hardly strictly bluegrass

ramalama · Post by **ramalama** » Fri Oct 06, 2006 10:13 pm

if I weren't leaving for the T-Bone Burnett show, I'd give some analysis and doublecheck my titles:

Solo:
1. Red Shoes
2. River in Reverse
3. Radio Sweetheart/She's Alright/Jackie Wilson Said
4. God's Comic
Band:
5. Pads Paws & Claws
6. Only Daddy That'll Walk the Line (thanks Dr. Luther)
7. Good Year for the Roses
8. Tonight the Bottle Let me Down
9. The Last Town
10. Indoor Fireworks
11. Hammer of the Honky Tonk Gods
12. Monkey to Man
13. Country Darkness
14. Loser (Dead not Beck)
15. Satisfied Mind
16. Take it or Leave it
17. Mystery Dance/Why Don't You Love me Like you Used to Do?
w/ Emmylou Harris
18. I Still Miss Someone
19. Love Hurts
20. American without Tears
w/ Emmylou, Gillian Welch, Dave Rawlings
21. Must You Throw Dirt in my Face?
22. Mystery Train (All four vocalists on one stand-up mike)
Encore
w/band
23. Story in your Voice
24. PLU
w/ ELH, GW, DR
25. Scarlet Tide
26. When I Paint My Masterpiece

And No Coffee Table · Fri Oct 06, 2006 11:52 pm

Thanks for posting.

The song with the "walk the line" lyric is most likely the unreleased "Crooked Line," written with T Bone.

But what's "Just Take It Or Leave It"?

Dr. Luther · Post by **Dr. Luther** » Sat Oct 07, 2006 2:02 am

And No Coffee Table wrote: The song with the "walk the line" lyric is most likely the unreleased "Crooked Line," written with T Bone.
But what's "Just Take It Or Leave It"?

It was "Only Daddy That'll Walk the Line".

"Take It or Leave It" is the Rolling Stones song.
(From UK "Aftermath" -- and "Flowers" in the US...)

martinfoyle · Post by **martinfoyle** » Sat Oct 07, 2006 4:23 am

Some photos here

http://www.splashblog.com/blog-grass/

sweetest punch · Post by **sweetest punch** » Sat Oct 07, 2006 10:52 am

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.c ... LKTT91.DTL

SAN FRANCISCO
One busy weekend
Saturday, October 7, 2006

Elvis Costello slipped in a sneak preview of the rest of the weekend's Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival at the close of his late-afternoon performance Friday at the opening of the three-day event.

Emmylou Harris, Gillian Welch and her guitarist, David Rawlings, joined Costello and his impromptu Hammer of the Honky Tonk Gods band before a chilly crowd of a few thousand at Golden Gate Park.

The sixth annual free music festival, a gift to the people of San Francisco from financier, bluegrass aficionado and amateur banjoist Warren Hellman, continues today and tomorrow at Speedway Meadow. Costello will return Sunday, where he will appear with T-Bone Burnett as the Coward Brothers.

Also appearing today and tomorrow on the sprawling festival's five stages will be Harris, Welch, Earl Scruggs, Hot Tuna and Richard Thompson, among the more than 70 acts scheduled.

Really great photo here:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/object/ar ... 91.DTL&o=0

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http://blogs.mercurynews.com/aei/2006/1 ... ictly.html

Hardly Strictly Bluegrass, Day 1
Shay Quillen, 01:34 AM in Music, Shay Quillen

A rollicking show by Elvis Costello and his aptly named band, Hammer of the Honky-Tonk Gods, kicked off this year's edition of the Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival in style.

