Bruce Hornsby & Sonny Emory with the Pat Metheny Unity Group
2014-07-17
Wells Fargo Center for the Arts
50 Mark West Springs Rd, Santa Rosa, CA 95403
8:00 PM, Thursday, July 17, 2014

[8:02 PM announcements by Andre; off 8:06 PM, pause, Bruce out, lights down after another minute or so]

1. [8:07 PM] M.I.A.M.I. (brand new campfire tune about Miami/FL highways, Bruce singing and playing dulcimer, joined by Pat on acoustic guitar after ~1-2 minutes. Sonny joins on spoons/washboard towards the end)
2. [8:13 PM, Pat switches to hollow-body electric] the Valley Road
   [Pat off, Bruce to piano; Sonny to drum kit]
3. [8:20 PM] Preacher in the Ring, Part 1 / Variation II (Webern) / Caténaires (Carter)
4. [8:28 PM] Life in the Psychotropics
5. [8:34 PM] ? (sick bastard tune?)
6. [8:43 PM] Might As Well Be Me (new Hunter/Hornsby tune)
7. [8:48 PM] Nobody There But Me (Haden/Hornsby tune written for Willie Nelson)
8. [8:54 PM] Loser
9. [8:59 PM] ? (3rd sb tune? i forget, doh!)
10. [9:02 PM] King of the Hill
    [set ends 9:08 PM, Bruce & Sonny bow, then off, Pat on almost immediately thereafter]

1. [9:09 PM] ? Into the Dream (solo tune on Pikasso guitar)
2. [9:13 PM] ? Come and See (add CP, then AS, the BW during tune)
3. [9:22 PM] ? Roofdogs
4. [9:30 PM] ? the Bat
5. [9:35 PM] ? Turnaround
   [break for Pat to talk, introduce the quartet, bring on Giulio, and mention that next suite is from the latest recording, Kin]
6. [9:41 PM] ?
7. [9:52 PM] ?
8. [10:05 PM] ?
9. [10:13 PM] ?
10. [10:15 PM] ?
    [10:31 PM; Kin set ends]
11. [10:31 PM] the Moon Is a Harsh Mistress (PM duet w/BH)
12. [10:36 PM] (Go) Get It (PM duet w/AS)
13. [10:41 PM] ?
14. [10:46 PM] ?
    [set ends 10:53 PM; very brief encore break]
     
    Encore
15. [10:54 PM] The Way It Is (w/BH, SE)
16. [11:03 PM] Are You Going With Me?
    [show ends 11:10 PM]

Pat Metheny Unity Group

• Giulio Carmassi: piano, keyboards, woodwinds, brass, guitar, bass, drums, vox;
• Pat Metheny: guitar, acoustic guitar, 12-string guitar, pikaso guitar, guitar synthesizer, orchestrionics, palmas;
• Chris Potter: tenor saxophone, bass clarinet, soprano saxophone, alto flute, bass flute, acoustic guitar, palmas;
• Antonio Sánchez: drums, cajon, palmas, percussion;
• Ben Williams: bass, contrabass, palmas.

• Sonny Emory: drums;
• Bruce Hornsby: keyboards, accordion, vox.

<(wip)>

Being unable to take notes due to the insanely restrictive policies on cell phone use, I can't say I'm sure how many parts the Kin suite had. My recollection is that there were 5-7 discreet stops, but that some segments seemed to concatenate multiple segments together. For what it's worth, the album contains nine tunes over 70 minutes.

There was a definite pause to indicate the end of the suite, and the band then left the stage, almost like an encore break. After a few seconds, Pat returned with Bruce Hornsby to perform a duet (the Moon Is a Harsh Mistress), then Bruce left, replaced by ?Antonio? for a second duet, ?(Go) Get It?.

After the real encore break, I was shocked to hear Pat and his band play the Way It Is with both Bruce and Sonny…always good to be surprised! Pat's early hit, Are You Going With Me?, then wrapped things up for the night.

For the moment, Bruce's new album is streaming at Soundcloud.

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