SFJAZZ presents Rosanne Cash & Ry Cooder: The Music of Johnny Cash featuring Rosanne Cash, Ry Cooder, & John Leventhal
Robert M. Miner Auditorium
SFJAZZ Center, 205 Franklin St, San Francisco, CA 94102 USA
7:30 PM, Friday, May 4, 2018

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[7:31 PM lights down, announcements from Randall Kline, band out: Ry on a big red ?Gibson guitar; JL on acoustic guitar; MF on contrabass]

1. [7:36 PM] Understand Your Man ♀α
2. [7:39 PM] Tennessee Flat Top Box ♀
   [Ry talks awhile about hearing Johnny Cash at 8 years old, then swaps from his red guitar to the guitar Luther Perkins used for the recording of the next tune]
3. [7:48 PM] Hey Porter ♂£
   [back to the red guitar]
4. [7:53 PM] Guess Things Happen That Way ♂
5. [7:57 PM] Pickin' Time ♀@
   [MF swaps to contrabass; Ry swaps to a pale green Stratocaster to play slide]
6. [8:01 PM] Don't Take Your Guns to Town ♂$ß
   [all off but Ry & Rosanne; Ry swaps to an acoustic guitar]
7. [8:11 PM] Hardin Wouldn't Run ♀@&
   [everyone back]
8. [8:16 PM] Get Rhythm ♂£ß
   [MF swaps back to bass guitar; JL swaps to acoustic guitar; Ry swaps back to the Strat]
9. [8:20 PM] I Walk the Line ♀α
   [MF swaps to contrabass; Ry swaps to an electric ?cittern?]
10. [8:27 PM] I Still Miss Someone ♀@‡αß
    [JL swaps back to guitar; Ry swaps back to Strat]
11. [8:33 PM] Give My Love to Rose ♂ß
    [JL swaps back to acoustic guitar; Ry swaps back to the cittern]
12. [8:40 PM] Long Black Veil ♀♂‡αß
    [Ry swaps back to Luther's Esquire]
13. [8:46 PM] Big River ♀♂£αß
    [set ends 8:50 PM, bow then off]
    
    Encore
    [Ry back on his red guitar; JL on electric guitar; MF on bass guitar]
14. [8:52 PM] Ring of Fire ♂
    [both JL & Rosanne pick up acoustic guitars; MF swaps back to contrabass]
15. [8:59 PM] I Am a Pilgrim ♀♂@αß
    [show ends 9:03 PM; applause for a minute or so, then all off, no 2nd bow]

• Rosanne Cash: @ acoustic guitar, ♀ lead and harmony vox;
• Joachim Cooder: drums, percussion;
• Ry Cooder: guitar, £ Luther Perkins' 1955 Fender Esquire guitar, & acoustic guitar, ‡ electric cittern or mandola, $ slide guitar, ♂ lead and harmony vox;
• Mark Fain: bass guitar, ß contrabass AKA acoustic bass viol;
• John Leventhal: guitar, α acoustic guitar, harmony vox;
• Glenn Patscha: piano.

• Seemed to me as if Understand Your Man was sung on top of the melody and changes to Bob Dylan's Don't Think Twice, It's Allright.
• Allen St. John posted a great article about his encounter with Luther's '55 at the Telecaster Discussion Page Reissue
• Dirk Wacker posted an equally entertaining piece about how to play like Luther at Premier Guitar
• Overall, I felt like the pace was a tad too slow: I wanted to hear more up-tempo tunes like Get Rhythm and Big River.

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Big thanks to Ting for the photo gallery!

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