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Kathleen Edwards (Roy’s Hall, Blairstown, NJ, December 12, 2024)

Posted in Blairstown NJ, John Prine, Kathleen Edwards, Matt Sucich, Roy's Hall, Tom Petty on December 13, 2024| Leave a Comment »

[ATTENDED: December 12, 2024] Kathleen Edwards

Back in 2019 I assumed that the concert in NYC was the only chance I’d get to see Kathleen Edwards.  And now this is my fourth show.

Each time has had a different lineup, so even though the setlists are similar, the shows are very different.

The first time it was a five piece with two guitars (and a keyboard), bass and drums.  The second time it was drums, bass, pedal steel guitar and violin/keyboard.  So no lead guitar (all leads were on the pedal steel).  For this third show there was no bass or drums.  So, we had the same two “new” members from the show just a month earlier: Aaron Goldstein on pedal steel and Kinley Dowling who played keys and violin.  And we were once again joined by Colin Cripps (her ex-husband).  He played with her back in the old days and also when I saw her in NYC, but not a month earlier.

Tonight’s show was a trio with Gord Tough on guitar and Thom Hammerton on keys.   It was also my first time at Roy’s Hall and the sound was fantastic (even Kathleen acknowledged how good it was).

There was no bass guitar but the low end was really deep from the keys, which was great.  And even though I’ve been really loving drummers lately, this show didn’t need one.

Kathleen has released some covers lately (it seems like a covers album is coming out but she mentioned a new release in the new year instead).  So she played John Prine’s Hello in There (a song she said made her cry when she heard it in her coffee shop) and Tom Petty’s Crawling Back to You.

Otherwise, she played most of the same songs, but the ordering was different.  Indeed, Simple Math which opened the last two shows I saw wasn’t included.

I was thrilled that she played Chameleon/Comedian a song from Voyageur, my favorite album of hers, as I hadn’t seen her play it before.  Indeed, this show had the most songs I hadn’t seen her play since the first time. (more…)

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Matt Sucich (Roy’s Hall, Blairstown, NJ, December 12, 2024) [KATHLEEN EDWARDS]

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[ATTENDED: December 12, 2024] Matt Sucich

Matt Sucich opened for Kathleen Edwards in 2022.  I found him to be enjoyable if not a little forgettable.  The thing I remembered most about his set was that he said his name a lot.  He did that for this set as well (he said his name is like an earworm, if he says it enough it will get stuck in your head).

He has a soft, smooth folksinger voice (in the Simon & Garfunkel vein) but his songs are a bit more Dylanesque in their storytelling style.  So you know what you’re getting with him.  He’s affable and his songs are enjoyable.

He made more of an impression on me when Kathleen raved about him and when he sang with her during her set.

I did make a note of the songs he played (unlike last time) so here’s the setlist.

Montauk ∑
Walking Song ©/∑
Make Peace ©
Real Time ¥
Give Love ¥/∑
Upper West Side ¥
Crazy Time to Be Alive ∑

∑ Talking to Walls [live] (2024)
¥ Holy Smokes (2023)
© Don’t Be So Hard on Yourself (2021)

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Kathleen Edwards (SOPAC, South Orange, NJ, September 22, 2022)

Posted in AC/DC, Emmylou Harris, Kathleen Edwards, Matt Sucich, Neil Young, SOPAC, South Orange, NJ on September 23, 2022| Leave a Comment »

[ATTENDED: August 24, 2022] Kathleen Edwards

Back in 2019 Kathleen Edwards came out of “retirement” after spending five years running a coffee house in Stittsville, Ottawa called Quitters.  She has since sold Quitters and it is now something else.

She announced a few shows in 2019 and then a small tour in 2021.  I hoofed it into New York City to see what I imagined would be my only time seeing her.  (She was also opening for Jason Isbell, but I didn’t want to see her as an opener nor did I want to see Jason Isbell).

But then she announced a full tour in 2022!  A few years ago I thought I’d never see her live and here we are and I’ve now seen her three times in under a year.

What was also pretty interesting was that this band line up was almost entirely different from the last time (which had been different from the first time).

The first time it was a five piece with two guitars (and a keyboard), bass and drums.  The second time it was drums, bass, pedal steel guitar and violin/keyboard.  So no lead guitar (all leads were on the pedal steel).  For this third show there was no bass or drums.  So, we had the same two “new” members from the show just a month earlier: Aaron Goldstein on pedal steel and Kinley Dowling who played keys and violin.  And we were once again joined by Colin Cripps (her ex-husband).  He played with her back in the old days and also when I saw her in NYC, but not a month earlier). (more…)

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Matt Sucich (SOPAC, South Orange, NJ, September 22, 2022) [KATHLEEN EDWARDS]

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[ATTENDED: September 22, 2022] Matt Sucich

I thought that Matt Sucich was going to open for Kathleen Edwards in Haddon Heights.  But he joined her tour right after that show.  And so we saw him for this SOPAC show.

Despite how easy it is to get to SOAPC, the parking area was nuts, so we walked in in the middle of his first or second song.

We also had the terrible realization that the seats (which were moveable and placed in specifically for this show were REALLY close to us.  It made for a remarkably uncomfortable set in the otherwise normally really comfy SOPAC.

Sucich has a really pleasant folksinger style with a soothing deep-ish voice and a simple playing and lyrical style.

Midway through the set as I was enjoying him quite a bit he said one of the few things that will turn me against a singer.  he said that his new album had backing vocals by Adam Duritz and that he had just been on tour with Counting Crows.  There may be no band that I hate across the board as much as Counting Crows (mostly because of Duritz’ voice).  So this was not good news to me.  Although since Duritz didn’t appear, it wasn’t the disaster it could have been.

At some point he had made a joke about himself and the audience applauded and it became a regular thing that he would say this same thing about himself and we would all applaud.  It made for a warm and fun set.  Later on when he sang with Kathleen, he really won me over and all memory of Duritz was forgotten.

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