Lunesa with Natalie Merchant
Mar. 19th, 2019 09:14 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
chuckro• I’d never heard Lunesa before. They’re fun; their frontman does a good stage schtick and they do a lot of two-minute reels/jigs/standards run together into medleys.
• Hearing Merchant live is kinda like seeing George Takai in person: Recordings are good, but their voices in person are rich like molasses on your ears. It’s a delight.
• Most of my favorite artists, especially ones from my youth, dance like utter dorks. Natalie Merchant is no exception and it’s totally adorable. You know that one member of an acappella group who randomly conducts things despite the fact that no one’s watching them and they only do it about half the time? That’s her.
• Merchant’s hair is very long and totally white…except her roots, which are dark. Which makes me suspect that she’s dying it for effect. (She’s only 55, after all.)
• Symphony Space is an accessible, comfortable and reasonably-priced theater.
• They did a lot of Lunesa songs (this was their concert; Merchant was the guest) and a few of their collaboration songs. From Merchant’s older catalog came “Motherland,” “Cowboy Romance,” and surprisingly “These Are the Days.”
• I occasionally forget, as my friends now span an age range of about ten years in either direction, that some of them (notably Wavilyem) are actually the same age I am, and grew up listening to the same music. Our exposure to Merchant’s catalogue in our formative years was practically identical.
• Side note: Merchant has put me in a bit of a bind, by releasing a ten-disc set that’s all her studio releases, plus a full new album and a CD of rarities. Damnit, I own all of her studio albums already!
• Hearing Merchant live is kinda like seeing George Takai in person: Recordings are good, but their voices in person are rich like molasses on your ears. It’s a delight.
• Most of my favorite artists, especially ones from my youth, dance like utter dorks. Natalie Merchant is no exception and it’s totally adorable. You know that one member of an acappella group who randomly conducts things despite the fact that no one’s watching them and they only do it about half the time? That’s her.
• Merchant’s hair is very long and totally white…except her roots, which are dark. Which makes me suspect that she’s dying it for effect. (She’s only 55, after all.)
• Symphony Space is an accessible, comfortable and reasonably-priced theater.
• They did a lot of Lunesa songs (this was their concert; Merchant was the guest) and a few of their collaboration songs. From Merchant’s older catalog came “Motherland,” “Cowboy Romance,” and surprisingly “These Are the Days.”
• I occasionally forget, as my friends now span an age range of about ten years in either direction, that some of them (notably Wavilyem) are actually the same age I am, and grew up listening to the same music. Our exposure to Merchant’s catalogue in our formative years was practically identical.
• Side note: Merchant has put me in a bit of a bind, by releasing a ten-disc set that’s all her studio releases, plus a full new album and a CD of rarities. Damnit, I own all of her studio albums already!
