We reviewed shows by Nas and Damian Marley, Chicago and Earth, Wind & Fire and Conor Oberst over the weekend.
Did you endure the heat to see Del McCoury or the Kansas City Kansas Street Blues Festival? Maybe you caught Joe Cocker at Ameristar. Perhaps there's a locally-based band that merits additional exposure.
Let us know.
I saw The Del McCoury Band along with openers White Water Ramble and Truckstop Honeymoon.
A fabulous show. Also a very sparse crowd. Instead of telling you about it in words, try my visual review.
Del and the boys.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/philmo/sets/72157620626143722/
I put the openers in this set here. They will be some of the last pics in the set at the bottom.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/philmo/sets/72157618743770706/
Feel free to do whatever you want the pics I'm an amateur, I like to share.
Phil
Posted by: Phil Palmer | June 29, 2009 at 04:08 PM
I saw Jackie Greene at Crosstown Station. He was great. He seemed a little upset that the crowd was very subdued except for 20 or so people on the floor who were dancing away. I don't know how anyone could've been sittig down, but whatever. He mentioned it a couple of times that the people in the back could stand up or dance, etc., but his prodding didn't work. This was one of the best shows I've seen in a long time. I hope to see him again and often!
Posted by: Paulala | June 29, 2009 at 04:42 PM
Celtic woman at the Sprint Center. Those girls can sing. Anyone see Sunny Sweeney?
Posted by: Mike A | June 29, 2009 at 04:57 PM
David Allan Coe at Knuckleheads, with Outlaw Jim and the Whiskey Benders opening. A great evening of good music, and, thankfully, good weather to go with it.
Posted by: Ellen K. | June 29, 2009 at 09:08 PM
OK, I'm a week late but last Saturday, I drove to Colorado to see David Bryne at Red Rocks. A venue I have wanted to visit since U2 put out "Under a Blood Red Sky". The most beautiful surrondings, crowd, band... a perfect night. It's worth the drive, everyone should visit at least once. Opening act Devotchka was impressive also with their gypsy, mariachi, folk.
A friend also said that the Jackie Greene show was one of his favorites this year.
Posted by: Jeffrey | June 29, 2009 at 09:12 PM
I'm drifting back to last Wednesday at Knuckleheads with the incredible Blues-Rock guitarist, Ana Popovic. She resides in Amsterdam, by way of Belgrade, can play guitar like a tropical storm, and is pretty effin' hot to boot! She has been to Knuckleheads a few times in the past few years and always wows the crowd whenever she plays here. Last week's show was no exception.
Two shows coming up at Knuckleheads worth looking forward to are also on consecutive Wednesdays. Eric Lindell will bring his cool Blues-Soul-Rock amalgam to town this week and next Wednesday, Rev. Peyton's Big Damn Band, one of the liveliest bands I've seen at Knuckleheads (which is saying a lot!) will roll into KC and convert more new fans.
Posted by: Keith in KC | June 29, 2009 at 10:05 PM
Jackie Greene show at Crosstown Station was the balls. Dude is phenomenally talented. KC crowds don't quite know how to let loose and set themselves free like his hometown Cali crowds do but there were a couple dozen people shaking their rumps and giving back to the musicians laying it down on stage.
Crosstown Station is a fantastic small venue that all music fans need to go check out. Far exceeded my expectations after this first visit. Great staff too, very friendly and accommodating.
Posted by: Dexter Morgan | June 29, 2009 at 11:52 PM
I saw a local band called Kick Kick at The Record Bar on Thursday. I went to see them because I heard they had just won a big battle of the bands contest put on by mix 93.3. I was very surprised to see that they were very good in a very strange kind of way. They played all original songs and they seemed fundamentaly different then any other local band.
Posted by: Alan P | June 30, 2009 at 05:33 AM
jeffery.... i saw reverend peyton and his "big damn band" at the peanut at 75th and metcalf a few years back. wasn't sure what to think when i saw them come in and start setting up, but WOW they can really put some whuppass on you. great act!
Posted by: trainor | June 30, 2009 at 11:51 AM
no concerts since june 11th. ;_;
Posted by: mankvill | June 30, 2009 at 12:54 PM
I saw Collective Soul last night at the Beaumont. It was the third concert I have seen at the Beaumont but my first time to see CS. They were good but seemed to run down on energy the last one third of their 75 minute set. Beaumont is sure a crappy place for sound when it is fairly loud. Nothing but peoples' clothes to soak up some of the sound. Other than that the sound just bounces around. The mix masters can only do so much. I missed Green River Ordinance and the crowd seemed to enjoy Gavin Degraw. Half of the crowd left after Degraw, mostly female.
Bill
Posted by: 40wnks | June 30, 2009 at 07:37 PM
Got to see all three acts at Beaumont. GRO was pretty good, kind of standard but not bad for the opening band of a three act set. Degraw was full of energy and worked the crowd well, but needed to be more variety to the act, got stale after awhile. Collective Soul impressed me, they really brought it and played well. Of course the sound is always a little off, it is the Beaumont, was third row floor, had trouble hearing some of the vocals. I would recommend seeing CS again.
Posted by: SidTripp | June 30, 2009 at 10:36 PM
Actually last Wednesday but saw Chuck Mead and his Grassy Knoll Boys at Knucklehead's (excellent show by Chuck, not so much by opener Outlaw Jim) and got stood up by CJ Chenier's last minute cancellation (luckily free tickets) of his show the following night at the Beaumont.
Posted by: pellboy | July 01, 2009 at 11:42 AM
stranger danger
Posted by: Greg | July 01, 2009 at 01:07 PM
Dexter you are correct about XtownStation. They suffer a case of small venue complex, competing w/ Czar, Brick, Record Bar, Riot Room, etc. etc. I watch their ad in the Pitch for shows like this, but it seems they hit the cover bands pretty frequently. I had already booked something else and was absolutely broken hearted when I saw J.G. was coming. I saw him w/ Phil Lesh last summer and have wanted to catch his solo show since. What kind of backing band did he have?
Posted by: The TEacher | July 01, 2009 at 01:11 PM
Yeah, Pellboy, it WAS Chuck Mead last Wednesday at Knuckleheads. The Ana Popovic show was the Wednesday before....man, I'm losing track of time! The Eric Lindell show I was going to see there tonight has been canceled due to an illness. Well, at least they had a legitimate excuse, unlike The Church, who canceled for no apparent reason at the Voodoo lounge a couple of Fridays ago.
Posted by: Keith in KC | July 01, 2009 at 06:31 PM
That David Allen Coe show at Knuckleheads must of been better than the one he did at Crossroads KC a couple of years ago. It was one of the worst shows I have ever seen. It was basically a 45 minute speed medley. The songs went by so fast that you got the impression that he didn't want to be there and was in a real big hurry to leave. He spent most of the show trying to keep his beard beads and long hair off of his strings.
I've been listening to his work for over 30 years and this was the first time I had a chance to see him. I was so disappointed. It was sad.
Posted by: CV | July 01, 2009 at 10:50 PM
BTW, anyone know where I can catch a big band show in town?
I go see local heroes "The Grand Marquis" at least once a month and while they're great, I miss the blasting horns and big band arrangements of a much larger group of musician's
Posted by: CV | July 01, 2009 at 10:54 PM
Regarding David Allan Coe, it could just be different expectations. Yes, a large part of his set was medleys of short versions of songs. It didn't keep it from being a very worthwhile evening, for me.
Posted by: Ellen K. | July 02, 2009 at 02:30 PM