Hardly Strictly Bluegrass 24 presents Jackie Greene & Anders Osborne
Rooster Stage, Marx Meadow
Golden Gate Park, 898 John F Kennedy Dr, San Francisco, CA 94121 USA
6:00 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

[6:00 PM] {soundcheck}
[6:05 PM] {Introduction by Chuck Poling}

1. [6:05 PM] Burning on the Inside (Anders Osborne)
   [6:14 PM] {JG swap from keyboards to acoustic guitar;
   Greetings from AO: 'It's my first time playing Hardly Strictly‚ thank you for having me';
   JG calls us stinky hippies and tells us to give Anders a proper welcome}
2. [6:15 PM] Don't Let the Devil Take Your Mind (Jackie Greene)
   [6:20 PM] {JG swap back to keyboards}
3. [6:20 PM] Flower Box (Anders Osborne)
   [6:26 PM] {JG swap from keyboards to acoustic guitar}
4. [6:27 PM] Like a Ball & Chain (Jackie Greene)
   [6:34 PM] {AO begins noodling the next tune right away but then aborts as he waits for JG to finish swapping back to keyboards}
5. [6:35 PM] Coming Down (Anders Osborne)
   [6:42 PM] {AO: “Is everyone having a good time?”; AO introduces the band}
6. [6:44 PM] Animal (Jackie Greene)
   [6:49 PM] {AO begins the next tune right away‚ then aborts to retune his guitar}
7. [6:51 PM] (unidentified AO tune)
   [6:53 PM] {AO: 'That was seriously out of tune … That was a terrible crash. That was like a Grateful Dead moment.';
   JG swap to acoustic guitar & harmonica;
   AO mocks the SF heat wave;
   JG: 'this one's kinda bluegrass'}
8. [6:55 PM] Gone Wanderin' (Jackie Greene)
   [6:58 PM] {JG swap back to keyboards; AO invites Eric McFadden up onstage; EM on Jackie's electric guitar}
9. [6:59 PM] Different Drum (Anders Osborne)
   [7:08 PM] {final applause}
   [7:09 PM] {final announcements from CP}

• Chad Cromwell: drums;
• Jimmy Earl: bass;
• Jackie Greene: guitar, acoustic guitar, keyboards, Hammond B-3 organ, harmonica, vox;
• Anders Osborne: guitar, vox.

• Eric McFadden: guitar.

I was happily surprised that the crowd for Anders and Jackie seemed more interested in listening and dancing than yacking it up: a nice change from many late-day sets of prior years!

I'm not sure how many shows these guys have played together, but rated on a Crazy Horse scale, they pulled it off like the professionals they are.

Anders made jokes a few times about effing things up or playing out of key, but you could tell that he was having a really good time tonight.

After introducing the band, I kind of expected Anders to drop a Neil Young cover into the setlist, but as far as I know, they stuck to their own originals instead.

Adding Eric McFadden for the last tune really upped the energy, as he and Anders went back and forth long enough with the guitar dueling that they ended up cutting the third verse from Different Drum – likely in order to tie things up with a proper ending in time for tonight's curfew.

Hard to believe I'm going to get up and fest again tomorrow!

Props to John Loughney & Odin Rosaldo for posting song titles to setlist.fm!

Big thanks to Ting for the photo gallery!

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