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Heartless Bastards Setlist
07/01 - Kansas City, MO - Record Bar
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It's been three years since Heartless Bastards was in town, and as bassist Jesse Ebaugh noted, "Too dang long!"
The Cincinnati alternative rock band headlined First Avenue's main stage in Minneapolis last night, in support of their latest album Restless Ones (Partisan).
The Hold Steady's frontman Craig Finn opened up the show. Although he normally has to introduce himself in other cities on this tour ... for Minneapolis, he felt, "I think it's safe to assume we can skip that part." Clearly seeing that his fans (all proudly wearing their Hold Steady T-Shirts) were present and in front for this show.
Helping Finn on this low-key acoustic tour was Arun Bali (Saves the Day), however throughout his set, he borrowed Heartless Bastards' drummer Dave Colvin and bassist Jesse Ebaugh ... and for this Minneapolis show, Lifter Puller's Steve Barone joined Finn on stage to play "Mission Viejo".
Finn talked about all his songs on his 40-min set, explaining that he's never been to Modesto, California ("Modesto Is Not That Sweet") or that "Extras" was a "touring song" (even though he specifically hated tour songs) or that "Western Pier" was his answer to "Knights In Satan Service" (KISS).
The rest of his set featured Hold Steady songs, and some tracks from his forthcoming sophomore album Faith In The Future (set for release September 11th, 2015), including "Maggie I've Been Searching For Our Son" and "Newmyer's Roof".
Finn ended his set with a very quiet song about "Dennis and Billy", from New York.
The secret origin to Heartless Bastards is that it came from one of the incorrect choices for a trivia quiz for the name of Tom Petty's backing band, "Tom Petty and the Heartless Bastards". By 2003 the band came together, but they didn't come to our attention when they solidified their current band roster with their third album The Mountain in 2009.
With that record, we wrote that they drew heavy comparison to "the Black Keys and favorable mentions from alt-country heavyweights like Lucinda Williams."
The contemporary blues rock band centers around singer/guitarist Erika Wennerstrom, who sounded a lot more epic rock as we just witness from her hour and fifty minute set last night.
My favorite moment during the show was Wennerstrom's "Wind Up Bird" performance, where she outstretched her arms as if they were wings. The new song was followed by a pair of classic songs, "Only for You" and "Parted Ways", both from 2012's Arrow, which closed out their set.
As you can see from their setlist, with the exception of "Eastern Wind", every song from their latest Restless Ones were played ("Gates of Dawn", "Black Cloud", "Journey", "Hi-Line", "Pocket Full of Thirst", "The Fool", "Into the Light", "Wind Up Bird", and "Tristessa").
For the encore, they started with "Early In The Morning", followed by "Nothing Seems the Same". The latter had a long extended jam, and slowly, one by one, the band left Wennerstrom on stage... who remain to recite lyrics from "Tristessa" to a drowning drone noise and feedback from the remaining guitars.
Heartless Bastards' fifth studio album Restless Ones is out now on Partisan. The band is touring with Craig Finn until July 2nd at Trees in Dallas, Texas.
Photo gallery from Jayme Halbritter:
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Craig Finn
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Helping Finn on this low-key acoustic tour was Arun Bali (Saves the Day), however throughout his set, he borrowed Heartless Bastards' drummer Dave Colvin and bassist Jesse Ebaugh ... and for this Minneapolis show, Lifter Puller's Steve Barone joined Finn on stage to play "Mission Viejo".
Finn talked about all his songs on his 40-min set, explaining that he's never been to Modesto, California ("Modesto Is Not That Sweet") or that "Extras" was a "touring song" (even though he specifically hated tour songs) or that "Western Pier" was his answer to "Knights In Satan Service" (KISS).
The rest of his set featured Hold Steady songs, and some tracks from his forthcoming sophomore album Faith In The Future (set for release September 11th, 2015), including "Maggie I've Been Searching For Our Son" and "Newmyer's Roof".
Finn ended his set with a very quiet song about "Dennis and Billy", from New York.
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Erika Wennerstrom
photo by Jayme Halbritter
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The contemporary blues rock band centers around singer/guitarist Erika Wennerstrom, who sounded a lot more epic rock as we just witness from her hour and fifty minute set last night.
My favorite moment during the show was Wennerstrom's "Wind Up Bird" performance, where she outstretched her arms as if they were wings. The new song was followed by a pair of classic songs, "Only for You" and "Parted Ways", both from 2012's Arrow, which closed out their set.
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Setlist
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For the encore, they started with "Early In The Morning", followed by "Nothing Seems the Same". The latter had a long extended jam, and slowly, one by one, the band left Wennerstrom on stage... who remain to recite lyrics from "Tristessa" to a drowning drone noise and feedback from the remaining guitars.
Heartless Bastards' fifth studio album Restless Ones is out now on Partisan. The band is touring with Craig Finn until July 2nd at Trees in Dallas, Texas.
Photo gallery from Jayme Halbritter:
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Heartless Bastards at First Avenue, Minneapolis (29 June 2015) photo courtesy of Jayme Halbritter, jaymehalbritter.com
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