It was a wonderful evening @ Bendiksbukta, great area, not too much people & good festival logistics. All these things were bad at Stavernfestivalen. But most important off course; the show was in a different league. Almost every song performance was better than last shows performances, even the brilliant Stavern-version of “Girl From The North Country” was slightly better @ Bendiksbukta.
Also check out:
Shelter From The Storm:
Ratings of every song below.
Band:
Setlist & our thoughts:
Song | Egil’s thoughts | Hallgeir | |
1 | Watching The River Flow | 3/6. I was totally convinced that we were gonna get “Things Have Changed”, so this was a real surprise indeed. Fast, a bit rusty & OK vocal. | 4/6 |
2 | Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right | 4/6. Better vocal performance than @ Stavern, better playing by the band as well. Solid version of a song with much higher potential (This could grow into a “North Country” performance down the road somewhere) | 5/6 |
3 | Just Like Tom Thumb’s Blues | 5/6. Again a nice Tom Thumb. a bit tighter & better Vocal than @ Stavern. | 5/6 |
4 | To Ramona | 4/6. Way better performance than Stavern, but the closing harmonica solo was disappointing. | 4/6 |
5 | The Levee’s Gonna Break | 5/6. Dylan sits back (OK Vocal) and lets the band (especially Charlie Sexton) shine on this hard shuffleblues. | 5/6 |
6 | Shelter From The Storm | 5/6. Another solid Shelter, again (as yesterday) ->nice harmonica and some wonderful vocal. | 6/6 |
7 | Cry A While | 4/6. Another song were Sexton is allowed to shine. Solid stuff, OK Vocal. | 4/6 |
8 | Girl Of The North Country | 6/6. FANTASTIC again. Could someone PLEASE upload a video with great sound on youtube ? Is that too much to ask ? (audio version embedded further down in this post) | 6/6 |
9 | Summer Days | 4/6. Solid & very much like the Stavern performance. | 4/6 |
10 | Desolation Row | 5/6. Better & tighter band and better vocal than Stavern. Nice harmonica solo… and interesting piano parts from our man 🙂 | 5/6 |
11 | Tweedle Dee & Tweedle Dum | 3/6. OK band, OK Vocal… This one didn’t really fly. We would rather have Blind Willie anytime. | 5/6 |
12 | Lonesome Day Blues | 5/6. Dylan let’s his band shine again. Two great guitar solos from Sexton. | 5/6 |
13 | A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall | 5/6. Way much better than the lousy Stavern performance. Good (sometimes GREAT) vocal. | 5/6 |
14 | Thunder On The Mountain | 5/6. Another band song. both Sexton & Kimball gets a couple of nods.. great solos from both of them. Good Vocal. | 5/6 |
15 | Ballad Of A Thin Man | 5/6. Good & sometimes GREAT vocal. Nice harmonica solos (but a bit weaker than at Stavern). Solid band performance. | 6/6 |
16 | All Along The Watchtower | 3/6. Bad vocal (too much mumbling), OK band. | 5/6 |
Girl From The North Country:
Tweedle Dee & Tweedle Dum:
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