Donna the Buffalo DonnaTheBuffalo2021-06-11.matrix.flac16
2021-06-11 GrassRoots Live! at Shakori Hills
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Donna the Buffalo Live at GrassRoots Live! at Shakori Hills on 2021-06-11
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Donna The Buffalo GrassRoots Live! at Shakori Hills Pittsboro NC 2021-06-11 Friday 72'F 96%RH Source: (1) SBD (webcast)        (2) BSCS-L > Edirol OCM R-44 Transfer: Audacity > Izotope RX 8 > Izotope Ozone 9 > CD Wave > TLH Recorded and matrixed by capnhook hooknshark@gmail.com Start: 9.02pm d1t01 -intro by Rob Gumby Hillard- d1t02 It Has Been Much Too Long -instrumental- d1t03 Love Time d1t04 Beauty Within d1t05 The Reason Why d1t06 Tides Of Time d1t07 Mystic Water d1t08 Blue Sky d1t09 It's Over (debut, working title) d1t10 Heaven And The Earth d1t11 -first gig back- d1t12 Why You Wanna Leave Me d1t13 Crash And Burn @ d1t14 Your Heart Beating Next To Mine (debut, working title) d1t15 -banter- d2t01 The Love You Left Behind (debut, working title) d2t02 Positive Friction d2t03 The Ones You Love d2t04 -weather report- d2t05 Seems To Want To Hurt This Time d2t06 Just Like You (new Tara tune) d2t07 -banter- d2t08 Just Like Me (new Jeb tune) d2t09 Ancient Arms d2t10 raining- d2t11 As I Wonder How Long I'll Be Alive (new Jeb tune, working title) d2t12 Mrs. Maudrey # d2t13 -outtro- End: 11.14pm @ - with Mollie Farr - backing vocals # - with Jonas Puryear - Scrubboard Tara Nevins - "It's so wonderful to see all of you! Ah, there you are, what a  beautiful sight. It's been much too long." Jeb Puryear - "Alright, everything Tara said, I said too." Never For Sale. Please support artists that allow taping by buying merchandise & attending shows. Jeb Puryear - Electric Guitar, Vocals Tara Nevins - Vocals, Guitar, Fiddle, Accordion, Scrubboard, Tambourine David McCracken - B3, Clavinet Chris English - Drums, backing vocals Ted Pecchio - Bass Photos courtesy of Rich Levine, Carol Posch Comstock, and Elizabeth Larson. Review by Paul R. (aka EstimatedProf): “It has been much too long†indeed, as Tara said upon completion of an  instrumental improv. Linda D. discerned “Big Parade,†as per her FB post;  a friend in our group thought she heard strains of “Mystic Water.â€Â Whatever,  what might have started out as filler, as the crew troubleshooted Jeb’s  microphone, turned into a captivating groove, akin to a communion meditation.  So Tara’s phrase seems an apt, even if ephemeral title to an ad hoc set opener.  Sometimes, the songs that we hear are songs of our own, true, but whatever we  heard individually, there was a shared sense of Herd gathered. “Love Time† seemed just the right followup. This gathering has been a long time coming. My last experience of a Donna  the Buffalo show – indeed, of live music überhaupt – was fifteen months ago,  specifically March 7, 2020, at the Orange Peel in Asheville. I think most of  us could tell the same story, and so for that reason, the joy of reuniting  with friends was pervasive and strong. I felt a certain awkwardness in  greeting people. I think: I don’t have a handle on the post-vaccine etiquette.  Perhaps it is still in flux and subject to individual comfort levels, but  that’s another conversation. This evening’s show was the band’s first gig since, well, March 7, 2020.  They seemed well rehearsed and had obviously come to play. Chris English is  an excellent drummer – superb musicianship with a warm smile – and he brings  a new dimension to Donna as a backing vocalist. The set list is interesting for its balanced mix of old favorites (“Tides  of Time,†“Mystic Water,†“Positive Friction,†“The Ones You Loveâ€), current  “hits†(“Heaven & the Earth,†“The Beauty Withinâ€), and new material, of  which there was much. As concerns the latter, I acknowledge that scribes do  not have naming rights. I hope it is not too presumptuous of me to impute  working titles, based on what I discern as a forensic or recurring theme in  the lyrics, as I process them. All this to say that I invite correction and  good information. That caveat aside, the new songs are very strong. I  would love to hear Tara’s “The Love You Left Behind†(by whatever title she  lands on) again . . . and again. Jeb’s “If You Like Drinking,†which (if I  understood correctly) he wrote with Gregor Sayet-Bone in Nashville, was  enthusiastically received, as it should be. Jeb’s “As I Wonder How Long  I’ll Be Alive†(however he eventually titles it) poses a question that we  all harbor, deep inside. Après toi, Bras anciens, le déluge Or, if that is too abstruse, at about 10.45pm or so, there occurred a heavy  fall of rain, with the intensity of a gullywasher but not its brevity.  It’s axiomatic: Shakori Hills + Donna the Buffalo = water. That put paid  to an encore, as the rain apparently made the stage slippery and hazardous  for the performers. We were soaked by the time we got back to our cars.  (Aging knucklehead that I am, I had forgotten to roll up the car window on  the passenger side after talking to a festival staff member.) The drive  back to Durham was an adventure in itself, with intermittent fog on top of  the constant downpour. Thankfully, there were yellow reflectors (“cat’s  eyes,†as they are called in the UK) in the center line to help me keep the  car on the road. Deer heightened the effect. Along the way we saw a fawn  that could not have been more than a couple days old. Another, fully adult  deer bolted along the side of the road at our approach; happily the animal  ran parallel to us and did not attempt to cross the highway in front of us. Arriving home totally drenched, I asked myself whether it was worth it.  Most assuredly it was. Great to be with you again, dear friends. Respectfully submitted, Paul R. (aka EstimatedProf) PS – I haven’t written in this genre in quite some time and am out of  practice. So apologies if this account is long-winded. https://www.donnathebuffalo.com https://shakorihillsgrassroots.org
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