Well, actually, the whole thing started off with a set by Jimmie Dale Gilmore and Butch Hancock (with guitarist Robbie Gjersoe). At least I think it was them; it was hard to hear because of a simultaneous performance overhead by the Navy's Blue Angels. What came through was fine, although the set relied a bit heavily on the Bush-bashing material from Hancock's latest, "War and Peace," for my taste. The a cappella "Give Them Water" perhaps showed the limitations of Hancock's voice a bit too clearly. It's always nice to hear Gilmore sing "Dallas," though, which he good-naturedly described as "a medley of my greatest hit." After the set, our host for the weekend, Warren Hellman, made a few remarks and got a warm ovation from the crowd. Elvis C. came out alone to open his show with some solo acoustic tunes, starting with the always welcome "Angels Want to Wear My Red Shoes." A medley of his own "Radio Sweetheart" and Van Morrison's "Jackie Wilson Says" got the crowd scatting along. After "God's Comic," Elvis brought out Hammer of the Honky-Tonk Gods, which it turns out is Pete Thomas and Davey Faragher from his Imposters, along with guitar great Bill Kirchen (former Commander Cody sideman) and pianist Austin DeLone. The quintet mixed Costello compositions like "Indoor Fireworks" and "Monkey to Man" with country classics like "Only Daddy That'll Walk the Line" and "Tonight the Bottle Let Me Down," as well as a few oddballs -- the Grateful Dead's "Loser" (a highlight) and the Rolling Stones' "Take It or Leave It." This portion of the show closed out with a "Mystery Dance" that led into a rocking up-tempo version of Hank Williams' "Why Don't You Love Me." To no one's surprise, Costello called out Emmylou Harris to join him on slightly tentative but touching duets of "I Still Miss Someone" and "Love Hurts," with extra instrumental support from Fats Kaplin. Eventually, Gillian Welch and David Rawlings joined in the fun, climaxing in a joyous "Mystery Train" with all four singers working off of one mike. Many folks from the festival headed over to see T Bone Burnett later that evening at the Great American Music Hall, hoping that the impromptu collaborations would continue. What they saw instead was a solid set by Burnett and his killer band (Marc Ribot, Jim Keltner, Dennis Crouch and Keefus Ciancia), focused almost entirely on material from Burnett's latest, "The True False Identity." Costello watched the entire set from the side of the stage. He was finally called up for the encores, but oddly the two "Coward Brothers" didn't sing together. Instead, Costello took over the band for Chuck Berry's "Don't You Lie to Me" and a new song, apparently played live for the first time (and apparently not terribly familiar to the band, although they got through it fine). Burnett closed the night with Townes Van Zandt's "Nothin' " and his own "Over You," which reminded longtime fans of all the great old songs he didn't play. Luckily, we're guaranteed to get to hear a lot more of Burnett and Costello at the Coward Brothers' set on Sunday. I'll be yelling out requests for "The People's Limousine."

And No Coffee Table · Sat Oct 07, 2006 11:12 am

I wonder if he'll do "Take It Or Leave It" when he opens for the Rolling Stones next week.

johnfoyle · Post by **johnfoyle** » Sat Oct 07, 2006 12:08 pm

That 'really great photo' -

...................'n this

http://pics.livejournal.com/alces2/pic/00017z00/

..................'n here -

http://www.flickr.com/photos/davegolden ... otostream/

..................'n here -

http://www.flickr.com/photos/ari/262632075/

And No Coffee Table · Post by **And No Coffee Table** » Sat Oct 07, 2006 5:03 pm

It was mentioned on the listserv that Austlin de Lone sang one song. Which one?

ramalama · Post by **ramalama** » Sat Oct 07, 2006 7:26 pm

He sang Satisfied Mind

Bill Kirchen sang Hammer of the Honky Tonk Gods

And No Coffee Table · Post by **And No Coffee Table** » Sat Oct 07, 2006 7:41 pm

Thanks!

johnfoyle · Post by **johnfoyle** » Sun Oct 08, 2006 7:03 am

I wonder if Elvis took part in any of yesterdays shows?

