Vinyl Sunday: Clear Heart Full Eyes – Craig Finn
Whiskey and Craig.
Craig Finn | Clear Heart Full Eyes: New Tour Dates and In-Studio Video
I have some more tour dates to announce, these on the East Coast:
27-Feb Ringwood, NJ Live @ Drew’s House
28-Feb Allston, MA Great Scott
29-Feb New York, NY Mercury Lounge (Late Show)
1-Mar Hoboken, NJ Maxwell’s
2-Mar Washington, DC Rock N Roll Hotel
3-Mar Chapel Hill, NC Local 506
5-Mar Atlanta, GA Earl
Hi, Craig. Scott here speaking on behalf of Philadelphia. You seem to be missing a stop in Philly (as did The Hold Steady on the summer tour).
Did we do something to offend you? If we did, please let me know so we can rectify the situation. We used to be so tight, after all. You even mentioned us in one of your songs, and it seemed like you always had a positive time when in town.
Again, please let me know if there’s anything I can do.
Scott.
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“This Year” – The Mountain Goats with Craig Finn and Megafaun
My only concert regret this year is not being at this show.
The Hold Steady start writing for record #6 in September. Meanwhile, I’m down in Austin making a record with Mike McCarthy. This one is a solo project. Sunday was another great day in Austin: making music, hanging with friends, and swimming. Also, saw an amazing show by Centro-matic and Sarah Jaffe.
Mike McCarthy produced Spoon’s Girls Can Tell, Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga, Gimme Fiction, and Kill the Moonlight!
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“We Can Get Together” – The Hold Steady:
She said Hüsker Dü got huge, but they started in St. Paul
Do you remember “Makes No Sense at All”?
They owed their new name to a rather sloppy rehearsal of the Talking Heads’ “Psycho Killer”. Unable to recall the French portions sung in the original (“qu’est-ce que c’est”), they began shouting any foreign-language terms they could remember, when someone said “Hūsker Dū?”, a board game that had been popular in the 1970s. The term, without the umlauts, means “Do you remember?” in Danish and Norwegian. The group added Heavy metal umlauts to complete the name.
Craig Finn is cleverer than you.
Craig Finn seems to like what he does.
The Hold Steady at Lincoln Hall.
The Hold Steady. They pack more energy into one show than most bands on an entire tour. It was my friend’s first time seeing them, and she was amazed how they just don’t stop — one song after another with no letting up.
It was a great set. I was glad to hear “You Gotta Dance” and “Girls Like Status”. And I figured “Stay Positive” was the last song, so when the first chord of “How a Resurrection Really Feels” escaped I damn near exploded.
The choices complemented the set from the Harrisburg show earlier in the year (whether intentionally or not) with the new songs fitting comfortably in with the old (I can’t imagine going to a future show and not hearing “The Weekenders”).
It’s hard to explain the pure frenetic glee Craig Finn projects the entire show. But from the first line to the last, he is on, and he is having fun.
“We Can Get Together”
So simple, so true.
A few more pictures at Flickr, and setlist below the jump.
Tomorrow night.
