Hayes Carll, Rock and Roll Hotel
In TX, The Washington Post, Tom Waits, drugs, setlist, songwriting on December 8, 2008 at 16:17
Reviewed for the Paper of Record.
The Setlist:
01 Drunken Poet’s Dream
02 Wild as a Turkey
03 Beaumont
04 I Got a Gig
05 Faulker Street
06 Rivertown
07 Little Rock
08 Arkansas Blues
09 Good Friends
10 Bad Liver and a Broken Heart
11 Girl Downtown
12 Chickens
13 She Left Me for Jesus
14 I Don’t Wanna Grow Up
15 (new Christmas song written “just the other day”)
16 Highway 87
17 Down the Road Tonight
ENCORE:
18 Long Way Home
19 Wish I Hadn’t Stayed So Long
20 A Lover Like You
Conversations, Hayes Carll, Nick Cave, Public Radio International, Texas
In Baltimore, The Washington Post, This American Life, job insecurity, shameless self-promotion on April 7, 2008 at 10:41
Nick Cave’s new album gets an A-grade in Media Mix, and the backwards-named Texan Hayes Carll comes close.
Also in yesterday Paper of Record, a little interview with the man who gets my vote for greatest broadcast journalist alive, excerpted from a much longer conversation we had last week. I’m hoping to post more of that soon.
