LOCATION: Bomhard Theater, Louisville, KY
LINEUP: Karin, Linford, Nick Radina, Andy Boerger, Tim Luntzel, Jason Goforth
REVIEW BY:
Bill Ivester:
The Bomhard Theatre/Louisville 12.10.2010
On Thursday, we drove into Cincinnati from Columbus, stopped by St. E’s to reload on a few things and pick up my car so I could have it in Louisville (and so I could sleep in my own bed and play with Lilly). Afterwards, we met up with Michael Wilson @ The Anchor Inn in Covington (KY) for a late lunch. Michael had invited us all (band & crew) to a private, guided tour of his current exhibit “People We Knew/Didn’t Know” in Covington.
This is a show spanning almost 30 years of his portraiture, mostly in chronological order, and it was great to see how his style has developed over the years. His style and gift was evident from the very beginning, and the show closes withnseveral images from his recent trip to India, which my be some of his best work yet. which is saying a lot.
Afterwards, I hit the interstate south, the band headed to the “Part Source” in Bellevue, with much anticipation by Andy & Tim. Talk about “kids in a candy shop”…from what I understand, they left with “significantly more bottles than people.”
I met up with everybody later Friday afternoon, The Bomhard Theatre, in The Kentucky Center for the Arts, is one of the more beautiful, acoustically perfect theatres that I have ever been in, it is perfect in most every way.
Sarah Siskind, who’s music I love, opened the night, and this was my first time seeing her, open and she was wonderful.
OtR hit the stage and the energy was high (days off are good things), they hit it hard from the first note and stayed there the rest of the night. They were obvious in their enjoyment of the room and the enthusiastic sold out crowd. Sound engineer, Michael Larsey was also enjoying this acoustically perfect room and top notch audio system, delivering a pristine, warm and loud (but not overwhelmingly so) mix.
Karin & Linford both seemed to be in the extended story-telling mode, which I, and the audience seemed to enjoy. The set stayed close to the previous nights, with the exception of Linford calling an audible during the encore to answer a heartfelt request for “Long Lost Brother.”
On to Chicago for two sold out shows…as the Cubs great, Ernie Banks
used to say…”let’s play two!”