>Steve Earle started the show with an acoustic performance very
>similar to the one he's doing with the Del McCoury band. He sounded
>wonderful as always. He played a bunch of songs. I can never remember
>the set lists. He spoke eloquently and passionately about
>his views on the death penalty. (Though his non-death penalty banter
>was the same stuff I've been hearing for a few years now. he needs
>some new material) Steve talked again about his witnessing an execution
>last fall. Even though I've heard Earle tell this story before, it never
>fails to move me.
well, actually, speaking of his new material, he did play a new song as his
last song of the set, after describing in detail his involvement with the
executed prisoner and what the execution was like. He was a little choked
up, and went on to say this was a song he "hadn't gotten around to
recording yet" and that this was the first time he'd played it to a crowd.
It was a sparse song, sung from the point of view of a man about to be
executed - ripped me up.
Let me second Marie's emotion that it is an incredibly moving, wonderful
and thought provoking event. P2's own Traci Thomas is doing a lot of work
on it, by the way.
meshel
n'vegas
