Donna The Buffalo
GrassRoots Live! at Shakori Hills
Pittsboro NC
2021-06-11 Friday
72'F 96%RH


Source: (1) SBD (webcast)
(2) BSCS-L > Edirol OCM R-44
Transfer: Audacity > Izotope RX 8 > Izotope Ozone 9 > CD Wave > TLH
Recorded and matrixed by capnhook
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Start: 9.02pm

d1t01 -intro by Rob Gumby Hillard-
d1t02 It Has Been Much Too Long -instrumental-
d1t03 Love Time
d1t04 Beauty Within
d1t05 The Reason Why
d1t06 Tides Of Time
d1t07 Mystic Water
d1t08 Blue Sky
d1t09 It's Over (debut, working title)
d1t10 Heaven And The Earth
d1t11 -first gig back-
d1t12 Why You Wanna Leave Me
d1t13 Crash And Burn @
d1t14 Your Heart Beating Next To Mine (debut, working title)
d1t15 -banter-
d2t01 The Love You Left Behind (debut, working title)
d2t02 Positive Friction
d2t03 The Ones You Love
d2t04 -weather report-
d2t05 Seems To Want To Hurt This Time
d2t06 Just Like You (new Tara tune)
d2t07 -banter-
d2t08 Just Like Me (new Jeb tune)
d2t09 Ancient Arms
d2t10 raining-
d2t11 As I Wonder How Long I'll Be Alive (new Jeb tune, working title)
d2t12 Mrs. Maudrey #
d2t13 -outtro-

End: 11.14pm


@ - with Mollie Farr - backing vocals
# - with Jonas Puryear - Scrubboard


Tara Nevins - "It's so wonderful to see all of you! Ah, there you are, what a
beautiful sight. It's been much too long."

Jeb Puryear - "Alright, everything Tara said, I said too."


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Jeb Puryear - Electric Guitar, Vocals
Tara Nevins - Vocals, Guitar, Fiddle, Accordion, Scrubboard, Tambourine
David McCracken - B3, Clavinet
Chris English - Drums, backing vocals
Ted Pecchio - Bass


Photos courtesy of Rich Levine and unknown.


Review by Paul R. (aka EstimatedProf):

�It has been much too long� indeed, as Tara said upon completion of an
instrumental improv. Linda D. discerned �Big Parade,� as per her FB post;
a friend in our group thought she heard strains of �Mystic Water.� Whatever,
what might have started out as filler, as the crew troubleshooted Jeb�s
microphone, turned into a captivating groove, akin to a communion meditation.
So Tara�s phrase seems an apt, even if ephemeral title to an ad hoc set opener.
Sometimes, the songs that we hear are songs of our own, true, but whatever we
heard individually, there was a shared sense of Herd gathered. �Love Time�
seemed just the right followup.
This gathering has been a long time coming. My last experience of a Donna
the Buffalo show � indeed, of live music �berhaupt � was fifteen months ago,
specifically March 7, 2020, at the Orange Peel in Asheville. I think most of
us could tell the same story, and so for that reason, the joy of reuniting
with friends was pervasive and strong. I felt a certain awkwardness in
greeting people. I think: I don�t have a handle on the post-vaccine etiquette.
Perhaps it is still in flux and subject to individual comfort levels, but
that�s another conversation.
This evening�s show was the band�s first gig since, well, March 7, 2020.
They seemed well rehearsed and had obviously come to play. Chris English is
an excellent drummer � superb musicianship with a warm smile � and he brings
a new dimension to Donna as a backing vocalist.
The set list is interesting for its balanced mix of old favorites (�Tides
of Time,� �Mystic Water,� �Positive Friction,� �The Ones You Love�), current
�hits� (�Heaven & the Earth,� �The Beauty Within�), and new material, of
which there was much. As concerns the latter, I acknowledge that scribes do
not have naming rights. I hope it is not too presumptuous of me to impute
working titles, based on what I discern as a forensic or recurring theme in
the lyrics, as I process them. All this to say that I invite correction and
good information. That caveat aside, the new songs are very strong. I
would love to hear Tara�s �The Love You Left Behind� (by whatever title she
lands on) again . . . and again. Jeb�s �If You Like Drinking,� which (if I
understood correctly) he wrote with Gregor Sayet-Bone in Nashville, was
enthusiastically received, as it should be. Jeb�s �As I Wonder How Long
I�ll Be Alive� (however he eventually titles it) poses a question that we
all harbor, deep inside.

Apr�s toi, Bras anciens, le d�luge

Or, if that is too abstruse, at about 10.45pm or so, there occurred a heavy
fall of rain, with the intensity of a gullywasher but not its brevity.
It�s axiomatic: Shakori Hills + Donna the Buffalo = water. That put paid
to an encore, as the rain apparently made the stage slippery and hazardous
for the performers. We were soaked by the time we got back to our cars.
(Aging knucklehead that I am, I had forgotten to roll up the car window on
the passenger side after talking to a festival staff member.) The drive
back to Durham was an adventure in itself, with intermittent fog on top of
the constant downpour. Thankfully, there were yellow reflectors (�cat�s
eyes,� as they are called in the UK) in the center line to help me keep the
car on the road. Deer heightened the effect. Along the way we saw a fawn
that could not have been more than a couple days old. Another, fully adult
deer bolted along the side of the road at our approach; happily the animal
ran parallel to us and did not attempt to cross the highway in front of us.
Arriving home totally drenched, I asked myself whether it was worth it.
Most assuredly it was. Great to be with you again, dear friends.

Respectfully submitted,
Paul R. (aka EstimatedProf)

PS � I haven�t written in this genre in quite some time and am out of
practice. So apologies if this account is long-winded.


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