Carrie Rodriguez at the Cedar, Minneapolis (04/14/13)
Carrie Rodriguez’s last date on a very long National tour for her latest album, Give Me All You Got was at the Cedar Cultural Center in Minneapolis last night, April 14th.
Opening up were Jack Torrey and Page Burkum of The Cactus Blossoms, their fifth show working for Rodriguez. They did The Cactus Blossoms songs, but stripped down to double acoustics… lending their music to sound overtly very country and western. Highlight of their set was a cover of Roger Miller’s “The Moon Is High”, containing the very funny word-play lyrics of “but come the dawn and it will dawn on me you’re gone“. As expected, fiddler and singer/songwriter Carrie Rodriguez played a lot of tracks from her latest album, Give Me All You Got. Helping Rodriguez on various instruments and sometime backing vocals was Romantica’s Luke Jacobs (with Ben Kyle nowhere to be found). My favorite track off the new album, “Lake Harriet”, was played fairly early in with Rodriguez explaining her love for the city. She also dedicated “Absence” with its “snow, sleet, wind and rain” lyrics as only fitting to the current climate. As mentioned in the podcast, she did a couple of covers, Merle Haggard’s “Today I Started Loving You Again”, John Prine’s “Unwed Fathers”, and the encore Hank Williams’ “I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry”. Carrie Rodriguez is currently back home in Austin, taking a much-needed break from the tour. Her latest album, Give Me All You Got, is out now via Ninth Street Opus. Carrie Rodriguez at the Cedar, Minneapolis (04/14/13) |