© K. Hallowell
Video: Shreveport
Photos: by Bill Ellison (incl. opening act)
The Gourds
Granada Theater
3524 Greenville Avenue
Dallas, TX
6-25-10
01. Shreveport
02. Tex-Mex Mile
03. Cranky Mulatto
04. Blankets
05. Honduras
06. El Paso
07. The Tinys Variety Hour (Claude Bernard/Matt Cook/Travis Garaffa)
08. Shamrock Bound
09. Bridgett
10. At the Crossroads (Doug Sahm) *
11. O Rings
12. The Gyroscopic > Gyro reprise
13. Luddite Juice
14. New Dues
15. Jesus Christ with Signs Following
16. Burn the Honeysuckle > Black Water tease (Patrick Simmons) > Burn the Honeysuckle
17. All the Labor
18. Weather Woman
19. A Few Extra Kilos
20. Pill Bug Blues
21. Mister Betty
22. Gin and Juice (Calvin Broadus, et al.) ** > Nebraska (Bruce Springsteen) > If You Want Blood (You've Got It) (Angus Young/Malcolm Young/Bon Scott) > Gin and Juice
*Not on original set list
**Not on original set list, which had Lower 48 after Mister Betty
Special thanks to Bill Ellison, granadamusiclive, and the team of G. Nelson & K. Hallowell for the field reports. If anyone has audio/video/photos from this show, please email TheGourdsNews.
Gourds need to stop playing at Granada. No one could hear what the hey' they were saying between songs. They thought we were being rude/ignorant not getting their jokes. Tired of that place, play at Lee Harvey's, Poor Davids, or a grade school cafetorium. It would be better than the sound system at Granada Theater.
ReplyDeleteIt seems like a show at Poor David's would be a riot. The good kind. To better venues in the future!
ReplyDeleteIt was possibly the worst Gourds I've seen. No encore. Bummer.
ReplyDeleteJimmy's line "it's good to be here with you fine folks at this Gourds show" was a hoot.
ben, just curious...other than not playing an encore, what made it the worst gourds you've seen? anything in particular?
ReplyDeleteThe crowd wasn't into it, and was small.
ReplyDeleteIt was still a good show, but didn't have the normal energy.
Maybe they were already in a beeblefest mindset.
The Sons of Hermann Hall is still there.
ReplyDeleteSons of Hermann is the perfect venue for them. No opener.
ReplyDeleteI would agree that the sound system was poor..we could NOT understand anything being said between songs..but I found their energy to be as infectious as ever. And yes, while the lack of encore was a let down, I have to say that overall I enjoyed the show immensely!
ReplyDeleteit was the first time I heard "Weather Woman" live. And that Doug Sahm thing was pretty cool.
ReplyDeleteLack of encore wasn't the reason it was a bad show, it was the final result of the falling dominoes that began about 10 minutes into the show when the first request for Gin n Juice went out from some bozo. Continued with broken mics all night long, and concluded with crowd not singing along with any of the songs. Doug Sahm thing was awesome, I forgot about that.
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