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October 28, 2006

Reckless Kelly Was HERE!

Hi. Remember me? I used to post show reviews here almost weekly. That was when I had a life, and wanted to tell people about it. Turns out switching jobs takes up a lot of freaking time.

Fortunately, I got to remember (a little) what it was like to have a life Thursday night when I went to see Reckless Kelly at their triumphant return to the Viper Room, where they played their first LA show last December. They came to LA in June as well, to open for Robert Earl Keen at my favorite venue, the House of Blues on Sunset Strip. It's with pride that I can say I've been to all three of RK's LA shows.

It was a late night. I'd anticipated RK to go on around 10:15, but they didn't start until after 11. New Braunfels' Ryan Bingham opened, and I couldn't tell ya anything about him, other than I'd definitely go see him again.

RK was worth the wait. It seems to me that of all the other times I've seen them (which is now five times, to be exact, including this show), this was the show that best represented the RK library. Part of that is probably because this is one of the two times I've seen them as the headliner, and not relegated to a short opening set or limited to a SXSW timeframe. Lots of early stuff and fan favorites, including "Nobody's Girl," and "Drink Your Whiskey Down." I was also happy to see that "Seven Nights in Eire" seems to have become a fixture in the live Reckless Kelly show. This was also the first time I'd seen them perform "Stick Around" live, which always struck me as a bit odd that they didn't really perform it live very often, seeing as how it was one of their "singles." Also included on their set list were two of the previously unreleased tracks on their latest CD, a live album called Reckless Kelly Was Here.

If you didn't make it out to the show, definitely get yourself a copy of Reckless Kelly Was Here. For $21 on their website, you get two CDs, and a DVD, and it'll make you very sad you missed seeing them while they were here in LA.

Posted by darlin at October 28, 2006 4:45 PM