Last night was a juggernaut of acoustic guitars, pianos, soft vocals and dance routine's?
Yup, Last night was the Seattle stop of the Hotel Cafe Tour staring
Ingrid Michealson
Cary Brothers
William Fitzsimmons
Mieko
Jesca Hoop (pronounced "hope" (apparently)
and Jim Bianco
I was most excited about Ingrid and William, they have been on constant repeat for the last 6 months, I just cant get over Ingrids sass and Williams Hushed vocals and honest lyrics. At on point Mr. Fitzsimmons did a cover off of the 16 candles sound track and had everyone on the tour up on stage dancing, it was a magical moment and Mieko and Jim Bianco "vogued" and Ingrid and her back up songstress Allie Moss tangoed (we also had a few Cameo visits from some other folk artists, Matt Kearney and Pwrfl POWER) William blew my mind, simple, understated, blazing honest songs about his parents divorce and other such losses. I had an opportunity to speak with him after the show about his music and where he is going, he was mostly vague but I can understand, he is a pretty quiet guy to begin with. He DID state however that he was working with a producer on his next album and hopes to have a little bit more of a "rounded" sound, adding some full band elements, but he ALSO promised he did not want to lose that "vibe" that he has crafted so sweetly over the past three years.
I don't "Gush" or get "star struck" but standing outside Nuemos in the freezing Seattle weather talking with someone whom I look up to greatly was beyond words, I wanted to invite him to the Cha Cha and share a pitcher of $4 Rainer but my companion for the night was eyeing me to get going... She probably would have gone along with it, I am kicking my self right now, I just want to pick his brain and see things from his talented eyes.
Mieko blew me away, so small, so coy... he voice was low and filled with experience well beyond her years, she had a trumpet player who SCREAMED at blowing that horn and an upright bass player, I downloaded her CD first thing this morning from iTunes.
As usual Ingrid was fantastic, she really knows how to sing, simply stated, she covered radioheads "creep" on a Ukulele... it was perfect..
Cary Brothers kind of ticked me off, I was not impressed with him and Jim Bianco, also, while WILDLY entertaining, was very disappointing/inappropriate.
anyways, I went home and worked on music till 4 this morning, now I am very tired, and the coffee in my office is weak...
help?
2 comments:
rHey, I was just looking for things about the show last night in Seattle and found this. I agree with most of what you said except that i thought Cary Brothers was pretty great. I heard that he was sick and he definitely seemed "off" so it probably wasn't his best show, but I thought he added a lot of energy and emotion to the show which got a little soft at times. William really impressed me again. The first time I saw him was opening for Cary Brothers last year. I guess they're pretty good friends. I was so happy with the entire night and also went to gran Meiko's stuff after the show.
I was at the show too - and I was blown away by William Fitzsimmons and that the Cary Brothers were amazing. They are actually why I came to the show. Nothing would make me happier than to see Ingrid off the World Cafe tour, and just William and the Cary Brothers touring, but you take the bad with the good. And I have to disagree about your assessment of the Radiohead cover - it was a disgrace to Radiohead.
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