Here's an old review I posted in an online forum, of a previous Shooter Jennings show about three years ago. Copied pretty much from a couple of posts with some editing.
It was great show overall. I went with my mom who ordered the
tickets and went because my dad had to something else. The blue note
had something going on earlier where there were tons of girls coming
out. We got in about 9:15 and Bang Bang Bang didn't start until about
9:50 or so. They played about 10 songs for forty to fifty minutes.
They didn't sound bad but I had no clue what the singer was singing
or even saying. They have a rock sound with the first few sounding
like gritty rockabilly. And like I said I couldn't understand
him very well, but it sounded like one of the their songs was
called 'Nashville' either written by or with Shooter.
After 20 or 30 minutes Shooter and the guys finally came out. And
they were great. After reading other reviews I was still somewhat
cynical or still tried to be open minded about their performance.
But they rocked out. Even the harder rocking songs I enjoyed and
don't really listen to them as much on the records.
Highlights for me were my favorite song Solid Country Gold.
Shooter doing the solo acoustic 4th of July before the rest of the
band joins in on the countryfied version with Leroy on the steel. One
of the funniest moments came during Manifesto #1 when he got to
the "kiss my ass goodbye" line, the crowd yelled out the line during
the pause and he kinda gave a WTH look or surprise and then sung the
line. Crowd was mostly filled with young college kids with the
combination of young drunken rednecks from the area. Both in some
cases...
I went around out back after the show to try and meet Shooter.
There is no 'backstage' at the Blue Note, just a curtain on the
stage and a door. I waited a few minutes before overhearing that
he'd already gone and only the drummer was left, and Shooter had
left very quickly. If I didn't have my mom with me I would have hung
out a little longer or found the bus and would have tried waiting a
little more. The only really down part of the evening I guess. I
also bought one of the Don't Cuss the Country shirt before we left.
Set List
Electric Rodeo
Gone to Carolina
Little White Lines
Solid Country Gold
Some Rowdy Women
The Song is Slipping Away
Manifesto #2
4th of July>He Stopped Loving Her Today
Steady at the Wheel
Alligator Chomp
Bad Magick
Freedom to Stay
Manifesto #1
Hair of the Dog
Busted in Baylor County
Daddy's Farm
encore
Ain't Living Long Like This
Southern Comfort
I couldn't tell what song was after Manifesto and before Baylor.
Shooter was on the keyboard. But judging from db.etree site from the
Eugene, OR show it would be It Ain't Easy. But YouTube has a video from the show and its of Hair of the Dog. So either he didn't play It Ain't Easy or The Freedom to Stay...
I haven't really talked to my mom about it to see how she liked the show. We talked in between
and agreed that Bang Bang Bang was loud and undecipherable but we
were both tired on the hour plus drive home. I know she seemed to enjoy
the more country songs and was kinda clapping around. She tends to
like Brad Paisley, Alan Jackson, George Strait, so she probably
wasn't as fond of the rocking parts.
After reading it over again a few other things I forgot to mention.
Along with Manifesto #1, where the crowd sang along, there were quite a
few other times where the crowd was signing along and generally
rocking out.
And there were several tech problems, I know of one where the
keyboard before Bad Magick wasn't right. And a few times where the
tech guy had to come up front and do something. So maybe that was a
reason for the quick exit.
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