Sunset Stage presents Painted Mandolin
Felton, CA 95018 USA
6:00 PM, Friday, September 20, 2024

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[6:20 PM] {performers out; JC starts on violin; DR on contrabass}

1. [6:24 PM] Not Fade Away »
2. [6:31 PM] Red Rocking Chair (JC)
   [6:39 PM] {DR swap from contrabass to 6-string electric bass; JC swap to violin}
3. [6:40 PM] Valerie (MH)
   [6:50 PM] {add SF: banjo, harmony vox; RH: vox; DR swap back to contrabass; JC: beatboxing}
4. [6:52 PM] Net Zero Heroes (RH)
   [6:57 PM] {SF: lead vox; JC on percussion}
5. [6:58 PM] White Freightliner Blues (SF)
   [7:03 PM] {LG: who loves rivers? Promo for tomorrow's show in Soquel by R+S; JC swaps to mandolin; SF: perc on banjo}
6. [7:04 PM] (unidentified tune, lyric snippets: “Yuba … hips are made of stone” / “Sacramento … arms are wide”)
   [7:10 PM] {drop RH; SF story about learning the next tune from Jerry Garcia in 1969 when JG visited his elementary school}
7. [7:12 PM] Pig in a Pen (JC)
   [7:16 PM] {drop SF; LG: how's it going? Nice to see y'all here; JC swaps to violin}
8. [7:17 PM] Cryptical Envelopment (LG/MH) » [7:19 PM] Cosmic Charlie (MH) » [7:22 PM] {JC swaps to percussion} the Other One jam » [7:24 PM] {JC swaps back to violin} Cosmic Charlie (reprise)
   [7:26 PM] {LG: that one's dedicated to the Cosmic Charlie campaign; JC swaps to percussion; DR swaps to 6-string bass}
9. [7:27 PM] Reuben & Cerise (MH)
   [7:34 PM] {set ends}

[8:20 PM] {performers out; JC starts on mandolin; MH on guitjo; DR on contrabass}

1. [8:23 PM] All We Can Be (LG) » John Henry (JC) » [8:28 PM] All We Can Be (LG) » [8:35 PM] {DR swaps to 6-string bass} » [8:36 PM] {JC swaps to percussion} »
2. [8:36 PM] Sand (LG) » [8:43 PM] {dissolution; JC swaps to mandolin} »
3. [8:44 PM] Boogie on Reggae Woman (MH)
   [8:51 PM] {monitor adjustments; LG back and fore announcements; JC on both percussion & mandolin during the next tune; MH swaps back to acoustic guitar; DR: swaps back to contrabass}
4. [8:53 PM] Love in a Rose (MH)
   {JC playing both percussion & violin on the next tune}
5. [8:59 PM] Sweet Rain (LG)
   [9:08 PM] {LG: “I wrote that one for my wife Rosemary”; DR swaps to 6-string bass}
6. [9:08 PM] China Cat Sunflower (MH) »
7. [9:13 PM] I Know You Rider (MH-LG) (double time finale)
   [9:16 PM] {Skippy serves schnapps to the band; pause for gig talk; JC needs a few for mandolin tuning, but then puts it away and starts on percussion instead; DR swaps to 6-string bass}
8. [9:20 PM] Bird Dreams (LG) » [9:29 PM] {JC swaps to mandolin} » Truckin' (teasing) »
9. [9:29 PM] New Speedway Boogie (MH) » {JC swaps to percussion} »
10. [9:41 PM] Not Fade Away (reprise)
    [9:44 PM] {set ends; thanks all around; words from Tom Pinney}
    
    Encore
    {JC swaps to mandolin for the encore}
11. [9:46 PM] Forever Young (MH-LG)
    [9:52 PM] {show ends after another few rounds of thanks}

Painted Mandolin

• Joe Craven: percussion, mandolin, violin, vox;
• Larry Graff: acoustic guitar, vox;
• Matt Hartle: guitar, acoustic guitar, guitjo, vox;
• Dan Robbins: 6-string bass guitar, 5-string contrabass with low C extension, harmony vox.

* Sean Feder: dobro, banjo, acoustic guitar, lap steel guitar; * Rita Hosking: acoustic guitar, vox.

Friday traffic is a real monster today, and it takes us over two hours to get to Felton from Oakland. Ugh! You can imagine how happy we were to stumble out of the car and onto the hilltop greenery of Sunset Stage! We thought we were arriving late, but it turns out that other folks trickled in even more slowly.

The show didn't get started until nearly an hour later, as the sun was dropping behind the westward ridge, and the temperature dropped quickly while the late afternoon breeze whipped away whatever warm air was around. The calendar says it ain't fall yet, but the evening air would beg to differ if it had a voice! And hues of yellow and gold among the green foliage would make for a supporting vote from the plants…

Not Fade Away was a great opener for today's show: everyone was up and dancing right away: perfect for generating a bit of heat against the chilly breeze. Rather than wrapping up the tune, they jammed it out, and after a few teases, segued seamlessly into an up-tempo rendition of Red Rocking Chair. With Valerie being another rocker, the unspoken message was clear: it's a dance party tonight!

Sean Feder & Rita Hoskings joined Painted Mandolin for the next four tunes, alternating originals sung by Rita with classic covers led by Sean: fun stuff! If we lived nearby, Saturday's Ugly Mug show would certainly have been on our calendar!

Painted Mandolin continued the party by ripping through their mashup of the That's It for the Other One suite with Cosmic Charlie, then closing the first set with Reuben & Cerise. Whew! Time to rest my bones awhile!

Towards the end of set break, JC leads the crowd assembled in the kitchen in an extended version of the Happy Birthday song for Tom, with MH accompanying on guitjo.

The party continued through set two, and happily, without the sunset breeze, the temperature seemed to be warmer than it was during the first set. I'm not a big Phish fan, but Sand was really fun, and Dan's lead bass on Boogie on Reggae Woman really took that cover over the top!

I was pretty sure that the band was going to play Truckin' after Brid Dreams – the insistent intro riff is pretty hard to miss – but I guess that was a fakeout, and they ended up playing New Speedway Boogie, punctuated by interludes reminiscent of Spanish jam in-between the verses. As the outro jam bent towards the chunka-chunk Bo Diddley beat of _Not Fade Away), it became apparent that tonight's circle was nearly complete, and party time was almost over.

Forever Young was a great way to wrap things up, and more than a few folks were belting along our felicitations to Tom during the choruses.

Twenty minutes later we'd made it down the hill to our car, and soon we were zooming off through the valleys: homeward bound! Traffic was much much lighter by now, and except for a few scattered moments of frustration (slowpokes, bumbaclots, and an utterly unexpected detour – curse you CALTRANS, for failing to warn us of a critical exit closure!), the drive home was pretty pleasant for a Friday night!

Big thanks to Ting for the photo gallery!

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