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<center><h3> Long night for Beck & Co. </h3></center> | |||
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When Eliza Carthy announced sometime after 1 a.m. that the selection she would be performing during this tribute to Harry Smith's seminal Anthology of American Folk Music was entitled "99 Year Blues," it was hard for the few die-hards left in the audience to keep from smirking at the irony. | When Eliza Carthy announced sometime after 1 a.m. that the selection she would be performing during this tribute to Harry Smith's seminal Anthology of American Folk Music was entitled "99 Year Blues," it was hard for the few die-hards left in the audience to keep from smirking at the irony. | ||
The jokes about the length of the marathon concert came fast and furious. But two stand out in hindsight: Early in the five-hour-plus Wednesday night event, Elvis Costello quipped, "I hope you realize we have the entire history of American folk music to get through tonight." And later Steve Earle, after explaining how he had to learn another song because one of his selections was already taken, said, "There's eighty-five songs on the collection. I just didn't realize there would be eighty-five performers here tonight. | The jokes about the length of the marathon concert came fast and furious. But two stand out in hindsight: Early in the five-hour-plus Wednesday night event, Elvis Costello quipped, "I hope you realize we have the entire history of American folk music to get through tonight." And later Steve Earle, after explaining how he had to learn another song because one of his selections was already taken, said, "There's eighty-five songs on the collection. I just didn't realize there would be eighty-five performers here tonight. | ||
While Earle was exaggerating, it wasn't by much. At what other event would you have Steve Earle acoustic followed by New York minimalist composer Philip Glass accompanying three short animated films? Probably none, and probably with good reason. Hal Willner, the mastermind behind this ambitious event | While Earle was exaggerating, it wasn't by much. At what other event would you have Steve Earle acoustic followed by New York minimalist composer Philip Glass accompanying three short animated films? Probably none, and probably with good reason. Hal Willner, the mastermind behind this ambitious event — as well as behind such albums as Disney's ''Stay Awake'' (which featured the likes of Tom Waits and Suzanne Vega doing their favorite Disney numbers) — put together a show with many highlights. However, this show should've been a week's worth of separate concerts, rather than packed into one middle-of-the-week gig. | ||
With word-count in mind, here an hour-by-hour look at the night that was Hal Willner's Harry Smith Project: | With word-count in mind, here an hour-by-hour look at the night that was Hal Willner's Harry Smith Project: | ||
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Word count running out and it's only halfway through the first act: Richard Thompson, joined by Eliza Carthy (those words will be uttered many more times by morning), wows the crowd with "Dog and Gun." | Word count running out and it's only halfway through the first act: Richard Thompson, joined by Eliza Carthy (those words will be uttered many more times by morning), wows the crowd with "Dog and Gun." | ||
10:00 Adam Dorn, better known as Motion Worker, brings some electronica to the show. Great beats, mixing and scratching . . . wrong show. Eric Mingus does some bizarre performance art/Tom Waits-esque gravelly voiced numbers while pacing the stage like a caged animal. May very well be the highlight of the night. | 10:00 Adam Dorn, better known as Motion Worker, brings some electronica to the show. Great beats, mixing and scratching ... wrong show. Eric Mingus does some bizarre performance art/Tom Waits-esque gravelly voiced numbers while pacing the stage like a caged animal. May very well be the highlight of the night. | ||
10:45 Irish crooner Gavin Friday woos with a couple of charming numbers. | 10:45 Irish crooner Gavin Friday woos with a couple of charming numbers. | ||
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1:00 More jazz instrumentals. Great stuff, but by this point I'd pay $200 for Amber Brkich and to be home in bed (oh wait, two separate dreams). | 1:00 More jazz instrumentals. Great stuff, but by this point I'd pay $200 for Amber Brkich and to be home in bed (oh wait, two separate dreams). | ||
Cell phone battery is dead, can't tell the time anymore: Costello does beautiful version of standard "Henry Lee," then thanks crowd for coming. "We'll end it the only way we could. With Garth Hudson or organ." What? No all-star finale, no Bono. This is what we stayed here until 1:30 in the morning for? | |||
There were a number of high points, especially Johansen and Mingus. But the experience was kind of like when you're a kid and you eat all of your Halloween candy at once — eventually it loses all taste. | |||
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[[Steve Baltin]] reviews Elvis Costello with Kate & Anna McGarrigle as part of the Harry Smith Project, Wednesday, [[Concert 2001-04-25 Los Angeles|April 25, 2001]], Royce Hall, UCLA, Los Angeles, California. | |||
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