Live Concert Review – Rick Huckaby – Nashville, TN – June 30, 2011
13 years ago Liv Carter 11
Ok, let’s try something new for UCN – publishing live updates from a live show! Tonight, Rick Huckaby and his band are rocking club 3rd and Lindsley in Nashville and I will attempt to post live updates.
This is a test and if it works well, we will try to do this more often!
Here we go!
10:46 pm – ‘Broken Promiseland’ opens the show! A pretty full room (standing room only!) reacts as they should, with a warm welcome applause!
10:55 pm – I feel the need to dance to ‘Nothing but a Thing’; seriously funky tune!
10:58 pm – There’s a guy at the bar, he was drunk when I got here 2 hours ago, and he seems to now have abandoned his drink to listen. So it must be good! :)
11:00 pm – ‘Saving Savannah’… Awesome tune, recently recorded by Tracy Lawrence.
11:02 pm – Joined by the fabulous Jeanne Richardson. Always a pleasure listening to her.
11:08 pm – Todd Woolsey is kicking ass on guitar!
11:10 pm – You know people, I know I am repeating myself but you really need to see these guys play live to believe just how good they really are….. And Jack Gavin is one heck of a drummer!
11:14 pm – ‘Lies Little Lies’… I put this song on repeat sometimes when I go for my 3-mile run. But this evening there’s just dancing to be done!
11:17 pm – Rick: “That was my ‘I hate you’ song, now I’m gonna play the ‘I love you’ song” – a sappy one… ;) ‘Tell Me Again’
11:20 pm – You know, I actually liked that. Oh dear. :)
11:22 pm – Acoustic interlude! ‘In My Room’, aka “the cutest song ever”! Check out a video of it elsewhere on this website.
*edit* The only thing which didn’t work on the night was adding in video. ‘From the Inside Out’, co-written with Lee Thomas Miller and recorded by Tracy Lawrence, here in an almost intact version. :)
11:39 pm – The band is back on stage. Woolsey playing one of his own songs and burning up that guitar!
11:41 pm – Oops. Messed up the lyrics of the first verse of ‘I Got You Covered’. Let’s see how he recovers…
11:42 pm – …with a big grin on his face as he realizes what he did and by then playing on like nothing is wrong, you know, like the pros do it. :)
11:48 pm – ‘Hittin’ My Stride’. I swear this song actually gets better every time I hear it… (go to www.rickhuckaby.com, the song will start playing and you can hear what all the fuss is about!)
11:50 pm – The introduction to ‘Can’t Miss Kid’ was hilarious. There is SO much energy in the room right now! Pause from writing. Need to DANCE!
11:56 pm – Still going strong! ‘She Gets Me High’, now this is my kind of love song!! ;)
Midnight! – ‘Sing it to You’, a funkier, heavier version than on the record; not bad at all for a ‘sappy’ love song (sorry, Rick!) ;)
12:08 am – ‘My Bad’ Best. Version. Ever.
12:11 am – I am having so much fun right now!! ‘Mash the Gas’!!! *dances*
12:12 am – Can’t believe how late it is. I think I will be paying a visit to Starbucks tomorrow. Possibly more than one…!
12:16 am – Still no sign of slowing down! ‘Digging at My Scars’ = time to dance again…
12:20 am – ‘Hot Legs’. I didn’t think these guys could rock any harder but…yep!
12:23 am – Last song… ‘Call Me Huck’. It’s such a cliche but I really don’t want this show to end!
12:28 am – Wow. Just…wow.
That. Was. Awesome…
Ladies and gentlemen, Rick Huckaby knows how to play a live show. This performance was just off the hook. I have said it several times before on these pages but here is some great material from an artist who really is exceptional. I just can’t help but praise him up one side and down the other!
Great, great show! And the live update thing actually worked out better than I thought it would. Please let me know in the comments what you thought of this experiment, what worked and what didn’t.
Now for finding the next show to report from…
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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