This afternoon’s performance went pretty well. A reasonably good audience. Some people were actually listening, including some people way in the side room who came out after their dinner and gave me personal eye to eye “props” as well as some greenbacks. The couple sitting right in front of me who were so intent on impressing each other with their joi de vivre, wit and humor were not actually obnoxious as they kept their audibles below an acceptable decibel level. One result of that was I was able to pay attention to my job, which is doing my very best to sing in tune and with emotional expression appropriate to the song. When I can do that I am sometimes amazed at the discoveries I make about my own vocal possibilities. It’s fun, satisfying and probably much more enjoyable for the audience than when I’m not trying to resist the urge to strangle the person right in front of me who is so impressed with their own self that they can’t resist the urge to share it with everyone else in the room. (Isn’t that MY job?) But I digress. I did 23 songs: Twelve in the first set, which went on for 65 minutes, and eleven in the second set which lasted 40 minutes. A perhaps incomplete list of the evenings fare follows. First Set: Creole Belle, Hesitation Blues, Got the Blues (Can’t Be Satisfied), Trouble In Mind, St. James Infirmary, TB Blues, Way Down In The Hole, I Hate A Man Like You, Freight Train, Georgia, Betty and Dupre, One More Cup Of Coffee. Second Set: Coming In To Lost Angeles, The Thrill Is Gone, Crawling Kingsnake, Will The Circle Be Unbroken, St. Louis Blues, Sitting On Top Of the World, Louis Collins, Dear Someone, Forever Young, If I Needed You. Here is a picture Zahn took with her phone before I got set up…featuring the guitar case.
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