I Just Read About That…

[DID NOT ATTEND: October 12, 2024] Neko Case / Lucy Wainwright Roche

I know of Neko Case through New Pornographers.  I like a lot of her solo material.  I’ve wanted to see her live for a while.  But when this show was announced I couldn’t believe how expensive the tickets were.

I guess since I missed her show two years ago, this would have been the one to go to, as according to the review at WXPN:

Setlist-wise, the show was nearly identical to their last Union Transfer appearance, two years back, just a few months following the release of a career-retrospective compilation spanning Case’s six studio albums across almost twenty years of solo recordings – with both tour setlists as well as the compilation notably excluding the singer’s 1997 debut record.

That does make me glad I didn’t go to both shows, though.

Opening the night was “folk bonafide” Lucy Wainwright Roche.  She is the daughter of Loudon Wainwright III and Suzzy Roche, so she has music coming out of every pore.  her music is gentle folk and according to that same WXPN review, her set was “equal parts VH1-storytellers and legitimately humorous stand-up comedy.”