Hardly Strictly Bluegrass presents Dry Branch Fire Squad
2016-09-30
Swan Stage, Lindley Meadow
Golden Gate Park, 1000 John F Kennedy Dr, San Francisco, CA 94122 USA
3:20 PM, Friday, September 30, 2016

Back to the previous event! ☸ Up to the 2016 yearbox! ☸ Up to the 2016 event list! ☸ On to the next event!

[3:00 PM announcements from Zeke, band out]

1. [3:03 PM] I've Lived a Lot in My Time
2. [3:06 PM] Orphan Child
3. [3:09 PM] (unidentified instrumental)
4. [3:12 PM] Looking for the Stone
5. [3:19 PM] Echo Mountain @®
   [banter from Ron]
6. [3:28 PM] Someone Play Dixie for Me @®
   [banter from Ron about Ralph Stanley]
7. [3:34 PM] How Mountain Girls Can Love
8. [3:38 PM] Angel Band
9. [3:42 PM] John Henry
10. [3:46 PM +Heidi Clare] (instrumental #2 - “tear it up”)
11. [3:51 PM] Going Up on the Mountain
    [set ends 3:55 PM]

Dry Branch Fire Squad

• Adam McIntosh: acoustic guitar, @ mandolin, harmony vox;
• Tom Boyd: banjo, ® resonator guitar, harmony vox;
• Dan Russell: contrabass, harmony vox;
• Ron Thomason: mandolin, @ acoustic guitar, lead vox;
  - with special guest -
• Heidi Clare: violin, clogging.

It's an easy choice for me to catch a set by DBFS – I know I'm going to enjoy every minute of it, whether they're blazing on a hot bluegrass number, soaring off on four-part gospel harmony, or just listening to Ron tell one corny joke after another. My original plan for the day had been to hear Patty Griffin instead, but she canceled. And I was OK with checking out Nick Waterhouse – he was new to me, but a check on his albums last week implied that he was worth a listen – but then plans changed, and I found myself parked at the Swan stage all day. Sometimes the punches ain't so hard to roll with!

Back to the previous event! ☸ Up to the 2016 yearbox! ☸ Up to the 2016 event list! ☸ On to the next event!