| Playlist |
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| Song |
From Album |
comments |
| "Lost You in the Canyon" |
Burning the Daze |
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| "Ghost Train" |
Marc Cohn |
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| "Perfect Love" |
Marc Cohn |
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| "Don't Talk To Her At Night" |
The Rainy Season |
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| "Paper Walls" |
The Rainy Season |
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| "She's Made of Yesterdays" |
forthcoming |
Marc said that usually his songs are "pleasant" but
that he was finally driven to write an "unkind" song... and then he
couldn't stop. Anyway, this is a bittersweet and incisive little tune. |
| "29 Ways" |
Marc Cohn |
Shane Fontane had an absolutely unbelievable solo
in the middle of this ... a solid two minutes off in guitar nirvana. |
| "The Rainy Season" |
The Rainy Season |
Immediately following the, ahem, climax in this
song, Marc launched into a little Allman Brothers: "There's a man out
there -- might be your man, I don't know." |
| "You're a Shadow"(?) |
forthcoming |
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| "Strangers in a Car" |
Marc Cohn |
As he idled at the start of this song, Marc commented
that his first album was more about the stories he wanted to tell than
the music he wanted to play -- and so he had a few four-chord progressions
that he just played over and over. Then he demonstrated how powerful
that could be. |
| "Walking in Memphis" |
Marc Cohn |
Unlike the previous few shows I've seen, Marc did
not open this with the odd little riff about the walking man. |
| "If I Were an Angel" |
forthcoming |
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| "Dig Down Deep" |
Marc Cohn |
Tonight's surprise musical guest was a stanza from
Van Morrison's "Tupelow Honey", slipped in during the denoument of
this song. |
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| "Valley of the Kings" |
Burning the Daze |
As always, Marc and the band transformed this somewhat-tepid
(IMHO) album tune into a rocking revival hymn. |
| "Let Me Be Your Witness" |
forthcoming |
Marc manages to extend a metaphor throughout the
entire song and it doesn't collapse under its own weight... a not-unimpressive
feat for four minutes. |
| "Nowhere Fast"(?) |
? |
This was a song Marc said he hadn't "practiced
or played for over a decade". He sent it out to a guy recording the
show who apparently constantly requests it, and -- a single flub notwithstanding
-- did it perfectly. |
| "True Companion" |
Marc Cohn |
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| "One Safe Place" |
forthcoming |
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