SFJAZZ presents Rosanne Cash
2014-04-10
Miner Auditorium
SFJAZZ Center, 205 Franklin St, San Francisco, CA
7:m PM, Thursday, April 10, 2014

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[7:31 PM lights down, announcements by Randall Kline]

1. [7:37 PM] A Feather's Not a Bird
2. [7:41 PM] The Sunken lands @
3. [7:47 PM] Etta's Tune @
4. [7:52 PM] Modern Blue @
5. [7:56 PM] Tell Heaven &α
6. [8:00 PM] The Long Way Home &
7. [8:04 PM] World of Strange Design $
8. [8:09 PM] Night School &α
9. [8:14 PM] 50,000 Watts @&
10. [8:20 PM] When the Master Calls the Roll &
11. [8:27 PM] Money Road
    [8:35 PM Rosanne introduces the band again, then all bow, and off for setbreak]

[8:56 PM lights down]

1. [8:58 PM] Radio Operator $
2. [9:03 PM] I'm Movin' On (Hank Snow)
3. [9:08 PM] Blue Moon with Heartache @$
   [all off but Rosanne & John]
4. [9:14 PM] Ode to Billy Joe (Bobbie Gentry) &
5. [9:22 PM] Long Black Veil (Danny Dill/Marijohn Wilkin) &
   [others return]
6. [9:2m PM] Girl from the North County (Bob Dylan/Johnny Cash) @&α
7. [9:32 PM] Tennessee Flat Top (Johnny Cash)
8. [9:39 PM] Seven Year Ache @$
   [set ends 9:43 PM]
    
   Encore
9. [9:45 PM] Motherless Children @α
   [show ends 9:50 PM]

• Rosanne Cash: @ acoustic guitar, vox;
• Kevin Barry: guitar, α acoustic guitar, $ lap steel guitar;
• Zev Katz: bass;
• John Leventhal: guitar, & acoustic guitar, harmony vox;
• Glenn Patscha: keyboards, harmony vox;
• Dan Rieser: drums.

Although it included an extra spoonful of sugar, I generally enjoyed tonight's gig from Rosanne Cash and her crack band, particularly when the rhythm section locked into one of those clickety-clack train engine shuffles and the twin guitars chasing and racing like bandits trying to pull off a robbery.

Given that it's such a strong effort, leading off the show with a top to bottom run through the new album was a good move – I bet more than a few folks will be buying it soon, if they didn't already snatch a copy from the merch table at set break. I thought the second set wasn't quite so good – the hot tunes were great, but a few of the remakes seemed a little too uninspired – personal taste, I'm sure, but if you're gonna take on favorites from the past, you better have something fresh and interesting to add when you shake things up. Of course, it's entirely possible that I was just feeling grumpy about missing the start of Adam Theis' gig downstairs…

SFJAZZ posted a few pics of the show on their blog.

Aidin Vaziri wrote a promo article about the event for the SF Chronicle.

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