Live Concert Review: Jeffrey Steele – 3rd and Lindsley – Nashville, TN – Oct 15, 2011
13 years ago Liv Carter 4
Ooh yeah, let’s do this again! Live review as the show happens: Jeffrey Steele playing 3rd and Lindsley Bar & Grille in Nashville, TN. If you can’t be here, maybe this will help bring the show to you!
The wifi connection is a little bit temperamental right now, let’s hope it holds up. Some pictures will be added as the show goes on.
9:16 pm – Packed house! Kree Harrison just finished her great opening set and the whole building is stocked floor to ceiling with music fans. I love the new set-up at 3rd and Lindsley!
9:38 pm – Showtime!! Kicking off with ‘Your Tears Are Comin”!
9:44 pm – Stomping version of ‘Shot Glass’. It feels like the whole building is moving!
9:49 pm – ‘These Days’! Audience participation to the max!
9:54 pm – Slowing things down just a little with ‘Help Somebody.’
10:00 pm – Brand new song – ‘Let’s Have a Good Time’ (I presume). A blue-collar party anthem that simply must already have artists lined up to record it; it’s ready for radio!
10:05 pm – A song loved by Braves fans – ‘Gone’! 3rd and Lindsley is the best place to be on Earth when everyone is singing and dancing!
10:12 pm – Transitioning ‘Gone’ into ‘Still Haven’t Found what I’m Looking For’…and then via a fierce guitar solo into ‘Whole Lotta Love‘! This show is barely half an hour underway and already so far beyond awesome!!
10:17 pm – …and back to ‘Gone’. The whole place is moving; from where I am backstage I can’t see a single person in the audience who is sitting still.
10:19 pm – ‘The Cowboy in Me’ – one of best written country hits of the last 20 years!
10:24 pm – switching to the keys – ‘Speed’, another Montgomery Gentry cut.
10:31 pm – ‘Every Day’ in such a simple arrangement makes for such a powerful song… So often I prefer the rendition of songwriters and not the (over)produced-for-country-radio versions.
10:36 pm – introduces “the most depressing song ever” originally written in London and turned down and/or recorded by several big names before it was turned into a massive smash hit, by Rascal Flatts – ‘What Hurts the Most’… If there is one song that makes my point of preferring material performed by its writer(s), this one is it. Whether you like the Flatts’ version of this or not, it’s impossible to remain unmoved when you hear Steele’s tortured vocal.
10:42 pm – it’s probably unprofessional to do this with tears in your eyes. That song gets me every time… Watching a lady in the front row wipe tears from her cheeks several times reminds me: making people *feel* is what songwriting is all about.
10:49 pm – a total change of pace with ‘Somethin’ in the Water’! Must take a dance break now…
10:58 pm -We’re staying in the water with ‘Swamp Thing’. I love this song! *dances some more*
11:01 pm – Craig Wiseman co-write ‘She Loved Me’. Simply beautiful.
11:15 pm – some impromptu Elvis! ‘Blue Suede Shoes’… This night is so much fun!! And this band is so in-tune with one another.
11:18 pm – picking it back up with ‘My Town’.
11:24 pm – ‘Brand New Girlfriend’ – the few who weren’t dancing yet, are dancing now!
11:32 pm – Some seriously heavy southern rock now – ‘Chrome’ followed by ‘What a Life’.
11:48 pm – After the beautiful ‘She’d Give Anything’, time to boogie to ‘Hollywood Girl’!
11:50 pm – Major lyrics mess-up. The crowd helps out and are asked by an impressed Steele: “How do you guys remember all these songs?!” He decides to start from the top.
11:55 pm – not taking any chances on the next song this time – the lyrics cheat sheet comes out!
12:01 am – ‘I’m Tryin” – an anthem of defiance and resilience in the way it’s meant to be heard! Wow…
12:05 am – Past midnight. 2,5 hours in. ‘International Harvester’ is followed by the question to the crowd: “Are you getting tired?”. The answer is a resounding “NO!!” Heck, I can listen to this all night and all of tomorrow!
12:12 am – No sign of slowing down the show and time for some bluesy rock with ‘Scratch Me Where I’m Itchin”!
12:14 am – The band, the whole crowd, the people behind the bar, everyone is LOVING this night!!
12:15 am – An acoustic version of ‘Here’ showing how less is more with a song like this.
12:20 am – ‘Something to be Proud Of’, a simple idea spun into a great lyric! Those are usually my favorite songs.
12:24 am – I really cannot imagine anyone else singing ‘Drunk Girl’ and it sounding even remotely this funny and charming…
12:30 am – Back to the piano for ‘Whiskey Years’ and ‘My Wish’. Haunting. Beautiful.
12:41 am – Closing out with ‘Hell Yeah’! Which is pretty much how I feel about this entire night – HELL YEAH!!
12:47 am – Nope, not quite done yet: ‘Born to Be Wild’! I spend a lot of time here but I don’t think I’ve ever seen 3rd and Lindsley rock harder!
12:49 am – Still not done! Playing out the night with some rock classics!
Just before 1 am, looks like we are all about to call it a night. I don’t think anyone would have minded if this had gone on for another hour (or two…maybe even three)! This was such a great show! I have mentioned before how much I like watching songwriters perform their own material, right? It may have come up once or twice…or ad infinitum. There is no better way to hear a song…!
If you are ever anywhere near a Jeffrey Steele show (with ‘near’ defined as anywhere in a 12-hour radius to where you can drive, walk, crawl or swim; it’s worth it!), get a ticket and go to experience something amazing!
And to the people who were here, did you have as much fun as I did?
Liv Carter
She holds several certificates from Berklee College of Music, and a certificate in Positive Psychology from UC Berkeley.
Her main influences are coffee, cats, and Alexander Hamilton.
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