I know when I go to a show that it won't start exactly when the ticket says. I accept that we are not computers that go on at the tolling of the bells, but this event started over an hour late! I work and live over an hour from the venue, so when it started that late, I was annoyed.
The TWO opening bands were good, but their style of music did not compliment Bobby Long's style of music in the least and when he did come out to play a song with Taurus (later also his backup band), he didn't even fact the audience. It was wierd.
The first two bands set up and took down their sets really quickly which I appreciated, but then we had another 30 minute wait for Bobby and there wasn't much extra set up since the second band also backed him up, so what gives?
Bobby's new sound is less bluesy and more country than his original tracks. Some of them work, some, like Penance Fire Blues, make me cry from disappointment. He playede a new song, Devil Moon, which was AMAZING - I'm looking forward to more like that and some Old favorites (sans a twangy guitar and ho down drums).
I had to leave before the show ended, after A Winter's Tale, which did sound nice with the band.