it all started out at the John Hall Benefit where friends of MCC,
Jackson Browne, Nanci Griffith, Rosanne Cash and John Leventhal and
Steve Earle did a songwriters in the round to raise some cash for the
John Hall ( of Orleans) for Congress campaign. He is running in the
Hudson Valley..
Nancy, Lori and I were there on sunday night at town hall and i was
askin them about seeing rosanne cash this fall... well that led me to
respond to an email about the next CMT crossroads taping..
i got an invite yesterday and went to check it out and see if i could
get in. I made a new friend, Lou along the way and ended up at the
taping....
Bill Flanagan, who is the CBS sunday morning music reviewer( he was at
town hall on sunday too) asked the question... who do you pair with
Steve Earle .... is he a rocker or country ( CMT Crossroads pairs
"rockers with country artists") and who do pair with Rosanne Cash....(
is she country or a rocker)....
well CMT is pairing Steve with Rosanne....
Rosanne looked stunning... long long long white blazer with a satin
and lace Bustier, black pinstriped pants with wide stripes and cuffs
and new black boots.... Steve, a new demim shirt, pants that didnt fit
and bagged at the butt ( he has none) and boots...
the band, Shawn Pelton drums, Zev Katz (they had to hood his bald head
to get the sweat off) John Leventhal ..... the telecasters....
they shared vocals and had some do overs... so i was there for almost 2 hours
lots of hair and make up touch ups..... for rosanne...
the setlist...
Guitartown ( 2x)
Burn down this town
Someday (2x)
House on the Lake
western Wall 2x
Jerusalem 2x
Devils right hand
the world unseen
seven year ache
goodbye 2x
Big River restart
you will see shared vocals on every song.... steve told some Rosanne
stories and dropped the Fbomb a few times... you wont see that on
TV..... he told a sweet story about how Devils showed up on the Broke
Back Mountain soundtrack.....
they were two smart songwriters who are well read.... this should be a
great Crossroads...
there is some real chemisty between these two artists.... they were
having fun too..
i wont be hard to spot..... my new friend lou had on a suit......
they were gonna place us in the back, I explained how long lou had
been waiting and we got better seats....
Sally, you better tape this...... i totally understand why your back
goes out.....and i think i found the one for my list...
i then had to get downtown to catch RedMolly's set at the parkside
lounge.... it kinda felt like the days that i used to music hop all
over the east village.... had me missing the bottom line late
show.......
sharonG
