# Paula West at Herbst Theatre, January 25, 2019

[San Francisco Performances](https://sfperformances.org/performances/1819/PaulaWest.html) presents [Paula West](http://secondoctave.com/artist/paula-west) performing _the Bob Dylan Songbook_  
[Herbst Theatre](http://www.sfwmpac.org/herbst-theatre)  
[Veterans' Building, San Francisco War Memorial Performing Arts Center, 401 Van Ness Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94102-4522 USA](http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Veterans+Building,+San+Francisco+War+Memorial+Performing+Arts+Center,+401+Van+Ness+Avenue,+San+Francisco,+CA+94102-4522+USA&hl=en)  
7:30 PM, Friday, January 25, 2019

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## One Set

[7:30 PM lights down, announcements from Melanie Smith, band out]

01. [7:32 PM] _Mr. Tambourine Man_
02. [7:38 PM] _I Want You_
03. [7:45 PM] _In My Time of Dying_
04. [7:51 PM] _Subterranean Homesick Blues_
05. [7:55 PM] _Short People_ (Randy Newman)  
[banter, tossing "No." hats into the crowd]
06. [8:03 PM] _Blowing in the Wind_
07. [8:09 PM] _Don't Think Twice, It's All Right_
08. [8:14 PM] _Gimme Some Truth_ (John Lennon)
09. [8:20 PM] _Put On a Happy Face_ (Lee Adams)
10. [8:24 PM] _The Times They Are A-Changin'_
11. [8:29 PM] _Just Like a Woman_
12. [8:34 PM] _It Ain't Me Babe_
13. [8:39 PM] _Rainy Day Woman, \#12 & 35_
14. [8:44 PM] _A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall_
15. [8:54 PM] _Make You Feel My Love_
16. [9:00 PM] _Like a Rolling Stone_  
[show ends 9:07 PM; bows, then off ... no encore]  
   
**Post-performance talk**  
[9:10 PM; Cyrus Musiker talks with Paula West]  
[talk ends 9:23 PM]

## Performers

* [Jon Arkin](https://www.jonarkin.net): drums;
* Owen Clapp: contrabass;
* [Adam Shulman](http://adamshulman.com/): piano;
* [Scott Sorkin](http://scottsorkin.com/): hollow-body electric guitar, semi-hollow-body electric guitar;
* [Paula West](http://secondoctave.com/artist/paula-west): vox.

## Notes

Tonight was the first public performance of this show from Paula and the newly constituted back-up band. Seemed alright, if not perfectly seamless and well-oiled like a seasoned production. I'm darn glad I attended, even if I was a little disappointed that the song selection seemed to focus mostly on Dylan's early classics.

Since I started bitching, I guess I'll also complain that the Post-performance talk wasn't all that interesting. Most of Cy's questions were kind of long-winded, and phrased so as to push Paula into a corner where only a brief response was appropriate ("Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah, don't you agree?").

Given the current events of the day (indictment of Roger Stone for perjury; see [details here](https://www.lawfareblog.com/document-indictment-roger-stone)), many of the tunes on the setlist seemed more topical than you'd expect for something written 50+ years ago! Paula made brief comments about this throughout the show, but tried hard not to let her thoughts derail the flow of the set too much.

[Program Notes](https://sfperformances.org/img/perfnotes/1819/PIVOTNotes.pdf) or {{:2019:2019-01:program_notes.pdf|program notes}}

## Photos

Big thanks to Ting for the photo gallery!

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