I just spent an hour drafting a full and rather witty review of Michael and Rusty's performance in Delray Beach, FL. But the board logged me out just before I hit the "submit" button and sent my review to God knows where. Gotta get to bed because it is now 1:30 am and I am facing a 2.5 hour drive starting at 8 am. So....
Here's the capsule review:
Rusty: Lead vocals (on all songs except Drinkin' 'bout You), acoustic guitar, dobro, mandolin, harmonica
Michael: Harmony vocals, grand piano, accordion, mandolin
Set List:
Kind Woman
PUTP
ROC
Neil Young is Not my Brother
HOTN (Cajun version)
(Intermission)
Call It Love
All Fired Up
A Child's Claim to Fame
A Little Rain Don't Bother Me
Drinkin' 'bout You
Spellbound
Crazy Love
AGFTK (Encore)
Best songs of the night: Kind Woman, ROC, Neil, HOTN, Rain, Spellbound, Crazy Love (Sounded great with just two guys and two instruments--didn't miss the full band on these at all.)
Weakest songs of the night: Call It Love, All Fired Up, AGFTK (These sound better with a full band and/or three part harmonies than with just two instruments and two vocals.)
Stories told by Rusty: How Poco came to be; missing out on Woodstock to play at a high school gymnasium; how two German guys who recorded a German language cover of ROC changed the lyrics into an ode to a Luftwaffe pilot; performing Call It Love on the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson; dispute with the record company about when the Legend album would be released; why he wrote Neil Young Is Not My Brother; stopping in New Orleans whenever possible and how this inspired Paul to pen HOTN.
UPCOMING PERFORMANCE: Rusty mentioned that they had just committed to a full-band concert next March in Daytona Beach, but he didn't have any details. So watch this board and/or Facebook--I'm sure Mary will post something about it when she has all the info.
Great to meet Poconut Sandy and to spend a few minutes with familiar Poconut friends from Wisconsin, Mike and Sara. Poconuts are the best.
Peace out. Time for bed.