Melissa Ferrick
May. 12th, 2007 11:01 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
walbournMelissa put on another great show last night at Neumo's, and I picked up her new album In the Eyes of Strangers. As usual, the place was packed with women and maybe a dozen or so men including the bartenders, bouncers, etc. As I get older, I wonder if my appearance in these venue's makes me look like a serial killer or something. It was an all-ages show, so at least I was in the "drinking section" instead of hanging out with the teens. Besides, it was hard enough to find a place to stand that didn't block people on the 'adult' side of the room.
Anyhow, the new album has a number of songs she played last time she was in town that I'm glad to have a copy of now, and as usual my favorite song is another sad one: Stuck, largely because the performance is amazing. Her cover of Dayna Kurtz's Miss Liberty is also excellent. She's a great lyricists, but mostly her performance is what blows me away--the sound sucks, but here's a You Tube clip of Miss Liberty.
In some past performances, Melissa has looked like she was on the edge of a breakdown, but this time she seemed to be in a much better place. She had a band along instead of playing exclusively solo, and last night was the last gig of the spring tour and they were putting a lot into it. Drive with a violin and a trumpet was a bit strange, but she's got to keep herself entertained about a song the audience would be up in arms about her not playing. Personally I was happy that she played Burn This Guitar from her 1998 album, and I'm clearly just not lesbian enough to find Drive the end-all-be-all of MF songs.
Anyhow, the new album has a number of songs she played last time she was in town that I'm glad to have a copy of now, and as usual my favorite song is another sad one: Stuck, largely because the performance is amazing. Her cover of Dayna Kurtz's Miss Liberty is also excellent. She's a great lyricists, but mostly her performance is what blows me away--the sound sucks, but here's a You Tube clip of Miss Liberty.
In some past performances, Melissa has looked like she was on the edge of a breakdown, but this time she seemed to be in a much better place. She had a band along instead of playing exclusively solo, and last night was the last gig of the spring tour and they were putting a lot into it. Drive with a violin and a trumpet was a bit strange, but she's got to keep herself entertained about a song the audience would be up in arms about her not playing. Personally I was happy that she played Burn This Guitar from her 1998 album, and I'm clearly just not lesbian enough to find Drive the end-all-be-all of MF songs.
