Three Girls and Their Buddy redux

Wow . . . what a delightful show from beginning to end. Wish it could have gone on for another hour. . . . Sometimes the format of songwriters taking turns can get disappointingly predictable, but not tonight. I was glad that each of them played some lesser known tunes and covers, including Shawn starting and ending with a couple of Crowded House tunes (very gratifying for all the Finn brothers fans out there!), Patty covering Ray Charles, Emmy pulling out an older Richard Thompson song, and Buddy finishing with a beautiful take of Stephen Bruton's Heart of Hearts as a tribute to the songwriter who died this past May. Patty's vocals soared on her tunes - particularly Heavenly Day and the show closer, Mary (with gorgeous harmonies by Emmy and Shawn), and in duet with Buddy on Written in Chalk. Buddy, though self-deprecating about his contributions, played with sympathetic grace behind the others, and his songs were some of the highlights of my evening.


If you weren't there, you missed a great one . . . . And with this start, I am so looking forward to a wonderful week of music continuing at the Waterfront Blues Festival . . . which begins tomorrow!