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Just saw Marty Stuart and his Fabulous Superlatives, and I'm glad I made the trip. All 4 band members singing the choruses on "El Paso" was worth the ticket all by itself, plus he did a solo mandolin version of "Orange Blossom Special" that was pretty epic. Chris Scruggs also gave a couple of the best upright bass solos I've ever seen. I'm on a kick of trying to go see all the surviving country singers I can remember my grandma actually enjoying. I'd like to see Dwight Yoakam this year, but it looks like his California dates are in Napa and the Orange County fair, both of which are kind of a pain to get to for me.
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Lukas Nelson and Promise of the Real was an amazing live show, probably the best one I've seen at the theater in downtown Monterey, CA since I moved to the area. The other two were Mike Campbell and Wolfgang Van Halen, so that's saying something! My favorite song of the night was Forget About Georgia: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4FUQfoZjeJk but this one was the opening song of the set, I feel like it's one of their signature songs at this point, and it hits like a truck live: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIU4EkghoEc Lukas also did Bowie's Life on Mars solo on the piano halfway through the set, which came out of nowhere and got people singing along. His voice obviously sounds a lot like his dad, but the band's overall live sound is a bit more honky-tonk than I expected, definitely in a good way. My grandma probably would've recognized a lot of what she liked about Merle Haggard and Buck Owens, as well as Willie, and that's how I judge country music... if grandma would've liked it, it's worth listening to. The opening act was Madeline Hawthorne, who is very, very proud to be from Bozeman, Montana! Unfortunately I'm struggling to find any of her songs she played last night on YouTube, but she was dynamite with just a 3-piece band (one other guitarist and a bassist) and promised that she was trying to book future California dates with her full band, which is closer to a rock ensemble. Definitely worth a look. https://www.youtube.com/@MadelineHawthorne https://www.madelinehawthorne.com One thing I really appreciated was that Lukas brought the entire opening act back out a couple of different times throughout his set to sing harmony. It was a great way to recapture old-time gospel harmony influences and showed a lot of respect for her and her band. She alluded to the fact that trying to break into a country career going through Nashville channels had been a poo poo experience for her, so seeing a legacy artist who's already built a solid name for himself like Lukas lift someone else up that way really increased my respect for him in turn. I definitely want to attend POTR's next tour too.
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