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minervacat at 12:37am on 01/05/2008 under media:concerts
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Here is the most important thing to know about the Josh Ritter show at the Cat's Cradle tonight: the hipsters danced. The hipsters in the CH don't dance, but tonight the hipsters danced. And they sang at the tops of their lungs. And they had actual emotions! It was a goddamned motherfucking miracle.
I'm loopy with joy and exhaustion, and I couldn't have asked for a better set list if Josh had let me write it myself:
* now with more juggling of apples during a piano break. i don't even know. it was magic.
I'm loopy with joy and exhaustion, and I couldn't have asked for a better set list if Josh had let me write it myself:
Mind's EyeHe remains one of my all-time favorite live performers -- there's just something about someone who so genuinely enjoys what he does every single night, genuinely enjoys his fans enjoying his music. Josh Ritter is fucking amazing. Easily a top five of 2008 set. (Revised list, in order: Truckers in Richmond, Josh at the Cradle, Weakerthans at the Cradle, Jason at the Berkeley, RRRGLT in whole.)
To the Dogs or Whoever
Wolves
[a long digression about the nice weather in the South, and how Josh enjoys seeing all the exposed flesh, and possibly someone in the crowd flashes him at this point, because he thanks someone for "doing that"]
Good Man
Open Doors
Come and FInd Me
Me & Jiggs
Wait for Love
Snow Is Gone
The Temptation of Adam
Girl In The War
Rumors
Right Moves
Long Distance Call
Wildfires
Empty Hearts
Kathleen
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You Don't Make It Easy Babe
Lillian, Egypt*
* now with more juggling of apples during a piano break. i don't even know. it was magic.
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