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Brandy Clark, Brandy Clark, 2023 on Slate Creek / Warner

Clark’s fourth studio album, self-titled, and produced by Brandi Carlile, who provides backing vocals, piano and guitar on a number of tracks and is featured on “Dear Insecurity,” which they performed live at the Grammys in 2024 – and for which she won a “Best Americana Performance” Grammy.

She’s been a great songwriter for many years but I think this is her best album yet. Love the heartbreaking lyrics of “Buried”:

I’ll meet somebody else

Probably get married

I’ll keep it to myself

But I’ll love you ’til I’m buried

My copy from the merch table at a show at the Cabot in April 2024.

#2020s #2023 #BeverlyMA #brandiCarlile #BrandyClark #CabotTheatre #Grammys2024 #SlateCreek #vinyl #vinylcollection #WarnerRecords

Brandy Clark, Your Life is a Record, 2020 on Warner Records / Slate Creek

Clark’s third studio LP, produced by Jay Joyce. Includes “Bigger Boat” (a duet with Randy Newman) and “Who You Thought I Was.” I think Clark is a fantastic modern songwriter rooted in classic country storytelling and worldplay. This is a bit more aimed at mainstream pop audiences, but I think it’s very successful.

We’re either all the way left or all the way right
The only time we meet in the middle is to fight
The rich get richer, the rest get a little more broke
We’re gonna need a bigger boat

My copy, signed, direct from the merch table at a show at the Cabot in Beverly MA, April 30, 2024

#BeverlyMA #BrandyClark #CabotTheatre #Country #JayJoyce #Pop #RandyNewman #SlateCreek #vinyl #vinylcollection #WarnerRecords

José González at the Cabot Theater, March 27th, 2025

Quick post to share a photo and some videos from seeing José González at the Cabot. He plays with no opening act and no intermission – just him on stage with two guitars (different tunings?) – I’m not sure he even had a bottle of water.

Really ended up just watching the performance and not getting much video.

He did have a great merch table with vinyl – I’ve found it hard to find him elsewhere.

#2025 #BeverlyMA #CabotTheatre #Concert #JoséGonzález #Live

Elvis Costello & Steve Nieve, March 1st 2025 at the Cabot

Last time Elvis Costello came through Beverly and did a show at the Cabot I didn’t manage to get tickets. This time, as a member, I was able to score a great seat in front row balcony.

The Costello & Nieve 2025 tour announced 15 nights in February and March:

I can’t vet all the venues, but I’m guessing the Cabot in Beverly is one of the smaller, at ~850 seats. If you can get one of the first row balcony seats it is one of the best venues on the North Shore.

The stage set includes a number of mics – lots of places where Costello can sit or stand and use various kinds of microphones, guitars, and keyboards appropriate to the mood. Nieve mostly stayed beyond the keys there in the back left, between piano and keyboard options.

They played a wide variety of songs from across Costello’s career. He was in great form, joking about getting a capo from Timothy Chalamet who he felt could play him in a biopic after “a couple of years and a couple of cases of gin.”

(Full Setlist and review from Boston.com)

The lighting played a bit of havoc with my phone camera – this was “Black Sails in the Sunset”

I did not get many recordings – was just enjoying the show – but grabbed a few snippets.

“Brilliant Mistake” early in the set – “He thought he was the King of America /
Where they pour Coca Cola just like vintage wine”

There was a fair amount of reflection on America and the current political climate – consistent with what Costello called the “Angry Young Man” rep he’s been saddled with.

An almost meditative “Veronica” – with Nieve at the piano and Costello on the stool down-stage right where he played a number of quieter / more reflective songs.

For “Allison” Costello moved to the Fender Rhodes stage left – you can hear Nieve’s piano as well.

Finale of “What’s So Funny ‘Bout Peace Love and Understanding” on which Costello and Nieve traded singing duties – perhaps the expected closer but I was all about it.

#BeverlyMA #CabotTheatre #ElvisCostello #LiveMusic #SteveNieve

Elvis Costello & Steve Nieve, March 1st 2025 at the Cabot

Last time Elvis Costello came through Beverly and did a show at the Cabot I didn’t manage to get tickets. This time, as a member, I was able to score a great seat in front row balcony.

The Costello & Nieve 2025 tour announced 15 nights in February and March:

I can’t vet all the venues, but I’m guessing the Cabot in Beverly is one of the smaller, at ~850 seats. If you can get one of the first row balcony seats it is one of the best venues on the North Shore.

The stage set includes a number of mics – lots of places where Costello can sit or stand and use various kinds of microphones, guitars, and keyboards appropriate to the mood. Nieve mostly stayed beyond the keys there in the back left, between piano and keyboard options.

