[photo by Johnny]
Before there was Drive-By Truckers, there was Drivin’ N Cryin’ — unabashed country rock with identifiable punk influences. When Kevin Kinney left his punk band in Milwaukee and moved to Atlanta in the mid-80s, he and Tim Nielsen would ultimately go on to establish a group that melded divergent genres to create a sound that would influence a generation of southern rockers. Now celebrating their 25th year as a band, Drivin’ N Cryin’ continues to make excellent music and still wears its punk pedigree on its sleeve. 2009’s Great American Bubble Factory contains everything from country-tinged working class odes to a cover of The Dictators. The album opens with “Detroit City”, a live show-stopper that references Iggy and the Stooges and MC5, and closes with “This Town”, a poignant Guthrie/Dylan styled folk number. On Saturday night at Mercury Lounge, both songs were performed in key spots in the setlist, along with nearly two hours of the best of the band’s extensive catalog. Other highlights included a huge “Fly Me Courageous” (streaming below) and the show-closing epic twelve-minute “Straight to Hell”.
Kevin Kinney will perform a series of solo shows at The Living Room for three consecutive Tuesday nights in December.
I recorded this set from my standard location in this venue, at the front right corner of the soundboard. I utilized the DPA microphones and mixed them with a feed from the soundboard. The sound quality of this recording is outstanding. Enjoy!
Stream “Fly Me Courageous”:
[audio:http://www.nyctaper.com/D6011DrivinNCryin1020/Drivin%20N%20Cryin%20FLY%20ME%20COURAGEOUS%20Live%202010-11-06.mp3]
This Recording is now available to Download in FLAC and MP3 at Archive.org [HERE].
Drivin’ N Cryin’
2010-11-06
Mercury Lounge
New York, NY USA
Digital Master Recording
Soundboard + Audience Matrix
Soundboard + DPA 4021s > Edirol R-44 (Oade Concert Mod) > 2x 24bit 48kHz wav files > Soundforge (level adjustments, mixdown, set fades) > CDWave 1.95 (tracking) > Flac Frontend (level 7, align sector boundaries) > flac
Recorded and Produced by nyctaper
2009-11-09
Setlist:
[Total Time 1:49:04]
01 [introduction]
02 Honeysuckle Blue
03 (Whatever Happened to The) Great American Bubble Factory?
04 Scarred But Smarter
05 Preapproved, Predenied
06 The Innocent
07 Build A Fire
08 I Stand Tall (The Dictators)
09 [banter]
10 Midwestern Blues
11 Peacemaker
12 [banter]
13 Back Roads And Rainy Days
14 With The People
15 Let’s Go Dancing
16 Detroit City
17 Fly Me Courageous*
18 [crowd/banter]
19 Blues on Top of Blues
20 [encore break]
21 This Town
22 Which Jesus
23 Straight to Hell**
24 [outro]
*with a verse of Smoke On The Water
**with a verse of Why Don’t We Do It In The Road
If you download this recording from NYCTaper, we expect that you will PLEASE SUPPORT Drivin’ N Cryin’, visit their website, and purchase their official releases at the Store on their website [HERE].
What an amazing show! Superb recording, too!