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Just got back from seeing Tara Jane O'Neil's show tonight. Small club, almost no audience - maybe a dozen people plus the three bands who played. Little sad to see the lack of audience, but you know, that meant no one standing in front of me blocking my sight.
She only played six or so songs, three with a backing band (violin, guitar, bass, drums, she switched between acoustic and electric), one with her, the violinist, and the guitarist on backing vocals, and one with her and the drummer which involved some rocking out old school Sonora Pine style.
And then she announced she was going to do one more - just her with the electric guitar (accompanied by her own guitar loops) - and it was a cover song, but a song she wrote. Now, she was the producer for the CDs of the two bands that were on before her, and I know she's done stuff with a bunch of people, so I figured it'd be something by some other band.
Then she started playing. And it was something by some other band, and I recognized it. It was "Goldmund" by The Sonora Pine.
I told her afterwards that I knew about her because a friend of mine had seen The Sonora Pine play (I think that's it - I can never remember if he saw them or just heard a track on some compilation), and she was surprised anyone had heard of them, and surprised and pleased that I'd recognized the song.
I realize this journal entry means nothing to any of the few people who actually read my journal, but take my word for it: as I told her after the show, she makes some of the most beautiful music I know. And you're all missing out by having no idea who she is. (I'd go so far as to provide sampler CDs for the curious, but if you are really interested, you should still be able to find her 2000 album Peregrine in better CD stores. I cannot recommend that album enough.)
She only played six or so songs, three with a backing band (violin, guitar, bass, drums, she switched between acoustic and electric), one with her, the violinist, and the guitarist on backing vocals, and one with her and the drummer which involved some rocking out old school Sonora Pine style.
And then she announced she was going to do one more - just her with the electric guitar (accompanied by her own guitar loops) - and it was a cover song, but a song she wrote. Now, she was the producer for the CDs of the two bands that were on before her, and I know she's done stuff with a bunch of people, so I figured it'd be something by some other band.
Then she started playing. And it was something by some other band, and I recognized it. It was "Goldmund" by The Sonora Pine.
I told her afterwards that I knew about her because a friend of mine had seen The Sonora Pine play (I think that's it - I can never remember if he saw them or just heard a track on some compilation), and she was surprised anyone had heard of them, and surprised and pleased that I'd recognized the song.
I realize this journal entry means nothing to any of the few people who actually read my journal, but take my word for it: as I told her after the show, she makes some of the most beautiful music I know. And you're all missing out by having no idea who she is. (I'd go so far as to provide sampler CDs for the curious, but if you are really interested, you should still be able to find her 2000 album Peregrine in better CD stores. I cannot recommend that album enough.)
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