Calexico at Great American Music Hall, June 5, 2018

Slim's presents Calexico, with opener, Julia Jacklin
Great American Music Hall
859 O'Farrell Street, San Francisco, CA 94109-7005 USA
8:00 PM, Tuesday, June 5, 2018

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[8:00 PM lights down, Julia Jacklin out]

1. [8:01 PM] Pool Party
2. [8:05 PM] Leadlight
3. [8:11 PM] Motherland
4. [8:18 PM] LA Dream
5. [8:22 PM] Eastwick
6. [8:26 PM] ? (unidentified; lyric sample: “Don't know how to keep loving you”)
7. [8:31 PM] Pressure to Party
8. [8:34 PM] Don't Let the Kids Win
   [set ends 8:40 PM]

[8:48 PM band out to noodle, mostly off by 8:55; 9:02 lights down, go!]

1. [9:02 PM] Dead in the Water
2. [9:05 PM] Voices in the Field
3. [9:10 PM] Under the Wheels
4. [9:16 PM] Across the Wire
   [Add Justin Chin on guiro from La Misa Negra]
5. [9:21 PM] Flores y Tamales (JZ or ?BL?)
   [JC off; Joey tells an story about visiting Yellowstone]
6. [9:2m PM] End of the World With You
7. [9:30 PM] Thrown to the Wild
8. [9:35 PM] Unconditional Waltz
9. [9:38 PM] The Town and Miss Lorraine
   [add Justin: tenor saxophone; Craig: guiro]
10. [9:41 PM] Stray
11. [9:48 PM] Inspiración
    [Guests off]
12. [9:52 PM] Music Box
13. [9:56 PM] Crystal Frontier
    [Guests back]
14. [10:02 PM] Güero Canelo
    [set ends 10:10 PM]
    
    Encore
    [add Lauren Jacobsen: violin; just JB: acoustic guitar; SC: contrabass; JC: drums]
15. [10:12 PM] Fortune Teller
    [LJ off; rest of band back out]
16. [10:16 PM] Alone Again Or
    [CB & JC back]
17. [10:20 PM] Cumbia de Donde
    [show ends 10:26 PM]

Calexico

• Joey Burns: vox, guitar, acoustic guitar;
• Scott Colberg: bass, contrabass, harmony vox;
• John Convertino: drums, percussion;
• Sergio Mendoza: Farfisa organ, keyboards;
• Jacob Valenzuela: trumpet, keyboards, vibraphone, glockenspiel, vox;
• Martin Wenk: trumpet, guitar, baritone guitar, keyboards, theremin, accordion, vibraphone
• Jairo Zavala: guitar, baritone guitar, bouzouki, harmony vox.

• Lauren Jacobsen: violin;

and from La Misa Negra

• Craig Bravo: percussion;
• Justin Chin: guito, tenor saxophone;

• Julia Jacklin: guitar, vox.

Julia didn't do it for me. My guess is that I'm not remotely close to her target audience. I was surprised to read that she's 27; seemed to me like the topics of her songs were more teen/college oriented. Good luck kid!

And as for the main act? Calexico killed it, but I was bummed that the set wasn't any longer. I mean, 80 minutes isn't totally unreasonable, but it was so good that it seemed too short, if that makes any sense. In other words, they picked me up and wrapped me in a dream state that ended all too soon. Maybe I should have made the effort to head back for another go 'round on Wednesday night? Looks like the setlist was at least half different…

Big thanks to Ting for the photo gallery!

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