Sweetwater Music Hall presents an acoustic show with Jackie Greene,
with an opening set from David Gans and Jacob Groopman
2014-12-10
Sweetwater Music Hall
19 Corte Madera Ave, Mill Valley, CA
8:00 PM, Wednesday, December 10, 2014

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[7:55 PM duo out to get set; lights down, noodling; David says hello]

1. [8:01 PM] Life is a Jam @ » [8:05 PM] segue jam (w/Norwegian Wood tease) @ »
2. [8:07 PM] New Speedway Boogie @
3. [8:16 PM] Pig in a Pen (J)
4. [8:19 PM] Therapy Blues
5. [8:23 PM] Friend of the Devil
6. [8:30 PM] Dark Hollow
7. [8:35 PM] Frankie & Johnny (J)
8. [8:39 PM; +Jackie Greene] River and Drown %
   [set ends 8:45 PM]

[8:52 PM lights down, Nate and Jackie fiddling about onstage]

1. [8:54 PM] I Don't Live in a Dream
2. [8:59 PM] I'm So Gone
3. [9:06 PM] Gone Wandering #
4. [9:09 PM] Brokedown Emotion
5. [9:14 PM] Deal $
6. [9:24 PM] Uphill Mountain
7. [9:29 PM] ? “Something about you robs my good sense blind” (new song)
8. [9:34 PM] Shaken % »
9. [9:39 PM] Grindstone %
10. [9:44 PM] Hallelujah
11. [9:51 PM] Tonight I'll Be Staying Here With You
12. [9:56 PM] Uninvited
13. [10:01 PM] Muddy Waters Medley: You Can't Lose What You Never Had $ » [10:05 PM] Got My Mojo Workin' » [10:08 PM] You Can't Lose What You Never Had (reprise)
14. [10:09 PM] Till the Light Comes
    [set ends 10:16 PM; offstage, then back in a minute or so]
     
    Encore
15. [10:18 PM] Like a Ball and Chain
16. [10:24 PM +AN, JC] Sugaree %
    [show ends 10:33 PM]

• Nathan Dale: guitar, acoustic guitar;
• Jackie Greene: acoustic guitar, $ slide guitar, % keyboards, # harmonica, vox;
  - with special guests (t16 only) -
• Jason Crosby: violin;
• Alex Nelson: acoustic guitar.

• David Gans: guitar, lead and harmony vox;
• Jacob Groopman: @ acoustic guitar, mandolin, lead and harmony vox.

Easy drive over on the tail end of tonight's commute, just as this week's apocalyptic storm begins to blow in. Hooray, rain is coming! Given how insanely crowded it was when we saw Jackie here about a year ago, I was more than a little surprised to see how few people were present for the opening set from David Gans and Jacob Groopman. It was actually quite nice for the first ten or twenty minutes – until the stragglers started to trickle in and commence talking over the music. I tried moving about a little – left, right, closer to the PA, farther from the rangers, but eventually kind of have up. There's little you can do to defeat the murmur of a Sweetwater crowd – ask Weir! Jackie surprised us by popping out at the end of the opener to drop some rocking keyboard runs into Gans' River and Drown. Yay! Good to be surprised sometimes.

I was even more surprised when Jackie and Nate began their set less than ten minutes after the opener ended. Seemed lightning quick to me! The acoustic duo set was fun, and for the most part, the audience was better behaved for this party of the show than they were for the opener. I particularly appreciated that the set was changed up quite a bit from the last time we saw the full, over at the Swedish-American Hall in San Francisco af few years ago.

Talking with Jason after the show, he mentioned that the original plan was for him to sit in for the entire set, but that his gig in SF with DDS and Assembly of Dust ran about an hour later than originally scheduled, so he only made it for the encore. And the last-minute Inclusion of Alex for the encore was stimulated by Ting asking Jackie, “What about Alex?,” as Jackie invited Jason to join him onstage.

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