by TonyNYC » Sun Apr 22, 2012 8:50 am
Friday night, I saw Graham Parker backed by the Figgs at The Winery. Good, not great show and him and his band sounded fine. He's still quick, sarcastic and cutting and his more recent songs are all pretty good like the rockin' Chardonnay, the slashing Impenetrable, the hopeful If It Ever Stops Raining Again and my favorite of the new ones, Not Where You Said You Were, this motownish soul stirrer that got me to buy his album Imaginary Television.
He did three from Mona Lisa's Sister: the acoustic Blue Highways, Under The Mask Of Happiness and the seething Get Started Start A Fire, No Holding Back from Up The Escalator, the rockabilly Black Lincoln Continental, rushed a little too quickly through Fool's Gold, the still haunting You Can't Be Too Strong and a great encore of The Small Faces' All Or Nothing and his own killer Soul Shoes.