Hardly Strictly Bluegrass 24 presents Buddy Miller's Cavalcade of Stars, featuring Jobi Riccio
Rooster Stage, Marx Meadow
Golden Gate Park, 898 John F Kennedy Dr, San Francisco, CA 94121 USA
12:00 PM, Saturday, October 5, 2024

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• 11:30 AM – 11:50 AM ☸ Red Dirt Boys
• 12:00 PM – 12:50 PM ☸ Jobi Riccio
• 1:00 PM – 1:50 PM ☸ Teddy Thompson
• 2:00 PM – 2:50 PM ☸ Dom Flemons
• 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM ☸ Carlene Carter
• 4:15 PM – 5:15 PM ☸ Buddy Miller
• 6:00 PM – 7:00 PM ☸ Jackie Greene & Anders Osborne

[12:00 PM] {Announcements from Chuck Poling}
[12:01 PM] {Jobi out; immediate pause for tuning}

1. [12:01 PM] Whiplash
   [12:04 PM] {PAUSE for applause NOT WORTH NOTING – dead air needs trim!}
2. [12:05 PM] Lonely Tonight
   [12:08 PM] {more guitar tuning}
3. [12:08 PM] Green Flash
   [12:12 PM] {Greetings from JR; talk about CO & CA & TN}
4. [12:13 PM] Summer
   [12:17 PM] {JR swap from acoustic guitar to electric}
5. [12:18 PM] For Me It's You
   [12:22 PM] {JR : TYSM; Dedication of the previous song to Buddy Miller; more yack about Buddy; the next song hasn't been released yet}
6. [12:23 PM] Does It Matter
   [12:27 PM] {JR back ID; merch & hurricane relief pitch}
7. [12:29 PM] Wildfire Season
   [12:33 PM] {tuning break}
8. [12:33 PM] (unidentified tune; lyric snippets: “I don't want to be the salt to the fruit that is bitter” … “you expect me to be so sweet” | “lately life has been a buzzkill”)
   [12:37 PM] {JR introduces the band}
9. [12:38 PM] Sweet
   [12:41 PM] {tuning break}
10. [12:42 PM] Instead
    [12:45 PM] {applause & final words from JR}
    [12:45 PM] {announcements from CP}
    [12:46 PM] {set ends}

• Emily Mann: bass, harmony vox;
• Sam Palermo: drums;
• Jobi Riccio: acoustic guitar, guitar, vox.

On the basis of the one song that I sampled, I was expecting Jobi Riccio to deliver a rocking set, but apparently my sample was not representative: most of the songs she performed today seemed to me to be mopey, woe-is-me style country singer-songwriter confessionals. Not at all what I was looking for. Oh well! One of the great things about short festival sets is that they seldom last long enough to become truly annoying, and when they do, you can always go check out the acts at another stage. But I was too sun-baked for that, and the second half tunes once she switched to electric guitar were eminently more danceable (even if the lyrics were still full of youthful angst).

A fan asked for the name of the first new tune just after Jobi finished playing it, and it sounded like Jobi replied “Doesn't Matter”, but I'd written “What Does It Matter” as my title guess (based on hearing her lyrics), so the entry above shows that, but with “What” chopped off.

Big thanks to Ting for the photo gallery!

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