Sat Oct 7 (11am - 7pm)
Banjo Stage

* 11am The Nashville Bluegrass Band
* Noon Alison Brown Quartet with special guest Joe Craven
* 1:05 Banjo Extravaganza w/ Bill Evans, Tony Trisch & Alan Munde
* 2:15 Barbary Coast Cloggers
* 3:05 Earl Scruggs
* 4:25 Gillian Welch
* 5:45 Steve Earle & The Bluegrass Dukes

Star Stage

* 11:15am The Devil Makes Three
* 12:15 Allison Moorer
* 1:15 The Stairwell Sisters
* 2:25 Austin Lounge Lizards
* 3:35 T-Bone Burnet (Electric set)
* 5:15 Jerry Douglas & The Best Kept Secret

johnfoyle · Post by **johnfoyle** » Sun Oct 08, 2006 7:21 am

Chuck Berry's "Don't You Lie to Me"

........or is it ?

http://www.metrolyrics.com/lyrics/17911 ... _Lie_To_Me

Don't You Lie To Me
(Hudson Whittaker) Tampa Red

Tampa Red - vocal & kazoo
Blind John Davis - piano, unk bass.
Recorded Studio C May 10, 1940

Original issue Bluebird 8654/BS-044978-1.
Album: Bluebird Vol. 3 'That's Chicago's South Side'
BMG Music 63988-2
Transcriber: Awcantor@aol.com

Let's talk it over, baby
'For we start
I hear about the way
You overdo your part

But don't you lie to me
Don't you lie to me
It makes me mad
An I get evil as a man can be

There's two kind-a people
That I just can't stand
An that's a lyin' woman
An a sneakin' man

But don't you lie to me
Don't you lie to me
Because it makes me mad
An I get evil as a man can be

Here's a proposition
I will give to you
I'll give you all my jelly
If you gimme yours, too

But don't you lie to me
Don't you lie to me
It makes me mad
An I get evil as a man can be

(kazoo & instrumental)

I'll be with you
'Till the cows come home
But mama, please don't let me
Catch you gettin' down wrong

And don't you lie to me
Don't you lie to me
Because it makes me mad
An I get evil as a man can be

But don't you lie to me
Don't you lie to me
Because it makes me mad
An I get evil as a man can be.

http://www.amazon.com/Roots-Chuck-Berry ... F8&s=music

The Roots of Chuck Berry
Various Artists (Artist)

18. Don't You Lie To Me - Tampa Red

invisible Pole · Post by **invisible Pole** » Sun Oct 08, 2006 7:24 am

Any chance for someone kindly posting an mp3 of Take It Or Leave It ?

johnfoyle · Post by **johnfoyle** » Sun Oct 08, 2006 7:32 am

For now we can just sing along with the 'Stones recording -

"Take It Or Leave It"

(Jagger/Richards)

You can turn off and on more times
than a flashin' neon sign.
When you want you're bad
But you can be so kind
Just take it or leave it
Don't tell your friend
Just what you're gonna do now
You take it or leave it, it's just my life
There've been times when you tried
Makin' eyes at all my so called friends
Then you go, now you're back
But you can be so kind
Just take it or leave it
Don't tell your friend
Just what you're gonna do now
You take it or leave it, it's just my life
Oh, la-la-la-ta-ta-ta-ta-la-la-la-la
Oh, la-la-la-ta-ta-ta-ta-la-la
Oh, la-la-la-ta-ta-ta-ta-la-la-la-la
Oh, la-la-la-ta-ta-ta-ta-la-la
I'm sick and tired of the smile that you give
When you don't come home at night
You said you'd call, that's a lie
But you could be so kind
Just take it or leave it
Don't tell your friend
Just what you're gonna do now
You take it or leave it, it's just my life
Oh, la-la-la-ta-ta-ta-ta-la-la-la-la
Oh, la-la-la-ta-ta-ta-ta-la-la
Oh, la-la-la-ta-ta-ta-ta-la-la-la-la
Oh, la-la-la-ta-ta-ta-ta-la-la
Oh, la-la-la-ta-ta-ta-ta-la-la-la-la
Oh, la-la-la-ta-ta-ta-ta-la-la

scielle · Post by **scielle** » Sun Oct 08, 2006 9:04 am

NPR story about the fest -
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/stor ... Id=6203140

johnfoyle · Post by **johnfoyle** » Mon Oct 09, 2006 1:18 pm

Elvis Costello (right) and T-Bone Burnett perform with The Coward Brothers at the Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival in Golden Gate Park on Sunday. Photo by Laura Morton, special to the Chronicle

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f ... type=music

San Francisco Chronicle

Strictly a good time: Annual free Golden Gate Park bluegrass festival gets better -- and bigger -- with age.

