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\"concert-ticket.png\"One of the bennies of our Denver Botanic Gardens membership is discounts on tickets for concerts held at the amphitheater there<\/a>. So, last evening, we went and saw a double-bill of Loudon Wainwright III and David Wilcox.<\/p>\n

Though we were about half-way back in the lines or more (even having got there a half-hour before the doors opened), we still scored a place on the lawn directly adjacent to the stage (left), which gave us a great view. Margie had put together some burrito fixings and some nummy desserts, I’d brought a bottle of Peach Canyon Zin, and we were all set. There were a few spates of rainshowers, but by and large it was quite the pleasant evening.<\/p>\n

Wainwright<\/a>, whose style is what I’d call “sardonic folk,” was in his usual amusing form, alternating silliness and scatology with scalpel-like dissections of family life and the imminence of death. Which actually sounds a lot less amusing than it was. The dichotomy, though, is part of his appeal, as he gets the listener in mid-shift, gloom being wrenched into laughter, and smiles turning into glaze-eyed winces. <\/p>\n

Most of his tunes were from more recent albums, though there were a few that seemed even more newly minted. He wrapped the evening with the de rigeur <\/em>anti-Bush tune, an unfortunate capstone; the song (“Presidents Day<\/a>“) was nicely done and all, but it shifted the tone of the evening, and provided at least some division amongst the audience.<\/p>\n

Nonetheless, it was a fine time. We were at Wainwright’s last DBG outing, five years back or so, and hopefully will be for his next.<\/p>\n

Wilcox<\/a> was by turns overly-earnest (in an annoyingly pseudo-profound way) and bouncy, car-loving fun. When at his best, he showed a lot of enthusiasm, joy in music-making, and a catchy sense of humor. Starting out, though, he seemed to be more into “New Age pop\/folk<\/a>,” jarring after Wainwright’s gadfly-like barbs. He eventually broke out of that, though, into some tunes that made the match-up a good one, and made the second half of the evening an enjoyable one.<\/p>\n

Like Wainwright, a lot of what he does is acoustic guitar, though he brought up a recent song-writing collaborator who lives here in Colorado to join him on the keyboard for a couple of tunes. He also had his wife join him on stage a few times, and the two duet quite nicely together. And to his credit, he shifted his orientation on the stage-in-the-round between each tune, so that everyone got to see him sing toward them. Nicely done. I’ll certainly be putting a few of his albums on the Wish List.<\/p>\n

All in all it worked out to 3+ hours of live music (including the intermission), a nice picnic dinner, and a generally enjoyable time. Big props to the Testerfolk for watching Katherine. We’ll almost certainly be back there next summer.<\/p>\n

UPDATE: Katherine evidently had a fun time<\/a>, too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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