Lexington KY.
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Wow, I bet that was a good one. I would have enjoyed it. Terrific album.
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i have to be fair. The most transcendental experience I've had at an acoustic concert was hearing the Virginia Symphony perform Achangelo Corelli's Concerto Grosso Op.9 No.8 Fatto per la notte di Natale (The Christmas Concerto). I was down front with my lovely wife. I've loved this piece since the '70s when a professor of mine introduced me to it and the Virginia Symphony really played a lovely interpretation of it. There are some passages where soloisti or sections of the orchestra pass lines back and forth antiphonally and we go back and forth from the soloists to the sections to the entire orchestra in typical Baroque tiered dynamics. Sitting where I was, I experienced the left to right motion of the call and response sections followed by the entry of the tutti and it was completely different from, and much more vivid than, listening to a recording. Additionally, the concertmaster took good advantage of the cadenza passages where he was allowed to insert his own ornamentation.
It was just amazing. Bob
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Andre Segovia - Vancouver Queen Elizabeth Theatre 1975
Neil Young - Ottawa Civic Centre 1976 John Fahey- San Francisco Great American Music Hall 1977 Ry Cooder - San Diego State U 1978 Doc and Merle Watson, Leon Redbone - Winnipeg Folk Festival 1980 Dates are approximate, best of my foggy recollection |