Joel Selvin, Chronicle Senior Pop Music Critic

Monday, October 9, 2006

Investment banker Warren Hellman surveyed the crowd that sprawled over Speedway Meadow as far as he could see, across JFK Drive and into the hills beyond. He pondered the improbable success of his sixth annual Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival in Golden Gate Park, looking at a crowd he estimated to be at least 100,000.

"First of all, the weather was fantastic," he said. "After we've done it as many times as we have, we're more grooved. We have more of a rhythm. I think the mix of groups was better. We had Elvis Costello, T Bone Burnett, Del McCoury. And, most importantly, I think the music is becoming more popular."

He paused as security guards chased away an enthusiastic dancer who broke through the barricades to wriggle in front of the stage to some fiddle playing.

"See even the guys causing trouble aren't 70-year-old guys," he said.

From Jimmie Dale Gilmore's opening set in the chill of Friday afternoon to the traditional closing performance by festival poster girl Emmylou Harris under brilliant sunny skies two days later, 67 acts played at the gargantuan wingding spread across five stages that billionaire Hellman throws for the sheer joy of it. Hellman is a wildly enthusiastic bluegrass aficionado who has spent millions of his own money on a free music concert in the most beautiful possible surroundings that has become not just a highlight on the San Francisco cultural calendar, but one of the greatest music festivals in the world.

"He's throwing a party for 300,000," said Burnett, multi-platinum producer of 2000's "O Brother Where Art Thou" soundtrack that caused a major bluegrass boom when it hit the charts. "That's an act of extreme largesse, deep generosity. It shows that spirit still resides in San Francisco."

After booking many of the same performers over the years, the festival has developed a small repertory company that worked one another's shows all weekend long. Harris, Costello, Burnett, Steve Earle, Gillian Welch and others turned up in various combinations on various stages all through the three days.

Silver-haired Harris brought out Hazel Dickens, the West Virginia coal miner's daughter who was Hellman's original inspiration for the festival, and the two sang an old U. Utah Phillips song with the crowd to bring the festival to a close Sunday evening.

Only a few thousand fans were on hand Friday afternoon when Costello put on a loose, amiable set with a thrown-together band that will go down as one of his most memorable performances in more than 25 years of Bay Area appearances. He returned to the park the following day and joined the electric rock set by Burnett, a longtime musical accomplice of his.

On Sunday, he and Burnett played a full set as the Coward Brothers, a pseudonymous pairing the two haven't trotted out for 20 years. "It's mostly just an excuse to play a bunch of old songs," Costello said backstage, "and not very well, at that." Harris joined the brothers, too, introduced as "Emmylou Coward."

With most of the festival's biggest names reserved for Sunday, and Saturday's bill more concentrated on traditional acoustic music, the crowds for the first day of the weekend have always been substantially smaller. But the audience Saturday topped the previous year's attendance by at least half. Police estimated that as many as 500,000 people could have attended the three-day event.

"We all took economics in college," said Hellman, who made his way though the crowd largely unnoticed in a cheap cowboy hat and sweatshirt from the festival merchandise stand. "We know about price elasticity."

Hellman was escorted from stage to stage in a golf cart, adhering largely to a schedule he made out in advance. On Friday afternoon in the cool of the fog, he wore a blue jean jacket adorned Nashville-style on the back in sequins with the initials of his investment banking firm, "H&F," and his name, "Warren." He played banjo in the opening set of the smallest of the festival's five stages on Sunday with his group, the Wronglers. Hellman said he wouldn't entertain having a second banjo in his band "because then I'd be the worst banjo player in the group."

With vast outpouring of music, catching all the highlights would have been impossible. But, on Sunday alone, the possibilities ranged from the intense English folk music of Richard Thompson on the Rooster Stage in adjacent Marx Meadow to the Southern rock of the North Mississippi All-Stars at the Star Stage; the mountain twang of Iris DeMent at the Rooster Stage to the hippie rock of the Waybacks on the Arrow Stage, cranking out Grateful Dead tunes with special guest Bob Weir of the Dead.

