LOCATION: The Tabernacle, Atlanta, GA
LINEUP: Brian, Karin, Linford, Jack, Terri, Randy
REVIEW BY: Jan Kendrick
from my front row center standing position (there are no seats on the floor level) i could see everything pretty well... terri--hair down, but pulled up on the sides for the over the rhine set and all the way down for the cowboy junkies set. she was wearing an all black pants suit karin--black tank top looking thing and a gold skirt that was unraveling in more than one place... she was really hard to hear... linford was wearing black pants and some kind of red jacket thing. he didn't say a word all night... brian--black shirt and khaki pants okay... enough of that... the set: they opened with faithfully dangerous...it was good, but it sounded like it has for the past year or so... linford hit some button on one of his many keyboards and some strange version of "america the beautiful" began playing. i have no idea what that had to do with tumbleweeds which they played next. does he always do this? tumbleweeds was an okay song, but not at all my favorite new one... then they played the seahorse, all i need is everything, and poughkeepsie which, again, were really good, but they have been playing these songs for SO long now... they should be really good. they ae really comfortable on the old stuff. karin introduced moth, which she dedicated to bill clinton. i really dig this song a lot. i couldn't understand any of the words (karin was so hard to hear), but it sounds good. they finished with latter days and goodbye. the crowd around where we were seemed to really dig otr. there was a young lady behind us who must have had ADD or something. it was nuts. she was wearing a patience t-shirt and she sang really loud in my ear the whole time. someone next to her asked about the band and she sang their praises. the new bass player didn't do much for me--or didn't do much period. i forgot he was there most of the time. jack had a few solos that weren't bad, but his new electric beginning to poughkeepsie doesn't quite fit IMHO. i wish i could give a more energetic review, but i can't. the show was good--very poilished (as i said they did a lot of old stuff), though hard to hear at times, and people seemed to get into them. as for the cj's--i am not a big fan, but the crowd was really happy with their set it seemed. good time had by all.