tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9991864.post112603435108933195..comments2023-08-10T05:24:20.775-04:00Comments on Razing the Bar: Jesus in New OrleansAndy Whitmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04010130934552315074noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9991864.post-1126123479077144042005-09-07T15:04:00.000-05:002005-09-07T15:04:00.000-05:00glad to hear it was a good show. their live shows...glad to hear it was a good show. their live shows have been hit and miss for me ever since ric left. some night they're on and some nights they're off. but glad you caught them on a good nightmghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02279451510520504251noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9991864.post-1126091128116051352005-09-07T06:05:00.000-05:002005-09-07T06:05:00.000-05:00Karen, the show was very good. Sometimes on the a...Karen, the show was very good. Sometimes on the albums the raw ingredients don't always gel for me. I hear excellent songwriting, decent musicianship, and a soulful vocalist, but I don't always want to listen much to the results. Live, this band rarely disappoints me. And they didn't Friday night. Karen had clearly been impacted by Hurricane Katrina (who hasn't been?), and her vocals were amazingly intense. The band focused on the material from Drunkard's Prayer and Ohio, the last two album, but also mixed in a few old favorites, and ended with an impossible cover of Van Morrison's "Moondance" -- impossible because Van owns that song, and nobody else could really do it justice, but OtR came close. <BR/><BR/>The other weird thing is that I had two total strangers come up to me at the concert and ask, "Hey, are you Andy Whitman?" It turned out that they were two of the 47,823,592 people known by Jeff Cannell, and they knew me from that connection.Andy Whitmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04010130934552315074noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9991864.post-1126049442397060742005-09-06T18:30:00.000-05:002005-09-06T18:30:00.000-05:00so bummed i missed seeing OTR. :(how was the whole...so bummed i missed seeing OTR. :(<BR/>how was the whole show?Karenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03873045531201669483noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9991864.post-1126038748637578912005-09-06T15:32:00.000-05:002005-09-06T15:32:00.000-05:00Andy,good call. I'll listen to that song with a di...Andy,<BR/><BR/>good call. I'll listen to that song with a different ear from here on out.John McCollumhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14757876504958350010noreply@blogger.com