Re: [freakwaterfolks] Re: Freakwater to open seven shows for She & Hi
Freakwater completed their week-long opening slot for She & Him, M Ward and Zooey Deschanel’s pop project, at the Variety Playhouse Tuesday, July 29th. Of course a few people in the crowd behaved like middle schoolers, but, for the most part, the crowd of about 500 gave polite attention and showed genuine enthusiasm between songs. Freakwater’s performance was flat-out fantastic – they took their work very seriously and delivered a strong ten song set: Buckets of Oil, Binding Twine, Heaven, Cheap Watch, Cloak of Frogs, Sap, Cathy Ann. For the last three - Washed in the Blood, Louisville Lip, and Crazy Man - Freakwater were joined by M Ward as well as his tour drummer and mandolin player. Ward played some lead parts on his black Gretch and provided some vocals for Crazy Man, but respectfully held the position of a
supporting player. These three musicians really enhanced Freakwater’s sound, making it dynamic enough to grab the entire hall of people, and it was electrifying to watch. After She & Him performed their set, Freakwater joined them onstage for the country standard “Hello Stranger”, the show’s closer. Zooey smiled to Janet and Catherine, gave them her place at center stage, and stepped back to share the microphone of her backup singer. M Ward began with the familiar opening line “Hello strangerrrrr. . .” and Janet and Catherine together wailed “Put your loving hand in miiiine. . .” in reply. It was beautiful. Props and kudos to Mr. Ward and Ms. Deschanel for supporting Freakwater.
--- On Sun, 7/27/08, Franny <franny23@...> wrote:
From: Franny
<franny23@...> Subject: [freakwaterfolks] Re: Freakwater to open seven shows for She & Hi To: freakwaterfolks@yahoogroups.com Date: Sunday, July 27, 2008, 11:59 AM
--- In freakwaterfolks@ yahoogroups. com, newoldtymer <newoldtymer@ ...> wrote:
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> Hey Lonely, glad to see you are still performing! Take care.
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I went to see She&Him--I saw them when they played nyc the first time--they are good
live. I like the album. I only saw freakwater added to the poster around the city and I went
crazy. I've been a fan forever and I've never managed to see them live. They only get a
freakin half hour and this 80s-esque band rosebud got more time but the finale was a total
treat (freakwater is featured with a carter family song). And I can die because I've seen
"washed in the blood" and "louisville lip" and "cathy ann" live...i wish i could catch them at
their own show. most of what they did was either thinking of you or springtime. sometime i
want to hear "sick, sick, sick" live...that song got me through a really crappy part of life.
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Freakwater completed their week-long opening slot for She & Him, M Ward and Zooey Deschanel’s pop project, at the Variety Playhouse Tuesday, July 29th. Of...
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