Julie Loyd (7/27/05)



Boy it's been great catching up on this! I still have some exciting shows that i want to write about, so keep your eyes open.

This will be a rather short entry. Partially, because it's been a while since I saw this show, but partly because Mom always said if you can't say something nice about someone, don't say anything at all. Now, I don't want to get down on Julie Loyd, but the show was not the caliber that I'm used to seeing.

I felt like she was very Ani-esque (DiFranco people). And while that would often be a major compliment, here I'm using it to describe the drive that Julie had toward the microphone, the intensity which she played her guitar, and just being a very physical performer. She broke so many cords that at one point, she had to walk off the stage to go to her car to get more.

I wasn't feeling a connection with her music or with her inter-song banter. The songs might have been better if I had spent some time with them before the show, but I also think that represents the quality of a live musician, when you can hear a song for the first time and still feel a connection with it and with the performer. I wasn't getting that here.

However... I think she had a lot of the elements that I look for in a musician. I think she just didn't have it together that night, or that she just needs some refinement. I'm not totally giving up on her.

There is the opportunity for a second chance. She just launched a "National Tour" and will be coming back to the Barking Spider Tavern on Saturday, November 19th.

But... that is also the same night a Susan Werner at the Beachland Tavern. I have history with Susan that makes me want to see her again (her Last of the Good Straight Girls album is AMAZING), but the jazzy-vocal stuff she's been doing of late has not been sitting well with me.

I guess it'll be a toss-up that night, both revolving around 2nd Chances.

Posted: Sat - October 8, 2005 at 02:14 PM           |

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