Sister Hazel is alive

Marty, Carie, and Drew Copeland, rhythm guitar and BGV's for Sister Hazel

Okay a brief respite from the relational posts I’ve been throwing at you to fill you in on a sweet concert I attended last night.

When I lived in Atlanta in the late 90′s, a band came out with a song I loved called “All for you”.  It went something like this:
Hard to say what it is I see in you,
wonder if I’ll always be with you,
words can’t say it, I can’t do
enough to prove it’s all for you

So I began to listen to this band and really liked their stuff.  Their name was Sister Hazel, named after a nun who ran a rescue mission in their hometown of Jacksonville, Fl. in the 70′s and 80′s.

When I moved to Massachusetts, they received much less airtime, and I only followed them a bit here and there, but eventually as I came into the new world of the internet, my interest climbed again as they began to use the internet for promotion, taking their music completely independent of the evil empires of big company  music.  For years I’ve been trying to see them here in NE though, but they only make it up here once every 2 to 3 years.  The consequence of this is that usually I have something planned on the night they come.

Last August, on my birthday, Tom and Tina bought me Sister Hazel tickets for the show at the Paradise on October 21.  that was yesterday.  And the show was completely off the charts.  The crew that was with Carie and I had a blast rockin to the smooth rock sounds of Ken Block and the boys.

Here are a few more pictures from the event: (my cameras not the greatest)

To sum up the concert and Sister Hazel is to say that going to one and listening to them is just about a good time.  The music, the band jam, the incredible 3 -5 minute guitar and bass duet in the middle of the set, the laid-back approach they present throughout the evening, bantering back and forth as if to say, “Yeah, you’ve been invited to our back yard, so we’re gonna play a bit.  While we’re doing this, go ahead and grab a few dogs from the grill, an ice cold one in the cooler, and enjoy.  To put it this way, I was the only Sister Hazel fan in the crew of 6 that came to the concert in our group.  It wasn’t that they didn’t like their music, but once they went independent, everyone kind of thought they disappeared.  And when we left we were all Sister hazel fans.  So thanks Tom and Tina.

And Thank you Sister Hazel

Set List for the concert (by memory):

Happy (with a “The Who” opener)
Change your mind
Release
It’s a beautiful thing
Come around
Your winter
Ghost in the crowd
Your mistake
3-5 minute guitar and bass duet
Swan Dive
Better way
Life got in the way
Walls and Cannonballs
Take a bow
All for You
Mandolin Moon
Encore
Champagne High
Shame

Related posts:

1. The Salvation of Sister Hazel
2. More of my fave music
3. Birthday Music