Bluegrass veteran Del McCoury had the audience at the Banjo Stage on their feet, dancing and shouting like they were at a rock concert. The Lee Boys, sacred steel specialists from Florida, electrified the small crowd at the tiny Porch Stage.

The Songwriter's Circle on Saturday brought together Steve Earle, Guy Clark, Billy Bragg and Verlon Thompson. Earle opened with an angry screed about the current state of American politics, liberally laced with profanity.

"You're getting a little testy in your old age," Clark said. "Go ahead -- get it off your chest."

The performers were as charmed, if not more so, than the audience. They went to other stages to watchthe other shows. There were flare-ups of jamming backstage and much socializing. "I can't help thinking about your man here," Costello said, as he walked up to watch Harris from the side of the stage. "It's a huge generosity, unprecedented really. When you think about it -- that someone is paying for all this -- it's shocking. I hope I get to come back."

Hellman produced the festival with the staff of Slim's and the Great American Music Hall, the Boz Scaggs nightclub operation in which Hellman is also an investor. The massive bill was brilliantly booked by Slim's general manager Dawn Holliday. Cast and crew repaired to Slim's on Saturday evening, where the festival musicians continued to play into the night.

"What we have is a family," Hellman said, "in particular with Emmylou. She'll call and say 'I'd like you to have this person or that person.' "

A police officer walked up to Hellman wearing one of the festival's straw cowboy hats. "I'm out of uniform here, Warren," she said. "Don't snitch me out."

E-mail Joel Selvin at jselvin@sfchronicle.com.

invisible Pole · Post by **invisible Pole** » Tue Oct 10, 2006 4:16 am

http://nerdlitter.blogspot.com/2006/10/ ... ictly.html

It couldnâ€™t get much better if Iâ€™d designed it. Elvis Costello was headlining the first day of Hardly Strictly Bluegrass. The early autumn weather on Friday afternoon was pleasant and cool. Acres of Golden Gate Park greenery unfurled in front of me like a giant welcome mat. I had good company in the form of my friends Sarah and Alison. It had all the ingredients for a great day of music.

Plus, Iâ€™d seen Elvis Costello once before in Central Park. He ended up playing over two-and-a-half hours and followed up with four stunningly good encores, pulling out more old hits than a nostalgic mobster. We all sat there drenched from a passing storm, but no one moved or cared. It was one of the best and most generous concerts Iâ€™ve ever seen, starring one of my all-time favorite musicians.

Before I get to this latest concert, allow me to qualify my obsession a little further: I spent most of high school quoting E.C. in my AIM profiles. I spent a large part of my relationship with a girl named Alison referencing the song. I guarantee a spot for Armed Forces on my desert-island list. I had Brutal Youth consecutively checked out from my local library for over six months before someone put a hold on it and I had to buy my own copy. I exhausted whole towers of CD-Rs trying to convert the uninitiated.

So of course, I was pit-of-your-stomach-fanboy-excited. The fact that he was playing Hardly Strictly Bluegrass, an annual three-day, five-stage festival made completely free thanks to a generous billionaire named Warren Hellman, made it even more appealing. And most of San Francisco agreed: although Elvis was playing at 4:15 on a weekday, half of the city turned up to join me. The park quickly became a mosaic of blankets, tarps, towels and mats, ornamented with the patterns of picnic baskets, wine bottles and six-packs. Babies and dogs ran rampant. Older couples danced sweetly along the sidelines.

Elvis appeared promptly and launched into â€œ(The Angels Wanna Wear) My Red Shoes.â€

MOJO · Post by **MOJO** » Tue Oct 10, 2006 4:41 am

Who are these people and why do they not understand? RSS distortion!

verbal gymnastics · Post by **verbal gymnastics** » Tue Oct 10, 2006 9:07 am

The festival just sounds fantastic!

johnfoyle · Post by **johnfoyle** » Fri Oct 13, 2006 2:17 pm

see also -

http://www.elviscostellofans.com/phpBB2 ... php?t=5656