Vintage Trouble w/ Greg Holden at Mill City Nights, Minneapolis (12 Sep 2015)
Vintage Trouble Setlist
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Greg Holden Setlist
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Tour Dates
09/22/15 Vancouver, BC BC Place
09/23/15 Portland, OR Wonder Ballroom
09/25/15 San Francisco, CA AT&T Park
09/28/15 Los Angeles, CA Dodger Stadium
10/01/15 San Diego, CA The Irenic
10/03/15 San Francisco, CA The Independent
10/07/15 Dallas, TX House Of Blues
10/08/15 San Antonio, TX The Paper Tiger
10/09/15 New Orleans, LA Tipitina’s Uptown
10/13/15 Saint Petersburg, FL State Theatre
10/14/15 Charleston, SC Music Farm
10/16/15 Nashville, TN Cannery Ballroom
10/17/15 Louisville, KY Mercury Ballroom
10/18/15 Birmingham, AL Saturn
10/20/15 Atlanta, GA Terminal West
10/21/15 Carrboro, NC Cat’s Cradle
10/23/15 New York, NY Marlin Room
10/24/15 Boston, MA Brighton Music Hall
10/25/15 Philadelphia, PA Theatre Of Living Arts
10/28/15 St. Louis, MO The Ready Room
10/30/15 Austin, TX Emo’s
11/07/15 Gateshead Sage Gateshead
11/08/15 Glasgow Barrowland
11/09/15 Dublin, Ireland The Academy
11/10/15 Manchester The Ritz
11/12/15 Birmingham The Institute
11/13/15 Sheffield The Leadmill
11/14/15 Scarborough Spa Complex
11/16/15 Bristol O2 Academy Bristol
11/17/15 London The Forum
11/19/15 Amsterdam, Netherlands Melkweg
11/20/15 Berlin, Germany Columbiaclub
11/21/15 Malmo, Sweden Slagthuset
11/22/15 Stockholm, Sweden Nalen
11/24/15 Helsinki, Finland Circus
11/26/15 Copenhagen, Denmark Amager Bio
11/27/15 Hamburg, Germany Mojo Club
11/28/15 Cologne, Germany Die Kantine
11/30/15 Munich, Germany Tonhalle
12/01/15 Zurich, Switzerland Kaufleutensaal
12/02/15 Milan, Italy Bloom Club
12/04/15 Festival Trans Musicales
12/06/15 Paris, France Le Trabendo
12/07/15 Antwerp Muziekcentrum Trix
12/09/15 Madrid, Spain Teatro Barcelo
12/10/15 Barcelona, Spain Razzmatazz
12/11/15 Zaragoza, Spain Sala Oasis
12/12/15 Bilbao, Spain Fever Club
…a road that runs like the river, that is hopeful, both soulful and serene, and with boys in the street –
That was the vibe of the evening as retro-soul rockers Vintage Trouble and opener singer-songwriter Greg Holden hit town, to play at Mill City Nights in Minneapolis.
Holden’s own songs are worth paying attention to as well though- from his hopeful storytelling on ‘The American Dream’, getting everyone to sing the chorus of ‘Give It Away’, to the song he “wrote for some friends of mine”, current single ‘Boys in the Street’, which was a full circle moment as Holden revealed the first public performance of the song was in this same venue, on his last time through.
His own version of hit ‘Home’ was more revelatory, and a “song about dying”, ‘The Next Life’ showed a graphic urgency with opening lyrics “My blood runs warm / Deep in my chest / My heart has a hole in it / Where the bullet came to rest”.
After a break, lights went down and a taped announcement intro-ing “the new protocol of Soul” to Big Mama Thornton’s ‘Hound Dog’ shrilled over the speakers as the four nattily-dressed members of Vintage Trouble took to the stage, customarily wishing each other a good show and shaking hands with one another, before completely cutting loose. The band has been used to playing stadiums of late, previously opening for The Who and currently for AC/DC, working in smaller headlining dates, in-between.
The band is out in support of their third studio album, 1 Hopeful Road, their first for Blue Note Records and the dichotomy of playing a stadium one night and small club the next, must be at least a little discombobulating. The four-piece (Ty Taylor – lead vocals; Nalle Colt – guitars; Rick Barrio Dill – bass ; Richard Danielson – drums, percussion) went “zero to fifty” immediately, with opening song, ‘High Times’, a stomping, high-energy number.
Singer Taylor name-checked the city several times, as he stalked both sides of the stage, laid down singing from the stage ledge, and constantly craned his body into the crowd. Tempo slid a bit for the swaying ‘Doin’ What You’re Doin’, a new song filled with positivity that echoes the ’70’s socially-aware period of a Bill Withers or Marvin Gaye.
The band even dug deep to give the crowd a live rendition of ‘Get It’, a bonus track from the new album that is only available on the Japanese release. Just over halfway into the 70 min set was the perennial highlight, an extended version of the blues slapping, ‘Run Like the River’, which had Taylor doing exactly that, first running throughout the crowd on the floor high-fiving everyone, then making his way upstairs to the balcony to sing the remaining verses from there.
A breakneck ‘Shine Your Light’ ended the main set at just past the fifty minute mark, causing the audience to clap and cheer for more. The reflective mid-tempo’d ‘Soul Serenity’ began the encore, Tyler emoting into his old-school mic, as Colt strummed pensively.
The band ended with the first song most knew from, the first song on their 2011 debut The Bomb Shelter Sessions, ‘Blues Hand Me Down’ that had Taylor scream in his best James Brown, spinning in place as his corded microphone whipped around him like an electric lasso.
And after a seemingly too-short seventy minutes from the headliner, the show was done and both acts went back on the road, sowing their songs of soul, self, and salvation, in another town down the line.
