XPost: rec.music.bluenote.blues, rec.music.folk, rec.music.country.western   
   From: dalton@nfld.com   
      
   Last night I caught George Thorogood and he cooked   
   and I tried to (mojo?) bless him a bit and funnel crowd energy to   
   him and the band.    He played not as long as Jann Arden   
   but longer than what I heard Nickelback played.     But   
   when he should have played a second, maybe slow   
   encore that the crowd was pumped for, they put the   
   Canadian anthem on the speakers and they sort of   
   bowed and faded away.    But he did do a first encore   
   set of two or three songs.    He played the Molson   
   Canadian Theatre subset of the stadium, so capacity   
   maybe 3000 and it was sparsely filled for the opening act   
   Darrell Cooper and The Strong Persuaders but for George   
   I think close to 90% full.    So maybe next time he will   
   come back and play the entire 8300 seat stadium for   
   a slightly lower cover charge and make twice the money.   
      
   Then I went to Erin's, The Grapevine, The Gypsy Tea Room,   
   The Rose and Thistle, Greensleeves, O'Reilly's and Bar None.  :-)   
   Blair Harvey at The Rose and Thistle really cooked on   
   original folk blues and some Hank and Hank-influenced country.   
   Blair has one original folk blues song about a river that is   
   incredible.    A 24 year old harmonica player named Mark   
   sat in with him on some songs and he has the potential   
   to become one of the best in the world.  Both were really   
   into it.   None of the bars had cover (well O'Reilly's   
   did earlier but I got there late).    Anyway Blair has improved   
   a lot since I heard him busking a few years ago.   
      
   David   
   http://www.nffld.com/~dalton   
      
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