Neko Case at Village Underground

 
Neko Case
Lady Lamb The Beekeeper
Village Underground, 24 May 2013

"Filming is the new remembering," Neko Case wisely tells the audience while her backing singer and partner in crime, Kelly Hogan, amusingly drives the point home by chanting "It's called remembering!" beside her. I am a little bit of a hypocrite here because I love including YouTube clips with my posts and I have been know to take a terrible phone photo at concerts, but I must admit this craze of watching concerts through phones has been getting to me too although my irritation has never been expressed as amusingly as the banter between Case and Hogan.

Emmylou Harris and Rodney Crowell at Hammersmith Apollo

 
Emmylou Harris & Rodney Crowell
Hammersmith Apollo, 9 May 2013

"People ask me all the time what Emmylou Harris is like," a rather cool-looking Rodney Crowell, in his Dylaneqsue hat, tells us. "I just tell them she has the soul of a poet; the voice of an angel; she's damn good looking and she has the heart of a cowgirl." Emmylou gives an embarrassed grin and shakes her head and although the speech is obviously rehearsed it is clear there's great affection between these two legendary country stars.