4/15/18 The Mastersons/Steve Earle
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On my birthday evening, I had the pleasure of catching one of Steve Earle's 30th anniversary of Copperhead Road shows at the The Paramount Hudson Valley in Peekskill, NY. The venue is a lovely jewel, the sound was excellent and not working and still being front row center was a great birthday present. Copperhead Road has pretty much been in constant rotation for me the past 3 decades so that didn't suck either. Great show and I would highly recommend catching the show when it is in your neck of the woods.
The Mastersons, who are also part of Steve Earle's band, The Dukes, opened the show with a set of their own music. Both of them are hugely talented and deserve to headline on their own.
Steve Earle's set went like this, the first part of the show was all of the songs of Copperhead Road as originally sequenced and then a second half of songs scattered from his albums and a scorching cover of Hey Joe that had Steve provide the grit and Chris Masterson providing the guitar fireworks. Chris Masterson is every bit a great string slinger as Larry Campbell is.
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A last note: Earle iwas
A last note: Earle was backed by what I consider the best lineup of The Dukes ever (guitarist Chris Masterson, fiddle player Eleanor Whitmore, bassist Kelly Looney, and new members drummer Brad Pemberton and pedal steel player Ricky Ray Jackson). It was a pleasure to see drummer Brad Pemberton on stage again. The last time I saw him was with The Cardinals.
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Those are some very nice
Those are some very nice photos you took, Tony, thanks for posting these. Sounds like a great birthday show.
It will be cool to see Steve play with a pedal steel player again. I don't think he's done that since parting ways with Bucky Baxter in the 90's. I'm used to seeing Steve with the db's Will Rigby on drums, but I'm glad to hear the Cardinals guy is a good fit.
Chris Masterson dyed his hair blonde?!?! The guy has always had the aura of hipster-doofus, but he's upped the ante with the golden locks. He sure does play a mean guitar. His wife is no slouch either.
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Thanks for the photo
Thanks for the photo compliment, Dave. Steve mentioned that it had been too long playing without a pedal steel player so he went to where pedal steel players grow up...Texas. Mr. Jackson had the goods and tone without that over bend that some pedal steel players have. Brad Pemberton was once described by Ryan Adams as "a truck full of BBQ." He is a perfect fit in The Dukes. As for the hipster-doofus description of Chris Masterson, it might be the best description ever of him. :-) And I also agree about his wife. She switched between fiddle, guitar and keyboards the whole night and did all very well. And her voice...angelic.
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Thanks for bringing your
Thanks for bringing your camera with you on your birthday night, Skifurther.
You can't ask more of photographs, especially the Steve purple one.
Some of best advise ever given to me was from you two to see The Dukes last year. One of the best concerts ever; plus with Los Lobos - at the Paramount in Huntington.
Steve said he lives in NYC now and will be back on Long Island at the end of this summer.
I'm a big Lucinda Williams fan and immediately balked at getting a ticket to the Beacon Theater show with The Dukes. I just don't like the place. The sound there sucks.
I saw Lucinda at the Westhampton Beach Performing Arts Center and that's the nicest theater on Long Island, she usually plays there each year.
So, I held off on the 50/50 chance that the LSD tour will stop in out on eastern Long Island this year.
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Such great photos! And thanks
Such great photos! And thanks, too, for the introductions to musicians I don't know.
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Thanks for bringing your
You're welcome but I didn't bring MY camera. Lugging a body and a few lenses to a show I wasn't officially working is a drag...especially on my birthday. All photos are with my cell phone.
Thank you for the compliment. As for introductions, I try to keep most of my posts music oriented and often that entails artists that not a lot of people have heard of. I am surprised you weren't aware of Steve Earle though. He is one of the best songwriters out there.
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I've heard of Steve Earle,
I've heard of Steve Earle, just haven't listened to him.