The Gourds
1st Annual Springfest
The Green Hill Farm
5329 Mondell Road
Sharpsburg, MD
5-31-09
Disc 1
01. tuning
02. God's House
03. Country Love
04. All the Way to Jericho
05. Shreveport
06. Right in the Head
07. LGO
08. Red Letter Day
09. New Dues
10. (the new way of) Grievin' & Smokin' > Promised Land (Chuck Berry) > Wabash Cannonball (J.A. Roff) > Grievin' & Smokin'
11. Blood of the Ram
12. Escalade
13. Kicks in the Sun
14. Declineometer
15. Blankets
16. TTT Gas
17. The Hungry Wolf tease (John Doe/Exene Cervenka)
Disc 2
01. Pill Bug Blues
02. Mister Betty
03. Lower 48 > Ohio tease (Neil Young) * > Lower 48
04. Thurman
05. Dooley
06. Burn the Honeysuckle
07. Lookout Joe tease (Neil Young)
08. Plaid Coat
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09. Church on Fire **
10. Beat on the Brat (Joey Ramone)
11. My Name is Jorge
12. El Paso ***
13. Waxy's Dargle
14. Chinese Variety Hour (Claude Bernard/Matt Cook/Travis Garaffa)
15. Nuevo Laredo (Doug Sahm) (fades out)
*Audience provided the only vocals
**Kevin, Jimmy, and Keith only
***Winters version
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Reviewer:johnnytoobad007 -
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August 29, 2009 Subject:
Love it Love it Love it
This Live show is the tops in so many ways.
The banter with the crowd to then setlist to the quality of the recording.
This show should be released as a two CD set
Reviewer:slosinger -
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August 21, 2009 Subject:
Good vibrations
Excellent recording! Highlights for me: Escalade, the one two punch of Kicks in the Sun and Declineometer and a good laugh with Beat on the Brat...
Reviewer:tomski11 -
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August 15, 2009 Subject:
nice
very nice sounding audience tape, and it seems like one of those shows where the band was in a groove from the start. Picture perfect version of jericho is really cooking.
Reviewer:d3gourds -
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August 11, 2009 Subject:
almost forgot
the gourds soundman (mark creaney) is 100% responsible for the way this recording turned out. all I did was push "record". he, on the other hand, worked out a stunning mix. just listen to the way the instruments can all be heard during any of the jams (e.g., grievin, blood of ram, escalade). 3 part vocal harmonies are ridiculously good, too. thanks again, mark!
Notes
this one was special. beautiful sunny/breezy day out on a farm with green grassy hills and some shade trees. lots of families there with little kids running around, playing together during the show. plenty of dancing and smiling going on in the crowd throughout. soundcheck happened on the spot right before they played. I knew it was going to be good one when max did a simple run on his fiddle to get a level and a guy in the audience went nuts screaming for more. very funny. set the tone. by the end of the set, the gourds had whipped them all up into a frenzy. set list kinda speaks for itself, but I will say that the "church on fire" was especially sweet...partly b/c of its rarity, but also b/c jimmy wandered out on stage after it started to sing harmonies and brought a tambourine with him. you just don't see that kind of stuff at a typical show. the guys were really loose and having fun, making stuff up on the fly and feeding off a very appreciative crowd. from what I hear, it's supposed to be a yearly event, so definitely go next year if you can. you won't be sorry.
d3gourds
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