They played a wide variety of songs from across Costello’s career. He was in great form, joking about getting a capo from Timothy Chalamet who he felt could play him in a biopic after “a couple of years and a couple of cases of gin.”

(Full Setlist and review from Boston.com)

The lighting played a bit of havoc with my phone camera – this was “Black Sails in the Sunset”

I did not get many recordings – was just enjoying the show – but grabbed a few snippets.

“Brilliant Mistake” early in the set – “He thought he was the King of America /
Where they pour Coca Cola just like vintage wine”

There was a fair amount of reflection on America and the current political climate – consistent with what Costello called the “Angry Young Man” rep he’s been saddled with.

An almost meditative “Veronica” – with Nieve at the piano and Costello on the stool down-stage right where he played a number of quieter / more reflective songs.

For “Allison” Costello moved to the Fender Rhodes stage left – you can hear Nieve’s piano as well.

Finale of “What’s So Funny ‘Bout Peace Love and Understanding” on which Costello and Nieve traded singing duties – perhaps the expected closer but I was all about it.

#BeverlyMA #CabotTheatre #ElvisCostello #LiveMusic #SteveNieve

Elvis Costello & Steve Nieve, March 1st 2025 at the Cabot

Last time Elvis Costello came through Beverly and did a show at the Cabot I didn’t manage to get tickets. This time, as a member, I was able to score a great seat in front row balcony.

The Costello & Nieve 2025 tour announced 15 nights in February and March:

I can’t vet all the venues, but I’m guessing the Cabot in Beverly is one of the smaller, at ~850 seats. If you can get one of the first row balcony seats it is one of the best venues on the North Shore.

The stage set includes a number of mics – lots of places where Costello can sit or stand and use various kinds of microphones, guitars, and keyboards appropriate to the mood. Nieve mostly stayed beyond the keys there in the back left, between piano and keyboard options.

They played a wide variety of songs from across Costello’s career. He was in great form, joking about getting a capo from Timothy Chalamet who he felt could play him in a biopic after “a couple of years and a couple of cases of gin.”

(Full Setlist and review from Boston.com)

The lighting played a bit of havoc with my phone camera – this was “Black Sails in the Sunset”

I did not get many recordings – was just enjoying the show – but grabbed a few snippets.

“Brilliant Mistake” early in the set – “He thought he was the King of America /
Where they pour Coca Cola just like vintage wine”

There was a fair amount of reflection on America and the current political climate – consistent with what Costello called the “Angry Young Man” rep he’s been saddled with.

An almost meditative “Veronica” – with Nieve at the piano and Costello on the stool down-stage right where he played a number of quieter / more reflective songs.

For “Allison” Costello moved to the Fender Rhodes stage left – you can hear Nieve’s piano as well.

Finale of “What’s So Funny ‘Bout Peace Love and Understanding” on which Costello and Nieve traded singing duties – perhaps the expected closer but I was all about it.

#BeverlyMA #CabotTheatre #ElvisCostello #LiveMusic #SteveNieve

Elvis Costello & Steve Nieve, March 1st 2025 at the Cabot

Last time Elvis Costello came through Beverly and did a show at the Cabot I didn’t manage to get tickets. This time, as a member, I was able to score a great seat in front row balcony.

The Costello & Nieve 2025 tour announced 15 nights in February and March:

I can’t vet all the venues, but I’m guessing the Cabot in Beverly is one of the smaller, at ~850 seats. If you can get one of the first row balcony seats it is one of the best venues on the North Shore.

The stage set includes a number of mics – lots of places where Costello can sit or stand and use various kinds of microphones, guitars, and keyboards appropriate to the mood. Nieve mostly stayed beyond the keys there in the back left, between piano and keyboard options.

They played a wide variety of songs from across Costello’s career. He was in great form, joking about getting a capo from Timothy Chalamet who he felt could play him in a biopic after “a couple of years and a couple of cases of gin.”

(Full Setlist and review from Boston.com)

The lighting played a bit of havoc with my phone camera – this was “Black Sails in the Sunset”

I did not get many recordings – was just enjoying the show – but grabbed a few snippets.

“Brilliant Mistake” early in the set – “He thought he was the King of America /
Where they pour Coca Cola just like vintage wine”

There was a fair amount of reflection on America and the current political climate – consistent with what Costello called the “Angry Young Man” rep he’s been saddled with.

An almost meditative “Veronica” – with Nieve at the piano and Costello on the stool down-stage right where he played a number of quieter / more reflective songs.

For “Allison” Costello moved to the Fender Rhodes stage left – you can hear Nieve’s piano as well.

Finale of “What’s So Funny ‘Bout Peace Love and Understanding” on which Costello and Nieve traded singing duties – perhaps the expected closer but I was all about it.

#BeverlyMA #CabotTheatre #ElvisCostello #LiveMusic #SteveNieve