I pulled out my best western shirt to join Audrey and a sea of pink cowboy hats at the Chicks concert. “With 33 million certified albums sold and sales of 27.9 million albums in the US, the Chicks have become the best-selling female band and best-selling country group in the US.” (per Wikipedia) Audrey knew all the words and was not shy about singing and dancing along to the two hour set.

In my favorite segment of the two-hour show, the band sat in a semi-circle and played acoustic instruments, which seemed genuinely fun for them and allowed their copious musical talents – on guitar, banjo, fiddle and (of course) singing – to show through.


What a musical week this has been! I started with the acoustic jazz of George Cables and James Francies at the Stanford Jazz Workshop, then the highly amplified Afro-futurist jazz-funk of Kamasi Washington, and finally an arena show with The Chicks. The Chicks show was a lot of fun, with hordes of screaming female fans, some cute kids all around us, and overall high spirits. But it takes an hour to get in and out of parking and the quality of the sound system really didn’t do justice to how talented the Chicks are. Kamasi in a small club venue was amazingly powerful, the sound system was awesome, the hassle factor was zero and we could get as close as we wanted to the musicians. And as clear in the Stanford Workshop show, with jazz, you can get up close and personal with the greatest musicians in jazz with no hassle at all. And cutting frontmen like Joshua Redman and Jeremy Pelt show up to play with their seniors, like George Cables.

One really nice closing moment was when one of the Chicks walked off the stage and up the aisle where we were sitting.


Setlist

The Chicks played for about two hours. My favorites where Gaslighter, The Long Way Around, and the Fleetwood Mac cover, Landslide. “For her” was very moving, too.

  1. Sin Wagon
  2. Gaslighter
  3. Texas Man
  4. Julianna Calm Down
  5. The Long Way Around
  6. My Best Friend’s Weddings
  7. Sleep at Night
  8. Mississippi (Bob Dylan cover)
  9. Wide Open Spaces
  10. Tights on My Boat
  11. Lubbock or Leave It
  12. Cowboy Take Me Away
  13. Long Time Gone
  14. Landslide (Fleetwood Mac cover)
  15. Don’t Let Me Die in Florida (Patty Griffin cover)
  16. March March
  17. For Her
  18. White Trash Wedding
  19. Everybody Loves You
  20. Set Me Free
  21. Not Ready to Make Nice
  22. Travelin’ Soldier (Bruce Robison cover)
  23. Goodbye Earl

Details
Location: Shoreline Ampitheater
Date: July 30, 2022
Attending: Audrey, Jeremy